Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 December 2010
JAMA 1 Dec 2010 Vol 304 Eicosapentaenoic acid – which one is that? That’s right, the fishy one: all that spelling homework I made you do is paying off. More […]
JAMA 1 Dec 2010 Vol 304 Eicosapentaenoic acid – which one is that? That’s right, the fishy one: all that spelling homework I made you do is paying off. More […]
JAMA 17 Nov 2010 Vol 304 Like all doctors who survived their hospital jobs in the 1970s, I have some shocking memories. Oddly enough, though, some of them are happy […]
JAMA 1 Sep 2010 Vol 304 967 A couple of weeks ago, the BMJ published a rather strange piece about the terrible psychological effects of chemical castration in men with […]
JAMA 18 Aug 2010 Vol 304 763 Some time ago I suggested that the best time and place to have a myocardial infarct was at about 10 am on a […]
JAMA 14 July 2010 Vol 304 163 The classic hero of palliative care used to be the personal doctor who turned up in the middle of the night to administer […]
I attended my first Faculty of Public Health Annual Conference at Imperial College London last week. I’m told it used to be a 2-day event with several breakout sessions, but […]
Cyclists sweated and panted alongside the car as we climbed the switchbacks of Holmenkollen mountain. At the top, a huge metal and concrete ramp stretched up towards the sky. And […]
A full Irish breakfast and a pint of Guinness. The perfect Easter brunch. But, not on Good Friday. The pubs are closed in Ireland on two days of the year; […]
Somaliland doesn’t exist, officially. But a new paper suggests that there is still a lot for the international development community to learn. Somaliland has been unrecognised under international law since its […]
I got out of the lift on the sixth floor of S block. I asked a nurse in Cantonese, “is this the respiratory medicine clinic?” “That’s right; you’re an overseas […]