The Department of Health has set out a compromise deal to try to end the confusion and anger over interviews for junior doctor posts in England. It announced late this afternoon that candidates for posts in England who have already been interviewed would not have to opt ‘blind’ for one post, without knowing the outcome […]
BMA warns that thousands will be jobless
32000 junior doctors are chasing the 18500 jobs which are going to available from 1 August, says the BMA in a statement issued this morning. And some are inevitably going to be disappointed, it says. The BMA says an analysis of the figures on the MTAS website shows that the actual number of UK specialist […]
Still waiting…
Junior doctors who had hoped to hear from today exactly what the arrangements will be for the single guaranteed interview process in England are unlikely to know until Wednesday or Thursday — on the eve of the Easter holiday. […]
JAMA 28 Mar 2007
The treatment of “heart failure […]
NEJM 29 Mar 2007
“Even after careful clinical and mammographic evaluation, cancer is found in the contralateral breast in up to 10% of women who have received treatment for unilateral breast cancer. […]
BMJ 31 Mar 2007
Coming a day before April 1st, I couldn’t decide whether this paper, “Towards sustainable clinical trials […]
Lancet 31 Mar 2007
In a week that has seen several failed trials of cholesterol-tinkering, it’s good to see a successful trial of an agent which reduces major coronary events in hypercholesterolaemic patients without changing their cholesterol levels. […]
Arch Intern Med 26 Mar 2007
We dole them out, but 20-50% of the pills we prescribe remain on the shelf. […]
Plant of the Week: Magnolia denudata
This has not been a good season for magnolias in Great Britain: […]
Remedy UK plans legal challenge
Remedy UK, the organisation behind the MTAS protest marches in London and Glasgow, is to launch a legal challenge to the single interview process planned for junior doctors in England. They’ve enlisted the help of leading lawyers Leigh Day and Co to bring the action, which they are due to present on Monday — the […]