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ADC Podcast
The Archives of Disease (ADC) podcast is your go-to source for the latest in paediatrics and child health. The podcast episodes cover the editor’s highlights of each issue, detailed coverage of specific articles, and insightful interviews with authors and specialists in the field. ADC - adc.bmj.com - is an international paediatric journal from BMJ Group and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), publishing the latest research in paediatrics and child health. Subscribe now or listen on your favourite podcast platform to enhance your understanding of paediatric and child health.
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Episodes
Thursday Feb 19, 2015
Thursday Feb 19, 2015
As 2015 marks 15 years of the Millennium Development Goals, Nick Brown, ADC's Global Health commissioning editors, talks us through their history and what they have done for child health.
He also gives an overview of the supplement ADC have published on the progress of the goals thus far.
Read the supplement (for free): http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/Suppl_1.toc
Monday Jan 19, 2015
Monday Jan 19, 2015
ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the February edition.
For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/2.toc
Monday Jan 19, 2015
Monday Jan 19, 2015
ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the January edition.
The topics are EEG in the assessment of ‘staring' in children with autistic spectrum disorder, bile stained vomiting in the neonatal period, management of peanut allergy, and the safety of paracetamol.
For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/1.toc
Monday Jan 12, 2015
Monday Jan 12, 2015
Nick Brown talks to Sadia Shakoor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, about her review examining TB programmes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
Dr Shakoor and colleagues evaluated the current capacity of TB control programmes in these four countries to diagnose, treat and quantify childhood TB, and propose practical solutions to gaps in achieving integrated paediatric TB management.
Read the full review:
http://goo.gl/9FPvri
Thursday Nov 20, 2014
Thursday Nov 20, 2014
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions, including is the use of plastic bags for thermoregulation in term neonates effective in preventing hypothermia in a low-resource setting? And is a child at risk following a community-acquired needlestick injury?For the full articles, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/12.toc#Archimedes
Thursday Nov 20, 2014
Thursday Nov 20, 2014
ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the December edition.
The topics are recognition of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, litigation, toxic shock syndrome, common visual problems in children with disability, and propranolol for infantile haemangioma.
For all the content from the issue see:
http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/12.toc
Thursday Nov 20, 2014
Thursday Nov 20, 2014
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a gene disorder causing a debilitating syndrome. Recently, population migration has meant that SCD now has a worldwide distribution and that a substantial number of children are born with the condition in higher-income areas, including large parts of Europe and North and South America.
ADC Global Health editor Nick Brown talks to co author Thomas Williams about the biology of the disease, this new global spread and the burden of SCD in resource-poor countries.
Read the full paper: http://bmj.co/1Hq2L3h
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions, including should newborns of mothers with isolated antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen be immunised? Does topical local anaesthetic reduce pain from vaccinations in infants?
For the full articles, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/11.toc#Archimedes
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Mark Beattie discusses his picks from November's ADC.
For all the content from the issues, see:
http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/11.toc
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Mark Beattie discusses his picks from October's ADC.
For all the content from the issues, see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/10.toc