An issue devoted to Violence and Human Rights, with three papers from Northern Uganda, carrying the depressing messages that we don’t know of a useful intervention to alleviate distress in young war survivors, and that together with post-traumatic stress disorder comes an inability to contemplate forgiveness. […]
You may remember that in April JAMA published a paper by the indefatigable Harlan Krumholz and his team, who looked for 85 reported genetic risk markers for coronary disease in 811 patients with acute coronary events without confirming a single significant association. Clearly the way these polymorphisms have been sought for up to now is […]
For the benefit of a patient who has ovarian cancer and had been taking hormone replacement therapy, I have just been reviewing the HRT risk/benefit equation as we have come to understand it over the last 7 years or so. […]
A big brain, upright posture, a musical larynx, and the hand – such are the glories of anatomy which set us apart from other primates. […]
The big Himalayan lacecap hydrangeas are loving the British weather this summer. They are never happier than when regularly drenched in some damp shady spot, in which conditions they become the most spectacular shrubs of late summer. […]
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy sometimes first presents as sudden death in apparently healthy young people, especially during sport. Over recent years, people (mean age 42) with an antemortem diagnosis of HCM have increasingly been fitted with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, […]
Thanks to this little piece in this week’s New England Journal, Oscar is currently the world’s most famous cat, for his unerring ability to sense the impending death of residents in the nursing home where he was reared as a stray kitten. […]
At home we’re watching old episodes of Cardiac Arrest, a series written 13 years ago by an ex-junior-doctor which depicts hospital medicine through a fog of anger and sleep deprivation. The only dignity seen in the series is in the behaviour of ethnic-minority relatives of patients killed by the system. […]
Cannabis is very widely used, particularly by people who later show signs of psychosis; […]
Various groups of higher beings keep watch over the lives of us humble mortals, including the American Council on Science and Public Health, which here pronounces on reducing sodium intake to prevent cardiovascular disease. […]