31 January 2009 (Vol 338, Issue 7689)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

NICE at 10

BMJ 2009;338:b344 (Published 29 January 2009)

News

This week's News section

Problems with computerising patients’ records are “as serious as ever,” say MPs

BMJ 2009;338:b337 (Published 28 January 2009)

More treatment in surgeries and at home will help cut NHS carbon footprint

BMJ 2009;338:b345 (Published 28 January 2009)

Middle classes in Britain drink most alcohol, but smoking is at lowest recorded level

BMJ 2009;338:b312 (Published 26 January 2009)

Presumed consent to access medical records removed from NHS constitution after protests

BMJ 2009;338:b271 (Published 23 January 2009)

Study on stem cells for stroke patients to start in Scotland later in 2009

BMJ 2009;338:b245 (Published 22 January 2009)

Celebrities help promote campaign to destigmatise mental illness

BMJ 2009;338:b309 (Published 26 January 2009)

In brief

BMJ 2009;338:b323 (Published 28 January 2009)

Listeriosis remains a cause for concern in Europe

BMJ 2009;338:b319 (Published 27 January 2009)

Obama overturns ban on federal funding of family planning organisations that promote abortion

BMJ 2009;338:b320 (Published 27 January 2009)

Unicef appeals for $1bn to help children and women in humanitarian emergencies

BMJ 2009;338:b322 (Published 27 January 2009)

Drug eluting stents remain a “major concern” in the longer term, finds study

BMJ 2009;338:b253 (Published 22 January 2009)

One third of Chinese men will be killed by tobacco if high smoking rates persist

BMJ 2009;338:b302 (Published 26 January 2009)

Donors pledge $630m to help boost global polio eradication

BMJ 2009;338:b335 (Published 27 January 2009)

BMJ Group Awards

BMJ 2009;338:b325 (Published 29 January 2009)

BMJ Group Awards—shortlisted candidates in nine categories

BMJ 2009;338:b329 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Professor Patrick Bradley

BMJ 2009;338:b272 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Professor Andrew Lister

BMJ 2009;338:b332 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Professor Judith Longstaff Mackay

BMJ 2009;338:b273 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Professor Jillian Rose Mann

BMJ 2009;338:b287 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Dr Ann McPherson

BMJ 2009;338:b274 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Sir Michael Rawlins

BMJ 2009;338:b275 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Dr Robert William Schrier

BMJ 2009;338:b276 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Dr Moises Selman

BMJ 2009;338:b280 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Dr Hanumappa Sudarshan

BMJ 2009;338:b281 (Published 29 January 2009)

Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Professor Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub

BMJ 2009;338:b282 (Published 29 January 2009)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Preventing and treating postnatal depression

BMJ 2009;338:a2975 (Published 15 January 2009)

Corticosteroid injection for rotator cuff disease

BMJ 2009;338:a2599 (Published 23 January 2009)

The NHS carbon reduction strategy

BMJ 2009;338:b326 (Published 28 January 2009)

Editorials - continued

A constitution for the NHS

BMJ 2009;338:b330 (Published 28 January 2009)

Rationing new medicines in the UK

BMJ 2009;338:a3182 (Published 22 January 2009)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2009;338:b303 (Published 28 January 2009)

Research

This week's Research section

Subacromial ultrasound guided or systemic steroid injection for rotator cuff disease: randomised double blind study

BMJ 2009;338:a3112 (Published 23 January 2009)

Clinical effectiveness of health visitor training in psychologically informed approaches for depression in postnatal women: pragmatic cluster randomised trial in primary care

BMJ 2009;338:a3045 (Published 15 January 2009)

Effect of peer support on prevention of postnatal depression among high risk women: multisite randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2009;338:a3064 (Published 15 January 2009)

Impact of presumed consent for organ donation on donation rates: a systematic review

BMJ 2009;338:a3162 (Published 14 January 2009)

Feature

This week's Feature section

NICE goes global

BMJ 2009;338:b103 (Published 28 January 2009)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

