The recent recommendations from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) to lower the thresholds for defining hypertension and for treating higher-risk patients have been controversial. Changing…
Read this piece in The New York Times on the proliferation of long-term antidepressant use and the challenges of discontinuation. And you can watch Allen Frances argue that when people face "mild,…
Doctors' conflicts of interests are not being reported by NHS hospitals, undermining public trust. Read research in the BMJ Open that sought to document how the NHS records and shares disclosures…
Read this three part series on low back pain in The Lancet. Led by Rachelle Buchbinder, these papers address the issues around low back pain and call for worldwide recognition of…
Read James McCormack's BMJ editorial on a recent meta-analysis of the effectiveness of antidepressants. What is the clinical relevance of the meta-analysis and how should these findings inform practice?
The Too Much Medicine Symposium and the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference have teamed up to bring you an interesting and informative week of speakers on this important topic, against the beautiful…
The largest-ever prostate cancer screening trial was published this week in JAMA, and showed that there was no effect of a low-intensity PSA screening test on cancer mortality over 10…
A new study published in the BMJ showed that around half of women in a new study who were identified with “moderate” lesions on their cervix saw them clear up naturally,…
Meet Slippy, the mascot for the #TMM symposium . We asked Malcolm Willett, the legendary BMJ cartoonist and illustrator, to tell the story behind the creation of this funny-looking snake:…
Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin discuss the role of Restasis in treating chronic dry eye disease in JAMA Internal Medicine. See the news story in the BMJ here.