Menu

 

101 articles published in the last seven days

Editor's Choice

Flu hype and pharma failures: patients deserve better

BMJ 2013;346:f3422 (Published 24 May 2013)

Too many labels

BMJ 2013;346:f3352 (Published 22 May 2013)

Research

Telemonitoring based service redesign for the management of uncontrolled hypertension: multicentre randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2013;346:f3030 (Published 24 May 2013)

Risk of incident diabetes among patients treated with statins: population based study

BMJ 2013;346:f2610 (Published 23 May 2013)

Consumers’ estimation of calorie content at fast food restaurants: cross sectional observational study

BMJ 2013;346:f2907 (Published 23 May 2013)

Completeness and diagnostic validity of recording acute myocardial infarction events in primary care, hospital care, disease registry, and national mortality records: cohort study

BMJ 2013;346:f2350 (Published 21 May 2013)

Cancer risk in 680 000 people exposed to computed tomography scans in childhood or adolescence: data linkage study of 11 million Australians

BMJ 2013;346:f2360 (Published 21 May 2013)

The gap in life expectancy from preventable physical illness in psychiatric patients in Western Australia: retrospective analysis of population based registers

BMJ 2013;346:f2539 (Published 21 May 2013)

News

Fewer young adults are smoking, but more people are obese, shows US survey

BMJ 2013;346:f3433 (Published 24 May 2013)

Government is urged to commit resources to involve patients in NHS decisions

BMJ 2013;346:f3434 (Published 24 May 2013)

GPs back call for independent review of “dreadful” NHS 111

BMJ 2013;346:f3437 (Published 24 May 2013)

IVF raises risk of developmental problems in premature infants, finds study

BMJ 2013;346:f3404 (Published 24 May 2013)

Health secretary announces plan to overhaul “disjointed care” delivered by GPs

BMJ 2013;346:f3432 (Published 24 May 2013)

Woman with bipolar disorder can abort her baby, judge rules

BMJ 2013;346:f3387 (Published 24 May 2013)

Campaigners criticise report into Camelford water poisoning

BMJ 2013;346:f3376 (Published 23 May 2013)

NHS 111 has poor quality advice, slow response times, and inappropriate delays, complainants say

BMJ 2013;346:f3382 (Published 23 May 2013)

More US patients going to emergency rooms as alternative to primary care, report says

BMJ 2013;346:f3398 (Published 23 May 2013)

Doctors’ leader calls on Hunt to stop using GPs as scapegoats

BMJ 2013;346:f3419 (Published 23 May 2013)

Two in five health professionals think quality of leadership in NHS is “poor” or “very poor”

BMJ 2013;346:f3321 (Published 23 May 2013)

Study links iodine deficiency in pregnancy with poor cognitive outcomes in children

BMJ 2013;346:f3365 (Published 23 May 2013)

Choice of oseltamivir in 2009 flu pandemic was “worrying,” says MP

BMJ 2013;346:f3371 (Published 23 May 2013)

Novel coronavirus spreads to Tunisia

BMJ 2013;346:f3372 (Published 23 May 2013)

GPs’ out of hours arrangements are not to blame for pressure on emergency departments, MPs hear

BMJ 2013;346:f3363 (Published 22 May 2013)

Computed tomography in childhood and adolescence is associated with small increased risk of cancer

BMJ 2013;346:f3348 (Published 22 May 2013)

NHS cash props up private health sector as recession cuts private patients’ spending

BMJ 2013;346:f3356 (Published 22 May 2013)

Nicholson to step down as chief executive of NHS England

BMJ 2013;346:f3364 (Published 22 May 2013)

In brief

BMJ 2013;346:f3313 (Published 21 May 2013)

Acellular vaccines provided less protection during California pertussis outbreak

BMJ 2013;346:f3325 (Published 21 May 2013)

Private provider of out of hours care breached targets because of unfilled shifts

BMJ 2013;346:f3299 (Published 21 May 2013)

Campaign group claims that some cricketers in the Indian Premier League are breaching the rules on alcohol advertising

BMJ 2013;346:f3303 (Published 21 May 2013)

