29 January 2011(vol 342, issue 7791)

Editor's Choice

• NHS reforms—why now?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d552 (Published 26 January 2011)

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Editorials

• Dr Lansley’s Monster

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d408 (Published 21 January 2011)

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• Vitamin D and bone health in children

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d192 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Palliative care in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d106 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• One nudge forward, two steps back

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d401 (Published 25 January 2011)

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Letters

• Levetiracetam and lamotrigine are better options

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d279 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Author’s reply

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d282 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• National guidelines are urgently needed

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d449 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Need to be implemented in UK

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d444 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• UCL’s response

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d460 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Piltdown—hoax or fraud?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d469 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• A long journey to healing

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d447 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Try another approach, BMJ

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d451 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Put everything out in the open

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d458 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Let’s get the words right too

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d461 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• What of virtue and integrity?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d467 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Marketing insulins

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d471 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• NICE may be biased too

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d474 (Published 25 January 2011)

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News

• Commissioning will cost £1.3bn less every year under GP consortiums, says Lansley

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d418 (Published 20 January 2011)

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• NHS reforms may mean a drop in quality of GP services, warns watchdog

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d450 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Hospital closures are inevitable under health reforms, conference hears

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d547 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Food and drink industry rejects claims of irresponsibility over obesity and alcoholism

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d423 (Published 21 January 2011)

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• Cochrane review questions evidence for statins for primary prevention in low risk groups

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d480 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Humana pulls out of UK as another private provider admits reforms are no “gold rush”

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d490 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d525 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Philadelphia doctor who ran “baby charnel house” is charged with murder

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d489 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• GSK set aside $3.4bn in last quarter of 2010 to cover legal costs

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d488 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Rich countries dominate cancer league table

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d537 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• European parliament agrees rules on cross border healthcare

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d492 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Vaccination programme to protect children against pneumonia and diarrhoea needs more funds

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d534 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• WHO calls for action to restrict marketing of unhealthy foods and drinks to children

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d503 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Hong Kong’s murky skyline is linked with excess deaths

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d498 (Published 25 January 2011)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d429 (Published 24 January 2011)

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Feature

• Health and Social Care Bill

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d507 (Published 26 January 2011)

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• Andrew Lansley and his big gamble

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d491 (Published 26 January 2011)

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• New life for the HFEA?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d439 (Published 25 January 2011)

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Observations

• Lansley had no choice but to make a full frontal assault

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d470 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• When do your politics become a competing interest?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d269 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Guns don’t kill crowds, people with semi-automatics do

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d477 (Published 25 January 2011)

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Analysis

• Judging nudging: can nudging improve population health?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d228 (Published 25 January 2011)

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Research

• Effects of vitamin D supplementation on bone density in healthy children: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c7254 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: multi-perspective longitudinal qualitative study

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d142 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Monitoring adherence to drug treatment by using change in cholesterol concentration: secondary analysis of trial data

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d12 (Published 21 January 2011)

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• Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of Parkinson’s disease: nested case-control study

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d198 (Published 20 January 2011)

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Clinical Review

• Preventing exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c7207 (Published 24 January 2011)

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Practice

• Joint hypermobility syndrome

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c7167 (Published 20 January 2011)

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• Joint hypermobility syndrome

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3044 (Published 05 July 2010)

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• Management of generalised anxiety disorder in adults: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c7460 (Published 26 January 2011)

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Obituaries

• Patrick Melvin Barclay

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d481 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Mary Howarth Bunney

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d483 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Eric Cecil Cowan

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d482 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Ian Louis Foster

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d321 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Kenneth James McGhee

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d484 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Paul Wadsworth

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d485 (Published 24 January 2011)

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Views & Reviews

• Should the spectacle of surgery be sold to the highest bidder?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d237 (Published 26 January 2011)

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• Reality bites

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d493 (Published 26 January 2011)

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• Hiding and hauntings

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d515 (Published 26 January 2011)

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• The Yellow Wallpaper

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d428 (Published 26 January 2011)

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• Greed isn’t good

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d524 (Published 26 January 2011)

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• Continuity of care

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d445 (Published 26 January 2011)

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Endgames

• An odd eruption

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c6845 (Published 26 January 2011)

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• Gynaecomastia

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d395 (Published 26 January 2011)

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• Meta-analyses III

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d244 (Published 26 January 2011)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d425 (Published 24 January 2011)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d426 (Published 24 January 2011)

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