A thousand patients have now taken part in 18 studies of bone-marrow derived cells for cardiac repair. This meta-analysis shows definite evidence of a repair effect, […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Plant of the Week: Rosa Cécile Brϋnner
The scents of summer are beginning to hang in the warm air – honeysuckle, jasmine, and roses. This wonderful rose offers a fragrance both sweet and fresh. […]
JAMA 23 May 2007 Vol 297
This issue of JAMA is devoted to malaria, a disease which was banished from Europe and North America in the 1930s and would have been banished from the whole world […]
NEJM 24 May 2007 Vol 356
The trouble with medical research is that it involves so much boring hard work. First carry out 2,446,431 person-years of follow-up involving questionnaires on aspirin use every two years. […]
BMJ 26 May 2007 Vol 334
Primary care research in the UK is still largely a cottage industry, kept going as much by enthusiastic part-timers as by big-hit professors. That may change when the “big five” […]
Lancet 26 May 2006
We all very much want to believe that aspirin can prevent pre-eclampsia, but since the first positive trial arguments have bounced back and forth. […]
NEJM 17 May 2007 Vol 356
Asthma is a common, variable condition which in the UK is treated largely in primary care. Most adults who suffer from it don’t want to be using continuous treatment, but […]
JAMA 16 May 2007 Vol 297
The origins of the English adjective “fit” are obscure, but over the last century it has come to mean “in good physical condition […]
BMJ 19 May 2007 Vol 334
Anyone mapping the patterns of diagnostic thinking in primary care must give a prominent place to the concept of alarm symptoms, often known as “red flags […]
Lancet 19 May 2007 Vol 369
One week after the New England Journal published the two FUTURE studies, The Lancet publishes three trials of a quadrivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus types 6,11, 16 and 18. And […]