21 July 2012(vol 345, issue 7866)

Editor's Choice

• Water, water, every where

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4903 (Published 18 July 2012)

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News

• Planned “pay cartel” in southwest England is condemned by BMA and Unison

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• Mammography screening has little or no effect on breast cancer deaths, Swedish data indicate

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4847 (Published 17 July 2012)

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• Risk assessments for diabetes should be offered widely, says NICE

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4778 (Published 13 July 2012)

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• Health damage from alcohol misuse has been underplayed in government strategy, say MPs

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• Number of dementia patients rises while GPs’ prescribing of antipsychotics falls

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4861 (Published 17 July 2012)

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• UK is seeing “massive” rise in campaigns against plain packets for cigarettes, say health activists

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• Performance enhancing drugs or techniques may exist that can’t yet be detected, experts admit

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• In brief

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• Health bill arose from attempt to accommodate Lib Dem as well as Tory ideas, says commentator

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• Virgin Care to take over services for children and young people in Devon worth £132m

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4835 (Published 16 July 2012)

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• Hospitals will be able to earn 49% of their income from private patients from October

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4823 (Published 17 July 2012)

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• Combating attacks on health workers

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4862 (Published 18 July 2012)

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• UK government comes down in favour of making all publicly funded research “open access”

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4878 (Published 17 July 2012)

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• FDA approves first drug to prevent HIV infection

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4879 (Published 17 July 2012)

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Editorials

• Identifying melanomas in primary care: can we do better?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4244 (Published 04 July 2012)

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• Sanctity of life law has gone too far

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4637 (Published 12 July 2012)

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• Active management of the third stage of labour

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4546 (Published 06 July 2012)

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• BMJ tablet app

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4877 (Published 18 July 2012)

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Research News

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Research

• Diagnostic accuracy of spot urinary protein and albumin to creatinine ratios for detection of significant proteinuria or adverse pregnancy outcome in patients with suspected pre-eclampsia: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4342 (Published 09 July 2012)

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• Effect of adding a diagnostic aid to best practice to manage suspicious pigmented lesions in primary care: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4110 (Published 04 July 2012)

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• Adverse events with intravitreal injection of vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors: nested case-control study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4203 (Published 04 July 2012)

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• Impact of age and sex on primary preventive treatment for cardiovascular disease in the West Midlands, UK: cross sectional study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4535 (Published 12 July 2012)

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Head to Head

• Should we screen for type 2 diabetes: Yes

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4514 (Published 09 July 2012)

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• Should we screen for type 2 diabetes? No

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4516 (Published 09 July 2012)

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Feature

• The truth about sports drinks

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4737 (Published 18 July 2012)

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• How valid is the European Food Safety Authority’s assessment of sports drinks?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4753 (Published 18 July 2012)

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• Commentary: role of hydration in health and exercise

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4171 (Published 18 July 2012)

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Analysis

• Global threat from drug resistant HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4159 (Published 18 June 2012)

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Letters

• The rise and rise of vitamin D testing

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4743 (Published 16 July 2012)

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• Post-marketing studies can make important contributions to medical knowledge

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• Imperturbability is not incompatible with clinical empathy

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4533 (Published 16 July 2012)

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• Doctors need accredited information on Lyme borreliosis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4727 (Published 16 July 2012)

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• Ocular inflammation as a manifestation of Lyme borreliosis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4721 (Published 16 July 2012)

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• Common treatment for epistaxis contains peanut oil

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• GPs’ role in safeguarding children

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• Putting more specialist physicians into the community is not answer to primary-secondary care divide

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• Integrated care results in fewer elderly people dying in hospital

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• Social determinants of health are comorbidities

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4742 (Published 16 July 2012)

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• Time for an open access secure online data collection tool

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• Never treat your own family

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Observations

• Miracle pills and fireproof trainers: user endorsement in social media

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4682 (Published 18 July 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Patients who fast in Ramadan need better advice

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4754 (Published 12 July 2012)

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• NHS reforms caught in the act

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4844 (Published 16 July 2012)

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• One million war deaths

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4639 (Published 12 July 2012)

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• Buddenbrooks

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4786 (Published 13 July 2012)

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Obituaries

• Peter Graeme Arblaster

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4527 (Published 18 July 2012)

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• Joseph Bartholomew Deasy

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• Ian McArthur Jackson

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• Andrew Charles Markus

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• Peter Stephenson

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• Phyllis May Sykes

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• Chitturi Satyanarayana

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Clinical Review

• Management of chronic epilepsy

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Practice

• Investigation of acute knee injury

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3167 (Published 25 May 2012)

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• Management of an acute painful sickle cell episode in hospital: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e4063 (Published 27 June 2012)

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Endgames

• Another patient with low back pain

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3510 (Published 14 June 2012)

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• Open clinical trials

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4749 (Published 18 July 2012)

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• A few hours from disaster

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4441 (Published 09 July 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Don’t just blame big pharma

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4825 (Published 17 July 2012)

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• Winners and losers

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4699 (Published 11 July 2012)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4781 (Published 18 July 2012)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4782 (Published 18 July 2012)

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