12 September 2015(vol 351, issue 8024)

Editor's Choice

• What to do about the “weekend effect”

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4840 (Published 10 September 2015)

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News

• Alcohol campaigners welcome preliminary opinion from European Court of Justice

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• In brief

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• “Euthanasia kits” are prepared for Quebec doctors as palliative care centres rebel on right to die

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• Welby and 23 other faith leaders declare opposition to assisted dying bill

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• Health board’s decision to stop funding homeopathy is upheld by judicial review

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• NHS England drops 16 medicines from Cancer Drugs Fund

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• NHS cancer diagnosis system is under strain and not meeting demand, experts warn

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• Polio outbreak in Ukraine likely to spread, WHO warns

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• Patient flow issues caused longer A&E waits last winter, Monitor says

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• US neurosurgeon deliberately botched spine operations, prosecutors allege

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• Reducing sugary drink intake is linked to raised HDL cholesterol levels

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4738 (Published 08 September 2015)

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• Neonatal MRI scan could predict cognitive outcome in preterm children

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• Young adults using e-cigarettes are more likely to progress to smoking, study shows

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4802 (Published 09 September 2015)

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• Every hour of daily screen time knocks two grades off teenagers’ exam scores, study shows

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Observations

• Michael Marmot: Evidence based optimist

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4577 (Published 09 September 2015)

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Editorials

• Making sense of the evidence for the “weekend effect”

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• Europe’s refugee crisis: an urgent call for moral leadership

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4833 (Published 09 September 2015)

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• Trials are best, ignore the rest: safety and efficacy of digoxin

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4662 (Published 30 August 2015)

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• Predicting pulmonary embolus in primary care

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Research

• Safety and efficacy of digoxin: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational and controlled trial data

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• Effect of bivalent human papillomavirus vaccination on pregnancy outcomes: long term observational follow-up in the Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4358 (Published 07 September 2015)

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• Diagnostic prediction models for suspected pulmonary embolism: systematic review and independent external validation in primary care

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Feature

• Seven day working: why the health secretary’s proposal is not as simple as it sounds

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4473 (Published 05 September 2015)

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Analysis

• Increased mortality associated with weekend hospital admission: a case for expanded seven day services?

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Letters

• Research and teaching in general practice/primary care

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• Basing safe staffing levels on evidence

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• Flexibility in trial enrolment decisions

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4608 (Published 01 September 2015)

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• Wi-fi is essential for medical education and helps clinicians provide safe and effective patient care

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4642 (Published 08 September 2015)

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• Need for early recognition and multidisciplinary management of paediatric complex regional pain syndrome

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• Nurturing compassion

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• Compassion can be learnt and must be integrated into practice

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Views & Reviews

• Publishers’ charges for scoring systems may change clinical practice

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4325 (Published 12 August 2015)

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Observations

• Is the UK government right that seven day working in hospitals would save 6000 lives a year?

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4723 (Published 05 September 2015)

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Views & Reviews

• Margaret McCartney: Blaming doctors won’t reduce antibiotic overuse

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Obituaries

• Oliver Wolf Sacks

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• David Ernst

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• James Leo Gibbons

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• Janet Mary Hellier

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• Anthony James Moon

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• Roger Moss

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• Nicholas John Murrant

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• Huw Owen Thomas

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Clinical Review

• The modern diagnosis and management of pleural effusions

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4520 (Published 08 September 2015)

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  • CME

Practice

• Recognition, assessment, and management of coeliac disease: summary of updated NICE guidance

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4513 (Published 02 September 2015)

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• When should the umbilical cord be clamped?

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Endgames

• Squamous cell carcinoma of the nail bed

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4640 (Published 02 September 2015)

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• Understanding the Hawthorne effect

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• Sudden onset diffuse erythema and oedema of the breast

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4166 (Published 06 August 2015)

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Minerva

• Uncommon cervicofacial lesions

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4547 (Published 09 September 2015)

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• Link between multiple sclerosis and vitamin D deficiency and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h4690 (Published 10 September 2015)

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