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Pod delusion references

            Here are the references for a piece on the Pod Delusion podcast last week. The dreadful quality of the recording is all my fault.   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569567   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Screening-Evidence-practice-Angela-Raffle/dp/0199214492   http://whqlibdoc.who.int/php/WHO_PHP_34.pdf   newbornbloodspot.screening.nhs.uk/getdata.php?id=11648   http://www.scielo.org.ar/pdf/rac/v76n2/en_v76n2a20.pdf     http://www.screening.nhs.uk/cms.php?folder=2898   http://www.annals.org/content/147/12/854.full   http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001877/screening-for-breast-cancer-with-mammography   http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/decisionaids   http://www.screening.nhs.uk/hcm#mce_temp_url#       http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa070972 […]

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Inside health and cycle helmets

The references I used for Radio 4’s  Inside Health are here   http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/165/12/1343.abstract http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4521 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198603063141003 http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/165/12/1343.abstract http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/userfiles/ccoch/file/Safety_on_the_road/CD001855.pdf http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.0901747 http://www.dot.state.fl.us/research-center/Completed_Proj/Summary_RD/FDOT_BDK82%20977-01_rpt.pdf http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/13/3/190.full http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457506001540   http://drianwalker.com/overtaking/overtakingprobrief.pdf http://www.eta.co.uk/2011/04/01/safest-bicycle-helmet-has-built-wig  

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Myrios and their adverts on the tube

Myrios are running adverts on the London tube. This company offers blood testing for various conditions. I am troubled by the evidence and practice of their testing.   “We always advise you visit your local pharmacist who will be able to recommend the right test based on your health concerns.” They also say, in their […]

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New things – Inside Health and screening

My favourite subject – screening. There’s a column on Inside Health about it, as well as a feature on private companies who offer screening for aortic aneurysms. The references I used are here http://www.annals.org/content/152/8/505.full?aimhp http://www.scielo.org.ar/pdf/rac/v76n2/en_v76n2a20.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK33513/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK33507/ http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001923/carotid-endarterectomy-for-asymptomatic-carotid-stenosis http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC006173 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa070972 There is also a feature in the Times today, but it’s behind a paywall, about […]

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NEJM Alzheimers study: all it seems?

The study published yesterday has made the headlines across the media; ” The study they funded, led by Professor Robert Howard from the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has concluded that the drugs carry on working in people whose illness has become severe. “For the first time, […]

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Prostate awareness month

is here. Here’s an advert from their sponsors, Marks and Spencers. You’ll note that it says “My husband had prostate cancer. He had no signs or symptoms. How were we going to cope?” This sounds suspiciously like screening (although it may mean that he had no prostate signs or symptoms, but e.g. metastatic symptoms. I […]

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Inside Health – doctors are, of course, human

about whether it matters if your doctor smokes or is overweight. … Listen again is here. I note that Mark Porter says this is a soapbox – no way! The references I used are here, if anyone’s interested. http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.d8041 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/8861843?dopt=Abstract&holding=f1000,f1000m,isrctn http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/2/369.abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/8861843?dopt=Abstract&holding=f1000,f1000m,isrctn http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18425860 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2010.00821.x/abstract;jsessionid=CAC4

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