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Effect of reducing total fat intake on body weight: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and cohort studies
Lee Hooper, Asmaa Abdelhamid, Helen J Moore, Wayne Douthwaite, C Murray Skeaff, Carolyn D Summerbell
BMJ  2012;345:e7666, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7666 (Published 6 December 2012)
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Impact on health inequalities of rising prosperity in England 1998-2007, and implications for performance incentives: longitudinal ecological study
Ben Barr, David Taylor-Robinson, Margaret Whitehead
BMJ  2012;345:e7831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7831 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Neurological and developmental outcome in extremely preterm children born in England in 1995 and 2006: the EPICure studies
Tamanna Moore, Enid M Hennessy, Jonathan Myles, Samantha J Johnson, Elizabeth S Draper, Kate L Costeloe, Neil Marlow
BMJ  2012;345:e7961, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7961 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Short term outcomes after extreme preterm birth in England: comparison of two birth cohorts in 1995 and 2006 (the EPICure studies)
Kate L Costeloe, Enid M Hennessy, Sadia Haider, Fiona Stacey, Neil Marlow, Elizabeth S Draper
BMJ  2012;345:e7976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7976 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Advances in radiotherapy
Saif S Ahmad, Simon Duke, Rajesh Jena, Michael V Williams, Neil G Burnet
BMJ  2012;345:e7765, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7765 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Critics attack decision to allow federally funded researchers more time to publish trial results
Charlotte Santry
BMJ  2012;345:e8381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8381 (Published 7 December 2012)
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Performance data on all surgeons in England will be published within two years
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2012;345:e8377, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8377 (Published 7 December 2012)
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Nearly half of adults in England don’t understand health information material, study indicates
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2012;345:e8364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8364 (Published 7 December 2012)
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Prime minister gives backing to more transparent drug trial data
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2012;345:e8333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8333 (Published 7 December 2012)
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New {euro}55.6m European project will use stem cells to increase understanding of diseases
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2012;345:e8325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8325 (Published 7 December 2012)
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Chancellor unveils "son of PFI" to build next generation of hospitals
Ingrid Torjesen
BMJ  2012;345:e8334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8334 (Published 7 December 2012)
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Government is urged to stop claiming spending on NHS has risen
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2012;345:e8322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8322 (Published 6 December 2012)
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Free speech rights outweigh restrictions on promoting drugs off label, court rules
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2012;345:e8324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8324 (Published 6 December 2012)
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Head of private firm who brokered first deal to run NHS hospital steps down
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2012;345:e8321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8321 (Published 6 December 2012)
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New CQC chairman plans changes to sharpen the regulator’s performance
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2012;345:e8319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8319 (Published 5 December 2012)
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Referral rate to outpatient services in London in some practices is triple that in others, report says
Matthew Limb
BMJ  2012;345:e8249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8249 (Published 5 December 2012)
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In brief
BMJ  2012;345:e8265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8265 (Published 5 December 2012)
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Supreme Court will rule on whether patents for BRAC1 and BRAC2 genes are valid
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2012;345:e8266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8266 (Published 5 December 2012)
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Transforming lives through access to antiretrovirals
Annabel Ferriman
BMJ  2012;345:e8283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8283 (Published 5 December 2012)
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Standard of lung cancer care improved slightly over past year, report shows
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2012;345:e8289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8289 (Published 5 December 2012)
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NICE is urged to make drug companies supply all trial data
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2012;345:e8294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8294 (Published 5 December 2012)
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Incidence of severe disability among very premature babies has not changed for a decade
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2012;345:e8264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8264 (Published 4 December 2012)
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NHS is "full" owing to rise in emergency admissions and poor discharge procedures, report says
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2012;345:e8245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8245 (Published 4 December 2012)
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US needs 52 000 more primary care doctors by 2025, new study says
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2012;345:e8259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8259 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Patients should be reviewed by a consultant once every 24 hours, report says
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2012;345:e8262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8262 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Twelve NHS trusts have "worryingly high" mortality rates, report says
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2012;345:e8282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8282 (Published 4 December 2012)
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India proposes banning 73 antibiotics from sale over the counter
Meera Kay
BMJ  2012;345:e8290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8290 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Daily Mail story on care of sick babies was "highly misleading," says BMJ editor
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2012;345:e8240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8240 (Published 4 December 2012)
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New bill aims to embolden doctors to practise innovative medicine
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2012;345:e8271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8271 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Personal health budgets will be rolled out to over 50 000 people
Krishna Chinthapalli
BMJ  2012;345:e8233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8233 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Glass particles found in generic atorvastatin
Edward Davies
BMJ  2012;345:e8236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8236 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Cutting emissions by drug industry is crucial to reducing NHS’s carbon footprint
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2012;345:e8243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8243 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Surgeon is taking claims of victimisation over whistleblowing to High Court
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2012;345:e8247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8247 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Patents cannot be given for research methods that destroy healthy human embryos to obtain stem cells, German court rules
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2012;345:e8248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8248 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Outsourcing favours private companies and is unsustainable, says report
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2012;345:e8234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8234 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Oxygen and publicity
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2012;345:e8285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8285 (Published 5 December 2012)
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Long term follow-up of extremely preterm neonates
Floris Groenendaal, Cuno Uiterwaal
BMJ  2012;345:e8252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8252 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Airborne exposure to preservative methylisothiazolinone causes severe allergic reactions
Michael Dyrgaard Lundov, Claus Zachariae, Torkil Menné, Jeanne Duus Johansen
BMJ  2012;345:e8221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8221 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Changes to the GP contract: Problems with the GP contract date back to 2004
Hendrik J Beerstecher
BMJ  2012;345:e7816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7816 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Revalidation and appraisal: Revalidation will not reliably detect poorly performing doctors
Leslie Lowenthal
BMJ  2012;345:e8009, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8009 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Content area experts as authors: At least one systematic reviewer must be a disease expert
Andrew Whitelaw
BMJ  2012;345:e8011, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8011 (Published 3 December 2012)
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HRT and cardiovascular events: Trial does not change the conclusions of Cochrane review of long term hormone therapy for perimenopausal and postmenopausal women
Jane Marjoribanks, Cindy Farquhar, Helen Roberts, Anne Lethaby
BMJ  2012;345:e8141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8141 (Published 3 December 2012)
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HRT and cardiovascular events: Was the composite outcome specified in the original protocol?
