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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

Use of 5α-reductase inhibitors for lower urinary tract symptoms and risk of prostate cancer in Swedish men: nationwide, population based case-control study

BMJ 2013;346:f3406 (Published 18 June 2013)

The effect of rising food prices on food consumption: systematic review with meta-regression

BMJ 2013;346:f3703 (Published 17 June 2013)

Severe adverse maternal outcomes among low risk women with planned home versus hospital births in the Netherlands: nationwide cohort study

BMJ 2013;346:f3263 (Published 13 June 2013)

Effect of home based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa: cluster randomised trial

BMJ 2013;346:f3481 (Published 13 June 2013)

Effectiveness of a bundled intervention of decolonization and prophylaxis to decrease Gram positive surgical site infections after cardiac or orthopedic surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2013;346:f2743 (Published 13 June 2013)

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

Health secretary suspends reconfiguration of children’s heart surgery in England

BMJ 2013;346:f3856 (Published 13 June 2013)

Employers cannot increase sanctions against doctors if they appeal, High Court rules

BMJ 2013;346:f3798 (Published 12 June 2013)

US transplant group makes it easier for children to get lungs from older donors

BMJ 2013;346:f3832 (Published 12 June 2013)

US is to allow sales of emergency contraceptives without restrictions

BMJ 2013;346:f3837 (Published 12 June 2013)

Analysis

Restoring invisible and abandoned trials: a call for people to publish the findings

BMJ 2013;346:f2865 (Published 13 June 2013)

Will austerity cuts dismantle the Spanish healthcare system?

BMJ 2013;346:f2363 (Published 13 June 2013)

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

Tenofovir helps prevent HIV in drug users

BMJ 2013;346:f3871 (Published 18 June 2013)

Lives lost with every 15 minute delay in thrombolysis after acute stroke

BMJ 2013;346:f3962 (Published 18 June 2013)

Conventional triple therapy as good as etanercept for uncontrolled rheumatoid arthritis

BMJ 2013;346:f3846 (Published 18 June 2013)

Inhaled adrenaline no better than inhaled saline for babies with bronchiolitis

BMJ 2013;346:f3848 (Published 18 June 2013)

Domestic violence is common among women in fracture clinics

BMJ 2013;346:f3847 (Published 18 June 2013)

Co prescription of statins and antibiotics linked to extra deaths

BMJ 2013;346:f3963 (Published 18 June 2013)

Cognitive therapy for Congolese survivors of sexual violence

BMJ 2013;346:f3689 (Published 12 June 2013)

Routine suction of newborns is unnecessary

BMJ 2013;346:f3690 (Published 12 June 2013)

Higher iron concentrations may protect against Parkinson’s disease

BMJ 2013;346:f3691 (Published 12 June 2013)

Treating diabetes with bariatric surgery

BMJ 2013;346:f3710 (Published 12 June 2013)

Higher risk of preterm delivery in overweight and obese women

BMJ 2013;346:f3793 (Published 12 June 2013)

Education and feedback improve antibiotic prescribing for children

BMJ 2013;346:f3794 (Published 12 June 2013)

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

IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 3: randomised controlled trials in the assessment stage and evaluations in the long term study stage

BMJ 2013;346:f2820 (Published 18 June 2013)

Research Methods & Reporting - continued

IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 2: observational studies in the exploration and assessment stages

BMJ 2013;346:f3011 (Published 18 June 2013)

IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 1: the idea and development stages

BMJ 2013;346:f3012 (Published 18 June 2013)

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)

Head to Head

Should electronic cigarettes be as freely available as tobacco cigarettes? No

BMJ 2013;346:f3840 (Published 14 June 2013)

Should electronic cigarettes be as freely available as tobacco? Yes

BMJ 2013;346:f3845 (Published 14 June 2013)

Correction

Cost effectiveness of the NHS breast screening programme: life table model

BMJ 2013;346:f3822 (Published 12 June 2013)