10 July 2010(vol 341, issue 7763)

Editor's Choice

• Dreaming of a fairer world

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3658 (Published 08 July 2010)

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Editorials

• Antibiotic prophylaxis after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c2898 (Published 02 July 2010)

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• Obesity and poor sexual health outcomes

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2826 (Published 15 June 2010)

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• Hearing loss and personal music players

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1261 (Published 20 April 2010)

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• Ten years of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2004 (Published 20 April 2010)

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• Community acquired pneumonia

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c2916 (Published 07 July 2010)

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Letters

• Targets still lead care in emergency departments

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• Response from chair of scientific advisory committee

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3590 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Some clarification needed

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3589 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Outcome based schemes are more common than you think

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3588 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• The confusing case of NRG-1

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3564 (Published 06 July 2010)

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• Alternative view of CKD and QOF

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3580 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Reality at the coal face

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3582 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• CKD is misunderstood

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3574 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• The odium of industry engagement

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3575 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• NICE conflicts

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3581 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Different view of Polish health policy

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3593 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Reimbursement requires reform

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3566 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Controversy over generic substitution

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3570 (Published 07 July 2010)

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News

• GPs in A&E could help tackle rise in emergency hospital admissions

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3618 (Published 06 July 2010)

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• GPs need better incentives to reduce health inequalities, says audit office

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3558 (Published 02 July 2010)

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• Italian auditor criticises contract for H1N1 vaccine

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3546 (Published 05 July 2010)

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• UK response to H1N1 pandemic was highly satisfactory, independent review says

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3569 (Published 05 July 2010)

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• Obesity among over 65s in UK reflects “lifetime of gaining weight”

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3585 (Published 05 July 2010)

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• NICE issues the first of 150 quality standards for the NHS

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3536 (Published 01 July 2010)

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• IN BRIEF

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3604 (Published 06 July 2010)

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• Campaigners hope a vote for a complete smoking ban in Bavaria will spread to other German states

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3631 (Published 06 July 2010)

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• Call for change in law on assisted suicide is defeated in conference debate

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3568 (Published 05 July 2010)

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• US teaching hospitals must address conflicts of interest, leadership group says

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3605 (Published 06 July 2010)

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• Study shows higher rates of neonatal mortality with planned home births

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3551 (Published 02 July 2010)

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• New meningitis A vaccine is a “breakthrough” for 430 million people at risk

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3552 (Published 02 July 2010)

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• Spanish abortion law comes under threat as opposition groups win judicial review

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3606 (Published 06 July 2010)

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• Hanging in the balance

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3586 (Published 08 July 2010)

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• Situation on health targets “is hardly any better” than it was 10 years ago

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3521 (Published 01 July 2010)

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• Danes impose 25% tax increases on ice cream, chocolate, and sweets to curb disease

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3592 (Published 06 July 2010)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3561 (Published 07 July 2010)

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Feature

• Smear fears

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2830 (Published 14 June 2010)

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Observations

• BMA presidency acceptance speech: fighting the alligators of health inequalities

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3617 (Published 08 July 2010)

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Analysis

• Budget crises, health, and social welfare programmes

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c3311 (Published 24 June 2010)

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Research

• Novel approach to antibiotic prophylaxis in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG): randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3115 (Published 02 July 2010)

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• Efficacy of standardised manual therapy and home exercise programme for chronic rotator cuff disease: randomised placebo controlled trial

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2756 (Published 08 June 2010)

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• Transdermal and oral hormone replacement therapy and the risk of stroke: a nested case-control study

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2519 (Published 04 June 2010)

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• Sexuality and obesity, a gender perspective: results from French national random probability survey of sexual behaviours

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2573 (Published 15 June 2010)

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Clinical Review

• Perioperative acute kidney injury: risk factors, recognition, management, and outcomes

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3365 (Published 05 July 2010)

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Practice

• Management of bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in children and young people: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c3209 (Published 28 June 2010)

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• Checking for pregnancy before surgery: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3402 (Published 06 July 2010)

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• A telephone hotline for transient ischaemic attack and stroke: prospective audit of a model to improve rapid access to specialist stroke care

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3265 (Published 03 July 2010)

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Obituaries

• James Scott Robson

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3535 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Jean Rosemary Campbell Burton-Brown

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3603 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Mark Akim Erooga

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3600 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Geoffrey Gilling-Smith

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3597 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Jeffrey Joseph Segall

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3599 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Henry Jeffray Weston

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3596 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Owen Glynn Williams

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3598 (Published 07 July 2010)

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Views & Reviews

• Don’t forget the family

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3486 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Exit, pursued by a carer: an opera about Alzheimer’s disease

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3526 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• A sore point

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3624 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3524 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• The end of targets?

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3619 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Listen up: deafness and personal audio players

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3539 (Published 07 July 2010)

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Endgames

• Dyspnoea in a 60 year old man

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3404 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Decision about stopping hormone replacement therapy

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c2421 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Pregnancy

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3541 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Survival (time to event) data I

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3537 (Published 07 July 2010)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3525 (Published 07 July 2010)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3528 (Published 01 July 2010)

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