07 December 2013(vol 347, issue 7936)

Editor's Choice

• Where should the world invest?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7236 (Published 04 December 2013)

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News

• Public hostility grows to private companies’ expansion in the NHS

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7218 (Published 03 December 2013)

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• Minor units take a growing share of emergency department attendances

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7233 (Published 03 December 2013)

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• In brief

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• Experts call for NICE to resume work on sex education halted by the coalition government

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7217 (Published 03 December 2013)

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• Rate of surgery for lung cancer in England and Wales rose 50% in five years

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7201 (Published 04 December 2013)

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• Half of drug trials with results on ClinicalTrials.gov are not published in journals

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7219 (Published 03 December 2013)

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• Variant CJD still poses threat to public health, warn experts

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7142 (Published 28 November 2013)

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• Doctors fear that new CCG funding formula will downplay deprivation

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7175 (Published 02 December 2013)

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• E-cigarette marketing is aimed at youngsters, says charity

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7124 (Published 27 November 2013)

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• England’s health department agrees to independent review of standardised tobacco packaging

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7162 (Published 29 November 2013)

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• Patients must have single point of contact for care needs, says think tank

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7202 (Published 03 December 2013)

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Observations

• Phil Hammond: Subversive, distracted, trustworthy

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7154 (Published 04 December 2013)

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Editorials

• Target cardiovascular risk rather than cholesterol concentration

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7110 (Published 27 November 2013)

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• Too Much Medicine: from evidence to action

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7141 (Published 04 December 2013)

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• Determinants of childhood mortality

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6632 (Published 08 November 2013)

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• Probiotic supplements

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7138 (Published 04 December 2013)

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Research

• Global determinants of mortality in under 5s: 10 year worldwide longitudinal study

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6427 (Published 08 November 2013)

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• Physical activity and risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective study from the Nurses’ Health Study cohorts

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6633 (Published 14 November 2013)

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• Perinatal outcomes after bariatric surgery: nationwide population based matched cohort study

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6460 (Published 12 November 2013)

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• Probiotic supplementation during pregnancy or infancy for the prevention of asthma and wheeze: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6471 (Published 04 December 2013)

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Feature

• After the typhoon: how volunteer doctors are bringing medical care to those most in need

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7193 (Published 02 December 2013)

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• A healthy market? Lack of transparency raises doubts about NHS commissioning

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7115 (Published 04 December 2013)

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Analysis

• Importance of clarifying patients’ desired role in shared decision making to match their level of engagement with their preferences

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7066 (Published 02 December 2013)

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Letters

• The rise of food poverty in the UK

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7157 (Published 03 December 2013)

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• ADHD is a social problem

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7028 (Published 27 November 2013)

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• Cuts to the Office for National Statistics will damage the health of the nation

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7164 (Published 04 December 2013)

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• BMJ is not always impartial about the advertisements it includes

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7149 (Published 04 December 2013)

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• Editor’s reply to Harlow and colleagues

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7153 (Published 04 December 2013)

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• Methodological concerns about studies on oseltamivir for flu

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7148 (Published 04 December 2013)

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Observations

• Dethroning the king of condiments

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7192 (Published 04 December 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• I refused to perform abortions: you don’t have to sacrifice your integrity to get ahead

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7015 (Published 25 November 2013)

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Obituaries

• Peter Huttenlocher

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6136 (Published 22 October 2013)

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• James Leatham Tennant Birley

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6612 (Published 11 November 2013)

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• Thomas Dean Stanley Holliday

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6609 (Published 11 November 2013)

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• Ronald Dennis Hyde

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6767 (Published 11 November 2013)

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• Norman Lawrence

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6760 (Published 11 November 2013)

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• John Henry McKnight Pinkerton

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6764 (Published 11 November 2013)

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• Sayed Faqir Hussain Shah

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6435 (Published 04 November 2013)

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• Joseph Schembri Wismayer

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6762 (Published 11 November 2013)

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Clinical Review

• Polymyalgia rheumatica

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6937 (Published 03 December 2013)

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Practice

• The importance of the osmolality gap in ethylene glycol intoxication

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6904 (Published 27 November 2013)

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• Intestinal malrotation and volvulus in infants and children

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6949 (Published 26 November 2013)

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Endgames

• A case of profound hypercalcaemia and acute kidney injury

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6744 (Published 18 November 2013)

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• Kaplan-Meier survival curves: interpretation and communication of risk

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7118 (Published 29 November 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• Indebted to international medical graduates

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7176 (Published 02 December 2013)

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• And finally …

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7180 (Published 02 December 2013)

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Minerva

• Weekend admissions and other stories

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7129 (Published 04 December 2013)

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• Neurological compromise and paravertebral collections

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7130 (Published 04 December 2013)

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