Keep taking the medicine?

Don't keep taking the tablets?

The world’s rich nations have doubled their use of antidepressants in the past 10 years, according to the OECD’s annual health report (doi:10.1136/bmj.f7261). Based on estimates of the number of people receiving the average daily maintenance dose for major depression, Iceland has the highest consumption and Korea the lowest. The UK comes in somewhere in the middle. The report says the rise is d...

How important is it to keep taking the aspirin?

Those with cardiovascular disease or cerebrovascular disease who are prescribed low-dose aspirin to reduce the risk of a further thrombotic event are advised to take the aspirin for the rest of their lives (1). But do they do so? And if not, why not? And if they do discontinue, what are the disadvantages concerning further cardiovascular events? And what are the advantages regarding reduced sid...

Sports medicine in Wonderland? Keep on running

Br J Sports Med October 2011 Vol 45 No 13 1014 for a crusade and founded itself at a round table. After some sticky situations with hungry tendinopathic trolls and heavy smoking hyperlipidaemic goblins, it has grown into a proud, strong and healthy association. Presently, over 120 active clog-wearing knights of sports medical physicians are enrolled. In recent years, our annual meetings took pl...

The Keep it Simple Guide to Evidence - Based Medicine

Taking the Enemy as Medicine: Dialectic and Therapy in the Work of Two Early Indian Doxographers

This article discusses the function of dialectic in religious history, focusing on the works of two major sixth century Indian intellectuals and doxographers Bhāviveka and Haribhadra Sūri, who belonged to the competing Madhyamaka Buddhist and Jaina traditions respectively. The article studies how these two figures used medical metaphors for their dialectic purposes.