Richard Lehman’s journal review—2 April 2013
JAMA 27 Mar 2013 Vol 309 1241 Have you ever heard of someone who’s recently had a heart attack going off and having 40 infusions of disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, ascorbate, […]
JAMA 27 Mar 2013 Vol 309 1241 Have you ever heard of someone who’s recently had a heart attack going off and having 40 infusions of disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, ascorbate, […]
JAMA 20 Mar 2013 Vol 309 1125 Is aliskiren a good drug for heart failure? Despite the negative result of this Novartis-funded trial (ASTRONAUT), I think the answer is probably […]
JAMA 13 Mar 2013 Vol 309 997 Obstructive sleep apnoea is very, very common. In the preamble to this Australian study, a third of the adult population is accused of […]
JAMA 6 Mar 2013 Vol 309 887 The Greek for belt is zoster, while the Latin for girdle is cingulum. Add Greek for creeping (or snake) and you get herpes […]
JAMA 27 Feb 2013 Vol 781 781 Heart failure divides into two broad classes: the first is caused by damage to the myocardium and is associated with reduction in the […]
JAMA 20 Feb 2013 Vol 309 689 Long back in the last century, I was a hysterectomy robot. This was the lowest form of life in a London teaching hospital […]
JAMA 13 Feb 2013 Vol 309 559 Last week I had a go at the editors of the NEJM and The Lancet for publishing misleadingly reported pharma funded trials, in […]
JAMA 6 Feb 2013 Vol 309 453 Stone the crows, a great little study from Oz that will change your practice at a stroke. They recruited 212 patients with intermittent […]
JAMA Intern Med 28 Jan 2013 Vol 173 93 One of the chief glories of this journal (formerly called the Archives) lies in the articles labelled LESS IS MORE, which […]
JAMA 23-30 Jan 2013 Vol 309 355 From time to time I like to shock my GP colleagues by saying that the most important part of any health system is […]