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Soft power

Feature

“We’re on the same side, really”: medical profession turns to soft power to influence policy

Doctors’ leaders are starting to take a different approach to winning people round to their way of thinking, Tom Moberly finds

Assisted dying

Feature

Assisted dying and the RCP poll: what do The BMJ’s readers think?

Diagnostics

Analysis

Dangerous diagnostics? Regulatory reform in the genomic era

The perils of deprescribing

Views & reviews

Helen Salisbury: The perils of deprescribing

EditorialRationalising medications through deprescribing

Holy Grail

Views & reviews

David Oliver: Is hospital avoidance an elusive holy grail?

The BMJ blogs

Joseph S Machta: Why I . . . wear an eye mask on the tube

To induce or not to induce pregnant women at 41 weeks

Providing better evidence in orthopaedic surgery: RCTs, registries, or both?

Isky Gordon: The reality of promoting advance decisions to refuse treatment

Ann Robinson’s research reviews—19 February 2019

Amrit Banstola et al: Achieving universal health coverage in Nepal

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Latest opinion and features

Editor's choice

More power to their elbow

Editorial

Optimising the management of late term pregnancies

ResearchInduction of labour at 41 weeks versus expectant management until 42 weeks

BMJ opinionTo induce or not to induce pregnant women at 41 weeks

Observations

Tolu Oni: Working on Africa’s health

Editorial

A scholarship to foster future leaders in evidence based medicine

Analysis

Universal antenatal screening for group B streptococcus may cause more harm than good

Views & reviews

Partha Kar: Applying aviation safety to healthcare—are we missing the fundamental?

Views & reviews

The prominence of e-cigarettes is a symptom of decades of failure to tackle smoking properly

Editor's choice

Some help with your clinical dilemmas

Editorial

Searching for the missing link in coeliac disease

ResearchEnterovirus as trigger of coeliac disease

Head to head

Should we screen for atrial fibrillation?

Observations

Graham Kramer: Making health literacy easy

Views & reviews

Helen Salisbury: The informed patient

Editorial

NIHR’s research signals in The BMJ

PracticeNew airway device as good as tracheal tube insertion for out-of-hospital resuscitation

Editorial

Improving outpatient antibiotic prescribing

ResearchEffectiveness and safety of electronically delivered prescribing feedback and decision support on antibiotic use for respiratory

Views & reviews

David Oliver: Missed GP appointments are no scandal

Editorial

Publicising trial results before peer review

Views & reviews

Gabriel Weston: The different time zones of doctors and patients

Feature

How NHS investment in proton beam therapy is coming to fruition

Editor's choice

Assisted dying: the debate continues

Read our collection of articles on assisted dying

Analysis

PREDIMED trial of Mediterranean diet: retracted, republished, still trusted?

BMJ opinionA Mediterranean diet trial’s retraction and republication leaves a trail of questions

Editorial

Subacromial decompression surgery for shoulder pain

PracticeSubacromial decompression surgery for adults with shoulder pain: a clinical practice guideline

Latest news

News

Provide doctors with rest spaces and on-call rooms, says mental health review

BMJ opinionWhy I wear an eye mask on the tube

News

Cancer screening: NHS launches overhaul of national programmes

News

Long term conditions in young people: UK is third worst of 15 countries

News

Seven days in medicine: 13-19 Feb 2019

News

Assisted dying methods can lead to “inhumane” deaths

Read our collection of articles on assisted dying

News

Doctors call on UK to be carbon neutral by 2030

Latest obituaries

Obituary

Cornel Fleming

Obituary

Guy Charmot: epidemiologist and French war hero