Here is a systematic review of RCTs aimed at the prevention of sports injuries. Successful interventions include the use of insoles, external joint supports and multi-interventional training programmes. more…

There are plenty of good roses which repeat flower through the summer, but this one is unusual in that it only gets going in August and produces big bunches of pure white scented flowers. In fact it is a rambler so it can get pretty enormous. more…

You will no doubt have read the recent NEJM review which pointed out that white people living in colder latitudes are a poor weedy lot, chronically deficient in vitamin D. more…

Severe haemophilia A damages joints in young boys through repeated haemarthroses which are treated as they occur with injections of recombinant factor VIII. more…

Earlier this year, Sir Alan Craft visited our locality in order to advise the hospital trust on downgrading our paediatric service and replacing our consultant-led obstetric service with a midwife-led unit. more…

This prospective observational study from Germany opens up the question of which method is best for breast cancer screening – conventional mammography or MRI? more…

For some weeks this paper has been on the journal’s website, bringing the unwelcome news that outcomes for women with diabetes have not improved between the NHANES cohort of 1971-1986 and the cohort of 1986-2000. more…

I normally confine my remarks to plants I have grown myself, but unfortunately I’ve never possessed the space to grow this big suckering shrub from the horse chestnut family, which produces abundant candles of white flower in late July and August. more…

An issue devoted to Violence and Human Rights, with three papers from Northern Uganda, carrying the depressing messages that we don’t know of a useful intervention to alleviate distress in young war survivors, and that together with post-traumatic stress disorder comes an inability to contemplate forgiveness. more…

You may remember that in April JAMA published a paper by the indefatigable Harlan Krumholz and his team, who looked for 85 reported genetic risk markers for coronary disease in 811 patients with acute coronary events without confirming a single significant association. Clearly the way these polymorphisms have been sought for up to now is pretty useless. more…