Every 5°C rise in maximum temperature pushes up the rate of hospital admissions for serious injuries among children, reveals one of the largest studies of its kind published online in the Emergency Medicine Journal. The authors based their findings on the patterns of hospital treatment for both adults and children in 21 emergency care units [...]
Marie-Catherine Mousseau writes about the latest advances in our understanding of the perceptual abilities of young infants Have you ever wondered what the world looks like for very young babies? According to the 19th-century philosopher and psychologist William James, the visual world of infants is a ‘booming, buzzing confusion’. No wonder. With a visual acuity [...]
Mistakes are being made in a high number of drug treatments given to children in hospital, either when prescribing or administering the medicines, new study has revealed. Although most of the mistakes were unlikely to cause serious harm, a small number of cases were potentially fatal, prompting the study’s authors to call for more effective [...]
Rory Hafford reports on a recent meeting on the subject of paediatric nutrition — particularly the issue of cow’s milk protein allergy What do you do when a distraught mother comes to you because her baby is inconsolable; crying excessively and nothing the parents do seems to give any respite? To make matters worse it [...]
Every hour of the day children are inactive adds three minutes to the time it takes them to fall asleep, new research has found. In the study researchers examined the daytime activity and sleep patterns of a representative sample of 591 seven year olds, using an activity monitor (actigraph) worn for 24 hours. Full information [...]
Mild facial nerve paralysis caused by the use of forceps during birth generally resolves on its own and does not require treatment, according to a new report. The report followed a study in which doctors reviewed the medical records of 28 babies with facial nerve palsy caused by forceps use between 1989 and 2005. In [...]
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