“Good germs” to help acute diarrhoea in children have become very popular, and with some reason. For a decade or more, I used to advise parents to give their kids some live yoghourt, […]
BMJ 18 Aug 2007 Vol 335
Category: Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Lancet 18 Aug 2007 Vol 370
This week’s Clinical Update is titled “codeine maintenance in opioid dependence”, but it’s actually a useful summary of all varieties of opioid maintenance, […]
Arch Intern Med 13/27 Aug 2007 Vol 167
Here is a systematic review of RCTs aimed at the prevention of sports injuries. Successful interventions include the use of insoles, external joint supports and multi-interventional training programmes. […]
Plant of the Week: Rosa “Aimée Vibert”
There are plenty of good roses which repeat flower through the summer, but this one is unusual in that it only gets going in August and produces big bunches of pure white scented flowers. In fact it is a rambler so it can get pretty enormous. […]
JAMA 8 Aug 2007 Vol 298
You will no doubt have read the recent NEJM review which pointed out that white people living in colder latitudes are a poor weedy lot, chronically deficient in vitamin D. […]
NEJM 9 Aug 2007 Vol 357
Severe haemophilia A damages joints in young boys through repeated haemarthroses which are treated as they occur with injections of recombinant factor VIII. […]
BMJ 11 Aug 2007 Vol 335
Earlier this year, Sir Alan Craft visited our locality in order to advise the hospital trust on downgrading our paediatric service and replacing our consultant-led obstetric service with a midwife-led unit. […]
Lancet 11 Aug 2007 Vol 370
This prospective observational study from Germany opens up the question of which method is best for breast cancer screening – conventional mammography or MRI? […]
Ann Intern Med 7 Aug 2007 Vol 147
For some weeks this paper has been on the journal’s website, bringing the unwelcome news that outcomes for women with diabetes have not improved between the NHANES cohort of 1971-1986 and the cohort of 1986-2000. […]
Plant of the Week: Aesculus parviflora
I normally confine my remarks to plants I have grown myself, but unfortunately I’ve never possessed the space to grow this big suckering shrub from the horse chestnut family, which produces abundant candles of white flower in late July and August. […]