It’s time to get out the sugar solution and to encourage breastfeeding during infant immunisation: as this editorial reminds us, these are simple and well-proven methods for relieving pain in […]
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BMJ 3 Mar 2007 Vol 334
A group of wise and experienced academics got together in a Cambridge college last year to agree basic principles for designing and evaluating complex interventions to improve health care. But […]
NEJM 1 Mar 2007 Vol 356
What do you know about hepatitis E? Not a thing, in my case, before I read the editorial on p.949 accompanying this vaccine trial. It’s caused by a tiny RNA […]
JAMA 28 Feb 2007 Vol 297
Human papilloma viruses, which are the commonest sexually transmitted pathogens, come and go from the genital tract and usually do little harm except for types 16 and 18, which cause […]
JAMA 21 Feb 2007
For several years, it’s been known that cardiopulmonary bypass machines can throw off micro-debris and this has been linked to the cognitive impairment seen in a substantial proportion of patients […]
NEJM 22 Feb 2007
Tidings of Seretide to send sales soaring. This study, funded by GlaxoSmithKline (and hence in part by you, dear taxpayer), finds “significant benefits […]
BMJ 24 Feb 2007
It’s amazing how long it has taken us to recognise the basic mechanisms of stroke. Peter Rothwell’s short editorial points out that in people with carotid plaque, processes similar to […]
Lancet 24 Feb 2007
This week’s Lancet is dominated by the subject of male circumcision to reduce HIV infection, on the basis of two interventional trials from Kenya and Uganda, which show a 50% […]
Ann Intern Med 20 Feb 2007
This study puts paid to the idea that tight glycaemic control during on-pump cardiac surgery improves outcomes. In this trial it did the exact opposite. […]
More about Circumcision
Harvey Marcovich was sharing a platform with a fellow paediatrician when they were asked about the potential health benefits of preserving the male foreskin. […]