21 February 2015(vol 350, issue 7996)

Editor's Choice

• Communication: the good, the bad, and the painful

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News

• NICE is too generous in approving drugs, analysis says

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• Women need warnings about harmful effects of obesity in pregnancy, says European project

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• In brief

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• Self dialysis and video consultations feature in report on innovative care

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• Shaken baby expert must disclose fitness to practise charges when asked to give evidence in new cases

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• New BMA campaign calls on politicians to stop using NHS to score points

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• Countdown begins to seventh annual BMJ Awards

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• High potency cannabis is associated with tripled risk of psychosis, study indicates

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• The mother of CSI in a nutshell

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• UK spending on health doubled in past 20 years

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• Francis report recommends a whistleblowing guardian in every NHS organisation

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• Menopausal hot flushes and sweats persist longer than thought, study finds

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• Nurture is more important than nature in childhood obesity, study finds

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• Procedures for treating precancerous cervical cancer do not reduce fertility, study shows

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• Pedometers for older people can increase physical activity, research shows

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Observations

• Nigel Edwards: Best contribution to medicine—not becoming a doctor

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Editorials

• Outsourcing the NHS

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• Designing care for people with mixed mental and physical multimorbidity

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• Antidepressants and risk of suicide

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• Collaborative tuberculosis strategy for England

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Research

• An occupational therapy intervention for residents with stroke related disabilities in UK care homes (OTCH): cluster randomised controlled trial

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• Integrated primary care for patients with mental and physical multimorbidity: cluster randomised controlled trial of collaborative care for patients with depression comorbid with diabetes or cardiovascular disease

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• Antidepressant use and risk of suicide and attempted suicide or self harm in people aged 20 to 64: cohort study using a primary care database

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• Differentiation between traumatic tap and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: prospective cohort study

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Analysis

• Too much technology

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Head to Head

• Patient commentary: Direct access would beat receiving test results with the receptionist’s interpretation

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• Can patients use test results effectively if they have direct access?

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Letters

• The General Medical Council responds to the special report in The BMJ on regulating doctors’ financial and commercial interests

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• Doctors’ financial interests should be declared to avoid any impression of impropriety

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• NHS doctors’ interests in private practice should be declared

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• Doctors can depart from guidelines in patients’ best interests

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• Professional Standards Authority accredited registers for people who work in health and care occupations that are not regulated

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• Getting sedentary people moving through active travel

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• Reserving mental health detention for conditions that can be treated

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Observations

• How to treat a Pirahã: medical ethics and cultural difference

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Views & Reviews

• Margaret McCartney: Female genital mutilation: a wise doctor and a foolish prosecution

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• We need a Public Health Act fit for 21st century

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• “This may hurt”: predictions in procedural disclosure may do harm

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Obituaries

• William Herbert Baxter Ellis

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• Prudence Barron

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• Roy Dalgleish

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• Khushru Mancherji Mehta

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• Robert Dunning Nicholson

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• Alan Robertson

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• Roy Webb

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Clinical Review

• Assessment and management of alcohol use disorders

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Practice

• “How can I help you hear?” The transforming power of six little words

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• Mosquito repellents for travellers

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Endgames

• Standard deviation or the standard error of the mean

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• Axial computed tomogram of the glottis

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• Headache, flashing lights, and blurred vision

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Minerva

• Expectorating the diagnosis: ruptured hydatid cyst

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• Internet use by patients and other stories . . .

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