12 December 2009 (Vol 339, Issue 7734)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

We want raw data, now

BMJ 2009;339:b5405 (Published 10 December 2009)

News

This week's News section

Doctors had warned of understaffing at Baby P hospital, inquiry finds

BMJ 2009;339:b5404 (Published 9 December 2009)

England’s healthcare regulators will start 2010 without chiefs

BMJ 2009;339:b5390 (Published 9 December 2009)

Doctors and scientists demand reform of England’s libel laws

BMJ 2009;339:b5393 (Published 9 December 2009)

Women’s groups protest against antiabortion rules in US healthcare bill

BMJ 2009;339:b5324 (Published 8 December 2009)

Specialist mental health advisers are to be available in job centres

BMJ 2009;339:b5382 (Published 10 December 2009)

Fear of minimum alcohol pricing spreading to other countries led to opposition in Scotland

BMJ 2009;339:b5339 (Published 7 December 2009)

In brief

BMJ 2009;339:b5350 (Published 9 December 2009)

Complex working environment, not poor training, blamed for drug errors

BMJ 2009;339:b5328 (Published 7 December 2009)

Fall in swine flu cases may not signal an end of the epidemic, warns Professor Donaldson

BMJ 2009;339:b5329 (Published 7 December 2009)

UK health professionals unite to combat climate change

BMJ 2009;339:b5385 (Published 9 December 2009)

The mysterious Dr Foster

BMJ 2009;339:b5242 (Published 2 December 2009)

Measles deaths fell by more than 90% worldwide from 2000 to 2008, except in southern Asia

BMJ 2009;339:b5362 (Published 8 December 2009)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Why don’t we have all the evidence on oseltamivir?

BMJ 2009;339:b5351 (Published 8 December 2009)

Subclinical hypothyroidism after pre-eclampsia

BMJ 2009;339:b5183 (Published 8 December 2009)

Losing weight in moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea

BMJ 2009;339:b4363 (Published 3 December 2009)

Heroin assisted treatment

BMJ 2009;339:b4545 (Published 6 November 2009)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2009;339:b5310 (Published 9 December 2009)

Research

This week's Research section

Pre-eclampsia, soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1, and the risk of reduced thyroid function: nested case-control and population based study

BMJ 2009;339:b4336 (Published 17 November 2009)

Multiple sclerosis risk sharing scheme: two year results of clinical cohort study with historical comparator

BMJ 2009;339:b4677 (Published 2 December 2009)

Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2009;339:b5106 (Published 8 December 2009)

Effect of a very low energy diet on moderate and severe obstructive sleep apnoea in obese men: a randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2009;339:b4609 (Published 3 December 2009)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Complications: tracking down the data on oseltamivir

BMJ 2009;339:b5387 (Published 8 December 2009)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Neuraminidase inhibitors—the story behind the Cochrane review

BMJ 2009;339:b5164 (Published 8 December 2009)

What can we learn from observational studies of oseltamivir to treat influenza in healthy adults?

BMJ 2009;339:b5248 (Published 8 December 2009)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Injections for all?

BMJ 2009;339:b5320 (Published 9 December 2009)

Injecting steroids is not good

BMJ 2009;339:b5319 (Published 9 December 2009)

Diagnose and treat the disease

BMJ 2009;339:b5321 (Published 9 December 2009)

There is no proved treatment

BMJ 2009;339:b5325 (Published 9 December 2009)

Medical Capacity Act 2005 should be invoked

BMJ 2009;339:b5340 (Published 9 December 2009)

Let’s not waste more resources

BMJ 2009;339:b5343 (Published 9 December 2009)

More research is not needed

BMJ 2009;339: (Published 9 December 2009)

Vector control is important

BMJ 2009;339:b5332 (Published 9 December 2009)

Display of multiple factors

BMJ 2009;339:b5099 (Published 9 December 2009)

Authors’ reply

BMJ 2009;339:b5097 (Published 9 December 2009)

Gross and net are not the same

BMJ 2009;339:b5331 (Published 9 December 2009)

What concerns did staff raise at Basildon?

BMJ 2009;339:b5337 (Published 9 December 2009)

Roche replies to the authors of the Cochrane Review on oseltamivir

BMJ 2009;339:b5364 (Published 8 December 2009)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Pushing at the bolted door: a tribute to George Godber

Iona Heath

BMJ 2009;339:b5360 (Published 8 December 2009)

Please help support the work of Médecins Sans Frontières

Fiona Godlee

BMJ 2009;339:b5381 (Published 9 December 2009)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

A lesson learnt

Sharon Elizabeth Whitehorn

BMJ 2009;339:b5357 (Published 9 December 2009)

Behind the pages of clinical research

Allen Shaughnessy

BMJ 2009;339:b5359 (Published 9 December 2009)

A grave matter

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2009;339:b5377 (Published 9 December 2009)

The Canon of Medicine

Gavin Koh

BMJ 2009;339:b5358 (Published 9 December 2009)

Goodbye to the noughties

Des Spence

BMJ 2009;339:b5378 (Published 9 December 2009)

Views & Reviews - continued

Let’s abandon hope

Ike Iheanacho

BMJ 2009;339:b5344 (Published 9 December 2009)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Angelo M DiGeorge

BMJ 2009;339:b5379 (Published 9 December 2009)

Arend Jan Dunning

BMJ 2009;339:b5368 (Published 7 December 2009)

Cyril Forssander

BMJ 2009;339:b5286 (Published 7 December 2009)

James Howard Lewis

BMJ 2009;339:b4464 (Published 7 December 2009)

Michael Ernest Nicholas Anfilogoff

BMJ 2009;339:b5365 (Published 7 December 2009)

John Roslyn Anthony

BMJ 2009;339:b5366 (Published 7 December 2009)

James Lionel Somervell

BMJ 2009;339:b5008 (Published 30 November 2009)

Arthur Powell Wyatt

BMJ 2009;339:b5165 (Published 30 November 2009)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Practice

This week's Practice section

Insertion of chest drains: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency

BMJ 2009;339:b4923 (Published 2 December 2009)

A woman with acute myelopathy in pregnancy: case outcome

BMJ 2009;339:b4026 (Published 10 December 2009)

Commentary: Learning out of your depth

BMJ 2009;339:b5180 (Published 10 December 2009)

Commentary: Complex medical conditions in pregnancy need appropriate multidisciplinary input

BMJ 2009;339:b5179 (Published 10 December 2009)

Commentary: Managing clinicians’ assessment

BMJ 2009;339:b5177 (Published 10 December 2009)

Commentary: Patient’s view

BMJ 2009;339:b5178 (Published 10 December 2009)

Commentary: Neurological perspective

BMJ 2009;339:b5250 (Published 10 December 2009)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Study design

BMJ 2009;339:b5263 (Published 9 December 2009)

Ophthalmology in general practice

BMJ 2009;339:b5269 (Published 9 December 2009)

An 11 year old boy with chest pain and fever

BMJ 2009;339:b4941 (Published 9 December 2009)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2009;339:b5375 (Published 9 December 2009)

Minerva

BMJ 2009;339:b5298 (Published 9 December 2009)

Filler

The late Matron Wardroper (1892)

BMJ 2009;339:b2096 (Published 2 December 2009)