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Month: February 2021

Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Fertile philology

February 26, 2021

I have now reached 1985 in my survey of words whose first citations listed in the Oxford English Dictionary are from years spanning my 50 years as a physician. Four […]

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Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—26 February 2021

February 26, 2021

Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]

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“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” The challenges of NHS IT

February 26, 2021

You are now locked out of your account(s). Please contact your system administrator. There are a lot of challenges that come with transitioning from medical student to doctor—from passing required […]

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Learning from doctors with long covid

February 26, 2021

When Sarah Burns and Sue Warren started a support group for doctors with long covid, they found a number of people struggling with new experiences, losses, and vulnerabilities […]

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Mark Dayan: Will Brexit mark an end to the UK’s scientific successes?

February 26, 2021

Mark Dayan looks at the impact Brexit is having on the UK medicines, medical devices, and life sciences industries After almost 50 years as part of a European market, the […]

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Is England’s exit plan from lockdown a road to nowhere?

February 25, 2021

The more we accept our coexistence with covid, the more it becomes an inevitability, writes John Middleton […]

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Karl Friston and Anthony Costello: A measured approach to zero covid

February 25, 2021

It’s possible for a context-sensitive containment strategy to not only work in principle, but in practice, say Karl Friston and Anthony Costello […]

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The story of the Mumbai breast screening study

February 24, 2021

It was the early 1990s; with the collapse of the Soviet Union, an ambitious WHO sponsored randomised trial of breast self-examination was in disarray. Data from the Moscow component of […]

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Do statins cause muscle symptom side effects?

February 24, 2021

What can we learn from new n-of-1 trials Patient: “Doctor, I’ve been getting a lot of cramp in my legs and the only thing that has changed is I’m taking […]

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John Puntis: We need a people’s covid-19 inquiry now

February 24, 2021

In a powerful plea for justice, Kamran Abbasi suggests in an Editorial in The BMJ that the consequences of government mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic amount to “social murder.” However, […]

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