Category Archives: Not neonatology

The break in my posts was partly due to a vacation in Hawaii, where I was fortunate to have some time to go birding, and take some photographs of birds from a group that has a remarkable evolutionary history, but … Continue reading →

Most of my readers probably don’t know that for a few years I have been struggling to learn Classical Guitar. One of my inspirations is Julian Bream, who was fundamental in the UK in the recognition of the guitar as … Continue reading →

I started this blog a few years ago as a replacement for my practice of sending an occasional email to local fellows and colleagues whenever I found an article particularly interesting or important. At the time I was thinking that … Continue reading →

I have just returned from summer vacation, we were very fortunate with the weather and with the wildlife viewing. I have put 2 new pages up of my photos under the “Photos” item on the menu at the top of … Continue reading →

Ahn R, et al. Financial ties of principal investigators and randomized controlled trial outcomes: cross sectional study. BMJ. 2017;356. Not neonatology but a study of how principal investigators’ financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry are associated with outcomes of controlled … Continue reading →

I’m sure most of us don’t think that the little trinkets (pens and notepads and such) or a few slices of pizza that we might receive from a drug company affects what we prescribe for our patients. We would be … Continue reading →

Some of us may have heard of the problems with the data concerning SSRIs (a commonly used class of antidepressants) and, in particular, young people. It appears that drug companies hid and distorted data from controlled trials, in order to … Continue reading →

After our time in the geothermally active centre of the north island of New Zealand, we have now changed island. Queenstown is on the shore of Lake Wakatipu, we were there for new years eve and fireworks over the lake, … Continue reading →

We ended week 2 and had a warm Christmas in Rorotua, then moved on to Tongariro national park. The plan was to cross the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, which we have long time thought would be one of the highlights of … Continue reading →

The rain slowed down towards the end of our week in Auckland, and then we headed north for a stay in Paihia. Paihia is the main town on the Bay of Islands, one of the places where Captain Cook made … Continue reading →