ADC Podcast

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 July 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/7/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get epis...

Doing stuff is easy, not doing stuff is hard, particularly if you’ve been doing it for a year. This isn’t just about smoking, drinking, and wild banjo playing on the porch at midnight, though we talk about it on the podcast (https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/5/457.2), but also echoed in an upcoming Editorial (https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2026/04/03/archdischild-2026-330309). If reality were alt...

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 June 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/6/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episod...

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 May 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/5/i         Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get...

When is a trial not a trial? Can you make a big dataset work as if it was randomised? Can we really use real-world evidence rather than trial evidence for clinical decision-making? Read here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/4/373.2   The hardest decisions are those where the answer is truly complex, evolving and really involves an understanding of patient values and attitudes. This is a non-tradit...

If you’ve got debris on a bladder ultrasound, that means there’s a UTI, doesn’t it? This month, we have a team of crack nephrologists looking in detail at floaty bits and bacteria being spotted by soundwaves: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/3/283.1     We also bemoan the problem of wanting to smooth things out too quickly and make everyone do the same thing unnecessarily. Diversity and difference...

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 April 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/4/i        Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to ge...

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 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/3/i       Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get...

We’re absolutely committed to being the most awkward section of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, and this month we’re managing it with not only having a gender-indeterminate ‘voice’ in this section and anthropomorphising a chunk of journal, but by leaping forward and backward in time. AI has not been involved with this writing, but we’ll all be aware of where AI is creeping into our own profe...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/2/i      Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to g...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/1/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your p...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/12/i     Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to you...

Crashing back into your ears with the grace of a three-year-old ballet dancer, Archimedes blusters about how we can measure ‘feeling better’ [https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/10/844.2] and what I might need to learn. This leads onto difficult neurology, following on from neonates last month, but in more grown-up children with cases around complex epilepsy and the use of cannabidiols - specifically...

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 November 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/11/i     Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to...

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 October 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/10/i         Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify...

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 September 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/9/i        Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/8/i    Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your ph...

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 July 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/7/i       Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get...

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 June 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/6/i      Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/5/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone an...

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 April 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/4/i     Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get...

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 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/3/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get ep...

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the January 2025 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/110/1/1   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. A...

Archives of Disease in Childhood's Archimedes section editor, Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, UK) brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians. Today, with a bonus interview with Mr Josh Totty, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Plastic Surgery: We’re thinking about balancing acts in our wonderings about how to do evidence-based practice this month [ https://adc....

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 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/2/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get...