Do we really need a new drug for angina? I think we do, because although we already have a choice of beta-blockers, nitrates, calcium channel blockers and potassium channel activators, there will always be some patients whose angina remains hard to control, and who are not suitable for revascularisation. (more…)
This study selected patients with “bipolar depression
Salt is of course a very good and necessary thing. (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
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.
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 the house.
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
