A new treatment for irritable bowel syndromewhich improves symptoms for 10 weeks after a 10-day course—let’s all start prescribing rifamixin, a non-absorbed antibiotic! But hang on. Read the editorial first. […]
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JAMA 18 Oct 2006
Coronary artery bypass grafting has become the commonest major surgical procedure in the developed world. But since it tends to be needed most in people who are old, have smoked, […]
NEJM 19 Oct 2006
I first became aware of dehydroepiandrosterone some years ago when a patient with Addison’s disease asked if I could prescribe it to help her general well-being and libido. Not wishing […]
BMJ 21 Oct 2006
This week’s BMJ is devoted to “Health in the Middle East […]
Lancet 21 Oct 2006
“Health is now the most important foreign policy issue of our time […]
Arch Intern Med 9 Oct 2006
The tabloids love a dirty hospital story. Epidemiologists too can relish using the words “nosocomial […]
Tony Delamothe on redesign of bmj.com (2)
Let’s start at the very beginning bmj.com will have a new “look and feel” come January 2007, provided by New York interactive agency, Digital Pulp. After that comes a range […]
Israel’s incursion into south Lebanon (2006) – view from Haifa/Safed
As Lisa Rubin, physician and public health officer in Haifa, northern Israel, who has been blogging for bmj.com since 7 August, leaves Haifa for a planned holiday, she starts to […]
Israel’s incursion into south Lebanon (2006) – view from Beirut
Imad Uthman is an associate professor and rheumatologist at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon Friday, 1 September Field hospitals in the wrong fields Soon after the clashes […]
Tony Delamothe: TED 2006 – The future we will create
Monterey, California Down on Fisherman’s Wharf, it’s ‘Prime time for the Gray Whale,’ according to the boat trip operators. Just offshore, colonies of sea lions are barking out their territorial […]