When I said last week that the true scientist rejoices when her/his hypothesis is refuted, I wasn’t trying to restate Popperian orthodoxy but making the point that those who wish […]
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NEJM 12 Apr 2007
A big prospective North American trial – COURAGE – confirms the message of the BMJ a fortnight ago: for chronic stable angina, percutaneous coronary intervention offers no advantage over optimal […]
BMJ 14 Apr 2007
786 Several years ago, Philip Poole-Wilson issued a warning that too many cardiovascular trials use composite end-points and that this can seriously distort their conclusions. […]
Lancet 14 Apr 2007
Another very promising new drug for HIV has arrived – the HIV-1 integrase inhibitor raltegravir. It produced good results in this phase II trial in multi-drug resistant patients and “the […]
Arch Intern Med 9 Apr 2007
The fashion for chocolate-drinking in England faded more than two hundred years ago, to be replaced largely by tea […]
Fungus of the Week: Morchella esculenta
These vernal delicacies tend to grow where you can least easily spot them – on burnt ground, in grass around old apple trees, or amongst bark and wood chips used […]
Remedy UK to pursue legal action
Remedy UK, the organisation behind the protest marches against MTAS, has decided it will continue its legal action — despite the latest compromise proposals aimed at ensuring appointments can be […]
JAMA 4 Apr 2007
This Japanese study breaks new ground in attempting to establish the prevalence of neuraminidase resistance in influenza B viruses. At present it is low, but of course selection pressure could […]
NEJM 5 Apr 2007
If, as Michael Baum states, you have to screen 1,000 women with mammography for ten years to save one death from breast cancer, is computer-aided detection going to transform the […]
BMJ 7 Apr 2007
In England, we are lucky to have our screening programmes presided over by a sceptical Scot (Muir Gray) who is alert to the dangers of screening. Nevertheless, argues Nicola Law […]