Those interested in the hospital volume/quality debate may like to take a look at this study from the USA which shows that admission to the highest-volume centres there is strongly […]
Month: October 2006
NEJM 26 Oct 2006
This is a classic example of a certain kind of screening study—the sort that tells you how marvellous it is that we can now spot (in this case) lung cancerat […]
BMJ 28 Oct 2006
This study randomised primary care patients with osteoarthritis to six sessions of self-management instruction plus a booklet or just the booklet. At one year, there was no difference in scores […]
Lancet 28 Oct 2006
Here is an important case-control study which goes a long way towards proving that conjugate pneumococcal vaccine could save a great many children’s lives, especially in the developing world (see […]
Ann Intern Med 17 Oct 2006
A new treatment for irritable bowel syndromewhich improves symptoms for 10 weeks after a 10-day course—let’s all start prescribing rifamixin, a non-absorbed antibiotic! But hang on. Read the editorial first. […]
JAMA 18 Oct 2006
Coronary artery bypass grafting has become the commonest major surgical procedure in the developed world. But since it tends to be needed most in people who are old, have smoked, […]
NEJM 19 Oct 2006
I first became aware of dehydroepiandrosterone some years ago when a patient with Addison’s disease asked if I could prescribe it to help her general well-being and libido. Not wishing […]
BMJ 21 Oct 2006
This week’s BMJ is devoted to “Health in the Middle East […]
Lancet 21 Oct 2006
“Health is now the most important foreign policy issue of our time […]
Arch Intern Med 9 Oct 2006
The tabloids love a dirty hospital story. Epidemiologists too can relish using the words “nosocomial […]