Jeppe Schroll, Andreas Lundh
BMJ  2012;345:e8144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8144 (Published 3 December 2012)
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HRT and cardiovascular events: Study had insufficient power to investigate safety
Jacques E Rossouw, JoAnn E Manson, Andrew M Kaunitz, Marcia L Stefanick
BMJ  2012;345:e8146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8146 (Published 3 December 2012)
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HRT and cardiovascular events: The age hypothesis does not stand up to scrutiny
Klim McPherson
BMJ  2012;345:e8149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8149 (Published 3 December 2012)
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HRT and cardiovascular events: Press release was misleading
Jim G Thornton
BMJ  2012;345:e8162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8162 (Published 3 December 2012)
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HRT and cardiovascular events: Authors’ reply to Marjoribanks and colleagues, Rossouw and colleagues, Schroll and Lundh, and McPherson
Louise Lind Schierbeck, Lars Køber, Jens-Erik Beck Jensen
BMJ  2012;345:e8164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8164 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Vitamin D deficiency: British Paediatric and Adolescent Bone Group’s position statement on vitamin D deficiency
Paul Arundel, S F Ahmed, J Allgrove, N J Bishop, C P Burren, B Jacobs, M Z Mughal, A C Offiah, N J Shaw
BMJ  2012;345:e8182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8182 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Hirschsprung's disease: Anorectal function is not always normal after surgery in Hirschsprung’s disease
David Wilkinson, Simon Kenny
BMJ  2012;345:e8192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8192 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Hirschsprung's disease: Many patients have an identifiable genetic cause of Hirschsprung’s disease
Francis H Sansbury, Sian Ellard, Charles Shaw-Smith, Peter Turnpenny
BMJ  2012;345:e8199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8199 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Can suicide be prevented?: Suicide prevention and mental illness
Rich Braithwaite
BMJ  2012;345:e8201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8201 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Primary Care: More health professionals for rural India
Soumya Shivkumar
BMJ  2012;345:e8339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8339 (Published 7 December 2012)
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Briefing: Is abortion worldwide becoming more restrictive?
Sophie Arie
BMJ  2012;345:e8161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8161 (Published 4 December 2012)
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Tobacco Control: Gutkha wars: India toughens up on oral tobacco use
Meera Kay
BMJ  2012;345:e8238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8238 (Published 4 December 2012)
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BMJ Christmas Appeal 2012: Lifebox: Make it zero
Sarah Kessler
BMJ  2012;345:e8241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8241 (Published 4 December 2012)
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An unblinkered view of best interests
Wayne Martin, Fabian Freyenhagen, Elizabeth Hall, Tom O’Shea, Antal Szerletics, Vivienne Ashley
BMJ  2012;345:e8007, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8007 (Published 5 December 2012)
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Personal View: Patients with melanoma are avoiding follow-up to get insurance
Ciarstan McArdle
BMJ  2012;345:e7803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7803 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Jack Harvey Rose
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2012;345:e8188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8188 (Published 3 December 2012)
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Statistical Question: How to read a forest plot
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2012;345:e8335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8335 (Published 7 December 2012)
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Mothers’ kisses and other stories . . .
BMJ  2012;345:e7974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7974 (Published 5 December 2012)
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Exercise induced pyomyositis
Sarveer Mahil, Alastair McGregor, Jessica Manson
BMJ  2012;345:e7975, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7975 (Published 5 December 2012)
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Lifebox: Make it zero
BMJ  2012;345:e8314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8314 (Published 5 December 2012)
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