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21 July 2012 (Vol 345, Issue 7866)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Water, water, every where

BMJ 2012;345:e4903 (Published 19 July 2012)

News

This week's News section

Planned “pay cartel” in southwest England is condemned by BMA and Unison

BMJ 2012;345:e4843 (Published 16 July 2012)

Mammography screening has little or no effect on breast cancer deaths, Swedish data indicate

BMJ 2012;345:e4847 (Published 17 July 2012)

Risk assessments for diabetes should be offered widely, says NICE

BMJ 2012;345:e4778 (Published 13 July 2012)

Health damage from alcohol misuse has been underplayed in government strategy, say MPs

BMJ 2012;345:e4899 (Published 19 July 2012)

Number of dementia patients rises while GPs’ prescribing of antipsychotics falls

BMJ 2012;345:e4861 (Published 17 July 2012)

UK is seeing “massive” rise in campaigns against plain packets for cigarettes, say health activists

BMJ 2012;345:e4856 (Published 17 July 2012)

Performance enhancing drugs or techniques may exist that can’t yet be detected, experts admit

BMJ 2012;345:e4867 (Published 18 July 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;345:e4824 (Published 17 July 2012)

Health bill arose from attempt to accommodate Lib Dem as well as Tory ideas, says commentator

BMJ 2012;345:e4833 (Published 16 July 2012)

Virgin Care to take over services for children and young people in Devon worth £132m

BMJ 2012;345:e4835 (Published 16 July 2012)

Hospitals will be able to earn 49% of their income from private patients from October

BMJ 2012;345:e4823 (Published 17 July 2012)

Combating attacks on health workers

BMJ 2012;345:e4862 (Published 18 July 2012)

UK government comes down in favour of making all publicly funded research “open access”

BMJ 2012;345:e4878 (Published 17 July 2012)

FDA approves first drug to prevent HIV infection

BMJ 2012;345:e4879 (Published 17 July 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Identifying melanomas in primary care: can we do better?

BMJ 2012;345:e4244 (Published 4 July 2012)

Sanctity of life law has gone too far

BMJ 2012;345:e4637 (Published 12 July 2012)

Active management of the third stage of labour

BMJ 2012;345:e4546 (Published 6 July 2012)

BMJ tablet app

BMJ 2012;345:e4877 (Published 18 July 2012)

Research

This week's Research section

Diagnostic accuracy of spot urinary protein and albumin to creatinine ratios for detection of significant proteinuria or adverse pregnancy outcome in patients with suspected pre-eclampsia: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2012;345:e4342 (Published 9 July 2012)

Effect of adding a diagnostic aid to best practice to manage suspicious pigmented lesions in primary care: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2012;345:e4110 (Published 4 July 2012)

Research - continued

Adverse events with intravitreal injection of vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors: nested case-control study

BMJ 2012;345:e4203 (Published 4 July 2012)

Impact of age and sex on primary preventive treatment for cardiovascular disease in the West Midlands, UK: cross sectional study

BMJ 2012;345:e4535 (Published 12 July 2012)

Feature

This week's Feature section

The truth about sports drinks

BMJ 2012;345:e4737 (Published 19 July 2012)

How valid is the European Food Safety Authority’s assessment of sports drinks?

BMJ 2012;345:e4753 (Published 19 July 2012)

Commentary: role of hydration in health and exercise

BMJ 2012;345:e4171 (Published 19 July 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Global threat from drug resistant HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

BMJ 2012;344:e4159 (Published 18 June 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

The rise and rise of vitamin D testing

BMJ 2012;345:e4743 (Published 16 July 2012)

Post-marketing studies can make important contributions to medical knowledge

BMJ 2012;345:e4740 (Published 16 July 2012)

Imperturbability is not incompatible with clinical empathy

BMJ 2012;345:e4533 (Published 16 July 2012)

Doctors need accredited information on Lyme borreliosis

BMJ 2012;345:e4727 (Published 16 July 2012)

Ocular inflammation as a manifestation of Lyme borreliosis

BMJ 2012;345:e4721 (Published 16 July 2012)

Common treatment for epistaxis contains peanut oil

BMJ 2012;345:e4785 (Published 16 July 2012)

GPs’ role in safeguarding children

BMJ 2012;345:e4758 (Published 16 July 2012)

Putting more specialist physicians into the community is not answer to primary-secondary care divide

BMJ 2012;345:e4730 (Published 16 July 2012)

Integrated care results in fewer elderly people dying in hospital

BMJ 2012;345:e4731 (Published 16 July 2012)

Social determinants of health are comorbidities

BMJ 2012;345:e4742 (Published 16 July 2012)

Time for an open access secure online data collection tool

BMJ 2012;345:e4805 (Published 16 July 2012)

Never treat your own family

BMJ 2012;345:e4794 (Published 16 July 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Miracle pills and fireproof trainers: user endorsement in social media

Adam Smith, Greg Jones

BMJ 2012;345:e4682 (Published 19 July 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Don’t just blame big pharma

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;345:e4825 (Published 17 July 2012)

Winners and losers

Mary E Black

BMJ 2012;345:e4699 (Published 11 July 2012)

Patients who fast in Ramadan need better advice

Zohra Ismail Panju

BMJ 2012;345:e4754 (Published 12 July 2012)

Views & Reviews - continued

NHS reforms caught in the act

Nick Seddon

BMJ 2012;345:e4844 (Published 16 July 2012)

One million war deaths

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2012;345:e4639 (Published 12 July 2012)

Buddenbrooks

Ralf Genthe, Tanya Genthe

BMJ 2012;345:e4786 (Published 13 July 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Peter Graeme Arblaster

BMJ 2012;345:e4527 (Published 18 July 2012)

Joseph Bartholomew Deasy

BMJ 2012;345:e4523 (Published 18 July 2012)

Ian McArthur Jackson

BMJ 2012;345:e4522 (Published 18 July 2012)

Andrew Charles Markus

BMJ 2012;345:e4528 (Published 18 July 2012)

Peter Stephenson

BMJ 2012;345:e4531 (Published 18 July 2012)

Phyllis May Sykes

BMJ 2012;345:e4530 (Published 18 July 2012)

Chitturi Satyanarayana

BMJ 2012;345:e4529 (Published 18 July 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Management of chronic epilepsy

BMJ 2012;345:e4576 (Published 17 July 2012)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Rational Imaging : Investigation of acute knee injury

BMJ 2012;344:e3167 (Published 25 May 2012)

Guidelines: Management of an acute painful sickle cell episode in hospital: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2012;344:e4063 (Published 27 June 2012)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Another patient with low back pain

BMJ 2012;344:e3510 (Published 14 June 2012)

Open clinical trials

BMJ 2012;345:e4749 (Published 18 July 2012)

A few hours from disaster

BMJ 2012;345:e4441 (Published 9 July 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e4781 (Published 18 July 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e4782 (Published 18 July 2012)

Research News

This week's Research News section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;345:e4799 (Published 18 July 2012)

Head to Head

This week's Head to Head section

Should we screen for type 2 diabetes: Yes

BMJ 2012;345:e4514 (Published 9 July 2012)

Should we screen for type 2 diabetes? No

BMJ 2012;345:e4516 (Published 9 July 2012)