NEJM 30 Aug 2012 Vol 367 787 Most medical research is boring and irrelevant. We take that for granted: most clinicians only read research papers if they urgently need to, […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Richard Lehman’s journal review—28 August 2012
JAMA 22-29 Aug 2012 Vol 308 777 A new stent from Switzerland! Don’t all leave the room at once. Sit down and make yourselves COMFORTABLE while I tell you the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—20 August 2012
JAMA 15 Aug 2012 Vol 308 681 From time to time, most of the medical journals are seized with a worthy impulse to discuss violence. One of its commonest and […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—13 August 2012
JAMA 8 Aug 2012 Vol 308 575 When Stephen Lock was editor of the BMJ, he banned the expression “further research is needed” on the grounds that further research is […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 August 2012
JAMA 1 Aug 2012 Vol 308 465 Living with heart failure is a miserable business, and about 40% of patients with this label are clinically depressed. This is due […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 30 July 2012
JAMA 25 July 2012 Vol 308 This was the week of the XIX International AIDS Conference held in Washington DC, where the catchphrase everywhere was “an AIDS-free generation.” That forms […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—23 July 2012
JAMA 18 July 2012 Vol 308 247 The coming of interferon beta as a treatment for multiple sclerosis in the mid-1990s marked a turning point. For patients with MS, it […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—16 July 2012
Arch Intern Med 9 July 2012 Vol 172 988 The moors around Sheffield which I used to frequent in my youth remained much the same as in 1813, when John […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 12 July 2012
NEJM 5 July 2012 Vol 367 11 Eltrombopag is a name which has moved me to poetry in the past, and there is a grave danger of this happening again. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 9 July 2012
Arch Intern Med 25 June 2012 Vol 172 909 The Archives are about to mutate into JAMA Internal Medicine, but I generally find them a better read than JAMA proper. […]