23 October 2010(vol 341, issue 7778)

Editor's Choice

• “The cuts”

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5895 (Published 21 October 2010)

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Editorials

• Tricyclic antidepressants for migraine and tension-type headaches

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5250 (Published 20 October 2010)

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• Promotion of cycling and health

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5405 (Published 18 October 2010)

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• Ethnic density and mental health

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5252 (Published 21 October 2010)

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• Changes in university funding for medical education in England

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• Patients seeking treatment abroad

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Letters

• Good death for all remains distant goal

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• Authors’ reply

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• Irish Hospice Friendly Hospitals programme

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5843 (Published 19 October 2010)

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• Death plans reduce death taboo

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5800 (Published 19 October 2010)

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• Spirituality is a weasel word

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• Papageno v Werther effect

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• JUPITER seems to be bypassed

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5835 (Published 19 October 2010)

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• Author’s reply

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• Let’s collaborate

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5823 (Published 19 October 2010)

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• Authors’ reply

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• Fallacy in intervention model

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5818 (Published 19 October 2010)

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• Authors’ reply

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• Time to update

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News

• BMA president criticises government for “grotesque” use of word fairness

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5862 (Published 18 October 2010)

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• US drug company executives could face criminal charges for off-label promotion

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5808 (Published 19 October 2010)

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• Government axes a further 11 health quangos

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5819 (Published 18 October 2010)

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• Radcliffe should stop doing children’s heart surgery, review recommends

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• Government drops plans for generic substitution amid safety concerns

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5780 (Published 15 October 2010)

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• Improve chest compressions to reduce deaths from cardiac arrest, new guidance says

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5794 (Published 18 October 2010)

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• In brief

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• Proposals for revalidation are “too complicated and aspirational”

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• White mother given mixed race sperm in IVF loses compensation claim

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5806 (Published 15 October 2010)

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• European Medicines Agency tightens rules on conflict of interest

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5902 (Published 19 October 2010)

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• Criminal trial highlights Queensland’s “archaic” abortion law

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5805 (Published 15 October 2010)

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• Focus on neglected tropical diseases to take people out of poverty, says WHO

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5855 (Published 18 October 2010)

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• Medical Council of India calls for president elect of WMA to be denied post

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5825 (Published 18 October 2010)

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• Hospital layoffs in US are “worst in decade,” statistics show

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5847 (Published 18 October 2010)

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• Court gives go ahead for 20 states to challenge US health reform

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Have we heeded the lessons from Shipman?

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5711 (Published 18 October 2010)

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Analysis

• What do we mean by Alzheimer’s disease?

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c4670 (Published 12 October 2010)

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Observations

• The costs of the reverberating bedpan

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5541 (Published 21 October 2010)

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• What’s keeping the Chilean miners down?

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5860 (Published 21 October 2010)

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Research

• Tricyclic antidepressants and headaches: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5222 (Published 20 October 2010)

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• Interventions to promote cycling: systematic review

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5293 (Published 18 October 2010)

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• Understanding the effect of ethnic density on mental health: multi-level investigation of survey data from England

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5367 (Published 21 October 2010)

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• Implementation and adoption of nationwide electronic health records in secondary care in England: qualitative analysis of interim results from a prospective national evaluation

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c4564 (Published 02 September 2010)

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Assessing equity in systematic reviews: realising the recommendations of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c4739 (Published 13 September 2010)

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Clinical Review

• Investigating and managing pyrexia of unknown origin in adults

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5470 (Published 15 October 2010)

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Practice

• Safer administration of insulin: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5269 (Published 13 October 2010)

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• Human brucellosis

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c4545 (Published 10 September 2010)

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• Macromastia (large breasts): request for breast reduction

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5408 (Published 13 October 2010)

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Obituaries

• Karl Julius Ullrich

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5842 (Published 19 October 2010)

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• Manzur Ahmad

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• James Somerville Campbell

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• Peter Jacques Garwood

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• Paul McIntosh Orgill Massey

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• Lorna Martin McPhail

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• Leslie Thomas Scott

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• Edward Laverick Stout

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Views & Reviews

• An unfortunate way to die

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5859 (Published 20 October 2010)

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• Commonly used, easily confused: let’s eliminate hyper and hypo

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5867 (Published 20 October 2010)

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• Why diabetes no longer means death

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5832 (Published 20 October 2010)

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• A pipe dream

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5839 (Published 20 October 2010)

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• Blindness

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• Medical interviews: no further questions

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5912 (Published 20 October 2010)

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• Why patients should complain

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Endgames

• Recurrent episodes of hemiparesis and aphasia

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• Numbers needed to treat and harm

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• Deep vein thrombosis

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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