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Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 September 2010
JAMA 1 Sep 2010 Vol 304
967 A couple of weeks ago, the BMJ published a rather strange piece about the terrible psychological effects of chemical castration in men with prostate cancer. But although I’ll no doubt be sorry to part with that aspect of myself if I ever have to, this pales into insignificance compared [...]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review – 31 August 2010
JAMA 25 Aug 2010 Vol 304
859 The first paper in JAMA comes from Denmark for a second week running, meaning that I have to rummage through Hamlet yet again for a suitable quotation. But alas (poor Yorick), I can find nothing at all about antiviral drugs used in pregnancy. I can’t even find anything related [...]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review 23 August 2010
JAMA 18 Aug 2010 Vol 304
763 Some time ago I suggested that the best time and place to have a myocardial infarct was at about 10 am on a Thursday morning in October in a large city. That way you would get your primary percutaneous intervention as quickly as possible performed by a team who [...]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review – 16 August 2010
JAMA 11 Aug 2010 Vol 304
641 All this week the media has (sic) been proclaiming the end of the antibiotic era, on the basis of data which shows (sic) that new multi-resistant plasmids can cross from one bacteria (sic) to another in Indian hospitals. Give or take a few plurals, you get my gist. [...]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review – 9 August 2010
JAMA 4 Aug 2010 Vol 304
This week’s JAMA is about the health consequences of violence. These are bad, and these articles just act as gloomy reminders of how bad they are, and how little medicine can do about them. I suppose it’s worth trying a brief intervention to reduce violence and alcohol abuse in adolescents [...]
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