The scents of summer are beginning to hang in the warm air – honeysuckle, jasmine, and roses. This wonderful rose offers a fragrance both sweet and fresh. […]
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JAMA 23 May 2007 Vol 297
This issue of JAMA is devoted to malaria, a disease which was banished from Europe and North America in the 1930s and would have been banished from the whole world […]
NEJM 24 May 2007 Vol 356
The trouble with medical research is that it involves so much boring hard work. First carry out 2,446,431 person-years of follow-up involving questionnaires on aspirin use every two years. […]
BMJ 26 May 2007 Vol 334
Primary care research in the UK is still largely a cottage industry, kept going as much by enthusiastic part-timers as by big-hit professors. That may change when the “big five” […]
Lancet 26 May 2006
We all very much want to believe that aspirin can prevent pre-eclampsia, but since the first positive trial arguments have bounced back and forth. […]
Doctor of the Week: Erasmus Darwin
To millions of Americans today, the name of Darwin is taboo, associated with disbelief in the Word of God and its teaching of Creation. Oddly enough, this was the case […]
Royal College of Surgeons pulls out of MTAS review
The Royal College of Surgeons has withdrawn from the MTAS review group, chaired by Professor Neil Douglas. Bernard Ribeiro, the college’s president, announced his decision in an open letter to […]
Remedy UK loses high court case
Remedy UK’s legal fight against the Department of Health over the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) came to an end today. The judge hearing the case ruled against Remedy UK’s call […]
BMA chairman resigns over MTAS letter
In an unexpected move, the BMA’s chairman Jim Johnson has resigned after a storm of protest at a letter he wrote to The Times supporting the government’s reforms of medical education — and […]
It’s your call
There’s nothing quite like being interviewed in your pyjamas. Lots of people have emailed, asking for hints and advice about phone interviews. […]