In less than ten years, the treatment of myocardial infarction has progressed from just giving aspirin and ensuring the quick delivery of thrombolysis, to complex strategies to maximise early invasive […]
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NEJM 15 Feb 2007
Kawasaki disease is a disease with many characteristics you don’t want a disease to have. It’s so rare that you will not see it more than once in a GP […]
BMJ 17 Feb 2007
This smashing little piece explores those situations where a new treatment is so good that a randomised trial is unnecessary. The mother’s kiss technique for removing foreign bodies from pre-school […]
Lancet 17 Feb 2007
559 For several years now, there has been a stream of trials comparing aromatase inhibitors with tamoxifen at various stages of breast cancer, and the aromatase inhibitors always win. […]
Arch Intern Med 12 Feb 2007
Is pot smoking good for the lungs? Why no, it isn’t, not least because in order to smoke cannabis you also inhale the smoke of burning tobacco and Rizla paper. […]
Plant of the Week: Abeliophyllum distichum
Since few people frequent nurseries and garden centres in February, this plant remains rare despite being tough and easy to propagate. Seen and above all smelt at this time of […]
Pastures New
When the check in clerk told me my excess baggage would cost £1700, I thought she was joking. She wasn’t. […]
JAMA 7 Feb 2007
“Never with animals or children […]
NEJM 8 Feb 2007
Polycystic ovary syndrome is a frustrating diagnosis for doctors and patients, as a case discussion in this week’s JAMA illustrates: if you don’t want a pregnancy, go on the pill […]
BMJ 10 Feb 2007
This article describes how assisted suicide is actually carried out in two places where it is legal – Switzerland and Oregon. It will no doubt provoke a deluge of correspondence […]