14 December 2013(vol 347, issue 7937)

Editor's Choice

• Don’t keep taking the tablets

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7438 (Published 11 December 2013)

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News

• Families are warned they can’t decide treatment for incapacitated relatives

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7436 (Published 12 December 2013)

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• Ketamine should be upgraded from class C to class B drug, committee says

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7439 (Published 11 December 2013)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7424 (Published 11 December 2013)

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• Patients are at risk because doctors don’t know how much IV fluid they need, NICE says

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7396 (Published 10 December 2013)

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• Government policy is damaging people most vulnerable to alcohol misuse, warns leading doctor

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7385 (Published 09 December 2013)

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• Regulatory authority reviews GMC decisions in Mid Staffordshire cases

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7397 (Published 10 December 2013)

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• Study busts myth of “metabolically healthy” obesity

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7324 (Published 06 December 2013)

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• Europe drug regulator wins appeal over release of trial data

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7341 (Published 06 December 2013)

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• UK doctors’ regulator strikes off GP for persistent dishonesty

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7414 (Published 10 December 2013)

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• Judge allows boy to have bone marrow transplant against father’s wishes

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7344 (Published 06 December 2013)

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• Split in commissioning between local authorities and health bodies is reducing access to sexual health services

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7311 (Published 05 December 2013)

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• EU air quality limits are not stringent enough, say researchers

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7338 (Published 09 December 2013)

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Editorials

• Doctors’ health: taking the lifecycle approach

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7086 (Published 26 November 2013)

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• Prognosis of respiratory tract infections in primary care

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7185 (Published 06 December 2013)

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• Supporting people who care for adults with dementia

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6691 (Published 25 November 2013)

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• Tackling female genital mutilation in the UK

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7150 (Published 04 December 2013)

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Research

• Predictors of suppurative complications for acute sore throat in primary care: prospective clinical cohort study

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6867 (Published 25 November 2013)

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• Duration of symptoms of respiratory tract infections in children: systematic review

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7027 (Published 11 December 2013)

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• Mortality rates at 10 years after metal-on-metal hip resurfacing compared with total hip replacement in England: retrospective cohort analysis of hospital episode statistics

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6549 (Published 27 November 2013)

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• Pre-eclampsia rates in the United States, 1980-2010: age-period-cohort analysis

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6564 (Published 07 November 2013)

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Feature

• Welcome to the most exclusive club in the NHS

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7318 (Published 11 December 2013)

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• Syria: a healthcare system on the brink of collapse

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7375 (Published 10 December 2013)

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• Who cares for the nine million displaced people of Syria?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7374 (Published 10 December 2013)

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Analysis

• Medicalising unhappiness: new classification of depression risks more patients being put on drug treatment from which they will not benefit

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7140 (Published 09 December 2013)

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• Patient perspective: mild depression must not be ignored

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7225 (Published 09 December 2013)

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Letters

• Children must be protected from the tobacco industry’s marketing tactics

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7358 (Published 09 December 2013)

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• Care is needed in epidemiological research not to overgeneralise about cancer diagnosis and treatment

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7337 (Published 09 December 2013)

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• Obstructive sleep apnoea does not lead to clinically significant erythrocytosis

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7340 (Published 09 December 2013)

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• Whose role is it to collect patients’ stories?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7332 (Published 09 December 2013)

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• Who is responsible for publishing the results of old trials?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7199 (Published 10 December 2013)

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• We need to get another life after retirement

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7173 (Published 09 December 2013)

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Observations

• Parveen Kumar: Pet hate is arrogance

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7367 (Published 11 December 2013)

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• Rosiglitazone: a case of regulatory hubris

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7428 (Published 11 December 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• Doctors must confront homophobia because it causes harm

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7012 (Published 22 November 2013)

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Obituaries

• Peter Kenneth Barnes

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6892 (Published 15 November 2013)

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• Darrell Marsh Evans

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6886 (Published 15 November 2013)

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• Emma Felicity Hounsell

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6889 (Published 15 November 2013)

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• Bakhtawar Shah Khattak

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6891 (Published 12 December 2013)

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• Robert Emil Steiner

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6888 (Published 26 November 2013)

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• Andrew Theodossi

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6263 (Published 29 October 2013)

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Clinical Review

• Tick bite prevention and tick removal

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7123 (Published 09 December 2013)

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Practice

• Intravenous fluid therapy for adults in hospital: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7073 (Published 10 December 2013)

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• Dental pain

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6539 (Published 05 November 2013)

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Endgames

• Sudden onset hair loss and colour change

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6112 (Published 31 October 2013)

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• Meta-analyses: standardised mean differences

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7257 (Published 06 December 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• What is the point of doctors?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7380 (Published 10 December 2013)

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• A fat chance of slimming

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7389 (Published 10 December 2013)

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Minerva

• A pear shaped bladder

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7301 (Published 11 December 2013)

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• The benefits of mild hypothermia and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7310 (Published 11 December 2013)

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