“Do doctors have a future? […]
Lancet 28 Apr 2007
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. […]
BMA junior doctors call for Hewitt and Hunt to resign
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt and the health minister in the Lords, Philip Hunt, should resign over the MTAS scandal, delegates at today’s BMA junior doctors conference agreed. They also voted unanimously that the National Audit Office should investigate the waste of public money which the whole system has caused. […]
MTAS site temporarily suspended pending security checks
As angry junior doctors meet tomorrow for their annual BMA conference, the government has issued a formal statement in the Commons saying it has temporarily suspended the MTAS site following the security breach earlier this week. “This breach had no impact on the current recruitment of junior doctors into specialty training,” health secretary Patricia Hewitt told […]
Candidates’ details were freely available in MTAS security breach
Personal details of applicants involved in the already discredited MTAS system were available for all to see yesterday — until the Department of Health stepped in and closed the loophole which had allowed anyone to view the page without the need for a password. […]
Protestors lobby Westminster
Some 400 junior doctors joined the rally outside parliament today and many of them went on to lobby their individual MPs in the Commons. The action, organised by Remedy UK, coincided with an opposition debate on the MTAS debacle. […]
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, […]