Big Friendly Gates On 28 April the NEJM published the interim results of a trial of Prefusion F Protein–Based Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization in Pregnancy. This paper contains evidence of a neonatal jaundice hazard in the babies whose mothers had been immunised – but you’d never guess it from the way the paper is written. […]

This post follows on from If You Wake at Midnight. Military Medicine When the history of modern medicine is laid out – See Shipwreck of the Singular – it is clear that, from Napoleon onwards, the military have been the greatest influence on its development. In Wars before 1900, more soldiers died from disease than […]