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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

AIMS To delineate common and variable features and outcome of children with congenital disorder of glycosylation type Ia (CDG-Ia) caused by the frequent R141H/F119LPMM2 genotype. METHODS Clinical data ...

and reprint requests to: Dr Alastair J Baker, Department of Child Health, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS. Hepatitis GB virus-C (HGBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection was ...