Menu

 

80 articles published between 25 Jul 2011 and 31 Jul 2011

Editor's Choice

What is health?

BMJ 2011;343:d4817 (Published 27 July 2011)

Research

Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of cardiovascular disease prevention in whole populations: modelling study

BMJ 2011;343:d4044 (Published 28 July 2011)

Breast cancer mortality in neighbouring European countries with different levels of screening but similar access to treatment: trend analysis of WHO mortality database

BMJ 2011;343:d4411 (Published 28 July 2011)

Effect of intensive glucose lowering treatment on all cause mortality, cardiovascular death, and microvascular events in type 2 diabetes: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2011;343:d4169 (Published 26 July 2011)

Changes in energy content of lunchtime purchases from fast food restaurants after introduction of calorie labelling: cross sectional customer surveys

BMJ 2011;343:d4464 (Published 26 July 2011)

Effect of pregnancy planning and fertility treatment on cognitive outcomes in children at ages 3 and 5: longitudinal cohort study

BMJ 2011;343:d4473 (Published 26 July 2011)

Moderate dietary sodium restriction added to angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition compared with dual blockade in lowering proteinuria and blood pressure: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2011;343:d4366 (Published 26 July 2011)

Patients’ and family members’ views on how clinicians enact and how they should enact incident disclosure: the “100 patient stories” qualitative study

BMJ 2011;343:d4423 (Published 25 July 2011)

News

Appeal court upholds trust’s decision to deny patient bariatric surgery

BMJ 2011;343:d4894 (Published 29 July 2011)

Healthcare in US will consume a fifth of GDP by 2020

BMJ 2011;343:d4895 (Published 29 July 2011)

Two thirds of primary care trusts are cutting referrals, shows survey

BMJ 2011;343:d4881 (Published 29 July 2011)

Transplantation regulator consults on how to ensure altruistic donors are not coerced

BMJ 2011;343:d4857 (Published 29 July 2011)

Doctors make the best managers, study indicates

BMJ 2011;343:d4870 (Published 29 July 2011)

Expert group warns radiotherapy is still underused in England

BMJ 2011;343:d4871 (Published 28 July 2011)

Peer review system must be overhauled and improved, say MPs

BMJ 2011;343:d4851 (Published 28 July 2011)

Shared decision making must move from rhetoric to reality, says King’s Fund

BMJ 2011;343:d4734 (Published 28 July 2011)

Trust defers surgical referrals for patients to lose weight and stop smoking

BMJ 2011;343:d4792 (Published 28 July 2011)

New guidance is launched to help doctors protect vulnerable adults

BMJ 2011;343:d4820 (Published 28 July 2011)

Report backs research on non-human primates but demands closer scrutiny

BMJ 2011;343:d4858 (Published 28 July 2011)

Critics remain unconvinced that 180 amendments have improved the health bill

BMJ 2011;343:d4795 (Published 27 July 2011)

Health ranks among top indicators of nation’s wellbeing

BMJ 2011;343:d4796 (Published 27 July 2011)

Charities criticise rich countries’ “shameful” response to famine in Horn of Africa

BMJ 2011;343:d4799 (Published 27 July 2011)

Professor of complementary medicine resigns to save his research unit at Peninsula Medical School

BMJ 2011;343:d4789 (Published 27 July 2011)

Mandatory generic prescribing is expected to save Spain €2bn a year

BMJ 2011;343:d4803 (Published 27 July 2011)

News - continued

Death rate is higher for female soldiers than male counterparts, conference is told

BMJ 2011;343:d4779 (Published 27 July 2011)

Chronic diseases among the over 40s in China are set to double over the next 20 years

BMJ 2011;343:d4801 (Published 27 July 2011)

Doctors should to be held to account for behaviour of colleagues, say MPs

BMJ 2011;343:d4794 (Published 26 July 2011)

Reforms of incapacity benefit are seen as attack on the disabled, report says

BMJ 2011;343:d4786 (Published 26 July 2011)

Human rights group calls on Bahrain to release medical personnel and remove security forces from hospitals

BMJ 2011;343:d4781 (Published 26 July 2011)

In brief

BMJ 2011;343:d4728 (Published 26 July 2011)

Consultant surgeon is suspended by GMC for botching operations and lying to coroner

BMJ 2011;343:d4788 (Published 26 July 2011)

Some experiments involving animals require greater scrutiny, say scientists

BMJ 2011;343:d4730 (Published 25 July 2011)

Partner and sister ask High Court for permission to let “minimally aware” woman die

BMJ 2011;343:d4772 (Published 25 July 2011)

Israeli court allows amputation of child’s hand against wishes of mother

BMJ 2011;343:d4771 (Published 25 July 2011)

Short Cuts

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2011;343:d4746 (Published 27 July 2011)

Observations

The press release, relative risks, and the polypill

Margaret McCartney

BMJ 2011;343:d4720 (Published 27 July 2011)

Analysis

Disinvestment from low value clinical interventions: NICEly done?

