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January 2025
- Epilepsies in children, young people and adults- updated guidance (NG217)
- Coroner raises concerns over pharmacists being unable to amend prescriptions following death of toddler
- A review on the role of extrapolation as basis for paediatric marketing authorization applications of medicines in the EU
- Complete routine immunisation schedule – update
- Anhydrous sodium thiosulfate for preventing hearing loss caused by cisplatin chemotherapy in people 1 month to 17 years with localised solid tumours
- Melatonin prescribing in children rises by 245% in nine years, data show
- Maternal and child nutrition: nutrition and weight management in pregnancy, and nutrition in children up to 5 years
- Association between vitamin D status at 3 years and eosinophilic asthma in 6-year-old children with a history of severe bronchiolitis
- Effectiveness of safety-netting approaches for acutely ill children: a network meta-analysis
December 2024
- Levofloxacin Preventive Treatment in Children Exposed to MDR Tuberculosis
- Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescriptions identified using screening tools in paediatric patients: a systematic review
- Treatment regimens and glycaemic outcomes in more than 100 000 children with type 1 diabetes (2013–22): a longitudinal analysis of data from paediatric diabetes registries
- Haematuria in children
November 2024
- Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (BTS, NICE, SIGN)
- Vaccine safety and adverse events following immunisation: the green book, ch 8
- New legislation being introduced will require millers and flour producers to fortify non-wholemeal wheat flour with folic acid from the end of 2026.
- Clarification of side-effect information in BNF and BNFC monographs
October 2024
- Antimicrobial intravenous-to-oral switch: criteria for prompt switch (update)
- NOXAFIL® (posaconazole) new Gastro-Resistant Powder and Solvent for Oral Suspension not interchangeable with existing Oral Suspension including generics.
- Short-term Dual Therapy or Mono Therapy With Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen for Fever: A Network Meta-Analysis
- Evidence for the Use of Opioid Medication for Pediatric Acute Pain in the Outpatient Setting: Technical Report
- Metronomic chemotherapy for paediatric extracranial solid tumours: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials
- Urgent and emergency mental health care for children and young people: national implementation guidance
- Schoolchildren with asthma face different risks at different ages
- Cannabinoids Used for Medical Purposes in Children and AdolescentsA Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
September 2024
- New product: Agamree (vamorolone) 40 mg/ml oral suspension
- Parents urged to get children MMR jab as one in six not fully vaccinated
- How can we support the mental health of children with epilepsy?
- Implementing an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for ear infection in children
- Liraglutide for Children 6 to <12 Years of Age with Obesity — A Randomized Trial
- Practice 10-Minute Consultation: Chronic cough in preschool aged children
- Complete routine immunisation schedule
- What Is Pertussis?
August 2024
- Characterizing Long COVID in Children and Adolescents
- Incidence, antimicrobial prescribing practice and associated healthcare costs of paediatric otorrhoea in primary care in the UK: A longitudinal population study
- Cardiovascular Management of Aortopathy in Children: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
June 2024
- Dupilumab for Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Patients 1 to 11 Years of Age
- Therapies to Decrease Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Illness
- Reducing unnecessary investigations in paediatric seizures in the emergency department
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programme
- Pregnant women urged to get whooping cough vaccine
- Medication safety strategies in European adult, paediatric, and neonatal intensive care units: a cross-sectional survey
- Treating lice during breastfeeding
- Phase 3 Trial of Crinecerfont in Pediatric Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
May 2024
- Reducing the use of proton pump inhibitors in infants with reflux symptoms
- Whooping cough: What’s behind the rise in cases and deaths in England?
- Antibiotics for Acute Sinusitis in Children: A Meta-Analysis
- Implementation of the Children with acute Cough (CHICO) intervention to improve antibiotics management: a qualitative study in primary care