Wordsworth’s poem about daffodils, I wandered lonely as a cloud, has divided opinion ever since it was first published in 1807. […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Arch Intern Med 12 Mar 2007 Vol 167
Longevity is a subject which has interested people from the dawn of history. […]
Lancet 17 Mar 2007 Vol 369
And still they come. Any hope that big trials of new interventions for acute coronary syndromes were about to dry up, and that the sound of the silly acronym would […]
BMJ 17 Mar 2007 Vol 334
Who gives a stuff about impact factors? […]
NEJM 15 Mar 2007 Vol 356
There have been lots of studies about the best place to have myocardial infarction (answer: close to a major hospital) but this is the first I have read about the […]
JAMA 14 Mar 2007 Vol 297
The American health care system is a mess. […]
JAMA 7 Mar 2007 Vol 297
Here’s a fascinating study of computed tomography screening and lung cancer outcomes, drawn from three US centres and one Italian which screened over 3,000 former smokers and followed them up […]
NEJM 8 Mar 2007 Vol 356
It all began more than a hundred years ago, when a London dentist, Charles Stent, devised a little metal structure to hold in place gingival grafts. His name bears a […]
Ann Intern Med 6 Mar 2007 Vol 146
Population studies in the developed world generally find that about 20-25% of us are anxious and/or depressed, and that is what this US study found when it used a number […]
BMJ 10 Mar 2007 Vol 334
Most of the patients in our practice who have been given radioiodine for hyperthyroidism have had at least one course of antithyroid drugs previously. This meta-analysis shows that such treatment […]