13 April 2013(vol 346, issue 7903)

Editor's Choice

• Patient powered health

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f2255 (Published 10 April 2013)

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News

• Number of patients eligible for fast track access to drugs through the cancer drugs fund is slashed

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• Roche offers researchers access to all Tamiflu trials

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f2157 (Published 04 April 2013)

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• Inquest opens into death of woman who was refused an abortion

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• NHS medical director defends his decision to pause paediatric heart surgery at Leeds

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• Doctors call for Earl Howe to be removed from role in Friends of the Royal College of Physicians

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• “Absurd” rules are hampering research into controlled drugs, says former drugs adviser

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• In brief

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• Campaigners step up fight to “kill off” commissioning regulations

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• Patients with prostate cancer and BRCA2 mutations need urgent treatment

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• Psychiatrists win unfair dismissal case after being made to do out of hours work

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• Social research company threatens CHC with libel suit

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• H7N9 avian flu kills seven and infects 23 in China

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• Healthcare professionals received £40m from drug companies last year

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Editorials

• Government’s initial response to Mid Staffordshire report

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• Reducing sodium and increasing potassium intake

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• Future proofing the Quality and Outcomes Framework

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1942 (Published 25 March 2013)

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• Weight changes and health in Cuba

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1777 (Published 09 April 2013)

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Research News

• Staphylococcus aureus vaccination before heart surgery fails to deliver

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f2200 (Published 10 April 2013)

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• Low melatonin secretion is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes

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• Treating cryptococcal meningitis in people with HIV

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• Duloxetine reduces chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy

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Research

• Effect of longer term modest salt reduction on blood pressure: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1325 (Published 04 April 2013)

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• Effect of lower sodium intake on health: systematic review and meta-analyses

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• Effect of increased potassium intake on cardiovascular risk factors and disease: systematic review and meta-analyses

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• Population-wide weight loss and regain in relation to diabetes burden and cardiovascular mortality in Cuba 1980-2010: repeated cross sectional surveys and ecological comparison of secular trends

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1515 (Published 09 April 2013)

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Head to Head

• Would doctors routinely asking older patients about their memory improve dementia outcomes? Yes

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1780 (Published 26 March 2013)

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• Would doctors routinely asking older patients about their memory improve dementia outcomes? No

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Feature

• After Francis, what next for the NHS?

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f2074 (Published 10 April 2013)

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Analysis

• The Quality and Outcomes Framework—where next?

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f659 (Published 07 February 2013)

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• How the e-patient community helped save my life: an essay by Dave deBronkart

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1990 (Published 02 April 2013)

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Letters

• A paradigm shift in approach to antimicrobials is needed

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• Shopping around in today’s NHS compounds the problem of antimicrobial resistance

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• Threat posed by antimicrobial resistance must not be underestimated

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• Suspension verdict for doctor treating torture victims is unfair

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• Switch to large pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs

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• Authors’ response to editorial by Levy and colleagues on treating ACL injuries in young moderately active adults

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Observations

• Science trumps politics on emergency contraception

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Views & Reviews

• Promoting abstinence for drug users is about saving money not science

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Obituaries

• Justin Howse

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f2048 (Published 28 March 2013)

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Clinical Review

• Leukaemia update. Part 2: managing patients with leukaemia in the community

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1932 (Published 09 April 2013)

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Practice

• Lessons from patients’ journeys

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1988 (Published 03 April 2013)

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• Fatigue in primary biliary cirrhosis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7004 (Published 22 October 2012)

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Endgames

• Painful blisters on the hand

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1753 (Published 26 March 2013)

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• Units of analysis

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f2128 (Published 05 April 2013)

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• Recurrent hypoglycaemia in a young man without diabetes

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1182 (Published 28 February 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• Kill the QOF

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f1498 (Published 06 March 2013)

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• A grandad writes

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Minerva

• Carcinoma erysipeloides reducing right arm function

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f2170 (Published 08 April 2013)

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• The link between miscarriage and heart disease and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f2169 (Published 08 April 2013)

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