20 October 2012(vol 345, issue 7879)

Editor's Choice

• Obstetrics and the wooden spoon

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7017 (Published 17 October 2012)

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News

• Obese patients get inadequate care before and after bariatric surgery, finds review

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6890 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Social care can reduce demand on hospitals for end of life care

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6951 (Published 16 October 2012)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6974 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• GlaxoSmithKline grants researchers access to clinical trial data

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6909 (Published 12 October 2012)

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• Children don’t think that stimulant drugs for ADHD rob them of their “authenticity” and moral responsibility

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6947 (Published 15 October 2012)

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• Annual health checks do not reduce mortality, says Cochrane review

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7001 (Published 16 October 2012)

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• NHS will be paperless by 2015, says commissioning board

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6888 (Published 12 October 2012)

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• Delivering change is a “brutally exposing business,” GP commissioners are warned

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6950 (Published 16 October 2012)

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• Hysterectomy can be performed on woman with schizophrenia against her will, judge rules

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7006 (Published 16 October 2012)

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• Two US cities are to display calorie counts on vending machines

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6884 (Published 11 October 2012)

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• Breast surgeons are referred to GMC for refusing to take part in a review of their unit

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6985 (Published 16 October 2012)

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• Judge upholds doctors’ care plan for profoundly damaged 3 year old boy against wishes of birth mother

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6910 (Published 12 October 2012)

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• Dissection and resurrection

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7009 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Antidoping agency savages Lance Armstrong’s doctors

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6912 (Published 15 October 2012)

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• Age should be no barrier to surgery, says report

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6957 (Published 16 October 2012)

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• BMA calls for minimum 1% increase in doctors’ pay for 2013-14

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6876 (Published 11 October 2012)

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Editorials

• Tocolytics: do they actually work?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6531 (Published 09 October 2012)

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• Improving targeted screening for hepatitis C in the UK

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6525 (Published 03 October 2012)

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• How to avoid precipitating an acute adrenal crisis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6333 (Published 09 October 2012)

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• The role of opioid substitution treatment in reducing HIV transmission

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6425 (Published 04 October 2012)

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• The imprisonment of Cyril Karabus is deplorable

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6815 (Published 09 October 2012)

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• Postmarket surveillance for medical devices: America’s new strategy

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6848 (Published 11 October 2012)

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Research News

• Ciclosporin no better than infliximab for acute refractory ulcerative colitis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6923 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Chocolate at the checkout is a risk to public health

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6921 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• No antibiotics for uncomplicated rhinosinusitis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6926 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• General health checks should be discouraged

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6927 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Incidence of angio-oedema associated with ARBs, ACE inhibitors, and aliskiren

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6941 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Pre-exposure prophylaxis is broadly cost effective for men who have sex with men

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6924 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Is chloride in intravenous fluids nephrotoxic?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6940 (Published 17 October 2012)

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Research

• Opiate substitution treatment and HIV transmission in people who inject drugs: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5945 (Published 04 October 2012)

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• Tocolytic therapy for preterm delivery: systematic review and network meta-analysis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6226 (Published 09 October 2012)

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• Accuracy of single progesterone test to predict early pregnancy outcome in women with pain or bleeding: meta-analysis of cohort studies

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6077 (Published 27 September 2012)

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• Postoperative use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in patients with anastomotic leakage requiring reoperation after colorectal resection: cohort study based on prospective data

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6166 (Published 26 September 2012)

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• Reporting and analysis of trials using stratified randomisation in leading medical journals: review and reanalysis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5840 (Published 14 September 2012)

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Observations

• Online health checks may obscure effective advice

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6745 (Published 15 October 2012)

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Feature

• Ending the French love affair with drugs

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6996 (Published 17 October 2012)

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Analysis

• Elderly prisoners

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6263 (Published 15 October 2012)

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Letters

• Funding of emergency admissions is nonsensical

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6906 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• GPs used to be effective gatekeepers

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6907 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Shortage of services in the community must be dealt with

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6908 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Strengthen the weakest link in the chain of care

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6911 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Double standards in the NHS

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6915 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Don’t rush into testing and treating children

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6899 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Marketing, not evidence based arguments, has probably increased testosterone prescribing

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6905 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Dental occlusion problems are a major cause of headache

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6892 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Will lifestyle changes in later life improve survival?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6897 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Health campaigns entrench the role of celebrities in consumer marketing

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6904 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• “Magic” mushrooms don’t cause renal failure

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6893 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Head circumference is useful in assessing weight gain in babies who fail to thrive

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6917 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Family and friends can help in treating alcohol misuse

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6761 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Time for NHS policy on electronic cigarettes

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6587 (Published 17 October 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Terminally ill people shouldn’t have to travel abroad for assisted dying

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6201 (Published 14 September 2012)

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• A disgruntled carer

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6881 (Published 15 October 2012)

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• Brave New World

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6672 (Published 05 October 2012)

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Obituaries

• Thomas Szasz

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e7011 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• David Wilson Barron

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6307 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• William Geoffrey Canning

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6313 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Eric Frankel

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6773 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Peter Kenneth Philip Harvey

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6319 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• David Schofield Jeffery

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6314 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• Alexander Fitzroy Maclean

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6312 (Published 17 October 2012)

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• John M Tomlinson

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6316 (Published 17 October 2012)

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Clinical Review

• Management of anal fistula

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6705 (Published 15 October 2012)

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Practice

• Rhabdomyolysis after co-prescription of statin and fusidic acid

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6562 (Published 09 October 2012)

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• Myalgia while taking statins

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5348 (Published 14 August 2012)

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Endgames

• A swollen leg in the middle of the night

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6189 (Published 25 September 2012)

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• Coronal oblique proton density weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the right shoulder

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5270 (Published 09 August 2012)

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• Estimating the population at risk

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6859 (Published 16 October 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Bad medicine: clinical breast examination

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6789 (Published 11 October 2012)

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• Prepared to fail?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6764 (Published 08 October 2012)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6886 (Published 15 October 2012)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e6887 (Published 15 October 2012)

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