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Commentaries

• Learning disabilities: Congenital heart anomalies and non-white ethnicity are among the factors associated with poor survival rates in people with Down syndrome (2 November, 2018)

  Pauline Heslop
• Child health: Feeding preterm infants with formula rather than donor breast milk is associated with faster rates of short-term growth, but increased risk of developing necrotising enterocolitis (12 October, 2018)

  Karen Tosh
• Child health: Combining facilitated tucking and non-nutritive sucking appears to promote greater regulation for preterm neonates following heel lance, but does not provide effective pain relief (12 November, 2018)

  Marsha Campbell-Yeo
• Care of the older person: Evaluating falls prevention strategies in community settings: marginal reduction on rate of falls with individual risk-based multifactorial interventions compared to ‘usual care’ (12 November, 2018)

  Amanda Lee, Mark Hayter
• Care of the older person: Fear of falling: a hidden burden with or without a history of falls (12 October, 2018) Free

  Keith D Hill
• Adult nursing: Critical illness and recovery should be viewed as a social process in which the patient and family members’ experiences are different but complimentary (21 November, 2018)

  Amelia Swift
• Adult nursing: Health mind mapping has the potential to facilitate patient engagement in self-management of long-term conditions (26 November, 2018)

  Jan Pringle
• Women’s health and midwifery: Risky maternal alcohol consumption during lactation decreases childhood abstract reasoning at school age (1 December, 2018)

  Ju-Lee Oei
• Women’s health and midwifery: Training health visitors in cognitive behavioural or person-centred approaches is cost-effective and can improve outcomes for women at risk of postnatal depression (7 December, 2018)

  Ben Parkinson, Emma MacDonald
• Nursing issues: Nurses need to be aware of their professional responsibilities when engaging with social media (26 November, 2018)

  David Barrett
• Nursing issues: Effective mentoring is key to enhancing practice and developing the next generation of nurses (16 December, 2018) Free

  Deborah Raines