Aims • Raise awareness of plastic pollution and its dangers to marine animals and potentially humans. • Education of children in schools • Litter-picking Methods In 2017 WASUP was founded. A working ...

Objectives Newborn screening helps to identify inherited disorders at their asymptomatic stage and intervene before babies go into the symptomatic phase. A number of Inherited Metabolic Disorders ...

Objectives Hand dominance usually develops in children around 18 months old, while earlier hand preference may indicate cerebral palsy.1 Hand preference in humans is thought to be related to the ...

Introduction More than half of all drugs are still prescribed off-label to children. To support off-label dosing, pharmacokinetic (PK) data are needed. Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) ...

Objectives Asthma is the most common chronic condition in children, affecting 2–3 in every primary school class.1 Asthma disproportionately affects children living in poverty due to air pollution, ...

Aims The HEADSSS assessment is an internationally used tool to help give structure and framework to an assessment of an adolescent patient. Objective To analyze the knowledge among doctors in the ...

Methods We used novel linkage between health and education records from the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) database to develop a whole-country cohort of children ...

Methods Our aim in this observational study was to assess safety of the delivery room cuddles for babies born < 32 weeks’ gestation. As part of the stabilisation for babies born < 32 weeks, if certain ...

Objectives It is mandatory for all Western Australian (WA) EDs to complete injury proformas for all children under 2 years presenting with an injury. At Bunbury Regional Hospital (BRH), this is termed ...

Background The use of biologic agents allows the application of precision medicine in the treatment of paediatric severe asthma. Aim To describe the real-life effectiveness of biologic agents in ...

Objective To describe the prevalence and determinants of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) among healthy children aged between 0 and 18 years living in South-East Asia (SEA). Design We systematically ...

Objectives Critical appraisal and evidence based medicine (EBM) are ‘academic’ skills that guide daily practice and drive improvements in patient care, and are thus essential components of the ...