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07 July 2012 (Vol 345, Issue 7864)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Measure your team’s performance, and publish the results

BMJ 2012;345:e4590 (Published 4 July 2012)

News

This week's News section

Dutch GPs agree to refer fewer patients to hospital and prescribe more generic drugs

BMJ 2012;344:e4510 (Published 29 June 2012)

US Supreme Court upholds Obama’s health reform act

BMJ 2012;344:e4498 (Published 29 June 2012)

GlaxoSmithKline is fined record $3bn in US

BMJ 2012;345:e4568 (Published 3 July 2012)

Capturing patients’ lives

BMJ 2012;345:e4540 (Published 4 July 2012)

Closure of GP practice in Camden was a casualty of NHS changes, says inquiry

BMJ 2012;345:e4545 (Published 3 July 2012)

Women have had “harrowing” experiences over PIP implants scandal

BMJ 2012;345:e4560 (Published 3 July 2012)

Trust was warned not to sign PFI deal that left it needing a bailout

BMJ 2012;344:e4472 (Published 29 June 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;345:e4556 (Published 3 July 2012)

Case reopens against cardiologist facing charges of sexual abuse

BMJ 2012;344:e4508 (Published 29 June 2012)

GPs and specialists lack understanding and respect for each other, report says

BMJ 2012;344:e4438 (Published 27 June 2012)

Up to two thirds of the 100 trusts yet to reach foundation status will not make it

BMJ 2012;345:e4532 (Published 2 July 2012)

Plans to abolish bodies regulating fertility treatment and human tissues are discussed

BMJ 2012;344:e4499 (Published 29 June 2012)

BMA meeting: Doctors call for further industrial action in pension dispute

BMJ 2012;344:e4486 (Published 29 June 2012)

BMA meeting: BMA members reject neutral stance on assisted dying

BMJ 2012;344:e4448 (Published 28 June 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Low carbohydrate-high protein diets

BMJ 2012;344:e3801 (Published 19 June 2012)

Osteoporosis risk assessment

BMJ 2012;344:e4191 (Published 21 June 2012)

People and planet: from vicious cycle to virtuous circle

BMJ 2012;344:e3774 (Published 31 May 2012)

New UK guidance on industry-health professional collaboration

BMJ 2012;344:e3952 (Published 14 June 2012)

Meeting an unmet need for family planning

BMJ 2012;344:e4160 (Published 19 June 2012)

The US Supreme Court’s ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

BMJ 2012;344:e4503 (Published 29 June 2012)

Research

This week's Research section

Low carbohydrate-high protein diet and incidence of cardiovascular diseases in Swedish women: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2012;344:e4026 (Published 26 June 2012)

Frequency and risk factors for prevalent, incident, and persistent genital carcinogenic human papillomavirus infection in sexually active women: community based cohort study

BMJ 2012;344:e4168 (Published 22 June 2012)

Research - continued

Derivation and validation of updated QFracture algorithm to predict risk of osteoporotic fracture in primary care in the United Kingdom: prospective open cohort study

BMJ 2012;344:e3427 (Published 22 May 2012)

Effect of editors’ implementation of CONSORT guidelines on the reporting of abstracts in high impact medical journals: interrupted time series analysis

BMJ 2012;344:e4178 (Published 22 June 2012)

High reprint orders in medical journals and pharmaceutical industry funding: case-control study

BMJ 2012;344:e4212 (Published 28 June 2012)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Where are we with transparency over performance of doctors and institutions?

BMJ 2012;345:e4464 (Published 3 July 2012)

Down on the “pharm”: do genetically modified plants hold the key to cheaper drugs?

