22 May 2010 (Vol 340, Issue 7756)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

CME, GMC, and Florence Nightingale

BMJ 2010;340:c2699 (Published 20 May 2010)

News

This week's News section

Doctors should avoid making assumptions about patients’ choices at the end of life

BMJ 2010;340:c2609 (Published 20 May 2010)

Indian president signs ordinance to dissolve medical council

BMJ 2010;340:c2685 (Published 19 May 2010)

Concentration of insulin-like growth factor is linked with breast cancer

BMJ 2010;340:c2653 (Published 18 May 2010)

New health secretary warns further NHS efficiency savings may be needed

BMJ 2010;340:c2600 (Published 13 May 2010)

Doctors need to embrace leadership roles for good of health service, says royal college

BMJ 2010;340:c2684 (Published 20 May 2010)

Diabetes consensus panel calls for action on obesity, diet, and exercise

BMJ 2010;340:c2670 (Published 18 May 2010)

UK colleges criticise “compromise” in US guidance on female genital mutilation

BMJ 2010;340:c2586 (Published 13 May 2010)

In brief

BMJ 2010;340:c2635 (Published 19 May 2010)

FDA enlists doctors to help spot misleading drug advertisements

BMJ 2010;340:c2594 (Published 14 May 2010)

WHO’s head calls on donors to do more to protect poor countries’ health systems

BMJ 2010;340:c2698 (Published 19 May 2010)

Mobile phones do not raise risk of brain tumours in adults, but harms among highest users need investigating

BMJ 2010;340:c2688 (Published 18 May 2010)

Scottish doctors call for better protection when speaking out about concerns

BMJ 2010;340:c2591 (Published 14 May 2010)

Diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer are on cusp of major change, conference hears

BMJ 2010;340:c2652 (Published 17 May 2010)

Disappearance of drugs undermines Uganda’s fight against malaria

BMJ 2010;340:c2611 (Published 17 May 2010)

Brazil and India file complaint against EU over seizure of generic drugs

BMJ 2010;340:c2672 (Published 18 May 2010)

Cambodia cracks down on illegal drug vendors in bid to counter antimalarial resistance

BMJ 2010;340:c2622 (Published 17 May 2010)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Tackling antibiotic resistance

BMJ 2010;340:c2071 (Published 18 May 2010)

Umbilical cord blood gas analysis

BMJ 2010;340:c1720 (Published 13 May 2010)

Continuing medical education for BMJ readers

BMJ 2010;340:c2410 (Published 19 May 2010)

Removing industrial trans fat from foods

BMJ 2010;340:c1826 (Published 15 April 2010)

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

BMJ 2010;340:c1272 (Published 25 March 2010)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2010;340:c2614 (Published 17 May 2010)

Research

This week's Research section

Effect of antibiotic prescribing in primary care on antimicrobial resistance in individual patients: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2010;340:c2096 (Published 18 May 2010)

Research - continued

Strength of association between umbilical cord pH and perinatal and long term outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2010;340:c1471 (Published 13 May 2010)

Effect of accelerated rehabilitation on function after ankle sprain: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2010;340:c1964 (Published 10 May 2010)

Early waning of maternal measles antibodies in era of measles elimination: longitudinal study

BMJ 2010;340:c1626 (Published 18 May 2010)

Low maternal exposure to ultraviolet radiation in pregnancy, month of birth, and risk of multiple sclerosis in offspring: longitudinal analysis

BMJ 2010;340:c1640 (Published 29 April 2010)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Whistle while you work: an analysis of NHS foundation trust policies

BMJ 2010;340:c2350 (Published 18 May 2010)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Stoking the antibiotic pipeline

BMJ 2010;340:c2115 (Published 18 May 2010)

Letters

This week's Letters section

More research needed

BMJ 2010;340:c2625 (Published 18 May 2010)

Let’s add three other studies

BMJ 2010;340:c2627 (Published 18 May 2010)

Conclusions are uncertain

BMJ 2010;340:c2628 (Published 18 May 2010)

More methodological concerns

BMJ 2010;340:c2630 (Published 18 May 2010)

What about the NICE guidelines?

BMJ 2010;340:c2631 (Published 18 May 2010)

Authors’ reply

BMJ 2010;340:c2632 (Published 18 May 2010)

Some troubles with staples

BMJ 2010;340:c2633 (Published 18 May 2010)

BMJ’s suturing technique

BMJ 2010;340:c2634 (Published 18 May 2010)

Unsuspected pulmonary embolism

BMJ 2010;340:c2640 (Published 18 May 2010)

Consultants do sexy audit

BMJ 2010;340:c2642 (Published 18 May 2010)

NHS spinal units

BMJ 2010;340:c2511 (Published 18 May 2010)

Age of autonomy

BMJ 2010;340:c2648 (Published 18 May 2010)

Don’t forget economics

BMJ 2010;340:c2520 (Published 18 May 2010)

ISTCs are not on the radar

BMJ 2010;340:c2644 (Published 18 May 2010)

Justice for all

BMJ 2010;340:c2651 (Published 18 May 2010)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Don’t take me to your leader

Tony Delamothe

BMJ 2010;340:c2675 (Published 19 May 2010)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Lethal injections: no healthcare professionals should be involved

Mike Weaver

BMJ 2010;340:c2643 (Published 19 May 2010)

Florence and the war machine

Colin Martin

BMJ 2010;340:c2595 (Published 19 May 2010)

Views & Reviews - continued

The cost of reading

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2010;340:c2665 (Published 19 May 2010)

4.48 Psychosis

Richard Hurley

BMJ 2010;340:c2605 (Published 19 May 2010)

Pain revisited: evidence for opioids

Des Spence

BMJ 2010;340:c2659 (Published 19 May 2010)

Drug regulation: a sometimes unhealthy coalition

Ike Iheanacho

BMJ 2010;340:c2613 (Published 19 May 2010)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Mortimer Sackler

BMJ 2010;340:c2671 (Published 19 May 2010)

Gordon Easton

BMJ 2010;340:c2588 (Published 14 May 2010)

Abraham Stone Freedberg

BMJ 2010;340:c2575 (Published 14 May 2010)

Sally Masheder (née Backhouse)

BMJ 2010;340:c2579 (Published 14 May 2010)

Robert Malcolm Moffitt

BMJ 2010;340:c2610 (Published 14 May 2010)

Joyce Mary Owen (née Scholefield)

BMJ 2010;340:c2580 (Published 14 May 2010)

Ratnasabapathy Sashidharan

BMJ 2010;340:c2616 (Published 14 May 2010)

Richard John West

BMJ 2010;340:c2618 (Published 14 May 2010)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Diagnosis and management of the antiphospholipid syndrome

BMJ 2010;340:c2541 (Published 14 May 2010)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Imaging transient ischaemic attack with diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging

BMJ 2010;340:c2215 (Published 30 April 2010)

Stridor in children

BMJ 2010;340:c2193 (Published 4 May 2010)

Sexual precocity in a 4 year old boy

BMJ 2010;340:c2319 (Published 14 May 2010)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

An infant with respiratory distress

BMJ 2010;340:c2155 (Published 19 May 2010)

An elderly woman with recurrent episodes of confusion

BMJ 2010;340:c1998 (Published 19 May 2010)

Nested case-control studies

BMJ 2010;340:c2582 (Published 19 May 2010)

Airways

BMJ 2010;340:c2593 (Published 19 May 2010)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2010;340:c2607 (Published 17 May 2010)

Minerva

BMJ 2010;340:c2606 (Published 17 May 2010)

Filler

Guinea pigs for the “developed” countries

BMJ 2010;340:c868 (Published 19 May 2010)