16 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
A big prospective North American trial – COURAGE - confirms the message of the BMJ a fortnight ago: for chronic stable angina, percutaneous coronary intervention offers no advantage over optimal medical therapy. more…
16 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
786 Several years ago, Philip Poole-Wilson issued a warning that too many cardiovascular trials use composite end-points and that this can seriously distort their conclusions. more…
16 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
Another very promising new drug for HIV has arrived – the HIV-1 integrase inhibitor raltegravir. It produced good results in this phase II trial in multi-drug resistant patients and “the safety profile of raltegravir is comparable with that of placebo at all doses studied.
16 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
The fashion for chocolate-drinking in England faded more than two hundred years ago, to be replaced largely by tea more…
16 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
These vernal delicacies tend to grow where you can least easily spot them – on burnt ground, in grass around old apple trees, or amongst bark and wood chips used to mulch flower beds. more…
10 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
Remedy UK, the organisation behind the protest marches against MTAS, has decided it will continue its legal action — despite the latest compromise proposals aimed at ensuring appointments can be made in time for August, when posts become vacant.
10 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
This Japanese study breaks new ground in attempting to establish the prevalence of neuraminidase resistance in influenza B viruses. At present it is low, but of course selection pressure could change all that if these drugs were widely used in an epidemic. more…
10 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
If, as Michael Baum states, you have to screen 1,000 women with mammography for ten years to save one death from breast cancer, is computer-aided detection going to transform the scene? more…
10 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
In England, we are lucky to have our screening programmes presided over by a sceptical Scot (Muir Gray) who is alert to the dangers of screening. Nevertheless, argues Nicola Law here, we are in the process of adopting a policy for opportunistic Chlamydia screening in young women based on evidence that is contradictory and frequently misrepresented. more…
10 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
Just after the editorials comes a short clinical update on essential tremor which usefully summarises the clinical features and how to distinguish this from other tremulous disorders. When it comes to treatment, however, the evidence is generally shaky. more…
