02 May 2015(vol 350, issue 8006)

Editor's Choice

• The essential NHS

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2303 (Published 30 April 2015)

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News

• Leading academics condemn government undermining of NICE

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• In brief

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• Fresh pair of eyes may speed up cancer diagnosis

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• Physician associates are as good as GPs in treating same day patients but cost less, study finds

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• Alternative providers of GP services perform worse than traditional practices

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• NHS trust is charged with corporate manslaughter over woman’s death after emergency caesarean

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• Surgeon is struck off for punching patient in the face to try to repair fracture

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• NHS faces biggest challenge “for many years” amid mounting deficits and declining morale

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• MSF launches lifesaving mission in Mediterranean because Europe “is not willing”

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• Generic drug firm settles claim that it was paid to stay out of market

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• Tobacco industry sought to prevent Islamic fatwas against smoking

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• PET after chemotherapy identifies Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients who can avoid radiotherapy

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• Emergency cooling doesn’t improve outcomes in children with cardiac arrest, study shows

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• Maternal obesity increases type 1 diabetes risk in offspring, study shows

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• Ovary removal is linked to lower breast cancer mortality in BRCA1 carriers

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Observations

• Henry Marsh: Thinking fast and slow

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Editorials

• A letter to the next secretary of state for health

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• Safety of new oral anticoagulants

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1679 (Published 24 April 2015)

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• Minimally invasive surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1664 (Published 01 April 2015)

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• Using metformin in the presence of renal disease

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Research

• Risk of gastrointestinal bleeding associated with oral anticoagulants: population based retrospective cohort study

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• Comparative risk of gastrointestinal bleeding with dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and warfarin: population based cohort study

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• Minimally invasive decompression versus open laminectomy for central stenosis of the lumbar spine: pragmatic comparative effectiveness study

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1603 (Published 01 April 2015)

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Feature

• What the politicians aren’t saying about health

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Analysis

• The current crisis in the NHS: are we missing the point? An essay by Jan Filochowski

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Head to Head

• Is “boarding” appropriate to help reduce crowding in emergency departments?

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Analysis

• Food and the responsibility deal: how the salt reduction strategy was derailed

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1936 (Published 28 April 2015)

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Letters

• Danger of generalising findings on paracetamol for low back pain

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• Paracetamol should remain the first line option for persistent pain

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• Authors’ reply to Adam and to Veal and Thompson

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• Limitations of current tuberculosis screening tests in immunosuppressed patients

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• Author’s reply to Clifford and colleagues

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• Time to end the political rhetoric on health tourism

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• Clarifying the Montgomery judgment

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• Primary care is not urgent care, and we need more urgent care

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Observations

• Why the Queen’s Speech on 19 May should include a bill to reinstate the NHS in England

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• Is the NHS really safe from international trade agreements?

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Views & Reviews

• Margaret McCartney: Rigging the NHS for votes

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• Put all GPs on a salaried contract

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Obituaries

• John Bernard Lloyd (Jack) Howell

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Clinical Review

• Sudden infant death syndrome and advice for safe sleeping

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Practice

• Syphilitic condylomata lata mimicking anogenital warts

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• Foot drop

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Feature

• UK research paper of the year

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• Women’s health team of the year

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Endgames

• Measuring the benefit of treatment: number needed to treat

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• A 77 year old man with asthma and renal impairment

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2021 (Published 22 April 2015)

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• Axial T1 weighted magnetic resonance image through the upper thorax in a 20 year old woman

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Minerva

• Elephantiasis nostras verrucosa

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• Lifetime risk of a cardiovascular event . . .

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