breast cancer screening

Richard Lehman’s journal review – 10 April 2012

Posted on April 10, 2012 by BMJ

JAMA 4 Apr 2012 Vol 307 1394 A special dread settles on me this week as I know I am going to have to write about breast cancer screening. But let’s leave the dread question of whole-population mammography for later, and consider the add-on benefit of annual ultrasound or single-screening MRI in selected high-risk women. […]

Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news

Posted on February 11, 2009September 9, 2010 by BMJ

Two BMJ studies published last week have been widely cited by the press. The first has found that women’s resting heart rate is a good predictor of coronary events in women. US researchers studied the heart rates of 129,000 postmenopausal women and found that those with the highest heart rates were more likely to have […]