28 July 2012 (Vol 345, Issue 7867)

Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

The sick child

BMJ 2012;345:e5057 (Published 25 July 2012)

News

This week's News section

Poor health does not preclude a happy life, though it does increase the odds against it

BMJ 2012;345:e5073 (Published 25 July 2012)

Private hospital planned to delay NHS operations to boost income

BMJ 2012;345:e5033 (Published 25 July 2012)

Case against paediatric cardiologist will go ahead without him after his refusal to attend

BMJ 2012;345:e4995 (Published 20 July 2012)

Pertussis cases rise 10-fold among older children and adults in England and Wales

BMJ 2012;345:e5008 (Published 23 July 2012)

GPs are outnumbered on boards of clinical commissioning groups

BMJ 2012;345:e4949 (Published 20 July 2012)

Cancer centre is nominated for Stirling prize

BMJ 2012;345:e5038 (Published 25 July 2012)

Gene therapy to be authorised for first time in EU

BMJ 2012;345:e5009 (Published 23 July 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;345:e5016 (Published 24 July 2012)

Surgeon is accused of manipulating data to move his patients up organ waiting list

BMJ 2012;345:e5039 (Published 24 July 2012)

New drug combination for TB is tested in unique trial

BMJ 2012;345:e5060 (Published 25 July 2012)

Royal college recommends national system to recognise deteriorating patients

BMJ 2012;345:e5041 (Published 26 July 2012)

US women without health insurance are more likely to have late stage cervical cancer

BMJ 2012;345:e5011 (Published 23 July 2012)

Polio vaccination worker is shot and killed in Pakistan

BMJ 2012;345:e5061 (Published 24 July 2012)

Israel is accused of “blackmailing” patients from Gaza Strip who seek medical care

BMJ 2012;345:e5012 (Published 24 July 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Patients’ concepts of hypertension

BMJ 2012;345:e4688 (Published 16 July 2012)

Assessing respiratory rate for children with fever

BMJ 2012;345:e4249 (Published 3 July 2012)

The risks in risk prediction

BMJ 2012;344:e4215 (Published 21 June 2012)

Multimorbidity and the inverse care law in primary care

BMJ 2012;344:e4152 (Published 19 June 2012)

Research

Research - continued

Feature

This week's Feature section

Paying the poor

BMJ 2012;345:e4929 (Published 23 July 2012)

Mea culpa: are multi-billion dollar fines forcing drug companies to clean up their act?

BMJ 2012;345:e4865 (Published 18 July 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Integrated care: a Danish perspective

BMJ 2012;345:e4451 (Published 13 July 2012)

Commentary: Denmark’s health reforms are part of a wider trend

BMJ 2012;345:e4994 (Published 24 July 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Follow our roadmap

BMJ 2012;345:e4814 (Published 23 July 2012)

Income from reprints creates a conflict of interests

BMJ 2012;345:e4970 (Published 23 July 2012)

Time to open up the finances of medical journals

BMJ 2012;345:e4968 (Published 23 July 2012)

Natural family planning is effective and culturally acceptable

BMJ 2012;345:e4908 (Published 23 July 2012)

QFracture is better than FRAX tool in assessing risk of hip fracture

BMJ 2012;345:e4988 (Published 23 July 2012)

Classifying mental and neurological conditions together: authors’ reply to letters

BMJ 2012;345:e4906 (Published 23 July 2012)

Approve bevacizumab for use in eye disease in cash strapped times

BMJ 2012;345:e4806 (Published 23 July 2012)

Sale of baby milk is an expensive monopoly in Greece

BMJ 2012;345:e4810 (Published 23 July 2012)

Let’s be clear about capitalism

BMJ 2012;345:e4979 (Published 23 July 2012)

The reliable clinical examination

BMJ 2012;345:e4990 (Published 23 July 2012)

Vaccination for voluntary and private sector workers should be free

BMJ 2012;345:e4513 (Published 23 July 2012)

Antenatal checks should look for heart disease in at risk women

BMJ 2012;345:e4965 (Published 23 July 2012)

But is community care any cheaper?

BMJ 2012;345:e4976 (Published 23 July 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Monkey business: reflections on testosterone

Tony Delamothe

BMJ 2012;345:e4967 (Published 23 July 2012)

A passion for accuracy

Daniel K Sokol

BMJ 2012;345:e4977 (Published 23 July 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Beware the cost-benefit analysis

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;345:e5040 (Published 25 July 2012)

The dance of death

Liam Farrell

BMJ 2012;345:e4956 (Published 24 July 2012)

Views & Reviews - continued

Stop using military metaphors for disease

Natasha M Wiggins

BMJ 2012;345:e4706 (Published 12 July 2012)

Pathological collectors

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2012;345:e5037 (Published 24 July 2012)

Darkness Visible

Andrew Moscrop

BMJ 2012;345:e4748 (Published 16 July 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Earl Rose

BMJ 2012;345:e4768 (Published 13 July 2012)

Mary Frances Busby

BMJ 2012;345:e4668 (Published 25 July 2012)

John “Derrick” Holdsworth

BMJ 2012;345:e4667 (Published 25 July 2012)

Nasnaranpattiyage Don George Leslie

BMJ 2012;345:e4673 (Published 25 July 2012)

Jacque Gai Mar

BMJ 2012;345:e4671 (Published 25 July 2012)

Ian Oswald

BMJ 2012;345:e4666 (Published 25 July 2012)

Rosemary Anne Smith

BMJ 2012;345:e4669 (Published 25 July 2012)

Yvonne Florence Stedman

BMJ 2012;345:e4665 (Published 25 July 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Management of difficult and severe eczema in childhood

BMJ 2012;345:e4770 (Published 23 July 2012)

Practice

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Coronal section of brain

BMJ 2012;344:e4013 (Published 13 June 2012)

Confidence intervals and statistical significance: rules of thumb

BMJ 2012;345:e4960 (Published 25 July 2012)

A human bite

BMJ 2012;345:e4798 (Published 17 July 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e4957 (Published 25 July 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e4958 (Published 25 July 2012)

Research News

This week's Research News section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;345:e4981 (Published 25 July 2012)