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1: Choosing Wisely: Enteral tube feeding in people with advanced dementia
Nathan M Stall, Kieran L Quinn, Jenny T van der Steen, Johanna Trimble, A Mark Clarfield, Susan L Mitchell
BMJ  2025;389:e075326, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2023-075326 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Practice Pointer: Assessment and investigation of thunderclap headache
Hans Rosenberg, Katie Y Lin, Albert Y Jin, Jeffrey J Perry
BMJ  2025;389:2024-083247, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-083247 (Published 15 May 2025)
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What Your Patient is Thinking: Finding wise hope beyond a cure
Catherine Shteynberg
BMJ  2025;389:r810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r810 (Published 14 May 2025)
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Nearly half of women’s aid organisations working in crisis areas are at risk of closure, UN survey finds
Sally Howard
BMJ  2025;389:r1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r1020 (Published 16 May 2025)
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US drug overdoses fall for the first time in five years
Luke Taylor
BMJ  2025;389:r1014, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r1014 (Published 16 May 2025)
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Senior NHS bosses’ pay will be linked to cutting waiting times
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;389:r1013, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r1013 (Published 16 May 2025)
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Health leaders call for ban on smacking in England to protect children
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;389:r1010, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r1010 (Published 16 May 2025)
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Excess deaths: Data show rise in number linked to long emergency waits
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;389:r1008, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r1008 (Published 15 May 2025)
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NHS England: MPs call for government to set out clear abolition plan
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2025;389:r980, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r980 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Gaza: Israel aid plan is "fig leaf for further violence," says UN humanitarian chief
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2025;389:r1007, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r1007 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Healthcare charities call for the closure of controversial asylum seeker facility
Sally Howard
BMJ  2025;389:r1006, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r1006 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Assisted dying: Psychiatrists’ leaders refuse to support proposed law change in England and Wales
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;389:r1000, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r1000 (Published 15 May 2025)
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LMCs annual conference: News in brief
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;389:r974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r974 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Medical news in brief: PA training courses, resident doctors’ strike ballot, new endometriosis treatment, and other stories
BMJ  2025;389:r966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r966 (Published 14 May 2025)
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Low taxes on heated tobacco products are hampering smoking cessation efforts, study finds
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;389:r999, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r999 (Published 14 May 2025)
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Discrimination is widespread in French healthcare, report alleges
Barbara Casassus
BMJ  2025;389:r997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r997 (Published 14 May 2025)
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Reforms to how GMC regulates doctors will go ahead this parliament, says minister
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2025;389:r996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r996 (Published 14 May 2025)
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Assisted dying bill clears first hurdle in Scotland
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2025;389:r994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r994 (Published 14 May 2025)
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GPs strike deal to remove "postcode lottery" from local funding
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2025;389:r985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r985 (Published 13 May 2025)
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ABC programme to reduce brain injury in childbirth will be rolled out in England
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2025;389:r982, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r982 (Published 13 May 2025)
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The Big Picture: MSF’s burns unit helps Syrian refugees who depend on unsafe heating
Alison Shepherd
BMJ  2025;389:r971, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r971 (Published 13 May 2025)
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Immigration changes a huge risk for social and healthcare provision, say sector leaders
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;389:r978, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r978 (Published 13 May 2025)
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Trump watch: US drug pricing to be slashed, attorney who threatened journals is removed, and more
Mun-Keat Looi
BMJ  2025;389:r976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r976 (Published 13 May 2025)
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System is failing people with simultaneous mental health and substance misuse problems
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;389:r975, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r975 (Published 13 May 2025)
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Gambling: MPs call for campaign to warn of health risks and tougher action on advertising
Matthew Limb
BMJ  2025;389:r963, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r963 (Published 12 May 2025)
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GP who sought help to supply fake covid vaccine certificates is suspended for 12 months
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2025;388:r257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r257 (Published 12 May 2025)
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Lack of jobs is "terrifying" GP registrars, doctors’ leader warns
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2025;389:r968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r968 (Published 12 May 2025)
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Covid-19: Attitudes shifted after politicians broke rules, report says
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2025;389:r960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r960 (Published 12 May 2025)
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GPs reject call for patient records to include biological sex, pronouns, and reassignment details
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;389:r969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r969 (Published 12 May 2025)
