20 March 2010 (Vol 340, Issue 7747)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Room 101: where services go to die

BMJ 2010;340:c1523 (Published 18 March 2010)

News

This week's News section

Thiomersal does not cause autism, US court finds

BMJ 2010;340:c1518 (Published 16 March 2010)

Australian court findings on Vioxx may have global ramifications

BMJ 2010;340:c1485 (Published 16 March 2010)

In brief

BMJ 2010;340:c1499 (Published 17 March 2010)

German professor gets three year sentence for corruption and fraud

BMJ 2010;340:c1488 (Published 16 March 2010)

Dublin hospital has backlog of 58 000 unreported x rays

BMJ 2010;340:c1496 (Published 16 March 2010)

Surgeon who removed most of baby’s bladder allowed to practise under conditions

BMJ 2010;340:c1445 (Published 12 March 2010)

People with rare diseases need better care, says chief medical officer

BMJ 2010;340:c1506 (Published 16 March 2010)

Italy sets up national palliative care service

BMJ 2010;340:c1481 (Published 15 March 2010)

Deal between Weight Watchers and McDonald’s in NZ provokes anger

BMJ 2010;340:c1495 (Published 15 March 2010)

European court rules minimum cigarette prices illegal

BMJ 2010;340:c1498 (Published 16 March 2010)

BMJ awards honour courage, determination, vision, and insight in medicine

BMJ 2010;340:c1450 (Published 12 March 2010)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Disinvestment in health care

BMJ 2010;340:c1413 (Published 16 March 2010)

Body fat and increased risk of cirrhosis

BMJ 2010;340:c774 (Published 11 March 2010)

Vitamin A supplements and survival in children

BMJ 2010;340:c977 (Published 9 March 2010)

Medical implications of the Taser

BMJ 2010;340:c853 (Published 22 February 2010)

Management of malaria and other severe infections in rural Africa and Asia

BMJ 2010;340:c1527 (Published 17 March 2010)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2010;340:c1476 (Published 16 March 2010)

Research

This week's Research section

Body mass index and risk of liver cirrhosis in middle aged UK women: prospective study

BMJ 2010;340:c912 (Published 11 March 2010)

Effect of body mass index and alcohol consumption on liver disease: analysis of data from two prospective cohort studies

BMJ 2010;340:c1240 (Published 11 March 2010)

Research - continued

Rapid testing for malaria in settings where microscopy is available and peripheral clinics where only presumptive treatment is available: a randomised controlled trial in Ghana

BMJ 2010;340:c930 (Published 5 March 2010)

Vitamin A supplementation and BCG vaccination at birth in low birthweight neonates: two by two factorial randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2010;340:c1101 (Published 9 March 2010)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Experts’ guide to saving money in health

BMJ 2010;340:c1281 (Published 16 March 2010)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Shrinking budgets, improving care: Simplify processes and engage with patients

BMJ 2010;340:c1251 (Published 16 March 2010)

Shrinking budgets, improving care: Cut administration and buy wisely

BMJ 2010;340:c1258 (Published 16 March 2010)

Shrinking budgets, improving care: Trade-offs are unavoidable

BMJ 2010;340:c1259 (Published 16 March 2010)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Is surgery ever justified?

BMJ 2010;340:c1465 (Published 16 March 2010)

Patients should have access to all treatments

BMJ 2010;340:c1467 (Published 16 March 2010)

Women need to know more

BMJ 2010;340:c1453 (Published 16 March 2010)

Consider telemedical management

BMJ 2010;340:c1464 (Published 16 March 2010)

The problem is the lack of senior clinicians

BMJ 2010;340:c1457 (Published 16 March 2010)

Consultants should lead by example

BMJ 2010;340:c1460 (Published 16 March 2010)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Do not sit on the bed

Iona Heath

BMJ 2010;340:c1478 (Published 16 March 2010)

Prostate screening: is the tide turning against the test?

Nigel Hawkes

BMJ 2010;340:c1497 (Published 17 March 2010)

Generic drugs: protest group was not quite what it seemed

Margaret McCartney

BMJ 2010;340:c1514 (Published 17 March 2010)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Teach doctors economics, not Toyota’s management fads

Cam Donaldson, Angela Bate

BMJ 2010;340:c1507 (Published 18 March 2010)

Suicide watch

Margaret McCartney

BMJ 2010;340:c1129 (Published 16 March 2010)

Murder she wrote

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2010;340:c1469 (Published 18 March 2010)

Psychopathia Sexualis

John A S Beard

BMJ 2010;340:c1443 (Published 16 March 2010)

Men behaving madly: testosterone replacement therapy

Des Spence

BMJ 2010;340:c1493 (Published 18 March 2010)

Views & Reviews - continued

New images needed: stereotypes in medical photographs

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2010;340:c1524 (Published 17 March 2010)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Kathleen Dick (née Bates)

BMJ 2010;340:c1418 (Published 16 March 2010)

Harry Hubert Grayson Eastcott

BMJ 2010;340:c1423 (Published 16 March 2010)

James Ross Gillespie

BMJ 2010;340:c1422 (Published 16 March 2010)

Gordon Lindsay

BMJ 2010;340:c1415 (Published 16 March 2010)

Harry Piggott

BMJ 2010;340:c1419 (Published 16 March 2010)

Peter Vincent Scott

BMJ 2010;340:c1416 (Published 16 March 2010)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Prevention and medical management of Clostridium difficile infection

BMJ 2010;340:c1296 (Published 12 March 2010)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Using the new UK-WHO growth charts

BMJ 2010;340:c1140 (Published 15 March 2010)

Communication during breast cancer treatment

BMJ 2009;339:b4166 (Published 23 October 2009)

Treatment for lymph node tuberculosis

BMJ 2010;340:c63 (Published 10 March 2010)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Progressive dysphagia, dysarthria, dystonia, and tremor

BMJ 2010;340:c1213 (Published 17 March 2010)

Renal failure

BMJ 2010;340:c1427 (Published 17 March 2010)

Standard error of the mean

BMJ 2010;340:c1437 (Published 17 March 2010)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2010;340:c1456 (Published 16 March 2010)

Minerva

BMJ 2010;340:c1452 (Published 16 March 2010)

Research Methods & Reporting

This week's Research Methods & Reporting section

The impact of outcome reporting bias in randomised controlled trials on a cohort of systematic reviews

BMJ 2010;340:c365 (Published 15 February 2010)