Croaking and wheezing and slightly exhausted … not the average neonatologist but Archimedes this month .. brought to you from post-natal palaces and post-nasal drip.

We start thinking about how best to communicate a post-natal diagnosis of Down syndrome(https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/4/409.1), which is prefaced by some thoughts on what it means to undertake a ‘good’ qualitative study(https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/4/409.2). We’ve more on this on our blog site, in this series:

We then dive down from the wards into the NICU where we wonder how to shift the clogged secretions of a grot-filled lung, and someone suggests DNAse, which sounds a lot like magic, but magic which can be evidence based(https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/4/411)