Research
Deaths, late deaths, and role of infecting dose in Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone: retrospective cohort study
Potato intake and incidence of hypertension: results from three prospective US cohort studies
Late mortality after sepsis: propensity matched cohort study
News
Incentives paid to GPs to improve healthcare have no effect on mortality, study finds
Global life expectancy increases by five years
Government is starting to recognise pressures on general practice, GPs told
Pay drug companies $1bn for each new antibiotic, says report
New contract will “strengthen morale” of junior doctors, says health secretary
Patient care worsens as NHS deficits persist
German insurers call for central database of complaints against doctors
Health workers should reverse FGM procedures by deinfibulation, WHO says
GP practices rated “outstanding” are better funded, BMA research finds
Australian GPs warn patients of funding cuts through prescription campaign
Visitors are using US website to search for high prescribing doctors
Analysis
Facing forward after Ebola: questions for the next director general of the World Health Organization
Making evidence based medicine work for individual patients
Research News
Increase in deaths from antibiotic resistant infections may limit rising longevity, report warns
Childhood poverty is linked to adult cancer risk, says report
National agency has “transformed” UK clinical research
Methadone is responsible for over half of accidental drug poisoning deaths in toddlers
Letters
Migrants’ right to healthcare: accepting limits on what European healthcare systems can provide
Increasing prevalence of scarlet fever in China
Nicotine has deleterious effects on wound healing through increased vasoconstriction
Features
Clean cut surgery
How Brexit might affect public health