19 October 2019(vol 367, issue 8218)

This Week

• Foundation of wisdom: “I don’t know”

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6053 (Published 17 October 2019)

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• Physician shortage worsened by cuts in job ads and lack of trainees, colleges warn

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6011 (Published 14 October 2019)

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• Seven days in medicine: 9-15 Oct 2019

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6012 (Published 17 October 2019)

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• Chronically ill prisoners risk of being transferred without medication because of gaps in care

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6003 (Published 14 October 2019)

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• Sixty seconds on . . . Sesame Street and opioids

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5987 (Published 11 October 2019)

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• Gender dysphoria researchers did not veer from research norms, says ethics review

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6034 (Published 15 October 2019)

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• Vaping: UK experts defend safety in face of US lung injury cases

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6027 (Published 14 October 2019)

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• Migrant health: Trusts asked GPs to identify whether patients they refer are eligible for free NHS care

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6002 (Published 17 October 2019)

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• Mental health services: CQC warns of “perfect storm”

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6032 (Published 14 October 2019)

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• Mandatory childhood vaccination could cause “irreparable damage,” says expert panel

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5995 (Published 11 October 2019)

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• Lyme disease: chronic illness is rare, say experts

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5975 (Published 10 October 2019)

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• Psychiatrist plans to leave NHS if his mother is refused permission to stay in UK

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6000 (Published 11 October 2019)

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• Doctors join Extinction Rebellion demonstrations

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l6037 (Published 15 October 2019)

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• New child safeguarding arrangements for England

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5813 (Published 08 October 2019)

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• HRT and breast cancer risk

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5928 (Published 11 October 2019)

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• U=U is a blessing: but only for patients with access to HIV treatment: an essay by Tamás Bereczky

  BMJ 2019; 366 :l5554 (Published 17 September 2019)

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• The complicated, political, expensive, seemingly eternal US healthcare debate explained

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5885 (Published 10 October 2019)

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• Outdoor smoking: fair or foul?

  BMJ 2019; 366 :l5754 (Published 30 September 2019)

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Research

• Weight change across adulthood in relation to all cause and cause specific mortality: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5584 (Published 16 October 2019)

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• Association of early postnatal transfer and birth outside a tertiary hospital with mortality and severe brain injury in extremely preterm infants: observational cohort study with propensity score matching

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5678 (Published 16 October 2019)

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• Hospital transfer of extremely preterm infants

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5930 (Published 16 October 2019)

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• Efficacy of antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes (the AIM study): double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, multicentre trial

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5654 (Published 16 October 2019)

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Comment

• Matt Morgan: Those three little words

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5918 (Published 15 October 2019)

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• Bacon rashers, statistics, and controversy

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5989 (Published 14 October 2019)

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• David Oliver: What to say when patients are “sick enough to die”

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5917 (Published 16 October 2019)

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• Helen Salisbury: Reasons to be fearful

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5786 (Published 15 October 2019)

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• Statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5674 (Published 16 October 2019)

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• Ageing workforce: sustaining the “longevity dividend”

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5889 (Published 08 October 2019)

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• Ageing workforce causes a rise in GP workload

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5898 (Published 09 October 2019)

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• High dose statins on the high street: where are the data?

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5911 (Published 10 October 2019)

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• High dose statins on the high street: possible drug interactions

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5924 (Published 10 October 2019)

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• Why don’t CCGs ask for more money?

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5926 (Published 14 October 2019)

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• Suicide among medical students: investing in our future NHS

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5929 (Published 11 October 2019)

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• Suicide among medical students: money worries affect mental health

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5934 (Published 11 October 2019)

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• Suicide among medical students: be firm on wellbeing

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5935 (Published 11 October 2019)

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• Going up in vapour: how does the MHRA regulate so many products

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5781 (Published 07 October 2019)

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• James Leith Penny

  BMJ 2019; 366 :l5523 (Published 13 September 2019)

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• Kenneth Robert Lown

  BMJ 2019; 366 :l5521 (Published 13 September 2019)

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• Kenneth Aubrey Stewart

  BMJ 2019; 366 :l5522 (Published 13 September 2019)

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• Richard Frank Ciezak

  BMJ 2019; 366 :l5526 (Published 13 September 2019)

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• Paul Leslie Gordon Townsend

  BMJ 2019; 366 :l5611 (Published 18 September 2019)

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• Nicola Price

  BMJ 2019; 366 :l5614 (Published 25 September 2019)

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• Edith Irby Jones: broke through racial barriers to ensure poor patients got the best possible care

  BMJ 2019; 366 :l5117 (Published 12 August 2019)

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Education

• Direct-to-consumer genetic testing

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5688 (Published 16 October 2019)

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• Can surgery be avoided in patients with symptomatic gallstone disease and no complications?

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5709 (Published 11 October 2019)

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• Pruritic annular concentric plaques

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5512 (Published 10 October 2019)

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• The low down on back pain . . . and other stories

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5936 (Published 17 October 2019)

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• Severe back pain in an older man

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l5762 (Published 17 October 2019)

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Careers

• Why I . . . sing

  BMJ 2019; 367 :l4939 (Published 14 October 2019)

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