Richard Lehman’s journal review – 31 January 2011

JAMA  26 Jan 2011  Vol 305 391   Stroke medicine grew up in the 1990s: like heart failure medicine, it shone welcome light on a large and neglected group of patients with organ damage who had been written off as unsalvageable. This was a Very Good Thing in itself, but its proponents then went on to […]

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Richard Lehman’s journal review – 17 January 2011

JAMA  12 Jan 2011  Vol 305 151   “Behavioral Therapy With or Without Biofeedback and Pelvic Floor Electrical Stimulation for Persistent Postprostatectomy Incontinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” As so often with titles like this, you have to explore the text before you can tell what the study is really about. In the UK, “behavioural therapy” usually […]

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Richard Lehman’s journal review – 23 December 2010

JAMA 15 Dec 2010  Vol 304 2595   New England is a wonderful place: from its little towns a nation was born, full of the idiosyncracies of seventeenth century Britain. The cadences of the 1611 Bible can still be heard in the speeches of President Obama, and even on hoardings advertising health products; miles, pints, and […]

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