02 March 2013(vol 346, issue 7897)

Editor's Choice

• Too much medicine

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1328 (Published 27 February 2013)

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News

• Vast majority of NHS services must go out to tender, health minister says

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• Tougher action is needed on alcohol pricing, labelling, and advertisements, say experts

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1292 (Published 01 March 2013)

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• Two drugs for type 2 diabetes seem to raise risk of acute pancreatitis, study shows

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1304 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• Nine out of 10 palliative care experts would choose Liverpool care pathway for themselves

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1303 (Published 01 March 2013)

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• GMC is to get legal power to check English skills of European doctors

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1297 (Published 26 February 2013)

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• Life should end as well as it starts, conference hears

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1242 (Published 22 February 2013)

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• In brief

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• Campaigners demand mandatory nutritional standards for hospital food

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1251 (Published 25 February 2013)

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• NICE joins campaign for full disclosure of clinical trial data

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1269 (Published 25 February 2013)

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• Research council failed to clearly communicate its open access policy, say peers

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• Four emergency departments in London to be downgraded

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1200 (Published 21 February 2013)

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• Drug experts call for stronger regulation of tramadol to reduce misuse

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1264 (Published 25 February 2013)

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• Physician groups each identify five of their own inappropriate practices

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Editorials

• Novel coronavirus: how much of a threat?

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1301 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• Making the best use of administrative data

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1284 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• GLP-1 based agents and acute pancreatitis

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1263 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• Winding back the harms of too much medicine

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1271 (Published 26 February 2013)

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Research News

• Dabigatran “non-inferior” to warfarin, but only just

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1219 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• Young adults with shorter telomeres have lower resistance to colds

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1220 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• Worse outcomes for adults given lactated Ringer’s solution during resuscitation

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• Advanced breast cancers increasing in young women

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Research

• Effect of telehealth on quality of life and psychological outcomes over 12 months (Whole Systems Demonstrator telehealth questionnaire study): nested study of patient reported outcomes in a pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f653 (Published 26 February 2013)

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• Impact of a stepwise introduction of smoke-free legislation on the rate of preterm births: analysis of routinely collected birth data

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f441 (Published 14 February 2013)

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• Risk of narcolepsy in children and young people receiving AS03 adjuvanted pandemic A/H1N1 2009 influenza vaccine: retrospective analysis

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f794 (Published 26 February 2013)

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• Observational intensity bias associated with illness adjustment: cross sectional analysis of insurance claims

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f549 (Published 21 February 2013)

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Head to Head

• Should the NHS work at weekends as it does in the week? Yes

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f621 (Published 21 February 2013)

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• Should the NHS work at weekends as it does in the week? No

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f622 (Published 21 February 2013)

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Feature

• The Liverpool care pathway: what do specialists think?

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1184 (Published 01 March 2013)

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• Inquiry launched into newspaper story about babies on “death pathway”

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1273 (Published 01 March 2013)

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Analysis

• Surgical removal of asymptomatic pulmonary metastases: time for better evidence

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f824 (Published 21 February 2013)

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Letters

• Bring back local GPs for urgent and out of hours care

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f986 (Published 26 February 2013)

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• Rise in emergency department attendances not caused by changes to GP contract

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f989 (Published 26 February 2013)

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• Turn non-urgent cases away from the emergency department

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• Don’t forget pre-eclampsia in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in pregnancy

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1056 (Published 26 February 2013)

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• Antibiotic resistance and transrectal prostate biopsies

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1171 (Published 26 February 2013)

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• Management of ulcerative colitis shows the failings in chronic disease management in the current NHS

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1189 (Published 26 February 2013)

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• Research ethics committees have the power to enforce publication of drug trial results

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1201 (Published 26 February 2013)

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• Conflicts of interest of clinicians associated with document on collaboration between doctors and drug industry still being sought

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1188 (Published 26 February 2013)

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Observations

• Andy Burnham’s “whole person” care

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1239 (Published 27 February 2013)

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Obituaries

• Hamid Ghodse

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1069 (Published 19 February 2013)

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• John Harwood Keen

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f912 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• Alan Avrom Naftalin

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f914 (Published 01 March 2013)

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• Robert Martin Nicholl

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f915 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• Geoffrey Donald Parbrook

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• Christopher Patrick Silver

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• Rhona Watkins

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f919 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• John Hodgson Willis

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f920 (Published 27 February 2013)

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Clinical Review

• Postpartum management of hypertension

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f894 (Published 25 February 2013)

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Practice

• Investigating an incidental finding of thrombocytopenia

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f11 (Published 11 January 2013)

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• Should inpatient hyperglycaemia be treated?

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f134 (Published 17 January 2013)

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Endgames

• Coronal computed tomography of the upper cervical spine

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6811 (Published 14 December 2012)

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• Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography of the biliary tree and adjacent structures

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7805 (Published 29 November 2012)

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• Case-control studies: measures of risk

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1185 (Published 22 February 2013)

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• Acute abdominal pain in a child with inflammatory bowel disease

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f563 (Published 14 February 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• Data, data everywhere

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f725 (Published 04 February 2013)

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• Dark satanic mills

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1202 (Published 22 February 2013)

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Minerva

• Propranolol treatment for infantile haemangioma

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1211 (Published 27 February 2013)

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• Attempting to induce labour by having sex, and other stories

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1212 (Published 27 February 2013)

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