3 Department of Child Health, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Tim Cole, MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of ...

Background High feed osmolality (or osmolarity) is often suggested to be linked with adverse gastrointestinal events in preterm infants. Aim To systematically review the literature on milk feed ...

Aim To examine the predictive value of pregnancy associated plasma protein (PAPP-A) for various markers of poor pregnancy outcome. Method Databases at University Hospital Lewisham were used ...

Correspondence to Dr Mark Tracy, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney University, P.O. Box 533, Wentworthville, NSW 2145, Australia; mark.tracy{at}sydney.edu.au Background The ...

Objective The objective was to describe outcomes and investigate factors affecting prognosis at 1 year post intervention for infants with surgical necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Design Using the ...

AIM To identify incidence of school and behaviour problems at age 7 years in children born between 32 and 35 weeks gestation, and investigate perinatal risk factors. METHOD The study population ...

Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk and part-time school teacher, undertook a series of brilliant hybridisation experiments with garden peas between 1857 and 1864 in the monastery gardens and, using ...

Correspondence to Dr Guilherme Mendes Sant’Anna, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H4A 3J1, Canada; ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Division of Neonatology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and Department of Paediatrics, ...

BACKGROUND Ventricular outputs cannot be used to assess systemic blood flow in preterm infants because they are confounded by shunts through the ductus arteriosus and atrial septum. However, flow ...

1 Department of Neonatology, University Medical Centre Utrecht/Wilhelmina Children's Hospital and Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Paediatric Psychology, University Medical ...

2 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK Objective: To investigate the association of breast feeding with ...