BMJ 2012;344:e3829 (Published 31 May 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Vaccine programmes must consider their effect on general resistance

BMJ 2012;344:e3769 (Published 14 June 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Media reports fuelled by authors’ claims

BMJ 2012;345:e4495 (Published 3 July 2012)

Study’s conclusion is misleading and ill considered

BMJ 2012;345:e4494 (Published 3 July 2012)

TREAD adds little to the evidence

BMJ 2012;345:e4490 (Published 3 July 2012)

Authors’ reply to Davies and colleagues, Donnelly, and Pilling and Anderson

BMJ 2012;345:e4500 (Published 3 July 2012)

Should clinicians edit Wikipedia to engage a wider world web?

BMJ 2012;345:e4275 (Published 3 July 2012)

Multimodal analgesia is central to alleviating pain in pancreatic adenocarcinoma

BMJ 2012;345:e4307 (Published 3 July 2012)

Time to compare impact and feasibility of prediction models in real life

BMJ 2012;345:e4357 (Published 3 July 2012)

Systematic review did not consider problem of treatment effects

BMJ 2012;345:e4355 (Published 3 July 2012)

Authors’ reply to Noble and colleagues and Liew and colleagues

BMJ 2012;345:e4360 (Published 3 July 2012)

Evidence does exist for Family Intervention Projects

BMJ 2012;345:e4485 (Published 3 July 2012)

A better way of sharing patient safety information is needed

BMJ 2012;345:e4475 (Published 3 July 2012)

Thrombotic events after discontinuing dabigatran: rebound or resumption?

BMJ 2012;345:e4469 (Published 3 July 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

The NHS must change or die

Nigel Hawkes

BMJ 2012;345:e4478 (Published 4 July 2012)

Direct primary care: a new system for general practice

Douglas Kamerow

BMJ 2012;345:e4482 (Published 2 July 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Bad medicine: chest examination

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;345:e4569 (Published 4 July 2012)

Views & Reviews - continued

Exclusive! Journalist admits to getting it wrong

Colin Brewer

BMJ 2012;345:e4559 (Published 4 July 2012)

Ensuring that women have access to safe abortion is “pro-life”

Alice Clack, Patricia Lledo-Weber

BMJ 2012;345:e4391 (Published 4 July 2012)

Obesity exposé offers slim pickings

J T Winkler

BMJ 2012;345:e4465 (Published 2 July 2012)

Forensic obsessions

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2012;344:e4449 (Published 29 June 2012)

My Left Foot

Ian B Johnston

BMJ 2012;344:e4333 (Published 25 June 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

John Stuart Gregory

BMJ 2012;345:e4052 (Published 4 July 2012)

Akhil Kapur

BMJ 2012;345:e4051 (Published 4 July 2012)

Kathleen Mary McCartie

BMJ 2012;345:e4047 (Published 4 July 2012)

Louis Joseph Rosin

BMJ 2012;345:e4045 (Published 4 July 2012)

Dora Janet Burman Savage

BMJ 2012;345:e4053 (Published 4 July 2012)

John Cecil Nicholson Wakeley

BMJ 2012;345:e4042 (Published 4 July 2012)

Sakalakalavathy Umachandran

BMJ 2012;345:e4049 (Published 4 July 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Perioperative management of patients taking treatment for chronic pain

BMJ 2012;345:e4148 (Published 3 July 2012)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Guidelines: Management of venous thromboembolic diseases and the role of thrombophilia testing: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2012;344:e3979 (Published 27 June 2012)

Quality Improvement Report: Lessons from the Johns Hopkins Multi-Disciplinary Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prevention Collaborative

BMJ 2012;344:e3935 (Published 19 June 2012)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Abdominal discomfort and abnormal liver function

BMJ 2012;344:e2096 (Published 12 June 2012)

Dizziness and rash in an HIV positive man

BMJ 2012;344:e4167 (Published 28 June 2012)

Pearson’s correlation coefficient

BMJ 2012;345:e4483 (Published 4 July 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e4460 (Published 4 July 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e4459 (Published 4 July 2012)

Research News

This week's Research News section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;345:e4517 (Published 4 July 2012)