03 April 2010(vol 340, issue 7749)

Editor's Choice

• Science, debate, and compassion

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Editorials

• Staples for skin closure in surgery

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• BCG vaccination in developing countries

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• Critical illness as a result of influenza A/H1N1 infection in pregnancy

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• Passive smoking and children

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• Over the counter chloramphenicol eye drops

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Letters

• Markets will never work

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• Solidarity to achieve equality

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• Benefits of cooperation

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• Evidence is lacking

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• GPs left in a quandary

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• Does care at home mean no care?

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• Everybody’s responsibility

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News

• Religious leaders call for an end to discrimination against people living with AIDS

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• Protests follow US Congress’s passing of health reform bill

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• NHS cuts will make up a third of £11bn savings across public services

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• GMC panellist was banned for not disclosing links with Scientologists

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• Rise in reports of safety incidents shows heightened awareness, says agency

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• Obesity treatment is being neglected in favour of prevention, doctor says

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• Spanish transplant model would save 20 000 lives a year in EU

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• Labour pledges to reform libel laws in England and Wales

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• Doctors no longer have to use Framingham equation to assessheart disease risk, NICE says

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• Entire NHS commissioning system may need to be scrapped, MPs say

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• Attempt to introduce smoking ban in public places fails in Poland

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• In Brief

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• MPs praise treatment of injured soldiers but call for better contingency planning

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• Ten more trusts are told to make urgent improvements

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• Human papillomavirus vaccine project stirs controversy in India

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• Nepal’s premier medical school closes over alleged bribery for exam papers

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Head to Head

• Is ADHD a valid diagnosis in adults? Yes

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• Is ADHD a valid diagnosis in adults? No

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Feature

• Problems with peer review

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Observations

• Is the NHS three times better than in 1979?

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• Obama’s reform: no cure for what ails us

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Analysis

• Multidisciplinary team working in cancer: what is the evidence?

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Research

• Sutures versus staples for skin closure in orthopaedic surgery: meta-analysis

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• Local anaesthesia for pain control during outpatient hysteroscopy: systematic review and meta-analysis

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• Effect of revaccination with BCG in early childhood on mortality: randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau

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• Randomised controlled trial of integrated care to reduce disability from chronic low back pain in working and private life

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• Critical illness due to 2009 A/H1N1 influenza in pregnant and postpartum women: population based cohort study

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Clinical Review

• Long term treatment of depression with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and newer antidepressants

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Practice

• Assessment of recent onset chest pain or discomfort of suspected cardiac origin: summary of NICE guidance

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• Lichen sclerosus

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Obituaries

• Gertrude Blamires

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• James Irvine Cromarty

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• John Marvale Crossley

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• Arnold Elliott

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• Andrew Philip Thomas

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• Robert John Stuart Weir

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• Bernard Wilkins

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Views & Reviews

• Lockerbie: why we should be proud of Al-Megrahi’s doctors

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• The appliance of science

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• An author spurned

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• A Companion to Manuals of Practical Anatomy

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• Politics of conflict: doctors, like MPs, should declare their interests

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• Old dogs and new tricks

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Endgames

• Immunocompromised patient with an ulcerated nasolabial skin lesion

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• An agitated young man

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• Internal and external validity

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• Psychosis

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• Always take a careful history

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