It’s an interview podcast this month, where we talk with the author of “Supporting parents of children born with differences in sex development” [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/5/438.1]: a paper you need to read in the May issue of ADC and a chat you need to listen to. We also discuss how differential diagnosis can be evidence-based, and how that might be useful in your practice [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/5/438.2]. Hopefully you’ll go away thinking “OOOOOO! I didn’t realise we would be able to ask research-type stuff about that sort of thing!”.

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Not anything like a record*, but like an obstetrician encouraging the downward trajectory of a bum-settled baby getting ready to squeeze out. Or, more medically sounding, external cephalic version for breech delivery. But, even if successful, are such babies still at greater risk of developmental hip dysplasia? Read here and find out even more than the pod tells you [https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-326394]

*This is a reference to an ancient song, which itself referred to an obsolete method of sound reproduction

You might also want to listen to our rather grey, but meaningful, reflection on greyness in literature [https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-327058]

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Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2024 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/5/i 

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Prof. Bob Phillips, ADC's Archimedes Editor, sometimes finds things that used to be called something now are called something else. He finds things he hadn’t heard of and assumes they were something else, but they aren’t, they’re something different! This is a long way of saying - if you’ve never heard of paediatric acute focal bacterial nephritis - you should listen to this podcast and have a read [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/248.1].

You might also want to think about how the way a topic is introduced makes you understand it differently… and learn more about the joy of framing [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/248.2].

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Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2024 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/4/i 

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None of us want bad things to happen; we went into this career to reduce the number or severity of badness for babies, children and young people after all. But how to tell if our actions are leading to more adverse effects… it’s touched on in the podcast but read more here (https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/2/167.2)

We’re also thinking about balancing badness - the possible problems of NSAIDs alongside the problems from PPIs used trying to prevent them. There’s a really good read and discussion of the challenges here (https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/2/167.1)

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Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2024 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/i 

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Honey, sweetie pie, babe … all the sorts of slushy nominative phrases that get thrown into the droning movies and teen-focussed telly programmes we probably love to watch. But honey, the bear-beloved treat, could that help with hay fever? An intrepid evidence-based gang tried to answer the question for you (https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/1/71.1)

And we also chat in this podcast about the problems of cheap boots and damp toes (indirectly). (https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/1/71.2)

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When treating children with cancer and febrile neutropenia, you may ask yourself, "Are urinary cultures a waste of time?"

Prof. Bob Phillips (1) of the ADC Archimedes podcast joins ADC Spotlight host Dr. Rachel Agbeko to reflect on this question, basing their discussion on the paper, "Role of urine culture in paediatric patients with cancer with fever and neutropenia: a prospective observational study". They consider the strength of evidence for urine culture testing in such cases, and whether there is an opportunity to reduce the burden on young cancer patients and their families.

Read the paper:

https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/982

(1) Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK

The ADC Spotlight podcast is the Archives of Disease in Childhood podcast covering areas that don’t usually get much attention or might be taken for granted in children's health. This series is produced by Letícia Amorim and edited by Brian O'Toole.

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Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2024 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/2/i 

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Proving something is safe, or that bad things don’t happen, is always hard. Really hard. And when people turn to the published literature to investigate adverse effects you have to send them much praise - like the team have done in this month's Archimedes when looking at if baclofen causes seizures (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/1028.1).

The other thing we often struggle with is how much we can lump stuff together in a systematic review (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/1028.2). So we chat about that. If you’re comparing fruit salad with potato salad, it’s probably fine to have apples and oranges (and banana and kiwi) in the same bowl. If you’re looking to see which apple to bake in a pie, you don’t want your crab apples in with your pippins and Granny Smiths. Baking tips can be found in this podcast too, it transpires. 

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