Paediatrics Category

Issues surrounding medical care for children and young people.

Nicotine in pregnancy increases risk of cot death

Mental Health, Nutrition
Successful Support for Parents of Anorexia patients
Anorexia nervosa is one of the most severe psychiatric diseases in female adolescents. Its origin is co-conditional on a series of biological and genetic factors and must be treated in …
Diabetes, Global Reach
Diabetes – The Facts
Diabetes – the facts One in 15 people in the UK have diabetes. This includes one million people who have Type 2 but haven’t yet been diagnosed. In the UK, someone is …
Mental Health, Psychology, Sexual Health, Transgender
Psychiatric Assessments Creating Depression and Suicide among …
Around forty per cent of transgender people have attempted to take their own lives at some point in time. That’s a shocking, harrowing statistic, supplied by the National Centre for …
Mental Health
ADHD Drug not linked to Psychotic Symptoms
New research provides reassurance that the most common ADHD drug is not linked to psychotic symptoms The most commonly prescribed ADHD drug methylphenidate does not increase the risk of psychotic …
Mental Health, Neurology
Epilepsy and Aluminium
There is a long (and perhaps regrettable) history of the injection of aluminium salts into brain tissue in animal (including primates) models of human epilepsy. With this in mind, it …