21 August 2010(vol 341, issue 7769)

Editor's Choice

• Cuts

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Editorials

• Treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding

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• Interpreting composite outcomes in trials

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• Access to welfare benefits in primary care

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• Inadequate post-publication review of medical research

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• Open access publication fees at the BMJ

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Letters

• Individual dietary intervention is cost effective

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• Metabolic surgery may be more effective

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• See the opportunities, not the problems

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• Always something missing in this debate

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• “Mega-trial” needed

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• Wider cost benefits of vaccine

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• Might measuring cord pH in itself affect outcome?

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• The proposal is misguided

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• Management in primary care

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• Strategies at Bloor Viaduct

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• Is psychiatry thinking adequately about behaviour?

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• How should we define “ageism”?

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News

• NHS may be forced to rely on private auditors, adding to costs

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• Experts doubt that NHS can scrap mixed sex wards by end of year

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• Obituary of past president of German Medical Association omits details of Nazi past, medical historians say

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• Afghanistan conflict sees sharp rise in child and civilian casualties

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• Australian health authorities’ response criticised after adverse events related to influenza vaccination in children

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• AstraZeneca to pay $198m to patients over diabetes claims

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• Patient groups must reveal corporate sponsorship, urges campaign group

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• In brief

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• Foundation trusts predict first ever drop in income

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• Poorest people are more likely to die in hospital

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• Trusts still being allowed to drag their feet on patient safety alerts, claims charity

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• Pakistan sees first suspected cases of cholera

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Circumcision: Divided we fall

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Head to Head

• Should NHS funding be ring fenced? Yes

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• Should the NHS budget be ring fenced? No

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Observations

• Let us know how we are doing

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Analysis

• Childhood protection and obesity: framework for practice

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Research

• Hysterectomy, endometrial destruction, and levonorgestrel releasing intrauterine system (Mirena) for heavy menstrual bleeding: systematic review and meta-analysis of data from individual patients

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• Inconsistent reporting of surrogate outcomes in randomised clinical trials: cohort study

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• Definition, reporting, and interpretation of composite outcomes in clinical trials: systematic review

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• Predicting which people with psychosocial distress are at risk of becoming dependent on state benefits: analysis of routinely available data

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• Adequacy of authors’ replies to criticism raised in electronic letters to the editor: cohort study

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Taking healthcare interventions from trial to practice

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Clinical Review

• A guide to imaging for common neurological problems

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Practice

• Process mapping the patient journey: an introduction

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• Recovering from severe brain injury

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• Acromegaly

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Obituaries

• Craig Donald Burrell

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• John Alexander Dorward

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• Alan Tawse Edwards

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• Shorland William Hosking

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• Anthony Trevor Seaton

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• John Tregillus

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Views & Reviews

• Contemporary castration: why the modern day eunuch remains invisible

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• The sibyl is faulty

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• Unsyphilised behaviour

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• Guerilla Surgeon

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• What junior doctors need

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• “We need a short quote”: media training for researchers

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Endgames

• An “unforeseen” complication of urinary tract infection in a patient with diabetes

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• Odds ratios

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• Magnetic resonance image of the left ankle

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• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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