The NHS employers organisation says its members are confident that they will be able to provide a full and safe level of service throughout the coming weeks, despite the difficulties surrounding the appointment of junior doctors to new contracts from this Wednesday (1 August).
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy sometimes first presents as sudden death in apparently healthy young people, especially during sport. Over recent years, people (mean age 42) with an antemortem diagnosis of HCM have increasingly been fitted with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, (more…)
At home we’re watching old episodes of Cardiac Arrest, a series written 13 years ago by an ex-junior-doctor which depicts hospital medicine through a fog of anger and sleep deprivation. The only dignity seen in the series is in the behaviour of ethnic-minority relatives of patients killed by the system. (more…)
Cannabis is very widely used, particularly by people who later show signs of psychosis; (more…)
Various groups of higher beings keep watch over the lives of us humble mortals, including the American Council on Science and Public Health, which here pronounces on reducing sodium intake to prevent cardiovascular disease. (more…)
All over England, buddleias have been in flower for weeks already, often sprawling over railway embankments and waste ground, or lodged in the mortar of high walls and chimneys to the greater peril of the populace. (more…)
This trial prejudged its outcome by calling itself the Women’s Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) study; it was based on the supposition that a diet very high in vegetables, fruit, and fibre and low in fat might reduce cancer-related events and mortality in women with breast cancer. (more…)
This study of self-monitoring in type 2 diabetes calls into question a widely-used and expensive intervention and has drawn a stream of responses ever since it was first posted on the BMJ website some weeks ago. (more…)
