Delay in the diagnosis of coeliac disease prolongs morbidity and mortality.
The study by Dr Cannings-John et al in the Br J Gen Pract. 2007 Aug; 57 (541):636-42 17688758, examined with what sorts of complaints patients presented to their GP during the 5 years PRIOR to the diagnosis of coeliac disease. They looked at patients [...]
Archive for September, 2007
COELIAC DISEASE: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO GET THE DIAGNOSIS RIGHT?????
Posted in COELIAC DISEASE, chronic disease, diagnosis, health, life, news on September 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Rapid Responses to: Doctors must not be lapdogs to drug firms
Posted in Rapid Response, bmj, drug companies, health, news on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Of course Adriane Fugh-Berman is correct that we need to bite something tender and to get out of that lap.
But we are fighting the wrong beast. The beast is not the pharmaceutical industry – it is ourselves.
We, as doctors, have created the atmosphere which has allowed companies to malfunction. We have allowed industry to subvert [...]
BREAST CANCER: How much will Herceptin really cost?
Posted in NICE, bmj, cancer, chronic disease, health, news on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
New guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommends Herceptin in early breast cancer, but it provides no additional funding or any suggestion of which services to cut. This leaves medical staff with difficult decisions to make.
The media have made little mention of the restricted categories of patients for whom Herceptin may [...]
Doctors as lapdogs to drug firms
Posted in bmj, drug companies, health, news on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Drug representatives are paid to be nice to us, as long as we cooperate, sustaining our market share of targeted drugs and limiting our continuing medical education lectures to messages that increase drug sales. This is an unspoken agreement, but no less clear for being covert.
The drug industry is happy to play the generous [...]
PREDICTING MENTAL ILLNESS IN SOLDIERS
Posted in bmj, health, mental health, news, soldiers on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Recently a German Psychiatrist who works for the German Army stated that the main predictor of soldiers getting PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and other mental illnesses, was not so much the lenght away from home, even though they spend a lot more time at home than British soldiers. But that it was more if the [...]
AVOIDING GMC HEARING
Posted in bmj on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Will rolling the DICE decide the outcome for doctors with the new rules as the adagium, beyound a reasonable doubt will be replaced by the new reasoning that you are guilty of professional misconduct if it is more than 50% probable that it was your fault. A VERY strange new route and many doctors will face [...]
MENTAL ILLNESS IN DEPLOYED SOLDIERS
Posted in bmj, health, mental health, news, soldiers on September 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The army is taking on too many jobs, resulting in too many soldiers going off sick.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/335/7620/571
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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