JAMA 23 Feb 2011 Vol 305 783 The highly prevalent custom of poisoning the osteoclasts of old ladies with bisphosphonates for years on end seems surprisingly harmless. This case-control study […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 21 February 2011
JAMA 16 Feb 2011 Vol 305 I like to hold a torch for JAMA, and once even suggested to the BMJ that it should try to become more like this […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 14 February 2011
JAMA 9 Feb 2011 Vol 305 569 If I were a woman, the things I would most fear from breast cancer surgery would be arm lymphoedema and recurrence of the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 7 February 2011
JAMA 2 Feb 2011 Vol 305 487 Most of us have never come near a vial of bevacizumab, though we’ve read plenty about it, especially over recent years in the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 31 January 2011
JAMA 26 Jan 2011 Vol 305 391 Stroke medicine grew up in the 1990s: like heart failure medicine, it shone welcome light on a large and neglected group of patients […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 24 January 2011
JAMA 19 Jan 2011 Vol 305 261 I’m of an age when the words cognitive decline in the title of a paper make me rush to read it – the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 17 January 2011
JAMA 12 Jan 2011 Vol 305 151 “Behavioral Therapy With or Without Biofeedback and Pelvic Floor Electrical Stimulation for Persistent Postprostatectomy Incontinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” As so often with […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 10 January 2011
JAMA 5 Jan 2011 Vol 305 43 Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators are a good intervention for those who have bad systolic heart failure with a risk of ventricular arrhythmia, and would rather […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 4 January 2011
NEJM 30 Dec 2010 Vol 363 2588 A sizeable multinational study seeks to find out whether providing free daily anti-retroviral drugs as well as free condoms might help to reduce […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 29 December 2010
JAMA 22-29 Dec 2010 Vol 304 2732 “Professionalism may not be sufficient to drive the profound and far-reaching changes needed in the care system, but without it, the health care […]