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22 October 2011 (Vol 343, Issue 7828)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

How on earth do we combat climate change?

BMJ 2011;343:d6789 (Published 19 October 2011)

News

This week's News section

European court’s ban on stem cell patents will harm research, say scientists

BMJ 2011;343:d6787 (Published 18 October 2011)

Too few complaints about hospitals and GPs are being dealt with locally, says ombudsman

BMJ 2011;343:d6754 (Published 18 October 2011)

House of Lords rejects attempts to stop passage of health bill

BMJ 2011;343:d6644 (Published 14 October 2011)

The fireworks inside us

BMJ 2011;343:d6726 (Published 19 October 2011)

At least 20 trusts will not reach foundation trust status by 2014, says NAO

BMJ 2011;343:d6642 (Published 14 October 2011)

Half of English hospitals fail to meet basic standards on care for older people

BMJ 2011;343:d6645 (Published 13 October 2011)

NHS ahead of schedule on efficiency savings, says health secretary

BMJ 2011;343:d6631 (Published 13 October 2011)

In brief

BMJ 2011;343:d6728 (Published 19 October 2011)

Rules on EU doctors threaten patients’ safety, says House of Lords report

BMJ 2011;343:d6793 (Published 19 October 2011)

Specialists condemn government’s obesity plan as too simplistic

BMJ 2011;343:d6688 (Published 17 October 2011)

Experts call for tougher targets on carbon emissions to avoid catastrophe

BMJ 2011;343:d6775 (Published 18 October 2011)

Safe drinking campaigns run by alcohol industry do not reduce consumption

BMJ 2011;343:d6634 (Published 14 October 2011)

Irish surgeons college admits it treated arrested doctors “insensitively”

BMJ 2011;343:d6719 (Published 17 October 2011)

Militant attacks are jeopardising famine relief in Horn of Africa

BMJ 2011;343:d6729 (Published 17 October 2011)

India plans to move towards free universal healthcare coverage

BMJ 2011;343:d6774 (Published 19 October 2011)

Payments to doctors in Australia are to be scrutinised after marketing tactics are exposed

BMJ 2011;343:d6714 (Published 18 October 2011)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Giving support to a suicidal person

BMJ 2011;343:d5680 (Published 18 October 2011)

Polycystic ovary syndrome

BMJ 2011;343:d6407 (Published 13 October 2011)

Assessing the health benefits of tackling climate change

BMJ 2011;343:d6520 (Published 19 October 2011)

Prescribing exercise in primary care

BMJ 2011;343:d4141 (Published 15 July 2011)

The future of the primary medical workforce

BMJ 2011;343:d5006 (Published 22 August 2011)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2011;343:d6657 (Published 19 October 2011)

Research

This week's Research section

Recognising and responding to suicidal crisis within family and social networks: qualitative study

BMJ 2011;343:d5801 (Published 18 October 2011)

Research - continued

Risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: population based cohort study

BMJ 2011;343:d6309 (Published 13 October 2011)

Estimating treatment effects for individual patients based on the results of randomised clinical trials

BMJ 2011;343:d5888 (Published 3 October 2011)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Do personal health budgets lead to better care choices?

BMJ 2011;343:d6532 (Published 11 October 2011)

Robots in theatre: tomorrow’s world?

BMJ 2011;343:d6624 (Published 18 October 2011)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Advisory food labels: consumers with allergies need more than “traces” of information

BMJ 2011;343:d6180 (Published 13 October 2011)

Letters

This week's Letters section

HPV vaccine prices in Italy

BMJ 2011;343:d6668 (Published 18 October 2011)

UK needs vaccine to protect against HPV types causing recurrent respiratory papillomatosis

BMJ 2011;343:d6672 (Published 18 October 2011)

Changing face of HPV related cancer in the UK

BMJ 2011;343:d6675 (Published 18 October 2011)

Dr McCartney is right, the BMA is wrong

BMJ 2011;343:d6679 (Published 18 October 2011)

Imaging those with cognitive impairment is not practical

BMJ 2011;343:d6507 (Published 18 October 2011)

Issues around early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease

BMJ 2011;343:d6613 (Published 18 October 2011)

Authors’ reply to HESteria or hype?

