106 articles published in the last seven days

Editor's Choice

Secrecy does not serve us well

BMJ 2013;346:f3819 (Published 12 June 2013)

Research

News

Hospital trust cut energy bill by £100 000 by switching off lights and closing doors

BMJ 2013;346:f3944 (Published 18 June 2013)

Dutch doctors get guidance on care of terminally ill newborn babies

BMJ 2013;346:f3948 (Published 18 June 2013)

UK regulators deny claims that their access to oseltamivir trial data was insufficient

BMJ 2013;346:f3966 (Published 18 June 2013)

Obesity, smoking, and acid reflux are behind doubling in incidence of oesophageal cancer

BMJ 2013;346:f3959 (Published 18 June 2013)

Poor urban planning is contributing to rising cardiovascular disease in India, study concludes

BMJ 2013;346:f3946 (Published 18 June 2013)

First reviews are published that are based on the “totality of the evidence”

BMJ 2013;346:f3909 (Published 17 June 2013)

Pressure mounts for companies to hand over data on antidiabetes drugs linked to pancreatic harm

BMJ 2013;346:f3900 (Published 17 June 2013)

Screening with acetic acid could prevent 22 000 deaths from cervical cancer in India every year

BMJ 2013;346:f3935 (Published 17 June 2013)

Medical groups voice doubts over changes to gun background checks

BMJ 2013;346:f3941 (Published 17 June 2013)

Europe recommends ban on common plasma substitute

BMJ 2013;346:f3942 (Published 17 June 2013)

Science ministers discuss the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance

BMJ 2013;346:f3921 (Published 17 June 2013)

Study links poor access to GPs with greater use of emergency services

BMJ 2013;346:f3885 (Published 14 June 2013)

Doctors accused of being “horrible” over government’s cancer awareness campaign

BMJ 2013;346:f3904 (Published 14 June 2013)

German insurer finds a third of people over 65 take five or more drugs a day

BMJ 2013;346:f3905 (Published 14 June 2013)

Genes can’t be patented, rules Supreme Court

BMJ 2013;346:f3907 (Published 14 June 2013)

Report into death of pregnant woman denied an abortion blames clinical mistakes rather than Irish law

BMJ 2013;346:f3908 (Published 14 June 2013)

GlaxoSmithKline fires head of its China based research arm for misrepresentation of data

BMJ 2013;346:f3914 (Published 14 June 2013)

Independent researchers should have right to publish trial results if original researchers don’t, campaigners say

BMJ 2013;346:f3857 (Published 14 June 2013)

More drug studies need to include pregnant women, says bulletin

BMJ 2013;346:f3812 (Published 14 June 2013)

E-cigarettes are to be regulated as medicines from 2016

BMJ 2013;346:f3859 (Published 14 June 2013)

HPV testing could cut cervical cancers by a third, finds study

BMJ 2013;346:f3888 (Published 14 June 2013)

Psychiatric drugs can be used with caution in pregnancy, say experts

BMJ 2013;346:f3852 (Published 13 June 2013)

Company providing NHS IT system is set to receive £1bn more despite failing to deliver

BMJ 2013;346:f3866 (Published 13 June 2013)

Coalition’s NHS reorganisation is likely to increase fraud, report says

BMJ 2013;346:f3870 (Published 13 June 2013)

Hospitals miss chances to cut deaths from alcohol related liver disease, report says

BMJ 2013;346:f3781 (Published 13 June 2013)

CQC chairman admits to organisational failings

BMJ 2013;346:f3839 (Published 13 June 2013)

GP practices with low referral rates for gastroscopy put patients at risk of worse outcomes, research shows

BMJ 2013;346:f3855 (Published 13 June 2013)

News - continued

Analysis

Practice

10-Minute Consultation: Atrial fibrillation

BMJ 2013;346:f3719 (Published 17 June 2013)

Guidelines: Rehabilitation after stroke: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2013;346:f3615 (Published 12 June 2013)

Views & Reviews

Put your ties back on: scruffy doctors damage our reputation and indicate a decline in hygiene

Stephanie J Dancer

BMJ 2013;346:f3211 (Published 13 June 2013)

Physicians’ ethical obligations to hunger strikers

Jeremy A Lazarus

BMJ 2013;346:f3705 (Published 13 June 2013)

Ether frolics

Wendy Moore

BMJ 2013;346:f3861 (Published 13 June 2013)

Consultants’ contracts: could do better

Des Spence

BMJ 2013;346:f3701 (Published 12 June 2013)

Life assurance

Mary E Black

BMJ 2013;346:f3722 (Published 12 June 2013)

Endgames

What is per protocol analysis?

