Theme: Adolescent Pediatrics

Innovation: An Eternal Theme in the Development of Pediatrics

Reviewing manuscripts for Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

The quality of journals rests, to a large degree, on the quality of the peer review process. Like nearly all scientific journals, the ARCHIVES relies on a volunteer pool of talented individualswhotake timeoutof their busyweektoreviewmanuscripts.The journalcouldnotbepublishedwithouttheirhelp, and we are extremely grateful for their efforts. However, reviewers are rarely given anyadvice,bytheirse...

This month in archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine.

E arly childhood interventions have been shown to have a wide variety of positive effects. Reynolds and colleagues report on the outcomes of 1539 individuals aged 24 years who were enrolled in the ChildParent Center program in Chicago beginning in preschool. Compared with a nonrandomized control group, participants had higher rates of school completion and college attendance. They also had lowe...

Legal Issues in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2nd Edition

Other than index problems, there is little to fault in this compact, portable, data-filled manual. I do not agree, however, that it is all that useful for non-anatomists; perhaps the author should consider another edition that excludes minutiae and instead includes functional anatomy as well as an index keyed to more convenient use. In my opinion, such a book would be much more valuable. The cu...

Pediatrics

laid down by the experts who contribute to the volume. " The best is the enemy of the good," and what is needed for the practitioner in India is a clear statement of the best methods of diagnosis and treatment which it is practicable for him to carry out, rather than an account of the methods which are followed by highly specialised practitioners working under the conditions that prevail in Lon...