NEJM 30 Dec 2010 Vol 363 2588 A sizeable multinational study seeks to find out whether providing free daily anti-retroviral drugs as well as free condoms might help to reduce […]
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Carl Heneghan and Matthew Thompson on Tamiflu in children: what’s all the fuss?
Carl Heneghan The last few days has been hectic since the publication of our systematic review in the BMJ on the use of antivirals in children. By now, you are […]
Tom Nolan: Is Tamiflu useful in children or not?
Why did the operator at the National Pandemic Flu Service give the child Tamiflu? The cynics will say because the algorithm told him to, but the real answer, according to […]
Richard Lehman’s journal blog, 14 April 2009
Human brown fat deposits and the effectiveness of nicotine replacement therapy are just two of the subjects touched on this week by Richard Lehman in his journal review, which also […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
Using maggots to help heal ulcers does not sound like the most modern method but a BMJ paper has found that it can be effective. Researchers studied the effects of maggots […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
A BMJ paper has been covered in Computer Weekly this week. The paper reported that a computerised test could be used to calculate whether patients are at risk of Type 2 […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
There is some good news this week for men in their fifties who have not exercised much in the past. A BMJ study published last week shows that taking up […]
Richard Smith asks who is the E O Wilson of medicine?
A friend has written to me asking whom I think might be the “E O Wilson of Medicine,” and I’m stumped. Perhaps some readers of the BMJ have never heard […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
The BMJ received some praise this week in a blog by Revere, on the Science Blogs forum. Here is an extract: “Science journals are not just about science. They compete […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
Two BMJ studies published last week have been widely cited by the press. The first has found that women’s resting heart rate is a good predictor of coronary events in […]