23 January 2010 (Vol 340, Issue 7739)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Drinking at the last chance saloon

BMJ 2010;340:c394 (Published 20 January 2010)

News

This week's News section

UK nations have “troubling differences” in efficiency of health service

BMJ 2010;340:c381 (Published 20 January 2010)

Damage to Haiti’s infrastructure is “almost unbelievable,” says WHO chief

BMJ 2010;340:c378 (Published 20 January 2010)

Out of hours care scrutinised as inquest begins into deaths of two patients

BMJ 2010;340:c286 (Published 15 January 2010)

Government proposes fines for bars that have “all you can drink” offers

BMJ 2010;340:c390 (Published 20 January 2010)

New partnership pumps £1m into stem cell research for multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2010;340:c292 (Published 15 January 2010)

London health service faces serious financial problems and cuts of £5bn by 2017

BMJ 2010;340:c393 (Published 20 January 2010)

In brief

BMJ 2010;340:c348 (Published 20 January 2010)

Trial begins in Kansas of man who killed abortion doctor

BMJ 2010;340:c330 (Published 18 January 2010)

Healthcare providers sometimes take part in torture and ill treatment, report alleges

BMJ 2010;340:c329 (Published 21 January 2010)

Indonesian doctors are told to prescribe generics to reduce health costs

BMJ 2010;340:c349 (Published 20 January 2010)

European Commission targets drug firms over illegal patent protection

BMJ 2010;340:c268 (Published 15 January 2010)

New EU health chief questions plan to let drug industry communicate directly with patients

BMJ 2010;340:c353 (Published 20 January 2010)

Making the evidence matter

BMJ 2010;340:c305 (Published 19 January 2010)

Head of German NICE should remain in post, doctors urge

BMJ 2010;340:c318 (Published 18 January 2010)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Preventing alcohol related harm to health

BMJ 2010;340:c372 (Published 20 January 2010)

Exposure to radiation and higher risk of circulatory disease

BMJ 2010;340:b4326 (Published 14 January 2010)

Using biomarkers to prioritise patients with stable angina pectoris for bypass surgery

BMJ 2010;340:b5414 (Published 20 January 2010)

Differences in UK health care after devolution

BMJ 2010;340:c262 (Published 20 January 2010)

Management of open fractures of the lower limb

BMJ 2009;339:b5092 (Published 17 December 2009)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2010;340:c275 (Published 20 January 2010)

Research

This week's Research section

The association between BMI and mortality using offspring BMI as an indicator of own BMI: large intergenerational mortality study

BMJ 2009;339:b5043 (Published 22 December 2009)

Utility of genetic and non-genetic risk factors in prediction of type 2 diabetes: Whitehall II prospective cohort study

BMJ 2010;340:b4838 (Published 14 January 2010)

Radiation exposure and circulatory disease risk: Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor data, 1950-2003

BMJ 2010;340:b5349 (Published 14 January 2010)

Assessing the cost effectiveness of using prognostic biomarkers with decision models: case study in prioritising patients waiting for coronary artery surgery

BMJ 2010;340:b5606 (Published 19 January 2010)

Quality of life three years after diagnosis of localised prostate cancer: population based cohort study

BMJ 2009;339:b4817 (Published 27 November 2009)

Feature

This week's Feature section

A very public break-up

BMJ 2010;340:c110 (Published 18 January 2010)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Failure of self regulation of UK alcohol advertising

BMJ 2010;340:b5650 (Published 20 January 2010)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Coals to Newcastle?

BMJ 2010;340:c287 (Published 19 January 2010)

The limitations of the “Stanford 25”

BMJ 2010;340:c288 (Published 19 January 2010)

Include heart murmurs

BMJ 2010;340:c290 (Published 19 January 2010)

Include “eyeballing” the patient

BMJ 2010;340:c291 (Published 19 January 2010)

Prolonged prophylaxis for all?

