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27 February 2010 (Vol 340, Issue 7744)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Lessons and legacies of war

BMJ 2010;340:c1119 (Published 25 February 2010)

News

This week's News section

NHS trust made £300 000 by selling drugs to wholesaler for export

BMJ 2010;340:c1072 (Published 22 February 2010)

NHS should stop funding homoeopathy, MPs say

BMJ 2010;340:c1091 (Published 23 February 2010)

In brief

BMJ 2010;340:c1093 (Published 25 February 2010)

Private firm will operate entire NHS hospital

BMJ 2010;340:c1060 (Published 22 February 2010)

Courts are being used “to litigate a scientific debate,” counsel claims

BMJ 2010;340:c1120 (Published 24 February 2010)

New figures show big discrepancies in GPs’ funding

BMJ 2010;340:c1071 (Published 23 February 2010)

US doctors are lax in treating hypertension, report says

BMJ 2010;340:c1074 (Published 22 February 2010)

FDA restricts use of erythropoiesis stimulating drugs

BMJ 2010;340:c1050 (Published 22 February 2010)

GSK hid heart risks of diabetes drug, claims Senate committee

BMJ 2010;340:c1107 (Published 23 February 2010)

Germany’s commissioner for patients calls for register of doctors’ errors

BMJ 2010;340:c1084 (Published 23 February 2010)

Few US medical schools and medical centres are disclosing industry ties

BMJ 2010;340:c1075 (Published 23 February 2010)

Doctors behaving imaginatively

BMJ 2010;340:c1010 (Published 24 February 2010)

Dutch politicians are under pressure to hold “time to die” debate

BMJ 2010;340:c1045 (Published 22 February 2010)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Carotid artery stenosis

BMJ 2010;340:c748 (Published 12 February 2010)

Improving the selection of medical students

BMJ 2010;340:c708 (Published 16 February 2010)

Chemical castration for sex offenders

BMJ 2010;340:c74 (Published 12 January 2010)

Management of polymyalgia rheumatica

BMJ 2010;340:c620 (Published 4 February 2010)

Maternal age and diabetes in childhood

BMJ 2010;340:c623 (Published 24 February 2010)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2010;340:c1067 (Published 24 February 2010)

Research

This week's Research section

Short term and intermediate term comparison of endarterectomy versus stenting for carotid artery stenosis: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled clinical trials

BMJ 2010;340:c467 (Published 12 February 2010)

Psychosocial outcomes of three triage methods for the management of borderline abnormal cervical smears: an open randomised trial

BMJ 2010;340:b4491 (Published 23 February 2010)

Research - continued

Comparison of A level and UKCAT performance in students applying to UK medical and dental schools in 2006: cohort study

BMJ 2010;340:c478 (Published 16 February 2010)

Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational study

BMJ 2010;340:c309 (Published 4 February 2010)

Effect of reduced immunosuppression after kidney transplant failure on risk of cancer: population based retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2010;340:c570 (Published 11 February 2010)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Long road to recovery

BMJ 2010;340:c647 (Published 18 February 2010)

Risk and equality

BMJ 2010;340:c642 (Published 18 February 2010)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Publishing information about ongoing clinical trials for patients

BMJ 2010;340:c725 (Published 24 February 2010)

Letters

This week's Letters section

No to QOF target of less than 7%, again

BMJ 2010;340:c985 (Published 23 February 2010)

WHO needs changing

BMJ 2010;340:c909 (Published 23 February 2010)

Seductions of the WHO safe surgery checklist

BMJ 2010;340:c915 (Published 23 February 2010)

We need a safety system (and an operations manual)

BMJ 2010;340:c917 (Published 23 February 2010)

Fuelled by risk avoidance

BMJ 2010;340:c1048 (Published 23 February 2010)

Support the new gatekeepers

BMJ 2010;340:c1046 (Published 23 February 2010)

Costs and costing systems

BMJ 2010;340:c1049 (Published 23 February 2010)

Oversimplification is dangerous

BMJ 2010;340:c1062 (Published 23 February 2010)

Time to evaluate focal therapy

BMJ 2010;340:c1057 (Published 23 February 2010)

Should β blockers be second line treatment?

BMJ 2010;340:c1065 (Published 23 February 2010)

Don’t forget antipsychotics

BMJ 2010;340:c1061 (Published 23 February 2010)

Too many clinical leaders?

BMJ 2010;340:c914 (Published 23 February 2010)

Primary care research lives

BMJ 2010;340:c1063 (Published 23 February 2010)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Good and bad coroner stories

Tony Delamothe

BMJ 2010;340:c1064 (Published 24 February 2010)

Science, politics, and headlines in the home birth war

Melissa Sweet

BMJ 2010;340:c826 (Published 24 February 2010)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Autopsies—why families count too

BMJ 2010;340:c902 (Published 24 February 2010)

Time to turn the world upside down

Richard Smith

BMJ 2010;340:c918 (Published 16 February 2010)

Views & Reviews - continued

The draw of dusty tomes

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2010;340:c1113 (Published 24 February 2010)

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Linda Kearney

BMJ 2010;340:c1082 (Published 24 February 2010)

Admission of failure

Des Spence

BMJ 2010;340:c1076 (Published 24 February 2010)

Survival of the fittest?

Mary Black

BMJ 2010;340:c1090 (Published 24 February 2010)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Peter Diggory

BMJ 2010;340:c1081 (Published 24 February 2010)

Stephen Anthony Cullen

BMJ 2010;340:c996 (Published 19 February 2010)

Gordon Blair Drummond

BMJ 2010;340:c1008 (Published 19 February 2010)

Peter Ferry Jones

BMJ 2010;340:c1011 (Published 19 February 2010)

John Michael Talbot

BMJ 2010;340:c1044 (Published 22 February 2010)

William Bruce Thomson

BMJ 2010;340:c1043 (Published 22 February 2010)

Eric Wilkes

BMJ 2010;340:c991 (Published 19 February 2010)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

An approach to the evaluation and management of syncope in adults

BMJ 2010;340:c880 (Published 19 February 2010)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Guidelines: Management of obesity: summary of SIGN guideline

BMJ 2010;340:c154 (Published 24 February 2010)

10-minute consultation: Female stress urinary incontinence

BMJ 2010;340:b5533 (Published 1 February 2010)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Alcohol abuse

BMJ 2010;340:c1006 (Published 24 February 2010)

A series of unfortunate events

BMJ 2010;340:c429 (Published 24 February 2010)

Cohort studies

BMJ 2010;340:c1002 (Published 25 February 2010)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2010;340:c1015 (Published 24 February 2010)

Minerva

BMJ 2010;340:c1009 (Published 24 February 2010)

Research Methods & Reporting

This week's Research Methods & Reporting section

The routine use of patient reported outcome measures in healthcare settings

BMJ 2010;340:c186 (Published 18 January 2010)

Filler

Beware of the expert

BMJ 2008;337:39043.669120.F7 (Published 22 July 2008)