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In an Editorial, Aileen Clarke and colleagues address the vexed question of surgeons removing organs "just in case", and call for research funders to support definitive research on whether prophylactic oophorectomy should be undertaken at the time of hysterectomy for benign conditions. There are implications here for a much wider debate about this issue.
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Recent changes to the status of same sex civil partnership in the United Kingdom make this month’s contribution from King and Bartlett particularly pertinent. The authors hold out the prospect of better health for same sex couples when their relationships are legally recognised.
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Evidence Based Public Health Policy and Practice this month:
- addresses the use of health impact assessment in incorporating health considerations in decision making;
- reports findings on the effect of area poverty rate on cancer screening across US communities;
- finds that socioeconomic inequality in breast screening uptake seems
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