In all of Kirsty’s life, I never knew her to be afraid. We’ve been in some scary situations as a family: caught in a small ...

In 2025, a government-commissioned, independent, cross-sector report on the decline in UK clinical academia highlighted multiple challenges facing clinical researchers, both those medically qualified ...

Objective To collate and systematically review the evidence on the impact of substandard housing on early child development in high-income countries. Design Systematic review. Methods Five databases ...

Department of Paediatrics, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel Kinderen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...

Despite the existence of low-cost and effective interventions for childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea, these conditions remain two of the leading killers of young children. Based on feedback from health ...

Correspondence to Dr Deirdre Murray, Clinical Investigations Unit, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Cork University Hospital, 19 Glencairn Park, Melbourn Road, Wilton, Co Cork, Ireland; ...

Correspondence to Dr John Murphy, Department of Neonatology, The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; johnmurphy104{at}hotmail.com Aims Currently there is debate on how best ...

Advances in paediatric care mean that more children with complex medical problems (heart disease, neurodevelopmental problems and so on) are surviving their early years. This has important ...

Introduction Fluid overload of 10% at 48 hrs (100 ml/kg additional fluid) is strongly associated with morbidity in critically ill children.1 Contributors include fluid resuscitation, acute kidney ...

Objectives To identify the evidence base behind the neuroradiological features that differentiate abusive head trauma (AHT) from non-abusive head trauma (nAHT). Design Systematic review. Setting ...

aDepartments of Medicine (Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism) and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, bDepartment of Medicine ...

aDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Child Health, 30, Guilford Street, London WC1N, UK, bInstitute of Child Health, University of Birmingham, Whittall Street, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK If you ...