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A brief digest of the July issue
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In Julys issue:
Perspectives
Necropsy Squier and Ironside argue that falling necropsy rates have impaired our ability to advance our understanding of disease processes, and are posing a significant risk to the public health (pp 5513).
Rickets Bishop highlights the importance of awareness of Rickets and vitamin D deficiency illnesses, with increasing incidence in the developed world, both in infancy and adolescence (pp 54950).
Childrens medicines Choonara charts recent progress in improving the
Relevant Articles
- Dont ignore vitamin D
- N Bishop
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 549-550.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Improving childrens medicines
- I Choonara
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 550-551.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Falling necropsy rates and risks to public health
- W Squier and J Ironside
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 551-553.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Survival probability in ataxia telangiectasia
- T O Crawford, R L Skolasky, R Fernandez, K J Rosquist, and H M Lederman
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 610-611.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Measuring body composition
- J C K Wells and M S Fewtrell
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 612-617.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- The re-emerging burden of rickets: a decade of experience from Sydney
- P D Robinson, W Högler, M E Craig, C F Verge, J L Walker, A C Piper, H J Woodhead, C T Cowell, and G R Ambler
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- C M Verity, A M Winstone, L Stellitano, A Nicoll, and R G Will
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- G Das, S Crocombe, M McGrath, J L Berry, and M Z Mughal
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 569-572.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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- T Bolger, M OConnell, A Menon, and K Butler
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 594-597.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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- A MacDonald, A Chakrapani, C Hendriksz, A Daly, P Davies, D Asplin, K Hall, and I W Booth
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 588-593.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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- W Sharieff, Z Bhutta, C Schauer, G Tomlinson, and S Zlotkin
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 573-579.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- The significance of cutaneous spider naevi in children
- S M Finn, M Rowland, F Lawlor, W Kinsella, L Chan, O Byrne, O OMahony, and B Bourke
Arch. Dis. Child. 2006 91: 604-605.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Prednisolone versus dexamethasone in croup: a randomised equivalence trial
- A Sparrow and G Geelhoed
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