have you been invited to a swanky dinner by pharma offering to educate you?   do you have pharma branded tat in your office, handbag, pocket or toilet?   If so, we would like to collate them. Tweet me @mgtmccartney or @PeterDLROW and we will add to the Pinterest board.   http://pinterest.com/peterjgordon/pharmaceutical-sponsored-medical-education/

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  (delete as necessary)   Today it is revealed that GPs are failing /getting worse at dementia detection/sending patients to A+E/offering health checks/objecting to telehealth. This is important because we need to have an external locus of blame/policy to support the technology industry/policy to support the pharmaceutical industry/policy popular with people also fit enough and […]

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

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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BMJ article here http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2830

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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/