20 February 2010(vol 340, issue 7743)

Editor's Choice

• Interestingly complex stories

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Editorials

• Urinary tract infection in primary care

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• The prognosis for research

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• Registration of observational studies

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• Withdrawal of sibutramine in Europe

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• Osteonecrosis of the jaw and bisphosphonates

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Letters

• Systems failure

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• Screen more widely?

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• What should we be doing?

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• How can we treat it in the UK?

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• New vitamin D preparations needed

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• No clear evidence for universal supplementation

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• Let’s not talk about sex …

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• … or drugs

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• Collaboration to overcome barriers in primary care

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• Big Pharma’s long tentacles

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• If only WHI was done well

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• Some clinical data

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News

• Heroin contaminated with anthrax has killed 11 people

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• “Nasty party style” politics rears its head over funding of national care service

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• Scientists protest against proposals on advisory group membership

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• How posters promote public health behaviour

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• Less than 0.5% of safety incidents reported in 2008-9 came from general practice

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• Doctor could face financial ruin even if he wins libel case

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• Public is urged to help exclude private companies from NHS

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• In brief

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• Ministers may legislate after finding 85% of labels on alcohol to be inadequate

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• Scottish MPs urged to put health first in alcohol debate

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• Michelle Obama launches programme to combat US childhood obesity

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• FDA encourages patients to record their exposure to medical radiation

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• Visionary GPs are extending scope of general practice

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• Liberal Democrats will abolish health quangos that cost NHS £1.2bn

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• Authorities investigate possible misuse of medical aid supplies in Haiti

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Observations

• When doctors deceive each other

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Head to Head

• Has guideline development gone astray? Yes

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• Has guideline development gone astray? No

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Feature

• No quick fix for long term care

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• Doctors on the front line

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Analysis

• Do health improvement programmes fit with MRC guidance on evaluating complex interventions?

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Research

• Effectiveness of five different approaches in management of urinary tract infection: randomised controlled trial

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• Cost effectiveness of management strategies for urinary tract infections: results from randomised controlled trial

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• Women’s views about management and cause of urinary tract infection: qualitative interview study

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• Presentation, pattern, and natural course of severe symptoms, and role of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance among patients presenting with suspected uncomplicated urinary tract infection in primary care: observational study

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• Neurological outcomes at 18 months of age after moderate hypothermia for perinatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: synthesis and meta-analysis of trial data

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Ten steps towards improving prognosis research

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Practice

• Investigating suspected bone infection in the diabetic foot

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• Behçet’s syndrome

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• Reduced level of consciousness from baclofen in people with low kidney function

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• Pollen food syndrome in a teenage student

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Obituaries

• Malcolm O Perry

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• Hedley Rex Board

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• John Ramsey Horler

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• Chetna Jain

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• Atholl MacLaren

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• Krishan Kumar Mahajan

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• Margaret Mary Robinson (née Ross)

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• Ursula Schmitz

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Views & Reviews

• Should pregnant doctors work in termination of pregnancy clinics?

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• The unknown patients

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• Ill feelings

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• Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

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• A friend in need

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• Positive discrimination is still elitist

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Endgames

• Inflammatory bowel disease

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• An unusual case of calf pain

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• Cross sectional studies

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• The F word

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