14 November 2009(vol 339, issue 7730)

Editor's Choice

• Encouraging improvement

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Editorials

• Continuation of metformin after introduction of insulin in type 2 diabetes

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• Food incentives and completion of tuberculosis treatment

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• Clashes between the government and its expert advisers

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• Panton-Valentine leucocidin associated Staphylococcus aureus infections

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• Economic progress and health improvement

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Letters

• Legislation is needed to stop children using sunbeds

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• Expediting clinical trials in a pandemic

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• Please may we have an RCT now?

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• About available flu vaccines

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• Author’s reply

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• Propofol is safely and widely used in emergency departments

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• Never mind the treatment, what about the tests?

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• Study may not apply to the UK

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• Solutions to the August problem

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• Looking to rebuild Iraq’s healthcare system

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• The WMA speaks out on Iran but not on Israel. Why not?

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• It’s a Nordic thing

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• R U R—Really Useful Robots

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News

• Battle against hospital acquired infections has been too limited, MPs’ report says

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• Obama praises House of Representatives for passing health reform bill

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• In brief

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• Reassure pregnant women over swine flu vaccine, health officials urge

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• Homoeopath society breaks own ethics code by making speculative claims on website, says expert

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• Government proposes removing caps on trusts’ private income

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• X ray machine tops poll of most important scientific invention

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• Relatively high infant mortality in US is due to number of preterm births, report says

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• Psychiatrist failed to follow guidance on interviewing child witnesses, GMC hears

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• UK research community is to consult on use of animals containing human material

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• GMC clears research dean of dishonesty

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• Activists call for public health to take central role in UN climate change talks

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• Unicef calls for “global momentum” to scale up interventions to improve children’s nutrition

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• Doctors call for children injured in Gaza conflict to be monitored for long term effects of new weapons

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• Aid shortfall may leave millions sick and starving in Sudan, WHO warns

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Dangers of listening to the fetal heart at home

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• Don’t try this at home?

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• An eye on profit

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Observations

• The years of magical thinking

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Analysis

• Lessons from the past decade for future health reforms

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Research

• Combining insulin with metformin or an insulin secretagogue in non-obese patients with type 2 diabetes: 12 month, randomised, double blind trial

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• Differences in atherosclerosis according to area level socioeconomic deprivation: cross sectional, population based study

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• Evaluation of modernisation of adult critical care services in England: time series and cost effectiveness analysis

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• Food incentives to improve completion of tuberculosis treatment: randomised controlled trial in Dili, Timor-Leste

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• Outcomes and costs of primary care surveillance and intervention for overweight or obese children: the LEAP 2 randomised controlled trial

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Research Methods & Reporting

• The tyranny of power: is there a better way to calculate sample size?

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Clinical Review

• A practical guide to interpretation and clinical application of personal genomic screening

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Practice

• Investigating recurrent respiratory infections in primary care

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• A woman with acute myelopathy in pregnancy: case presentation

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• Colonic carcinoma presenting as repeated episodes of enterobacter septicaemia during induction of remission in acute myeloblastic leukaemia

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Obituaries

• Jeremy Morris

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Views & Reviews

• Learning to teach

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• A taste for medical detective stories

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• Emotional, my dear Watson

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• Operation

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• Dr Doom

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• Joking about cerebral palsy

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Endgames

• Matching

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• Dyspnoea and cough in a toddler

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• Emboli

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• A memorable night

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