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86 articles published between 16 Jul 2012 and 22 Jul 2012

Editor's Choice

Water, water, every where

BMJ 2012;345:e4903 (Published 19 July 2012)

Research

Effect of communicating DNA based risk assessments for Crohn’s disease on smoking cessation: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2012;345:e4708 (Published 20 July 2012)

Validation of treatment strategies for enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 induced haemolytic uraemic syndrome: case-control study

BMJ 2012;345:e4565 (Published 19 July 2012)

Cardiovascular safety of central nervous system stimulants in children and adolescents: population based cohort study

BMJ 2012;345:e4627 (Published 18 July 2012)

Efficacy of psychosocial intervention in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease: the multicentre, rater blinded, randomised Danish Alzheimer Intervention Study (DAISY)

BMJ 2012;345:e4693 (Published 17 July 2012)

News

GPs are outnumbered on boards of clinical commissioning groups

BMJ 2012;345:e4949 (Published 20 July 2012)

Government targets on obesity remain a challenge, says spending watchdog

BMJ 2012;345:e4971 (Published 20 July 2012)

NHS structural upheaval threatens already variable quality of essential data

BMJ 2012;345:e4991 (Published 20 July 2012)

Case against paediatric cardiologist will go ahead without him after his refusal to attend

BMJ 2012;345:e4995 (Published 20 July 2012)

Landmark study identifies major gaps in Australian healthcare

BMJ 2012;345:e5000 (Published 20 July 2012)

UK economy can withstand a doubling in health spending in next 50 years, conference hears

BMJ 2012;345:e4974 (Published 20 July 2012)

Countries contribute more to tackling HIV/AIDS than they get in aid, figures show

BMJ 2012;345:e4950 (Published 19 July 2012)

WHO workers are shot at during vaccination campaign in Pakistan

BMJ 2012;345:e4951 (Published 19 July 2012)

BMA drops plans for further industrial action over pensions

BMJ 2012;345:e4961 (Published 19 July 2012)

Serco out of hours service in Cornwall was understaffed, finds watchdog

BMJ 2012;345:e4921 (Published 19 July 2012)

Almost a quarter of Royal College fellows say their hospitals cannot deliver continuity of care

BMJ 2012;345:e4942 (Published 19 July 2012)

Health damage from alcohol misuse has been underplayed in government strategy, say MPs

BMJ 2012;345:e4899 (Published 19 July 2012)

Prenatal blood test for Down’s syndrome is to be introduced in Germany despite ethical and legal concerns

BMJ 2012;345:e4836 (Published 18 July 2012)

Combating attacks on health workers

BMJ 2012;345:e4862 (Published 18 July 2012)

Performance enhancing drugs or techniques may exist that can’t yet be detected, experts admit

BMJ 2012;345:e4867 (Published 18 July 2012)

European commission proposes new laws to halt decline in number of clinical trials

BMJ 2012;345:e4901 (Published 18 July 2012)

Scope of FDA surveillance of its employees is higher than previously thought, journalists say

BMJ 2012;345:e4880 (Published 18 July 2012)

Public health director blows whistle on trust in letter to Lansley

BMJ 2012;345:e4890 (Published 18 July 2012)

Mammography screening has little or no effect on breast cancer deaths, Swedish data indicate

BMJ 2012;345:e4847 (Published 17 July 2012)

Understanding female genital cosmetic surgery

BMJ 2012;345:e4819 (Published 17 July 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;345:e4824 (Published 17 July 2012)

UK government comes down in favour of making all publicly funded research “open access”

BMJ 2012;345:e4878 (Published 17 July 2012)

News - continued

FDA approves first drug to prevent HIV infection

BMJ 2012;345:e4879 (Published 17 July 2012)

New NHS organisations will need dialogue to improve service delivery, meeting hears

BMJ 2012;345:e4900 (Published 17 July 2012)

Hospitals will be able to earn 49% of their income from private patients from October

BMJ 2012;345:e4823 (Published 17 July 2012)

Polypill remains the only panacea in sight for cardiovascular disease, trial organiser says

BMJ 2012;345:e4837 (Published 17 July 2012)

UK is seeing “massive” rise in campaigns against plain packets for cigarettes, say health activists

BMJ 2012;345:e4856 (Published 17 July 2012)

Number of dementia patients rises while GPs’ prescribing of antipsychotics falls

BMJ 2012;345:e4861 (Published 17 July 2012)

Health bill arose from attempt to accommodate Lib Dem as well as Tory ideas, says commentator

BMJ 2012;345:e4833 (Published 16 July 2012)

Virgin Care to take over services for children and young people in Devon worth £132m

BMJ 2012;345:e4835 (Published 16 July 2012)

Planned “pay cartel” in southwest England is condemned by BMA and Unison

BMJ 2012;345:e4843 (Published 16 July 2012)

Observations

Miracle pills and fireproof trainers: user endorsement in social media

Adam Smith, Greg Jones

BMJ 2012;345:e4682 (Published 19 July 2012)

Clinical Review

Management of chronic epilepsy

BMJ 2012;345:e4576 (Published 17 July 2012)

