03 August 2013(vol 347, issue 7919)

Editor's Choice

• First do no harm

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4843 (Published 31 July 2013)

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News

• NHS Direct backs out of contracts to run NHS 111 because of poor funding

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4837 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• Caution urged amid wide variation in response rates to friends and family test

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4839 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Drug industry pledge on access to trial data is met with scepticism

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4829 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• European drugs agency clashes with scientists over safety of GLP-1 drugs

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4838 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• College admits that 10 vascular surgeons need to have their mortality rates reviewed

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• Unexpected rise in deaths among older patients leaves experts guessing over the likely cause

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4795 (Published 29 July 2013)

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• Head of GSK in China is replaced as details of fraud scandal emerge

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4791 (Published 29 July 2013)

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• Ophthalmologist who tried to deflect blame onto others is struck off

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Editorials

• Government’s plans for universal health checks for people aged 40-75

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4788 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• Leading healthcare in London: time for a radical response?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4711 (Published 29 July 2013)

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• Medical savings accounts: Singapore’s non-solution to healthcare costs

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4797 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Physician Payment Sunshine Act

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4828 (Published 01 August 2013)

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Research News

• Kidney stones linked to heart disease in women

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4782 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Psychiatric illness contributes to high death rates among people with epilepsy

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4783 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Helping men make decisions about PSA tests

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4785 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• No support for population screening with echocardiography

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4784 (Published 31 July 2013)

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Research

• Impact of wound edge protection devices on surgical site infection after laparotomy: multicentre randomised controlled trial (ROSSINI Trial)

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4305 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Severe hypoglycaemia and cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis with bias analysis

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4533 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• Association of visit-to-visit variability in blood pressure with cognitive function in old age: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4600 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• Association of plasma uric acid with ischaemic heart disease and blood pressure: mendelian randomisation analysis of two large cohorts

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4262 (Published 18 July 2013)

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Head to Head

• Should Europe have a universal hepatitis B vaccination programme?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4057 (Published 10 July 2013)

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Feature

• Sharing data from clinical trials: where we are and what lies ahead

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4794 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• Unintended consequences of sanctions against Iran

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4650 (Published 23 July 2013)

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Analysis

• Chronic kidney disease controversy: how expanding definitions are unnecessarily labelling many people as diseased

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4298 (Published 30 July 2013)

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Letters

• Beware the rise of commercial “mole checking” shops on high streets

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4724 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• Beware the influence of the “SIF” (single issue fanatic) in clinical guidelines

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4719 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• NICE accredits guidelines using international AGREE criteria

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4771 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• NICE says caesarean section is not available on demand unless clinically indicated

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• Cancer cases diagnosed as emergencies may be fewer than reported

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4773 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• Junior doctors are ready and waiting to create an iNHS

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4731 (Published 30 July 2013)

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• NHS IT department needs to say yes for an iNHS

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4732 (Published 30 July 2013)

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Observations

• UK government’s delay on plain tobacco packaging: how much evidence is enough?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4786 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Improving the UK’s performance on survival after cardiac arrest

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4800 (Published 31 July 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• We should harness the power of our colleagues’ fresh ideas

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4538 (Published 17 July 2013)

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Obituaries

• Christian de Duve

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f3821 (Published 18 June 2013)

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• Pamela Aihie

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4325 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Lance Lee Bromley

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4326 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Florence Pauline Cowmeadow

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• John Stuart Edmondson

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4323 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Audrey Finnegan

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4457 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Harry Ralph Claude Riches

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4309 (Published 31 July 2013)

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Clinical Review

• Strongyloides stercoralis infection

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4610 (Published 30 July 2013)

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Practice

• Investigating microcytic anaemia

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f3154 (Published 07 June 2013)

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• Thrombocytopenia in an adult

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f3407 (Published 10 June 2013)

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Endgames

• Stroke in a young man

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4484 (Published 15 July 2013)

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• Kaplan-Meier survival analysis: types of censored observations

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4663 (Published 26 July 2013)

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• Axial T1 weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the female pelvis

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f3512 (Published 05 June 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• The pursuit of imperfection

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4780 (Published 01 August 2013)

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• Bureaucracy holds the NHS back

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4624 (Published 26 July 2013)

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Minerva

• Curious case of MRI scan failure

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4751 (Published 31 July 2013)

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• Reversal of established practices and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4743 (Published 31 July 2013)

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