It’s not often that a professor of neurology is the corresponding author of a study on the prevention of colorectal cancer and indeed this particular part of the body was […]
Month: May 2007
Plant of the Week: Magnolia sinensis
The magnolias were among the first of flowering trees, and in many respects they remain first for the beauty and scent of their flowers. There are three species with dangling […]
Trusts in frenzied effort to create thousands of staff posts
The Department of Health is frantically trying to magic up as many as 10,000 posts for those who fail to achieve posts within the specialist training stream. The BMJ understands […]
Plant of the Week: Allium ursinum
This is has been the best week of the year for plants in England: wisterias, tree peonies, the incomparable Paeonia mlokosewiczii, the first bearded irises, and everywhere towering horse-chestnuts of […]
Ann Intern Med 1 May 2007 Vol 146
Giant cell arteritis is not a diagnosis we make readily in general practice, though in theory it can be made on clinical grounds without the necessity of a temporal artery […]
Lancet 5 May 2007 Vol 369
Trials of education and screening in primary care tend to be labour-intensive and end up with large drop-out rates and low yields. This educational outreach and screening programme for tuberculosis […]
BMJ 5 May 2007 Vol 334
“Does tonsillectomy beat watchful waiting in adults? […]
NEJM 3 May 2007 Vol 356
For those who don’t want – or can’t remember – to take a bisphosphonate tablet once a week, there is the option of spending a quarter of an hour once […]
JAMA 2 May 2007 Vol 297
SURVIVE is not a good acronym for a trial of inotropic drugs in decompensated heart failure: if there is one certainty in cardiac pharmacology, it is that inotropic drugs never […]
Health secretary apologises yet again
Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Health, has today made yet another statement — and another apology — in the Commons about the MTAS debacle. […]