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Gout: Mind the (evidence) Gap
Dr Rob Walker
20th October 2022
Guidelines. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, we know they are an important tool to help us manage the massive range of problems we see in General Practice. As GPs we can’t know the ins and outs of the evidence base...
Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain - New name, new evidence?
Dr Rob Walker
13th October 2022
Bob has just turned 47, and by his own admission is an impatient man. He is getting some pain again in his shoulder which is affecting his weekend games of tennis, so has booked to see you so he can get...
SGLT2 inhibitors for Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Dr Nick Jones
6th October 2022
The rise and rise of the SGLT2 inhibitors over the past few years has been so jaw-dropping that a recent editorial in the European Heart Journal even compared their development to that of ‘aspirin, penicillin,...
Panic disorder – do the drugs work?
Dr Simon Curtis
29th September 2022
Mike is on the phone. He has suffered from panic attacks all his life, but over the last few months they have become much more common. They are recurrent, can be unexpected and the fear that they will...
Hot Topics GP Update Autumn Preview 2022
Dr Simon Curtis
15th September 2022
Have you been too busy this year to keep up with the journals and guidelines? Do you want to practise up to date, evidence-based medicine? Do you want to be inspired thinking about the interface of patient...
A bit more Muscle to the debate on statin side effects
Dr Rob Walker
8th September 2022
Much like the grey figure of John Major from Spitting Image, the topic of muscle side effects and statins may seem both inherently boring and very ‘old news’. So when I was forwarded the latest Lancet...