BMJ 2013;346:f3748 (Published 14 June 2013)

Erythroderma in the emergency department

BMJ 2013;346:f3613 (Published 13 June 2013)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2013;346:f3686 (Published 12 June 2013)

Minerva

BMJ 2013;346:f3717 (Published 12 June 2013)

Research News

Feature

Has austerity brought Europe to the brink of a health disaster?

BMJ 2013;346:f3773 (Published 18 June 2013)

Improving cancer care in rural India

BMJ 2013;346:f3826 (Published 14 June 2013)

Why we can’t trust clinical guidelines

BMJ 2013;346:f3830 (Published 14 June 2013)

Pfizer versus Kaiser: insurers want their day in court

BMJ 2013;346:f3738 (Published 12 June 2013)

Research Methods & Reporting

Research Methods & Reporting - continued

Letter

NICE promises on infertility and caesarean section are unmet

BMJ 2013;346:f3814 (Published 18 June 2013)

Hospitals are a place for clinical care, not a marketing opportunity

BMJ 2013;346:f3894 (Published 18 June 2013)

Is “nitrofurantoin lung”on the increase?

BMJ 2013;346:f3897 (Published 18 June 2013)

New Zealand leads the way in banning smoking in prisons

BMJ 2013;346:f3923 (Published 18 June 2013)

National rationing of MRI in Australia has impact on use of CT

BMJ 2013;346:f3929 (Published 18 June 2013)

Acute leg ischaemia may present without pain in some cases

BMJ 2013;346:f3930 (Published 18 June 2013)

New GMC guidance takes a major, ethically flawed, backward step

BMJ 2013;346:f3879 (Published 18 June 2013)

Bounty acts responsibly

BMJ 2013;346:f3891 (Published 18 June 2013)

Products in “Bounty bags” potentially harm newborn skin

BMJ 2013;346:f3895 (Published 18 June 2013)

Shared decision making in a revolutionary child’s healthcare journey

BMJ 2013;346:f3917 (Published 18 June 2013)

Accurate diagnosis and long term management is problem in epilepsy, not cost of drugs

BMJ 2013;346:f3920 (Published 18 June 2013)

Catering for the needs of the new “community surgery,” which includes vasectomy

BMJ 2013;346:f3924 (Published 18 June 2013)

Tackling the problems of juvenile offenders

BMJ 2013;346:f3926 (Published 18 June 2013)

Don’t forget the embalming fluid for treating recurrent infections . . .

BMJ 2013;346:f3933 (Published 18 June 2013)

Obituary

Christian de Duve

BMJ 2013;346:f3821 (Published 18 June 2013)

Ben Milstein

BMJ 2013;346:f3862 (Published 13 June 2013)

Charles Anthony Higgins

BMJ 2013;346:f3006 (Published 12 June 2013)

Thomas Prior Riordan

BMJ 2013;346:f3008 (Published 12 June 2013)

Alison Jane Woodward

BMJ 2013;346:f3009 (Published 12 June 2013)

George Stewart Kilpatrick

BMJ 2013;346:f3013 (Published 12 June 2013)

Catherine Ann Gibson

BMJ 2013;346:f3260 (Published 12 June 2013)

Clement Edwards

BMJ 2013;346:f3003 (Published 12 June 2013)

John William Garry

BMJ 2013;346:f3004 (Published 12 June 2013)

Filler

Seasickness: the bane of cruises

BMJ 2013;346:f3753 (Published 17 June 2013)

Doctor, interrupted

BMJ 2013;346:f3774 (Published 17 June 2013)

The family factor

BMJ 2013;346:f3740 (Published 14 June 2013)

An appalling experience

BMJ 2013;346:f3747 (Published 14 June 2013)

Editorial

Posterior circulation stroke: still a Cinderella disease

BMJ 2013;346:f3552 (Published 14 June 2013)

Restoring the integrity of the clinical trial evidence base

BMJ 2013;346:f3601 (Published 13 June 2013)

Austerity policies in Europe—bad for health

BMJ 2013;346:f3716 (Published 13 June 2013)

The strength of primary care systems

BMJ 2013;346:f3777 (Published 13 June 2013)

Growing up in the UK: can we deliver a healthy future for our children?

BMJ 2013;346:f3713 (Published 12 June 2013)

How not to reduce uncertainties in care

BMJ 2013;346:f3786 (Published 12 June 2013)

Bicycle helmets and the law

BMJ 2013;346:f3817 (Published 12 June 2013)

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