Archives of Disease in Childhood articles

Recent articles from Archives of Disease in Childhood

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April 1, 2004... SSRIS IN THE US--STRUGGLING WITH UNCERTAINTY Following the lead of the British Government, the FDA in the US has announced a review of the relationship between suicide risk and SSRI drugs. (1) A spokesman for the FDA reported that 109 of 4000 young people who had participated in 25...

Introduction of solids to the infant diet: commentary on the papers by Morgan et al and Zutavern et al.(Commentary)
April 1, 2004... The Department of Health has recently supported the WHO advice for mothers to exclusively breast feed until 6 months of age. (1) Furthermore, there are expert committee guidelines regarding the introduction of solids in the diet of infants at high risk of developing allergy. The joint...

Height monitoring as a diagnostic test: commentary on the paper by van Buuren et al.(Growth)
April 1, 2004... Measurement of height is an important component of child health care and has been widely incorporated into pacdiatric practice. Yet little is known about how it performs in terms of sensitivity and specificity for detecting growth disorders. This lack of information impacts on health care in...

MRSA: the problem reaches paediatrics; commentary on the paper by Khairulddin et al.(Infection)(methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus )
April 1, 2004... The pattern of MRSA in UK hospitals nowadays is very different to that seen a decade or so ago. Then, MRSA was confined mainly to a relatively small number of hospitals in the southeast of England and some of the large provincial conurbations. (1) However, new strains of epidemic MRSA,...

Intravenous immunoglobulin for cystic fibrosis lung disease: commentary on the paper by Balfour-Lynn et al.(Commentary)
April 1, 2004... In a retrospective review published in this issue, (1) Balfour-Lynn and colleagues describe 16 children with cystic fibrosis (CF) who appeared to show clinical improvement following regular infusions of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). They have not described any criteria for the...