05 April 2014(vol 348, issue 7952)

Editor's Choice

• Climate change is a health emergency

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2546 (Published 03 April 2014)

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News

• BMA calls for repeal of “intensely damaging” health act

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2532 (Published 01 April 2014)

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• GMC should have power to appeal decisions on fitness to practise, MPs say

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2541 (Published 02 April 2014)

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• First UK prosecution for female genital mutilation raises concerns among doctors

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2424 (Published 28 March 2014)

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• Trainee GP who posted photos of patients online is told his fitness to practise is impaired

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2454 (Published 31 March 2014)

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• Smoking bans are linked to reduction in preterm births and childhood asthma, says study

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2414 (Published 28 March 2014)

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• Failing to act on climate change will “cause great suffering,” doctors warn

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2512 (Published 01 April 2014)

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• Hard choices lie ahead over how to pay for care, says commission

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2534 (Published 03 April 2014)

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• Polio virus spreads from Syria to Iraq

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2481 (Published 02 April 2014)

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• UK hospital drops partnership plans after quality of care improves

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2455 (Published 31 March 2014)

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• China to investigate widespread drugging of kindergarten children

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2457 (Published 31 March 2014)

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• Tougher action is needed to address “alarming” levels of overweight and obesity, says England’s chief medical officer

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2438 (Published 28 March 2014)

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Editorials

• Vitamin D and chronic disease prevention

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2280 (Published 01 April 2014)

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• Probiotics and infant colic

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2286 (Published 01 April 2014)

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• Introducing a new group B meningococcus vaccine

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2415 (Published 02 April 2014)

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• Arthroscopy for degenerate meniscal tears of the knee

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2382 (Published 02 April 2014)

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Research

• Vitamin D and risk of cause specific death: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational cohort and randomised intervention studies

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1903 (Published 01 April 2014)

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• Vitamin D and multiple health outcomes: umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies and randomised trials

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2035 (Published 01 April 2014)

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• Selective digestive or oropharyngeal decontamination and topical oropharyngeal chlorhexidine for prevention of death in general intensive care: systematic review and network meta-analysis

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2197 (Published 31 March 2014)

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• Treating infant colic with the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri: double blind, placebo controlled randomised trial

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2107 (Published 01 April 2014)

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Observations

• The poisonous “juice” in e-cigarettes

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2504 (Published 01 April 2014)

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Feature

• Does it work to pay people to live healthier lives?

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2458 (Published 02 April 2014)

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• Berwick Patient Safety Team: making the NHS a safer place

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2404 (Published 28 March 2014)

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Analysis

• Why doctors and their organisations must help tackle climate change: an essay by Eric Chivian

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2407 (Published 02 April 2014)

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Letters

• Using CD disc recordings of oncology consultations to help patients handle large amounts of information

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2428 (Published 03 April 2014)

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• Establishing an audio recording service for patients with prostate cancer

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2436 (Published 03 April 2014)

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• Developing the use of digital recording of consultations to improve patient care

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2427 (Published 03 April 2014)

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• NICE’s work towards a national clinical audit results database

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2430 (Published 03 April 2014)

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• Routinely test for HIV in everyone presenting with unexplained lymphopenia

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2433 (Published 03 April 2014)

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• Interval bowel cancers may not be detected on faecal occult blood testing

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2390 (Published 03 April 2014)

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Views & Reviews

• It’s time to change the catheter: this ubiquitous but flawed medical device is letting patients down

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1932 (Published 11 March 2014)

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Obituaries

• Els Borst-Eilers

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1917 (Published 25 March 2014)

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• Lesley Alison Margaret Evans

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1877 (Published 10 March 2014)

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• John Exley

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2090 (Published 11 March 2014)

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• David Garrod

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1872 (Published 10 March 2014)

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• Charles Christopher Hunter

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1876 (Published 10 March 2014)

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• Cyril Sheridan

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1884 (Published 10 March 2014)

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• Reginald Arthur Shooter

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1241 (Published 24 February 2014)

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Clinical Review

• Modern management of splenic trauma

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1864 (Published 02 April 2014)

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Practice

• Bladder cancer in women

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2171 (Published 31 March 2014)

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• Tremor

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f7200 (Published 12 December 2013)

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Endgames

• Abdominal radiograph

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g1497 (Published 12 February 2014)

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Minerva

• An unusual cause of acute hip pain

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2239 (Published 02 April 2014)

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Endgames

• Treatment allocation in trials: block randomisation

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2409 (Published 28 March 2014)

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• A man with fever, a productive cough, and a striking chest radiograph

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2212 (Published 02 April 2014)

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Observations

• Margaret McCartney: Singing the praises of evidence

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2015 (Published 17 March 2014)

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Minerva

• “Patientgate” and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2014; 348 :g2420 (Published 02 April 2014)

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