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Month: February 2007

Arch Intern Med 12 Feb 2007

February 19, 2007

Is pot smoking good for the lungs? Why no, it isn’t, not least because in order to smoke cannabis you also inhale the smoke of burning tobacco and Rizla paper. […]

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Plant of the Week: Abeliophyllum distichum

February 19, 2007

Since few people frequent nurseries and garden centres in February, this plant remains rare despite being tough and easy to propagate. Seen and above all smelt at this time of […]

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Pastures New

February 12, 2007

When the check in clerk told me my excess baggage would cost £1700, I thought she was joking. She wasn’t.   […]

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JAMA 7 Feb 2007

February 12, 2007

“Never with animals or children […]

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NEJM 8 Feb 2007

February 12, 2007

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a frustrating diagnosis for doctors and patients, as a case discussion in this week’s JAMA illustrates: if you don’t want a pregnancy, go on the pill […]

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BMJ 10 Feb 2007

February 12, 2007

This article describes how assisted suicide is actually carried out in two places where it is legal – Switzerland and Oregon. It will no doubt provoke a deluge of correspondence […]

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Lancet 10 Feb 2007

February 12, 2007

The cyclo-oxygenase 2 inhibitors came out amidst a fanfare of publicity about their gastrointestinal safety, though from the start, a few discordant notes were sounded by cost/benefit analysts. […]

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Ann Intern Med 6 Feb 2007

February 12, 2007

I write from a part of England where an academic department managed to get funds to investigate obstructive sleep apnoea long before it became a fashionable diagnosis, so lots of […]

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Plant of the Week: Galanthus nivalis

February 12, 2007

The humble snowdrop is loved by every gardener. It heralds the end of winter, and grows in places which are hidden later in the growing season. […]

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NEJM 1 Feb 2007

February 5, 2007

The petrol-fuelled motor car gives us comfortable mobility and independence, but at the cost of denaturing the entire landscape of the developed world, the future of our climate, the very […]

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