pediatrics

The clinical practice of auscultating fetal heart tones began in 1818 when a Swiss surgeon reported hearing the fetal heart rate by placing his ear against a pregnant woman’s abdomen

Tetralogy of Fallot (pronounced "Fallot's tetralogy") also known as "Steno-Fallot tetralogy" or "blue child syndrome" or "quadrilogy of Fallot" (hence the acronym TOF or ToF) is a congenital heart malformation, i.e. already present at…

Little Makhar is now in Italy with his mother, and thanks to the Red Cross he has a chance of a better future

Acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children: reports come from 14 different countries, led by the United Kingdom with 131 cases. The number of cured children is 122

Infantile psoriasis is a chronic and generally asymptomatic inflammatory disease of the skin, joints and nails

For infants undergoing endotracheal intubation, high-flow nasal therapy improves the likelihood of a successful intubation on the first attempt, according to a study published in the 28 April issue of the New England Journal of Medicine

Paediatric hepatitis, the mysterious hepatitis alarm is growing in young children. All the symptoms to watch out for

Acute hepatitis: the first symptom is jaundice, but consult the paediatrician even if the child is very dejected and has other symptoms

Chickenpox is a highly infectious disease common in children. It can result in itchy rashes with blister formations all over the body that may last for weeks

Vinnytsia Children's Hospital for Infectious Diseases has received an ambulance and medicine from Polish colleagues in Warsaw