What will your brain be like when you’re 73? Quite good, in all likelihood, and all the better if you keep it ACTIVE. The study with this name randomised elderly […]
Month: December 2006
NEJM 21 Dec 2006
Now children, who can remember from last week’s lesson what is the best biomarker for death or cardiovascular events? Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten already. Well, never mind, in the […]
BMJ 23 Dec 2006
The Revd. Thomas Malthus no doubt used to celebrate Christmas by taking food off his starving parishioners’ tables, the quicker to help them die, and there is a school of […]
Lancet 23 Dec 2006
2195 How safe is paracetamol? This editorial highlights the study which showed that at therapeutic (4G/day) doses it can cause ALT elevation in some normal subjects (JAMA 2006;296:87), but I […]
Ann Intern Med 19 Dec 2006
When we suddenly started back-tracking about hormone replacement therapy a few years ago, ours were not the only red faces. Women continue to complain about hot flushes and the temptation […]
Medici non medici
The covers of two of this week’s journals feature works by Florentine artists who were patronised by the Medici family: Domenico Ghirlandaio and Michelangelo Buonarroti. Actually there are more artists […]
JAMA 13 Dec 2006
This observational study takes a careful look at 44 630 men diagnosed with localised prostate cancer between the ages of 65 and 80. Over 30,000 of them had radical prostatectomy […]
NEJM 14 Dec 2006
2513 Apart from the threat posed by a new strain of pandemic influenza, there’s the irksome fact of antigenic drift in existing subtypes of influenza A, which means that most […]
BMJ 16 Dec 2006
Time was when a new report about the future of medical research in the UK would have had me all agog. But here comes the Cooksey Report written by a […]
Lancet 16 Dec 2006
This week’s Lancet is a bit thin on articles of general interest but here is a superb book review by Michael Marmot about Julian Tudor Hart’s The political economy of […]