ADC Podcast
The Archives of Disease (ADC) podcast provides the latest in paediatrics and child health, featuring editor highlights, detailed article coverage, and interviews with authors and specialists. It is an international paediatric journal from BMJ Group and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). The podcast aims to educate and inform, but does not constitute medical advice.
Episodes
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC September 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/9
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Fingers, forearms, and the far future. Archimedes August 2026
Visualising inside things has been an obsession of us in medicine since the ideas of healing first began - be that the mental models we created with palpation and auscultation - or the revelations of roentgenography - to the latest cetacean approach of high-tech echolocation. Could we switch from feeling for broken arms bones, through X-raying them, to using ultrasound to see if things had straigh
Relax and Explore. Archimedes July 2026
One of the common reasons to get an Archi out of your brain and onto the page appears to be a recurrent clinical ‘itch’ … where a topic keeps coming back and having good arguments for and against it … a bit like keeping babies on CPAP to reduce their energy expenditure so they can grow bigger … does it work? (You can read more here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/7/657.1)
The other thing you migh
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC August 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/8/i
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Deviants and squirting up the nose. Archimedes June 2026
We do like it when we get to say the equivalent of “well, it’s a bit more complicated than that”, and, well, it is often, isn’t it? Seeking out the deviants is something which can be very worthwhile too. 10.1136/archdischild-2026-330854
Commonly, things get advised and sold because they seem like a great idea (and make money), but that doesn’t always equate to actually working. What about squirtin
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC July 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/7/i
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Stopping and moving. Archimedes May 2026
Doing stuff is easy, not doing stuff is hard, particularly if you’ve been doing it for a year. This isn’t just about smoking, drinking, and wild banjo playing on the porch at midnight, though we talk about it on the podcast (https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/5/457.2), but also echoed in an upcoming Editorial (https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2026/04/03/archdischild-2026-330309).
If reality were alt
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC June 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/6/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC May 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2026 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/5/i
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Really hard questions: trials, real-world evidence, and patient values. Archimedes April 2026
When is a trial not a trial? Can you make a big dataset work as if it was randomised? Can we really use real-world evidence rather than trial evidence for clinical decision-making? Read here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/4/373.2
The hardest decisions are those where the answer is truly complex, evolving and really involves an understanding of patient values and attitudes. This is a non-tradit
The boring and bladders. Archimedes March 2026
If you’ve got debris on a bladder ultrasound, that means there’s a UTI, doesn’t it? This month, we have a team of crack nephrologists looking in detail at floaty bits and bacteria being spotted by soundwaves: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/3/283.1
We also bemoan the problem of wanting to smooth things out too quickly and make everyone do the same thing unnecessarily. Diversity and difference a
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC April 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2026 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/4/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC March 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2026 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/3/i
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Ancient and modern in evidence-based medicine. Archimedes February 2026
We’re absolutely committed to being the most awkward section of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, and this month we’re managing it with not only having a gender-indeterminate ‘voice’ in this section and anthropomorphising a chunk of journal, but by leaping forward and backward in time.
AI has not been involved with this writing, but we’ll all be aware of where AI is creeping into our own profe
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC February 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2026 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/2/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC January 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2026 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/1/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC December 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2025 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/12/i
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Feeling better? Can you give me a score for that? - Archimedes October 2025
Crashing back into your ears with the grace of a three-year-old ballet dancer, Archimedes blusters about how we can measure ‘feeling better’ [https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/10/844.2] and what I might need to learn.
