The fashion for chocolate-drinking in England faded more than two hundred years ago, to be replaced largely by tea […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Fungus of the Week: Morchella esculenta
These vernal delicacies tend to grow where you can least easily spot them – on burnt ground, in grass around old apple trees, or amongst bark and wood chips used […]
JAMA 4 Apr 2007
This Japanese study breaks new ground in attempting to establish the prevalence of neuraminidase resistance in influenza B viruses. At present it is low, but of course selection pressure could […]
NEJM 5 Apr 2007
If, as Michael Baum states, you have to screen 1,000 women with mammography for ten years to save one death from breast cancer, is computer-aided detection going to transform the […]
BMJ 7 Apr 2007
In England, we are lucky to have our screening programmes presided over by a sceptical Scot (Muir Gray) who is alert to the dangers of screening. Nevertheless, argues Nicola Law […]
Lancet 7 Apr 2007
Just after the editorials comes a short clinical update on essential tremor which usefully summarises the clinical features and how to distinguish this from other tremulous disorders. When it comes […]
Ann Intern Med 3 Apr 2007
It seems to me that the two most important goals in treating type 2 diabetes are to preserve the remaining beta cells and to reduce cardiovascular risk. And it seems […]
The Plague That Made England
John Morris’s magisterial history, The Age of Arthur, is full of astonishing insights into the transition between Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England, none more so than his description of the […]
JAMA 28 Mar 2007
The treatment of “heart failure […]
NEJM 29 Mar 2007
“Even after careful clinical and mammographic evaluation, cancer is found in the contralateral breast in up to 10% of women who have received treatment for unilateral breast cancer. […]