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08 September 2012 (Vol 345, Issue 7873)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

The brilliance but horrendousness of dialysis

BMJ 2012;345:e5947 (Published 5 September 2012)

News

This week's News section

Concerns raised over organ donation “matching” website

BMJ 2012;345:e5944 (Published 4 September 2012)

Jeremy Hunt succeeds Andrew Lansley as health secretary

BMJ 2012;345:e5961 (Published 4 September 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;345:e5929 (Published 5 September 2012)

Cancer patients rate London’s hospitals the worst in England

BMJ 2012;345:e5864 (Published 30 August 2012)

Johnson & Johnson pays $181m for misleading marketing of risperidone

BMJ 2012;345:e5916 (Published 3 September 2012)

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

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

Republicans call for changes in US healthcare and gun laws

BMJ 2012;345:e5920 (Published 3 September 2012)

Teenagers and newborn babies in England and Wales may get pertussis jab as cases continue to rise

BMJ 2012;345:e5919 (Published 4 September 2012)

National Commissioning Board admits struggle to recruit staff

BMJ 2012;345:e5870 (Published 31 August 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Suicide prevention

BMJ 2012;345:e5779 (Published 31 August 2012)

Fears of an influx of sex workers to major sporting events are unfounded

BMJ 2012;345:e5845 (Published 3 September 2012)

Making a diagnosis in patients who present with vertigo

BMJ 2012;345:e5809 (Published 3 September 2012)

Cleaning up joint replacement services in the UK

BMJ 2012;345:e5862 (Published 4 September 2012)

Research

This week's Research section

Effect of assertive outreach after suicide attempt in the AID (assertive intervention for deliberate self harm) trial: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2012;345:e4972 (Published 22 August 2012)

Suicides associated with the 2008-10 economic recession in England: time trend analysis

BMJ 2012;345:e5142 (Published 14 August 2012)

Effect of systemic steroids on post-tonsillectomy bleeding and reinterventions: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2012;345:e5389 (Published 28 August 2012)

Risk of fracture after bariatric surgery in the United Kingdom: population based, retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2012;345:e5085 (Published 7 August 2012)

Migraine and cognitive decline among women: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2012;345:e5027 (Published 8 August 2012)

Kidney stones and kidney function loss: a cohort study

BMJ 2012;345:e5287 (Published 30 August 2012)

Research - continued

Medical students’ characteristics as predictors of career practice location: retrospective cohort study tracking graduates of Nepal’s first medical college

BMJ 2012;345:e4826 (Published 14 August 2012)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Proton beam therapy: more than a leap of faith?

BMJ 2012;345:e4917 (Published 5 September 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

No more disease silos for sub-Saharan Africa

BMJ 2012;345:e5812 (Published 31 August 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Treat all cases of cellulitis with anti-staphylococcal antibiotics

BMJ 2012;345:e5876 (Published 4 September 2012)

Fungal infection, not diabetes, is risk factor for cellulitis

BMJ 2012;345:e5877 (Published 4 September 2012)

Co-trimoxazole is useful in community acquired MRSA cellulitis

BMJ 2012;345:e5879 (Published 4 September 2012)

Authors’ reply to Rae and Marwick, Halpern, and Basak

BMJ 2012;345:e5881 (Published 4 September 2012)

National early warning score (NEWS) is not suitable for all patients

BMJ 2012;345:e5875 (Published 4 September 2012)

Evidence of net benefit of proton pump inhibitors with clopidogrel is lacking in older patients

BMJ 2012;345:e5849 (Published 4 September 2012)

Author’s reply to Witham and colleagues

BMJ 2012;345:e5852 (Published 4 September 2012)

Bigger margins are not better in breast conserving surgery

BMJ 2012;345:e5855 (Published 4 September 2012)

Drug development: Innovation or imitation deficit?

BMJ 2012;345:e5880 (Published 4 September 2012)

Opportunistic or population register based programmes for chlamydia screening?

BMJ 2012;345:e5887 (Published 4 September 2012)

What’s in a name?

BMJ 2012;345:e5891 (Published 4 September 2012)

How times have changed

BMJ 2012;345:e5892 (Published 4 September 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Is bioethics a bully?

Daniel K Sokol

BMJ 2012;345:e5802 (Published 3 September 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Believe in better

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;345:e5826 (Published 30 August 2012)

The “exclamation mark” school of patient safety

Oliver Ellis

BMJ 2012;345:e5731 (Published 23 August 2012)

Marketing to register organ donors may circumvent principles of informed consent

Eleanor Milligan, Sarah Winch, Rebekah Adams

BMJ 2012;345:e5850 (Published 31 August 2012)

Views & Reviews - continued

Burning up

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2012;345:e5858 (Published 3 September 2012)

Shostakovich’s sonata for viola and piano

Desmond O’Neill

BMJ 2012;345:e5860 (Published 31 August 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Christopher Booth

BMJ 2012;345:e5768 (Published 31 August 2012)

Stephen Le Harival Clements

BMJ 2012;345:e5686 (Published 5 September 2012)

Colin Hamilton Ewart

BMJ 2012;345:e5687 (Published 5 September 2012)

Morgan Brian Stuart Jones

BMJ 2012;345:e5685 (Published 5 September 2012)

Euan Charles Beverley Scott Keat

BMJ 2012;345:e5693 (Published 5 September 2012)

Geoffrey Newton

BMJ 2012;345:e5684 (Published 5 September 2012)

Matthias Paneth

BMJ 2012;345:e5671 (Published 5 September 2012)

David Grant Strachan

BMJ 2012;345:e5218 (Published 5 September 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Irritable bowel syndrome

BMJ 2012;345:e5836 (Published 4 September 2012)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Practice Pointer: Necrotising fasciitis

BMJ 2012;345:e4274 (Published 20 July 2012)

A Patient’s Journey: Kidney dialysis—the need for humanity

BMJ 2012;345:e4492 (Published 19 July 2012)

A Patient’s Journey: Irreversible renal damage from accidental mushroom poisoning

BMJ 2012;345:e5262 (Published 10 August 2012)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A sinister cause of back pain in a young man

BMJ 2012;344:e3015 (Published 11 May 2012)

Skin rash in a preterm infant

BMJ 2012;345:e5390 (Published 30 August 2012)

Observational study design

BMJ 2012;345:e5856 (Published 5 September 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e5859 (Published 5 September 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e5861 (Published 5 September 2012)

Research News

This week's Research News section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;345:e5904 (Published 6 September 2012)