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The BMJ Today: Are you worried about your cardiovascular risk?

March 19, 2015

• Sudden cardiac death is the main cause of medical death in athletes. Despite the fact that many cases of sudden cardiac death in athletes aged less than 35 are […]

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Richard Hurley: Multimedia, interaction, gamification: what does tomorrow’s medical journal article look like?

March 19, 2015

The internet has made it ridiculously easy to access information. Traditional media outlets like The BMJ are having to compete even harder with each other for attention. The internet has also […]

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Julia Pakpoor: Sir Terry Pratchett’s legacy to the right to die

March 18, 2015

The literary world is grieving the death of author Sir Terry Pratchett, who was knighted for his services to literature and who has sold more than 65 million books. The […]

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The BMJ Today: Statins in pregnancy, sexual health in Pakistan, and mammography screening

March 18, 2015

Statins in pregnancy Bateman and co-workers report a well designed epidemiological study on statins in early pregnancy. Their analysis did not find a significant teratogenic effect from maternal use of […]

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Sanna W Khawaja: At a crossroads in medical training

March 17, 2015

I am in the recruitment stage between interviews and offers. At this moment in time, when I look to August I can see myself as both in training and not […]

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Carolyn Thomas: Yet another cardiac risk calculator?

March 17, 2015

To see for myself how reliable the new NHS heart disease risk calculator is, I completed all required fields exactly as I would have answered seven years ago. That was […]

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Samir Dawlatly: Do I obsess too much about the NHS?

March 17, 2015

When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with playing guitar. I taught myself to play on my sister’s guitar, taking it off her when she came back from lessons. […]

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Pallavi Bradshaw: Innovation doesn’t need a new law

March 17, 2015

At the end of last week, common sense prevailed. The decision was made that the Medical Innovation Bill would not get a second reading in the House of Commons, and […]

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The BMJ Today: Prescribing on sparse evidence, homeopathy, and research methodology

March 17, 2015

How to prescribe when the evidence is lacking • Several observational studies have shown associations between using drugs with anticholinergic side effects—such as loperamide, loratadine, baclofen, amitriptyline, oxybutynin, or chlorphenamine—and […]

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Richard Lehman’s journal review—16 March 2015

March 16, 2015

NEJM 12 March 2015 Vol 372 1009 Stroke is a wonderfully straightforward word. When used in a medical context, everybody thinks of a sudden blow. It is something that needs […]

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