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Volume 21, Issue 2 - Medical Writing in Paediatrics

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Abstract

Infants, children, and adolescents have special needs regarding their health and care. They are not ‘little adults’. The spectrum of illnesses differs from that known in adults. Just think of teething problems like chicken pox, measles, or scarlet fever. Sure, these infections can also trouble adults, but usually have a peak in childhood. Some very rare illnesses only occur in children or start in early infancy. This especially applies to genetic diseases, so have you ever heard of Gaucher disease or Legg-Calve-Perthes disease? ADHD, the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is diagnosed with increasing frequency, which is heavily discussed and questioned. Other illnesses are rather unknown in children like osteoporosis, dementia, or heart attack. Further diseases that once presented in adults only are now on the rise in children and adolescents. Our Western life style boosts obesity and hence type 2 diabetes and arthrosis, for example, are now already affecting the young generations.

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Raquel Billiones

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Evguenia Alechine

Jonathan Pitt

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Victoria White

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Anuradha Alahari

Jennifer Bell

Claire Chang

Barbara Grossman

Amy Whereat

Petal Smart

John Plant

Sampoorna Rappaz

Sarah Milner

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Nicole Bezuidenhout 

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Somsuvro Basu

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Ana Sofia Correia 

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Ivana Turek

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Wendy Kingdom / Amy Whereat

Good Writing Practice

Alison McIntosh 

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Maria Kołtowska-Häggström

Lingua Franca and Beyond

Phil Leventhal

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Lisa Chamberlain-James

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Payal Bhatia

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Evguenia Alechine

My First Medical Writing

Anuradha Alahari

News from the EMA

Laura Kehoe

Out on Our Own

Tiziana von Bruchhausen

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Clare ChangZuo Yen Lee 

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Sam Hamilton

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Claire Gudex

Teaching Medical Writing

Kimi Uegaki

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications

Louisa Marcombes

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Elise Langdon-Neuner

Phil Leventhal

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Chris Monk