JAMA 9 Nov 2011 Vol 306 1983 Replumbing the brain through a hole in the skull is an idea that sounds straight out of the heroic days of kill-or-cure surgery. […]
Tag: research
Mike Clarke: Assessing the impact of participating in research – the need for core outcomes?
The COMET Initiative is making it easier for people to develop, identify, and use core outcome sets to improve the potential impact of research findings on healthcare practice, health, and wellbeing. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 17 October 2011
JAMA 12 Oct 2011 Vol 306 1549 It has been a bad week for vitamin supplements. Worst hit, as usual, has been vitamin E. The SELECT trial began collecting 35 […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 3 October 2011
JAMA 28 Sep 2011 Vol 306 1329 Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation reduces left ventricular load and improves outcomes in animal models of myocardial infarction. But in previous small human studies of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 26 September 2011
JAMA 21 Sep 2011 Vol 306 1205 I don’t know why spammers have me down as so interested in imitation Rolex watches and erectile function: neither is particularly true. But […]
Research highlights blog – 23 September 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 19 September 2011
JAMA 14 Sep 2011 Vol 306 1089 In medicine, always expect the counterintuitive. For some time it has been known that removing more lymph nodes at the time of bowel […]
Gaurav Gulsin, Sachin Gupta, Mostafa El Dafrawi: Read it and weep
In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on keeping up to date with the current scientific literature. To practise evidence based medicine, we have to constantly read and […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 12 September 2011
JAMA 7 Sep 2011 Vol 306 952 This is a themed issue on Medical Education, a domain where giant forces compete for the minds of highly selected young people, and […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 5 September 2011
NEJM 1 Sep 2011 Vol 365 787 Studies of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest require heroic feats of organization and generally provide survival-to-discharge rates around 7%. In this randomized trial, the research […]