BMJ 2010;340:c284 (Published 20 January 2010)

DIONYSOS study comparing dronedarone with amiodarone

BMJ 2010;340:c285 (Published 19 January 2010)

Awareness is key

BMJ 2010;340:c295 (Published 19 January 2010)

Still not enough doctors

BMJ 2010;340:c307 (Published 19 January 2010)

Medical rhetoric

BMJ 2010;340:c299 (Published 19 January 2010)

Driving a hard bargain

BMJ 2010;340:c304 (Published 19 January 2010)

Is there no place for integrity in academic medicine?

BMJ 2010;340:c281 (Published 19 January 2010)

Why expect the rational?

BMJ 2010;340:c294 (Published 19 January 2010)

An unbalanced equation

BMJ 2010;340:c296 (Published 19 January 2010)

What the NHS can learn from Ford in the 1980s

BMJ 2010;340:c297 (Published 19 January 2010)

Message from the heart

BMJ 2010;340:c282 (Published 20 January 2010)

Prevention by toxic gases?

BMJ 2010;340:c283 (Published 19 January 2010)

Professors need only apply?

BMJ 2010;340:c280 (Published 19 January 2010)

Raw data for study

BMJ 2010;340:c415 (Published 20 January 2010)

Observations

This week's Observations section

The Portman Group

Claire Harkins

BMJ 2010;340:b5659 (Published 20 January 2010)

EU reshuffle has health potential

Tessa Richards

BMJ 2010;340:c382 (Published 20 January 2010)

End libel law’s chilling effect on science

A C Grayling

BMJ 2010;340:c339 (Published 20 January 2010)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Electronic cigarettes: miracle or menace?

Andreas D Flouris, Dimitris N Oikonomou

BMJ 2010;340:c311 (Published 19 January 2010)

Be magnificent

Birte Twisselmann

BMJ 2010;340:c352 (Published 20 January 2010)

The ailments of the Lambs

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2010;340:c301 (Published 20 January 2010)

Views & Reviews - continued

The Country Doctor

Jerry O’Sullivan

BMJ 2010;340:c313 (Published 20 January 2010)

School dinners and the nanny state

Des Spence

BMJ 2010;340:c354 (Published 20 January 2010)

The shame of obstetrics

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2010;340:c303 (Published 20 January 2010)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Yvonne Helen Carter

BMJ 2010;340:c367 (Published 19 January 2010)

Brenda Moffat Dudley (née MacAdam)

BMJ 2010;340:c323 (Published 18 January 2010)

John Hardy

BMJ 2010;340:c324 (Published 18 January 2010)

Robin Francis McNab Jones

BMJ 2010;340:c325 (Published 18 January 2010)

Michael Richard Mole

BMJ 2010;340:c327 (Published 18 January 2010)

Estomih Elikanenyi Shoo

BMJ 2010;340:c326 (Published 18 January 2010)

David Ian Stirk

BMJ 2010;340:c167 (Published 11 January 2010)

Charles Geoffrey Sykes

BMJ 2010;340:c322 (Published 18 January 2010)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Managing comorbid disease in patients with psoriasis

BMJ 2010;340:b5666 (Published 15 January 2010)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Self diagnosis

BMJ 2009;339:b4418 (Published 11 November 2009)

Diagnosis and pharmacological management of Parkinson’s disease: summary of SIGN guidelines

BMJ 2010;340:b5614 (Published 12 January 2010)

Protein and creatine supplements and misdiagnosis of kidney disease

BMJ 2010;340:b5027 (Published 8 January 2010)

Tennis elbow

BMJ 2009;339:b3180 (Published 2 September 2009)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A 56 year old man with headache, fever, and neurological symptoms

BMJ 2010;340:b5603 (Published 20 January 2010)

Placebos

BMJ 2010;340:c247 (Published 20 January 2010)

A woman with hypophosphataemia and raised alkaline phosphatase

BMJ 2010;340:b5564 (Published 20 January 2010)

Bowel obstruction

BMJ 2010;340:c261 (Published 20 January 2010)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2010;340:c128 (Published 19 January 2010)

Minerva

BMJ 2010;340:c129 (Published 19 January 2010)

Research Methods & Reporting

This week's Research Methods & Reporting section

Use of multiperspective qualitative interviews to understand patients’ and carers’ beliefs, experiences, and needs

BMJ 2009;339:b4122 (Published 14 October 2009)