Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in childhood and adolescence is an impairing condition, associated with a specific set of distressing symptoms incorporating repetitive, intrusive thoughts ...

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AIMS To evaluate the effects of discontinuing growth hormone (GH) treatment on energy expenditure and body composition, which might help predict those most likely to benefit from early reintroduction ...

Non-therapeutic circumcision of boys (‘circumcision’) is legitimised by consent from those with parental responsibility for ...

Higher rates of childhood Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus (GAS)) infections following the COVID-19 pandemic ...

2 School of Dental Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Aim: To compare the prevalence of dental caries, dental calculus, and enamel defects in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) and children ...

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Within every paediatric respiratory and general paediatric clinic there will be a number of children and families who are ...

1 Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, ...

Imagine attending a busy shift in a paediatric emergency department (ED). You have just read two recent and rigorous publications; one facilitated risk stratification for clinically important ...

Introduction Although the administration of activated charcoal (AC) is considered safe, the associated risk of pulmonary aspiration explains certain reluctance of physicians to use this procedure. The ...

Paediatrics is a specialty committed to caring for children and advancing child health. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as everyone under 18 unless, ‘under the ...