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A brief digest of the October issue
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In the October issue:
Perspectives
Doull looks at the ongoing management of cystic fibrosis, and makes suggestions about monitoring of children with it. (pp 831–2)
Stephenson reviews the recent legal rulings that the duty of care owed by a paediatrician is to the child ahead of other considerations. (pp 833–4)
Leading articles
Smyth looks at the top ten most important trials in children, and reflects on what this means for future research into childhood disease.
Relevant Articles
- What and when to collect from infants with cystic fibrosis
- Iolo Doull
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 831-832.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Safeguarding children is everyones responsibility: UK government statement on the duties of doctors
- Terence Stephenson
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 833-834.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Making a difference: the clinical research programme for children
- Rosalind L Smyth
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 835-837.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Conduct disorders and us: from heart sink to heart warming?
- Daphne V Keen
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 838-841.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Adaptation of the Manchester-Minneapolis Quality of Life instrument for use in the UK population
- H A Hutchings, P Upton, W-Y Cheung, A Maddocks, C Eiser, J G Williams, I T Russell, S Jackson, and M E M Jenney
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 855-860.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Is there an intrauterine influence on obesity? Evidence from parent–child associations in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
- George Davey Smith, Colin Steer, Sam Leary, and Andy Ness
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 876-880.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- No increased risk of relapse after meningococcal C conjugate vaccine in nephrotic syndrome
- Brent Taylor, Nick Andrews, Julia Stowe, Laila Hamidi-Manesh, and Elizabeth Miller
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 887-889.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Bronchoscopy following diagnosis with cystic fibrosis
- Tom N Hilliard, Seema Sukhani, Jacqueline Francis, Neil Madden, Mark Rosenthal, Ian Balfour-Lynn, Andrew Bush, and Jane C Davies
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 898-899.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Pancreatic phenotype in infants with cystic fibrosis identified by mutation screening
- Marco Cipolli, Carlo Castellani, Bridget Wilcken, John Massie, Karen McKay, Margie Gruca, Anna Tamanini, Maurice Baroukh Assael, and Kevin Gaskin
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 842-846.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Birth anthropometric measures, body mass index and allergic diseases in a birth cohort study (BAMSE)
- Xiao-Mei Mai, Catarina Almqvist, Lennart Nilsson, and Magnus Wickman
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 881-886.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Infant feeding in the second 6 months of life related to iron status: an observational study
- David Hopkins, Pauline Emmett, Colin Steer, Imogen Rogers, Sian Noble, and Alan Emond
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 850-854.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Risk factors for obesity in 7-year-old European children: the Auckland Birthweight Collaborative Study
- Nikki J Blair, John M D Thompson, Peter N Black, David M O Becroft, Phillipa M Clark, Dug Yeo Han, Elizabeth Robinson, Karen E Waldie, Chris J Wild, and Edwin A Mitchell
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 866-871.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Ethnic and gender differences in body fat in British schoolchildren as measured by DXA
- Nicholas J Shaw, Nicola J Crabtree, Mohammed S Kibirige, and John N Fordham
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 872-875.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- A parent-completed respiratory questionnaire for 1-year-old children: repeatability
- Marie-Pierre F Strippoli, Michael Silverman, Gisela Michel, and Claudia E Kuehni
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 861-865.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Treatment of fever and over-the-counter medicines
- Edward Purssell
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 900-901.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Paediatric prescribing of asthma drugs in the UK: are we sticking to the guideline?
- Simon Cohen, Jonny Taitz, and Adam Jaffé
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 847-849.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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