Roger Lewis Journalist Profile

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Collaborator Corrected

Jan 8, 2025 | jamanetwork.com | Derek C. Angus |Alison J. Huang |Roger Lewis |Amy P. Abernethy

Collaborator Corrected The Integration of Clinical Trials With the Practice of Medicine Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH; Alison J. Huang, MD, MAS; Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD; Amy P. Abernethy, MD, PhD; Robert M. Califf, MD; Martin Landray, PhD; Nancy Kass, ScD; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS; JAMA Summit on Clinical Trials Participants; Ali B Abbasi; Kaleab Z Abebe; Amy P Abernethy; Stacey J.
Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied by Patrick Cockburn: 4-star review

Oct 19, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Roger Lewis

Free spirit: Journalist Claud Cockburn with his wife Patricia Credit: Hulton Archive Claud Cockburn, a veritable soldier of fortune, was a journalist who waged “a ceaseless campaign against the powerful on behalf of the powerless” – or so says his adoring son, and now biographer, Patrick. The elder Cockburn witnessed Nazi savagery first-hand, and predicted, against the fashion of the time, that the behaviour and mentality of Hitler and Mussolini would make a Second World War inevitable. As he...
ROGER LEWIS: Most of us Boomers are gluttons and boozers but we’re living longer than ever

Oct 8, 2024 | thewest.com.au | Roger Lewis

Last week, to add to my established woes of pancreas and heart trouble, I was told I have something called an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Or anyway, I had to attend a ‘routine’ screening appointment, and after the nurse had poked her ultrasound gadget around my big belly for what seemed like ages, a decision was made (smilingly) to refer me onwards to a vascular consultant.
The Integration of Clinical Trials With the Practice of Medicine

Jun 3, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Derek C. Angus |Alison J. Huang |Roger Lewis

Abstract Importance Optimal health care delivery, both now and in the future, requires a continuous loop of knowledge generation, dissemination, and uptake on how best to provide care, not just determining what interventions work but also how best to ensure they are provided to those who need them. The randomized clinical trial (RCT) is the most rigorous instrument to determine what works in health care.
Hidden Faces by Salvador Dalí review - his novel is a sex-mad snooze

May 10, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Roger Lewis

Alan Titchmarsh, Britt Ekland, Joan Collins, Sharon Osbourne and Lorraine Kelly, among others, have received big advances for them, but was Salvador Dalí, back in 1944, the first to perpetrate a “celebrity novel”? Hidden Faces, the artist’s only novel, is spectacularly bad.
What Does the Proposed Causal Inference Framework for Observational Studies Mean for JAMA and the JAMA Network Journals?

May 9, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Annette Flanagin |Roger Lewis |Christopher C. Muth |Gregory Curfman

The Special Communication “Causal Inferences About the Effects of Interventions From Observational Studies in Medical Journals,” published in this issue of JAMA,1 provides a rationale and framework for considering causal inference from observational studies published by medical journals.
Pariah Genius by Iain Sinclair review - the bitchiest man in Soho

Apr 12, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Roger Lewis

John Deakin, with his “discoloured rodent teeth, bloodshot eyes and aubergine tongue”, was, according to Iain Sinclair, “disliked by those who didn’t know him well, and loathed by those who did”. Deakin, “a foul-mouthed solitary”, was, the jazzman George Melly said, “a vicious little drunk of such inventive malice and implacable bitchiness, it’s surprising he didn’t choke on his own venom”. I find it impossible not to warm to such a person.
Introducing the JAMA Summit

Apr 4, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo |Derek C. Angus |Hannah Park |Roger Lewis

Introducing the JAMA Summit Over the past year, JAMA editors have been developing the concept of the JAMA Summit—forums for catalyzing discussion and action on pressing issues in science, medicine, and public health. Over its more than 140-year history, JAMA has been a leader in publishing on critical issues related to health.
Barbara Comyns by Avril Horner review - why is this great writer so overlooked?

Mar 8, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Roger Lewis

How does an author become accepted? How do fame and acclaim happen? It seems so arbitrary, even nonsensical. If good luck drenches some authors, Barbara Comyns had a lifetime of curses, missed boats and misfortune. Even when she was alive Comyns “fell into obscurity”, laments her biographer Avril Horner. She was, and remains, “a rather marginal figure” who “has not received the attention due to her”.
Dinosaurs ‘drowned in Noah’s Flood’ – so said the Victorian Church

Mar 7, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Roger Lewis

Dinosaurs under arrest: policemen drag a Victorian-era model icthyosaurus from its pond in Crystal Palace Park, for cleaning, 1927 Flying dragons, behemoths, fish-lizards, gryphons, and bats with scaly armour had long been the favourites of romance and heraldry.