ADC Fetal & Neonatal

s an edition of ADC from BMJ and RCPCH, publishing perinatal & neonatal medicine research and reviews.

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Archives of Disease in Childhood is led by Dr Nick Brown, clinician, epidemiologist and international child health expert. His vision is to enhance child health through training, advocacy, and publishing high quality research that will influence policy, and to do all this “with passion, wit and flavour”. Fetal & Neonatal’s edition editor is Dr Ben Stenson.

Listen to our weekly podcasts about the most topical and current views on child health issues, editor’s highlights, plus more in-depth coverage of specific articles, alongside interviews with authors and specialists. Subscribe in all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

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Authors

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including Original Reports and Reviews.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for ADC: F&N.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access

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Training for peer reviewers

Join Dr Nick Brown, Editor-in-Chief of ADC, in an insightful video series designed for early-career researchers and reviewers looking to refine their practice.

Each video shares practical advice on manuscript preparation, getting published and how to provide high quality peer review.

The series is freely available to watch via RCPCH Learning.

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Latest Articles

Editorials:

Electronic monitoring of infants at home: for many families a questionable practice that may come at a cost

6 June 2025

Original research:

Evaluation of infants born to a parent with gene-positive long QT syndrome: a retrospective single-centre review

6 June 2025

Original research:

Volume of umbilical cord blood collection in the era of delayed cord clamping: a multicentre, prospective, feasibility study

5 June 2025

Editorials:

Distraction in neonatal resuscitation and the human factors 'Dirty Dozen

5 June 2025

Original research:

Postnatal dexamethasone treatment for preterm infants at high risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia is associated with improved regional brain volumes: a prospective cohort study

29 May 2025

Most Read Articles

Review:

Haemodynamic assessment and management of hypotension in the preterm

19 February 2024

Original research:

Diagnosis and management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a 2023 update from the Canadian Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Collaborative

18 April 2024

Review:

Neonatal high-frequency oscillatory ventilation: where are we now?

16 August 2024

Original research:

Caffeine to prevent intermittent hypoxaemia in late preterm infants: randomised controlled dosage trial

15 March 2024

Original research:

Maternal treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy and delayed neonatal adaptation: a population-based cohort study

18 April 2024

Current Issue

Highlights from this issue:

Fantoms

17 April 2025

Reviews:

Premedication for less invasive surfactant administration: a narrative review

17 April 2025

Guideline:

Recognising uncertainty: an integrated framework for palliative care in perinatal medicine

17 April 2025

Viewpoint:

Perinatal medicines best treatment: how should we be using antenatal steroids?

17 April 2025

Images in neonatal medicine:

Extensive aplasia cutis congenita of the trunk

17 April 2025

Podcasts

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National PReCePT Programme: a before-and-after evaluation of the implementation of a national quality improvement programme to increase the uptake of magnesium sulfate in preterm deliveries
8 January 2023

Survival and unique clinical practices of extremely preterm infants born at 22–23 weeks’ gestation in Japan: a national survey
22 May 2024

Outcomes of a uniformly active approach to infants born at 22–24 weeks of gestation
15 January 2021

Hypotension in Preterm Infants (HIP) randomised trial
24 February 2021

Effects of liberal versus restrictive transfusion strategies on intermittent hypoxaemia in extremely low birthweight infants: secondary analyses of the ETTNO randomised controlled trial
26 March 2025

Time to positivity of blood cultures in neonatal late-onset bacteraemia
10 March 2022

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ADC Fetal & Neonatal

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