23 May 2015(vol 350, issue 8009)

Editor's Choice

• What’s your weakness?

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2742 (Published 21 May 2015)

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News

• Care at end of life isn’t being properly managed, says ombudsman

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2724 (Published 20 May 2015)

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• High Court rejects claim that a GP trainee’s sentence was too lenient

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2678 (Published 15 May 2015)

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• Withdrawal of treatment from “dying” teenager to be reconsidered by court after he defies expectations

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2636 (Published 14 May 2015)

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• Policy to improve England’s diet has failed, study finds

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2631 (Published 14 May 2015)

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• UK children are more than twice as likely to be obese than previous generations, figures show

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2710 (Published 20 May 2015)

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• Many people in UK underestimate their weight

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2621 (Published 14 May 2015)

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• Report calls for $2bn global fund to kickstart antibiotic development

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2635 (Published 14 May 2015)

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• Report details abuse of mentally ill inmates in US prisons

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2615 (Published 13 May 2015)

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• Persistent depression doubles stroke risk despite treatment, study finds

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2611 (Published 15 May 2015)

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• TAS-102 prolongs overall survival in refractory colorectal cancer, study shows

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2620 (Published 15 May 2015)

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• Drug combination that corrects deficient protein in cystic fibrosis improves lung function

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2689 (Published 19 May 2015)

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• Not all women with dense breasts need further imaging after normal mammogram, study shows

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2690 (Published 19 May 2015)

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Observations

• Edzard Ernst: Guiltiest pleasure is research

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2630 (Published 20 May 2015)

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Editorials

• Rise of waterpipe smoking

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1991 (Published 17 April 2015)

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• Worsening disability in older people: a trigger for palliative care

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2439 (Published 20 May 2015)

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• Lipid lowering for primary prevention of stroke in older adults?

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2568 (Published 19 May 2015)

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• The BMJ requires data sharing on request for all trials

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2373 (Published 07 May 2015)

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Research

• The role of intervening hospital admissions on trajectories of disability in the last year of life: prospective cohort study of older people

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2361 (Published 20 May 2015)

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• Primary prevention with lipid lowering drugs and long term risk of vascular events in older people: population based cohort study

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2335 (Published 19 May 2015)

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• Prognostic capabilities of coronary computed tomographic angiography before non-cardiac surgery: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1907 (Published 22 April 2015)

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• Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole versus vancomycin for severe infections caused by meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2219 (Published 14 May 2015)

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Feature

• Tickets to Glyndebourne or the Oval? Big tobacco’s bid to woo parliamentarians

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2509 (Published 20 May 2015)

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Analysis

• Call to improve transparency of trials of non-regulated interventions

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1323 (Published 27 March 2015)

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Letters

• The ABPI’s response to news story on leading academics’ condemnation of government undermining of NICE

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2649 (Published 19 May 2015)

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• NICE recommendations: why no disinvestment recommendations to offset investment decisions?

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2656 (Published 19 May 2015)

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• New oral anticoagulants: dosing and monitoring

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2655 (Published 19 May 2015)

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• Scant evidence on the effectiveness of metformin in type 2 diabetes

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2650 (Published 19 May 2015)

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• Prejudice in reports on misconduct cases in The BMJ

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2653 (Published 19 May 2015)

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• Authors of report on cost of visitors and migrants to the NHS reply to letter calling for end to political rhetoric on health tourism

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2660 (Published 19 May 2015)

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Observations

• We cannot keep ignoring the crisis in social care

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2684 (Published 21 May 2015)

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• Antimicrobial resistance is a social problem requiring a social solution

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2682 (Published 19 May 2015)

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Views & Reviews

• GMC’s supposedly independent training review included secret meetings with politicians

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2400 (Published 07 May 2015)

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• Margaret McCartney: Stop relying on charity

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2034 (Published 20 April 2015)

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Obituaries

• David Sackett

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2639 (Published 14 May 2015)

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• William H Bain

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1959 (Published 13 April 2015)

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• Ian Charles Fuller

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1960 (Published 13 April 2015)

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• William Graham Pickering

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1529 (Published 26 March 2015)

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• Pamela Mary Fox-Russell

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1962 (Published 13 April 2015)

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• Jean Alero Thomas

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1530 (Published 26 March 2015)

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• Rita Cecily Walker

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1526 (Published 26 March 2015)

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Clinical Review

• Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2168 (Published 20 May 2015)

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Practice

• Tests to predict imminent delivery in threatened preterm labour

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2183 (Published 21 May 2015)

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Endgames

• Controlled trials: allocation concealment, random allocation, and blinding

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2633 (Published 15 May 2015)

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• A young soccer player with sudden pain after kicking the ball

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1944 (Published 16 April 2015)

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• Axial T2 weighted magnetic resonance image at the level of the lateral ventricles

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1609 (Published 25 March 2015)

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Minerva

• Fordyce spots

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2545 (Published 20 May 2015)

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• Unnecessary PCIs and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h2632 (Published 21 May 2015)

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