Published 9 July 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a738
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a738

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BMJ wins three awards: The BMJ won the medical publication of the year award at the recent Medical Journalists’ Association annual awards. The BMJ’s news editor, Annabel Ferriman, won the health editor award, and Susan Mayor, who writes for the journal’s news section, was voted medical journalist of the year.

Vitamin A could save babies’ lives: A single oral dose of vitamin A given to infants shortly after birth could save the lives of 300 000 children in Asia every year, say researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. The vitamin is thought to reduce the severity of potentially fatal paediatric infections that are common in the region (Pediatrics doi: 10.1542/peds.2007-3448).

Fall in breast feeding in Indonesia is linked to rising malnutrition: The decline in breast feeding is one of the main reasons why one in four Indonesian children are malnourished, the Jakarta Post . . . [Full text of this article]


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