NICE and the challenge of cancer drugs

BMJ 2009;338:b67 (Published 13 January 2009)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Change in moles linked to use of unlicensed “sun tan jab”

BMJ 2009;338:b277 (Published 27 January 2009)

EC, don’t let drug companies give information to the public

BMJ 2009;338:b290 (Published 27 January 2009)

EC proposal can be defeated

BMJ 2009;338:b291 (Published 27 January 2009)

Why universal BCG in UK was deemed not necessary

BMJ 2009;338:b192 (Published 21 January 2009)

One laptop per primary care worker in developing countries

BMJ 2009;338:b283 (Published 28 January 2009)

Noblesse oblige

BMJ 2009;338:b284 (Published 28 January 2009)

Know your friends

BMJ 2009;338:b293 (Published 28 January 2009)

What about social politics?

BMJ 2009;338:b292 (Published 28 January 2009)

Poster boarding

BMJ 2009;338:b193 (Published 21 January 2009)

The useless orange congress bag

BMJ 2009;338:b298 (Published 28 January 2009)

Le sac de mon fils

BMJ 2009;338:b296 (Published 28 January 2009)

Choir bag(s) in second life

BMJ 2009;338:b294 (Published 28 January 2009)

Regifting conference bags

BMJ 2009;338:b297 (Published 28 January 2009)

Ditch the bag and be green

BMJ 2009;338:b295 (Published 28 January 2009)

Murphy’s lore

BMJ 2009;338:b288 (Published 27 January 2009)

Observations

This week's Observations section

When can doctors stay away?

Daniel K Sokol

BMJ 2009;338:b165 (Published 16 January 2009)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Wouldn’t it be NICE to consider patients’ views when rationing health care?

Jane Speight, Matt Reaney

BMJ 2009;338:b85 (Published 26 January 2009)

Pathologists are people too

Debra Milne

BMJ 2009;338:b328 (Published 28 January 2009)

A book of quiet heroism

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2009;338:b216 (Published 28 January 2009)

The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Paré

Harold Ellis

BMJ 2009;338:b203 (Published 28 January 2009)

Everyone hurts

Des Spence

BMJ 2009;338:b327 (Published 28 January 2009)

Fireworks in Iran

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2009;338:b139 (Published 28 January 2009)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Hanns Martin Goldberg

BMJ 2009;338:b141 (Published 23 January 2009)

Thomas Arthur Grimson

BMJ 2009;338:b266 (Published 23 January 2009)

Thomas Kraft

BMJ 2009;338:b265 (Published 23 January 2009)

Paul Garner Large

BMJ 2009;338:b268 (Published 23 January 2009)

William Macdonald

BMJ 2009;338:b121 (Published 20 January 2009)

David Barry Price

BMJ 2009;338:b261 (Published 23 January 2009)

Robert Sidney Winwood

BMJ 2009;338:b263 (Published 23 January 2009)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

HIV infection, antiretroviral treatment, ageing, and non-AIDS related morbidity

BMJ 2009;338:a3172 (Published 26 January 2009)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Borderline and antisocial personality disorders: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2009;338:b93 (Published 28 January 2009)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Multiple linear regression

BMJ 2009;338:b167 (Published 28 January 2009)

A woman with ataxia

BMJ 2009;338:b180 (Published 28 January 2009)

An unusual cause of back pain

BMJ 2009;338:a3183 (Published 28 January 2009)

Suicide

BMJ 2009;338:b262 (Published 28 January 2009)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2009;338:b267 (Published 27 January 2009)

Minerva

BMJ 2009;338:b279 (Published 27 January 2009)

Head to Head

This week's Head to Head section

Should NICE’s threshold range for cost per QALY be raised? Yes

BMJ 2009;338:b181 (Published 26 January 2009)

Should NICE’s threshold range for cost per QALY be raised? No

BMJ 2009;338:b185 (Published 26 January 2009)

Filler

Encouraging the use of cycle helmets—effect of a brief intervention

BMJ 2009;338:b119 (Published 28 January 2009)

An Addisonian goose chase

BMJ 2009;338:b112 (Published 28 January 2009)