Rationale Studies suggest that increased breastfeeding rates can provide substantial financial savings, but the scale of such savings in the UK is not known. Objective To calculate potential cost ...

Objective To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 Centre for Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Research, The Chinese University of ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

Aims To determine the effects of vitamin D supplementation on diverse health outcomes in vitamin D-deficient schoolchildren. Methods We performed a phase 3 randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial ...

2 Department of Pharmacy, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK 3 Department of Dietetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK 4 Department of ...

Aim This presentation will review current evidence on clinical holding and discuss how holding children, for clinical procedures against their wishes, can create tension between children’s rights and ...

BACKGROUND Overweight children become obese adults who are prone to develop the “metabolic syndrome” and premature coronary arterial disease (CAD). AIMS To assess whether sex hormone binding globulin ...