Growth hormone (GH) therapy has now been available for over 5 decades, with all GH now biosynthetically produced, and administered by daily injection. Paediatric GH is currently licensed in six ...

a Department of Child Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE8 1EB, UK, b Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK Dr C M Wright, Community Child Health Unit ...

aDepartment of Paediatric Neurology, Guy’s Hospital, London, bRadiology Department Guy’s Hospital, London, cDepartment of Neurosurgery King’s College Hospital, London, dOphthalmic Department Guy’s ...

AIM To obtain a prevalence rate and determine the distribution of accidental bruising in babies. METHODS 177 babies aged 6–12 months were examined naked to look for bruises. They were seen in health ...

3 Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK 4 Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Brimingham, UK 5 Department ...

Mixed longitudinal data on the physical changes at puberty in 228 normal boys are presented together with normal standards for stages of genital and pubic hair development. The genitalia began to ...

Background: Better language outcomes are reported for preschool children with hearing impairment (HI) diagnosed very early, irrespective of severity. However, population studies of older children are ...

The concept of DAMP (deficits in attention, motor control, and perception) has been in clinical use in Scandinavia for about 20 years. DAMP is diagnosed on the basis of concomitant attention ...

1 National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Children's Hospital at Westmead and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Vaccinology ...

2 Academic Department of Child Health, Royal London Hospital, Whitechaple, London E1 1BB, UK 3 Department of Paedietrics, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College School of Medicine, London W2 1PG, UK 4 ...

Objectives NHS England has piloted the introduction of paediatric clinicians working in NHS111 clinical assessment service (CAS) to improve the emergency care pathway. This has been shown to increase ...

Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA, UK Fever is a common symptom of childhood illness, and much ...