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09 October 2010 (Vol 341, Issue 7776)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Let’s cut some carbon out of health care

BMJ 2010;341:c5553 (Published 6 October 2010)

News

This week's News section

Speed cameras “do a good job” in reducing road deaths and injuries

BMJ 2010;341:c5489 (Published 6 October 2010)

IVF pioneer Robert Edwards wins Nobel prize

BMJ 2010;341:c5533 (Published 5 October 2010)

Tobacco giant fails to prevent Scottish ban on display in shops

BMJ 2010;341:c5473 (Published 4 October 2010)

New doctors’ group challenges medical bodies’ opposition to assisted dying

BMJ 2010;341:c5498 (Published 5 October 2010)

Six in 10 heart attack patients in England are treated with primary angioplasty

BMJ 2010;341:c5402 (Published 30 September 2010)

Stem cell therapy doctor struck off by the GMC

BMJ 2010;341:c5410 (Published 30 September 2010)

In brief

BMJ 2010;341:c5502 (Published 5 October 2010)

President Obama apologises to Guatemala over 1940s syphilis study

BMJ 2010;341:c5494 (Published 4 October 2010)

Countries should consider legalising cannabis in light of futility of bans

BMJ 2010;341:c5471 (Published 7 October 2010)

First antiretroviral patent in global drug pool puts pressure on companies to follow suit

BMJ 2010;341:c5514 (Published 5 October 2010)

Protests by staff save Berlin’s Charité hospital

BMJ 2010;341:c5486 (Published 5 October 2010)

Do drugs have a role in turning indifference into passion?

BMJ 2010;341:c5532 (Published 5 October 2010)

Study comes up with 41 definitions of what “having sex” means

BMJ 2010;341:c5491 (Published 5 October 2010)

Ig Nobel awards honour salutary effects of cursing, roller coasters, and bat fellatio

BMJ 2010;341:c5509 (Published 5 October 2010)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Glomerular filtration rate and the risk of stroke

BMJ 2010;341:c4390 (Published 30 September 2010)

Prevention of migraine

BMJ 2010;341:c5229 (Published 29 September 2010)

Bacteria in the respiratory tract and wheeze in children

BMJ 2010;341:c4836 (Published 4 October 2010)

A new professional code in sports medicine

BMJ 2010;341:c4931 (Published 21 September 2010)

Prohibition of cannabis

BMJ 2010;341:c5492 (Published 7 October 2010)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2010;341:c5482 (Published 5 October 2010)

Research

This week's Research section

Low glomerular filtration rate and risk of stroke: meta-analysis

BMJ 2010;341:c4249 (Published 30 September 2010)

Chronic kidney disease and risk of major cardiovascular disease and non-vascular mortality: prospective population based cohort study

BMJ 2010;341:c4986 (Published 30 September 2010)

Effect of preventive (β blocker) treatment, behavioural migraine management, or their combination on outcomes of optimised acute treatment in frequent migraine: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2010;341:c4871 (Published 29 September 2010)

Association of bacteria and viruses with wheezy episodes in young children: prospective birth cohort study

BMJ 2010;341:c4978 (Published 4 October 2010)

Sociodemographic patterning of non-communicable disease risk factors in rural India: a cross sectional study

BMJ 2010;341:c4974 (Published 27 September 2010)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Giving it 10%

BMJ 2010;341:c5448 (Published 6 October 2010)

Hungry for profit

BMJ 2010;341:c5221 (Published 6 October 2010)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

The need to consider the wider agenda in systematic reviews and meta-analyses: breadth, timing, and depth of the evidence

BMJ 2010;341:c4875 (Published 13 September 2010)

Letters

This week's Letters section

What to do about treatment refusal at 3 am?

BMJ 2010;341:c5477 (Published 5 October 2010)

“If in doubt treat” is not as easy as it sounds

BMJ 2010;341:c5478 (Published 5 October 2010)

Improved data collection is needed to support these proposals

BMJ 2010;341:c5456 (Published 5 October 2010)

Two important points

BMJ 2010;341:c5454 (Published 5 October 2010)

Focus on the needs of the existing health workforce

BMJ 2010;341:c5466 (Published 5 October 2010)

Listen to the needs of existing healthcare workers

BMJ 2010;341:c5461 (Published 5 October 2010)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Depressed about depression

Douglas Kamerow

BMJ 2010;341:c5516 (Published 6 October 2010)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Rosiglitazone and the need for a new drug safety agency

Silvio Garattini, Vittorio Bertele’

BMJ 2010;341:c5506 (Published 6 October 2010)

Fight club

Richard Hurley

BMJ 2010;341:c5383 (Published 6 October 2010)

The beauty in browsing

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2010;341:c5538 (Published 6 October 2010)

The Poisonwood Bible

Birte Twisselmann

BMJ 2010;341:c5392 (Published 6 October 2010)

Peddling consumption over health: obesity and reality television

Des Spence

BMJ 2010;341:c5510 (Published 6 October 2010)

Opera and imaging: none may sleep

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2010;341:c5507 (Published 6 October 2010)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Michael Black

BMJ 2010;341:c5419 (Published 5 October 2010)

Claude Neville d’Este Eastes

BMJ 2010;341:c5438 (Published 5 October 2010)

Purdendu Das Gupta

BMJ 2010;341:c5439 (Published 5 October 2010)

Alastair Lowry Macafee

BMJ 2010;341:c5435 (Published 5 October 2010)

Obituaries - continued

Malcolm MacIver

BMJ 2010;341:c5442 (Published 5 October 2010)

Neville Stotesbury

BMJ 2010;341:c5433 (Published 5 October 2010)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Chronic pelvic pain in women

BMJ 2010;341:c4834 (Published 5 October 2010)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Easily Missed?: Septic arthritis in children

BMJ 2010;341:c4407 (Published 7 October 2010)

10-Minute Consultation: Hallux valgus

BMJ 2010;341:c5130 (Published 27 September 2010)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A baby with noisy breathing

BMJ 2010;341:c4402 (Published 6 October 2010)

Confounding in randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2010;341:c5403 (Published 6 October 2010)

Sepsis

BMJ 2010;341:c5476 (Published 6 October 2010)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2010;341:c5422 (Published 5 October 2010)

Minerva

BMJ 2010;341:c5424 (Published 5 October 2010)

Head to Head

This week's Head to Head section

Should NHS mental health services fear the private sector? Yes

BMJ 2010;341:c5382 (Published 4 October 2010)

Should NHS mental health services fear the private sector? No

BMJ 2010;341:c5385 (Published 4 October 2010)

Filler

The “OCD bully”

BMJ 2010;341:c2596 (Published 6 October 2010)