Archives this month
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
This month sees the first in an occasional series entitled "Recent advances" (page 438). Professor Judith Chessells from the Institute of Child Health in London looks at the continuing success story that is childhood acute leukaemia. She lists some of the more common cytogenic changes recently identified and describes new methods of measuring minimal residual disease.
Professor Chessells reminds us how measles vaccination of children has been literally life saving for those with leukaemia and emphasises the importance of shared care. The most salutary lesson is less optimistic: the spectacular improvements in treatment leading to high survival rates are available for only a small minority of the world's children.
The fragile WelshNo, I hadn't heard of the Tipping the Balance Toward Primary Care
European Network (page 452). But there it is, in Wales and Scandinavia
amongst other places. Some of its members have been looking
Relevant Articles
- What is Sure Start?
- HELEN ROBERTS; and DMB HALL
Arch. Dis. Child. 2000 82: 435-437.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Recent advances in management of acute leukaemia
- Judith M Chessells
Arch. Dis. Child. 2000 82: 438-442.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Incidence and cause of fractures in European districts
- Ronan A Lyons, Eva Sellstrom, Annie M Delahunty, Mitch Loeb, and Susanna Varilo
Arch. Dis. Child. 2000 82: 452-455.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: management and prognosis
- Kate Irwin, Melinda Edwards, and Richard Robinson
Arch. Dis. Child. 2000 82: 474-478.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Food entrapped in papilla of Vater: uncommon cause of vomiting
- D Falchetti, P Pedersini, W Rigamonti, P Salucci, and G Caccia
Arch. Dis. Child. 2000 82: 488-489.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
-
Lung deposition of aerosol
a comparison of different spacers
- H J Zar, E G Weinberg, H J Binns, F Gallie, and M D Mann
Arch. Dis. Child. 2000 82: 495-498.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
eLetters:
Read all eLetters
- Spacers. the last word? I doubt it.
- Peter Barry
- ADC Online, 6 Jun 2000 [Full text]
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
