Aims The Under 5 clinic in this busy central hospital in Malawi is the initial point of care for acutely ill children who require admission; 200–300 children are seen in the clinic each day and up to ...

BACKGROUND Involvement of the gut in chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) has been previously described and colitis highlighted. However, the nature and histopathology of the colitis are unclear and ...

It is well known that children are less likely to be severely affected by Covid 19 than the adult population, and therefore the pandemic earlier this year placed greater demand on adult services.

Dr Ram Reifen, School of Nutritional Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot, Israel. Prolactin, a polypeptide hormone of anterior pituitary origin, has pronounced physiological ...

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Objective To describe the prevalence and determinants of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) among healthy children aged between 0 and 18 years living in South-East Asia (SEA). Design We systematically ...

Background Gentamicin is a commonly prescribed antibiotic in PICU and is associated with ototoxicity. Factors increasing ototoxicity risk includes renal dysfunction and co-administered ototoxic ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2 Department of Pharmacology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 3 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, ...

Correspondence to Dr Stefan Peterson, Chief of Health, UNICEF, New York NY 10017-4414, USA; speterson{at}unicef.org The Nurturing Care Framework, launched in May 2018, provides a policy roadmap for ...

Department of Paediatrics, Level 4, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will ...

a Department of Respiratory Paediatrics, Box 181, Addenbrookes NHS Trust, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK, b Department of Respiratory Paediatrics, The Royal Hospital For Sick Children, Sciences Road, Edinburgh ...

There are logical flaws in the current explanations of fixated thumb and dummy sucking. 1. The need to suck: This does not explain why infants fixate on one sucking object, say one digit out of 10 ...