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Research highlights the need to understand the link between deprivation and risk of pre-term birth (Photo credit: SPL)

Pre-term births higher among deprived women

Women from deprived areas are still twice as likely to suffer a pre-term birth as women from affluen...

Pre-eclampsia: higher TSH levels

Pre-eclampsia thyroid risk uncovered

GPs should monitor for hypothyroidism in women who have had pre-eclampsia, US researchers have said....

In acute otitis media the ear drum will become red and bulging and may rupture to allow pus to discharge

Paediatric medicine - The child with ear pain and infection

Consider referred stalgia as more common causes in children with these symptoms....

Heelp prick testing can show possible indicators of CF in newborns

Paediatric medicine - Cystic fibrosis

Families benefit from an interested, supportive primary care team working with the local specialist ...

Viewpoint - Management of childhood obesity

Investing in community prevention strategies is the key to fighting obesity, writes Dr David Haslam....

The anterolateral aspect of the thigh should be used in babies (photograph: SAMUEL ASHFIELD / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The basics - Routine childhood immunisation

Childhood vaccine schedules have changed in recent years. Dr Louise Newson provides an update....

The treatment of retinoblastoma now includes new chemotherapeutic regimens to minimise tissue damage

Retinoblastoma

There are many long-term issues faced by people who have had childhood eye cancer. By Juliette Carte...

An assessment of otoacoustic emissions tests cochlear function and is one of the tests included in the hearing loss screening programme

Paediatric medicine - Assessing childhood hearing loss

The Newborn Hearing Screening Programme was introduced in 2006, audiologist Victoria Parfect and Dr ...

Duodenal ulcer in the duodenal bulb, a possible cause of anaemia (pictures : dr warren hyer)

Paediatric medicine - Recurrent abdominal pain

GPs need to distinguish functional abdominal pain from something more serious, explains Dr Warren Hy...

Infant colic can be distressing (photograph: MAURO FERMARIELLO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Paediatric medicine - GI problems in infants

Dr Asoka Thenabadu provides the answers to some of the common questions that may be asked by worried...

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