Background Treatment to suppress or lessen effects of puberty are outlined in clinical guidelines for adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria/incongruence. Robust evidence concerning risks and ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in childhood and adolescence is an impairing condition, associated with a specific set of distressing symptoms incorporating repetitive, intrusive thoughts ...

Introduction An overview is given on the use of microdosing/microtracing studies for the safer and faster development of drugs in children. In a microdosing study a ...

Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan Correspondence to: Dr I-J Hung, Head, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, ...

2 Charles Salt Research Centre, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic & District Hospital NHS Trust, Oswestry, Shropshire SY10 7AG, UK 3 Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, ...

AIMS To evaluate the effects of discontinuing growth hormone (GH) treatment on energy expenditure and body composition, which might help predict those most likely to benefit from early reintroduction ...

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Objective Shorter courses of intravenous antibiotics for young infants with urinary tract infection (UTI) have myriad advantages. As practice shifts toward shorter intravenous treatment courses, this ...

Recently, two important papers on paediatric trauma were published by investigators from the Paediatric Emergency Care ...

Objective To explore associations between maternal body mass index (BMI) in early pregnancy and childhood infections. Design ...

Mary is running around her hospital bed, playing with dolls, crayons and toy stethoscopes (or the real thing if she can get ...