Friday, April 27, 2018

WEEKLY NEWS FROM THE BMJ


WEEKLY NEWS FROM THE BMJ

 

This week in The BMJ

27 April 2018
  • Better care for patients with cancer

  • For many people, cancer is now survivable and has become a long term condition. This week our clinical update reminds us to think about the psychological impact for the growing number of people living with cancer (doi:). As Alexandra Pitman and colleagues... Fiona Godlee
  • Sixty seconds on . . . the WannaCry cyberattack

  • Although the NHS has learnt lessons from the WannaCry cyberattack on 12 May 2017, trusts need to do more to improve cybersecurity and introduce strategies to take action quickly “when, and not if, there is a further attack.” This was the conclusion of... Susan Mayor
  • Anger as Alfie’s Army protests outside Alder Hey

  • Crowds, rallied by social media postings, try to storm Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool on Monday 23 April, after the parents of Alfie Evans lost a “last ditch” appeal against ending life support for their nearly 2 year old son. Alison Shepherd
  • Should we recommend e-cigarettes to help smokers quit?

  • Smokers want to vape, it can help them quit, and it’s less harmful than smoking, say Paul Aveyard and Deborah Arnott. But Kenneth C Johnson argues that smokers who vape are generally less likely to quit and is concerned about youth vaping as a gateway... Paul Aveyard, Deborah Arnott et al
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RESEARCH UPDATE

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EDUCATION

  • Exploring low mood in a person with cancer

  • A 54 year old man asks his doctor for a sleeping tablet. He has recently been diagnosed with a Dukes B adenocarcinoma of the rectum and seems low in mood. Although he has been given a good prognosis, has completed neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and is booked...
  • Depression and anxiety in patients with cancer

  • Advances in cancer treatments mean that half of people now diagnosed with cancer can expect to survive for at least 10 years, defining many cancers as long term conditions. Psychiatric illnesses such as depression and anxiety are common, but often neglected,...
  • Finger metastasis from renal cell carcinoma

  • An 83 year old woman presented with painful swelling of the left third finger following minimal trauma. Six months earlier she had noticed spontaneous ecchymosis at the same fingertip. Her medical history included a nephrectomy for metastatic renal cell...
  • Smart monitoring . . . and other stories

  • Smartwatches use photoplethysmographic sensors to measure heart rate. Analysed by a neural network, the same data can be used to identify atrial fibrillation. At the moment, the investigators are calling it proof-of-concept, but it might not be long...

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