Choice of Downing Street health adviser prompts fears that copayments may be on the agenda

BMJ 2013;346:f3307 (Published 21 May 2013)

News - continued

Paediatrician wrongly detained in UAE for murder finally returns to South Africa

BMJ 2013;346:f3314 (Published 21 May 2013)

NHS pilots new genetic testing service for cancer patients

BMJ 2013;346:f3323 (Published 21 May 2013)

Sharing a bed with your baby increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, UK study shows

BMJ 2013;346:f3296 (Published 21 May 2013)

Healthcare in South Sudan is jeopardised by attacks on hospitals

BMJ 2013;346:f3265 (Published 20 May 2013)

Twelve senior doctors back physician assisted suicide bill

BMJ 2013;346:f3279 (Published 20 May 2013)

Nicholson is unable to protect whistleblowers from legal action by foundation trusts, despite pledge to do so

BMJ 2013;346:f3280 (Published 20 May 2013)

Mental disorders common among US children, CDC says

BMJ 2013;346:f3281 (Published 20 May 2013)

Surgeon has 19 conditions placed on his practice

BMJ 2013;346:f3283 (Published 20 May 2013)

Specialists hit back at psychologists who want to ditch biomedical diagnoses

BMJ 2013;346:f3273 (Published 20 May 2013)

Observations

Big Tobacco lights up e-cigarettes

Douglas Kamerow

BMJ 2013;346:f3418 (Published 24 May 2013)

Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy and the question of who owns our genes

Richard Hurley

BMJ 2013;346:f3340 (Published 22 May 2013)

The dietary advice on added sugar needs emergency surgery

Aseem Malhotra

BMJ 2013;346:f3199 (Published 21 May 2013)

Slip an extra locust on the barbie?

Tony Delamothe

BMJ 2013;346:f3293 (Published 20 May 2013)

Analysis

Social networks, social media, and social diseases

BMJ 2013;346:f3007 (Published 22 May 2013)

Clinical Review

Investigation and treatment of imported malaria in non-endemic countries

BMJ 2013;346:f2900 (Published 21 May 2013)

Practice

ABC of Pain: Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

BMJ 2013;346:f3146 (Published 24 May 2013)

Easily Missed?: Pelvic inflammatory disease

BMJ 2013;346:f3189 (Published 23 May 2013)

Guidelines: Assessment and initial management of feverish illness in children younger than 5 years: summary of updated NICE guidance

BMJ 2013;346:f2866 (Published 22 May 2013)

A Patient’s Journey: Post-traumatic stress disorder after intensive care

BMJ 2013;346:f3232 (Published 22 May 2013)

Guidelines: Recognition, assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2013;346:f2541 (Published 22 May 2013)

Easily Missed?: Colorectal cancer

BMJ 2013;346:f3172 (Published 21 May 2013)

Views & Reviews

Integration of health and social care would better safeguard adults from harm

Billy Boland

BMJ 2013;346:f3266 (Published 21 May 2013)

The Kumbh Mela stampede: disaster preparedness must bridge jurisdictions

P Gregg Greenough

BMJ 2013;346:f3254 (Published 20 May 2013)

Stop protecting the NHS budget

Des Spence

BMJ 2013;346:f3061 (Published 20 May 2013)

Admission to hospital could be considered a disease

Hugh McIntyre

BMJ 2013;346:f3242 (Published 20 May 2013)

Endgames

Selection bias versus allocation bias

BMJ 2013;346:f3345 (Published 24 May 2013)

A young woman presenting with severe headache

BMJ 2013;346:f2448 (Published 23 May 2013)

Coronal T2 weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the hip

BMJ 2013;346:f2835 (Published 22 May 2013)

Interpreting a normal orthopantomogram

BMJ 2013;346:f3216 (Published 21 May 2013)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2013;346:f3227 (Published 22 May 2013)

Minerva

BMJ 2013;346:f3178 (Published 22 May 2013)

Correction

Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease

BMJ 2013;346:f3441 (Published 24 May 2013)

Correction - continued

Premature death among people with mental illness

BMJ 2013;346:f3423 (Published 24 May 2013)

