Poor saliva control (sialorrhoea) represents a considerable burden to paediatric patients with neurodevelopmental ...

Usually, when life-saving treatment is withdrawn from children with the agreement of their parents, there is no necessity for any legal involvement or intervention. In the small number of cases where ...

Correspondence to Dr Alison Salt, Neurodisability Service, The Nurses Home Building, Great Ormond, Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; alison.salt{at}gosh.nhs.uk ...

Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Dr Claire Irving, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, Newcastle upon ...

BACKGROUND Cause specific research on death certification in chronic disease has rarely involved cerebral palsy. AIMS To evaluate cause of death information in people known to have cerebral palsy by: ...

The hierarchy of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments is explained, and the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, the randomised controlled ...

Rett syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder of unknown aetiology. A prolonged QT interval has been described previously in patients with Rett syndrome. To investigate QT prolongation and the ...

Correspondence to Dr Mary E Ramsay, Department of Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety, Public Health England, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, UK; Mary.ramsay{at}phe.gov.uk By 2010, the ...

Clear sex differences exist in asthma and atopy with a preponderance of boys before puberty. There is a reversal of this sex ratio during puberty with girls having more asthma and atopy throughout the ...

Mortality outcomes of children and young people who have spent time in care: evidence from Children’s Health in Care in Scotland, a population-wide administrative data cohort study (5 June, 2025) ...

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