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• Controversy: In defence of the Children Act (1 December, 2000)

  DAME BRENDA HALE
• Effect of severity of disability on survival in north east England cerebral palsy cohort (1 December, 2000)

  J L Hutton, A F Colver, P C Mackie
• Parents' perceptions of disclosure of the diagnosis of cerebral palsy (1 December, 2000)

  G Baird, H McConachie, D Scrutton
• Randomised double blind placebo controlled trial of the effect of botulinum toxin on walking in cerebral palsy (1 December, 2000)

  T Ubhi, B B Bhakta, H L Ives, V Allgar, S H Roussounis
• Safety and immunogenicity of a paediatric presentation of an influenza vaccine (1 December, 2000)

  M Gonzalez, M C Pirez, E Ward, H Dibarboure, A García, H Picolet
• Medication errors in a paediatric teaching hospital in the UK: five years operational experience (1 December, 2000)

  L M Ross, J Wallace, J Y Paton
• Unlicensed and off label prescribing of drugs in general practice (1 December, 2000)

  J McIntyre, S Conroy, A Avery, H Corns, I Choonara
• Off label and unlicensed drug use among French office based paediatricians (1 December, 2000)

  M Chalumeau, J M Tréluyer, B Salanave, R Assathiany, G Chéron, N Crocheton, C Rougeron, M Mares, G Bréart, G Pons
• Short report: The management of fever and petechiae: making sense of rash decisions (1 December, 2000)

  P A Brogan, A Raffles
• Short report: Early filtration and mortality in meningococcal septic shock? (1 December, 2000)

  G Pearson, P C Khandelwal, N Naqvi
• Hypocalcaemia in severe meningococcal infections (1 December, 2000)

  Paul B Baines, Alistair P J Thomson, William D Fraser, C Anthony Hart
• Chasing the base deficit: hyperchloraemic acidosis following 0.9% saline fluid resuscitation (1 December, 2000)

  S Skellett, A Mayer, A Durward, S M Tibby, I A Murdoch
• Acronymophilia: an update (1 December, 2000)

  David Isaacs, Dominic Fitzgerald
• A case of lead poisoning due to snooker chalk (1 December, 2000)

  P I Dargan, P H Evans, I M House, A L Jones
• Medical students' attitudes to caring for a young infant—can parenting a doll influence these beliefs? (1 December, 2000)

  L E Bath, S Cunningham, N McIntosh
• Short report: Do presenters to paediatric meetings get their work published? (1 December, 2000)

  F A I Riordan
• Seasons greetings (1 December, 2000)

  CARSTEN FLOHR