Richard Lehman’s journal review—23 January 2017
NEJM 19 Jan 2017 Vol 376 Transmission of drug resistant TB Tuberculosis in Europe used to be known as the White Death, and that is the title of the best […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—16 January 2017
NEJM 12 Jan 2017 Vol 376 PROMS and PROs I first went to the Proms in 1966. I enjoyed the queuing, the atmosphere, and the music: young Barenboim playing Beethoven […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—9 January 2017
NEJM 5 Jan 2017 Vol 376 The trials of big pharma As a fan of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma and Peter Gøtzsche’s Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, I was not […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 January 2017
NEJM 22-29 Dec 2016 Vol 375 Co-amoxiclav for OM in under-twos This trial firmly establishes the superiority of a ten day over a five day course of co-amoxiclav for babies […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—19 December 2016
NEJM 8-15 Dec 2016 Vol 375 Geographical variation in trials This review article on geographical subgroup variation is a master class in how to think about and analyze randomised controlled trials. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 December 2016
NEJM 1 Dec 2016 Vol 375 Can genes prove how drugs work? Medicine is the application of neat science to a messy world. We love it when it works simply: […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—28 November 2016
NEJM 24 Nov 2016 Vol 375 AAA in UK & USA It grieves me to say it, but there are certain things that American medicine does better than British medicine. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—21 November 2016
NEJM 17 Nov 2016 Vol 375 Diabetes kills in Mexico City “Overall, between 35 and 74 years of age, the excess risk of death associated with diabetes accounted for approximately […]
Richard Lehman: Pre-diabetes: can prevention come too soon?
In the last fifty years, most people across the world have had more food to eat and less physical work to do. On the plus side, we are living longer—often […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—14 November 2016
NEJM 10 Nov 2016 Vol 375 Reinventing connected medicine A 1300 word Viewpoint article can hardly do justice to a theme as grand as “Meaning and the Nature of Physicians’ […]