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The BMJ Today: The benefits of antibacterial soap, a trans fats ban, and e-cigs

September 16, 2015

• The latest news article by Gareth Iacobucci reports that an additional £1bn in emergency deficit funds is now urgently needed by the NHS this year. In a recent review by […]

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The BMJ Today: Women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health

September 15, 2015

Global health experts warn that societies are failing women, children, and adolescents, particularly in the poorest communities around the world, and urgent action is needed to save lives and improve health. […]

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The BMJ Today: A weekend of tweets

September 14, 2015

Last week Andrew Brown, obituaries editor at UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, gave a great talk to me and other colleagues at The BMJ about the Telegraph‘s approach to chronicling […]

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The BMJ Today: Europe’s refugee crisis

September 11, 2015

The BMJ covers the refugee crisis with four recent articles. • Kamran Abbasi, Kiran Patel, and Fiona Godlee state that offering asylum is a minimum standard of civilised society. They say […]

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The BMJ Today: Doing the right thing, doing the wrong thing, and the Hawthorne effect

September 10, 2015

• Samir Dawlatly explains in a blog the barriers that he faces daily as a practicing GP, which often hinder him from providing high quality healthcare. He gives the example of […]

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The BMJ Today: Diagnostic challenges and telemedicine

September 9, 2015

• Pleural effusions present a common diagnostic problem: there are over 50 known causes. A clinical review describes how a primary care physician and a specialist can approach patients with pleural […]

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The BMJ Today: The migration crisis, vaccine safety, and assisted dying

September 8, 2015

• The migration crisis and health in Europe Providing preventive care to “irregular migrants”—that is, those who do not have full legal status—as opposed to waiting until a condition must […]

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The BMJ Today: Three views on the “weekend effect”

September 7, 2015

• Updated analysis of weekend hospital admissions Nick Freemantle and colleagues report on an update of their 2010 study of all NHS hospital admissions in England which showed that admission […]

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The BMJ Today: Online medical records, confusing mortality figures, and deciding not to quit

September 4, 2015

• Patients promised online access to their medical records by 2018 Today, The BMJ carries the news that England’s health secretary Jeremy Hunt has pledged that all patients in England […]

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The BMJ Today: Where now for seven day services?

September 3, 2015

• What next for contract negotiations? As the deadline by which health secretary Jeremy Hunt (pictured) said he would impose new contracts on junior doctors and consultants approaches, Abi Rimmer […]

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