Richard Lehman’s journal review – 16 April 2012
JAMA 11 April 2012 Vol 307 1489 The new editor of JAMA feels that his worthy journal needs a bit of livening up, and who can disagree? He has borrowed […]
JAMA 11 April 2012 Vol 307 1489 The new editor of JAMA feels that his worthy journal needs a bit of livening up, and who can disagree? He has borrowed […]
JAMA 4 Apr 2012 Vol 307 1394 A special dread settles on me this week as I know I am going to have to write about breast cancer screening. But […]
JAMA 28 Mar 2012 Vol 307 1257 Medical conferences exist to affirm everything that hinders the progress of medicine as a compassionate and honest enterprise. They are a showcase for […]
JAMA 21 Mar 2012 Vol 307 1161 When in Japan, do not attempt to drop down dead. In 800 fire stations around the Islands of the Sun, teams of emergency […]
JAMA 14 Mar 2012 Vol 307 1029 The Viewpoint pieces in JAMA this week are a strange mix of fact and fantasy. The first is a piece about industry payments […]
JAMA 7 Mar 2012 Vol 307 915 “Almost 2 and a half million people in the United States die every year, making death the most common health event in the […]
NEJM 1 Mar 2012 Vol 366 777 There is no JAMA this week, and the best things in the New England Journal come right at the start. Whether you are […]
JAMA 22 Feb 2012 Vol 307 813 When an Italian team of physicists reported that they had detected neutrinos travelling faster than light, the televisual physicist Jim Al-Khalili promised to […]
JAMA 15 Feb 2012 Vol 306 669 This week’s star Viewpoint piece is about The Unintended Consequences of Conflict of Interest Disclosure. It seems to me that twenty-first century medicine […]
JAMA 8 Feb 2012 Vol 307 565 There are signs that JAMA is gradually improving under its new editor, although moving its perspective pieces to the beginning of the journal […]