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Mortality due to cirrhosis and liver cancer in the United States, 1999-2016

There has been a rapid rise in deaths due to liver disease in the US since 2009, especially in young people, driven predominantly by alcohol use, finds this research paper.

Mothers and their children

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Strengthening research for health in the Americas

Pills

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Sulfonylureas as second line drugs in type 2 diabetes and the risk of cardiovascular and hypoglycaemic events

EditorialSulfonylureas as second line treatment for type 2 diabetes

Damon Francis

Observations

Damon Francis: Making the road by walking

Remembering patients

Practice

Remembering the person

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Safe staffing

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Subacromial decompression versus diagnostic arthroscopy for shoulder impingement

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Seven days in medicine: 11-17 July

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Adrenaline after cardiac arrest doubles risk of serious brain damage, finds trial

Editorial

Sulfonylureas as second line treatment for type 2 diabetes

ResearchSulfonylureas as second line drugs in type 2 diabetes and the risk of cardiovascular and hypoglycaemic events

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Nearly 1700 requests for knee and hip surgery were rejected in England last year

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Boys should be given HPV vaccine, says joint committee

Minerva

An urgent dacryocele

Minerva

Sugary drink consumption. . . and other stories

Feature

Safe staffing: this is how many doctors we really need

News

Massive fall in teenage pregnancy down to sensible drinking and more time spent online

Views & reviews

Medicine’s generation gap: let’s stop comparing

Careers

Health and wellbeing is the most common reason for doctors to take a break from training

Practice

Latest guidance on the management of gout

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Medical students’ GP training: five minutes with . . . Robert McKinley

Research news

Omega 3 supplements do not reduce risk of heart disease, stroke, or death, finds review

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Alan Bennett brings life into geriatric ward

News

Sixty seconds on . . . probiotics

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Surgeon who failed to tell patient of error is struck off

Research news

US drugs were granted breakthrough approval on weak evidence, study finds

Views & reviews

Margaret McCartney: Health technology and the modern inverse care law

Practice

Primary and metastatic brain tumours in adults: summary of NICE guidance

Views & reviews

David Oliver: Outpatient clinics are ripe for reform

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Human genome editing is not unethical, says Nuffield Council

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