Monthly Archives: September 2013

HHS hearings, now available on-line

Posted on 12 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

As John Lantos pointed out in a comment response to a previous post on this issue, the public hearings of the HHS which was set up to address consent issues in research comparing standards of care are now available on … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates #36

Posted on 12 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

Shaw RJ, St John N, Lilo EA, Jo B, Benitz W, Stevenson DK, Horwitz SM: Prevention of traumatic stress in mothers with preterm infants: A randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics 2013. This looks really interesting, an RCT of a clinical psychologist … Continue reading →

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Pluto, not just a planet anymore.

Posted on 11 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

Or should that be, not even a planet… One other thing I wanted to mention about the PLUTO trial is the entry criterion. The main entry criterion was the presence of clear lower urinary tract obstruction in a male fetus, … Continue reading →

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Who was Bayes, and what did he know about medical research?

Posted on 11 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

I don’t have much detail to answer the first question: he was an 18th century English mathematician who wrote something about probability, that was published after he died. That publication described something called Bayes’ theorem which is a way of … Continue reading →

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10 Things Having A Preemie Has Taught Me About Life

Posted on 9 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

One of the ‘parent of premie’ blogs that I read is ‘Cheering on Charlie’ from a parent of a 26 weeker who is now a beautiful little girl of about 16 months (just about 1 yr old corrected!). I really … Continue reading →

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The fetal microbiome

Posted on 9 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

One of the correspondents on the ‘phemonena’ website is Carl Zimmer, who has a newish column at the NY Times about the findings which show that the fetus is not sterile. This is not completely new, but I think it … Continue reading →

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New Book

Posted on 9 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

I seem to have spent much of this year writing review articles of one type or another. One of them was for a new textbook on nutrition of the preterm neonate, edited by Sanjay Patole from Perth. There are many … Continue reading →

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Pre-SUPPORT, what did we really know?

Posted on 7 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

One of the misplaced criticisms that have been made about the SUPPORT trial and the consent forms was that we should have known before the trial that there would be a difference in mortality, and that there would be a … Continue reading →

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Travelling again

Posted on 7 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

I am, for the next few hours, in Sydney Australia, at the end of a productive trip. We had 2 workshops, 1 on the current status of probiotics, the other on the question of consent for perinatal trials, focusing on … Continue reading →

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Does gestational age matter?

Posted on 4 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

Taking a break from the SUPPORT brouhaha for a moment, here is a great systematic review from Greg Moore and colleagues in Ottawa. (Moore GP, Lemyre B, Barrowman N, Daboval T: Neurodevelopmental outcomes at 4 to 8 years of children … Continue reading →

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