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

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

3 Department of Paediatric Psychology, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford, UK 4 Department of Paediatric Psychology & Play Therapy, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to ...

1 Biochemical Genetics Unit, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Paediatrics, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK ...

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 ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK Background Medication review is recommended at asthma appointments. The presence of ...

BACKGROUND There is a debate about the possible progression of idiopathic premature thelarche towards precocious or early puberty. OBJECTIVE To evaluate height and age at onset of puberty in a group ...

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 ...

Aims: To provide a comprehensive description of young infant admissions to a first referral level health facility in Kenya. These data, currently lacking, are important given present efforts to ...

Department of Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Correspondence to Dr Michael Stanton, Department of Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital ...

Introduction 46, XY partial gonadal dysgenesis (PGD) is a disorder of sex development characterised by an incomplete testicular development (dysgenetic gonad) which results in incomplete virilisation ...

2 Charles Salt Research Centre, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic & District Hospital NHS Trust, Oswestry, Shropshire SY10 7AG, UK 3 Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, ...