This leads onto difficult neurology, following on from neonates last month, but in more grown-up children with cases around complex epilepsy and the use of cannabidiols - specifically
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC November 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2025 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/11/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC October 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/10/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC September 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/9/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC August 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2025 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/8/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC July 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/7/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC June 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/6/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC May 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2025 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/5/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC April 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/4/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC March 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/3/i
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ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Fantoms. Highlights from the January 2025 issue
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the January 2025 issue. The Fantoms article:
https://fn.bmj.com/content/110/1/1
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Weighing hearts and minds. Archimedes February 2025
Archives of Disease in Childhood's Archimedes section editor, Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, UK) brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians. Today, with a bonus interview with Mr Josh Totty, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Plastic Surgery:
We’re thinking about balancing acts in our wonderings about how to do evidence-based practice this month [https://adc.b
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC February 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/2/i
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Knowing when not to do something. Archimedes January 2025
Archives of Disease in Childhood's Archimedes section editor, Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, UK) brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians. Today, with a bonus interview with Mr Josh Totty, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Plastic Surgery:
Prep for an LP, stat! We previously talked in an Archimedes about the really low chance of meningitis in UTI in infants
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC January 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/1/i
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The doors to revelation. Archimedes December 2024
It’s tricky to do balancing sometimes, and while you might not immediately think of it, a door can sometimes open your way to a new way of considering stuff as we talk about, but you can read about too: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/12/1036.2
Then there’s something we often do think about. And struggle with. How do we know how long terms meds might affect people in the long term? What about mela
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC December 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2024 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/12/i
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Even surgeons are uncertain sometimes
Archives of Disease in Childhood's Archimedes section editor, Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, UK) brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians. Today, with a bonus interview with Mr Josh Totty, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Plastic Surgery:
It might come as a surprise to those who aren’t surgeons, but we have (quite excellent) interview proof of how a clinic
Stopping and thinking - Archimedes October 2024
Archives of Disease in Childhood's Archimedes section editor, Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, UK) brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians:
Fairly frequently we who are sub-, or sub-sub- specialised will look at some research which we don’t want to agree with and say “But it doesn’t apply to My Special Darlings!”. And most of the time we’re wrong -
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC November 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/11/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC October 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/10/i
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More poo! Should children be treated as little adults? - Archimedes September 2024
Archives of Disease in Childhood's Archimedes section editor, Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, UK) brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians:
We all know opiates can constipate folks very badly. Some of us from personal experience. We know hospitalisation, not eating well, and not moving much make it worse. And we all should recognise the significant
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC September 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website:
https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/9/i
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But I can’t cannulate them again! - Archimedes August 2024
Archives of Disease in Childhood's Archimedes section editor, Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, UK) brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians:
We’ve all been in this situation (apart from perhaps some intensivists), any of us in the “I don’t want to cannulate them again!” park when dealing with little folks who probably need antibiotics, but do they re
Making things go exactly where you want them to - Archimedes July 2024
Let’s make it magical from the beginning, and offer the value of point-of-care ultrasounds for placing umbilical venous catheters. Is it worthwhile or are they just more things for micro intensivists to play with? Read here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/7/598.1
We also talk about fidelity, interventions, tests and the like, and we’ll even point you to another perhaps helpful paper, even though
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC August 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website:
https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/8/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC July 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/7/i
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Preferential treatments
We spoke last month about how the way a topic is introduced makes you understand it differently [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/248.2], but this month we might have a practical example of how seeking preferences can be tricky [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/7/598.1]
This links to how to rehydrate kids who’ve failed an oral rehydration challenge; NG or IV? [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/6/5
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Fantoms. Highlights from the May 2024 issue
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the May 2024 issue. The Fantoms article:
https://fn.bmj.com/content/109/3/229
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC June 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/6/i
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Making things right from the start
It’s an interview podcast this month, where we talk with the author of “Supporting parents of children born with differences in sex development” [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/5/438.1]: a paper you need to read in the May issue of ADC and a chat you need to listen to. We also discuss how differential diagnosis can be evidence-based, and how that might be useful in your practice [https://adc.bmj.
You spin me right round, baby
Not anything like a record*, but like an obstetrician encouraging the downward trajectory of a bum-settled baby getting ready to squeeze out. Or, more medically sounding, external cephalic version for breech delivery. But, even if successful, are such babies still at greater risk of developmental hip dysplasia? Read here and find out even more than the pod tells you [https://doi.org/10.1136/archdi
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC May 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/5/i
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Frames, and poorly kidneys
Prof. Bob Phillips, ADC's Archimedes Editor, sometimes finds things that used to be called something now are called something else. He finds things he hadn’t heard of and assumes they were something else, but they aren’t, they’re something different! This is a long way of saying - if you’ve never heard of paediatric acute focal bacterial nephritis - you should listen to this podcast and have a
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC April 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/4/i
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Badness: balancing risks in rheumatic disease treatment
None of us want bad things to happen; we went into this career to reduce the number or severity of badness for babies, children and young people after all. But how to tell if our actions are leading to more adverse effects… it’s touched on in the podcast but read more here (https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/2/167.2)
We’re also thinking about balancing badness - the possible problems of NSAIDs alongs
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC March 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/i
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All that’s sticky isn’t gold(en syrup)
Honey, sweetie pie, babe … all the sorts of slushy nominative phrases that get thrown into the droning movies and teen-focussed telly programmes we probably love to watch. But honey, the bear-beloved treat, could that help with hay fever? An intrepid evidence-based gang tried to answer the question for you (https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/1/71.1)
And we also chat in this podcast about the problems
Urinalysis in paediatric cancer patients
When treating children with cancer and febrile neutropenia, you may ask yourself, "Are urinary cultures a waste of time?"
Prof. Bob Phillips (1) of the ADC Archimedes podcast joins ADC Spotlight host Dr. Rachel Agbeko to reflect on this question, basing their discussion on the paper, "Role of urine culture in paediatric patients with cancer with fever and neutropenia: a prospective observational s
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC February 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/2/i
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Really difficult stuff
Proving something is safe, or that bad things don’t happen, is always hard. Really hard. And when people turn to the published literature to investigate adverse effects you have to send them much praise - like the team have done in this month's Archimedes when looking at if baclofen causes seizures (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/1028.1).
