medical journals


Hold the front page: porn stars get STIs
Here’s a surprise: rates of sexually-transmitted diseases are high among performers in the adult film industry.

Deaths from alcohol foretold
Six executives from leading drink companies have written to The Times today protesting about a story on alcohol-related deaths.

How honest are researchers?
Scientists from the US are the most prone to dishonesty, claims a new paper (1) in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Fishing for significance
Fish and the oils it contains are supposed to be good for mothers-to-be and their children.

Lancet asked to review controversial birth study
The Lancet’s Ombudsman, Dr Charles Warlow, has ruled that criticisms made here of a WHO stu

The Lancet, WHO and Caesareans: over to the Ombudsman
A formal complaint has been made to The Lancet’s Ombudsman over a paper on the risks of Caesareans that was the subject of a critical analysis by Straight Statistics.

Don’t count the numbers, count the spoons
The bigger a study, the better? That’s an assumption often made. But even studies that knock us out by their sheer size may be wrong.

Trial and error: the perils of the p value
Too many clinical trials produce results that are statistically significant but clinically meaningless, according to two US cardiologists.