31 July 2010 (Vol 341, Issue 7766)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Breast screening and other fights

BMJ 2010;341:c4096 (Published 29 July 2010)

News

This week's News section

Government halves number of NHS quangos to save £180m

BMJ 2010;341:c4074 (Published 27 July 2010)

Coalition scraps plan for adjudicator to judge doctors’ fitness to practise

BMJ 2010;341:c4063 (Published 27 July 2010)

GPs will have to perform well to earn a “quality premium” in shake up of commissioning

BMJ 2010;341:c4015 (Published 23 July 2010)

NHS staff numbers begin to fall as fears rise over effect of efficiency savings

BMJ 2010;341:c4005 (Published 23 July 2010)

Specialists question agency’s proposal to time limit methadone prescribing

BMJ 2010;341:c3998 (Published 23 July 2010)

Local bodies should decide whether to fund homoeopathy, says government

BMJ 2010;341:c4073 (Published 27 July 2010)

In brief

BMJ 2010;341:c4022 (Published 27 July 2010)

FDA puts rosiglitazone post-marketing trial on hold

BMJ 2010;341:c4017 (Published 26 July 2010)

Doctors call for ban on multidose vials after hepatitis C outbreak in US

BMJ 2010;341:c4057 (Published 27 July 2010)

Lead poisoning in Nigeria causes “unprecedented” emergency

BMJ 2010;341:c4031 (Published 26 July 2010)

First patient to receive complete face transplant can leave hospital

BMJ 2010;341:c4088 (Published 27 July 2010)

HIV infection is rising among over 50s across the world, figures show

BMJ 2010;341:c4064 (Published 27 July 2010)

MRC did not fund IVF pioneers’ research because they weren’t in “medical establishment”

BMJ 2010;341:c4045 (Published 27 July 2010)

Russia embarks on £10bn reform of its “deplorable” health system

BMJ 2010;341:c4025 (Published 26 July 2010)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Nutrition in people with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2010;341:c3393 (Published 20 July 2010)

Neonatal outcomes in babies born out of hours

BMJ 2010;341:c3087 (Published 15 July 2010)

What will the white paper mean for GPs?

BMJ 2010;341:c3985 (Published 23 July 2010)

Rudeness at work

BMJ 2010;340:c2480 (Published 19 May 2010)

Improving productivity in the NHS

BMJ 2010;341:c3965 (Published 27 July 2010)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2010;341:c4007 (Published 28 July 2010)

Research

This week's Research section

Nutritional intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes who are hyperglycaemic despite optimised drug treatment—Lifestyle Over and Above Drugs in Diabetes (LOADD) study: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2010;341:c3337 (Published 20 July 2010)

Variation between centres in access to renal transplantation in UK: longitudinal cohort study

BMJ 2010;341:c3451 (Published 20 July 2010)

Four year efficacy of prophylactic human papillomavirus quadrivalent vaccine against low grade cervical, vulvar, and vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia and anogenital warts: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2010;341:c3493 (Published 20 July 2010)

Time of birth and risk of neonatal death at term: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2010;341:c3498 (Published 15 July 2010)

Small study effects in meta-analyses of osteoarthritis trials: meta-epidemiological study

BMJ 2010;341:c3515 (Published 16 July 2010)

Feature

This week's Feature section

More brickbats than bouquets?

BMJ 2010;341:c3977 (Published 28 July 2010)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Screening for breast cancer—balancing the debate

BMJ 2010;340:c3106 (Published 24 June 2010)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Forget quantity, think quality

BMJ 2010;341:c4023 (Published 27 July 2010)

Gatekeeper version 2

BMJ 2010;341:c4030 (Published 27 July 2010)

NICE guidelines may not help

BMJ 2010;341:c4026 (Published 27 July 2010)

Non-clinical bed management strategies in psychiatry

BMJ 2010;341:c3889 (Published 27 July 2010)

Let’s hear it for housing

BMJ 2010;341:c4018 (Published 27 July 2010)

Reporting of the UK debt

BMJ 2010;341:c4020 (Published 27 July 2010)

MRSA and Clostridium difficile are falling

BMJ 2010;341:c4016 (Published 27 July 2010)

Findings of meta-analysis cannot be relied on

BMJ 2010;341:c4033 (Published 27 July 2010)

Don’t take blood from the arm where gel is applied

BMJ 2010;341:c4014 (Published 27 July 2010)

NICE reply

BMJ 2010;341:c4012 (Published 27 July 2010)

US policy on genital cutting

BMJ 2010;341:c4013 (Published 27 July 2010)

“Antivaccine Lobby” replies to the BMJ

BMJ 2010;341:c4001 (Published 27 July 2010)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Do GPs have the stomach for the battle ahead?

Nigel Hawkes

BMJ 2010;341:c4035 (Published 28 July 2010)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

The perils of being a doctor in Baghdad

Nabil Al-Khalisi

BMJ 2010;341:c4043 (Published 28 July 2010)

And the beats go on

Colin Martin

BMJ 2010;341:c4036 (Published 28 July 2010)

Loveless oblivion

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2010;341:c4028 (Published 28 July 2010)

Memento Mori

Richard Smith

BMJ 2010;341:c4069 (Published 28 July 2010)

Doc holiday

Des Spence

BMJ 2010;341:c4042 (Published 28 July 2010)

Doctors of mirth

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2010;341:c4046 (Published 28 July 2010)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Robert Butler

BMJ 2010;341:c4051 (Published 28 July 2010)

Dewi Arwyn Evans

BMJ 2010;341:c4059 (Published 27 July 2010)

Robert Alan Forster

BMJ 2010;341:c4060 (Published 27 July 2010)

Alexander Philips Fowler

BMJ 2010;341:c4065 (Published 27 July 2010)

George Adair Hazleton Heaney

BMJ 2010;341:c4066 (Published 27 July 2010)

Michael Cautley Holderness

BMJ 2010;341:c4067 (Published 27 July 2010)

Benedict Leigh Hoskyns

BMJ 2010;341:c4068 (Published 27 July 2010)

Mary Lambourne (née Biddle)

BMJ 2010;341:c3895 (Published 27 July 2010)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Management of alopecia areata

BMJ 2010;341:c3671 (Published 23 July 2010)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Diagnosis, prevention, and management of delirium: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2010;341:c3704 (Published 28 July 2010)

Testicular torsion

BMJ 2010;341:c3213 (Published 27 July 2010)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A woman with a cough and difficulty walking

BMJ 2010;341:c3674 (Published 28 July 2010)

Relative risks

BMJ 2010;341:c3983 (Published 28 July 2010)

Oncology

BMJ 2010;341:c3801 (Published 28 July 2010)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2010;341:c3973 (Published 28 July 2010)

Minerva

BMJ 2010;341:c3975 (Published 28 July 2010)