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• Gobble-o-meter helps fight against child obesity study

  
  Euronews 24 | Latest News — Authority: 183
  PARIS (AFP) A new device aimed at discouraging eaters from bolting their food is a useful tool in combatting childhood obesity, according to a study published online on Wednesday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).Doctors carried out an 18-month assessment of a small computer-linked scale called a Mandometer, which ...
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• Sozzled Santa

  
  nickhereandnow — Authority: 116
  Its the end of the road for Santa. Retirement beckons. Hes been condemned as a shockingly unhealthy role model for children, encouraging all the worst possible lifestyle habits. Dr Nathan Grills, an Australian public health doctor, has accused him of obesity, drink-driving, speeding, lack of exercise and spreading ...
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• Obesity Increases Death from Heart Disease by 82%

  
  Get Fit and Lose Weight in 2009 — Authority: 116
  Recent research published in the British Medical Journal and carried out by scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has shown than obesity is more dangerous to health than previously realized. The study looked at a million families and analysed the health and weight of the father and sons. The results ...
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• High-blood-pressure treatment ‘too aggressive’ for people over 80

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  London, Dec 23 (ANI): An expert has cautioned that high blood pressure treatment for people over 80 years is too aggressive.Dr James Wright has said that the latest evidence suggests that less aggressive drug therapy may be more effective at reducing mortality in this age group. Based on this evidence, he suggests ...
  2 weeks ago

• New study sharpens focus on problems of obesity

  
  Euronews 24 | Latest News — Authority: 183
  PARIS (AFP) Cardiovascular disease linked to obesity may be worse than thought while health problems associated with being underweight may have been overstated, according to a study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Wednesday.The paper, written by doctors in Britain and Sweden, seeks to finetune a ...
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• Obesity more deadly than previously thought

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Being overweight is more deadly than previous thought as scientists discover increasing bodyweight increases the risk of dying from heart disease almost two-fold.
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• Brit-Asian men and Alcohol abuse

  
  DESIblitz — Authority: 115
  Alcohol use and alcoholism is on the rise in South Asian populations. Alcohol related harm in Asians is costing the NHS and Social Services too much. For every 100 white men dying from alcohol related causes there are 160 Asian men dying. These are some of the facts published in a report [...] [Read the rest on ...
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• Now Reading: “Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained psychological distress is probably unfounded”

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 472
  McLaren P. The right to know. [Internet]. BMJ 1991;303(6808):937-938. Shenkin BN, Warner DC. Sounding board. Giving the patient his medical record: a proposal to improve the system [Internet]. N. Engl. J. Med 1973 Sep;289(13):688-692 I’m not that smart and my ideas are not that unique. This is why I ...
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• Do Medical Editors Discriminate Against Poor Authors?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 125
  Do medical editors have different quality standards based on the authors geographic location?
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• BMJ runner-up in correction of the year awards

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 541
  The British Medical Journal has come runner-up in the Corrections of the Year named by US website Regret the Error , which chronicles media mistakes, for changing "pisshouse" to "pub" in an authors copy. The correction ran: "During the editing of this Review of the Week by Richard Smith the author’s term ...
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• Should hospitals ban flowers?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Bans on patients having bedside bouquets in hospital wards are more about convenience to staff than risk to patients, and ignore evidence that plants and flowers have a positive effect on patients recovery. Thats the conclusion of a study about hospital staffs attitudes, and a review of the evidence, about cut flowers ...
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• Instruction, Information Seeking Behaviors, Clinical Evidence: Teaching with EBM Databases

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 418
  This has been a busy month. The final first-year PBL class will be wrapping up, as the semester will be over on Friday, Dec 18 2009. On Monday, I taught an evidence-based medicine class for 28 third-year medical students, which I’ve been doing since 2001.  It is part of a week-long curriculum that all ...
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• Nonsense alternative medicines should not be regulated

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Some alternative medicines are "nonsense" and Government regulation will give them a legitimacy they do not deserve, a senior scientist has claimed.
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• BMJ wants raw data for all drug trials to be shared

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 136
  Under the headline “We want raw data, now,” BMJ editor Fiona Godlee recounts the story of how BMJ had to pressure a drug company into releasing full study reports verifying their claims as to the effectiveness of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) . Tamiflu. Photo by Richard Sunderland via Flickr. Godlee says that ...
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• Does tea and coffee dilute diabetes risk?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Your daily coffee habit may be healthier than you think. People who drink three to four cups of coffee a day have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study reports. The researchers also found similar results for devotees of tea and decaffeinated coffee. But they caution that its too soon to say whether ...
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• International Society for Medical Publication Professionals – Good Publication Practices Guidelines Released

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 128
  The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) recently published a revised Good Publication Practice document known as “ GPP2 ,” which was developed in a Steering Committee, and independently peer reviewed and published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ). The goal of GPP2 ...
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• Tamiflu: US$3b spent – but does it really work?

  
  anilnetto.com — Authority: 128
  This is something that I have been wondering about for a while now: why do so many people believe everything that Big Pharma tells them without conclusive evidence? One would have thought that they would want to see rigorous testing before spending big bucks for some miracle drug or the other? Why have governments ...
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• Swine flu less lethal than expected

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 441
  The UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has reported that the swine flu epidemic is less lethal than first anticipated, causing the death of 26 out of every 100,000 people – just 0.026% – who contract the virus. Statistically, swine flu compares favourably in terms of mortality when compared to ...
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• H1N1 drug Tamiflu effectiveness questioned

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  London, Dec 12 (ANI): The medical journal BMJ (British Medical Journal) has claimed that anti-viral drugs, such as Tamiflu, may be ineffective against influenza viruses, including the H1N1 swine flu virus, when taken by otherwise healthy people.The prestigious journal has, in a series of articles, said that the Swiss ...
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• Roches’ Tamiflu May Not Be So Useful, After All

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 539
  How so? The antiviral may not prevent complications from influenza in healthy adults, according to a review by an independent research group that reversed its previous findings that Tamiflu defended against and other deadly conditions linked to the disease. An analysis of 20 studies by the Cochrane Collaboration ...
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