The Archives of Disease (ADC) podcast is your go-to source for the latest in paediatrics and child health. The podcast episodes cover the editor’s highlights of each issue, detailed coverage of specific articles, and insightful interviews with authors and specialists in the field. ADC - adc.bmj.com - is an international paediatric journal from BMJ Group and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), publishing the latest research in paediatrics and child health. Subscribe now or listen on your favourite podcast platform to enhance your understanding of paediatric and child health. * The purpose of this podcast is...
Latest episodes
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10 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC September 2026
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 20…
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11 min
Fingers, forearms, and the far future. Archimedes August 2026
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…
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11 min
Relax and Explore. Archimedes July 2026
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…
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11 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC August 2026
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…
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9 min
Deviants and squirting up the nose. Archimedes June 2026
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…
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8 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC July 2026
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 is…
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9 min
Stopping and moving. Archimedes May 2026
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 midni…
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11 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC June 2026
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 is…
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10 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC May 2026
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 iss…
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11 min
Really hard questions: trials, real-world evidence, and patient values. Archimedes April 2026
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?…
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10 min
The boring and bladders. Archimedes March 2026
If you’ve got debris on a bladder ultrasound, that means there’s a UTI, doesn’t it? This month, we have a team of crack nephrologists looking in detail at floaty bits and bacteria…
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11 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC April 2026
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 April 2026 i…
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12 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC March 2026
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 March 2026 i…
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10 min
Ancient and modern in evidence-based medicine. Archimedes February 2026
We’re absolutely committed to being the most awkward section of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, and this month we’re managing it with not only having a gender-indeterminate ‘…
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15 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC February 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr Rachel Agbeko brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 202…
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10 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC January 2026
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2026 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease…
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7 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC December 2025
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2025 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease…
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10 min
Feeling better? Can you give me a score for that? - Archimedes October 2025
Crashing back into your ears with the grace of a three-year-old ballet dancer, Archimedes blusters about how we can measure ‘feeling better’ [https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/10/844…
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10 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC November 2025
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 November 20…
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10 min
Atoms: the highlights from the ADC October 2025
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 October 202…