10 October 2009(vol 339, issue 7725)

Editor's Choice

• The science and art of medicine

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Editorials

• The future of influenza vaccines

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• Prognosis of low back pain in primary care

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• Escherichia coli O157

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• Ethical care in dementia

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• Applying quality improvement approaches to health care

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Letters

• First consultation for the pill

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• What about doctor factors?

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• Interpreting sickness absence rates of NHS employees

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• Libraries of the future

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• Waiting times are poor marker for equity

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• The blind leading the disempowered

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• Negotiating the power gradient

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News

• Nobel medicine prize is won by scientists for work on chromosomal telomeres

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• US health reform bill will hinder introduction of generic forms of biological drugs, critics say

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• People with asthma are most at risk of complications from swine flu, study shows

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• Teenager who died after having HPV vaccine had a malignant chest tumour

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• Coroner rules that treating 26 year old woman who wanted to die would have been unlawful

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• More people should be tested for HIV to reduce late diagnosis and prevent deaths, say guidelines

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• Antiviral drugs should not be used to treat Bell’s palsy, Cochrane analysis concludes

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• Charity campaigns for drug companies to pool patents for newer HIV drugs

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• Charity and drug company work together to develop cure for Chagas’ disease

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• NHS will now be “preferred provider” of care, says health secretary

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• In brief

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• Medical relief efforts in Sumatra and Pacific islands are stepped up

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• German health policy is likely to become more pro-doctor, expert predicts

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• Hot-pink bras, cracked knuckles, and bar room brawls are this year’s winners at the Ig Nobel awards

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• The cost of donated drugs

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Head to Head

• Should youth mental health become a specialty in its own right? Yes

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• Should youth mental health become a specialty in its own right? No

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Observations

• Cervarix: definitely not the new MMR

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• Live and let die

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• The Israeli Medical Association and doctors’ complicity in torture

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Analysis

• The Netherlands: regulated competition behind the dykes?

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Research

• Fall prevention with supplemental and active forms of vitamin D: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

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• Partial protection of seasonal trivalent inactivated vaccine against novel pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009: case-control study in Mexico City

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• Life expectancy in relation to cardiovascular risk factors: 38 year follow-up of 19 000 men in the Whitehall study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3513 (Published 17 September 2009)

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• Longitudinal histories as predictors of future diagnoses of domestic abuse: modelling study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3677 (Published 30 September 2009)

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• Prognosis for patients with chronic low back pain: inception cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3829 (Published 06 October 2009)

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• Adiposity and weight change in mid-life in relation to healthy survival after age 70 in women: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3796 (Published 30 September 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Serum tumour markers: how to order and interpret them

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Practice

• Appropriate requesting of serum tumour markers

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• Exacerbation of atopic eczema in children

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• Chitosan may decrease serum valproate and increase the risk of seizure reappearance

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Obituaries

• Ronald Howard Fox

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• John Kenneth Binns

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• Guy Christopher Brill

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• Alexander Aitken Clark

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• David Henry Edwards

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• Philip Michael McAllen

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• David John Thornberry

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Views & Reviews

• We must defend personal continuity in primary care

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• Too independent for patients’ own good?

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• No fleas on me

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• Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates

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• Defending the indefensible

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• The silver lining

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Endgames

• Sexual health

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• A breathless woman with asthma

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• Screening tests II

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• A tale of mind and body

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• “Pseudo-extubation”?

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• “What care I for a goose feather bed”

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