11 October 2014(vol 349, issue 7978)

Editor's Choice

• Optimism and consent to treatment

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g6118 (Published 09 October 2014)

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News

• European Medicines Agency pledges to publish clinical reports

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• NHS is close to “buckling,” doctors’ leaders warn politicians

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• In brief

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• Obstetrician who blamed delay in a Caesarean section on a “stupid midwife” is struck off

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g6066 (Published 07 October 2014)

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• Hospitals could run general practice services in underserved areas

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g6055 (Published 03 October 2014)

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• Hospital trust borrows £114m to end private financing deal 19 years early

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g6060 (Published 08 October 2014)

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• Prompt diagnosis of multiple sclerosis should be routine, says NICE

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• UK based neuroscientist wins Nobel Prize for work on the brain’s “inner GPS”

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• Decision to recommend drug to cut drink dependence proves controversial

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• Health experts launch campaign to reverse NHS reforms

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• Conflicts of interest may affect conclusions of systematic reviews of flu drugs, study indicates

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• Doctors can withdraw treatment from brain damaged baby, High Court rules

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Observations

• Alison Murdoch: Planting trees for posterity

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g6052 (Published 08 October 2014)

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Editorials

• Safeguarding children: a challenge to doctors

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5898 (Published 01 October 2014)

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• Antibiotic treatment failure in primary care

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5970 (Published 02 October 2014)

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• Patients are overoptimistic about PCI

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5613 (Published 18 September 2014)

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• Minimally invasive thoracic surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5849 (Published 02 October 2014)

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Research

• Long term survival with thoracoscopic versus open lobectomy: propensity matched comparative analysis using SEER-Medicare database

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5575 (Published 02 October 2014)

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• Impact of sending email reminders of the legal requirement for posting results on ClinicalTrials.gov: cohort embedded pragmatic randomized controlled trial

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5579 (Published 19 September 2014)

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• Variation in patients’ perceptions of elective percutaneous coronary intervention in stable coronary artery disease: cross sectional study

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5309 (Published 08 September 2014)

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• Antibiotic treatment failure in four common infections in UK primary care 1991-2012: longitudinal analysis

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5493 (Published 23 September 2014)

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Analysis

• A wolf in sheep’s clothing: how Monitor is using licensing powers to reduce hospital and community services in England under the guise of continuity

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5603 (Published 07 October 2014)

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Head to Head

• Is the private sector a good thing for the NHS?

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5865 (Published 30 September 2014)

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Letters

• Publishing performance data is an ethical obligation in all specialties

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g6030 (Published 09 October 2014)

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• Author’s reply to Bolsin and Colson, Nelson and colleagues, and Vallance-Owen

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g6032 (Published 09 October 2014)

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• National audits need more sensitive and specific outcome measures for quality improvement

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• Link between FDA antidepressant warnings and increased suicide attempts in young people is questionable

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5614 (Published 09 October 2014)

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• Study findings on FDA antidepressant warnings and suicide attempts in young people: a false alarm?

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5645 (Published 09 October 2014)

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• Authors’ reply to Olfson and Schoenbaum, Nardo, Bartlett, Moore, Case, Gøtzsche, and Barber and colleagues

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5722 (Published 09 October 2014)

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• Help us to engage with the text on smartphones as well as we do with textbooks

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• What about the environmental benefits of reading with a smartphone?

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Observations

• Social media attacks on public health advocates

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g6006 (Published 08 October 2014)

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Views & Reviews

• Medical history taking in adults should include questions about preterm birth

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g4860 (Published 01 August 2014)

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Obituaries

• William Stewart Hillis

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5158 (Published 26 August 2014)

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• Ian Gibb Bogle

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5362 (Published 02 September 2014)

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• John Rodgers Cox

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5625 (Published 19 September 2014)

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• Peter Alan Dupont

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• John Beocher Scrimgeour

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• Desmond Gerard Taylor

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• John Desmond Taylor

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Clinical Review

• Laryngitis

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Practice

• Are persistent throat symptoms atypical features of gastric reflux and should they be treated with proton pump inhibitors?

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Filler

• Isn’t the NHS brilliant

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5335 (Published 16 September 2013)

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Practice

• Diagnosing and managing acute heart failure in adults: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5695 (Published 08 October 2014)

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Endgames

• Understanding confidence intervals

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g6051 (Published 07 October 2014)

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• An unusual headache

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5602 (Published 16 September 2014)

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• Anatomical lines of the pelvis on an anterioposterior radiograph

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5047 (Published 11 August 2014)

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Views & Reviews

• Margaret McCartney: The private sector providers letting down the NHS

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5726 (Published 29 September 2014)

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Minerva

• There’s worms in them thar hills . . . and other stories

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5973 (Published 09 October 2014)

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• Acute kidney injury and malignant hypertension caused by occlusive radiation vasculopathy

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5581 (Published 09 October 2014)

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