Neisseria meningitidis is remarkable for the diversity of interactions that the bacterium has with the human host, ranging from asymptomatic nasopharyngeal colonisation affecting virtually all members ...

Children of drug-misusing women are a vulnerable group. Data describing the pattern of accommodation placements are lacking. We investigated 10- to 12-year accommodation outcomes of children born to ...

Introduction Children are at higher risk of medication errors due to the complexity of drug prescribing and administration in this patient group. Intravenous (IV) paracetamol overdose differs from ...

Objective To better understand testing patterns in children, we measured temporal trends in paediatric testing from 2005 to 2019 in Oxfordshire, UK. Design Descriptive study of population-based ...

There is good evidence that parental psychiatric disorder has a deleterious effect on child development. Rutter has outlined a number of possible reasons for this.1 First, there may be a direct ...

Referral for an assessment of tall stature is much less common than for short stature. Although the commonest cause is an underlying familial tendency to tallness, there are important disorders that ...

Objectives The GMC and RCPCH state that developmental assessments are a requirement in undergraduate curricula [1–2] yet research demonstrates inconsistent undergraduate teaching around developmental ...

Aims On 23rd March 2020, the first of many COVID-19 lockdown measures were implemented in England, which affected the general population, but especially those already considered vulnerable.

Objectives To understand the barriers to administration of antibiotics for suspected early onset neonatal sepsis within an hour of the decision to treat. Methods Level 1 local neonatal unit with ∼300 ...

The year 2020 will be remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the year of a sea change in attitudes about race and racism in America. On 25 May, a policeman in Minneapolis calmly put a ...