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« Back to NewsStudy shows urgent change needed to reduce deaths from malaria and meningitis in comatose African children
22 April 2025
Results of two parallel studies show that one in four African children hospitalised with malaria and coma have an additional infection, and that giving antibiotics with antimalarials could help reduce death rates of comatose children.
New study shows that early support for children living in marginalised communities can improve their developmental outcomes
29 January 2025
Research by experts at the Department of Paediatrics, and published in the European Journal of Paediatrics shows that early interventions of support to the development of children living in disadvantaged settings, can significantly improve their neurodevelopmental outcomes during early childhood.
Research shows comforting babies eases parental stress in painful procedures
8 March 2024
The Neuroimaging Group, at the Department of Paediatrics, in collaboration with Bliss, the charity for babies born premature or sick, has launched a new suite of information resources for parents of neo-nates, designed to make them feel more confident about being involved in the care of their babies.
New animation series to support parents of premature infants
27 February 2024
Professor Caroline Hartley, Principal Investigator, and Dr Marianne van der Vaart Postdoctoral Researcher, in the Paediatric Neuroimaging Group at the Department of Paediatrics, have today launched a series of animations aimed at improving parental understanding of brain development in premature infants, and the effect it has on breathing and apnoeas (the cessation of breathing).
There is now clear data on Covid-19 and children: it should be safe to reopen English schools
18 August 2020
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Professor Matthew Snape discusses the initial results of his team's antibody study in the context of coronavirus risk to school children.
Coronavirus: is it safe for children to return to school?
1 June 2020
Stéphane Paulus and Else Bijker explore the topic in their article for The Conversation.
Sharing the benefits
20 March 2020
At the beginning of the year our family leave policies were updated. Employees can now take up most of our family leave schemes from the first day of employment, meaning that more parents can now enjoy the benefits of our generous provisions. Hayriye Cagnan from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and husband Eugene Duff from the Department of Paediatrics, discuss their experience of shared parental leave following baby Ida’s arrival ten months ago.
Pregnant women invited to take part in pioneering diabetes prevention research
16 July 2018
Dr Matthew Snape leads a study investigating if giving small amounts of oral insulin to babies can prevent type 1 diabetes, thus allowing mothers to protect their children from injecting insulin.