BMJ 2011;343:d6614 (Published 18 October 2011)

What about the evidence base for homoeopathy?

BMJ 2011;343:d6689 (Published 18 October 2011)

Authors’ reply to Fisher and 47 colleagues

BMJ 2011;343:d6693 (Published 18 October 2011)

Bewley and colleagues’ quotation of review is selective

BMJ 2011;343:d6696 (Published 18 October 2011)

NHS cuts and PFI

BMJ 2011;343:d6681 (Published 18 October 2011)

Language is essential for access to information

BMJ 2011;343:d6253 (Published 18 October 2011)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Off-label prescribing in macular degeneration

Margaret McCartney

BMJ 2011;343:d6778 (Published 19 October 2011)

What are natural frequencies?

Gerd Gigerenzer

BMJ 2011;343:d6386 (Published 17 October 2011)

The GMC should be investigated over its Southall and Meadow hearings

John Bridson

BMJ 2011;343:d6708 (Published 19 October 2011)

Call for urgent action on climate change

BMJ 2011;343:d6760 (Published 18 October 2011)

Save Our Pubs & Clubs

Jane Cassidy

BMJ 2011;343:d6707 (Published 19 October 2011)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Asylum seekers and undocumented migrants must retain access to primary care

Paquita de Zulueta

BMJ 2011;343:d6637 (Published 18 October 2011)

An outbreak of scientific accuracy

Gavin Yamey, Jimee Hwang

BMJ 2011;343:d6733 (Published 19 October 2011)

Views & Reviews - continued

Murder, mystery, and medicine

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2011;343:d6640 (Published 19 October 2011)

The Black Veil

John A S Beard, Charles Chubb

BMJ 2011;343:d6633 (Published 19 October 2011)

Primary care: an investment opportunity you can’t refuse?

Des Spence

BMJ 2011;343:d6746 (Published 19 October 2011)

Resisting the needle: why I won’t have the flu jab

Kinesh Patel

BMJ 2011;343:d6554 (Published 17 October 2011)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Thomas Anthony

BMJ 2011;343:d6738 (Published 18 October 2011)

Amir A F Azmy

BMJ 2011;343:d6745 (Published 18 October 2011)

Francis William Beswick

BMJ 2011;343:d6425 (Published 6 October 2011)

Martin Avigdor Birnstingl

BMJ 2011;343:d6445 (Published 6 October 2011)

Maxwell Caplin

BMJ 2011;343:d6558 (Published 11 October 2011)

Barron Bruce MacGillivray

BMJ 2011;343:d6420 (Published 5 October 2011)

Nigel Jordan

BMJ 2011;343:d6744 (Published 18 October 2011)

Kenneth Simpson Jones

BMJ 2011;343:d6739 (Published 18 October 2011)

Robin Steel

BMJ 2011;343:d6560 (Published 11 October 2011)

Anne Bryson Sutherland

BMJ 2011;343:d6741 (Published 18 October 2011)

Margaret Taylor

BMJ 2011;343:d6743 (Published 18 October 2011)

John Eliot Trapnell

BMJ 2011;343:d6375 (Published 4 October 2011)

David John Turner

BMJ 2011;343:d6742 (Published 18 October 2011)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Diagnosis and management of maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY)

BMJ 2011;343:d6044 (Published 19 October 2011)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Rational Testing: Investigation of “non-responding” presumed lower respiratory tract infection in primary care

BMJ 2011;343:d5840 (Published 13 October 2011)

10 Minute Consultation: Dyspepsia

BMJ 2011;343:d6234 (Published 30 September 2011)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A 71 year old man with right sided facial droop

BMJ 2011;343:d5121 (Published 19 September 2011)

Statistical tests: matched pairs categorical data

BMJ 2011;343:d6623 (Published 19 October 2011)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2011;343:d6651 (Published 19 October 2011)

Minerva

BMJ 2011;343:d6650 (Published 19 October 2011)

Filler

Bedside manner

BMJ 2011;343:d4292 (Published 15 July 2011)