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 […]

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

free link to editorial in the student BMJ here apr-sbmj-9

free link to pdf here Perils of overdiagnosis (2)

Free link to Head to Head debate in BMJ 

  Short analysis of the paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0058247 Basically: their definition of placebo is quite amazingly different from what is used elsewhere. Placebos are commonly thought of as a sugar pill or chalk tablet – a biologically inert substance which cannot directly treat the disorder it is offered for. This paper decided that these were ‘pure placebos’ and that lots […]

Free link to BMJ article here and with a correction; the app from Skin Analytics don’t compare moles to an online database but track changes in the moles over time.  Mea culpa.  

  http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2012.301094?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed&   http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/483 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03763.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00504.x/full#b1 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8489.2007.00365.x/pdf http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1081/JA-100108433?journalCode=sum http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.91.3.375 http://www.camh.ca/en/research/news_and_publications/reports_and_books/Documents/Canada%20-%20Minimum%20Pricing%20Report.pdf http://www.shef.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.95617!/file/PartA.pdf http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/4/451.long?hwoaspck=true http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/4/457.full?ijkey=861985b7afca475358c9ffc2544b8144f7b406c2&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01715.x/pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00504.x/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02438.x/full http://www.jsad.com/jsad/article/The_Primary_Prevention_of_Alcohol_Problems_A_Critical_Review_of_the_Resear/3871.html http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02438.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02721.x/full http://www.shef.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.95617!/file/PartA.pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02721.x/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01715.x/pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22168350 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22136104 http://link.springer.com/article/10.2165%2F11594840-000000000-00000 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21134019 Click to access ZhaoStockwell2013.pdf   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338629 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61462-6/fulltext http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2009.186007 http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1063?view=long&pmid=21349812 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067361060058X

here’s a link to the programme   History of resistance http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901661/ Indications for antibiotics http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/38/1/112.long Attitudes towards antibiotics http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/60/suppl_1/i63 CMO’s Lancet comment Click to access S0140673613606042.pdf Internet prescribing http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1392490 European prescribing /OTC use http://www.sante.gouv.fr/dossiers/antibiotiques/Pres_Monnet.pdf http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/48/10/1345.full Trends in prescribing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nihttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15454595 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15454595 www.npc.nhs.uk/qipp/resources/antibiotics_prescribing_keyslides.ppt NICE guidelines http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/CG69FullGuideline.pdf evidence for prescribing http://press.thelancet.com/LRTI.pdf www.thennt.org http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1503

free link to BMJ article here