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This new study analysed the outcomes of using an Infant–Toddler Checklist (ITC) in child health services in Sweden in toddlers aged 18 months. The authors note that disorders involving language and...
When stopping taking antidepressants, the risk of experiencing one or more discontinuation (withdrawal) symptoms such as dizziness, headache, nausea, insomnia and irritability is 15%, according to a...
The Cleft Registry and Audit Network (CRANE) database, set up by the Department of Health in 2000, forms part of the national clinical audit run by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) Clinical...
» Along with maturity and intelligence will also be the professional's own ability to assess whether the child can understand aspects of choices to be made « .
‘Practice assessors need to be prepared and supported to facilitate students to recognise and analyse complexity and the judgments, decisions and actions required for practice at increasingly high...
Following the data collection and analysis, two themes relevant to health visiting practice were produced..
Due to its widespread applications in various fields, antibiotics are continuously released into the environment and ultimately enter the human body through diverse routes. The authors of this study...
The children's cancer charity, the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT), is highlighting the crucial role health visitors can play in the early diagnosis retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer..
» Severe lupus may be treated with immunosuppressants or other drugs used more rarely, such as immunoglobulin and cyclosporin A « .
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