27 October 2012(vol 345, issue 7880)

Editor's Choice

• The scandal of medical device regulation

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7180 (Published 24 October 2012)

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News

• Device licensing bodies sometimes put business before safety, an investigation finds

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7138 (Published 25 October 2012)

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• One in four cases of bowel cancer in England are diagnosed only after emergency admission

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7117 (Published 22 October 2012)

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• In brief

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• Patients are still not receiving NICE approved drugs, report says

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7045 (Published 18 October 2012)

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• Hunt refers reorganisation of children’s heart surgery to independent panel

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7169 (Published 23 October 2012)

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• Health minister agrees to meet academics to discuss access to clinical trial data

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7168 (Published 23 October 2012)

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• Doctors call for changes in the law to allow use of second hand cardioverter defibrillators

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7053 (Published 18 October 2012)

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• New EU tobacco legislation is delayed after health commissioner resigns amid claims of knowledge of bribery attempt

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7155 (Published 23 October 2012)

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• Girls do not see HPV vaccine as green light for sex, study says

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7159 (Published 23 October 2012)

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• Government announces start of revalidation

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7092 (Published 19 October 2012)

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• NHS Gloucestershire keeps £80m community services in public hands

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7056 (Published 19 October 2012)

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• Ethics committee chairwoman is not obliged to reveal source of concerns about surgeon’s work, judge rules

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7130 (Published 22 October 2012)

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• Concentration of hands

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7128 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Virgin contract to run children’s services to go ahead despite non-compliance with law

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7166 (Published 23 October 2012)

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Editorials

• How to move to a palliative approach to care for people with multimorbidity

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6324 (Published 21 September 2012)

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• Increased calcium intake may reduce risk of primary hyperparathyroidism

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6646 (Published 18 October 2012)

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• Antagonising neuromuscular block at the end of surgery

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6666 (Published 16 October 2012)

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• The EU’s system for regulating medical devices

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7126 (Published 24 October 2012)

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Research News

• Mixed results after 10 years for men given postoperative radiotherapy for prostate cancer

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7067 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Video cameras identify the causes of falls in care homes

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7064 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Cognitive function is unaffected by tight glucose control in paediatric intensive care

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7065 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Adults in India given second hand cardioverter defibrillators from the US

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7066 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Dramatic trial results are often too good to be true

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7107 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Daily interruptions to sedation for critically ill adults?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7068 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Adults with depression report widespread discrimination

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7108 (Published 24 October 2012)

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Research

• Benzodiazepine use and risk of dementia: prospective population based study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6231 (Published 27 September 2012)

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• Calcium intake and risk of primary hyperparathyroidism in women: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6390 (Published 18 October 2012)

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• Intermediate acting non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents and risk of postoperative respiratory complications: prospective propensity score matched cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6329 (Published 16 October 2012)

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• Safe exclusion of pulmonary embolism using the Wells rule and qualitative D-dimer testing in primary care: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6564 (Published 04 October 2012)

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• Effect of intended intraoperative cholangiography and early detection of bile duct injury on survival after cholecystectomy: population based cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6457 (Published 11 October 2012)

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Feature

• How a fake hip showed up failings in European device regulation

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7090 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• BMA’s Mark Porter: mastering the thorny issues

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7058 (Published 23 October 2012)

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Analysis

• Japan’s answer to the economic demands of an ageing population

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6632 (Published 16 October 2012)

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Letters

• Keeping the customer satisfied

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7016 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Fashionable to criticise the drug industry?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7089 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Response to Whitehead

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7088 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Availability of junk food should be reduced

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7070 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• GMC inconsistency

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7037 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Larger scale trials are needed to show what really works

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7030 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Authors’ reply to Symonds

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7029 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• We need evidence based tools to identify medically at risk drivers

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7087 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Statement on reduced risk is misleading

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7060 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• The “least worst” course of action?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7073 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Not all “good” doctors do it anyway

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7057 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Asking the right questions is key

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7050 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• We must join forces with our patients

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7047 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Golden ages have their dark sides

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7040 (Published 24 October 2012)

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Observations

• Finding the smoking gun: a speech by Richard Peto

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7119 (Published 24 October 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Doctors must challenge political decisions that will cause medical harm

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6894 (Published 16 October 2012)

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• The medical in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7059 (Published 23 October 2012)

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• Forty Years of Murder

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6737 (Published 08 October 2012)

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Obituaries

• Sid Watkins

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7028 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Antony John Essex-Cater

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6450 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Edward Daniel Fox

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• Patricia Mathews

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6451 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• David McGill

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• Philippa Anne Mitchelson

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6311 (Published 25 October 2012)

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• Issy Pilowsky

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6925 (Published 24 October 2012)

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Clinical Review

• Salivary gland swellings

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6794 (Published 23 October 2012)

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Practice

• Assessment and management of psoriasis: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6712 (Published 24 October 2012)

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• Should selective digestive decontamination be used in critically ill patients?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6697 (Published 09 October 2012)

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Endgames

• Post contrast axial computed tomogram of the upper abdomen in portal venous phase

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6686 (Published 08 October 2012)

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• What is risk?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7036 (Published 23 October 2012)

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• Recurrent episodes of hair loss in a 37 year old woman

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6798 (Published 09 October 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• A licence to bill

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7078 (Published 23 October 2012)

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• All together now

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6883 (Published 15 October 2012)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7052 (Published 23 October 2012)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7062 (Published 23 October 2012)

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