BMJ 2011;343:d4519 (Published 27 July 2011)

How should we define health?

BMJ 2011;343:d4163 (Published 26 July 2011)

Practice

Easily Missed? : Acute aortic dissection

BMJ 2011;343:d4487 (Published 29 July 2011)

Therapeutics: Biologicals for rheumatoid arthritis

BMJ 2011;343:d4027 (Published 28 July 2011)

10-Minute Consultation: Sexual dysfunction in cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2011;343:d4437 (Published 26 July 2011)

Views & Reviews

A generic press release from [health charity]

Margaret McCartney

BMJ 2011;343:d4704 (Published 27 July 2011)

Medical moles

Wendy Moore

BMJ 2011;343:d4706 (Published 27 July 2011)

Hons and Rebels

Stuart Handysides

BMJ 2011;343:d4675 (Published 27 July 2011)

Surgical meshes containing animal products should be labelled

Muhammad Hanif Shiwani

BMJ 2011;343:d4625 (Published 27 July 2011)

Our obsession with immortality

Julian Sheather

BMJ 2011;343:d4710 (Published 27 July 2011)

Dr Shipman’s review copy

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2011;343:d4688 (Published 27 July 2011)

Endgames

The ecological fallacy

BMJ 2011;343:d4670 (Published 27 July 2011)

Breathlessness and plethora

BMJ 2011;343:d4466 (Published 26 July 2011)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2011;343:d4690 (Published 27 July 2011)

Minerva

BMJ 2011;343:d4711 (Published 27 July 2011)

Head to Head

Should UK membership exams be held overseas? Yes

BMJ 2011;343:d4566 (Published 28 July 2011)

Should UK membership exams be held overseas? No

BMJ 2011;343:d4560 (Published 28 July 2011)

Editorial

Personalised medicine for hypertension

BMJ 2011;343:d4697 (Published 28 July 2011)

The future of public health in England

BMJ 2011;343:d4834 (Published 28 July 2011)

Intensive glucose lowering treatment in type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2011;343:d4243 (Published 26 July 2011)

Calorie labelling on the high street

BMJ 2011;343:d4502 (Published 26 July 2011)

Improving the disclosure of medical incidents

BMJ 2011;343:d4340 (Published 25 July 2011)

Correction

Obituary: John Harold Wallis

BMJ 2011;343:d4872 (Published 28 July 2011)

Use of medical titles by non-doctors can mislead patients

BMJ 2011;343:d4865 (Published 28 July 2011)

Picture Quiz: A 22 year old man with acute genital oedema and a swollen ankle

BMJ 2011;343:d4873 (Published 28 July 2011)

Letter

BMA has made a poor health bill worse

BMJ 2011;343:d4738 (Published 25 July 2011)

Two issues with competition in healthcare

BMJ 2011;343:d4735 (Published 25 July 2011)

Do you hate the Russians more than you love your children?

BMJ 2011;343:d4724 (Published 25 July 2011)

Preliminary findings on competition in healthcare should not be over-interpreted

BMJ 2011;343:d4731 (Published 25 July 2011)

NHS complexity, not bureaucracy, is issue in health bill

BMJ 2011;343:d4725 (Published 25 July 2011)

Feel the anxiety about examining patients and do it anyway

BMJ 2011;343:d4552 (Published 25 July 2011)

James Malone-Lee responds to the media flurry over safety of anticholinergic drugs in elderly people

BMJ 2011;343:d4740 (Published 25 July 2011)

Guidance on minimally important clinical difference and trial size is needed

BMJ 2011;343:d4375 (Published 25 July 2011)

Protecting children from mobile phone radiation

BMJ 2011;343:d4554 (Published 25 July 2011)

Another plausible explanation for mist inhaler’s toxicity

BMJ 2011;343:d4483 (Published 25 July 2011)

Competition could substantially benefit healthcare

BMJ 2011;343:d4727 (Published 25 July 2011)

Feature

Will medicine ever be able to halt the process of ageing?

BMJ 2011;343:d4119 (Published 25 July 2011)

Old age and the city

BMJ 2011;343:d4418 (Published 25 July 2011)

Obituary

Jack Nagington

BMJ 2011;343:d4766 (Published 25 July 2011)

Neil David Citron

BMJ 2011;343:d4762 (Published 25 July 2011)

John Kirk

BMJ 2011;343:d4763 (Published 25 July 2011)

William John Christopher Pearson

BMJ 2011;343:d4768 (Published 25 July 2011)

Michael McDonald Tellis

BMJ 2011;343:d4769 (Published 25 July 2011)

John Alexander Lyttle

BMJ 2011;343:d4765 (Published 25 July 2011)