Richard Lehman’s journal review – 25 June 2012
JAMA 20 June 2012 Vol 307 2491 Most clinicians assume that the agencies which license new drugs—the Food and Drug Administration in the USA, or the European Medicines Agency over […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review – 18 June 2012
JAMA 13 June 2012 Vol 307 2383 It is surprising how long and valuable a period people can survive for with malignant pleural effusion. I worked beside such a person […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 11 June 2012
JAMA 6 June 2012 Vol 307 2269 As I near my fifteenth year of writing comments on the medical journals every weekend, I sometimes envy columnists who can write their […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 June 2012
NEJM 31 May 2012 Vol 366 2065 “Hey postman, I just saw that parcel move!” “Don’t worry buddy, that one’s fulla chicks.” Such exchanges cannot be uncommon in a country […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 28 May 2012
JAMA 23 May 2012 Vol 307 2161 Daytime sleepiness is one of the main reasons for treating obstructive sleep apnoea, another one being the risk of cardiovascular events and hypertension […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 21 May 2012
JAMA 16 May 2012 Vol 307 Do we all live on the same planet? I’m nearing the end of an amazing year at Yale, surrounded by superlatively intelligent people working […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 14 May 2012
JAMA 9 May 2012 Vol 307 1925 In a wonderful letter to Humphry Davy in 1800, Coleridge declared that science, as a human activity, “being necessarily performed with the Passion […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 7 May 2012
JAMA 25 Apr 2012 Vol 307 1809 Among the many virtues of JAMA, one cannot number a strong sense of the ridiculous. The poetry and medicine section is the world’s […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 30 April 2012
JAMA 25 Apr 2012 Vol 307 1717 Any budding young cardiology academic wishing to set up a publication of her own could do worse than start a Journal of Negative […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 23 April 2012
JAMA 18 Apr 2012 Vol 307 1583 George Orwell predicted a nightmare world where soothing words would mean their opposites, and gave his dystopia the date of 1984. It was […]