Edward Picot’s blog (incorporating Dr Hairy)

• Added a couple of links on the left-hand side.
• Installed a new theme.
• My links had disappeared!
• Looked at how to edit the theme. Didn’t understand.
• Uninstalled the theme again. At least my links reappeared.

The other thing I’ve done today is install this blog. Immediately ran into the problem that it wants me to use an app called ‘Clef’ to log in, which requires me to have a mobile phone that can run apps, which I haven’t got. Bloody technology. Never mind, it doesn’t seem to be compulsory.

Just uploaded the December batch of Dr Hairy’s Research Summaries – here’s the list of articles summarised this month:

Discontinuing drug treatments
BMJ 2014;349:g7013

Will Tamiflu recommendations change this winter?
BMJ 2014;349:g6742

Identification, assessment, and management of overweight and obesity: summary of updated NICE guidance
BMJ 2014;349:g6608

Fat doctors are patients too
BMJ 2014;349:g6464

Safeguarding children: a challenge to doctors
BMJ 2014;349:g5898

Antibiotic treatment failure in primary care
BMJ 2014;349:g5970

Diagnosing and managing acute heart failure in adults: summary of NICE guidance
BMJ 2014;349:g5695

Thinking about the burden of treatment
BMJ 2014;349:g6680

Quality in primary care
BMJ 2014;349:g6485

Self harm in young people
BMJ 2014;349:g6204

Role of fear in overdiagnosis and overtreatment—an essay by Iona Heath
BMJ 2014;349:g6123