Background Errors have been reported to occur in 19% of drug administrations in children.1 Double checking of medicines by two nurses is one strategy used by many children's hospitals to attempt to ...

2 Department of Dermatology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to Peter A Lio, Department of Dermatology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 676 N. Saint Clair, No.

Introduction Tonsillectomy is now only indicated in the UK when specific criteria are met, as outlined by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) and The National Institute for Health ...

Correspondence to Professor Steve E Humphries, Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, British Heart Foundation Laboratories, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, The Rayne Building University College ...

From the perspective of systems biology, genes and proteins interact to produce complex networks, which in turn interact with the environment to influence every aspect of our biological lives. Recent ...

8 Division of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 9 Paediatric Allergy, King's ...

1 Department of Neurology, Littlewood’s Neuroscience Unit, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK 2 Department of Infectious Diseases, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, ...

Objective Children with Down syndrome are at high risk of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and screening is recommended. Diagnosis of OSA should be confirmed with multichannel sleep studies. We aimed to ...

Objectives Technology-facilitated abuse refers to the misuse of digital systems to inflict harm, such as the use of device-surveillance software in interpersonal abuse, the exploitation of GPS ...

Rationale Studies suggest that increased breastfeeding rates can provide substantial financial savings, but the scale of such savings in the UK is not known. Objective To calculate potential cost ...

Background FAS is a complex condition which occurs as a result of in utero alcohol exposure and is characterised by physical, behavioural and neurodevelopmental difficulties. The development of ...

a Department of Paediatrics, United Medical and Dental Schools, St Thomas’s Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, UK, b Department of Child Health, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, ...