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A patient with COPD uses their inhaler

Practice

People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations prefer early discharge, then treatment at home

A new study aimed to see if treating people with COPD at home was effective and cheaper. This NIHR Signals article summarises the research and its implications

EditorialNIHR’s research signals in The BMJ

exercise food

Practice

Lifestyle changes may be more important than drugs for mild hypertension

Quality improvement

Practice

Using data for improvement

Read more from The BMJ's Quality Improvement series

Diagnostics

Analysis

Dangerous diagnostics? Regulatory reform in the genomic era

antibiotic prescription

Research paper

Electronically delivered prescribing feedback and decision support on antibiotic use

EditorialImproving outpatient antibiotic prescribing

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Research news

US patients live longer in areas with more primary care doctors, study finds

Observations

Tolu Oni: Working on Africa’s health

News

Half of GP premises are not fit for purpose, finds BMA survey

Practice

I welcomed the inane chatter during a procedure

Feature

Assisted dying and the RCP poll: what do The BMJ’s readers think?

Editorial

A scholarship to foster future leaders in evidence based medicine

Analysis

Universal antenatal screening for group B streptococcus may cause more harm than good

News

Art for health’s sake

News

NHSX: Hancock sets up new policy unit to support technology in NHS

Views & reviews

Helen Salisbury: The perils of deprescribing

EditorialRationalising medications through deprescribing

News

Lassa outbreak: WHO warns of unusually rapid spread in Nigeria

Views & reviews

David Oliver: Is hospital avoidance an elusive holy grail?

Careers

Role Model: Lesley Rees

News

Oxygen after surgery: review questions WHO advice that high levels reduce infection

News

Brexit: GPs are told to resist patients’ requests to overprescribe

News

Euro MPs back wider use of medical cannabis amid call for more research

Feature

“We’re on the same side, really”: medical profession turns to soft power to influence policy

Views & reviews

Partha Kar: Applying aviation safety to healthcare—are we missing the fundamental?

News

Primary care networks: five minutes with . . . Sohail Munshi

News

Sixty seconds on . . . waiting times

News

Medical cannabis: no NHS patients have benefited from law change, say campaigners

News

Johnson and Johnson will be first US pharma company to reveal a drug’s price in TV advertisement

News

GP at Hand is given go ahead to expand to Birmingham

Views & reviews

The prominence of e-cigarettes is a symptom of decades of failure to tackle smoking properly

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