16 October 2010(vol 341, issue 7777)

Editor's Choice

• Evidence debased medicine

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Editorials

• Missing clinical trial data: setting the record straight

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• Apgar score and risk of cerebral palsy

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• Variation in caesarean delivery rates

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• Are measures of patient satisfaction hopelessly flawed?

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• Misleading communication of risk

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Letters

• Lesions are seen in young users of stimulant drugs

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• Confounding factors may account for the association

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• How do the data change practice decisions in long term care?

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• Dutch experience differs

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• A step change in operational performance is needed

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• There is nothing streamlined about the system

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• The naked truth

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News

• Medical student debts could rise to more than £70 000 under new rules

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• Contents of summary care record are to be scaled back

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• NICE decision on dementia drugs was based on “common sense” not evidence, expert says

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• The bear necessities

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• Demand for crack and cocaine addiction treatment drops

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• Trusts warn that NHS reforms could cause patient care failures and financial chaos

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• Why don’t scientists have the same visa exemptions as footballers, ask Nobel winners

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• In brief

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• GMC imposes conditions on surgeon’s registration after two babies die

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• Experts criticise new German law for favouring drug companies

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• Boehringer Ingelheim withdraws libido drug for women

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• Online sale of drugs and tests should be better regulated, says Nuffield report

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• Doctor who spoke out about atrocities in Darfur wins award

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• New US institute for comparative effectiveness starts work

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• First patient enters trial to test safety of stem cells in spinal injury

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• Court ruling strengthens EU governments’ power to demand prior authorisation for cross-border health care

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• Dutch doctors warn of dangers of overuse of antibiotics in farming

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Cutting the research budget

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• Nominations open for BMJ awards 2011

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Observations

• This is no way to cull the quangos

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Analysis

• Finding studies on reboxetine: a tale of hide and seek

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• Data availability for industry sponsored trials: what should medical journals require?

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• Commentary: journals must facilitate the dissemination and scrutiny of clinical research

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• Commentary: RECORD response

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• Commentary: but what should journals actually do to keep industry sponsored research unbiased?

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Research

• Reboxetine for acute treatment of major depression: systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished placebo and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor controlled trials

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• Association of cerebral palsy with Apgar score in low and normal birthweight infants: population based cohort study

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• Variation in rates of caesarean section among English NHS trusts after accounting for maternal and clinical risk: cross sectional study

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• Reporting of euthanasia in medical practice in Flanders, Belgium: cross sectional analysis of reported and unreported cases

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• Patients’ experience and satisfaction in primary care: secondary analysis using multilevel modelling

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Clinical Review

• Investigation and management of uveitis

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Practice

• Investigating easy bruising in a child

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• Through and beyond anaesthesia awareness

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Obituaries

• Brian Prichard

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• Ratan Lal Agrawal

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• Charlie Granger

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• Graham Edward Schofield

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• Rolf Carter Shepherd

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• Mya Thaung

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• John K Wagstaff

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• Alan Edward Wood

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Views & Reviews

• GPs should have to take financial responsibility

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• An open letter to the health secretary: how to really save money on the NHS

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• Surgical instruments: objects of beauty and dread

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• Hypochondria as control

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• Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

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• Bad medicine: polycystic ovary syndrome

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• Reading up on drug companies: there in black and white

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Endgames

• Coronal computed tomography of the sinuses

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• Tourniquets

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• Inflammatory bowel disease: a classic case of Dalziel’s disease

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• Number needed to treat

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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