Letter

Helping people die at home

BMJ 2013;346:f3182 (Published 24 May 2013)

Helping patients to die well through education

BMJ 2013;346:f3177 (Published 24 May 2013)

Analysis of the impact of extending end of life treatments should be treated with caution

BMJ 2013;346:f3249 (Published 24 May 2013)

BMJ shortlisted trial of Edwards-SAPIEN valve does not include all randomised patients

BMJ 2013;346:f3229 (Published 22 May 2013)

Energy imbalance in obesity is not “just a hypothesis”

BMJ 2013;346:f3079 (Published 22 May 2013)

Is the GMC one of the untouchables?

BMJ 2013;346:f3224 (Published 22 May 2013)

Author’s reply to Cottrell

BMJ 2013;346:f3125 (Published 22 May 2013)

The GMC can learn from its institutional racism

BMJ 2013;346:f3226 (Published 22 May 2013)

Essay was based on incorrect premises and an unproved assumption

BMJ 2013;346:f3120 (Published 22 May 2013)

Let’s act on the best available evidence on obesity

BMJ 2013;346:f3015 (Published 22 May 2013)

Am I missing something in the essay on the science of obesity?

BMJ 2013;346:f3010 (Published 22 May 2013)

Restricting dietary carbohydrate versus increasing physical activity in tackling obesity

BMJ 2013;346:f3018 (Published 22 May 2013)

Editorial

Statins and the risk of developing diabetes

BMJ 2013;346:f3156 (Published 23 May 2013)

Premature death among people with mental illness

BMJ 2013;346:f2969 (Published 21 May 2013)

CT radiation risks coming into clearer focus

BMJ 2013;346:f3102 (Published 21 May 2013)

Suicide among Falkland war veterans

BMJ 2013;346:f3204 (Published 20 May 2013)

Preventing admission of older people to hospital

BMJ 2013;346:f3186 (Published 20 May 2013)

Feature

The long road to ensuring patient safety in NHS hospitals

BMJ 2013;346:f3029 (Published 23 May 2013)

DSM-5: a fatal diagnosis?

BMJ 2013;346:f3256 (Published 22 May 2013)

Can Big Pharma put patients first?

BMJ 2013;346:f3285 (Published 21 May 2013)

Targets for non-communicable disease: what has happened since the UN summit?

BMJ 2013;346:f3300 (Published 21 May 2013)

Obituary

Gordon Evison

BMJ 2013;346:f2143 (Published 22 May 2013)

Matthew Walter John Boyd

BMJ 2013;346:f2306 (Published 22 May 2013)

Derrick Dexter

BMJ 2013;346:f2308 (Published 22 May 2013)

Alexander Iain Munro Glen

BMJ 2013;346:f2312 (Published 22 May 2013)

Emanuel Tuckman

BMJ 2013;346:f2314 (Published 22 May 2013)

John T D Attenborough

BMJ 2013;346:f2317 (Published 22 May 2013)

Nicholas Priestly

BMJ 2013;346:f2318 (Published 22 May 2013)

Research News

Staffing in intensive care units at night

BMJ 2013;346:f3277 (Published 22 May 2013)

MRI autopsies look accurate for infant and fetal deaths

BMJ 2013;346:f3235 (Published 22 May 2013)

Oxandrolone no better than placebo for severe pressure ulcers

BMJ 2013;346:f3236 (Published 22 May 2013)

Music to calm patients who are ventilated and awake

BMJ 2013;346:f3278 (Published 22 May 2013)

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection or harmless colonisation?

BMJ 2013;346:f3222 (Published 22 May 2013)

Prone positioning can save lives

BMJ 2013;346:f3302 (Published 22 May 2013)

Preliminary success with combination treatment for osteoporosis

BMJ 2013;346:f3221 (Published 22 May 2013)

Head to Head

Should we sequence everyone’s genome? No

BMJ 2013;346:f3132 (Published 21 May 2013)

Should we sequence everyone’s genome? Yes

BMJ 2013;346:f3133 (Published 21 May 2013)