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Exposure to antipsychotics and risk of stroke: self controlled case series study

Objectives To investigate the association between use of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs and incidence of stroke in patients with and without dementia. Madness of modern medicine Philipp Conradi BMJ 2008 337: a1670. [Extract] [Full ...

From IAN J DOUGLAS, LIAM SMEETH, British Medical Journal,  27 Aug 2008

Digital video joins the mainstream

All it takes is a little shift in demand and suppliers start to line up. A tedious format war and a poor choice of titles left even early adopters cold when it came to high-definition movies and a boom in online DVD rental has meant that many movie ...

From IAN DOUGLAS, The Telegraph,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Motorola, Inc.,  Gordon Parks

Earthquake in China, humanity and chatter

Silence inflation is an unfortunate fact of modern life. Where once a minute of solemnly-observed inactivity was considered enough for even the most serious occasions, now two or even three minutes is marked for relatively minor disasters. The quiet is ...

From IAN DOUGLAS, The Telegraph,  29 May 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.

New News

I haven’t been home very much in the last few weeks. My wife blinks and pretends not to know me when I finally get in the door. At least I hope she’s pretending. The reason for this presenteeism is the new publishing system we launched on the section ...

From IAN DOUGLAS, The Telegraph,  1 May 2008

IBM considers move to Macs

Just one of the many reasons to avoid Vista Since the original PC maker sold its hardware business to Lenovo in 2005 they feel less inclined to remain shackled to the Microsoft machine. They've poured millions into Linux already, and now Apple's ...

From IAN DOUGLAS, The Telegraph,  17 Apr 2008
Related Topics: IBM,  Microsoft Corporation,  Steve Ballmer,  Steve Jobs

Water cooler moments dry up

A lot of the articles I've seen on the iPlayer and other on-demand television services bemoan the loss of the 'shared experience' of a nation seeing a particular programme at the same time, perhaps coming in to work or school the next day and talking ...

From IAN DOUGLAS, The Telegraph,  15 Apr 2008

A voice in the Commons

I've received my first tweet from the benches of parliament. It was from Lynne Featherstone, one of the most dedicated blogging MPs and Liberal Democrat member for Hornsey and Wood Green. The life of an MP seems to involve a lot of hanging around ...

From IAN DOUGLAS, The Telegraph,  3 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Lynne Featherstone

Brian Paddick, your Twittering candidate

As Ken Livingstone continues to send me emails about how great he is no matter how many times I ask him not to and Boris Johnson keeps quiet in case his lead decreases, Brian Paddick has taken my advice and embraced Twitter. I asked Mark Pack, the ...

From IAN DOUGLAS, The Telegraph,  1 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Ken Livingstone,  Boris Johnson,  U.S. Republican Party

Keeping the social

Steve Rubel: man of the future I wish it were so simple. The Today programme yesterday morning fed me 10 minutes of the same old debate about blogs vs old media. Are book blogs as valuable as the reviews one might printed on old bits of tree, they ...

From IAN DOUGLAS, The Telegraph,  1 Apr 2008

At home with the Apple TV

Time Capsule: part of the solution, part of the problem I’m very glad I did, it’s an excellent device, and now my shelves of DVDs have been packed off to a box under the stairs. With a flat now groaning with Apple products I’m left feeling that I’ve ...

From IAN DOUGLAS, The Telegraph,  27 Mar 2008

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