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Rotavirus vaccination programme gets underway
GPs in England and Wales begin vaccinating infants against rotavirus from today, as another of the changes to this year’s routine immunisation schedule gets underway.
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Daily prenatal supplement ‘improves birth weight’
Daily prenatal iron supplements ‘substantially’ improves infant birth weight in a dose-response fashion, concludes a new analysis.
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Moderate maternal alcohol intake 'has no effect on mental development'
‘No strong evidence’ has been found to indicate that moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy has an adverse effect on the mental development of subsequent offspring, say UK researchers.
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‘No evidence of harm’ from antipyretic use in feverish children
There is no evidence that antipyretics prolong fever in children with acute infections, claims a UK meta-analysis.
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NICE rejects call to revise traffic light system for febrile children
NICE has rejected the recommendations of a major validation study criticising its traffic light system for missing too many bacterial infections in febrile children in the latest update to its guidance published today.
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Rotavirus vaccination programme for babies 'to begin in July'
Exclusive: Health visitors have been told that the rotavirus vaccination programme is likely to begin two months earlier than planned with babies being immunised from July, Pulse has learnt.
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GPs in talks over second MMR session to control measles outbreak
Exclusive: GP practices in South Wales have been put ‘under enormous strain’ and are now set for a second round of immunisations to help control the ongoing measles outbreak in the region, say LMC leaders.
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GPs told to identify conduct disorders in children by NICE
GPs should look for possible conduct disorders in children and young people, particularly in those with mental health and neurodevelopmental problems, NICE advises.
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GPs forced to attend unnecessary child safeguarding training
Exclusive: GPs are being coerced into undergoing hours of unnecessary child safeguarding training by NHS managers who are falsely claiming they do not have the GMC-required competence level, Pulse can reveal.
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NICE child fever guidelines miss serious infections, BMJ study finds
The NICE ‘traffic light’ system for detecting serious bacterial infections in young febrile children misses too many infections, particularly UTIs, say the authors of a new study published in the BMJ.
