Correspondence to Dr Jamie G Cooper, Emergency Department, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen AB25 2ZN, UK; jamie.cooper2{at}nhs.net Deaths from choking are a major cause of childhood mortality, ...

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 ...

2 Department of Children’s Nursing, Rotherham General Hospital, UK 3 Department of Microbiology, Rotherham General Hospital, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Macfarlane Department of Child Health, Rotherham ...

3 Accident and Emergency Department, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Dr K Berry, Accident and Emergency Department, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, ...

1 Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa 2 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa Correspondence to: Dr ...

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may affect all aspects of a child’s life. Indeed, it impacts not only on the child, but also on parents and siblings, causing disturbances to family and ...

Objective The ‘GP check’ at 6–8 weeks forms part of the selective surveillance system for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in the UK. It is imperative to pick up DDH within the first months of ...

1 Early Years Research Programme, Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 2 Department of Haematology, ...

Correspondence to Sarah Barclay, Director Medical Mediation Foundation, 36 Westbere Road, London NW2 3SR, UK; sarah.barclay{at}medicalmediation.org.uk Objective To explore clinician and family ...

Dr David Brewster, Flinders University and Maternal and Child Health, Royal Darwin Hospital, PO Box 41326, Casuarina, NT 0811, Australia. Intestinal permeability can be assessed non-invasively using ...

aProfessor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK, bConsultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lincoln District Healthcare NHS ...

Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Matthew Thompson, Oxford University Department of Primary Health Care, Rosemary ...