ADC Podcast

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 are sometimes a superpower! https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/2/193.2 

Archives of Disease in Childhood's Archimedes section editor, Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, UK) brings...

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 get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832 

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 episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832 

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 professional and personal lives. Can it help in our high-quality evidence-based medicine, though? (Read more https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/2/193.2). Is it the future? 

And looking to...

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 get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832 

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 phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 their chance to improve quality of life [https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/10/844.1].

We would love for you to be involved in Archi [adc.bmj.com/pages/authors/#archimedes]. Just ask the questions that your...

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 get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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 episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832 

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.bmj.com/content/110/2/170.2]. That balances some deeply thoughtful writing about what genetic tests do in children with unexplained early developmental impairment - while you can get the faintest hints of the question in our podcast, you’d be well...

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 episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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:

Prep for an LP, stat! We previously talked in an Archimedes about the really low chance of meningitis in UTI in infants [https://adc.bmj.com/content/96/6/602.2] but what about those infants with actual bacteraemia and a UTI - are they the group at higher risk who need invasive investigation? Listen on or read here to find...

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 January 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/1/i  

Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

It’s tricky to do balancing sometimes, and while you might not immediately think of it, a door can sometimes open your way to a new way of considering stuff as we talk about, but you can read about too: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/12/1036.2

Then there’s something we often do think about. And struggle with. How do we know how long terms meds might affect people in the long term? What about melatonin for severe sleep disturbance? It’s a good job someone’s done the work for you and the detailed outputs are very readable...

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 December 2024 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/12/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 and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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:

It might come as a surprise to those who aren’t surgeons, but we have (quite excellent) interview proof of how a clinical question with solidly debatable options led to a trainee-led clinical trial in plastic surgery and onwards to a more straightforward approach to fixing nail-bed injuries. You can read more about it here - https://ad...

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: 

Fairly frequently we who are sub-, or sub-sub- specialised will look at some research which we don’t want to agree with and say “But it doesn’t apply to My Special Darlings!”. And most of the time we’re wrong - after all, children who present with the same condition often have the same condition, regardless of what else they’re having going on at the same time. Sometimes there might be a feature...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/11/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 and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/10/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 and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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: 

We all know opiates can constipate folks very badly. Some of us from personal experience. We know hospitalisation, not eating well, and not moving much make it worse. And we all should recognise the significant drop in quality of life that comes with severe constipation. There’s been an explosion of treatments for grown/ups in this realm - so could we be using the PAMORA drugs for kids  [read more at http...

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

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: 
https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/9/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 and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832 

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: 

We’ve all been in this situation (apart from perhaps some intensivists), any of us in the “I don’t want to cannulate them again!” park when dealing with little folks who probably need antibiotics, but do they really need IV? And this tension is greater when it’s a neonate, or an immunocompromised kiddo. We’ve got some good news in this pod, about the babies at least, and you can read more her...

Let’s make it magical from the beginning, and offer the value of point-of-care ultrasounds for placing umbilical venous catheters. Is it worthwhile or are they just more things for micro intensivists to play with? Read here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/7/598.1 

We also talk about fidelity, interventions, tests and the like, and we’ll even point you to another perhaps helpful paper, even though it is not an Archimedes! (https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/7/543).

We would love for you to be involved in Archi [adc.bmj.com/pages/authors/#archimedes]. Just ask the questions that...

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

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: 
https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/8/i 

Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832 

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

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/7/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 and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832 

We spoke last month about how the way a topic is introduced makes you understand it differently [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/248.2], but this month we might have a practical example of how seeking preferences can be tricky [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/7/598.1]

This links to how to rehydrate kids who’ve failed an oral rehydration challenge; NG or IV? [https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/6/515.1]

We would love for you to be involved in Archi [https://adc.bmj.com/pages/authors/#archimedes] - just ask the questions that your patients are offe...

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the May 2024 issue. The Fantoms article:

https://fn.bmj.com/content/109/3/229 

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. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832 

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 2024 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/6/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 and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

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!”.

We would lov...

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 gr...

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 

Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite platform to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832