Warning: this meta-analysis is only for single LADs. […]
BMJ 24 Mar 2007
Category: Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Lancet 24 Mar 2007
In this proof-of-concept study, cervical vertebral discs were removed from cadavers and transplanted into matched patients with degenerative disease of the cervical spine. […]
Ann Intern Med 20 Mar 2007
This Dutch hospital-based study derives a clinical prediction rule called CHIP for the use of computed tomography in patients with minor head injury, […]
Fungus of the Week: Pleurotus eryngii
This is a fungus of climates warmer than the British, and has long been collected in southern Europe, where it is found in association with the sea-hollies or Eryngium species – hence its name. I would love to report that I had found it while wandering around the coast of Portugal, but in fact I […]
Plant of the Week: Narcissus pseudo-narcissus
Wordsworth’s poem about daffodils, I wandered lonely as a cloud, has divided opinion ever since it was first published in 1807. […]
Arch Intern Med 12 Mar 2007 Vol 167
Longevity is a subject which has interested people from the dawn of history. […]
Lancet 17 Mar 2007 Vol 369
And still they come. Any hope that big trials of new interventions for acute coronary syndromes were about to dry up, and that the sound of the silly acronym would no longer be heard in the land, can safely be dismissed. […]
BMJ 17 Mar 2007 Vol 334
Who gives a stuff about impact factors? […]
NEJM 15 Mar 2007 Vol 356
There have been lots of studies about the best place to have myocardial infarction (answer: close to a major hospital) but this is the first I have read about the best time to have one. […]
JAMA 14 Mar 2007 Vol 297
The American health care system is a mess. […]