is in the BMJ here

  From here, since my self-created recording is so bad.   Last week, Georgia Gale Grant argued that, rather than praying for the recovery of Fabrice Muamba, it would be better, for humanists, sceptics and aethists,  if aged between ‘14 and 35’ to ‘ get regular ECGs to make sure you’re not at any known risk […]

  Here are some of the references used in Women’s Hour today. There was not enough time to discuss the stats properly. What is crucial is the fact that there is a lot of guess work – there has (shockingly) never been a proper RCT of cervical screening in normal risk women. So all estimates […]

            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 […]

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  

Free link to BMJ article   sorry, it’s here!

  There are three papers today in the Lancet about aspirin. I’m going to ignore the two papers about the effect on cancer metastasis, just now, and concentrate on the third, which is titled Short-term effects of daily aspirin on cancer incidence, mortality, and non-vascular death: analysis of the time course of risks and benefits […]

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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