11 February 2012 (Vol 344, Issue 7843)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

A commitment to protect health and save lives

BMJ 2012;344:e971 (Published 9 February 2012)

News

This week's News section

Nearly 2000 amendments are not enough to save health bill, says BMA

BMJ 2012;344:e935 (Published 6 February 2012)

Clinical commissioning groups and councils must have single process for commissioning services for elderly, say MPs

BMJ 2012;344:e932 (Published 8 February 2012)

Susceptibility of people with long term illness to depression and anxiety is not recognised, report says

BMJ 2012;344:e950 (Published 8 February 2012)

Training can help GPs provide a better death for patients

BMJ 2012;344:e881 (Published 3 February 2012)

Southall plans to sue GMC for delays and an unfair trial

BMJ 2012;344:e954 (Published 7 February 2012)

Fall in suicides among mental health patients linked to improvements in mental health services

BMJ 2012;344:e831 (Published 2 February 2012)

New evidence of worse outcomes for weekend patients reignites call for seven day hospital services

BMJ 2012;344:e892 (Published 6 February 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;344:e923 (Published 9 February 2012)

Car users in Wales are being urged not to smoke in vehicles carrying children

BMJ 2012;344:e934 (Published 7 February 2012)

Cancer charity rates TV shows in terms of junk food advertising

BMJ 2012;344:e883 (Published 3 February 2012)

Imperial Tobacco fails to block ban on cigarette displays in Scotland

BMJ 2012;344:e952 (Published 7 February 2012)

“Golden Pill” award remains unfilled for the fourth year running

BMJ 2012;344:e841 (Published 2 February 2012)

Contaminated drugs are held responsible for 120 deaths in Pakistan

BMJ 2012;344:e951 (Published 7 February 2012)

Around 1000 women with private sector PIP implants seek NHS help

BMJ 2012;344:e972 (Published 7 February 2012)

Europe launches investigation into health risks of faulty breast implants

BMJ 2012;344:e939 (Published 7 February 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

The management of the NHS in England

BMJ 2012;344:e928 (Published 7 February 2012)

Agriculture and health

BMJ 2012;344:d7834 (Published 17 January 2012)

Antihypertensives in people with gout or asymptomatic hyperuricaemia

BMJ 2012;344:d7961 (Published 12 January 2012)

A prescription for improving antibiotic prescribing in primary care

BMJ 2012;344:d7955 (Published 2 February 2012)

Hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms

BMJ 2012;344:e815 (Published 8 February 2012)

Urinary incontinence after treatment for prostate cancer

BMJ 2011;343:d6298 (Published 18 November 2011)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;344:e854 (Published 8 February 2012)

Research

This week's Research section

Effectiveness of agricultural interventions that aim to improve nutritional status of children: systematic review

BMJ 2012;344:d8222 (Published 17 January 2012)

Effectiveness of multifaceted educational programme to reduce antibiotic dispensing in primary care: practice based randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2012;344:d8173 (Published 2 February 2012)

Antihypertensive drugs and risk of incident gout among patients with hypertension: population based case-control study

BMJ 2012;344:d8190 (Published 12 January 2012)

Influence of experience on performance of individual surgeons in thyroid surgery: prospective cross sectional multicentre study

BMJ 2012;344:d8041 (Published 11 January 2012)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Wendell Potter: Pulling the curtains back on spin

BMJ 2012;344:e833 (Published 7 February 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Pragmatic randomised trials using routine electronic health records: putting them to the test

BMJ 2012;344:e55 (Published 7 February 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Midwifery ratios might explain some differences in perinatal and maternal outcomes

BMJ 2012;344:e891 (Published 7 February 2012)

Should healthcare purchasers be funding home birth for nulliparous women?

BMJ 2012;344:e918 (Published 7 February 2012)

We need more data before reconfiguring maternity services

BMJ 2012;344:e893 (Published 7 February 2012)

Telemedicine doctors abroad don’t have to register with the GMC

BMJ 2012;344:e873 (Published 7 February 2012)

Daily contact with a nurse may be more important than high tech telecare

BMJ 2012;344:e875 (Published 7 February 2012)

Are those who quit smoking paying with their lives because of NRT’s failure?

BMJ 2012;344:e886 (Published 7 February 2012)

Might wipe clean covers for mobile phones reduce risk of spread of pathogens?

BMJ 2012;344:e871 (Published 7 February 2012)

Health and wellbeing boards are at risk in fury over NHS reforms

BMJ 2012;344:e876 (Published 7 February 2012)

Full steam ahead on to the rocks

BMJ 2012;344:e884 (Published 7 February 2012)

Dynamic interaction between slightly right wing minister and slightly left wing mandarins

BMJ 2012;344:e931 (Published 7 February 2012)

Lansley fails to see impact and damage of his reforms

BMJ 2012;344:e926 (Published 7 February 2012)

Martin McKee replies to Andrew Lansley

BMJ 2012;344:e921 (Published 7 February 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Migrant healthcare: public health versus politics

BMJ 2012;344:e924 (Published 8 February 2012)

Would you like your telomeres tested?

BMJ 2012;344:e681 (Published 8 February 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Expatriate surgeons have helped advance orthopaedic care in Africa

BMJ 2012;344:e938 (Published 8 February 2012)

Our medical heritage has lessons for the future

BMJ 2012;344:e697 (Published 9 February 2012)

Views & Reviews - continued

Leave the quacks alone

BMJ 2012;344:e843 (Published 8 February 2012)

The National Health: a Radical Perspective

BMJ 2012;344:e829 (Published 8 February 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Donald Jeffries

BMJ 2012;344:e922 (Published 9 February 2012)

Patrick Joseph Connolly

BMJ 2012;344:e419 (Published 1 February 2012)

Elizabeth Heitzman

BMJ 2012;344:e426 (Published 1 February 2012)

Robert Goudie MacFarlane

BMJ 2012;344:e414 (Published 1 February 2012)

Paul Sebastian Richardson

BMJ 2012;344:e425 (Published 1 February 2012)

Helen Street

BMJ 2012;344:e559 (Published 1 February 2012)

Ian Douglas Hutchinson Todd

BMJ 2012;344:e421 (Published 1 February 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Diagnosis and management of Raynaud’s phenomenon

BMJ 2012;344:e289 (Published 7 February 2012)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Raised inflammatory markers

BMJ 2012;344:e454 (Published 3 February 2012)

Reviewing a patient with coeliac disease

BMJ 2012;344:d8152 (Published 17 January 2012)

Cholestasis secondary to anabolic steroid use in young men

BMJ 2012;344:e468 (Published 2 February 2012)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

An unfortunate teenager

BMJ 2011;343:d6170 (Published 29 September 2011)

“n of 1” trials

BMJ 2012;344:e844 (Published 9 February 2012)

Exertional dyspnoea and syncope

BMJ 2012;344:d8317 (Published 11 January 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Continuity is never out of fashion

BMJ 2012;344:e957 (Published 8 February 2012)

Extreme measures: the history of breast cancer surgery

BMJ 2012;344:e834 (Published 8 February 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;344:e852 (Published 8 February 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;344:e851 (Published 8 February 2012)