JAMA 4 May 2011 Vol 305 1769 When I first started writing comments on the medical journals in 1998, coronary artery bypass surgery had become the commonest major operation in […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 3 May 2011
JAMA 27 Apr 2011 Vol 305 1625 Obedience is no longer a fashionable concept, though it was once prized as the most essential virtue in religion and society (see Psalm […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 26 April 2011
JAMA 20 Apr 2011 Vol 305 1545 Chronic kidney disease, pre-diabetes, subclinical hypothyroidism, vitamin D insufficiency, attention deficit disorder, asymptomatic systolic dysfunction, borderline personality disorder, early chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 18 April 2011
JAMA 13 Apr 2011 Vol 305 1441 The old JAMAs were comfortable: they looked good and I looked forward to getting into them – there was a nice feeling, like […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 11 April 2011
JAMA 6 Apr 2011 Vol 305 1305 Postmenopausal oestrogen protects against breast cancer. Now there’s a headline I never thought I would write; and yet it’s the clear conclusion of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 4 April 2011
NEJM 31 Mar 2011 Vol 364 1195 A great deal of what I report to you every week is discouragingly futile, but the conquest of serious viral disease still has […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 28 March 2011
JAMA 23-30 Mar 2011 Vol 305 1165 In 1941, there was a rumour that the Germans were buying up large quantities of bovine adrenal glands from Argentina so as to […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 21 March 2011
JAMA 16 Mar 2011 Vol 305 1119 “Chronic kidney disease is one of the most rapidly increasing chronic diseases in the United States. More than 20 million US adults have […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 14 March 2011
NEJM 10 Mar 2011 Vol 364 907 “Microalbuminuria is an early predictor of diabetic nephropathy and premature cardiovascular disease.” That’s the opening message of the ROADMAP trial, and it will […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 7 March 2011
JAMA 2 Mar 2011 Vol 305 913 A friend recently began a piece on outcomes research with Bishop Joseph Butler’s maxim, “Every thing is what it is, and not some […]