Thursday, 17 July 2014

The man who discovered hay fever

An article on the BBC website that talks about John Bostock and the discover of hay fever as a condition.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28038630

Reduction in tonsillecties and evidence based medicine

What the reduction in tonsillectomies teaches us about medicine.

This is an interesting article in the New York Times that looks at the issue of evidence based practice in medicine and relates it to tonsillectomy surgey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/upshot/what-the-reduction-in-tonsillectomies-teaches-us-about-medicine.html?_r=0