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Richard Smith: Can we screen for cardiovascular disease using age alone?

November 9, 2011

Using simply age to screen for cardiovascular disease is as effective as more complicated methods using blood pressure and serum cholesterol, concludes a study published in PloS One in May by […]

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Richard Smith: My vain search for a pro-mammography speaker

August 1, 2011

For the past two months I have been trying to find somebody to speak in in favour of mammography in a debate, but I have failed. Some six people have […]

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Muir Gray:”The most effective screening programme ever”

June 27, 2011

“The most effective screening programme ever,” this was Richard Doll’s gentle jest when I was director of national screening programmes. Aware of my efforts to ensure that screening did much […]

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Research highlights – 10 June 2011

June 10, 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 […]

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Uncategorizedcolorectal cancer, screening, venous thromboembolism, vitamin D0 Comments

Richard Smith: The breast cancer epidemic

February 15, 2011

The world is on the cusp of a major epidemic of breast cancer, said Peter Boyle, head of the international prevention research institute in Lyon, France, at a conference on […]

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Tauseef Mehrali: Attack of the clipboards

November 4, 2008

I sat riveted through Kenneth Branagh’s perceptive portrayal of Ivanov in Chekhov’s eponymous play. Witnessing the desperate depression of the protagonist unfold I couldn’t help thinking how many points he […]

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