Tom Nolan

Los Angeles, United States

Contributing Writer and Book Reviewer at The Wall Street Journal

Writer at Freelance

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A brief history of discharge summaries . . . and other research

1 week ago | bmj.com | Tom Nolan

Tom Nolan, clinical editor; sessional GP, SurreyThe BMJ, LondonTom Nolan reviews this week’s researchHearing aids to reduce lonelinessGiving a hearing aid to people with untreated hearing loss helps them retain one additional person in their social network over a three year period. This catchy finding from a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE study seems ripe for being widely cited as evidence that we can make a big difference to patients’ lives by getting the basics right.
Mysteries: ‘Marble Hall Murders’ by Anthony Horowitz

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Tom Nolan

Plus ‘Nightshade’ by Michael Connelly and ‘The Doorman’ by Chris Pavone. Fans of the inventive English author Anthony Horowitz have reason to celebrate the arrival of “Marble Hall Murders,” the third entry in a terrific series started in 2016. This book, like the earlier two, is partly narrated by Susan Ryeland, a London editor who had coaxed the crime writer Alan Conway—a bitter, malicious man who was eventually murdered—through a popular series of detective novels set in the 1950s.
Metformin for knee osteoarthritis … and other research

3 weeks ago | bmj.com | Tom Nolan

Tom Nolan, clinical editor; sessional GP, SurreyThe BMJ, LondonTom Nolan reviews this week’s researchLorundrostat for uncontrolled hypertensionThere’s certainly a gap in the market for an effective third or fourth line antihypertensive.
Mysteries: ‘The Poet’s Game’ by Paul Vidich

1 month ago | wsj.com | Tom Nolan

Plus ‘Big Bad Wool’ by Leonie Swann and ‘The Butcher’s Daughter’ by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark.
Mysteries: Louise Hegarty’s ‘Fair Play’

1 month 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.
Fluid intake and heart failure … and other research

1 month 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.
Jonathan Ames on Macdonald, Westlake, and Bringing a Touch of Buddhism to the Private Eye Novel

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.
Vitamin D for multiple sclerosis … and other research

2 months ago | bmj.com | Tom Nolan

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.
Mysteries: ‘White King’ by Juan Gómez-Jurado

2 months 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.
Gambling addiction and adverts … and other research

Mar 6, 2025 | bmj.com | Tom Nolan

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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