27 March 2010(vol 340, issue 7748)

Editor's Choice

• In from the cold

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Editorials

• Obama’s giant step towards universal health insurance

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• Reducing sunbed use in young people

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• Put Edward Jenner’s statue back in Trafalgar Square

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• The new CONSORT statement

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• Monitoring HPV vaccination programmes

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Letters

• Role of the coroner’s office

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• Leadership is needed

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• We can communicate better thanks to the new act

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• Lest we forget

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• What about abuse other than torture?

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• Is associated with Charles Bonnet syndrome

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• A step backwards?

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• Come into obstetrics

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News

• US House of Representatives approves historic healthcare reform bill

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• US drug manufacturers will have to disclose payments to doctors

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• Identification and brief advice could reduce alcohol harm, survey says

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• Government’s response to alcohol report is “too complacent”

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• British boy receives trachea transplant built with his own stem cells

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• Mid Staffordshire and Milton Keynes are granted conditional registration

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• Royal college calls for smoking ban in cars

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• NICE guideline focuses on diagnosis of acute chest pain to improve outcomes

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• Latest tuberculosis statistics are a “wake-up call for all governments to act immediately”

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• Poor countries must promote healthy choices to reduce heart disease mortality

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• Surgeon’s mistakes revive issue of regulation of European locums

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• In brief

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• One in eight black teenage girls in US is extremely obese, study shows

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• Southall appeals against being struck off medical register

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• Global Fund will eliminate vertical transmission of HIV by 2015 if funding continues at present level, report says

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• Patent on BRCA1 gene should never have been granted, researchers say

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Obama’s health dream: reality at last?

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• Independence of nutritional information?

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Head to Head

• Is underdiagnosis the main pitfall when diagnosing bipolar disorder? Yes

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• Is underdiagnosis the main pitfall in diagnosing bipolar disorder? No

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Observations

• Trade unions and the health secretary: is the tail wagging the dog?

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• The hard sell in cosmetic surgery advertising

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Analysis

• New drugs for old: disinvestment and NICE

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c572 (Published 26 February 2010)

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Research

• Sunbed use in children aged 11-17 in England: face to face quota sampling surveys in the National Prevalence Study and Six Cities Study

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• Mortality among contraceptive pill users: cohort evidence from Royal College of General Practitioners’ Oral Contraception Study

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c927 (Published 12 March 2010)

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• Risk of miscarriage with bivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18: pooled analysis of two randomised controlled trials

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c712 (Published 02 March 2010)

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• The quality of reports of randomised trials in 2000 and 2006: comparative study of articles indexed in PubMed

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Research Methods & Reporting

• CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials

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Clinical Review

• Subjective memory problems

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Practice

• Pharmacological management of neuropathic pain in non-specialist settings: summary of NICE guidance

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• Sexual health consultation for men who have sex with men

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Obituaries

• Jo Eirik Asvall

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• Robert James Dallas

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• Mary Ellis (née Heald)

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• Charles Patrick Gore

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• James Innes

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• Alastair Hugh Bailey Masson

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• June Paterson-Brown (née Garden)

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• Rita Walford (née Gleiberman)

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Views & Reviews

• Assisted suicide: a substitute for a caring doctor?

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• Opening up the past

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• The fine art of the surgeon

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• Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear

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• Doing our duty on episodic hypertension

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• Search for the hero inside

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Endgames

• Variables and parameters

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• A woman with fatigue, dyspnoea, and orthopnoea

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• Life threatening lactic acidosis

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• Haematological disorders

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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