The timeline below gives an at-a-glance guide to how the crisis over junior doctors’ job applications began. […]
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JAMA 7 Mar 2007 Vol 297
Here’s a fascinating study of computed tomography screening and lung cancer outcomes, drawn from three US centres and one Italian which screened over 3,000 former smokers and followed them up […]
NEJM 8 Mar 2007 Vol 356
It all began more than a hundred years ago, when a London dentist, Charles Stent, devised a little metal structure to hold in place gingival grafts. His name bears a […]
Ann Intern Med 6 Mar 2007 Vol 146
Population studies in the developed world generally find that about 20-25% of us are anxious and/or depressed, and that is what this US study found when it used a number […]
BMJ 10 Mar 2007 Vol 334
Most of the patients in our practice who have been given radioiodine for hyperthyroidism have had at least one course of antithyroid drugs previously. This meta-analysis shows that such treatment […]
Lancet 10 Mar 2007 Vol 369
Innumerable trials and systematic reviews over the last decade have pressed home the message that early invasive treatment is best for acute coronary syndromes. Now the best marker for cell […]
Plant of the Week: Azara microphylla “Variegata
This small Chilean tree justifies its place in the garden all the year round, with handsome tiered branches covered in tiny variegated evergreen leaves. But as winter ends, it begins […]
Fiona Godlee: Confessions of a climate criminal
I’ve been outed. Not for my exotic sexual preferences, sadly, but for being a climate hypocrite. A West Coast operation called Medgadget has set up a website tracking my travels […]
Plant of the Week: Edgeworthia chrysantha
Two plant families have the potential to produce a continuous cycle of fragrant flowers throughout the year in Britain – the honeysuckles and the daphnes. This one is a daphne […]
Arch Intern Med 26 Feb 2007 Vol 167
Another reason not to smoke: if you live in an infected population, it increases your risk of tuberculosis, according to this systematic review. Though it does not seem to increase […]