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Focusing on overdiagnosis as a driver of too much medicine

Overdiagnosis is a driver of “too much medicine.” But the uncertainties inherent in overdiagnosis set it apart from other drivers—such as overtesting and overtreatment—making it harder to explain and to tackle

Clinical reviewOverdiagnosis in primary care

AnalysisRenaming low risk conditions labelled as cancer

Editor's choiceOverdiagnosis and the cancer label

NYU Langone Medical Center

News

New York University medical school gives students free tuition

Ebola virus

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Ebola: new Congo epidemic grows as conflict hampers aid efforts

mid life mortality infographic

Research paper

Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic groups in the United States

ResearchRecent trends in life expectancy across high income countries

EditorialReversals in life expectancy in high income countries?

InfographicWhy is US life expectancy falling behind?

Measles

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Measles: Europe sees record number of cases and 37 deaths so far this year

BMJ opinionRichard Smith: A baby dies of measles

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Don’t use our fees to pay Bawa-Garba’s court costs, doctors tell GMC

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Multidrug resistant TB: fully oral regimens should help improve compliance, says WHO

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Sixty seconds on . . . getting to know you

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Locum ophthalmologist is struck off for “sustained pattern of appalling behaviour”

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Brazil’s child and maternal mortality have increased against background of public spending cuts

Feature

Commentary: does the selective inversion approach demonstrate bias in the results of studies using routinely collected data?

Feature

What readers thought about a research paper’s approach to compare treatment effects on mortality

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Most GP trainees intend to work less than full time, survey shows

BMJ opinionWe need to stop talking about GPs being “full time” or “part time”

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Doctors are given go ahead to extract sperm from unconscious man in legal first

Research news

Oral steroids fail to prevent hearing loss in children with otitis media with effusion, shows trial

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E-cigarettes: relax rules to help more smokers quit, say MPs

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“No deal” Brexit could be catastrophic for NHS, warns BMA

BMJ opinionThe impact of a “no deal” on the NHS and medical research will be immediate

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European drug agency loses 30% of staff in planned move to Amsterdam

NewsEMA scales back transparency initiatives because of workload

Minerva

The dangers of playing squash

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Seven days in medicine: 8-14 August 2018

Editor's choice

Overdiagnosis and the cancer label

AnalysisRenaming low risk conditions labelled as cancer

Clinical reviewOverdiagnosis in primary care: framing the problem and finding solutions

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News

Children’s intensive care units are failing to monitor breathing adequately

Research paper

Recent trends in life expectancy across high income countries

EditorialReversals in life expectancy in high income countries?

ResearchChanges in midlife death rates in the US

Editorial

Reversals in life expectancy in high income countries?

ResearchChanges in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic groups in the United States

ResearchRecent trends in life expectancy across high income countries

News

Saudi Arabia orders thousands of doctors and medical students to leave Canada within days

Observations

Louise Kenny: Obstetrician on a mission

Minerva

Supplementary to requirement . . . and other stories

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Tribunal made error in allowing psychiatrist back on register, says appeal court

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Renaming junior doctors: five minutes with Scarlett McNally

BMJ opinionStephen Bradley: The grade that dare not speak its name

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Editor's choice

Overdiagnosis and the cancer label

AnalysisRenaming low risk conditions labelled as cancer

Clinical reviewOverdiagnosis in primary care: framing the problem and finding solutions

Read more about our Too Much Medicine campaign

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Renaming low risk conditions labelled as cancer | The BMJ

Recent trends in life expectancy across high income countries: retrospective observational study | The BMJ

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