Editorial: THE NEONATAL PERIOD

Introductory editorial: neonatal tumours.

Neonatal tumours are a challenging group of childhood tumours. They account for 2% of childhood malignancies with an estimated incidence ranging from 1:12,500 to 1:17,300 live births. The true prevalence of these newborn tumours is unknown due to the variation in incidence reporting as well as the failure to notify tumours in stillborn babies and newborn deaths. Of the tumour types saccrococyge...

Peritonitis in the neonatal period.

It has generally been assumed that peritonitis occurs but rarely in newborn infants. In the 1952 Charles West lecture (Moncrieff, 1953) on infection in newborn babies the condition was not mentioned. Thelander, who wrote a classical paper on perforations of the gastro-intestinal tract in newborn infants in 1939, stated that most paediatricians never saw a case, and in 1949 Low, Cooper and Cosby...

[Nutrition in the neonatal period].

My approach to my subject must seem a doubly provincial one to this audience. First, I necessarily look at nutritional science as a paediatrician interested in newborn infants and am incapable of inspecting neonatal life with the eyes of a nutritionist. A more serious handicap must be the limitation of my experience to that minor part of the world with a problem of food surplus rather than scar...

A new editorial board for a new editorial period

Two years after launch, Microbial Cell Factories has completed the first period of its editorial life as an Open Access journal, by publishing scientifically sound Research papers and Reviews. To start a new and more dynamic stage, a new editorial board http://www.microbialcellfac tories.com/edboard/ has been configured by joining thirty-one experts from twelve different countries, with differe...

Desaturation During Cry in the Neonatal Period