Dr Google https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/doctors-gps-dr-google-patient-list/   formal evaluation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815378/ in people referred to hospital, other studies found using the web to prepare increased anxiety levels https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5487739/ but overall mixed result German study published in 2017 examined ways that people use internet for web info https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00103-017-2549-2 some early US data saying that potential for some symptoms of obsessional […]

  mesh National Hip and Joint registry MHRA comment NY study  Cochrane reviews    J shaped curves SIGN guidance   

Telephone triage study  safety study ESTEEM study 

press release http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/news.aspx?itemid=4646&itemTitle=One+in+four+girls+is+depressed+at+age+14%2c+new+study+reveals&sitesectionid=27&sitesectiontitle=News&returnlink=news.aspx%3fsitesectionid%3d27%26sitesectiontitle%3dNews headlined ‘One in four girls is depressed’ and the first line New research shows a quarter of girls (24%) and one in 10 boys (9%) are depressed at age 14 how do you diagnose depression ? http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/healthadvice/problemsdisorders/depressionkeyfacts.aspx Click to access bluebook.pdf Moods and Feelings Questionnaire      3) third party info parents […]

Rethink Mental Illness charity  – https://www.rethink.org/news-views/2017/09/rethink-schizophrenia https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23459877 bad use e.g. http://fortune.com/2017/07/27/scaramucci-priebus-schizophrenic/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidschrieberg1/2017/08/20/pardon-me-britain-your-brexit-schizophrenia-is-showing/#1b4c1cd72569 wrong use e.g. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/haoues-seniguer/world-schizophrenic-charlie-hebdo_b_6473824.html academic studies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25937459 various calls over time for a renaming http://www.schres-journal.com/article/S0920-9964(15)00061-4/abstract would it help? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092099641630175X don’t know what people with the diagnosis of schizophrenia think Click to access eip-guidance.pdf people with schizophrenia are more likely to do themselves harm […]

a six part series for BBC Radio Scotland, called Cradle to Grave and 2. A half hour programme for Radio 4 called Too Much Medicine  

Click to access 5cd6ca3d008704f5a6cebf6da9ad761bf817.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24816206 Radiology, October 2002, Vol. 225:1, pp. 165-175) Click to access 20151020-21-breast-cancer-standards-singer_en.pdf http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=ser&sub=def&pag=dis&ItemID=106694 Click to access Position%20Statement%20on%20breast%20density%20and%20screening%20within%20the%20BreastScreen%20Australia%20Program.pdf Click to access nhsbsp74.pdf http://www.eusoma.org/Engx/Guidelines/Other/OtherFS.aspx?cont=FS_5_3 Click to access identifying_women_with_dense_breasts_at_high_risk_for_interval_cancer.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18477782

Antibiotics and optimal duration of taking them paper in BMJ Lancet in 1999 Prof Harold Lambert http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(99)01139-3/fulltext 2009 in Clinical Medicine – similar issues http://www.clinmed.rcpjournal.org/content/9/6/632.1.full do patients actually think not completing course is bad? cite two studies Most believed antibiotic resistance was due to excessive (median 70%, in 11 studies) or unnecessary (median 74%, in […]

Good overview  Time line summary  NICE guidance  and here  current UK prescribing  study US veterans study  WHO essential medicines http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/essentialmedicines/20th_EML2017.pdf?ua=1 surgery for peptic ulcers massively reduced – probably at least in part due to PPIs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15460842 JAMA mortality study   

FAQ for people in North London – which says this is an ‘independent’ study see the evidence available for the app  ; “Our approach enables the reliable use of red-flags which leads to a high recall of 100% (all cases needing A&E will receive that outcome), at the cost of precision (some cases falsely receive […]