Salt is of course a very good and necessary thing. […]
BMJ 28 Apr 2007
Category: Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Lancet 28 Apr 2007
“Do doctors have a future? […]
Arch Intern Med 23 Apr 2007
Yes, I had better give in and go for continuous positive pressure ventilation. At least it would keep me quiet at night and according to this systematic review, it would lower my blood pressure. […]
Plant of the Week: Syringa laciniata
Lilac time has come early this year, and thanks to bright sunshine, cool nights, and a lack of rain, the flowers are looking and smelling wonderful. […]
JAMA 18 Apr 2007 Vol 297
The great mystery of the French paradox is how they come to eat animal fat in such delicious quantity and yet suffer so little cardiovascular disease. […]
NEJM 19 Apr 2007 Vol 356
A study of blood transfusion for very sick children in paediatric intensive care units inspires an editorial to ask “When Is More Really Less? […]
BMJ 21 Apr 2007 Vol 334
I’m constantly surprised how slowly epidemiological information about fetal outcomes continues to trickle out, despite the existence of huge databases covering several decades. This analysis shows that the risk of perinatal mortality in babies born to South Asian women is more closely linked to birth weight (below 2kg) whereas for the babies of white women, […]
Lancet 21 Apr 2007 Vol 369
The clinical updates which now follow the editorials in The Lancet provide very useful summaries of current knowledge: here is a concise Australian account of stroke management. […]
Ann Intern Med 17 Apr 2007 Vol 146
A big group of Canadians make a valiant attempt to determine which inhalers really benefit patients with chronic obstructive airways disease. The idea was to start with tiotropium and randomise to salmeterol or salmeterol-fluticasone or placebo. […]
Plant of the Week: Fritillaria pallida
The fritillaries are a wonderful group of bulbous plants, mostly of very discreet charm, quite unlike their blowsy cousins, the tulips. […]