Trials of education and screening in primary care tend to be labour-intensive and end up with large drop-out rates and low yields. This educational outreach and screening programme for tuberculosis […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
BMJ 5 May 2007 Vol 334
“Does tonsillectomy beat watchful waiting in adults? […]
NEJM 3 May 2007 Vol 356
For those who don’t want – or can’t remember – to take a bisphosphonate tablet once a week, there is the option of spending a quarter of an hour once […]
JAMA 2 May 2007 Vol 297
SURVIVE is not a good acronym for a trial of inotropic drugs in decompensated heart failure: if there is one certainty in cardiac pharmacology, it is that inotropic drugs never […]
JAMA 25 Apr 2007
Do we really need a new drug for angina? I think we do, because although we already have a choice of beta-blockers, nitrates, calcium channel blockers and potassium channel activators, […]
NEJM 26 Apr 2007
This study selected patients with “bipolar depression […]
BMJ 28 Apr 2007
Salt is of course a very good and necessary thing. […]
Lancet 28 Apr 2007
“Do doctors have a future? […]
Arch Intern Med 23 Apr 2007
Yes, I had better give in and go for continuous positive pressure ventilation. At least it would keep me quiet at night and according to this systematic review, it would […]
Plant of the Week: Syringa laciniata
Lilac time has come early this year, and thanks to bright sunshine, cool nights, and a lack of rain, the flowers are looking and smelling wonderful. […]