ADC Podcast

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 

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.

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.

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.

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 August 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/8/i  

We do like it when we get to say the equivalent of “well, it’s a bit more complicated than that”, and, well, it is often, isn’t it? Seeking out the deviants is something which can be very worthwhile too. 10.1136/archdischild-2026-330854

Commonly, things get advised and sold because they seem like a great idea (and make money), but that doesn’t always equate to actually working. What about squirting saline up the noses of children with acute rhinosinusitis? Is that a good thing? You can read about it here, too 10.1136/archdischild-2026-330418

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.

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 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/7/i 

Doing stuff is easy, not doing stuff is hard, particularly if you’ve been doing it for a year. This isn’t just about smoking, drinking, and wild banjo playing on the porch at midnight, though we talk about it on the podcast (https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/5/457.2), but also echoed in an upcoming Editorial (https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2026/04/03/archdischild-2026-330309).

If reality were alterable by waving your hand, do you think you might do it? If you’re intrigued, the work on X-rays for PICC-tips might enthrall you (https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/5/457.1) or just wave at people. See what happens. (Note, the ADC is not responsible for any adverse events if you do this in London rather than the North!).

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.

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 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/6/i

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 May 2026 issue.

When is a trial not a trial? Can you make a big dataset work as if it was randomised? Can we really use real-world evidence rather than trial evidence for clinical decision-making? Read here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/4/373.2

The hardest decisions are those where the answer is truly complex, evolving and really involves an understanding of patient values and attitudes. This is a non-traditional Archimedes that attempts to address such a query with a fictional patient with long QT syndrome and a desire to go and do competitive sports. It needs to be read slowly and digested: https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/4/373.1

This podcast is written and presented by Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, 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.