Just after the editorials comes a short clinical update on essential tremor which usefully summarises the clinical features and how to distinguish this from other tremulous disorders. When it comes […]
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Ann Intern Med 3 Apr 2007
It seems to me that the two most important goals in treating type 2 diabetes are to preserve the remaining beta cells and to reduce cardiovascular risk. And it seems […]
The Plague That Made England
John Morris’s magisterial history, The Age of Arthur, is full of astonishing insights into the transition between Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England, none more so than his description of the […]
Surgery to be a special case
The MTAS review group has agreed to recommend a special case should be made for junior doctors wishing to pursue a career in surgery. There will be special transitional arrangements to cope […]
Review group sets out compromise deal
The Department of Health has set out a compromise deal to try to end the confusion and anger over interviews for junior doctor posts in England. It announced late this […]
BMA warns that thousands will be jobless
32000 junior doctors are chasing the 18500 jobs which are going to available from 1 August, says the BMA in a statement issued this morning. And some are inevitably going […]
Still waiting…
Junior doctors who had hoped to hear from today exactly what the arrangements will be for the single guaranteed interview process in England are unlikely to know until Wednesday or […]
JAMA 28 Mar 2007
The treatment of “heart failure […]
NEJM 29 Mar 2007
“Even after careful clinical and mammographic evaluation, cancer is found in the contralateral breast in up to 10% of women who have received treatment for unilateral breast cancer. […]
BMJ 31 Mar 2007
Coming a day before April 1st, I couldn’t decide whether this paper, “Towards sustainable clinical trials […]