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Cardiologist who fitted wrong pacemaker and destroyed patient notes is struck off

NICE rejects cannabidiol for two types of treatment resistant epilepsy in children

Polio: getting ready for the day after eradication

Risk of antibiotic resistant meningococcal infections in Hajj pilgrims

GP is struck off after writing to colleague’s patients claiming she had treated them inappropriately

Steps to better understanding resistant behaviours in hospitalised patients with dementia

Clarification

Polypill cuts major cardiovascular events by a third, study finds

Opioid policies: scientists advising US government had commercial ties, BMJ investigation finds

Edzard Ernst blames rise in measles on increased popularity of complementary and alternative therapies

Managing a patient with pain and facial swelling

Gun laws and mortality in children . . . and other stories

Management of colorectal cancer

Ocular erythema nodosum

Pensions crisis: the government must act

Seven days in medicine: 14-20 August 2019

NHS pensions crisis

David Oliver: What’s the verdict on personal health budgets?

Addicted to eating

The fight to end the pension tax trap continues

GP who worked shifts for out-of-hours service while on sick leave is struck off

Vaping: CDC investigates severe lung injuries

Helen Salisbury: Balancing patient safety and autonomy

Clostridioides difficile: diagnosis and treatments

Journals retract 15 Chinese transplantation studies over executed prisoner concerns

Rammya Mathew: The pursuit of being a good doctor

Planned Parenthood reȷects restrictive US government funding and “gag rule”

MMR vaccine: Johnson urges new impetus to increase uptake as UK loses measles-free status

No-deal Brexit may worsen drug shortages, pharmacists warn

Keeping silent at GMC hearings could draw “adverse inferences,” says High Court

Sixty seconds on . . . ice lollies

Former patients of Derbyshire psychiatric unit will be compensated for experimental treatment

Kashmir communications blackout is putting patients at risk, doctors warn

Raising and responding to frontline concerns in healthcare

Will a new doctor emerge from Sierra Leone’s Ebola epidemic?

Late cancer diagnoses: biology triumphs clinical acumen

Don’t blame GPs for late cancer diagnoses—but are the data accurate?

Changes to NHS health checks must be evidence based and beneficial, say GPs

Violence and mental illness: five minutes with . . . Seena Fazel

Alastair Wright

Philip Milton Kollitsis

K S Chengappa

Consultant who oversaw FGM guidelines is struck off for possessing extreme pornography

Progress in diabetes care has not improved outcomes in US, study finds

Practice advised patient who shared its CQC rating on Facebook to go elsewhere

Doctors should treat impetigo with antiseptics not antibiotics, says NICE

NHS declares national emergency over shortage of intravenous feeds

Drug company Aspen may pay NHS {pound}8m after investigation alleges illegal deal to hike drug price

Prehabilitation before cancer treatment

Testing the reflexes