british medical journal

The mental decline associated with aging starts as early as 45 — about 15 years sooner than previously thought, according to a ground-breaking new study.

Researchers tested the memory, reasoning, vocabulary and aural and visual comprehension of 7,400 British office workers over the course of a decade.

A bizarre doctor’s visit turned up a 25-year-old pen in the pit of an elderly woman’s stomach – and when it removed, it was still usable.

The 76-year-old woman, whose story was reported in the British Medical Journal Case Reports, was seeing a gastrointestinal specialist for stomach-related problems, including weight loss and diarrhea.

(American College of Radiology) A recent report in the British Medical Journal claims there is no evidence that mammography served a direct role in reducing breast cancer deaths in European countries where screening has been implemented.

The American College of Radiology and the Society of Breast Imaging say these conclusions have little bearing on, or resemblance to, screening in the United States where mammography's life-saving impact is well proven.

Women age 40 and over should continue getting annual mammograms.

(University of Louisville) A team of scientists at the University of Louisville, UCLA and the California Institute of Technology has achieved a significant breakthrough in its initial work with a paralyzed male volunteer at Louisville's Frazier Rehab Institute.

It is the result of 30 years of research to find potential clinical therapies for paralysis. The study is published today (May 19) in the British medical journal The Lancet.

(BMJ-British Medical Journal) People who have a heart attack are likely to be more seriously affected if the attack happens in the morning, reveals research published ahead of print in Heart journal.

McCarthy stands firm on vaccine dangers, despite last week's British Medical Journal article about a discredited study linking childhood shots to the developmental disorder.

It's safe for kids to get their shots. That's the take-away message from medical experts in the wake of a British Medical Journal article about a discredited study linking vaccines and autism.

I am teaching my current students about alternate media, a.k.a. citizen journalism, also known as "blogging", in a course on organizational and social aspects of healthcare informatics.

I am using a (de-identified) personal experience as an example of why alternate media is valuable in getting "inconvenient" memes into circulation.

(University of Western Ontario) People who contract gastroenteritis from drinking water contaminated with E coli are at an increased risk of developing high blood pressure, kidney problems and heart disease in later life according to a long term study by researchers at the University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute.

The findings are published online in the British Medical Journal.

Alcohol is even worse than heroin and crack on the list of "most harmful" drugs, according to a new study published in the British medical journal.