29 January 2011 (Vol 342, Issue 7791)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

NHS reforms—why now?

BMJ 2011;342:d552 (Published 26 January 2011)

News

This week's News section

Commissioning will cost £1.3bn less every year under GP consortiums, says Lansley

BMJ 2011;342:d418 (Published 20 January 2011)

NHS reforms may mean a drop in quality of GP services, warns watchdog

BMJ 2011;342:d450 (Published 24 January 2011)

Hospital closures are inevitable under health reforms, conference hears

BMJ 2011;342:d547 (Published 25 January 2011)

Food and drink industry rejects claims of irresponsibility over obesity and alcoholism

BMJ 2011;342:d423 (Published 21 January 2011)

Cochrane review questions evidence for statins for primary prevention in low risk groups

BMJ 2011;342:d480 (Published 24 January 2011)

Humana pulls out of UK as another private provider admits reforms are no “gold rush”

BMJ 2011;342:d490 (Published 24 January 2011)

In brief

BMJ 2011;342:d525 (Published 25 January 2011)

Philadelphia doctor who ran “baby charnel house” is charged with murder

BMJ 2011;342:d489 (Published 25 January 2011)

GSK set aside $3.4bn in last quarter of 2010 to cover legal costs

BMJ 2011;342:d488 (Published 24 January 2011)

Rich countries dominate cancer league table

BMJ 2011;342:d537 (Published 25 January 2011)

European parliament agrees rules on cross border healthcare

BMJ 2011;342:d492 (Published 24 January 2011)

Vaccination programme to protect children against pneumonia and diarrhoea needs more funds

BMJ 2011;342:d534 (Published 25 January 2011)

WHO calls for action to restrict marketing of unhealthy foods and drinks to children

BMJ 2011;342:d503 (Published 25 January 2011)

Hong Kong’s murky skyline is linked with excess deaths

BMJ 2011;342:d498 (Published 25 January 2011)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Dr Lansley’s Monster

BMJ 2011;342:d408 (Published 21 January 2011)

Vitamin D and bone health in children

BMJ 2011;342:d192 (Published 25 January 2011)

Palliative care in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ 2011;342:d106 (Published 24 January 2011)

One nudge forward, two steps back

BMJ 2011;342:d401 (Published 25 January 2011)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2011;342:d429 (Published 24 January 2011)

Research

This week's Research section

Effects of vitamin D supplementation on bone density in healthy children: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2011;342:c7254 (Published 25 January 2011)

Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: multi-perspective longitudinal qualitative study

BMJ 2011;342:d142 (Published 24 January 2011)

Research - continued

Monitoring adherence to drug treatment by using change in cholesterol concentration: secondary analysis of trial data

BMJ 2011;342:d12 (Published 21 January 2011)

Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of Parkinson’s disease: nested case-control study

BMJ 2011;342:d198 (Published 20 January 2011)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Health and Social Care Bill

BMJ 2011;342:d507 (Published 26 January 2011)

Andrew Lansley and his big gamble

BMJ 2011;342:d491 (Published 26 January 2011)

New life for the HFEA?

BMJ 2011;342:d439 (Published 25 January 2011)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Judging nudging: can nudging improve population health?

BMJ 2011;342:d228 (Published 25 January 2011)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Levetiracetam and lamotrigine are better options

BMJ 2011;342:d279 (Published 25 January 2011)

Author’s reply

BMJ 2011;342:d282 (Published 25 January 2011)

National guidelines are urgently needed

BMJ 2011;342:d449 (Published 25 January 2011)

Need to be implemented in UK

BMJ 2011;342:d444 (Published 25 January 2011)

UCL’s response

BMJ 2011;342:d460 (Published 25 January 2011)

Piltdown—hoax or fraud?

BMJ 2011;342:d469 (Published 25 January 2011)

A long journey to healing

BMJ 2011;342:d447 (Published 25 January 2011)

Try another approach, BMJ

BMJ 2011;342:d451 (Published 25 January 2011)

Put everything out in the open

BMJ 2011;342:d458 (Published 25 January 2011)

Let’s get the words right too

BMJ 2011;342:d461 (Published 25 January 2011)

What of virtue and integrity?

BMJ 2011;342:d467 (Published 25 January 2011)

Marketing insulins

BMJ 2011;342:d471 (Published 25 January 2011)

NICE may be biased too

BMJ 2011;342:d474 (Published 25 January 2011)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Lansley had no choice but to make a full frontal assault

Nigel Hawkes

BMJ 2011;342:d470 (Published 24 January 2011)

When do your politics become a competing interest?

Gerry McCartney, Lisa Garnham, Darryl Gunson, Chik Collins

BMJ 2011;342:d269 (Published 25 January 2011)

Guns don’t kill crowds, people with semi-automatics do

Douglas Kamerow

BMJ 2011;342:d477 (Published 25 January 2011)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Should the spectacle of surgery be sold to the highest bidder?

Simon Chapman

BMJ 2011;342:d237 (Published 26 January 2011)

Reality bites

Kinesh Patel

BMJ 2011;342:d493 (Published 26 January 2011)

Hiding and hauntings

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2011;342:d515 (Published 26 January 2011)

The Yellow Wallpaper

Omar Mukhtar

BMJ 2011;342:d428 (Published 26 January 2011)

Greed isn’t good

Des Spence

BMJ 2011;342:d524 (Published 26 January 2011)

Continuity of care

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2011;342:d445 (Published 26 January 2011)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Patrick Melvin Barclay

BMJ 2011;342:d481 (Published 24 January 2011)

Mary Howarth Bunney

BMJ 2011;342:d483 (Published 24 January 2011)

Eric Cecil Cowan

BMJ 2011;342:d482 (Published 24 January 2011)

Ian Louis Foster

BMJ 2011;342:d321 (Published 24 January 2011)

Kenneth James McGhee

BMJ 2011;342:d484 (Published 24 January 2011)

Paul Wadsworth

BMJ 2011;342:d485 (Published 24 January 2011)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Preventing exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ 2011;342:c7207 (Published 24 January 2011)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Joint hypermobility syndrome

BMJ 2011;342:c7167 (Published 20 January 2011)

Joint hypermobility syndrome

BMJ 2010;341:c3044 (Published 5 July 2010)

Management of generalised anxiety disorder in adults: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2011;342:c7460 (Published 26 January 2011)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

An odd eruption

BMJ 2011;342:c6845 (Published 26 January 2011)

Gynaecomastia

BMJ 2011;342:d395 (Published 26 January 2011)

Meta-analyses III

BMJ 2011;342:d244 (Published 26 January 2011)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2011;342:d425 (Published 24 January 2011)

Minerva

BMJ 2011;342:d426 (Published 24 January 2011)