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  • adjective Alternative spelling of pediatric.

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  • adjective of or relating to the medical care of children

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Examples

  • It will also take national responsibility for vulnerable health services such as paediatric oncology.

    Kiwiblog 2009

  • Because of the way the questions were structured, child heart surgical units at Leeds and the Royal Brompton in London were almost certain to be cut, leaving a straight choice between paediatric surgical centres in Southampton and Leicester.

    Public backs child heart surgery closures, poll finds 2011

  • An NHS paediatric nurse monitors a baby undergoing phototherapy for jaundice at a London hospital.

    Third of NHS children's units fail to comply with EU working time directive 2011

  • A radical blueprint for improving children's care from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health urges greater specialisation – with a 50% increase in consultants and many more children's nurses and GPs with paediatric experience.

    NHS children's care at risk through lack of well-qualified doctors and nurses 2011

  • Lee Noimark, a consultant paediatric allergist at Barts and the London children's hospital in the capital, noted that exposure to sunlight as a child, or lack of it, could also be to blame for the allergies.

    Chance of developing allergies linked to month of conception Denis Campbell 2010

  • The hospital said the Cystic Fibrosis Trust had argued that the review "has the potential to destabilise cystic fibrosis paediatric care in the UK", while Asthma UK highlights the threat to Royal Brompton's respiratory services, which it describes as "one of the best regarded providers of specialists respiratory support in the UK".

    Public backs child heart surgery closures, poll finds 2011

  • The bookshelves held not only his old textbooks but also the newer paediatric encyclopaedias to which he had contributed articles on scarlatina — the subject of a postgraduate fellowship, as Klara had reminded him.

    For Services Rendered Erika Dreifus 2010

  • Research author, Professor Catherine Law, paediatric epidemiologist at the Institute of Child Health, said: Our results do not imply that mothers should not work.

    ProWomanProLife » 2009 » September 2009

  • The cause of growing sensitivity among children remains a mystery, said Dr Adam Fox, a consultant in paediatric allergy at Guy's and St Thomas' hospital in London.

    NHS warns against complementary therapies for children's food allergies 2011

  • Research author, Professor Catherine Law, paediatric epidemiologist at the Institute of Child Health, said: Our results do not imply that mothers should not work.

    ProWomanProLife » Ready, set, DUCK! 2009

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