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About Keith Barrington

I am a neonatologist and clinical researcher at Sainte Justine University Health Center in Montréal

Oh I do like to be beside the (Mediterranean) seaside

Posted on 12 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

For years we have heard about the mediterranean diet and the anomalous finding that despite relatively high dietary fat intake the people living in Greece, Italy, Southern France (in particular) have very low frequency of vascular disease. This has been ascribed to the particular … Continue reading →

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Bugs in the news

Posted on 11 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

Many thanks to Girish Deshpande for sending me a link to an Australian news item about probiotics and their use in the preterm, a 2 minute video clip for your edification. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-10/new-hope-for-premature-babies/4619984 The excellent science blogs ‘Phenomena’ have an article … Continue reading →

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My tribute to Margaret Thatcher

Posted on 11 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

Annie keeps telling me I should write something about Maggie. I can do no better than to redirect anyone who wants a more honest evaluation of her legacy than all the hagiography in the press over the last few days … Continue reading →

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Parents can do stuff.

Posted on 9 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

A report from Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto of an innovative program to integrate parents much more into the day to day care of babies in the NICU. (O’Brien K, Bracht M, Macdonell K, McBride T, Robson K, O’Leary L, … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates #28

Posted on 5 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

Ritter BC, Nelle M, Perrig W, Steinlin M, Everts R: Executive functions of children born very preterm-deficit or delay? Eur J Pediatr 2013, 172(4):473-483. In the last updates I mentioned a good review article of executive function in ex-preterm infants. … Continue reading →

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Spitting Up, it is normal

Posted on 5 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

A new study in Pediatrics asked parents how they would feel about a hypothetical scenario. They gave a history of a patient who is spitting up, possiting, regurgitating or whatever you want to call it, and either gave it  a … Continue reading →

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The girl who demanded school (not neonatology)

Posted on 3 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

This is a great TEDx talk from a girl from Kenya who…. well read the description on the Guardian page and watch the talk. Very inspiring tale, (after the nauseating start).

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Multiple multiple comparisons

Posted on 2 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

No I am not perseverating; this post is about something not solely neonatal, but very important to clinical research. Recently a psychology investigator became intrigued that many studies of functional MRI produced extremely high correlation coefficients, that is, the relation … Continue reading →

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Weekly Updates #27 or whatever… I’ll have to think of a new title for these posts…

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

Troger B, Muller T, Faust K, Bendiks M, Bohlmann MK, Thonnissen S, Herting E, Gopel W, Hartel C: Intrauterine Growth Restriction and the Innate Immune System in Preterm Infants of </=32 Weeks Gestation. Neonatology 2012, 103(3):199-204. Infants born with IUGR … Continue reading →

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To blindly go where no man….

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

Do we really need to blind research projects? And if so which parts of them? There is good empirical data that randomization must be masked, it is important that at the moment a patient is enrolled in a study the … Continue reading →

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