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, ...

The National Health Service (NHS) 10-Year Plan (NHS10YP) has ambitious aspirations to prevent illness, move healthcare to community settings and make better use of digital technologies. These are ...

We read with great interest the randomised controlled trial by Singh et al regarding the efficacy of adjunctive dexamethasone in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).1 We commend ...

3 University of Nottingham School of Health Sciences, Nottingham, UK 4 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK Results 26 risk mitigation strategies were identified, of which 16 ...

Objective Large new children’s cohorts now allow embedded trials for prevention and early intervention, offering rare opportunities to reduce the burden of childhood and future chronic disease. We ...

Eating disorders (ED) are associated with mortality and morbidity. The outcomes of a short refeeding admission on a paediatric ward have not previously been evaluated in a UK setting. The aim was to ...

Background Hypertonia is a common presentation in Paediatric clinics, but unifying operationalised models of care to guide a coordinated treatment approach currently lacking. Aim We reviewed the ...

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 ...

Hearing loss is a common congenital anomaly and there is clear evidence of the benefits of early diagnosis and then treatment. For maximum positive impact, the diagnosis needs to be made as early as ...

Celebrating 100 years of the British Journal Archives of Disease in Childhood ( ADC ) provides a milestone opportunity also to look back on the achievements of our own specialty; the care of children ...

Background Children and young people with severe neurodisabling conditions (CYPSND)experience severe functional gastrointestinal symptoms and dependence on artificial nutrition. ‘Gastrointestinal ...