PRÉCIS
A brief digest of the April issue
PERSPECTIVES
Emergency management of meningococcal disease: eight years on
Andrew J Pollard, Simon Nadel, Nelly Ninis, Saul N Faust, and Michael Levin
Dealing with childhood pneumonia in developing countries: how can we make a difference?
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Children under pressure: an underestimated burden?
Saverio Stranges and Francesco P Cappuccio
ATOMS
Atoms
Howard Bauchner
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Comparison of standard versus double dose of amoxicillin in the treatment of non-severe pneumonia in children aged 2–59 months: a multi-centre, double blind, randomised controlled trial in Pakistan
Tabish Hazir, Shamim A Qazi, Yasir Bin Nisar, Sajid Maqbool, Rai Asghar, Imran Iqbal, Sobia Khalid, Sajid Randhawa, Shazia Aslam, Sobia Riaz, and Saleem Abbasi
Blood pressure centiles for Great Britain
Lisa V Jackson, Nandu K S Thalange, and Tim J Cole
C-reactive protein is elevated in the offspring of parents with essential hypertension
Juan Jose Díaz, Juan Arguelles, Ignacio Málaga, Carmen Perillán, Angeles Diéguez, Manuel Vijande, and Serafín Málaga
An evaluation of Medline published paediatric audits from 1966 to 1999
Clodagh Sheila O’Gorman, Yasir Ziedan, and Michael Brendan O’Neill
Surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease
M E Ba’ath, M W Mahmalat, P Kapur, N P Smith, A M Dalzell, D H Casson, G L Lamont, and C T Baillie
Breast feeding in infancy and social mobility: 60-year follow-up of the Boyd Orr cohort
Richard M Martin, Sarah H Goodall, David Gunnell, and George Davey Smith
MMR: marginalised, misrepresented and rejected? Autism: a focus group study
Shona Hilton, Kate Hunt, and Mark Petticrew
Genital injuries in boys and abuse
C J Hobbs and J Osman
Intravenous pamidronate treatment of infants with severe osteogenesis imperfecta
Eva Åström, Håkan Jorulf, and Stefan Söderhäll
SHORT REPORT
Living at high altitude and risk of hospitalisation for atopic asthma in children: results from a large prospective birth-cohort study
U Kiechl-Kohlendorfer, E Horak, W Mueller, R Strobl, C Haberland, FM Fink, M Schwaiger, KH Gutenberger, H Reich, D Meraner, and S Kiechl
ARCHIMEDES
Towards evidence based medicine for paediatricians
Bob Phillips
CAN gambling with other people’s children:
Bob Phillips
In children under age three does procalcitonin help exclude serious bacterial infection in fever without focus?
David Herd
Does avoidance of breast feeding reduce mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus infection?
K Bhola and W McGuire
Should children under treatment for juvenile idiopathic arthritis receive flu vaccination?
Liza J McCann
JOURNAL WATCH
REVIEWS
Outcome following subdural haemorrhages in infancy
Sandeep Jayawant and Jeremy Parr
Measuring quality of life
Christine Eiser and Meriel Jenney
Marfan’s syndrome and the heart
Alan Graham Stuart and Andrew Williams
How have the past 5 years of research changed clinical practice in paediatric nephrology?
Stephen D Marks
LETTERS
Acetone-free nail polish remover pads: toxicity in a 9-month old
Tim Savage, Ahmed Khan, and Brendan Gerard Loftus
TW2 and TW3 bone ages: time to change?
M Lynn Ahmed and Justin T Warner
Compliance with inhaled corticosteroids is important when considering adrenal suppression
Malcolm Brodlie and Steven Cunningham
A view from the other side of the table
Atul Gupta
High-dose inhaled fluticasone, adrenal crisis and a fatal accident inquiry
Geoffrey Todd
Free vitamin D supplementation for every infant in Turkey
Sükrü Hatun, Abdullah Bereket, Behzat Özkan, Turgay Çoþkun, Ryfat Köse, and Ali Süha Çalykoðlu
Postnatal weight monitoring should be routine
Peter D Macdonald
BOOK REVIEWS
Pediatric dermatology, 3rd edition
Christian Harkensee
The child in mind (revised edition)
Anthony Cohn
LUCINA
MISCELLANEA
An interesting facial rash
Caroline A Love, John A Sills, and Judith M Ellison
Botulinum toxin for drooling in cerebral palsy
Dilated cardiomyopathy
CORRECTION
