Ethics of Obesity Trials

JAMA Network | JAMA | Effect of Weight Reduction and Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Management on Symptom Burden and Severity in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Good randomised trials in medicine are like good wines - rare and their published account should be savoured slowly and carefully - there are nuggets of useful information that may not feature in the headline statements.

Artificial Hearts & Bionic Pensioners

My MD thesis was on xenotransplantation  - that is the transplantation of organs or tissues from one species to another. Being a cardiac surgeon, my main interest was heart transplantation and as donor numbers continue to fall, an alternative source of hearts had to be found.