Coming a day before April 1st, I couldn’t decide whether this paper, “Towards sustainable clinical trials […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Lancet 31 Mar 2007
In a week that has seen several failed trials of cholesterol-tinkering, it’s good to see a successful trial of an agent which reduces major coronary events in hypercholesterolaemic patients without […]
Arch Intern Med 26 Mar 2007
We dole them out, but 20-50% of the pills we prescribe remain on the shelf. […]
Plant of the Week: Magnolia denudata
This has not been a good season for magnolias in Great Britain: […]
JAMA 21 Mar 2007
Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) could be a description of what we spend half our time doing in primary care, but it is also the name of a […]
NEJM 22 Mar 2007
In England they used to be known as firemen, even when this invited confusion with the stokers of steam locomotives, but now they are usually called by the more heroic […]
BMJ 24 Mar 2007
Warning: this meta-analysis is only for single LADs. […]
Lancet 24 Mar 2007
In this proof-of-concept study, cervical vertebral discs were removed from cadavers and transplanted into matched patients with degenerative disease of the cervical spine. […]
Ann Intern Med 20 Mar 2007
This Dutch hospital-based study derives a clinical prediction rule called CHIP for the use of computed tomography in patients with minor head injury, […]
Fungus of the Week: Pleurotus eryngii
This is a fungus of climates warmer than the British, and has long been collected in southern Europe, where it is found in association with the sea-hollies or Eryngium species […]