Background/objective Children born during England’s COVID-19 lockdowns experienced markedly limited social exposure during a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping paediatric healthcare, offering new capabilities across diagnosis, monitoring and treatment personalisation. Modern AI systems integrate multimodal data, ...

Introduction The number of children with life-limiting conditions has risen in recent decades, partly due to medical advances enabling increased survival. It is unclear how the medical complexity of ...

Objective The objective is to explore the experiences of children and young people (CYP) with cancer, their parents, and healthcare professionals (HCPs) involved in their care of oral mucositis.

Introduction This systemic review describes interventions designed to shorten length of stay (LOS) in hospital or the emergency department (ED). Methods Papers published from 2000 until February 2024 ...

The Leadbeater Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, the latest UK bill on assisted dying, passed its second reading in the House of Commons in November 2024 after a short period of intense debate ...

5 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, UK Background Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a potentially disabling condition. There is a lack of evidence and ...

In March, the United Nations (UN) Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation released their 2023 report which contains data on trends in child mortality in all countries and regions from 1990 ...

Objectives Medical students on their paediatrics placement at a university teaching hospital would frequently request teaching on the newborn infant physical examination (NIPE), a core paediatric ...

A series of systematic reviews commissioned by the Cass Review and published in Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Introduction The aim of the study was to longitudinally assess swallowing abilities in nusinersen-treated patients with type 1 spinal muscular atrophy. Methods Twenty infants with type 1 SMA (11 ...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, paediatricians and child mental health practitioners have noticed an increase in tic symptoms in some children and adolescents already diagnosed with tic ...