20 November 2010(vol 341, issue 7782)

Editor's Choice

• Stop exploiting orphan drugs

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Editorials

• The problem of orphan drugs

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• Suicide attempts in people taking isotretinoin for acne

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5866 (Published 12 November 2010)

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• Doctors and climate change

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6357 (Published 18 November 2010)

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Letters

• A cautious note on household surveys in poor settings

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• Reporting of absolute risk

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• Absolute v relative risk reduction

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6333 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• Independent public inquiries needed to ensure drug safety

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6336 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• All the relevant data?

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6487 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• NICE guidance differs, so where next?

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6484 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• There are two types of disease

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• Reducing insulin errors

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6503 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• Spell and write out numbers

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6502 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• Hypervigilance is needed

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• Don’t forget chronic scar pain

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6510 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• Not every child with diabetes needs insulin

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• Attention has been distracted

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• Premise is wrongheaded

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News

• Stroke patients take part in “milestone” UK trial of stem cell therapy

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• Gaps in information are impeding progress in cancer care in England

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• In brief

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• Community care networks could help 200 000 more people die at home instead of hospital

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6508 (Published 15 November 2010)

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• GMC is tougher on child protection doctors than on those who access child porn, conference hears

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6562 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• Surgeons call for identity of knife crime victims to be shared with police

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6579 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• Surgeon threatened with libel over remarks made about a breast enhancement cream

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6452 (Published 12 November 2010)

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• Number of deaths from cholera in Haiti nears 1000

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6569 (Published 17 November 2010)

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• GSK lawyer is indicted on charges of obstructing FDA proceeding

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• FDA breached integrity over investigation of contaminated heparin

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6529 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• Drug firm’s legal action against government advisers is described as “intimidation”

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6527 (Published 17 November 2010)

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• Fighting big tobacco in Spain

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6462 (Published 15 November 2010)

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• Family planning loses out to HIV and AIDS in development aid, shows analysis

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6460 (Published 12 November 2010)

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• EU drug monitoring agency voices concerns over “legal highs”

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6491 (Published 12 November 2010)

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• Gruesome by design

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• What makes an orphan drug?

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Observations

• Open letter to prime minister David Cameron and health secretary Andrew Lansley

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• Screening for early detection of lung cancer

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• Private insurers coming to a television screen near you

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Head to Head

• Is open peer review the fairest system? Yes

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• Is open peer review the fairest system? No

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Analysis

• Orphan drug pricing may warrant a competition law investigation

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Research

• Effect on peer review of telling reviewers that their signed reviews might be posted on the web: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5729 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• Long term risk for hypertension, renal impairment, and cardiovascular disease after gastroenteritis from drinking water contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7: a prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6020 (Published 18 November 2010)

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• Association of suicide attempts with acne and treatment with isotretinoin: retrospective Swedish cohort study

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5812 (Published 12 November 2010)

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• Adoption, non-adoption, and abandonment of a personal electronic health record: case study of HealthSpace

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c5814 (Published 17 November 2010)

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Clinical Review

• Management of venous ulcer disease

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Practice

• Organ donation

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6009 (Published 15 November 2010)

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• Duchenne muscular dystrophy

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c4364 (Published 07 September 2010)

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Obituaries

• Roger Brearley

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• Anand Dalal

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• Alan Johnstone

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• Arthur Hugh Lister

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• Ann Lloyd-Jones (née Parry-Williams)

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• John Fisher Stokes

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Views & Reviews

• Vary VAT on alcohol: a more palatable way to achieve minimum pricing?

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• Die like an Egyptian

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c6478 (Published 16 November 2010)

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• Who are the sane?

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• Purple America

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• Bad medicine: paediatric ear, nose, and throat surgery

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• Torture: the bright side

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Endgames

• Doc, my knees give way!

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• Skewed distributions II

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• Thyroid dysfunction

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• Horse sense

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c2590 (Published 29 October 2010)

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