JAMA 15 Dec 2010 Vol 304 2595 New England is a wonderful place: from its little towns a nation was born, full of the idiosyncracies of seventeenth century Britain. The […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 20 December 2010
JAMA 8 Dec 2010 Vol 304 2494 When cardiac troponin measurements came into use about a decade ago, it was immediately clear that they would change clinical practice and redefine […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 December 2010
JAMA 1 Dec 2010 Vol 304 Eicosapentaenoic acid – which one is that? That’s right, the fishy one: all that spelling homework I made you do is paying off. More […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 29 November 2010
JAMA 24 Nov 2010 Vol 304 2245 It’s a pleasure to start the week with a first class well-conducted study with a clear outcome that will benefit patients. The benefit […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 22 November 2010
JAMA 17 Nov 2010 Vol 304 Like all doctors who survived their hospital jobs in the 1970s, I have some shocking memories. Oddly enough, though, some of them are happy […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 15 November 2010
JAMA 10 Nov 2010 Vol 304 It’s not often that you see a paper in JAMA written by a real working British GP – so congratulations to Louis Levene from […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 8 November 2010
JAMA 3 Nov 2010 Vol 304 There is no suggestion in any of the numerous works of PG Wodehouse that Jeeves might have suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, and we may […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 1 November 2010
JAMA 27 Oct 2010 Vol 304 Perhaps the greatest prize in preventive medicine this century will be the discovery of an effective non-surgical intervention to cure obesity. This study doesn’t […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 25 October
JAMA 20 Oct 2010 Vol 304 What do fish oils and Mozart have in common? Answer: both have been proposed as ways to enhance neurocognitive development in utero. But I […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 18 October 2010
JAMA 13 Oct 2010 Vol 304 Cardiac surgery was once considered too bloody even to contemplate: now it is commonplace. But there is still no agreement in practice about how […]