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	Impact of smoking on mortality and life expectancy in Japanese smokers: a prospective cohort study
	R Sakata, P McGale, E J Grant, K Ozasa, R Peto, S C Darby
	BMJ  2012;345:e7093, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7093 (Published 25 October 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Use of 3x2 tables with an intention to diagnose approach to assess clinical performance of diagnostic tests: meta-analytical evaluation of coronary CT angiography studies
	Georg M Schuetz, Peter Schlattmann, Marc Dewey
	BMJ  2012;345:e6717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6717 (Published 24 October 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Therapeutics: Inhaled corticosteroids for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	Hye Yun Park, S F Paul Man, Don D Sin
	BMJ  2012;345:e6843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6843 (Published 25 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Patient's Journey: Psychotic depression
	Rebecca Lawrence, Stephen M Lawrie
	BMJ  2012;345:e6994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6994 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines: Assessment and management of psoriasis: summary of NICE guidance
	Eleanor Samarasekera, Laura Sawyer, Jill Parnham, Catherine H Smith, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2012;345:e6712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6712 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Food labelling scheme agreed with retailers to remain voluntary
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2012;345:e7212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7212 (Published 25 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients are let down by poor device regulation, warn surgeons
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2012;345:e7221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7221 (Published 25 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs end partnerships with Virgin over conflicts of interest
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2012;345:e7227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7227 (Published 25 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Device licensing bodies sometimes put business before safety, an investigation finds
	Zosia Kmietowicz, Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2012;345:e7138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7138 (Published 25 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	UK health secretary promises to tighten regulatory procedures for medical devices
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2012;345:e7192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7192 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Romney commits to denationalise Medicaid in third presidential debate
	Edward Davies
	BMJ  2012;345:e7198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7198 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Concentration of hands
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2012;345:e7128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7128 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	UK drug service is ill equipped to deal with new "legal highs" taken by clubbers, conference is told
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2012;345:e7162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7162 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Half of latest NHS efficiency savings came from staff pay freeze
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2012;345:e7174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7174 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Editor's Choice

	The scandal of medical device regulation
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2012;345:e7180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7180 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

	The EU’s system for regulating medical devices
	Peter McCulloch
	BMJ  2012;345:e7126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7126 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Perils of privatisation: Keeping the customer satisfied
	Beth Oxley
	BMJ  2012;345:e7016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7016 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Physical activity in children: Authors’ reply to Symonds
	Brad Metcalf, William Henley, Terence Wilkin
	BMJ  2012;345:e7029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7029 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Physical activity in children: Larger scale trials are needed to show what really works
	Joe D Symonds
	BMJ  2012;345:e7030, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7030 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fitness to practise: GMC inconsistency
	Peter T Wilmshurst
	BMJ  2012;345:e7037, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7037 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ward rounds: Golden ages have their dark sides
	Miriam Thake
	BMJ  2012;345:e7040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7040 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Empowering patients: We must join forces with our patients
	Jonathon Tomlinson
	BMJ  2012;345:e7047, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7047 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Empowering patients: Asking the right questions is key
	Huw Llewelyn
	BMJ  2012;345:e7050, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7050 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted dying: Not all "good" doctors do it anyway
	Tim N Harlow
	BMJ  2012;345:e7057, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7057 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening of older drivers: Statement on reduced risk is misleading
	Graeme D Ruxton
	BMJ  2012;345:e7060, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7060 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prisons and health: Availability of junk food should be reduced
	Jonathan Tammam, Louise Gillam, Bernard Gesch, John Stein
	BMJ  2012;345:e7070, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7070 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted dying: The "least worst" course of action?
	Chris Docker
	BMJ  2012;345:e7073, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7073 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening of older drivers: We need evidence based tools to identify medically at risk drivers
	Ediriweera Desapriya, Yamesha Ranatunga, Ian Pike
	BMJ  2012;345:e7087, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7087 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Overtreatment: Response to Whitehead
	David Colquhoun
	BMJ  2012;345:e7088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7088 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Overtreatment: Fashionable to criticise the drug industry?
	Stephen Whitehead
	BMJ  2012;345:e7089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7089 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Medical Device Regulation: Manufacturers offered helping hand with EU approval
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2012;345:e7225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7225 (Published 25 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Device Regulation: EU approval system leaves door open for dangerous devices
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2012;345:e7173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7173 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Device Regulation: Notified bodies: are they fit for purpose?
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2012;345:e7177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7177 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Device Regulation: The truth behind "made in Europe" labels on medical devices
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2012;345:e7193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7193 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Device Regulation: How a fake hip showed up failings in European device regulation
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2012;345:e7090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7090 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Medicine and the Media: Calorie restriction and longevity: fast and loose?
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2012;345:e6872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6872 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Going Public: Finding the smoking gun: a speech by Richard Peto
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2012;345:e7119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7119 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Future of WHO hangs in the balance
	David Legge
	BMJ  2012;345:e6877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6877 (Published 25 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Philippa Anne Mitchelson
	J J Green, Mark Carri, Paul Emmett, Claudia Schroder, Suma Paiyadi
	BMJ  2012;345:e6311, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6311 (Published 25 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Antony John Essex-Cater
	Alison Essex-Cater
	BMJ  2012;345:e6450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6450 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Patricia Mathews
	Colin W Mathews
	BMJ  2012;345:e6451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6451 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	David McGill
	Ron McGill
	BMJ  2012;345:e6454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6454 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Edward Daniel Fox
	Tony Fincham
	BMJ  2012;345:e6463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6463 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Issy Pilowsky
	Sandra Braude
	BMJ  2012;345:e6925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6925 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Sid Watkins
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2012;345:e7028, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7028 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

Endgames

	Picture Quiz: An abnormality at the hepatic flexure
	Jawad Naqvi, Gill Watts, Velauthan Rudralingham, Sarah Duff
	BMJ  2012;345:e7035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7035 (Published 25 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anatomy Quiz: Anatomy of the pituitary region
	Olga Shaw, Ravi Uppoor
	BMJ  2012;345:e6963, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6963 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: A sinister cause of shoulder pain, with numbness and weakness in the ipsilateral hand
	Ravi Popat, Josh Derodra, Stella Vig, Eric Lim
	BMJ  2012;345:e6948, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6948 (Published 24 October 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

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