Grupo de Estudio de Enfermedades Cerebrovasculares de la SEN

The ongoing political turmoil in Egypt has allowed organ traffickers to continue to prey on Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers, concludes a new report by the US based charity the Coalition for...

Most clinicians will be familiar with Occam’s razor, a guiding principle that is interpreted as “the simplest explanation is to be preferred.” In relation to medical diagnosis this is taken to mean...

Objective To investigate whether using registrars (doctors undergoing higher specialist training, whose salary is reimbursed) rather than consultants in outpatient clinics saves moneyDesign...

Christmas is a time to count our blessings, reflecting how they came to be. For people living in England this reflection is more relevant than ever, as the coalition government paves the way for the...

In his 2010 BBC television series Wonders of the Solar System, the physicist Brian Cox made a remark that offended some horoscope lovers. “Despite the fact that astrology is a load of rubbish,...

A 36 year old unemployed man with a history of depression and heavy alcohol consumption presented to the local accident and emergency department with injuries to both feet. The previous night he had...

Now almost six years old, Sweden’s Pirate Party has inspired Pirate parties in several European countries, including the UK (www.pirateparty.org.uk/).1 The party gained two of Sweden’s 18 seats in...

Total hip arthroplasty is one of the greatest success stories in modern medicine. Since its inception in the late 1960s, millions have benefited from its ability to relieve pain and improve function,...

People who take part in federally funded research studies need better protection, and trials should be more closely tracked, says a report from a US commission.The Presidential Commission for the...

The economic recession has had no effect on the ability of US citizens to access prescription drugs, show the results of a new survey from the independent Center for Studying Health System Change in...

bmj;343/dec19_2/d6731/FIG1F1fig1Duncan SmithI have been a GP appraiser for more than 10 years now. Appraisees have to deliver their folders to the appraiser’s surgery. During this time, the packaging...

bmj;343/dec19_2/d7369/FIG1F1fig1Duncan SmithThe first dead person I saw was in 1956 on entering the dissecting room at Bristol Medical School. After the initial distaste was overcome, delicately...

“There has been murder done, and the murderer was . . . more than six feet high”1In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr John Watson find themselves at...

A 33 year old woman presented with an intensely itchy, erythematous, blistering eruption bilaterally on the distal upper and lower limbs a week after coming back from a holiday in India. The rash was...

Objective To investigate the use of a novel study design in analysis of bilateral elbow pain.Design N of 1, two contemporary arm, open label, randomised controlled clinical trial.Setting A clinical...

Regarding his innate temperA clear conscience,Desire to learn and to gather experience,A gentle heart and a cheerful spirit,Moral manner of life and sobriety in all things,Greater regard for his...

Doctors in Scotland are to be given a greater role in developing services for elderly people under plans to improve the integration of adult health and social care services.Legislation is to be...

bmj;343/dec19_1/d7451/FIG1F1fig1While conducting a postnatal ward round we found this notice fixed to the doors of every bay.In 2005 the Department of Health for England published the document...

A patient attended for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for assessment of possible cardiomyopathy. She had been shown to have left ventricular hypertrophy on transthoracic echocardiography. A cine...

In the preface to his 1794 treatise Zoonomia—perhaps the first book in English to present concepts from which modern evolutionary thought eventually arose—Erasmus Darwin, scientist and grandfather of...