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Columbia to pay $750m to hundreds of victims of gynaecologist
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2025;389:r967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r967 (Published 12 May 2025)
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AI, humans, and evidence: a vision of a better future, with caveats
Kamran Abbasi
BMJ  2025;389:r987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r987 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Spiralling cases of dengue in Latin America
Claudia Codeco, Celina Turchi Martelli, Patricia Brasil, Marilia Sá Carvalho
BMJ  2025;389:r973, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r973 (Published 16 May 2025)
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Harms of enteral tube feeding
Nathan Davies, Kanthee Anantapong, Victoria Vickerstaff, Elizabeth L Sampson
BMJ  2025;389:r934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r934 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Poor communication with patients erodes trust in the NHS
Hugh Rayner, Alf Collins, Patricia Hewitt, Adam McDonald
BMJ  2025;389:r947, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r947 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us
Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Marion Birch, Inga Blum, Peter Doherty, Andy Haines, Ira Helfand, Richard Horton, Kati Juva, Jose F Lapena, Jr, Robert Mash, Olga Mironova, Arun Mitra, Carlos Monteiro, Elena N Naumova, David Onazi, Tilman Ruff, Peush Sahni, James Tumwine, Carlos Umaña, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski
BMJ  2025;389:r881, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r881 (Published 13 May 2025)
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Child height figures show effects of covid, obesity, and inequality
Andrew Moscrop, Danny Dorling, Tim J Cole, Charlotte Wright
BMJ  2025;389:r917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r917 (Published 12 May 2025)
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Palliative care commission: Palliative care commission must focus on ageing population
Jugdeep Dhesi
BMJ  2025;389:r998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r998 (Published 16 May 2025)
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Palliative care commission: UK’s palliative care commission offers global insight
Kira Goodman, Liana Bailey, Megan Wright, Dave Lysecki, on behalf of Canada’s Pediatric Palliative Care Alliance
BMJ  2025;389:r1005, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r1005 (Published 16 May 2025)
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Palliative care commission: Poor workforce planning blocks access to palliative care
Polly Edmonds
BMJ  2025;389:r979, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r979 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Smartphones and children: Smartphones and children: algorithm driven social media should be the focus of action
Matthew A Sadlier
BMJ  2025;389:r964, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r964 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Antiracism in medicine: Antiracism in healthcare education: moving from theory to practice
Chelsea C Omeni-Nzewuihe
BMJ  2025;389:r943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r943 (Published 14 May 2025)
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Research shutdown on covid and pandemic threats: Suggesting the world is "post-covid" contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities
Maxwell J Smith
BMJ  2025;389:r951, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r951 (Published 14 May 2025)
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Palliative care commission: We must critically assess advance care planning and electronic palliative care coordination systems
Jonathan Koffman, Joanne Droney
BMJ  2025;389:r920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r920 (Published 12 May 2025)
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Palliative care commission: Palliative care commission: recognising and supporting unpaid carers
Morag C Farquhar
BMJ  2025;389:r915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r915 (Published 12 May 2025)
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US Healthcare: Will RFK Jr really Make America Healthy Again?
Simon Williams
BMJ  2025;389:r871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r871 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Artificial Intelligence: Can AI teach medicine?
Mun-Keat Looi
BMJ  2025;389:r822, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r822 (Published 14 May 2025)
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The "ambient scribe" tools listening to and summarising your doctor-patient consultations
Chris Stokel-Walker
BMJ  2025;389:r663, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r663 (Published 13 May 2025)
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Core GRADE: Risk of Bias: Core GRADE 4: rating certainty of evidence—risk of bias, publication bias, and reasons for rating up certainty
Gordon Guyatt, Ying Wang, Prashanti Eachempati, Alfonso Iorio, M Hassan Murad, Monica Hultcrantz, Derek K Chu, Ivan D Florez, Lars G Hemkens, Thomas Agoritsas, Liang Yao, Per Olav Vandvik, Victor M Montori, Romina Brignardello-Petersen
BMJ  2025;389:e083864, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-083864 (Published 13 May 2025)
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UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice
Anthony Costello
BMJ  2025;389:e082463, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-082463 (Published 11 May 2025)
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Rob Sapsford: cardiologist whose generalist knowledge, humour, and calm authority made him "virtually irreplaceable"
Adele Waters
BMJ  2025;389:r992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r992 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Lawrence Joseph Wilson
Benedict Flood, Simon Riddler
BMJ  2025;389:r950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r950 (Published 14 May 2025)
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Montague Frank Poynton Marshall
Stuart Marshall
BMJ  2025;389:r921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r921 (Published 13 May 2025)
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James Frederick Douglas
Andrew Douglas, Peter Maxwell
BMJ  2025;389:r924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r924 (Published 13 May 2025)
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William John Gillespie
Lesley Gillespie, Elspeth Pitt
BMJ  2025;389:r612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r612 (Published 12 May 2025)
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Case Review: Auricular swelling and tenderness with multiple pulmonary nodules
Chenhan Jia, Wanyi Lin, Hanlin Yin, Liangjing Lu
BMJ  2025;389:e082908, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-082908 (Published 15 May 2025)
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The replication crisis . . . and other stories
BMJ  2025;389:r904, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r904 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Rapidly progressive ulcerated and pruritic rash on the upper limb
Guangmin Tang
BMJ  2025;389:e082290, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-082290 (Published 15 May 2025)
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Use of gabapentinoid treatment and the risk of self-harm: population based self-controlled case series study
BMJ  2025;389:r903, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r903 (Published 13 May 2025)
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