A question for all GP readers – where do you keep your paediatric sphygmomanometer cuff? Do you know if your practice actually has one? […]
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NEJM 23 Aug 2007 Vol 357
The world’s largest swede weighed in at 171.56kg, according to a highly entertaining website mocking the rutabaga (which is the American word for this estimable root vegetable); […]
BMJ 25 Aug 2007 Vol 335
Every week or two we detect an irregular pulse and send the patient off for an ECG, but we’ve never audited how many with ?AF written on the form actually […]
Lancet 25 Aug 2007 Vol 370
Here is a painstaking meta-analysis of trials involving 64,000 people randomised to take calcium, vitamin D (in various doses) or placebo for the prevention of fractures and bone loss in […]
Ann Intern Med 21 Aug 2007 Vol 147
How grateful we should be for those who delve in the dark places of the earth, bringing up ores and jewels for our use and pleasure. Systematic reviewers share the […]
Plant of the Week: Viburnum cylindricum
This big handsome shrub is about to display its flat cymes of dull white flowers, exuding a faint sweetish smell. Clearly it is not for these that we in limy […]
JAMA 15 Aug 2007 Vol 298
There aren’t many vaccines which work after the infection has been acquired, […]
NEJM 16 Aug 2007 Vol 357
The initials RLS are forever associated with the great Scottish teller of tales who died on Samoa at the age of 44. He certainly had restless legs, and rarely remained […]
BMJ 18 Aug 2007 Vol 335
“Good germs” to help acute diarrhoea in children have become very popular, and with some reason. For a decade or more, I used to advise parents to give their kids […]
Lancet 18 Aug 2007 Vol 370
This week’s Clinical Update is titled “codeine maintenance in opioid dependence”, but it’s actually a useful summary of all varieties of opioid maintenance, […]