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Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease

2013-05-24T08:42:22-07:00

This Feature (BMJ 2013;346:f3037, doi:10.1136/bmj.f3037) listed an incorrect lower confidence interval for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine effectiveness study that it cites...

IVF raises risk of developmental problems in premature infants, finds study

Sarkar, J. — 2013-05-24T08:40:01-07:00

An Australian study has found that very premature babies born after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment are more likely to have some functional disability at ages 2 and 3 years than babies who...

Premature death among people with mental illness

2013-05-24T08:40:01-07:00

This Editorial on a linked paper by Lawrence and colleagues spelt one of these author’s names incorrectly in the references (BMJ 2013;346:f2969, doi:10.1136/bmj.f2969). In reference 1, the third...

Fewer young adults are smoking, but more people are obese, shows US survey

McCarthy, M. — 2013-05-24T08:40:02-07:00

The prevalence of smoking among US adults is holding steady, at about 20%, while the obesity rate has risen despite the fact that more people say they are physically active, a new report has...

Government is urged to commit resources to involve patients in NHS decisions

Limb, M. — 2013-05-24T08:40:02-07:00

Calls for greater influence of patients on the NHS are “just rhetoric” without concrete government plans to find, screen, and fund a new cadre of patient leaders, a conference has heard.Ailsa...

GPs back call for independent review of "dreadful" NHS 111

Iacobucci, G. — 2013-05-24T08:40:02-07:00

GPs’ leaders have urged the government to commission an independent inquiry into the rollout of the NHS 111 urgent care telephone helpline in England.Representatives at the annual conference of local...

Health secretary announces plan to overhaul "dis&jnodot;ointed care" delivered by GPs

Limb, M. — 2013-05-24T05:00:09-07:00

England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has announced plans to overhaul primary care to improve its quality, provoking calls for clarity among doctors’ leaders.Hunt said that the move was a “more...

Woman with bipolar disorder can abort her baby, judge rules

Dyer, C. — 2013-05-24T04:57:16-07:00

A woman with bipolar disorder has been given the go ahead to have the abortion she wants after a Court of Protection judge ruled that she was capable of taking the decision.The unnamed NHS trust...

Telemonitoring based service redesign for the management of uncontrolled hypertension: multicentre randomised controlled trial

2013-05-24T03:53:39-07:00

Objective To determine if an intervention consisting of telemonitoring and supervision by usual primary care clinicians of home self measured blood pressure and optional patient decision support...

Selection bias versus allocation bias

Sedgwick, P. — 2013-05-24T03:53:39-07:00

The effectiveness of supported self management in reducing hospital readmissions and death in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was evaluated.1 Researchers performed a randomised...

Big Tobacco lights up e-cigarettes

Kamerow, D. — 2013-05-24T03:53:40-07:00

bmj;346/may24_4/f3418/FIG1F1fig1E-cigarettes, more formally electronic nicotine delivery systems, were introduced in 2007. They are battery powered, cigarette shaped devices that vaporize nicotine so...

Flu hype and pharma failures: patients deserve better

Davies, E. — 2013-05-24T03:53:40-07:00

Epidemics, pandemics, new strains, and foreign scare stories are an annual event in the world of flu. It barely feels like winter until I’ve read an article about somebody thousands of miles away...

Helping people die at home

Betteley, A. — 2013-05-24T01:21:31-07:00

Macmillan Cancer Support shares Sleeman and Collis’s view that people close to the end of life must be identified as early as possible so that their care preferences can be discussed and...