Practice

Practice Pointer: Necrotising fasciitis

BMJ 2012;345:e4274 (Published 20 July 2012)

Easily Missed?: Pre-eclampsia

BMJ 2012;345:e4437 (Published 19 July 2012)

A Patient’s Journey: Kidney dialysis—the need for humanity

BMJ 2012;345:e4492 (Published 19 July 2012)

Views & Reviews

Don’t just blame big pharma

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;345:e4825 (Published 17 July 2012)

NHS reforms caught in the act

Nick Seddon

BMJ 2012;345:e4844 (Published 16 July 2012)

Darkness Visible

Andrew Moscrop

BMJ 2012;345:e4748 (Published 16 July 2012)

TB Sheets

Wendy Moore

BMJ 2012;345:e4812 (Published 16 July 2012)

Endgames

Open clinical trials

BMJ 2012;345:e4749 (Published 18 July 2012)

A human bite

BMJ 2012;345:e4798 (Published 17 July 2012)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e4781 (Published 18 July 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e4782 (Published 18 July 2012)

Correction

Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors for treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the clinical setting: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2012;345:e4959 (Published 20 July 2012)

Aristolochic acid nephropathy

BMJ 2012;345:e4993 (Published 20 July 2012)

Clinical and cost effectiveness of booklet based vestibular rehabilitation for chronic dizziness in primary care: single blind, parallel group, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2012;345:e4507 (Published 19 July 2012)

Editorial

Will the revolution in genetics improve healthcare?

BMJ 2012;345:e4651 (Published 20 July 2012)

Treating Shiga toxin induced haemolytic uraemic syndrome

BMJ 2012;345:e4598 (Published 19 July 2012)

Editorial - continued

Vitamin D: some perspective please

BMJ 2012;345:e4695 (Published 19 July 2012)

BMJ tablet app

BMJ 2012;345:e4877 (Published 18 July 2012)

Is early speech and language therapy after stroke a waste?

BMJ 2012;345:e4870 (Published 17 July 2012)

Patients’ concepts of hypertension

BMJ 2012;345:e4688 (Published 16 July 2012)

Feature

The truth about sports drinks

BMJ 2012;345:e4737 (Published 19 July 2012)

How valid is the European Food Safety Authority’s assessment of sports drinks?

BMJ 2012;345:e4753 (Published 19 July 2012)

Forty years of sports performance research and little insight gained

BMJ 2012;345:e4797 (Published 19 July 2012)

Mythbusting sports and exercise products

BMJ 2012;345:e4848 (Published 19 July 2012)

To drink or not to drink to drink recommendations: the evidence

BMJ 2012;345:e4868 (Published 19 July 2012)

Commentary: role of hydration in health and exercise

BMJ 2012;345:e4171 (Published 19 July 2012)

Mea culpa: are multi-billion dollar fines forcing drug companies to clean up their act?

BMJ 2012;345:e4865 (Published 18 July 2012)

Obituary

Ian McArthur Jackson

BMJ 2012;345:e4522 (Published 18 July 2012)

Joseph Bartholomew Deasy

BMJ 2012;345:e4523 (Published 18 July 2012)

Peter Graeme Arblaster

BMJ 2012;345:e4527 (Published 18 July 2012)

Andrew Charles Markus

BMJ 2012;345:e4528 (Published 18 July 2012)

Chitturi Satyanarayana

BMJ 2012;345:e4529 (Published 18 July 2012)

Phyllis May Sykes

BMJ 2012;345:e4530 (Published 18 July 2012)

Peter Stephenson

BMJ 2012;345:e4531 (Published 18 July 2012)

Research News

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;345:e4799 (Published 18 July 2012)

Letter

Post-marketing studies can make important contributions to medical knowledge

BMJ 2012;345:e4740 (Published 16 July 2012)

Social determinants of health are comorbidities

BMJ 2012;345:e4742 (Published 16 July 2012)

The rise and rise of vitamin D testing

BMJ 2012;345:e4743 (Published 16 July 2012)

GPs’ role in safeguarding children

BMJ 2012;345:e4758 (Published 16 July 2012)

Politicians cannot provide the leadership needed

BMJ 2012;345:e4760 (Published 16 July 2012)

Common treatment for epistaxis contains peanut oil

BMJ 2012;345:e4785 (Published 16 July 2012)

Never treat your own family

BMJ 2012;345:e4794 (Published 16 July 2012)

Time for an open access secure online data collection tool

BMJ 2012;345:e4805 (Published 16 July 2012)

Imperturbability is not incompatible with clinical empathy

BMJ 2012;345:e4533 (Published 16 July 2012)

Ocular inflammation as a manifestation of Lyme borreliosis

BMJ 2012;345:e4721 (Published 16 July 2012)

Doctors need accredited information on Lyme borreliosis

BMJ 2012;345:e4727 (Published 16 July 2012)

Putting more specialist physicians into the community is not answer to primary-secondary care divide

BMJ 2012;345:e4730 (Published 16 July 2012)

Integrated care results in fewer elderly people dying in hospital

BMJ 2012;345:e4731 (Published 16 July 2012)