ADC Podcast

Editor Mark Beattie takes us through his picks from January's ADC.All the content from the issue is available here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/1.toc

Despite advances in prevention, rapid diagnosis and treatment andbeing a focus disease for the Millenium Development Goals, malariacontinues to claim an unacceptable number of lives.The first experiments in malaria vaccinology date back severaldecades. There was excitement on the release of the Colombian Spf66vaccine in the 1980s but this was followed by disappointed as thetrial results did not translate into the expected effictiveness on theground. Since then, molecular advances have seen a new wave ofcandidate vaccines including the RTS. In this podcast, ADC's global health editor Nick Brown discusses with Lorenz von Seidlein, an eminent malariologist at Menzies School of Health Research, Australia, the reasons why an effective vaccine has proved so elusive, the range of new candidates and hopes for the future.Read Lorenz's full article here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/98/12/981.full

Editor Mark Beattie takes us through his picks from December's ADC.
All the content from the issue is available here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/98/12.toc

In this podcast Dr Ashley Reece introduces thoughts and comment from Dr Alice Roueche and Dr Jane Runacles, the authors of the second article in the EQUIPed series published in the Education and Practice section of Archives of Disease in Childhood in December 2013. This paper, entitled 'Improving Care for the Deteriorating Child', gives insight into approaching a Quality Improvement project using the very unwell child as a example.Read the full paper bit.ly/1hquMwr

Archimedes editor Dr Bob Phillips discusses December's Archimedes questions.For the articles, see this month's edition of the journal: http://adc.bmj.com/content/98/12.toc

Editor Mark Beattie takes us through his picks from November's ADC.All the content from the issue is available here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/98/11.toc

The first of a series of articles on quality improvement in paediatrics and child health was published in the Education and Practice section of Archives in September 2013. Joining Dr Ashley Reece are series authors, Dr Bob Klaber and Dr Alice Roueche. They discuss what quality improvement is and headline the future articles in this series.

The first of a series of articles on quality improvement in paediatrics and child health was published in Education and Practice in September 2013.
In this podcast Dr Ashley Reece discusses the series with Dr Bob Klaber and Dr Alice Roueche. They discuss why these articles were commissioned, what quality improvement is and how it fits into our clinical practice with examples of QI initiatives. They also headline future articles in this series on which more podcasts are planned.

Archimedes editor Dr Bob Phillips discusses November's Archimedes questions.For the articles, see this month's edition of the journal: adc.bmj.com/content/98/11.toc#Archimedes.

Archimedes editor Dr Bob Phillips discusses October's Archimedes questions.
For the articles, see this month's edition of the journal: http://adc.bmj.com/content/98/10.toc#Archimedes.