The other thing we often struggle with is how much we c
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC January 2024
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/1/i
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC December 2023
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2023 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/i
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Tech, tools and the fantasy of forward
The world advanced through the Next Great Thing. Like the C5 electric scooter, Hindenberg air ship and velocipedes. It’s always easy to see the next great thing being ignored when you look backwards in time - but what about looking forwards? Is video-assisted thoracoscopic draining of complicated infected pleural fluid really any better than a tiny plastic pipe and squirting in some fibrin muncher
Safeguarding concerns in the Illegal Migration Bill
This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Catherine Branthwaite to discuss the viewpoint, "Safeguarding concerns in the Illegal Migration Bill".
They speak about the key points of the bill, its scientific shortcomings, and put it into the context of global rights of children.
Read the paper: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2023/05/15/archdischild-2023-325589
(1) Paed
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC November 2023
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2023 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/11/i
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It’s obvious!
In this month's Archimedes section of ADC: there are a lot of things in life that are obvious like crash barriers making roads safer, giving iprotropium for wheezy bronchiolitis or using C-reactive protein to differentiate bacterial and viral infections… oh wait … well … one out of three …
This podcast is all about how you sometimes need to state the obvious (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/10/862
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Fantoms. Highlights from the July 2023 issue
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the July 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/4/323
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Atoms: the highlights from the ADC October 2023
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2023 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/10/865
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Child poverty and health inequalities in the UK: a guide for paediatricians
This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Ian Sinha (1) and Dr. Alice Lee (1) to discuss their review, "Child poverty and health inequalities in the UK: a guide for paediatricians."
They provide insight into the varying definitions of poverty, and how paediatricians can make the most difference in their communities.
Read the paper: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/2/94
Balance in (almost) everything
Back to the cut and thrust of clinical neonatology for the September 2023 Archimedes, where we visit the challenge of sugar-free babies again. How do you move forward with uncertainty about the adverse effects of medicines but significant problems with the adverse effects of disease processes? [doi 10.1136/archdischild-2023-325726]
We also flicker our minds back to the Olden Days, when analysers
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC September 2023
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2023 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/9/i
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Toxic and addictive effects of nicotine on children
This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Jonathan Coutts (1), to discuss a viewpoint titled, "Toxic and addictive effects of nicotine on children and adolescents: are we sleepwalking into a public health disaster?"
In their conversation they touch on reported statistics relating to adolescent vaping behaviour, EVALI syndrome, and the often-quoted "95% safer" rating of
A Whole New World (in ADC’s Archimedes section)
Welcome to a new world of Archimedes mini-pods; for those days when you don’t have an Archimedes to listen to or explore, you can pick up the latest issue and train your critically appraising eye on another article.
This month we look at one of the best descriptions of the development (and limitations) of a multivariable prediction model we’ve seen in some time [DOI 10.1136/archdischild-2022-32515
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC August 2023
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2023 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/8/i
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Ethnic differences and inequities in paediatric healthcare utilisation in the UK
This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Claire Zhang (1), to discuss a scoping review of the literature on children's use of healthcare in the UK, and ethnic differences and inequities found there. Children's healthcare outcomes are an important factor in health across the general lifespan, but most studies on healthcare utilisation deal only with adults, so this is a top
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC July 2023
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2023 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/7/i
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ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Fantoms. Highlights from the May 2023 issue
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the May 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/3/209
Additional links:
Nasal High-Flow Therapy during Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116735
Nebulised surfactant to reduce severity of respi
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC June 2023
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2023 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/6/i
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Clots and complications - ADC Archimedes May 2023
If you’ve ever wondered why tests sometimes don’t really work when you start using them then you’ll really want to listen to this episode .. or read this instead - https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/5/411.2
Or maybe you’ve lain awake at night worrying about how common portal vein thrombosis is in neonates and what that might mean for the baby … again, you’ll really want to get your ears attached to
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC May 2023
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2023 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/5/i
Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episo
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Fantoms. Highlights from the March 2023 issue
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the March 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/2/95
Additional links:
Caffeine Therapy for Apnea of Prematurity
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa054065
Survival Without Disability to Age 5 Years After Neonatal Caffeine
Straightening the curves - ADC Archimedes April 2023
A patient and their family will often ask the most sensible, thoughtful questions and we’ll head to the evidence to find that research doesn’t quite fit the bill. We discuss this in both the abstract ‘what’s the methodological issues here’ bit of Achimedes (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/4/323.2) and bring it to life via our case of the specialist core exercises system (https://adc.bmj.com/conten
