Babies who survived serious illness soon after birth continue to have a high mortality risk into adolescence, according to a longitudinal study from Sweden ( JAMA Pediatr ...

This patient in his late teens presented with a one week history of a widespread painful rash, accompanied by fever and fatigue. Two weeks previously he had started oral upadacitinib—a Janus kinase ...

Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes. Some have argued that we should ban the word “prevention” and instead have a wider definition of health, less centred on the absence of sickness ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Ondansetron is often given to vomiting children in emergency departments. But does giving parents or caregivers a supply of the anti-emetic at discharge from ...

Melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleep-wake cycles, is increasingly used as a sleep aid for children. But does it work, and is it safe? Katharine Lang reports “The use of melatonin in typically ...

Ray McMahon often lived up to the stereotype of the affable Irishman: he was a friendly, relaxed man who enjoyed a party and might knock out a song at the end of a convivial evening. But underneath ...