Some 400 junior doctors joined the rally outside parliament today and many of them went on to lobby their individual MPs in the Commons. The action, organised by Remedy UK, […]
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JAMA 18 Apr 2007 Vol 297
The great mystery of the French paradox is how they come to eat animal fat in such delicious quantity and yet suffer so little cardiovascular disease. […]
NEJM 19 Apr 2007 Vol 356
A study of blood transfusion for very sick children in paediatric intensive care units inspires an editorial to ask “When Is More Really Less? […]
BMJ 21 Apr 2007 Vol 334
I’m constantly surprised how slowly epidemiological information about fetal outcomes continues to trickle out, despite the existence of huge databases covering several decades. This analysis shows that the risk of […]
Lancet 21 Apr 2007 Vol 369
The clinical updates which now follow the editorials in The Lancet provide very useful summaries of current knowledge: here is a concise Australian account of stroke management. […]
Ann Intern Med 17 Apr 2007 Vol 146
A big group of Canadians make a valiant attempt to determine which inhalers really benefit patients with chronic obstructive airways disease. The idea was to start with tiotropium and randomise […]
Plant of the Week: Fritillaria pallida
The fritillaries are a wonderful group of bulbous plants, mostly of very discreet charm, quite unlike their blowsy cousins, the tulips. […]
Domhnall MacAuley from the Quality Forum
Domhnall MacAuley attending the BMJ/IHI 12th International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care, Barcelona April 2007 Airports at 5am on a working day don’t have the same excitement […]
Unemployed doctors could opt for VSO, review group told
There has been an outcry at the news that one briefing paper to the MTAS review group suggests doctors who can’t find a job in the UK should consider working […]
Hewitt apologises – and announces review of MMC
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has today issued an apology to those caught up in the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) crisis, acknowledging that it had been a time of ‘great […]