Objective To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

2 Department of Pharmacy, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK 3 Department of Dietetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK 4 Department of ...

Aim This presentation will review current evidence on clinical holding and discuss how holding children, for clinical procedures against their wishes, can create tension between children’s rights and ...

BACKGROUND Overweight children become obese adults who are prone to develop the “metabolic syndrome” and premature coronary arterial disease (CAD). AIMS To assess whether sex hormone binding globulin ...

Correspondence to Dr J Fraser, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Directorate of Children’s Services, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Paul O’Gorman Building, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8BF, ...

Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to: Dr C Wren Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, UK; ...

Dr P S Blair, Institute of Child Life and Health, Level D, St Michael’s Hospital, Southwell St, Bristol BS2 8EG, UK; p.s.blair{at}bris.ac.uk Background: Some victims of sudden infant death syndrome ...

Correspondence to Dr Talat Mushtaq, Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Leeds Children's Hospital, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK; talat.mushtaq{at}leedsth.nhs.uk Adolescence is a time of great psychological ...

Correspondence to Dr Chandra Sekhar Devulapalli, Medical Advisor Service, Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV), Work and Benefits Kristiania, Oslo NO-0653, Norway; chandev{at}gmail.com An ...

Background: Clinical vital signs in children (temperature, heart rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure) are an integral part of clinical assessment of degree of illness or normality. Despite this ...

Introduction This systematic review aims to collate evidence of the causes of genital bleeding, other than child sexual abuse ...