13 September 2014(vol 349, issue 7974)

Editor's Choice

• Facts are few, comment is free

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5586 (Published 11 September 2014)

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News

• Oncologist to stand against prime minister in general election

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• Benzodiazepines may be linked to Alzheimer’s disease, study finds

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5555 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• In brief

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• Mentally ill people need more help to stay in work, says chief medical officer

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5576 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• Journal retracts article that said childhood trauma could lead to genetic changes

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5543 (Published 08 September 2014)

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Minerva

• The life prolonging effects of coffee and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5449 (Published 10 September 2014)

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News

• Life after a transplant—and a dog

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5521 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• GP with 26 years’ experience is struck off for “catalogue of deficiencies”

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5490 (Published 05 September 2014)

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• European court calls for submissions on Scotland’s plan for minimum alcohol pricing

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5571 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• Chair of NICE backs call for all clinical trial data to be public

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5541 (Published 09 September 2014)

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• Too little salt in diet can be as bad as too much, study shows

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5507 (Published 08 September 2014)

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• Judge rules that boy with brain cancer can be treated in Prague

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5570 (Published 10 September 2014)

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Observations

• Donal O’Donoghue: Being a doctor is “a ball”

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5497 (Published 11 September 2014)

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Editorials

• Regulating incremental innovation in medical devices

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5303 (Published 09 September 2014)

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• Regulation of electronic cigarettes

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5484 (Published 05 September 2014)

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• Medication use during pregnancy

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5252 (Published 22 August 2014)

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• Injury surveillance in Europe and the UK

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5337 (Published 08 September 2014)

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Research

• Appraisal of evidence base for introduction of new implants in hip and knee replacement: a systematic review of five widely used device technologies

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5133 (Published 09 September 2014)

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  • Open Access
• Use of antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy and risk of spontaneous abortion and stillbirth: population based cohort study

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5159 (Published 22 August 2014)

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  • Open Access
• Government health insurance for people below poverty line in India: quasi-experimental evaluation of insurance and health outcomes

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5114 (Published 25 September 2014)

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Feature

• Which way now for the Cancer Drugs Fund?

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5524 (Published 09 September 2014)

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• Peter Clark: public attitudes support a more favourable assessment for cancer treatments

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5545 (Published 11 September 2014)

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Analysis

• E-cigarettes: the best and the worst case scenarios for public health—an essay by Simon Chapman

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5512 (Published 09 September 2014)

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Letters

• No proof that BCG protects against infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5436 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• Authors’ reply to Turner and colleagues

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5441 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• Benefits of BCG vaccination other than protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5434 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• Contraindicated BCG vaccination in “at risk” infants

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5388 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• NHS contribution to the Ebola epidemic

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5519 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• Mimicking the circadian rhythm in glucocorticoid replacement

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5518 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• Insufficient evidence to favour prednisolone over hydrocortisone in glucocorticoid replacement

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5510 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• A partnership approach to implementing smoke-free prisons

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5443 (Published 10 September 2014)

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Observations

• Lessons from the Ashya King case

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• When doctors and patients disagree

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5567 (Published 10 September 2014)

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• “We have met the enemy”

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5324 (Published 01 September 2014)

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Views & Reviews

• Publishing individual surgeons’ death rates prompts risk averse behaviour

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5026 (Published 12 August 2014)

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Obituaries

• George John Romanes

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g4496 (Published 14 July 2014)

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• Nancy Rushton Brueton

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5162 (Published 26 August 2014)

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• Andrew Kenneth Burroughs

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5165 (Published 27 August 2014)

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• Jadwiga Karnicki

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• Norman Glenn Lambert

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• Malcolm Sharp

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• Alice Mary Sidgwick

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Clinical Review

• Diagnosis and management of prolactinomas and non-functioning pituitary adenomas

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Practice

• Ordering and interpreting ear swabs in otitis externa

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5259 (Published 01 September 2014)

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• Breast lumps

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5275 (Published 05 September 2014)

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Endgames

• What is a factorial study design?

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5455 (Published 05 September 2014)

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• A 45 year old man with an ulcerated nodule on his right leg

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5296 (Published 08 September 2014)

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• Sagittal T2 weighted magnetic resonance image of the cervical spine

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g4653 (Published 16 July 2014)

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Views & Reviews

• NHS Health Check betrays the ethos of public health

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g4752 (Published 22 July 2014)

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Minerva

• Unilateral Caffey disease (infantile cortical hyperostosis)

  BMJ 2014; 349 :g5289 (Published 10 September 2014)

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