The media went crazy for a recent research paper that showed some benefit in long term antibiotic use for some patients with back pain. But was this science or sensationalism, is talk of a Nobel prize premature, and what of the author’s potential conflicts of interest? Margaret McCartney investigates Free link here
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Prove it!-2 This was accompanied by an early edition of Dr Spock, a jar of blackeyed peas to demonstrate absolute and relative risks, and a bag of chocolate. It was great fun. This talk was given to primary 6s. They were especially interested in placebos and nocebos. Will do more on this next time. Spelling […]
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Continue Reading →The clinics that offer single measles vaccination (at least £100, and unlicensed)
BMJ article here http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2830
Continue Reading →References for Inside Health 22/4/13 – Drug Holidays
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7192805 http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/suppl_A/21.full.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22388646 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21784628 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20684886 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19772246 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18483689 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1552-4604.1986.tb02969.x/abstract http://www.neurology.org/content/30/12/1257.short http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/10984/30088/30088.pdf http://www.neurology.org/content/66/12/E43.full http://www.neurology.org/content/66/12/E43.full http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13901/60854/60854.pdf http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1671720 http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleID=1671715 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2849981/ http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1183454 http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a2286?ijkey=pZoJcnBxda0Ow&keytype=ref
Continue Reading →Measles and the MMR in the BMJ
Medicine in the Media, free link here
High intensity training – Inside Health 16/4/13
Listen again http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rvpq5 References I used http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23539308 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582015/ http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241599979_eng.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582015/#R1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20040880 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673611607496 http://jp.physoc.org/content/590/5/1077.long http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002914905001888 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20195181 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467903 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6823/9/3/abstract/
Continue Reading →Measles on Inside health – references
Inside Health tonight – measles. The references I’ve used are below. Just over 80% of children in London have had two MMR vaccines by age 5. We need 95% coverage to prevent outbreaks. Many other areas in England are at similar perilous levels. Lots of people were misled by the MMR scare. There is no […]
Continue Reading →Price Waterhouse Coopers report on technology was expensive and is flawed
This report from Price Waterhouse Coopers was produced for the DoH in January. It was greeted with all kinds of publicity around the claim that technology could save the NHS billions. One line in the report caught my eye a couple of months ago which I knew was wrong – it, together with reference 3.1 […]
Continue Reading →Fast diet references
Inside Health 2/4/13 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019dl1b http://www.abstracts2view.com/sabcs11/viewp.php?nu=P3-09-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3017674/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23171320 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9538962 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22735163 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2011.00873.x/full http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/yjada/article/S0002-8223(95)00155-7/abstract
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