Was that My Doctor?

"Doctor, my thumb hurts".

How should you treat these common causes of nontraumatic thumb pain? Use this evidence-based review as a clinical decision-making guide.

Elementary, my dear Doctor Watson.

Many readers will recognize these as the first words ever transmitted by telephone. The Watson on the other end of the line was Thomas A. Watson, Bell’s assistant. Over a century later, we may soon be hearing these words again, this time at the hospital. But this time the Watson on the other end may not be a person but a machine: IBM’s Watson, a state-of-the-art computer system capable of answe...

How my genome was hacked

That was the week that was.

As the Royal College of Nursing Congress drew to a close in Harrogate members were in no doubt their national pay campaign had gathered momentum. It was no longer just about a 3 per cent pay rise for every nurse in the country, but about the future of the NHS itself.

2012 -- That was the year that was.

Geriatric medicine has an encyclopaedic sweep, reflecting the complexity of both the ageing process and of our patient group. Keeping up with, and making sense of, the relevant scientific literature is challenging, especially as ageing has increased in prominence as a focus of research across many branches of the sciences and the humanities. This review of research published in 2012 in generali...