Martin House Children’s Hospice chief executive warns that a cultural refusal to talk about dying children is starving the sector of vital statutory funding.

KUALA LUMPUR: The University of Malaya Medical Centre (PPUM)’s success in performing a liver transplant surgery on a four-month-old baby boy last November proves that Malaysia has world-class expertise. Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said the baby, who weighed only 6.2 kilograms (kg), suffered from liver failure and required an immediate liver transplant from his mother on Nov 25. However, a few minutes before the procedure began, the baby’s heart suddenly stopped, creating an atmosphere of anxiety at the PPUM Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. “The medical team worked hard to perform resuscitation. An hour full of heartache. This […]

Tens of thousands of Argentines filled the streets of downtown Buenos Aires to demand increased funding for universities and paediatric care.

Background Nitrous oxide/oxygen (N2O/O2 50%/50%) is an effective and safe technique for procedural sedation in paediatric settings; however, the knowledge, use and perspectives of healthcare profess...

Dr Katherine Curtis-Tyler, Senior Lecturer, is an academic at the School of Health and Psychological Sciences of City, University of London.

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This study validates novel paediatric-specific targets, demonstrating that achieving cLLDAS, cCR, and cCR-0 reduce risks of new damage and severe flare, which is comparable to aSLE targets. Using cSLE...