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24 March 2012 (Vol 344, Issue 7849)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Will doctors now take a lead on climate change?

BMJ 2012;344:e2232 (Published 22 March 2012)

News

This week's News section

UK regulator asks cardiologists to report adverse effects of heart device

BMJ 2012;344:e2194 (Published 21 March 2012)

NHS reforms pass final hurdle in House of Lords

BMJ 2012;344:e2199 (Published 21 March 2012)

European research is launched into hypothermia stroke treatment

BMJ 2012;344:e2215 (Published 20 March 2012)

NICE backs new oral anticoagulant for stroke prevention

BMJ 2012;344:e2111 (Published 16 March 2012)

Members are split on how Royal College of Physicians should proceed on health bill

BMJ 2012;344:e2140 (Published 19 March 2012)

Second hospital courts partnership deal with private sector company

BMJ 2012;344:e2098 (Published 15 March 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;344:e2174 (Published 22 March 2012)

NHS needs to do more to meet UK targets on greenhouse gases

BMJ 2012;344:e2164 (Published 22 March 2012)

Trial is started to see whether gene therapy can improve lung function in cystic fibrosis

BMJ 2012;344:e2141 (Published 19 March 2012)

Girl who had surgery to correct bronchial atresia in utero is healthy

BMJ 2012;344:e2193 (Published 20 March 2012)

Additional 7000 UK women may have faulty PIP implants

BMJ 2012;344:e2149 (Published 19 March 2012)

Indian health groups welcome country’s first compulsory licence

BMJ 2012;344:e2132 (Published 16 March 2012)

AstraZeneca takes legal action to delay generic quetiapine in US

BMJ 2012;344:e2099 (Published 15 March 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

What will the Health and Social Care Bill mean for the NHS in England?

BMJ 2012;344:e2159 (Published 20 March 2012)

Action plans for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ 2012;344:e1164 (Published 6 March 2012)

Peer led parenting support programmes

BMJ 2012;344:e1160 (Published 13 March 2012)

Effect of screening on deaths from cervical cancer in Sweden

BMJ 2012;344:e804 (Published 1 March 2012)

Transformative mutation specific pharmacotherapy for cystic fibrosis

BMJ 2012;344:e79 (Published 9 January 2012)

Research

This week's Research section

Glasgow supported self-management trial (GSuST) for patients with moderate to severe COPD: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2012;344:e1060 (Published 6 March 2012)

Evaluation of a peer led parenting intervention for disruptive behaviour problems in children: community based randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2012;344:e1107 (Published 13 March 2012)

Screening and cervical cancer cure: population based cohort study

BMJ 2012;344:e900 (Published 1 March 2012)

Risk of atrial fibrillation and stroke in rheumatoid arthritis: Danish nationwide cohort study

BMJ 2012;344:e1257 (Published 8 March 2012)

Mobile phone use and glioma risk: comparison of epidemiological study results with incidence trends in the United States

BMJ 2012;344:e1147 (Published 8 March 2012)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Patient safety: where nothing is unavoidable

BMJ 2012;344:e2160 (Published 21 March 2012)

Mentor mothers to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

BMJ 2012;344:e1590 (Published 12 March 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Who is shaping the future of European health systems?

BMJ 2012;344:e1712 (Published 13 March 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Regulation is appropriate for this diverse range of products

BMJ 2012;344:e2126 (Published 21 March 2012)

We must not forget the benefits of these devices

BMJ 2012;344:e2127 (Published 21 March 2012)

Clinical governance requirements are needed now

BMJ 2012;344:e2128 (Published 21 March 2012)

Patients need to be informed about the evidence

BMJ 2012;344:e2129 (Published 21 March 2012)

Are other companies prepared?

BMJ 2012;344:e2192 (Published 21 March 2012)

Roadside drug testing would not be much of a deterrent

BMJ 2012;344:e2133 (Published 21 March 2012)

Cannabis and the DVLA

BMJ 2012;344:e2134 (Published 21 March 2012)

Guidance for prescribing in frail adults is now available

BMJ 2012;344:e2136 (Published 21 March 2012)

Trials must enrol people with multiple problems

BMJ 2012;344:e2137 (Published 21 March 2012)

See the person in the patient

BMJ 2012;344:e2138 (Published 21 March 2012)

More guidance is needed on how to communicate about DCIS

BMJ 2012;344:e2139 (Published 21 March 2012)

Should H pylori always be eradicated?

BMJ 2012;344:e2145 (Published 21 March 2012)

Author’s reply

BMJ 2012;344:e2146 (Published 21 March 2012)

In defence of Atos

BMJ 2012;344:e2148 (Published 21 March 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

No laughing matter

Daniel K Sokol

BMJ 2012;344:e2119 (Published 21 March 2012)

How the FDA forgot the evidence: the case of donepezil 23 mg

Lisa M Schwartz, Steven Woloshin

BMJ 2012;344:e1086 (Published 22 March 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Baby boomers go bust

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;344:e2191 (Published 21 March 2012)

Whose data are they anyway?

Kinesh Patel

BMJ 2012;344:e2135 (Published 21 March 2012)

CLOSURE 1 seen through the MIST

Peter Wilmshurst

BMJ 2012;344:e2226 (Published 21 March 2012)

Ye olde statins

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2012;344:e2143 (Published 21 March 2012)

Christina’s World

Desmond O’Neill

BMJ 2012;344:e2142 (Published 21 March 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Jerome Tobis

BMJ 2012;344:e2123 (Published 21 March 2012)

Frederick Valentine Flynn

BMJ 2012;344:e1223 (Published 22 February 2012)

Philip John Kingston

BMJ 2012;344:e1224 (Published 22 February 2012)

Winston James Jackson

BMJ 2012;344:e1236 (Published 22 February 2012)

Obituaries - continued

Eric Sherwood-Jones

BMJ 2012;344:e1230 (Published 22 February 2012)

Keith Leiper

BMJ 2012;344:e1228 (Published 22 February 2012)

Nigel Paul Minett

BMJ 2012;344:e1250 (Published 22 February 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Diagnosis and management of primary hyperparathyroidism

BMJ 2012;344:e1013 (Published 19 March 2012)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Therapeutics: Emergency contraception

BMJ 2012;344:e1492 (Published 19 March 2012)

10-Minute Consultation: Epistaxis

BMJ 2012;344:e1097 (Published 23 February 2012)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A man with dilated veins on his upper chest

BMJ 2011;343:d4674 (Published 5 August 2011)

Sequential trials

BMJ 2012;344:e2102 (Published 21 March 2012)

A man with bloody diarrhoea

BMJ 2012;344:e978 (Published 7 March 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;344:e2122 (Published 21 March 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;344:e2121 (Published 21 March 2012)

Research News

This week's Research News section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;344:e2118 (Published 21 March 2012)

Spotlight

This week's Spotlight section

The world on tilt

BMJ 2012;344:e2207 (Published 21 March 2012)

The health impacts of climate change

BMJ 2012;344:e1026 (Published 19 March 2012)

Health risks, present and future, from global climate change

BMJ 2012;344:e1359 (Published 19 March 2012)

How the low carbon economy can improve health

BMJ 2012;344:e1018 (Published 19 March 2012)

Politics and policies: making change happen

BMJ 2012;344:e1356 (Published 19 March 2012)

Climate change and resource security

BMJ 2012;344:e1352 (Published 19 March 2012)

Climate change: what needs to be done

BMJ 2012;344:e1358 (Published 19 March 2012)

Contraction and convergence: the best possible solution to the twin problems of climate change and inequity

BMJ 2012;344:e1765 (Published 19 March 2012)