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Original articles

• Randomised trial of parental support for families with very preterm children (1 July, 1998)

  Avon Premature Infant Project
• Cognitive, educational, and behavioural outcomes at 7 to 8 years in a national very low birthweight cohort (1 July, 1998)

  L John Horwood, Nina Mogridge, Brian A Darlow
• Epidemiology of cerebral palsy in England and Scotland, 1984–9 (1 July, 1998)

  P O D Pharoah, T Cooke, M A Johnson, R King, L Mutch
• Systematic review and meta-analysis of early postnatal dexamethasone for prevention of chronic lung disease (1 July, 1998)

  Tushar Bhuta, Arne Ohlsson
• Randomised double blind trial of morphineversus diamorphine for sedation of preterm neonates

  (1 July, 1998)

  C M Wood, J A Rushforth, R Hartley, H Dean, J Wild, M I Levene
• Outcome at 5–6 years of prematurely born children who received morphine as neonates (1 July, 1998)

  Ruth MacGregor, David Evans, David Sugden, Terence Gaussen, Malcolm Levene
• Iron supplementation enhances response to high doses of recombinant human erythropoietin in preterm infants (1 July, 1998)

  Virgilio P Carnielli, Rosalia Da Riol, Giovanni Montini
• Effect of feed interval and feed type on splanchnic haemodynamics (1 July, 1998)

  Andrew J P Lane, Robert C Coombs, David H Evans, Roy J Levin
• Randomised, controlled trial of nasal continuous positive airway pressure in the extubation of infants weighing 600 to 1250 g (1 July, 1998)

  Peter Davis, Robert Jankov, Lex Doyle, Philip Henschke
• Randomised trial of elective continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) compared with rescue CPAP after extubation (1 July, 1998)

  N J Robertson, P A Hamilton
• Nasal high frequency ventilation in neonates with moderate respiratory insufficiency (1 July, 1998)

  Mark van der Hoeven, Erik Brouwer, Carlos E Blanco
• Arterial oxygen saturation profiles in healthy preterm infants (1 July, 1998)

  A Ng, N Subhedar, R A Primhak, N J Shaw
• Breath pentane as a marker for lipid peroxidation and adverse outcome in preterm infants (1 July, 1998)

  J A Nycyk, J A Drury, R W I Cooke
• Neonatal transient hypothyroidism: aetiological study (1 July, 1998)

  G Weber, M C Vigone, A Rapa, G Bona, G Chiumello