17 September 2011(vol 343, issue 7823)

Editor's Choice

• Communicable and non-communicable disease

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Editorials

• Epidural steroid injections for low back pain

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• Co-prescription of co-trimoxazole and spironolactone in elderly patients

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• UN meeting for non-communicable diseases

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• United Nations’ dietary policies to prevent cardiovascular disease

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• Infection with polyomavirus JC

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Letters

• Where did all the other non-communicable diseases go?

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• Serious methodological flaws compromise study findings

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• Authors’ reply to Pande and Soumerai

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• Benefits of public bicycle schemes must be evaluated carefully

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• More needs to be done

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• Authors’ reply to Fishman and Soutter

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• NICE recommendations for disinvestment

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• Refer children with a previous serious reaction to an expert

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• Vaccination of people with suspected egg allergy is safe and feasible

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• Authors’ reply to Elliman and Bedford and Duncan and colleagues

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• A few fears felt using Facebook

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• Immigration centre healthcare should be transferred to Department of Health

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• Why the secrecy?

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• BMA’s reply to Burns-Cox

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News

• Would-be cheats face barrage of tests at London Olympics

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• British public is sceptical about minimum price on alcohol

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• Health bill passes to the Lords with majority of 65 votes

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• Scotland will set minimum price for a unit of alcohol

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• “Responsibility deal” is unlikely to produce health benefits, says report

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• Attempt to strip abortion providers of counselling role is defeated

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5743 (Published 08 September 2011)

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• Health secretary makes U turn over service closure at London hospital

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• In brief

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• Doctors need better training to recognise and report torture

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• Dutch doctors complain about long wait for judgments in cases of euthanasia

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• UK lifts lifetime ban on gay men giving blood

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• Medical tests help reduce sentence of woman accused of murder

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• MPs criticise Care Quality Commission for cutting back on inspections

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• Vietnam is urged to close drug detention centres after widespread abuse is discovered

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• Commitment to tackling alcohol misuse is missing from UN summit declaration, experts say

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• Treatment for multidrug resistant TB fails in a quarter of cases in Europe, says WHO

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• The prickly problem of access to insulin

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• Commentary: Politics of affordable insulin

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Observations

• Enlist the patients’ help

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• Jewish Medical Association UK

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Analysis

• Facing up to the prescription opioid crisis

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Research

• Effect of caudal epidural steroid or saline injection in chronic lumbar radiculopathy: multicentre, blinded, randomised controlled trial

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• Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole induced hyperkalaemia in elderly patients receiving spironolactone: nested case-control study

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5228 (Published 12 September 2011)

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• Effect of mammography screening on surgical treatment for breast cancer in Norway: comparative analysis of cancer registry data

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• Multiplicity of data in trial reports and the reliability of meta-analyses: empirical study

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Correlation in restricted ranges of data

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• Brackets (parentheses) in formulas

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Clinical Review

• Fall assessment in older people

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Practice

• Should we screen and decolonise contacts of patients with Panton Valentine leukocidin associated Staphylococcus aureus infection?

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• PVL positive Staphylococcus aureus skin infections

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Obituaries

• Bernadine P Healy

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• Gavin James Brown

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• Francis Caird

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• Julius Cowen

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• John Gloster

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• Thomas Henry Christopher Lewis

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• Harold Thomas Swan

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Views & Reviews

• The blood service should ask donors about practice, not just partners

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• Come again?

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• Moon Tiger and Mr Smith

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• The Adventures of Roderick Random

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• Herd mentality

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• When I’m 64

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Endgames

• Increasing confusion in a man after a fall—just a head injury?

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• Non-randomised studies

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• Fever in a returning traveller

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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