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2 weeks ago | 
wsj.com | Tom Nolan
Plus ‘Big Bad Wool’ by Leonie Swann and ‘The Butcher’s Daughter’ by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark.
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4 weeks ago | 
wsj.com | Tom Nolan
“Crime-solving was not as difficult as people think.” Such are the musings of Auguste Bell, the consulting detective summoned to solve the country-house mystery in Irish author Louise Hegarty’s entertainingly avant-garde “Fair Play” (Harper, 288 pages, $28.99). His method is “to be patient and to allow the revelations to find him.” Auguste presents as a traditional investigator in the manner of Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot.
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4 weeks ago | 
bmj.com | Tom Nolan
Tom Nolan, clinical editor; sessional GP, SurreyThe BMJ, LondonTom Nolan reviews this week’s researchFluid restriction and heart failureIt wasn’t long ago that we’d routinely. advise people with heart failure and fluid overload to restrict their fluid intake. Nowadays, restriction advice is restricted to only a few, such as those with dilutional hyponatraemia. A new multicentre, open-label trial supports this approach.
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1 month ago | 
crimereads.com | Tom Nolan
Jonathan Ames was born in 1964 and raised in New Jersey by a traveling-salesman father and a schoolteacher mother. He was educated at Princeton and at Columbia, where his writing teachers included Joyce Carol Oates and Paul Auster. His senior thesis became his first published novel, which bore a blurb from Philip Roth.
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Tom Nolan, clinical editor; sessional GP, SurreyThe BMJ, LondonTom Nolan reviews this week’s researchVitamin D shines in treatment for early multiple sclerosisThere are so many studies published about vitamin D—about a dozen each day—it’s hard to keep up. One that stands out is a double-blind randomised controlled trial of high dose vitamin D in people with early signs of multiple sclerosis.
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1 month ago | 
wsj.com | Tom Nolan
Juan Gómez-Jurado’s thrillers “Red Queen” and “Black Wolf”—published in Spain in 2018-19 and subsequently translated into English—introduced readers around the world to the Red Queen project: an undercover, Europe-wide operation led by Spain’s national police. With “White King,” Mr. Gómez-Jurado offers the culmination of a series that echoes the adventures of fictional heroes such as James Bond, Harry Hole, Lisbeth Salander and Sherlock Holmes.
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2 months ago | 
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Tom Nolan, clinical editor; sessional GP, SurreyThe BMJ, LondonTom Nolan reviews this week’s researchA sure betMost football-obsessed children in the UK could probably name you half a dozen gambling websites, thanks to various sponsorship deals and the constant deluge of adverts that accompany any live football on television. In the US, sportsbooks—as sports gambling bookies are known—were banned in most states until 2018.
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2 months ago | 
bmj.com | Tom Nolan
Tom Nolan, clinical editor; sessional GP, SurreyThe BMJ, LondonTom Nolan reviews this week’s researchPlastic peopleMicroplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) are being found just about everywhere we look, and they have now been found in our brains. A report in Nature Medicine describes their appearance as “shards or flakes,” neither of which I really want to imagine being deposited around my grey matter.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
wsj.com | Tom Nolan
Few crime-fiction authors are as skilled as Thomas Perry at keeping readers off balance and in suspense. Mr. Perry’s “Pro Bono,” a cutthroat caper of embezzlement and revenge, repeatedly shifts direction as its unpredictable plot unfolds. Pro Bono Mysterious Press 360 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million Bookshop The story starts in 2007.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
bmj.com | Tom Nolan
Tom Nolan, clinical editor; sessional GP, SurreyThe BMJ, LondonTom Nolan reviews this week’s researchInfrequent zoledronate to prevent vertebral fractures“Small individual gain, larger population gain” sounds like the theme for a preventive medicine conference. It’s actually the headline of an editorial about a new trial of zolendronate for fracture prevention. The study recruited women aged 50-60 years who had a bone mineral density T score of between−2.5 and 0.
