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BMJ 2013; 347 :f7236; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission Research Probiotic supplementation during pregnancy or infancy for the prevention of asthma and wheeze: systematic review and meta-analysis BMJ 2013; 347 :f6471; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission Open Access News Judge allows boy to have bone marrow transplant against father’s wishes BMJ 2013; 347 :f7344; (Published 06 December 2013) PDF Permission States choosing not to expand Medicaid stand to lose billions, study concludes BMJ 2013; 347 :f7360; (Published 06 December 2013) PDF Permission Court approved caesarean section for mentally ill woman because of two previous caesareans BMJ 2013; 347 :f7334; (Published 06 December 2013) PDF Permission Responses Europe drug regulator wins appeal over release of trial data BMJ 2013; 347 :f7341; (Published 06 December 2013) PDF Permission Pfizer’s open data policy should include trials of off-label uses, say critics BMJ 2013; 347 :f7327; (Published 06 December 2013) PDF Permission Reduction in lung cancer deaths is lagging behind that in other common cancers BMJ 2013; 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347 :f7272; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission Scottish healthcare performs no better than England despite higher spending, report finds BMJ 2013; 347 :f7241; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission In brief BMJ 2013; 347 :f7183; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission Rate of surgery for lung cancer in England and Wales rose 50% in five years BMJ 2013; 347 :f7201; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission Minor units take a growing share of emergency department attendances BMJ 2013; 347 :f7233; (Published 03 December 2013) PDF Permission Responses World could eliminate health inequalities between nations by 2035 BMJ 2013; 347 :f7186; (Published 03 December 2013) PDF Permission High Court forced mentally ill woman to have caesarean section, newspaper claims BMJ 2013; 347 :f7205; (Published 03 December 2013) PDF Permission Responses Experts call for NICE to resume work on sex education halted by the coalition government BMJ 2013; 347 :f7217; (Published 03 December 2013) PDF Permission Public hostility grows to private companies’ expansion in the NHS BMJ 2013; 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347 :f7159; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission Responses Impregnated central venous catheters should be readily used to reduce risk of bloodstream infection BMJ 2013; 347 :f7169; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission Responses BMJ is not always impartial about the advertisements it includes BMJ 2013; 347 :f7149; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission Responses Methodological concerns about studies on oseltamivir for flu BMJ 2013; 347 :f7148; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission Cuts to the Office for National Statistics will damage the health of the nation BMJ 2013; 347 :f7164; (Published 04 December 2013) PDF Permission The rise of food poverty in the UK BMJ 2013; 347 :f7157; (Published 03 December 2013) PDF Permission Features FDA official: “clinical trial system is broken” BMJ 2013; 347 :f6980; (Published 05 December 2013) PDF Permission Responses A healthy market? 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