21 March 2015(vol 350, issue 8000)

Editor's Choice

• New rules of consent: the patient decides

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1534 (Published 19 March 2015)

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News

• Doctors should not cherry pick what information to give patients, court rules

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1414 (Published 13 March 2015)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1511 (Published 17 March 2015)

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• Private firms enlisted to cut waiting lists for tests and surgery in £780m contract

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1465 (Published 13 March 2015)

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• Homeopathy is not an effective treatment for any health condition, report concludes

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1478 (Published 16 March 2015)

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• Former editor pays $1m to settle allegations of kickbacks to promote products

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1459 (Published 13 March 2015)

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• Make social care free at end of life to help more people die at home, say MPs

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1457 (Published 16 March 2015)

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• Improve reporting of female genital mutilation, MPs tell doctors

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1467 (Published 18 March 2015)

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• Major health committee report falls victim to MPs’ disagreement

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1440 (Published 13 March 2015)

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• Hospitals must take lead on new care models and work better with GPs, think tank says

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1512 (Published 19 March 2015)

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• NICE recommends small improvements to help people stay at healthy weight

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1427 (Published 13 March 2015)

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• EU-US trade treaty threatens vital health gains, warn public health experts

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1438 (Published 13 March 2015)

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• England launches programme to prevent type 2 diabetes

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1400 (Published 12 March 2015)

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• Folic acid significantly reduces risk of first stroke, large Chinese study finds

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1461 (Published 16 March 2015)

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• CT coronary angiography clarifies diagnosis in suspected angina, study shows

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1464 (Published 17 March 2015)

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• Drug eluting stents match bypass surgery for mortality in registry study, but trial shows higher event rate

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1489 (Published 17 March 2015)

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• PCSK9 inhibitors reduce cardiovascular events, preliminary data show

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1508 (Published 17 March 2015)

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Observations

• Henrietta Bowden-Jones: Extrovert, optimistic, driven

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1444 (Published 18 March 2015)

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Editorials

• Statins in pregnancy

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1484 (Published 17 March 2015)

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• Drug treatments for rheumatoid arthritis: looking backwards to move forwards

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1192 (Published 13 March 2015)

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• European Commission’s proposals on trade secrets

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1369 (Published 11 March 2015)

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• Digital media interventions for sexual health promotion—opportunities and challenges

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1099 (Published 03 March 2015)

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Research

• School based education programme to reduce salt intake in children and their families (School-EduSalt): cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h770 (Published 18 March 2015)

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• Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors versus combination intensive therapy with conventional disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in established rheumatoid arthritis: TACIT non-inferiority randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1046 (Published 13 March 2015)

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• Statins and congenital malformations: cohort study

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1035 (Published 17 March 2015)

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Feature

• Rosuvastatin: winner in the statin wars, patients’ health notwithstanding

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1388 (Published 17 March 2015)

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• Clare Marx: “No one said to me this is a world you cannot enter”

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h462 (Published 03 February 2015)

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Analysis

• Thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke: time for a rethink?

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1075 (Published 17 March 2015)

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Letters

• Preventing, rather than treating, stress in doctors under investigation

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1439 (Published 18 March 2015)

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• Mixed messages from the GMC on disciplinary processes

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1407 (Published 18 March 2015)

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• Doctors’ suicides: economic considerations and beyond

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1412 (Published 18 March 2015)

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• Misunderstanding the meaning of resilience

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1423 (Published 18 March 2015)

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• World Bank Group’s support to the Ebola virus response effort

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1283 (Published 18 March 2015)

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• Author’s reply to Reynolds

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1284 (Published 18 March 2015)

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• We don’t need an “evidence base” for a smoking ban in outdoor spaces

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1442 (Published 18 March 2015)

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Observations

• Update on the UK law on consent

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1481 (Published 16 March 2015)

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Views & Reviews

• Margaret McCartney: Direct to consumer genetic testing—is all knowledge power?

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h439 (Published 26 January 2015)

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• Only the mother of all reorganisations can save the NHS

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1488 (Published 19 March 2015)

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• “By the way doctor, I’ve booked an African safari after my next chemo”

  BMJ 2015; 350 :g7822 (Published 06 January 2015)

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Obituaries

• Irvine Loudon

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1085 (Published 02 March 2015)

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• John Richard Carr Gardham

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h740 (Published 17 February 2015)

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• Robin John Hope

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h552 (Published 02 February 2015)

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• Andrew James Johnson

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h739 (Published 17 February 2015)

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• Nora Mason

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h741 (Published 17 February 2015)

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• Abraham Osborne

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h398 (Published 26 January 2015)

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• Harold Walter Henry Shepperd

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h152 (Published 09 January 2015)

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Clinical Review

• Sudden cardiac death in athletes

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1218 (Published 18 March 2015)

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Practice

• A quick ward assessment of older patients by junior doctors

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h607 (Published 19 March 2015)

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Endgames

• Meta-analyses: what is heterogeneity?

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1435 (Published 16 March 2015)

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• A rapidly enlarging swelling of the left orbit

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h799 (Published 25 February 2015)

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• Anteroposterior radiograph of a barium examination of the oesophagus

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1169 (Published 05 March 2015)

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Minerva

• An unusual cause of hip pain

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1385 (Published 18 March 2015)

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• Doctors who stop people’s drugs and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2015; 350 :h1399 (Published 18 March 2015)

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