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22 September 2012 (Vol 345, Issue 7875)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

At the bottom of the pile

BMJ 2012;345:e6318 (Published 19 September 2012)

News

This week's News section

Routine screening for ovarian cancer harms more than it helps, says US authority

BMJ 2012;345:e6203 (Published 13 September 2012)

Serious complaints against doctors, suspensions, and erasures all fell in UK in 2011

BMJ 2012;345:e6286 (Published 18 September 2012)

UK fertilisation authority launches consultation on mitochondrial replacement techniques

BMJ 2012;345:e6259 (Published 18 September 2012)

Too frequent use of painkillers can cause rather than cure headaches

BMJ 2012;345:e6281 (Published 19 September 2012)

Cochrane review says telephone follow-up of heart failure patients is effective

BMJ 2012;345:e6187 (Published 14 September 2012)

University College London issues new research standards but says it won’t investigate Wakefield

BMJ 2012;345:e6220 (Published 14 September 2012)

In brief

BMJ 2012;345:e6238 (Published 19 September 2012)

Colleges call for screening of all hospital patients to cut toll from venous thromboembolism

BMJ 2012;345:e6269 (Published 18 September 2012)

Europe’s plan to tighten regulation of devices will not reach US standards

BMJ 2012;345:e6303 (Published 19 September 2012)

Private firms are told that NHS in England is open for £20bn worth of business

BMJ 2012;345:e6305 (Published 18 September 2012)

Charity challenges closure of children’s heart surgery unit at Leeds

BMJ 2012;345:e6182 (Published 13 September 2012)

Child mortality falls, but 19 000 under 5s still die every day

BMJ 2012;345:e6229 (Published 14 September 2012)

Improvements in US healthcare could save 75 000 lives a year, report says

BMJ 2012;345:e6258 (Published 18 September 2012)

French government wastes €15bn a year on useless drugs, book claims

BMJ 2012;345:e6241 (Published 17 September 2012)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Drug eluting stents for patients with diabetes

BMJ 2012;345:e5828 (Published 12 September 2012)

Setting objectives for the NHS Commissioning Board

BMJ 2012;345:e5893 (Published 6 September 2012)

Teaching postgraduates about managing drug and alcohol misuse

BMJ 2012;345:e5816 (Published 4 September 2012)

Fighting neglected tropical diseases in the southern United States

BMJ 2012;345:e6112 (Published 13 September 2012)

Research

This week's Research section

The relative clinical effectiveness of ranibizumab and bevacizumab in diabetic macular oedema: an indirect comparison in a systematic review

BMJ 2012;345:e5182 (Published 13 August 2012)

Contribution of modifiable risk factors to social inequalities in type 2 diabetes: prospective Whitehall II cohort study

BMJ 2012;345:e5452 (Published 21 August 2012)

Outcomes with various drug eluting or bare metal stents in patients with diabetes mellitus: mixed treatment comparison analysis of 22 844 patient years of follow-up from randomised trials

BMJ 2012;345:e5170 (Published 10 August 2012)

Research - continued

Low glycaemic index diet in pregnancy to prevent macrosomia (ROLO study): randomised control trial

BMJ 2012;345:e5605 (Published 30 August 2012)

Association of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and all cause mortality in people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2012;345:e5567 (Published 30 August 2012)

Prediction models for risk of developing type 2 diabetes: systematic literature search and independent external validation study

BMJ 2012;345:e5900 (Published 18 September 2012)

Feature

This week's Feature section

“World’s pharmacy” faces new challenges from Western drug companies

BMJ 2012;345:e6207 (Published 17 September 2012)

Is there equal pay in healthcare? Not if you are a doctor

BMJ 2012;345:e6191 (Published 18 September 2012)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Prison environment and health

BMJ 2012;345:e5921 (Published 17 September 2012)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Extra safeguards are needed

BMJ 2012;345:e6206 (Published 18 September 2012)

Safety of vulnerable children could be put at risk

BMJ 2012;345:e6210 (Published 18 September 2012)

All systems can be hacked

BMJ 2012;345:e6169 (Published 18 September 2012)

Time to think about a universal system, again?

BMJ 2012;345:e6170 (Published 18 September 2012)

Why have prison needle exchange programmes not yet been rolled out in the UK?

BMJ 2012;345:e6211 (Published 18 September 2012)

20 mph speed limits are the right policy for sociability, safety, and a healthy population

BMJ 2012;345:e6165 (Published 18 September 2012)

New psychosocial interventions are needed in early dementia

BMJ 2012;345:e5991 (Published 18 September 2012)

We must reclaim public health from private corporate interests

BMJ 2012;345:e6160 (Published 18 September 2012)

The most important public health debate of modern times

BMJ 2012;345:e6164 (Published 18 September 2012)

Poor science does not explain why papers are rejected

BMJ 2012;345:e5853 (Published 18 September 2012)

Industry-university research contracts are damaging

BMJ 2012;345:e5978 (Published 18 September 2012)

Clinical decision units can provide necessary care of renal colic

BMJ 2012;345:e6218 (Published 18 September 2012)

The “curse of the registrar”

BMJ 2012;345:e6039 (Published 18 September 2012)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Can Jeremy Hunt please explain?

Nigel Hawkes

BMJ 2012;345:e6208 (Published 19 September 2012)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Good medicine: homeopathy

Des Spence

BMJ 2012;345:e6184 (Published 14 September 2012)

House call

Liam Farrell

BMJ 2012;345:e6069 (Published 19 September 2012)

Views & Reviews - continued

Authentic fiction

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2012;345:e6185 (Published 13 September 2012)

Little Fox Goes to the End of the World

Klaus Martin Beckmann

BMJ 2012;345:e6119 (Published 12 September 2012)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Martin McNicol

BMJ 2012;345:e6247 (Published 17 September 2012)

Nigel Frederick Draisey Cooper

BMJ 2012;345:e6063 (Published 19 September 2012)

Maria C Dunn

BMJ 2012;345:e6059 (Published 19 September 2012)

David John Fitzmaurice

BMJ 2012;345:e6068 (Published 19 September 2012)

Andrew James Hay

BMJ 2012;345:e6078 (Published 19 September 2012)

Jane Rajan

BMJ 2012;345:e6066 (Published 19 September 2012)

Timothy Joseph Sheehan

BMJ 2012;345:e5899 (Published 19 September 2012)

Kenneth McLauchlan Stewart

BMJ 2012;345:e6062 (Published 19 September 2012)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Preimplantation genetic testing

BMJ 2012;345:e5908 (Published 18 September 2012)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Therapeutics: Newer insulins in type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2012;345:e4611 (Published 11 September 2012)

Guidelines: Prevention and management of neutropenic sepsis in patients with cancer: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2012;345:e5368 (Published 19 September 2012)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

An unusual case of pneumonia

BMJ 2012;345:e5272 (Published 9 August 2012)

Standardisation of outcome measures (z scores)

BMJ 2012;345:e6178 (Published 14 September 2012)

Taught a lesson by taut skin

BMJ 2012;345:e5971 (Published 13 September 2012)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e6110 (Published 18 September 2012)

Minerva

BMJ 2012;345:e6200 (Published 18 September 2012)

Research News

This week's Research News section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2012;345:e6234 (Published 19 September 2012)

Head to Head

This week's Head to Head section

Are the causes of obesity primarily environmental? Yes

BMJ 2012;345:e5843 (Published 11 September 2012)

Are the causes of obesity primarily environmental? No

BMJ 2012;345:e5844 (Published 11 September 2012)