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23 June 2012 (Vol 344, Issue 7862)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

More marketing than science

BMJ 2012;344:e4269 (Published 21 June 2012)

News

This week's News section

Increasing access to psychological therapies will cost NHS nothing, says report

BMJ 2012;344:e4250 (Published 19 June 2012)

Open access to research findings will deliver huge benefits but will not be cost free, report says

BMJ 2012;344:e4248 (Published 19 June 2012)

Two men plead with judges to let doctors end their life legally

BMJ 2012;344:e4270 (Published 19 June 2012)

Achieving Nicholson challenge requires fundamental rethink on NHS, conference hears

BMJ 2012;344:e4175 (Published 15 June 2012)

Full annual checks for diabetes are a postcode lottery, finds audit

BMJ 2012;344:e4142 (Published 14 June 2012)

MEP calls for tougher legislation to stop drug trials that could be considered as marketing

BMJ 2012;344:e4247 (Published 19 June 2012)

Severely anorexic woman should be force fed, judge rules

BMJ 2012;344:e4232 (Published 19 June 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;344:e4217 (Published 21 June 2012)

PIP implants don’t pose risk to health, expert group concludes

BMJ 2012;344:e4234 (Published 18 June 2012)

Funding could be withheld from general practices if staff take part in day of action, trusts warn

BMJ 2012;344:e4208 (Published 18 June 2012)

Army doctor “heard our cries” but failed to act, says Iraqi detainee

BMJ 2012;344:e4213 (Published 18 June 2012)

Reserve antidepressants for cases of severe depression, Dutch doctors are told

BMJ 2012;344:e4211 (Published 18 June 2012)

Hungarian geneticists call for prosecution of firm that carried out tests to prove politician’s racial origin

BMJ 2012;344:e4190 (Published 15 June 2012)

US sees sharp rise in number of store based medical clinics

BMJ 2012;344:e4253 (Published 19 June 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Pioglitazone and the risk of bladder cancer

BMJ 2012;344:e3500 (Published 31 May 2012)

Female sex as a risk factor for stroke in atrial fibrillation

BMJ 2012;344:e3789 (Published 31 May 2012)

HER2 testing in patients with breast cancer

BMJ 2012;344:e3958 (Published 11 June 2012)

Educating tomorrow’s doctors

BMJ 2012;344:e3689 (Published 29 May 2012)

Research

This week's Research section

Ursodeoxycholic acid versus placebo, and early term delivery versus expectant management, in women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy: semifactorial randomised clinical trial

BMJ 2012;344:e3799 (Published 13 June 2012)

The use of pioglitazone and the risk of bladder cancer in people with type 2 diabetes: nested case-control study

BMJ 2012;344:e3645 (Published 31 May 2012)

Assessment of female sex as a risk factor in atrial fibrillation in Sweden: nationwide retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2012;344:e3522 (Published 31 May 2012)

Research - continued

Prediction model to estimate presence of coronary artery disease: retrospective pooled analysis of existing cohorts

BMJ 2012;344:e3485 (Published 12 June 2012)

The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of dark chocolate consumption as prevention therapy in people at high risk of cardiovascular disease: best case scenario analysis using a Markov model

BMJ 2012;344:e3657 (Published 31 May 2012)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Will London’s Olympic public health legacy turn to dust?

BMJ 2012;344:e4207 (Published 21 June 2012)

A productivity challenge too far?

BMJ 2012;344:e2416 (Published 19 June 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Post-marketing studies of new insulins: sales or science?

BMJ 2012;344:e3974 (Published 12 June 2012)

Post-marketing observational studies: my experience in the drug industry

BMJ 2012;344:e3990 (Published 12 June 2012)

Post-marketing observational trials and catastrophic health expenditure

BMJ 2012;344:e3987 (Published 12 June 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Drug control in sport is about protecting athletes from exploitation

BMJ 2012;344:e4143 (Published 19 June 2012)

We UK doctors need to put our own houses in order

BMJ 2012;344:e3830 (Published 19 June 2012)

Big brother with little evidence for mandatory vaccination of healthcare professionals

BMJ 2012;344:e4034 (Published 19 June 2012)

Lessons to be learnt from other countries about mandatory child vaccination

BMJ 2012;344:e4036 (Published 19 June 2012)

What is the role of GPs in safeguarding children?

BMJ 2012;344:e4123 (Published 19 June 2012)

15 minute consultations as standard benefit patients and GPs

BMJ 2012;344:e3704 (Published 1 June 2012)

Dismantling the signposts to public health? No, satnav has arrived

BMJ 2012;344:e4137 (Published 19 June 2012)

Authors’ reply to Soljak

BMJ 2012;344:e4141 (Published 19 June 2012)

Rifampicin reduces methadone concentrations

BMJ 2012;344:e4199 (Published 19 June 2012)

Neonatal abstinence syndrome can be a problem

BMJ 2012;344:e4200 (Published 19 June 2012)

Pharmacogenomic personalised medicine for antiplatelet agents is on the horizon

BMJ 2012;344:e4198 (Published 19 June 2012)

Financial and target gaming in hospital emergency departments

BMJ 2012;344:e4197 (Published 19 June 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Has novelty in healthcare gone a little stale?

Ray Moynihan

BMJ 2012;344:e4229 (Published 19 June 2012)

Are schoolchildren unhealthily underhydrated?

Margaret McCartney

BMJ 2012;344:e4196 (Published 19 June 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Does early diagnosis really save lives?

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;344:e4252 (Published 19 June 2012)

Summertime

Robin Ferner

BMJ 2012;344:e4245 (Published 19 June 2012)

The primary-secondary care divide fails older patients

John Hughes

BMJ 2012;344:e4009 (Published 14 June 2012)

An end to institutions?

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2012;344:e4235 (Published 19 June 2012)

The Extraction of the Stone of Madness

Desmond O’Neill

BMJ 2012;344:e3676 (Published 8 June 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Lester Breslow

BMJ 2012;344:e4226 (Published 19 June 2012)

Marshall Barr

BMJ 2012;344:e3812 (Published 21 June 2012)

John Robert Billinghurst

BMJ 2012;344:e3813 (Published 21 June 2012)

Michael Harry Dalton

BMJ 2012;344:e3692 (Published 21 June 2012)

John Gask

BMJ 2012;344:e3682 (Published 21 June 2012)

Ernest Munro Jack

BMJ 2012;344:e3815 (Published 21 June 2012)

Raymond Henry Jones

BMJ 2012;344:e3816 (Published 21 June 2012)

Margaret Marshall

BMJ 2012;344:e3685 (Published 21 June 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Communicating risk

BMJ 2012;344:e3996 (Published 18 June 2012)

Practice

This week's Practice section

10-Minute Consultation: Tick bite and early Lyme borreliosis

BMJ 2012;344:e3124 (Published 14 May 2012)

A Patient’s Journey: Lyme neuroborreliosis

BMJ 2012;344:e3250 (Published 14 June 2012)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

An acquired source of seizures

BMJ 2012;344:e2991 (Published 3 May 2012)

A painful swollen finger

BMJ 2012;344:e3441 (Published 6 June 2012)

Observational study designs

BMJ 2012;344:e4209 (Published 21 June 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;344:e4185 (Published 21 June 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;344:e4186 (Published 21 June 2012)

Research News

This week's Research News section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;344:e4187 (Published 21 June 2012)