Are serotonin reuptake-inhibiting antidepressants safe in pregnancy? We want the answer to be yes, because a lot of young women take these drugs, and some would be lost without them; […]
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BMJ 30 Jun 2007 Vol 334
For me, the best thing in this week’s ultra-lite BMJ is this beautifully clear and logical editorial from New Delhi about lactose intolerance, […]
Lancet 30 Jun 2007 Vol 369
A Scandinavian editorial on the (mainly German) trials of cell therapy in myocardial infarction makes uncomfortable reading. […]
Arch Intern Med 25 Jun 2007 Vol 167
Here is a cohort study suggesting that older women who take serotonin reuptake inhibitors show double the rate of hip bone loss compared with those who take tricyclic antidepressants. […]
Plant of the Week: Lilium regale
Oscar Wilde adored lilies. He gave them away extravagantly, and he would wear a gilded lily in preference even to a green carnation. His contemporaries picture him as a vast, […]
JAMA 20 Jun 2007 Vol 297
Fans of The Rational Clinical Examination, once the best series in any medical journal, are having their patience tested a bit of late. Does This Patient Have Erythema Migrans? is […]
NEJM 21 Jun 2007 Vol 356
Dracunculiasis is a most ornamental word, but the little dragon to which it refers – the guinea worm – is a horrible parasite which, thanks to a lot of humble […]
BMJ 23 Jun 2007 Vol 334
Sciatica is a clinical diagnosis which is usually easy to make but hard to manage. This worthy Dutch review can find no evidence that any form of analgesia works, and […]
Lancet 23 Jun 2007 Vol 369
Diastolic dysfunction is a diabolically dysfunctional subject: scarcely any two accounts agree, and the very mention of it can cause British cardiologists to foam at the mouth. […]
Ann Intern Med 19 Jun 2007 Vol 146
Even before the virtual demise of hormone replacement therapy, soy was promoted as a “natural” alternative on the basis that Japanese women eat a lot of it and allegedly don’t […]