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11 August 2012 (Vol 345, Issue 7869)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Going for gold

BMJ 2012;345:e5363 (Published 8 August 2012)

News

This week's News section

Further care home scandals like Winterbourne are likely without action, warn campaigners

BMJ 2012;345:e5379 (Published 7 August 2012)

Private sector run hospital made £2.3m loss in first quarter

BMJ 2012;345:e5307 (Published 3 August 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;345:e5350 (Published 7 August 2012)

Proposed targets for new NHS commissioners receive lukewarm response

BMJ 2012;345:e5279 (Published 2 August 2012)

One in three survivors of childhood meningitis is left with “hidden” after effects, study finds

BMJ 2012;345:e5318 (Published 6 August 2012)

Expert group advises separating risk and benefit information from cancer screening invitations

BMJ 2012;345:e5322 (Published 6 August 2012)

Texas judge throws out Wakefield’s libel action against BMJ

BMJ 2012;345:e5328 (Published 6 August 2012)

US health insurance firms issue $1.1bn in rebates to policy holders

BMJ 2012;345:e5329 (Published 7 August 2012)

Adverse events in children having surgery are common and need investigation, study concludes

BMJ 2012;345:e5314 (Published 6 August 2012)

Researchers call for national funding to monitor all birth defects

BMJ 2012;345:e5274 (Published 2 August 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Vitamin D: some perspective please

BMJ 2012;345:e4695 (Published 19 July 2012)

Prescribing proton pump inhibitors with clopidogrel

BMJ 2012;345:e4558 (Published 10 July 2012)

Treating Shiga toxin induced haemolytic uraemic syndrome

BMJ 2012;345:e4598 (Published 19 July 2012)

Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis

BMJ 2012;345:e4231 (Published 5 July 2012)

A national early warning score for acutely ill patients

BMJ 2012;345:e5310 (Published 8 August 2012)

Ensuring open access for publicly funded research

BMJ 2012;345:e5184 (Published 8 August 2012)

Research

This week's Research section

Effectiveness of yearly, register based screening for chlamydia in the Netherlands: controlled trial with randomised stepped wedge implementation

BMJ 2012;345:e4316 (Published 5 July 2012)

Clopidogrel and interaction with proton pump inhibitors: comparison between cohort and within person study designs

BMJ 2012;345:e4388 (Published 10 July 2012)

Cardiovascular safety of central nervous system stimulants in children and adolescents: population based cohort study

BMJ 2012;345:e4627 (Published 18 July 2012)

Validation of treatment strategies for enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 induced haemolytic uraemic syndrome: case-control study

BMJ 2012;345:e4565 (Published 19 July 2012)

Research - continued

Reoperation rates after breast conserving surgery for breast cancer among women in England: retrospective study of hospital episode statistics

BMJ 2012;345:e4505 (Published 12 July 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Pharmaceutical research and development: what do we get for all that money?

BMJ 2012;345:e4348 (Published 7 August 2012)

Raising the bar for market authorisation of new drugs

BMJ 2012;345:e4261 (Published 7 August 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Why did the BMJ publish such a biased article?

BMJ 2012;345:e5104 (Published 6 August 2012)

Advice to avoid low carbohydrate-high protein diets is not evidence based

BMJ 2012;345:e5106 (Published 6 August 2012)

Research authors’ reply to Campillo-Soto and Freedhoff

BMJ 2012;345:e5112 (Published 6 August 2012)

Editorial authors’ reply to Freedhoff

BMJ 2012;345:e5109 (Published 6 August 2012)

Sudden death in young men from South East Asia and the Pacific rim

BMJ 2012;345:e5149 (Published 6 August 2012)

Reduce repayment rates to 0.5%

BMJ 2012;345:e4789 (Published 6 August 2012)

Whole System Demonstrator trial: policy, politics, and publication ethics

BMJ 2012;345:e5280 (Published 6 August 2012)

Authors’ reply to Greenhalgh

BMJ 2012;345:e5305 (Published 6 August 2012)

The GMC’s paradoxical behaviour

BMJ 2012;345:e5191 (Published 6 August 2012)

A step too far

BMJ 2012;345:e5298 (Published 6 August 2012)

Box ticking is a waste of time

BMJ 2012;345:e5202 (Published 6 August 2012)

What are we being trained for?

BMJ 2012;345:e5198 (Published 6 August 2012)

Fluoroquinolones and theophylline can also lower the seizure threshold

BMJ 2012;345:e5304 (Published 6 August 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Why are the media so soft on Circle?

Nigel Hawkes

BMJ 2012;345:e5351 (Published 8 August 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

What is good medicine?

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;345:e5171 (Published 8 August 2012)

Enhancement

Robin Ferner

BMJ 2012;345:e5337 (Published 8 August 2012)

We should not let families stop organ donation from their dead relatives

David Shaw

BMJ 2012;345:e5275 (Published 7 August 2012)

The disturbing truth about disability assessments

Margaret McCartney

BMJ 2012;345:e5347 (Published 8 August 2012)

His gastronomical practices

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2012;345:e5276 (Published 7 August 2012)

Views & Reviews - continued

The Idiot

Nick Seddon

BMJ 2012;345:e5110 (Published 27 July 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

John Bunker

BMJ 2012;345:e4883 (Published 23 July 2012)

George Alan Christie Binnie

BMJ 2012;345:e5216 (Published 8 August 2012)

Olivia Susan Crosthwaite

BMJ 2012;345:e5224 (Published 8 August 2012)

Arthur Holmes Pickering

BMJ 2012;345:e5222 (Published 8 August 2012)

Calmen Rosen

BMJ 2012;345:e5221 (Published 8 August 2012)

Henry Savage

BMJ 2012;345:e5220 (Published 8 August 2012)

John Struthers

BMJ 2012;345:e5215 (Published 8 August 2012)

Michael Henry West

BMJ 2012;345:e5217 (Published 8 August 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Diagnosis and management of cellulitis

BMJ 2012;345:e4955 (Published 7 August 2012)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Guidelines: Risk assessment of fragility fractures: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2012;345:e3698 (Published 8 August 2012)

Therapeutics : Bisphosphonates in the treatment of osteoporosis

BMJ 2012;344:e3211 (Published 22 May 2012)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A South African man with renal failure and pulmonary shadowing

BMJ 2012;344:e2789 (Published 11 June 2012)

Magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine

BMJ 2012;345:e4461 (Published 9 July 2012)

Statistical tests for independent groups: time to event data

BMJ 2012;345:e5257 (Published 8 August 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e5283 (Published 8 August 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e5282 (Published 8 August 2012)

Research News

This week's Research News section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;345:e5315 (Published 8 August 2012)

Head to Head

This week's Head to Head section

Should we abandon cervical spine manipulation for mechanical neck pain? Yes

BMJ 2012;344:e3679 (Published 7 June 2012)

Should we abandon cervical spine manipulation for mechanical neck pain? No

BMJ 2012;344:e3680 (Published 7 June 2012)