PURPOSE To determine the characteristics that permit diagnosis of the type of epilepsy beginning in the 1st year of life, and to determine from what age such characteristics are recognisable. PATIENTS ...

Aims To establish if National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) standards are being met for pre ...

The hierarchy of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments is explained, and the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, the randomised controlled ...

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Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Professor Alan Emond, Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, ...

Correspondence to Dr Frances Hutchings, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8BJ, UK; fhutchings{at}doctors.org.uk ...

During the 10-year period 1960-69, 137 patients in Ruchill Hospital were diagnosed by clinical and laboratory findings as mumps meningitis. Parotitis was detected in only 51 (37%). There was a male ...

Dr B Alm, Department of Paediatrics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, S-416 85 Göteborg, Sweden. AIM To establish whether smoking is an independent risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome ...

Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, Derbyshire Children's Hospital, Derby, UK Correspondence to Zayed Alsulami, Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, ...

5 Institute of Health and Society, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle University, UK Correspondence to Professor Ann Le Couteur, Newcastle University, Sir James Spence Institute, Royal Victoria ...

Objective To establish the relative risks of in utero exposure to lamotrigine (LTG), sodium valproate (NaV) and carbamazepine (CBZ) monotherapy for neurodevelopment. Design Observational cohort study.

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 ...