The Guardian published this. The commissioning editor said “1) Examine.com refused to be paid for this article. They refuse to have advertising on their site. Their only source of income is through their supplement guide, which collates the findings on the site. 2) That supplement guide uses a team of scientists to analyse the latest […]

Oprah Winfrey, 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIGrRRGPpqU US experience http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/786066 Overview of medical evidence  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15459320 http://www.uptodate.com/contents/full-body-ct-scan-for-screening Useful background Click to access Self-Referred_Whole-Body_CT_Screening.pdf and from my wonderful friend Hilda Bastian http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/absolutely-maybe/2014/03/23/the-disease-prevention-illusion-a-tragedy-in-five-parts/ Legal issues COMARE http://www.comare.org.uk/12thReportPressRelease.htm “COMARE recommends that regulation of these commercial CT services should be reviewed. We also recommend that clients should be provided with comprehensive information regarding […]

Fed up with forms – free link to BMJ col 

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.g2447 New column in the BMJ. (apologies for massive horrible picture, will ask bmj to fix) This is the campaign advert from Scottish government starring Elaine C Smith that I’ve mentioned in some press interviews today I rather like it, as it’s plainly factual and informative – but the problem is that we don’t know […]

  This is the website. https://www.betterasone.co.uk/how-it-works/ It’s very sad to see such a poor description and understanding of general practice. The description of ‘how it works’ on the URL I’ve posted features a time line of ‘normal treatment’ for patients after they have seen their GP. It claims that it takes -a week to get a […]

NHS England and their evidence-lite approach to public health messages. BMJ article, here.

Stress and fertility  Study in press http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/03/06/humrep.deu032.full?sid=39d0c973-2053-4dc3-bc95-66d2caab503f Similar 2011 UK study, over 6 months http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028210010319 Impact of self reported stress on conception http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22698634 Review of current state of affairs of stress and unassisted conception http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028211008521?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=ihub&_docanchor=&md5=9ffa87934275edd7180b52f5e973f002 Other impacting factors on saliva measurements of stress hormones http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001502821100584X?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-097X.1996.tb00731.x/abstract;jsessionid=F1BC4C12F5BA456A2A6FAEF1CA1CA2E9.f01t04 Changes in variation alpha amylase http://dare2.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/handle/1871/27571/236896.pdf?sequence=1 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453011000072?via=ihub http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22708722 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23358963 […]

Announcement from Roche http://www.roche.com/media/media_releases/med-cor-2014-03-13.htm Cervical cancer overview http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/keyfacts/cervical-cancer/uk-cervical-cancer-statistics Click to access dh_133346.pdf NHS pilot 2001 Click to access sentinelfinalreport.pdf What the NHS is currently doing – ie using HPV screening along with a smear, or in some areas, as a pilot, as the first test.  http:/www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/cervical/news/016.html/ http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cervical-screening-test/Pages/Introduction.aspx Current pilot http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/2382.aspx?categoryid=118 Click to access hpv-primary-screening-protocol-flowchart.pdf Research […]

Lots of interesting responses,  and mine, here.

SCARLET FEVER http://www.hpa.org.uk/topics/infectiousdiseases/infectionsaz/scarletfever/generalinformationscarletfever/ http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Scarlet-fever/Pages/Introduction.aspx http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/ScarletFever/GeneralInformationScarletFever/ http://cks.nice.org.uk/scarlet-fever#!scenariorecommendation:2 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2271647/?page=2 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2690288 http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/suppl_1/13.abstract http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/suppl_1/13.abstract   HYPERTENSION IN ELDERLY PEOPLE http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21852597 http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13561/56008/56008.pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000028.pub2/pdf/standard   http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1832192   http://press.psprings.co.uk/ebm/february/ebm101646.pdf   http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1832197   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23612794   http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/5/592.full   http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/12/02/eurheartj.eht464.full?hwoaspck=true   http://www.hyvet.com