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News

Swine flu: UK reports its first human case of A(H1N2)v strain

England’s GP leader calls for end to “ridiculous” bureaucracy

Long term investment could avert 20 000 cancer deaths a year by 2040, says charity

Accident and Emergency doctor who altered notes after failing to check patient’s blood results before discharge is struck off

Halt plans to restrict foreign workers joining the NHS and care services, say leaders

Consultants in England to vote on new pay deal

Deprivation and learning disabilities linked to increased risk of dying from sepsis, study finds

Sixty seconds on . . . red wine headache

Rise in people found dead and decomposed suggests breakdown of support networks, say researchers

Scrap contracts that allow private firms to “play fast and loose” with GP surgeries, say LMCs


Research

Association between patient-surgeon gender concordance and mortality after surgery

ROB-ME: a tool for assessing risk of bias due to missing evidence in systematic reviews with meta-analysis

Intravascular imaging guided versus coronary angiography guided percutaneous coronary intervention

Treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men in primary care using a conservative intervention

Autism intervention meta-analysis of early childhood studies

Effectiveness of the live zoster vaccine during the 10 years following vaccination

Effects of a multimodal intervention in primary care to reduce second line antibiotic prescriptions for urinary tract infections in women

Pyrotinib versus placebo in combination with trastuzumab and docetaxel in patients with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer

Association of DCIS size and margin status with risk of developing breast cancer post-treatment