Of 80 Norwegian children who died more than 30 days following surgery for congenital heart defects, a large number had a significant fall in weight after surgery.  Here.

Six months after a false positive result on a hearing screening test, parents of 154 children showed no more general anxiety about health than controls, although some retained significant concerns about hearing.  Here.

In an cohort of 4934 Australian pre-school children, 15% were overweight and 5% were obese, but relatively few had additional morbidity as a consequence.  Here.

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This post collects together the precis of the major articles - perspectives, leading articles and original articles - in the February 2008 issue.
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Perspective: Petrou and McIntosh look at the methods of improving concordance with growth hormone therapy. Here.

Perspective:  Sammons and Conroy look at ways of improving safety of prescribing for children.  Here.

Perspective:  Rosenbaum reviews the area of measuring quality of life in children, with particular reference to a recent study published in the Lancet, SPARKLE.  Here.

Leading article:  Stuart-Brown looks at the potential for promoting children’s wellbeing through measures which improve parenting.  Here.

Leading article:  Chakraborty and Lack describe the increase in cases of syphilis being noted in the UK, and review the management of the condition in infants.  Here.