22 September 2012(vol 345, issue 7875)

Editor's Choice

• At the bottom of the pile

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News

• Routine screening for ovarian cancer harms more than it helps, says US authority

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• Serious complaints against doctors, suspensions, and erasures all fell in UK in 2011

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• UK fertilisation authority launches consultation on mitochondrial replacement techniques

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• Too frequent use of painkillers can cause rather than cure headaches

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• Cochrane review says telephone follow-up of heart failure patients is effective

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• University College London issues new research standards but says it won’t investigate Wakefield

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• In brief

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• Colleges call for screening of all hospital patients to cut toll from venous thromboembolism

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• Europe’s plan to tighten regulation of devices will not reach US standards

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• Private firms are told that NHS in England is open for £20bn worth of business

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• Charity challenges closure of children’s heart surgery unit at Leeds

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• Child mortality falls, but 19 000 under 5s still die every day

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• Improvements in US healthcare could save 75 000 lives a year, report says

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• French government wastes €15bn a year on useless drugs, book claims

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Editorials

• Drug eluting stents for patients with diabetes

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• Setting objectives for the NHS Commissioning Board

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• Teaching postgraduates about managing drug and alcohol misuse

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• Fighting neglected tropical diseases in the southern United States

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Research News

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Research

• The relative clinical effectiveness of ranibizumab and bevacizumab in diabetic macular oedema: an indirect comparison in a systematic review

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• Contribution of modifiable risk factors to social inequalities in type 2 diabetes: prospective Whitehall II cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5452 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• Outcomes with various drug eluting or bare metal stents in patients with diabetes mellitus: mixed treatment comparison analysis of 22 844 patient years of follow-up from randomised trials

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• Low glycaemic index diet in pregnancy to prevent macrosomia (ROLO study): randomised control trial

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• Association of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and all cause mortality in people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: retrospective cohort study

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• Prediction models for risk of developing type 2 diabetes: systematic literature search and independent external validation study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5900 (Published 18 September 2012)

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Feature

• “World’s pharmacy” faces new challenges from Western drug companies

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• Is there equal pay in healthcare? Not if you are a doctor

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Head to Head

• Are the causes of obesity primarily environmental? Yes

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• Are the causes of obesity primarily environmental? No

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Analysis

• Prison environment and health

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Letters

• Extra safeguards are needed

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• Safety of vulnerable children could be put at risk

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• All systems can be hacked

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• Time to think about a universal system, again?

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• Why have prison needle exchange programmes not yet been rolled out in the UK?

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• 20 mph speed limits are the right policy for sociability, safety, and a healthy population

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• New psychosocial interventions are needed in early dementia

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• We must reclaim public health from private corporate interests

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• The most important public health debate of modern times

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• Poor science does not explain why papers are rejected

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• Industry-university research contracts are damaging

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• Clinical decision units can provide necessary care of renal colic

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• The “curse of the registrar”

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Observations

• Can Jeremy Hunt please explain?

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Views & Reviews

• Authentic fiction

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• Little Fox Goes to the End of the World

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Obituaries

• Martin McNicol

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• Nigel Frederick Draisey Cooper

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• Maria C Dunn

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• David John Fitzmaurice

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• Andrew James Hay

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• Jane Rajan

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• Timothy Joseph Sheehan

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• Kenneth McLauchlan Stewart

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Clinical Review

• Preimplantation genetic testing

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Practice

• Newer insulins in type 2 diabetes

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• Prevention and management of neutropenic sepsis in patients with cancer: summary of NICE guidance

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Endgames

• An unusual case of pneumonia

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• Standardisation of outcome measures (z scores)

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• Taught a lesson by taut skin

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5971 (Published 13 September 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Good medicine: homeopathy

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• House call

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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