By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
11 December 2008
Family doctors are committing up to 600 errors a day, mainly in diagnosis and treatment, but are among the worst staff at reporting them, an NHS watchdog says today.
Family doctors are committing up to 600 errors a day, mainly in diagnosis [...]
Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Family doctors ‘make 600 mistakes a day’
Posted in Editor, RISKS, Research, SORRY, tagged Doctors, health, Medical Errors on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mobile phone use ‘raises children’s risk of brain cancer fivefold’
Posted in CHILDREN, Editor, RISKS, Research, Science, cancer, health, life, news on September 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
By: Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor, The Independent
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Alarming new research from Sweden on the effects of radiation raises fears that today’s youngsters face an epidemic of the disease in later life.
Children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, startling new [...]
Breakthrough in migraine therapy ???
Posted in Editor, Research, Science, bmj, chronic disease, diagnosis, drug companies, health, life, news on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
New anti-migraine drugs that have fewer side effects than existing treatments could be on the market within three years, scientists said yesterday.
They have been developed thanks to improved understanding of the mechanism that makes the brain over-react to stimuli and will usher in a new era [...]
Prolapsed intervertebral disc
Posted in Editor, Orthopaedics, RISKS, Research, bmj, chronic disease, diagnosis, health, life on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ, published 27 May 2008.
Editorials.
By: Jeremy Fairbank, professor of spinal surgery, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford OX3 7L
Prolapsed intervertebral disc is common.
Disc prolapse is genetically driven—twin studies indicate that at least 60% of the variance can be explained on genetic grounds and not by the commonly assumed environmental factors (work, trauma, exposure to excessive driving, smoking, [...]
Food additives and hyperactivity
Posted in CHILDREN, Editor, RISKS, Research, bmj, chronic disease, diagnosis, health, life, news on May 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
BMJ 2008;336:1144 (24 May).
An increasing number of children are taking drugs for hyperactivity.
Removing colours and preservatives is a relatively harmless activity, so a properly supervised and evaluated trial period of eliminating them should be part of standard treatment, says an editorial by Andrew Kemp, professor of paediatric allergy and clinical immunology at the [...]
Effect on smoking quit rate of telling patients their lung age
Posted in RISKS, Research, Respiratory disease, bmj, chronic disease, health, life on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ 2008;336:598-600 (published 6 March 2008)
Research
Gary Parkes, general practitioner, Trisha Greenhalgh, professor, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London; Mark Griffin, lecturer in medical statistics, and Richard Dent, consultant chest physician department of chest medicine
Conclusion: Telling smokers their lung age significantly improves the likelihood of them quitting smoking, but the mechanism [...]
Antidepressants an untold story?
Posted in Clinical review, RISKS, Research, Science, bmj, chronic disease, diagnosis, drug companies, health, news on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
BMJ 2008;336:532-534 (8 March)(published 27 February 2008)
By: Jeanne Lenzer, medical investigative journalist, New York.
New generation antidepressants aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
That seems to be the central message in the meta-analysis published this week by Irving Kirsch and colleagues in PLoS-Medicine, and it was this message that made the headlines.
Kirsch’s conclusion follows on the [...]
Investigating perianal pain of uncertain cause
Posted in Clinical review, INFECTIONS, Practice, Research, bmj, diagnosis, health on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ 2008; (16 February).
Practice by: Dr Rebecca Greenhalgh, radiology specialist registrar et al, University College Hospital, London.
Imaging plays an important role in elucidating the cause of anal pain when the diagnosis is not clinically apparent.
Endoanal ultrasound is an increasingly available, relatively inexpensive, quick and safe technique providing high resolution images of the anal sphincter [...]
Rates of medication errors among depressed and burnt out residents: prospective cohort study
Posted in RISKS, Research, bmj, chronic disease, health, mental health on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ, published 7 February 2008
Research: by: Dr Amy M Fahrenkopf, instructor of paediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston et al.
What is already known on this topic:
Depression and burnout are highly prevalent in doctors in training
Burnout is associated with a higher rate of self reported errors among residents
What this study adds:
Depressed residents [...]
Soft drinks, fructose consumption, and the risk of gout in men
Posted in Research, bmj, chronic disease, diagnosis, health on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ, published 31 January 2008
Research, by: Hyon K Choi, associate professor of medicine (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) and Gary Curhan, associate professor of medicine (Harvard Medical School, Boston).
Objective To examine the relation between intake of sugar sweetened soft drinks and fructose and the risk of incident gout in men.
Design Prospective cohort over 12 years.
What is [...]
