As health care professionals we all have a responsibility to help curate and deliver the most accurate information and help define the ‘truth that lasts” – we should not take this responsibility lightly
Casenote Bedside Ultrasound
December 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Initial trials with ‘Patient Hair Analysis – Qualitative, Objective or Facile Folly?’ (the PHAQ-OFF trial), although with initially promising results, did not yield a suitably discriminative outcome for widespread use and remains a research tool only.
Jeans for Genes day Competition
July 19, 2011 By 6 Comments
Try your hand at the Jeans for Genes Double-helix tongue twister challenge. Use your literary skills to come up with a novel, witty, poignant or just plain ordinary limerick or tongue twister using theme of Jeans and Genes and be a WINNER
UCEM Selectively Research Rival Research Institute
February 15, 2011 By 5 Comments
The UCEM has today received leaked information that Wakefield is set to open his own research institute to collect evidence that supports his assumptions.
The Wisdom of Crowd Review
January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Almost immediately after finishing ‘Time to publish then filter?’ – a post that highlighted a recent editorial in the BMJ outlining the need for an effective system of post-publication peer review — I came across this in the Annals of Emergency Medicine: Millard WB. The Wisdom of Crowds, the Madness of Crowds: Rethinking Peer Review [...]
Time to publish then filter?
January 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
An editorial in the BMJ by Schriger and Altman highlights the failings of the peer review process and the need for effective post-publication peer review.
Journals go Christmas Crazy
December 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It is tradition for doctors to descend into a state of inane infatuation with esoteric in-jokes, trifling trivia and medical mockery as seasonal silliness reaches its Christmas crescendo. Nowhere is this more evident than the annual hospital Christmas Quiz, an institution perpetuated throughout the anglocentric medical world, or the ‘Christmas issues’ of the British Medical Journal and the Medical Journal of Australia.
Chicken or the Egg?
July 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Despite millennia of extensive research, evidential debate and philosophical procrastination the answer to this riddle still remains a mystery…or does it?
Kokoda Medicine
June 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dr Sean Rothwell and Dr David Rosengren led a research expedition to investigate the prevalence of exercise-associated hyponatraemia (EAH) on the Kokoda Trail – Tracking a killer (Kokoda’s Medical Mystery)
Chocolate saves lives
May 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A recent study in the European Heart Journal gives us a new reason to enjoy some of life’s little pleasures. German researchers followed almost 20,000 participants (as part of a larger cancer epidemiology study) over 10 years and had them document their chocolate intake.
