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Indoor tanning and non-melanoma skin cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis
Mackenzie R Wehner, Melissa L Shive, Mary-Margaret Chren, Jiali Han, Abrar A Qureshi, Eleni Linos
BMJ  2012;345:e5909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5909 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Jerry P Nolan, Jasmeet Soar, Gavin D Perkins
BMJ  2012;345:e6122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6122 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Screening for type 2 diabetes doesn’t affect mortality at 10 years
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2012;345:e6687, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6687 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Restore ward rounds to former glory to improve patient care, say colleges
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2012;345:e6622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6622 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Poorer survival in women with advanced ovarian cancer explains the UK’s lower overall survival
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2012;345:e6704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6704 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Spinal injury patients get a place of escape
Annabel Ferriman
BMJ  2012;345:e6648, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6648 (Published 3 October 2012)
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India’s capping of drug prices will leave drugs costing near the market price
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2012;345:e6649, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6649 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Doctors leaders, charities, and hospices back Liverpool Care Pathway
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2012;345:e6654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6654 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Scientists debunk idea that rise in allergic diseases is due to homes becoming "too clean"
Matthew Limb
BMJ  2012;345:e6673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6673 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Failure rates of Birmingham hip implant exceed recommended level
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2012;345:e6688, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6688 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Nicklinson’s widow is refused right to appeal to higher court
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2012;345:e6690, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6690 (Published 3 October 2012)
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FDA given new powers over data reporting to national clinical trials registry
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2012;345:e6629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6629 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Marketing of antipsychotic drugs targeted doctors of Medicaid patients, report says
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2012;345:e6633, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6633 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Germany opposes EU plans for regulating clinical trials owing to lack of ethical standards
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2012;345:e6640, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6640 (Published 2 October 2012)
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US Institute of Medicine urges fitness standards for young people
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2012;345:e6641, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6641 (Published 2 October 2012)
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In brief
BMJ  2012;345:e6650, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6650 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Fraud, not error, is why two thirds of biomedical papers are withdrawn
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2012;345:e6658, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6658 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Pathology service run jointly with Serco is "in turmoil," claims report
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2012;345:e6665, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6665 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Charity calls for NHS to commission services to improve health of homeless people
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2012;345:e6608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6608 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Dutch court finds gynaecologist guilty of "culpable homicide" after baby dies
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2012;345:e6615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6615 (Published 2 October 2012)
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US Supreme Court is asked to rule on validity of patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2012;345:e6624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6624 (Published 2 October 2012)
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GMC investigates government’s director of commissioning development
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2012;345:e6639, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6639 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Overtreatment, over here
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2012;345:e6684, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6684 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Improving targeted screening for hepatitis C in the UK
Christopher J A Duncan, Ewen Stewart, Ray Fox
BMJ  2012;345:e6525, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6525 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Nuclear transfer to prevent maternal transmission of mitochondrial DNA disease
Joanna Poulton, Pippa Oakeshott
BMJ  2012;345:e6651, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6651 (Published 3 October 2012)
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More evidence of harms of sunbed use, particularly for young people
Catherine M Olsen, Adèle C Green
BMJ  2012;345:e6101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6101 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Eye injuries due to fireworks: New firework caused severe eye injuries at a public display
E Pringle, M B Eckstein, A G Casswell, E H Hughes
BMJ  2012;345:e6579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6579 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Necrotising fasciitis: The need to distinguish between group A streptococcus and polymicrobial causes in necrotising fasciitis
Daniel R Gibney, John Cheesbrough
BMJ  2012;345:e6537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6537 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Making a diagnosis in vertigo: The ability to stand is not diagnostic in vertigo
Peter Foley
BMJ  2012;345:e6542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6542 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Making a diagnosis in vertigo: Authors’ reply to Foley
D Kaski, A M Bronstein
BMJ  2012;345:e6544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6544 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Is bioethics a bully?: Bioethicists do participate in everyday practice
Kyle W Anstey, Linda Wright
BMJ  2012;345:e6547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6547 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Is bioethics a bully?: "Ethics Man" misses mark: most bioethicists are not thugs
Joshua S Crites, Rebecca L Volpe
BMJ  2012;345:e6549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6549 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Pressure on hospitals: Reductions in specialist chronic illness management fuel emergency hospital admissions
Claire Hilton
BMJ  2012;345:e6581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6581 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Lansley's legacy: Keep general practice and secondary care separate
John Fitton
BMJ  2012;345:e6583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6583 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Statins for all?: If facts do not fit theory, the theory is wrong
Andrew N Bamji
BMJ  2012;345:e6584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6584 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Sample size calculations: Neither off the peg nor made to measure calculations are fit for purpose
Paul D P Pharoah
BMJ  2012;345:e6585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6585 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Sample size calculations: An unorthodox approach to calculating sample size
Sara Muller, Samantha L Hider, Toby Helliwell, Christian D Mallen
BMJ  2012;345:e6586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6586 (Published 2 October 2012)
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UK office dermatologists: "If everybody’s somebody, then no one’s anybody"
Arnold G Zermansky
BMJ  2012;345:e6590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6590 (Published 2 October 2012)
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UK office dermatologists: Teledermatology is the answer
Richard J Motley
BMJ  2012;345:e6593, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6593 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Overtreatment: Is the USA’s problem ours too?
Margaret McCartney
BMJ  2012;345:e6617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6617 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Overtreatment: Unnecessary care: are doctors in denial and is profit driven healthcare to blame?
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2012;345:e6230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6230 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Life and Death: The problem of diagnosis
Iona Heath
BMJ  2012;345:e6595, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6595 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Starting Out: Tax calories to end the buffet syndrome
Kinesh Patel
BMJ  2012;345:e6674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6674 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Personal View: A tax on indoor tanning would reduce demand in Europe
Simon Nicholas Williams
BMJ  2012;345:e6550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6550 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Personal View: Why this love for antibiotics in India?
Pankaj Vohra
BMJ  2012;345:e6209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6209 (Published 2 October 2012)
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Case Report: A woman with neck pain and shortness of breath
Ravi Parekh, Tina Beaconsfield, Wing May Kong
BMJ  2012;345:e6553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6553 (Published 3 October 2012)
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Picture Quiz: Headache and visual aura in an immunocompromised patient
Hannah Tharmalingam, Thomas C Morris, Joanna Farnsworth, Edward J Kanfer
BMJ  2012;345:e6507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6507 (Published 2 October 2012)
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How US politicians are playing the health card
BMJ  2012;345:e6631, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6631 (Published 2 October 2012)
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