Research 

What are the long term effects of multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for patients with chronic low back pain?

News

• Chicago born Frances Glessner Lee (pictured), the “mother of CSI” and dollhouse-style dioramas, features in “Forensics: the anatomy of crime” exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London.

• The 2015 version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (due out later this year) may no longer warn people to limit their consumption of dietary cholesterol.

• How the Toronto Star mishandled a story that suggested a link between the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil and serious illness and deaths.

• Self dialysis for Swedes, plus other examples of doing things differently.

Views

• Would giving patients access to test results lead to worry and confusion? Not if you’re a member of the chattering classes, says Queensland reader W Leslie Alexander.

• Banning food and pharma industry representatives from public policy decisions is an “authoritarian and illiberal view” argues UK health policy adviser Michael Tremblay.

Education

• A 25 year old woman presents with acute onset cough; streaky haemoptysis; and expectoration of large, whitish, salty sputum while bathing in the early morning. What’s up, asks Minerva.

 

David Payne is digital editor and reader’ editor, The BMJ.