Behind the Headlines Top Five of Top Fives 2014

As we move towards the end of the year, like all news sources, we fall back on that classic space filler – the list story. So without further ado, here is the official Behind the Headlines Top Five of Top Fives stories of 2014, in which we celebrate the good, highlight the bad, check out the weird and answer some of the burning questions of the year. The top five 'Good work boffins!' stories of the year We can often get bogged down in pointing out dodgy sub-group analyses, spurious extrapolations of sample sizes containing just 20 rats and a water maze, and RCTs pointing out the benefits of cherries on dementia prevention that turned out to be funded by Big Cherry. So it's important not to lose sight of the fact that there are many hardworking researchers, producing invaluable, often lifesaving, work, framed in the best traditions of evidence-based medicine, which can make the world a better place. Here’s our top five of the year: New weapon found in the war against superbugs The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to public health. If it continues to develop we could end up living in a world similar to the pre-antibiotic era. What we now consider to be mild infections could spiral out of control and routine surgery would be fraught with danger. That is why the news in June of the discovery of a new technique to fight bacteria was welcomed. UK researchers have invented a technique to pierce the outer membranes of bacteria, which kills it....
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