26 February 2011(vol 342, issue 7795)

Editor's Choice

• Drinking: messages for the beer mat

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1231 (Published 23 February 2011)

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Editorials

• Minimum alcohol pricing in England

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1063 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• High blood pressure in young people and premature death

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1104 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1048 (Published 16 February 2011)

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• Pandemic influenza vaccines

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d545 (Published 08 February 2011)

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• Accessible medical research

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1190 (Published 23 February 2011)

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Letters

• Legislation trumps individual interventions

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1141 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Beware tobacco companies’ spurious financial arguments

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1145 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Cardiorespiratory fitness is an important risk factor

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1152 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Stroke and dementia are also chronic diseases

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1154 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Anticoagulation uptake remains poor in high risk patients

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1153 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Recommendation on sertraline

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1006 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Limits of anonymisation in NHS data systems

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d973 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• How the DWP sees GPs

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1157 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Health professionals’ advice: the ethics

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1155 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Diagnosing cancer still needs more resources

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1162 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Disinformation and distraction

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1164 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Time to be neutral?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1007 (Published 22 February 2011)

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News

• Doctors in UK alcohol network may refuse to sign action pledge because it is too weak

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1224 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• English hospitals are failing to implement safety alerts

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1223 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1161 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• BMA calls on government to abandon price based competition in NHS

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1142 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Fewer hospitals in England should perform children’s heart surgery

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1129 (Published 18 February 2011)

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• Pressure mounts for BMA to oppose health bill

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1132 (Published 18 February 2011)

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• NICE publishes guidance to improve diagnosis of food allergy in children

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1206 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Asian healthcare needs to innovate to beat poverty

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1192 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Making a triumph out of an accident

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1220 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Agency aims to inform girls about contraception to promote development

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1122 (Published 18 February 2011)

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• Italy plans random drug testing of healthcare staff

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1185 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Online tests reach the patients other chlamydia tests can’t reach

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1177 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Patent rules must not hinder access to cheap drugs in poor countries, experts say

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1219 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Medical charity is expelled from Darfur

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1225 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Budget cutting US Republicans try to end funds for family planning and health reform

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1186 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• European Union clamps down on fake drugs

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1198 (Published 22 February 2011)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1168 (Published 23 February 2011)

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Feature

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Who will succeed the follower of Lysistrata?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1062 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• A smarter way to practise

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1124 (Published 22 February 2011)

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Observations

• How the media helped ban mephedrone

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1138 (Published 24 February 2011)

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• The Work Foundation

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1230 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Overdiagnosis and the dangers of early detection

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1140 (Published 23 February 2011)

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Analysis

• Going local: devolving national pay for performance programmes

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c7085 (Published 24 January 2011)

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Research

• Association of alcohol consumption with selected cardiovascular disease outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d671 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Effect of alcohol consumption on biological markers associated with risk of coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d636 (Published 22 February 2011)

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• Emotional distress in infertile women and failure of assisted reproductive technologies: meta-analysis of prospective psychosocial studies

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d223 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Peer support for patients with type 2 diabetes: cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d715 (Published 15 February 2011)

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• Association of blood pressure in late adolescence with subsequent mortality: cohort study of Swedish male conscripts

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d643 (Published 22 February 2011)

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Clinical Review

• Treatment of breast infection

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d396 (Published 11 February 2011)

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Practice

• Diagnosis, assessment, and management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d700 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Alcoholism

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d956 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Role of brain imaging in early parkinsonism

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d638 (Published 23 February 2011)

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Obituaries

• Arthur Schatzkin

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1222 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Hazel Baker (née Hill)

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1030 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Samareswar Bhattacharya

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1172 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Denis Vincent Primo D’Auria

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1167 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Roger Duchene de Vere

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1173 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Richard Charles Eve

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1175 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Ronald Michael Vanreenen

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1176 (Published 21 February 2011)

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• Anna Wilkes (née Book)

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d653 (Published 21 February 2011)

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Views & Reviews

• Should “legal highs” be regulated as medicinal products?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1101 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Poet turned patient

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1215 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Malice, intention, patience, and resource

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1100 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Long Day’s Journey into Night

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1096 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• The number needed not to treat

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1197 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Bombs and tunnels

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1136 (Published 23 February 2011)

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Endgames

• Pigmentation and confusion

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c7437 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Meta-analyses VII

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1108 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Vaccination

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1107 (Published 23 February 2011)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1133 (Published 23 February 2011)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d1134 (Published 23 February 2011)

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Filler

• A disorder of eating or of values?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d38 (Published 18 January 2011)

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