17 December 2011(vol 343, issue 7836)

Editor's Choice

• On crying infants and clamping of cords

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8159 (Published 15 December 2011)

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News

• US panel rules that warnings on two birth control pills be strengthened

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8104 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Poor care leads to 24 000 premature deaths from diabetes in England each year

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8081 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Directors of Calcutta hospital are arrested after fire kills 90

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8105 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Health secretary unveils 60 new performance indicators

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8031 (Published 09 December 2011)

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• Competition Commission considers investigating private health market

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8066 (Published 12 December 2011)

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• Abortion does not increase mental health problems in women, shows review

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8045 (Published 09 December 2011)

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• More “responsible” science reporting is needed, Leveson inquiry hears

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8051 (Published 12 December 2011)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8091 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Research into neglected diseases falls for first time since 2007

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8036 (Published 09 December 2011)

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• High cost of essential drugs forces millions into poverty every year

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8108 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Childhood obesity can be prevented, says Cochrane

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8014 (Published 08 December 2011)

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• German health system makes €3.9bn surplus in first three quarters of 2011

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8047 (Published 09 December 2011)

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• Agreement to cut emissions is a “modest but significant step forward”

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8080 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• “Strategic vacuum” after end of NHS London threatens patient care in the capital

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8130 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Half of acute trusts in London are not viable, say MPs

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8137 (Published 15 December 2011)

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Editorials

• Delayed cord clamping and improved infant outcomes

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7127 (Published 15 November 2011)

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• Do statins reduce the risk of infection?

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7134 (Published 29 November 2011)

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• Prognosis and staging of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7302 (Published 18 November 2011)

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• Violence and poor mental health and functional outcomes

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7311 (Published 17 November 2011)

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• Electronic cigarettes as a method of tobacco control

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6269 (Published 30 September 2011)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8077 (Published 14 December 2011)

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Research

• Statins and prevention of infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of data from large randomised placebo controlled trials

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7281 (Published 29 November 2011)

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• Risk models and scores for type 2 diabetes: systematic review

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7163 (Published 28 November 2011)

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• Effect of delayed versus early umbilical cord clamping on neonatal outcomes and iron status at 4 months: a randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7157 (Published 15 November 2011)

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• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and mortality among US adults: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6891 (Published 18 November 2011)

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Feature

• The Care Quality Commission: unfit for purpose?

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8034 (Published 14 December 2011)

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• Reality of the NHS budget squeeze

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8027 (Published 12 December 2011)

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• Pulse oximeters for all

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8085 (Published 14 December 2011)

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Analysis

• Major challenges ahead for Hungarian healthcare

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7657 (Published 07 December 2011)

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Letters

• Let’s have some evidence of poor care, please

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7903 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Are UK revalidation proposals for GPs fit for purpose?

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7906 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Every interaction with a patient increases the chance of a complaint

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7909 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Patients Association aims at helping to improve and support the NHS

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8056 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• We all need to listen and learn

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8058 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Circle Health is not like the John Lewis Partnership

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7897 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Take real world issues into account

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7716 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Authors’ reply to Zermansky and Khatib

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7718 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• What is the efficacy of the RTS,S malaria vaccine?

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7728 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Research into new antibiotics is not the answer to resistance

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8050 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Help for retired armed forces and merchant navy staff with skin cancer

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7733 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is established in cardiomyopathies

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8063 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Investigation of lower respiratory tract infection

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7727 (Published 13 December 2011)

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Observations

• “How can I avoid being sued?”

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7827 (Published 14 December 2011)

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Views & Reviews

• We must reconfigure healthcare providers

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6997 (Published 14 December 2011)

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• Laughter in the dark

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8071 (Published 15 December 2011)

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• Snobbery with violence

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8048 (Published 14 December 2011)

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• The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8023 (Published 14 December 2011)

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Obituaries

• Sammy Franks

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8061 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Peter John Banfield

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7721 (Published 07 December 2011)

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• Michael John Cassells

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7522 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• John Scott Inkster

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7517 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Richard Joseph Basil Heritage Jones

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7719 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• John Carson Hamilton Loughridge

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7722 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Wadi Yusuf Nassar

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7511 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Ravi Sockanathan

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7513 (Published 13 December 2011)

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Clinical Review

• Managing infants who cry excessively in the first few months of life

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7772 (Published 15 December 2011)

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Practice

• Assessment and referral after emergency treatment of a suspected anaphylactic episode: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7595 (Published 14 December 2011)

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• Femoral hernias

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7668 (Published 08 December 2011)

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Endgames

• Management of ankle fractures

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5204 (Published 28 October 2011)

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• Diagnosis and management of the solitary pulmonary nodule

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d4866 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• Standard deviation versus standard error

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8010 (Published 13 December 2011)

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Views & Reviews

• All a-Twitter

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8122 (Published 13 December 2011)

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• A Christmas lecture

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8021 (Published 13 December 2011)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8040 (Published 14 December 2011)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8039 (Published 14 December 2011)

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Filler

• Twice blessed

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6281 (Published 17 October 2011)

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