A BPSU survey of serious complications of chickenpox revealed a variety of complications in 0.82/100,000 children per year, mostly in previously healthy children.  Here.

A screening cross-sectional study of 1758 Dutch children aged 7 to 10 found 130 (8%) with previously undiagnosed asthma, of whom a third - characterised as those with more highly educated mothers - declined to take them to a GP for further management. Here.

After reviewing the literature this group present a set of criteria, with flow diagram, for referral of children for further assessment of their growth which detects 87.5% of children with Turner’s syndrome, and 76.5% of children with other disorders, with a false positive rate of 2%. Here.

A retrospective case notes review of 25 infants in London with vertically acquired HIV revealed that 5 of the mothers had been tested as HIV negative in pregnancy, implying seroconversion in pregnancy as an important route of infection. Here.

Leading article:  Lynn and Ross look back at the first 40 years of the functioning of the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit.  Here.

Comparison of two BPSU studies shows a threefold fall in vitamin K deficiency bleeding, the remaining cases are non-treated breast fed infants. Here.

A BSPU (British Surveillance) study identified 7 deaths in a 13 months period. When assessed by an expert panel, five deaths were thought unlikely to be medication related, and for the remaining two a consensus could not be reached. Here.