19 October 2013(vol 347, issue 7929)

Editor's Choice

• BMJ Confidential

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News

• Competition rules over merger has cost NHS £1.8m, BMJ probe shows

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• Australasian college of physicians sacks its ethics committee

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• In brief

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• Checking GP patients’ citizenship would be “bureaucratic nightmare,” says GP leader

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• Competition watchdog sees sharp rise in inquiries from CCGs

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• GP-led service helped seven in 10 patients avoid long term sickness absence

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• Only five out of 19 maternity units in Ireland are following recent advice, report finds

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• Vitamin D supplementation to prevent osteoporosis is not warranted, study concludes

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• EMA confirms that hydroxyethyl starch solutions should not be used in critically ill, sepsis, or burns patients

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• Alliance Boots accused of avoiding over £1bn in UK tax

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• Unpublished studies hold twice as much data on drugs as those in public domain, study finds

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Observations

• Clare Gerada: Best move was “getting into drugs”

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Editorials

• How widespread is variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

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• Journal policy on research funded by the tobacco industry

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• European Union’s tobacco products directive

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• Prescribing methylphenidate for moderate ADHD

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Research

• Prevalent abnormal prion protein in human appendixes after bovine spongiform encephalopathy epizootic: large scale survey

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• Blood pressure lowering and major cardiovascular events in people with and without chronic kidney disease: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

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• Burden of adhesions in abdominal and pelvic surgery: systematic review and met-analysis

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• Comparative effectiveness of exercise and drug interventions on mortality outcomes: metaepidemiological study

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5577 (Published 01 October 2013)

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Feature

• Are new technologies in infertility treatment always good news?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6004 (Published 04 October 2013)

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• Devices and desires: industry fights toughening of medical device regulation in Europe

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Analysis

• Value based pricing: can it work?

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Letters

• Deprived areas will lose out with proposed new capitation formula

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• PACE trial authors’ reply to letter by Kindlon

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• Providing adequate and practical descriptions in surgical trials

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• Hospital standardised mortality rates should not be used to make interhospital comparisons

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• Claims about NHS deficiencies without robust data undermine trust

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• Medical incident reporting needs a global online system

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• CANTABmobile and its misleading promotion

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• All people with dementia need accurate assessment and ongoing support

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• Alistair Burns and 51 colleagues reply to David Le Couteur and colleagues

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Observations

• Regulating medical apps: which ones and how much?

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Views & Reviews

• The loss of multidisciplinary primary healthcare teams is bad for patient care

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Obituaries

• Alexander Gatherer

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5511 (Published 26 September 2013)

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• Leon Gerlis

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• Margaret Haire

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• John Lloyd Jenkins

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• Hugh Michael Norman

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• Henry Robert Shepherd

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• Dorothy Trump

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Clinical Review

• Post-mastectomy breast reconstruction

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Practice

• Novel drugs for treating angina

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Endgames

• An unusual cause of breathlessness

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5318 (Published 19 September 2013)

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• The nocebo effect

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Views & Reviews

• General practice 8 till 8

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• Raising more antibodies

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Minerva

• Beware of “Instant Slim” and other stories . . .

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• A mysterious case of Cushing’s syndrome

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