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Original articles

• Comparing regional infant death rates: the influence of preterm births <24 weeks of gestation (9 June, 2012)

  Lucy Smith, Elizabeth S Draper, Bradley N Manktelow, Catherine Pritchard, David John Field
• Tocolysis with the β-2-sympathomimetic hexoprenaline increases occurrence of infantile haemangioma in preterm infants (18 May, 2012)

  Michael Mayer, Alexander Minichmayr, Franziska Klement, Katarina Hroncek, Dagmar Wertaschnigg, Wolfgang Arzt, Gabriele Wiesinger-Eidenberger, Evelyn Lechner
• High variability and low irradiance of phototherapy devices in Dutch NICUs (18 May, 2012)

  Deirdre E van Imhoff, Christian V Hulzebos, Maaike van der Heide, Vera W van den Belt, Hendrik J Vreman, Peter H Dijk, the BARTrial Study Group
• Treatment of presumed hypotension in very low birthweight neonates: effects on regional cerebral oxygenation (10 July, 2012)

  Rachel S Garner, David J Burchfield
• Minimally-invasive surfactant therapy in preterm infants on continuous positive airway pressure (9 June, 2012)

  Peter A Dargaville, Ajit Aiyappan, Antonio G De Paoli, Carl A Kuschel, C Omar F Kamlin, John B Carlin, Peter G Davis
• Spontaneous intestinal perforation in extremely low birth weight infants: association with indometacin therapy and effects on neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18–22 months corrected age (9 June, 2012)

  Rajan Wadhawan, William Oh, Betty R Vohr, Shampa Saha, Abhik Das, Edward F Bell, Abbott Laptook, Seetha Shankaran, Barbara J Stoll, Michele C Walsh, Rose Higgins
• Positioning of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit for lumbar puncture as determined by bedside ultrasonography (9 June, 2012)

  Selim Öncel, Ayla Günlemez, Yonca Anık, Müge Alvur
• Validation of the continuous glucose monitoring sensor in preterm infants (12 July, 2012)

  K Beardsall, S Vanhaesebrouck, A L Ogilvy-Stuart, C Vanhole, M vanWeissenbruch, P Midgley, M Thio, L Cornette, I Ossuetta, C R Palmer, I Iglesias, M de Jong, B Gill, F de Zegher, D B Dunger
• A randomised controlled trial of blended learning to improve the newborn examination skills of medical students (9 June, 2012)

  Alice Stewart, Garry Inglis, Luke Jardine, Pieter Koorts, Mark William Davies
• Hospital re-admission of late preterm or term infants is not a factor influencing duration of predominant breastfeeding (29 June, 2012)

  Deborah Ann McNeil, Jodi Siever, Suzanne Tough, Wendy Yee, M Sarah Rose, Thierry Lacaze-Masmonteil