NEJM 1 Sep 2016 Vol 375 Adding LABAs to steroid inhalers This week’s print NEJM contains two trials of adding inhaled long acting beta-adrenergic agents to inhaled corticosteroids. The first recruited […]
After a month’s break, I’m catching up with articles of interest in the main non-BMJ journals throughout August. Normal service will be resumed next week. NEJM Aug 2016 Vol 375 […]
NEJM 21 July 2016 Vol 375 MenB vaccination for students 220 We’ve been waiting for decades to get a vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B. But now that it’s arrived, […]
NEJM 14 July 2016 Vol 375 Olanzapine stops chemo vomiting 134 For about five thousand years, doctors sought out plants that would make their patients vomit, believing that this would […]
NEJM 7 July 2016 Vol 375 Bayesian cancer trials I’m glad I haven’t got any cancer that I know of. I’m not unique in that, but I’m of an age […]
NEJM 30 Jun 2016 Vol 374 Cervical sense 2509 This week’s NEJM is an odd mix of the down-to-earth and the arcane. The down-to-earth comes first, ahead of midostaurin for […]
NEJM 23 Jun 2016 Vol 374 Adolescent BMI: big data, little meaning 2430 “How might adolescent BMI affect adult cardiovascular mortality? In our study, we could not control for important […]
NEJM 16 Jun 2016 Vol 374 Data about parasites 2335 I love it when it’s parasite time in the NEJM. Tenaciously clinging to the wall of the large bowel, tapeworms […]
At the rear of the grand London buildings which house the BMA and the BMJ offices, there is a tranquil garden, sheltered by tall buildings and lovingly tended by Daniella […]
NEJM 9 Jun 2016 Vol 374 All sorts of AML 2209 Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), New Zealand’s greatest son, said that physics is the only science, and the rest is just […]
