{"id":34546,"date":"2015-06-26T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=34546"},"modified":"2015-06-26T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:46:29","slug":"the-bmj-today-the-ongoing-debate-over-e-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/06\/26\/the-bmj-today-the-ongoing-debate-over-e-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: The ongoing debate over e-cigarettes, increase in syphilis and gonorrhoea in England, and doctors\u2019 burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/06\/electronic_cig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34547\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/06\/electronic_cig-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"electronic_cig\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u2022 Jonathan Gornall\u2019s feature, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h3317\">Why e-cigarettes are dividing the public health community<\/a>,&#8221; is continuing to generate interest this week. Gornall\u2019s piece examining how the tobacco industry\u2019s move into e-cigarettes and harm reduction has seen some experts shift their views has already attracted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h3317\/rapid-responses\">responses online<\/a>. Join the debate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h3317\/submit-a-rapid-response\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h3457\">Susan Mayor reports on some concerning figures<\/a> from Public Health England, which show a major increase in the number of people with syphilis and gonorrhoea\u2014particularly in men who have sex with men (MSM). The figures show that the number of syphilis diagnoses increased by nearly half and gonorrhoea cases increased by one third in 2013-14.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/06\/doctor_depressed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34548\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/06\/doctor_depressed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"doctor_depressed\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u2022 Also in news, Jacqui Wise reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h3456\">the findings of a new survey from the BMA<\/a>, which shows that seven in 10 doctors never have rest time after a busy night on call. The survey of 847 consultants in England and Northern Ireland found that 88% reported being on an on-call rota and that just under half were called to attend hospital during the week, on one to six occasions. The BMA warned such working patterns were compromising patient safety and putting doctors at risk of chronic fatigue and burnout.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gareth Iacobucci<\/strong>\u00a0is news reporter for <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Jonathan Gornall\u2019s feature, &#8220;Why e-cigarettes are dividing the public health community,&#8221; is continuing to generate interest this week. Gornall\u2019s piece examining how the tobacco industry\u2019s move into e-cigarettes and harm reduction has seen some experts shift their views has already attracted responses online. Join the debate here. \u2022 Today, Susan Mayor reports on some [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/06\/26\/the-bmj-today-the-ongoing-debate-over-e-cigarettes\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bmj-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}