New Eng J Med Vol 350
2362 The American medical press is deeply worried about the epidemic of obesity in children, with good reason: the ‘metabolic syndrome’, which is used to describe obesity, insulin resistance and hypertension in middle-aged adults is now increasingly seen in teenagers, some of whom show an almost limitless capacity for eating fast food (see JAMA: 2828).
2558 Being male puts you at reduced risk of getting venous thromboembolism, but at 3.6 times higher risk of recurrence compared with women.
2582 Palliative care for patients with non-cancer diagnoses can be very challenging, as shown by this excellent discussion of a man dying from heart failure with Alzheimer's and osteoarthritis.
2663 The wart treatment we have been waiting for: alpha-lactalbumin-oleic acid kills the papilloma virus while leaving healthy skin intact.
Lancet Vol 363
1840 ‘They don't like it up 'em!’ — Corporal Jones was quite right. Men facing transrectal …