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25 August 2012 (Vol 345, Issue 7871)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Towards a unified theory of patient data

BMJ 2012;345:e5678 (Published 22 August 2012)

News

This week's News section

Needle and syringe exchange programme is announced for Australian prison

BMJ 2012;345:e5615 (Published 17 August 2012)

Hospitals are told to export their expertise to boost NHS income

BMJ 2012;345:e5681 (Published 21 August 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;345:e5657 (Published 21 August 2012)

Services with excessive delays in delivering carotid endarterectomy should close, recommends audit

BMJ 2012;345:e5641 (Published 21 August 2012)

Researchers defend 20 mph speed limits despite rise in casualties

BMJ 2012;345:e5580 (Published 16 August 2012)

Judges rule that doctors cannot help men with locked-in syndrome to end their lives

BMJ 2012;345:e5602 (Published 17 August 2012)

Government considers a national implant register in review of cosmetic procedures

BMJ 2012;345:e5574 (Published 16 August 2012)

Romney’s running mate backtracks on plans to slash health insurance cover for older people

BMJ 2012;345:e5634 (Published 21 August 2012)

“Big tobacco can be taken on and beaten,” say Australian officials

BMJ 2012;345:e5579 (Published 16 August 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Detection of bowel cancer in kidney transplant recipients

BMJ 2012;345:e5081 (Published 25 July 2012)

Psychological distress and death from cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2012;345:e5177 (Published 31 July 2012)

Treating cancer in older people

BMJ 2012;345:e4954 (Published 24 July 2012)

Drug safety: reporting systems for the general public

BMJ 2012;345:e4916 (Published 7 August 2012)

Nurse leadership and patient safety

BMJ 2012;345:e4589 (Published 9 August 2012)

HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

BMJ 2012;345:e5412 (Published 13 August 2012)

Research

This week's Research section

Association between psychological distress and mortality: individual participant pooled analysis of 10 prospective cohort studies

BMJ 2012;345:e4933 (Published 31 July 2012)

Shift work and vascular events: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2012;345:e4800 (Published 26 July 2012)

Risk of cardiovascular events in people prescribed glucocorticoids with iatrogenic Cushing’s syndrome: cohort study

BMJ 2012;345:e4928 (Published 30 July 2012)

Research - continued

Screening for colorectal cancer and advanced colorectal neoplasia in kidney transplant recipients: cross sectional prevalence and diagnostic accuracy study of faecal immunochemical testing for haemoglobin and colonoscopy

BMJ 2012;345:e4657 (Published 25 July 2012)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Should patients be able to control their own records?

BMJ 2012;345:e4905 (Published 30 July 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Why corporate power is a public health priority

BMJ 2012;345:e5124 (Published 21 August 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

“Osteoarthritis” on imaging may be normal wear and tear

BMJ 2012;345:e5594 (Published 21 August 2012)

Structured and persistently reinforced patient education can work

BMJ 2012;345:e5100 (Published 21 August 2012)

NICE guidance ignored incentive spirometry

BMJ 2012;345:e5370 (Published 21 August 2012)

Shortcomings of natural family planning methods

BMJ 2012;345:e5566 (Published 21 August 2012)

Increase in pertussis may be due to increased recognition and diagnosis

BMJ 2012;345:e5463 (Published 21 August 2012)

Many men are receiving unnecessary testosterone prescriptions

BMJ 2012;345:e5469 (Published 21 August 2012)

Editorial on identifying melanomas in primary care was muddled

BMJ 2012;345:e5416 (Published 21 August 2012)

Authors’ reply to Bayley and Cave

BMJ 2012;345:e5417 (Published 21 August 2012)

We need a system that accounts for multimorbidity at practice level

BMJ 2012;345:e5464 (Published 21 August 2012)

BIA position paper on Lyme borreliosis is evidence based

BMJ 2012;345:e5364 (Published 21 August 2012)

Metaphor may fill the space created by uncertainty

BMJ 2012;345:e5468 (Published 21 August 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Every day in every way we are getting better and better: the optimism of health policy

Iona Heath

BMJ 2012;345:e5608 (Published 22 August 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Bad medicine: private practice

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;345:e5503 (Published 15 August 2012)

An Olympic legacy for couch potatoes?

Mary E Black

BMJ 2012;345:e5578 (Published 20 August 2012)

Patients must have control of their medical records

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

BMJ 2012;345:e5575 (Published 21 August 2012)

Views & Reviews - continued

The scourge of ulcers

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2012;345:e5576 (Published 20 August 2012)

Holding on to Humanity

Kenneth Collins

BMJ 2012;345:e5582 (Published 20 August 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Philip Vivian Best

BMJ 2012;345:e5238 (Published 22 August 2012)

Hemraj Bodasing

BMJ 2012;345:e5236 (Published 22 August 2012)

Neil Lessels Dallas

BMJ 2012;345:e5227 (Published 22 August 2012)

Joanna Jones

BMJ 2012;345:e5234 (Published 22 August 2012)

David Murray

BMJ 2012;345:e5231 (Published 22 August 2012)

Denis Claude Pointereau

BMJ 2012;345:e5230 (Published 22 August 2012)

John R Pyne

BMJ 2012;345:e5239 (Published 22 August 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Facial basal cell carcinoma

BMJ 2012;345:e5342 (Published 21 August 2012)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Guidelines: Management of lower urinary tract dysfunction in neurological disease: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2012;345:e5074 (Published 8 August 2012)

Easily Missed?: Pre-eclampsia

BMJ 2012;345:e4437 (Published 19 July 2012)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A 64 year old woman with headache and breathlessness

BMJ 2012;344:e3158 (Published 15 May 2012)

Acute skin failure

BMJ 2012;345:e5028 (Published 6 August 2012)

Why randomise in clinical trials?

BMJ 2012;345:e5584 (Published 22 August 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e5301 (Published 22 August 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e5300 (Published 22 August 2012)

Research News

This week's Research News section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;345:e5617 (Published 22 August 2012)

Research Methods & Reporting

This week's Research Methods & Reporting section

Interpreting diagnostic accuracy studies for patient care

BMJ 2012;345:e3999 (Published 2 July 2012)