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There’s a lot of interesting chatter around at the moment about pharmaceutical industry funding of Continuing Medical Education (CME) for physicians. Qualified doctors are expected to keep up to date with the latest research and treatments in their field by completing educational activities, which generally take the form of quizzes that participants must complete having [...]
Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine has recently published an interesting review article on clinical trial design – ‘From randomized trials to registry studies: translating data into clinical information‘. This isn’t a guide on how to read a clinical paper – you should have a look at Prof Trisha Greenhalgh‘s book ‘How to read a paper‘ [...]
I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the Olympics this summer. Of course, this is due in no small part to Great Britain’s success, coming fourth in the medal table – the highest for 100 years. As well as being glued to the cycling, I’ve also been fascinated by the medical and science stories this two-week celebration [...]
Pharmaceutical company drug adverts can be so cheesy or so bizarre, hence they lend themselves very well to spoofs and satire. In the wake of the hilarious online drug name generators (Drug-O-Matic, The Prescription Drug Name Generator and The New Drug Generator to name a few), a website to generate an advert for your own [...]
I recently read an interesting paper in The Lancet about birth complications in women who conceive using assisted fertilization, i.e. IVF, compared with complications in women who give birth having conceived normally. Studies generally report a higher risk of complications at birth for babies conceived by IVF than for those conceived naturally. Women who undergo [...]
Hello and welcome to In Sickness and In Health. My name is Helen Jaques and I’m a medical writer and copy editor based in London, UK. My main interest is in clinical medicine, particularly evidence-based medicine and clinical practice. I plan to blog about interesting clinical trials I spot in the primary literature and give [...]