If you know your Ecclesiastes, you will know that there is nothing new under the sun. Well, sometimes medicine feels like this; sometimes it feels a little like medicine, and paediatrics, does go around in circles. I suspect that it is a good barometer of your state of mind at a particular point whether you regard this as a good or a bad thing. Right now, having reviewed the contents of this edition of E&P I’m finding it fun, and I hope you do too. There are a lot of old subjects from new angles. Or, if you prefer, new subjects from old angles. I hope I can persuade you, also, that there are some genuinely new things out there too.

Three Picket papers involve retreads of quite well worn themes. You will recall that Picket is about us keeping an eye out for quality papers, re-abstracting them, and then placing them in a clinical context. Two of these papers …