Drug treatment to reduce cholesterol to new target levels is now recommended in four moderate- to high-risk patient populations: patients who have already sustained a cardiovascular event, adult ...

New government legislation is necessary to ensure full transparency of industry payments in the UK’s healthcare. A first step ...

Correspondence to Dr Kerry Dwan, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK; Kerry.dwan{at}york.ac.uk A systematic review identifies, appraises and synthesises all the ...

A network meta-analysis combines the evidence from existing randomised trials about the comparative efficacy of multiple treatments. It allows direct and indirect evidence about each comparison to be ...

Correspondence to Dr David Nunan, Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; david.nunan{at}phc.ox.ac.uk Shaping the who, what, when and how for the teaching of ...

Correspondence to Dr Preeti Malik, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; pmalik.ma{at}gmail.com Objective To evaluate association between biomarkers and outcomes in ...

Correspondence to Victoria Charlton, Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK; victoria.charlton{at}kcl.ac.uk In 2004, former BMJ editor Richard Smith described ...

Objective To determine, for people seeking a date online, what activities and behaviours have an effect on the chances of converting electronic communication into a face-to-face meeting. Methods ...

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Objectives To quantify the proportion of melanoma diagnoses (invasive and in situ) in the USA that might be overdiagnosed. Design In this ecological study, incidence and mortality data were collected ...