The Archives of Disease (ADC) podcast is your go-to source for the latest in paediatrics and child health. The podcast episodes cover the editor’s highlights of each issue, detailed coverage of specific articles, and insightful interviews with authors and specialists in the field.
ADC - adc.bmj.com - is an international paediatric journal from BMJ Group and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), publishing the latest research in paediatrics and child health.
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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 September 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/9
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14 Sept 2026
Fingers, forearms, and the far future. Archimedes August 2026
Visualising inside things has been an obsession of us in medicine since the ideas of healing first began - be that the mental models we created with palpation and auscultation - or the revelations of roentgenography - to the latest cetacean approach of high-tech echolocation. Could we switch from feeling for broken arms bones, through X-raying them, to using ultrasound to see if things had straightened up? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/8/741.1)
Visualising the future is another obsession the world’s had forever too, it feels. When we’re EBMing though, perhaps we don’t do so much of it and should (https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/1/79.2)
This podcast is written and presented by Prof Bob Phillips (Hull-York Medical School, UK), Archimedes section editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood. He brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians.
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 offering you - and tell us how you’re finding the podcast offerings.
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2 Sept 2026
Relax and Explore. Archimedes July 2026
One of the common reasons to get an Archi out of your brain and onto the page appears to be a recurrent clinical ‘itch’ … where a topic keeps coming back and having good arguments for and against it … a bit like keeping babies on CPAP to reduce their energy expenditure so they can grow bigger … does it work? (You can read more here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/7/657.1)
The other thing you might have wondered is why the evidence synthesis community keeps coming up with new names for what used to be systematic reviews … well … again we’ve got an answer to that. https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/7/657.2 (TL;DR? Listen to this episode of the podcast instead)
This podcast is written and presented by Prof Bob Phillips (Hull-York Medical School, UK), Archimedes section editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood. He brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians.
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 offering you - and tell us how you’re finding the podcast offerings.
Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in your preferred platform to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the ADC Podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832.
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