11 July 2009(vol 339, issue 7712)

Editor's Choice

• Keep libel laws out of science

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Editorials

• Dementia and marital status at midlife and late life

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• Gene defects and allergy

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• Immunosuppressants, mortality, and risk of cancer

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• Distribution of insecticide treated nets in rural Africa

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• Libel law in the UK

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Letters

• Policy on antiviral drugs needs to be revised …

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• … as does policy on antibiotics

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• Call for flu research under way

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• A misreading of the evidence?

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• The real issues

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• Guideline is misleading

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• Consensus is urgently required

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News

• Gene tests should be better regulated, says Lords committee

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• MPs attack NHS for putting finances and targets ahead of patient safety

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• In brief

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• Patients and doctors are asked to report antivirals’ side effects as swine flu spreads

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• BMA meeting: Doctors support minimum price for unit of alcohol

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• NHS could learn from John Lewis about motivating staff, says Nuffield Trust

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• Tories may offer patients chance to keep their records on Google

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• Public support wanes for striking doctors in South Africa

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• Rwanda denies plan to forcibly sterilise people with learning difficulties

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• European Commission urges countries to introduce ban on smoking in public places

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• US senator seeks information about medical faculty links to drug industry

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• Human rights group calls for arms embargo after unlawful attacks in Gaza conflict

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• India seeks to pay extra to attract doctors into villages, but health workers are sceptical

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• High proportion of trials published in Chinese medical journals are flawed, study shows

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• Largest retailer in US enters healthcare reform debate

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Cutting truths

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Observations

• “You make me sick!”

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• Thinking about Charles II

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• Chiropractors: clarifying the issues

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• Chiropractic for paediatric conditions: substantial evidence?

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Head to Head

• Should doctors recommend automated external defibrillators for use at home after myocardial infarction? Yes

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• Should doctors recommend automated external defibrillators for use at home after myocardial infarction? No

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Analysis

• Breaking the mould in patient safety

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Research

• Filaggrin gene defects and risk of developing allergic sensitisation and allergic disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis

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• Overall and cancer related mortality among patients with ocular inflammation treated with immunosuppressive drugs: retrospective cohort study

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• Household ownership and use of insecticide treated nets among target groups after implementation of a national voucher programme in the United Republic of Tanzania: plausibility study using three annual cross sectional household surveys

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• Recurrence up to 3.5 years after antibiotic treatment of acute otitis media in very young Dutch children: survey of trial participants

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• Association between mid-life marital status and cognitive function in later life: population based cohort study

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Clinical Review

• The extremely premature neonate: anticipating and managing care

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Practice

• Addison’s disease

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• Addison’s disease

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Obituaries

• Matthew John Carty

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• David Lewis Crosby

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• Charles Edward Robinson Gee

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• Amanda Nell Harman

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• Percy George Harris

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• Patrick Ramage

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Views & Reviews

• AND (“Allow natural death”)—could it make a difference?

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• The search for human perfection: we can, but should we?

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• Dropping out and being free

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• Family Matters

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• Heal the world?

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• Party time

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Endgames

• A maths student with psychiatric symptoms

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• A 2 year old with fever and cough

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• Choosing a statistic

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• Cardiothoracic surgery

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• Campylobacter enteritis (1977)

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