Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals

You will no doubt have read the recent NEJM review which pointed out that white people living in colder latitudes are a poor weedy lot, chronically deficient in vitamin D. […]

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Severe haemophilia A damages joints in young boys through repeated haemarthroses which are treated as they occur with injections of recombinant factor VIII. […]

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Earlier this year, Sir Alan Craft visited our locality in order to advise the hospital trust on downgrading our paediatric service and replacing our consultant-led obstetric service with a midwife-led […]

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This prospective observational study from Germany opens up the question of which method is best for breast cancer screening – conventional mammography or MRI? […]

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For some weeks this paper has been on the journal’s website, bringing the unwelcome news that outcomes for women with diabetes have not improved between the NHANES cohort of 1971-1986 […]

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I normally confine my remarks to plants I have grown myself, but unfortunately I’ve never possessed the space to grow this big suckering shrub from the horse chestnut family, which […]

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An issue devoted to Violence and Human Rights, with three papers from Northern Uganda, carrying the depressing messages that we don’t know of a useful intervention to alleviate distress in […]

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You may remember that in April JAMA published a paper by the indefatigable Harlan Krumholz and his team, who looked for 85 reported genetic risk markers for coronary disease in […]

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For the benefit of a patient who has ovarian cancer and had been taking hormone replacement therapy, I have just been reviewing the HRT risk/benefit equation as we have come […]

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A big brain, upright posture, a musical larynx, and the hand – such are the glories of anatomy which set us apart from other primates. […]

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