JAMA 23-30 Jan 2013 Vol 309 355 From time to time I like to shock my GP colleagues by saying that the most important part of any health system is […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Richard Lehman’s journal review—21 January 2013
JAMA Intern Med 14 Jan 2013 Vol 173 The Archives of Internal Medicine have now morphed into JAMA Internal Medicine. It would be nice to report that this first issue […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—14 January 2013
JAMA 9 Jan 2013 Vol 309 155 We know in our bones that vitamin D is important, and we even have a rough idea of the blood levels that are […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—7 January 2012
JAMA 2 Jan 2013 Vol 309 41 There was an issue of JAMA that appeared on December 26th, but it contained nothing really worth disturbing your Christmastide slumbers. The New […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—27 December 2012
JAMA 19 Dec 2012 Vol 308 2469 Most healthy people don’t take aspirin, so if you look at a long-term study of aspirin in relation to some clinical event, such […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—17 December 2012
JAMA 12 Dec 2012 Vol 308 2349 The run-up to Christmas never finds me in the best of moods, and now it seems that the editor of JAMA is trying […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 10 December 2012
NEJM 6 Dec 2012 Vol 367 This is the time of year when, as a GP who is still let loose on patients, I have to undergo my annual appraisal. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 December 2012
JAMA 28 Nov 2012 Vol 308 2097 Heart failure is a common process of dying which mostly affects people over the age of 75. Living with heart failure can be […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—26 November 2012
JAMA 21 Nov 2012 Vol 308 OPERA is the quintessential Italian art-form: devised as a return to the classical past, it is a brilliant transitory display of music, costume, and […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—19 November 2012
JAMA 14 Nov 2012 Vol 308 1916 Last week we learned that male doctors who were randomised to take a daily multivitamin preparation had cardiovascular events and died from them […]