https://www.ema.europa.eu/medicines/human/referrals/adrenaline-auto-injectors https://www.ema.europa.eu/documents/referral/adrenaline-auto-injectors-article-31-referral-chmp-assessment-report_en.pdf https://www.npa.co.uk/representing-you/campaigns/medicines-supply-chain/   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/all.12595 https://www.sps.nhs.uk/category/shortages-discontinuations-and-expiries/shortages/ https://www.abpi.org.uk/what-we-do/pricing-regulation/medicines-supply-chain-working-towards-a-solution/ https://psnc.org.uk/dispensing-supply/supply-chain/branded-shortages/ https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/06/nhse-sw-msg-jun-18.pdf https://psnc.org.uk/our-news/adrenaline-150-micrograms-auto-injectors-supply-urgent-actions-required-by-pharmacy-teams/ https://dtb.bmj.com/content/53/3/33 https://psnc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20181012-Letter-to-patients.pdf https://www.leighday.co.uk/LeighDay/media/LeighDay/documents/Product%20liability/Inquest-Dr-Sean-Cummings-Summing-Up.pdf https://www.npa.co.uk/representing-you/campaigns/medicines-supply-chain/ https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/576221001

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2018/10/turnbull-and-fry-effect-will-safe-lives-says-nhs-chief/ https://prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/news-and-views/2018/2/stephen-fry-calls-for-all-men-to-know-their-risk-after-his-treatment-for-prostate-cancer https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2005/183/5/impact-news-celebrity-illness-breast-cancer-screening-kylie-minogues-breast https://www.thebreastonline.com/article/S0960-9776(06)00073-7/fulltext https://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6357 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500405/ https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/105/14/1050/965030 https://www.pubfacts.com/detail/25539779/Deliberative-democracy-and-cancer-screening-consent-a-randomised-control-trial-of-the-effect-of-a-community-jury-on-mens-knowledge-about-and-intentions-to-participate-in-PSA-screening

One of my favourite subjects. I wrote a lot in the Patient Paradox about placebos. I don’t think we need placebos to get what have been called ‘placebo effects’. I’m so sad that doctors and patients have been pushed apart by the mechanistic, industrial approach of medicine in the last decade. Here’s hoping the next […]

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/13625187.2016.1154143 https://www.fsrh.org/news/fsrh-fpa-and-fertilityuk-call-for-more-independent-research-on/ https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Fulltext/2018/09000/Effectiveness_of_Fertility_Awareness_Based_Methods.8.aspx https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/naturalcycles-nordic-ab-sweden-a17-393896.html- N

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2566167 – a https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2695678 https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k2986 http://www.drjohnm.org/2017/12/thoughts-on-the-apple-watch-and-mobile-ecg/

things I said   RCGP Future vision for General Practice- it has to be evidence based. Otherwise we waste time and resources and do harm. I also want patients to be centre stage: we could be doing far more to resource shared decision making and understanding outside the consultation. GP Forward View report – lots […]

  Inside Health is off air…and back in a couple of weeks. In the meantime for tonights’ More or Less, here are the main references used for the badly thought out, publicity friendly, potentially harmful screening test that Public Health England didn’t seek advice from the UK National Screening Committee about. No user testing, not […]

https://cks.nice.org.uk/antiplatelet-treatment https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16490462 https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(05)01079-X/fulltext

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1806842 https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa1806842/suppl_file/nejmoa1806842_appendix.pdf   stuff I’ve written about this trial before in 2014 Adrenaline and cardiac arrest trial – ethics and evidence and I’d like to know how the ethicists who were so opposed to this trial think now that we have evidence of the harm adrenaline has been doing: would they rather we had kept […]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/514762   Click to access Infant-sleep-and-night-feeding-during-infancy-2.pdf   Click to access eat-study-final-report-summary.pdf http://cochranelibrary-wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006462.pub4/abstract   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389945718303204   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25973527  https://journals.lww.com/jpnnjournal/Abstract/2007/07000/Breast_feeding_Increases_Sleep_Duration_of_New.8.aspx https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1995519/ Click to access Statement-on-starting-solids-and-infant-sleep-study-Unicef-UK-Baby-Friendly-Initiative.pdf   The benefits of breastfeeding