From bed bugs via the Roman goddess of dawn – complete with Latin poetry – to Siberian bug bane: Richard takes us through the Big Four in his usual inimitable fashion. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal blog, 5 April 2009
Category: Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Richard Lehman’s journal blog, 30 March 2009
We are very pleased that Richard Lehman is back with us after a break. As before, his ever popular journal blog will be published weekly. This week, Richard gets off to a splendid start by covering a range of subjects from Greek nymphs to footstools and defecating… […]
JAMA 22/29 Aug 2007 Vol 298
A question for all GP readers – where do you keep your paediatric sphygmomanometer cuff? Do you know if your practice actually has one? […]
NEJM 23 Aug 2007 Vol 357
The world’s largest swede weighed in at 171.56kg, according to a highly entertaining website mocking the rutabaga (which is the American word for this estimable root vegetable); […]
BMJ 25 Aug 2007 Vol 335
Every week or two we detect an irregular pulse and send the patient off for an ECG, but we’ve never audited how many with ?AF written on the form actually have it. Some researchers in the Birmingham (UK) Department of Primary Care, however, have made something of a specialty of atrial fibrillation […]
Lancet 25 Aug 2007 Vol 370
Here is a painstaking meta-analysis of trials involving 64,000 people randomised to take calcium, vitamin D (in various doses) or placebo for the prevention of fractures and bone loss in people aged over 50. […]
Ann Intern Med 21 Aug 2007 Vol 147
How grateful we should be for those who delve in the dark places of the earth, bringing up ores and jewels for our use and pleasure. Systematic reviewers share the glory of the mining tribe, and many of its hardships; […]
Plant of the Week: Viburnum cylindricum
This big handsome shrub is about to display its flat cymes of dull white flowers, exuding a faint sweetish smell. Clearly it is not for these that we in limy places grow this plant: […]
JAMA 15 Aug 2007 Vol 298
There aren’t many vaccines which work after the infection has been acquired, […]
NEJM 16 Aug 2007 Vol 357
The initials RLS are forever associated with the great Scottish teller of tales who died on Samoa at the age of 44. He certainly had restless legs, and rarely remained in one place for very long; […]