17 March 2012(vol 344, issue 7848)

Editor's Choice

• Prophesying doom

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2070 (Published 15 March 2012)

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News

• Whistleblower lawsuit claims Takeda concealed harms of diabetes drug

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2002 (Published 13 March 2012)

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• Passage of health bill into law is unlikely to help GPs “heaving under the pressure” of NHS changes

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2043 (Published 13 March 2012)

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• Genetic manipulation of crops could offer healthier food, say scientists

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2030 (Published 13 March 2012)

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• Man is granted right to seek declaration allowing a doctor to kill him

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2035 (Published 13 March 2012)

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• Expert group is to examine the effect and value of the NHS constitution

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1798 (Published 12 March 2012)

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• BMJ invokes new Texan freedom of speech law to fight Wakefield libel case

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2051 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Basic healthcare needs of care home residents are being neglected by commissioners

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1742 (Published 08 March 2012)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2018 (Published 13 March 2012)

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• Anaesthetics journals retract further articles after ethics approval is found lacking

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2019 (Published 13 March 2012)

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• Be wary of signing deals for telehealth technologies, conference hears

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1750 (Published 08 March 2012)

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• Teenage smoking is an “epidemic,” says US surgeon general

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2004 (Published 13 March 2012)

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• High Court quashes GMC’s findings that psychiatrist abused his position

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2025 (Published 13 March 2012)

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• China is urged to compensate people infected with HIV through illegal blood selling

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1740 (Published 08 March 2012)

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• Stakeholders appeal for more kidney donations in Europe

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1797 (Published 12 March 2012)

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Editorials

• Antipsychotic prescribing in nursing homes

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1093 (Published 23 February 2012)

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• Higher senior staffing levels at weekends and reduced mortality

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e67 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Antiretroviral therapy and the prevention of sexually transmitted HIV infection

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7796 (Published 02 December 2011)

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• Tic disorders

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7659 (Published 05 January 2012)

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• Treating sciatica in the face of poor evidence

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e487 (Published 13 February 2012)

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Research News

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1800 (Published 14 March 2012)

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Research

• Differential risk of death in older residents in nursing homes prescribed specific antipsychotic drugs: population based cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e977 (Published 23 February 2012)

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• Effects of gestational age at birth on health outcomes at 3 and 5 years of age: population based cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e896 (Published 01 March 2012)

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• Incidence of diabetic retinopathy in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus attending the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service for Wales: retrospective analysis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e874 (Published 22 February 2012)

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• Developing a summary hospital mortality index: retrospective analysis in English hospitals over five years

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1001 (Published 01 March 2012)

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• Observer bias in randomised clinical trials with binary outcomes: systematic review of trials with both blinded and non-blinded outcome assessors

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1119 (Published 27 February 2012)

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Feature

• Speeding up access to new drugs

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e999 (Published 17 February 2012)

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• Hospitals: what do they do and how much does it cost?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1759 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Sports and exercise doctors: the unsung heroes of champions

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1787 (Published 14 March 2012)

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Analysis

• Health and Social Care Bill 2011: a legal basis for charging and providing fewer health services to people in England

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1729 (Published 08 March 2012)

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Letters

• Case against psychoanalysis in modern mental health services was unsubstantiated rhetoric

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1773 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Psychoanalytical psychotherapy is distinct from psychoanalysis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1795 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• The exaggerated claims of the mental health industry

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1791 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Psychoanalysis helps doctors understand patients

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1775 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Health professionals can benefit from psychoanalysis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1774 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• At least 25% with a mental health problem is a conservative estimate

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1776 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Health benefits matter, not tax revenue

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1781 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Motorway safety is not a major public health problem

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1779 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• MHRA works hard to ensure that medical devices work and are safe

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1784 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Hormone replacement therapy provides no overall benefit on quality of life

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1785 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Author’s reply to Thornton

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1788 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Why no mention of private sector in appraisal of GP led commissioning?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1794 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Authors’ reply to Moylett

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1796 (Published 14 March 2012)

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Observations

• Deaths from smoking: the avoidable holocaust

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2029 (Published 14 March 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• NHS “reform” in England: where is the public interest?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2014 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• What a nerve

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2036 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• A New Electronic Theory of Life (1925)

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2032 (Published 14 March 2012)

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Obituaries

• Alfred Nowell Hamilton Peach

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1764 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Peter John Fenton

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1219 (Published 22 February 2012)

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• Syed Hasan

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1051 (Published 17 February 2012)

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• Francis Patrick Marsh

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1052 (Published 14 February 2012)

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• George Adam Newsholme

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1048 (Published 14 February 2012)

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• Mushtaq Abdul Rasool

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1059 (Published 14 February 2012)

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• Robert Basil Woodd-Walker

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1047 (Published 14 February 2012)

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• Peter John James Wren

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1057 (Published 14 February 2012)

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Clinical Review

• Female genital mutilation: the role of health professionals in prevention, assessment, and management

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1361 (Published 14 March 2012)

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Practice

• Healthier ageing

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1214 (Published 12 March 2012)

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• Phaeochromocytoma

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1042 (Published 20 February 2012)

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Endgames

• A 34 year old man with bilateral anterior uveitis and a rash

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6831 (Published 31 October 2011)

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• Branches of the abdominal aorta

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e516 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Parametric v non-parametric statistical tests

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1753 (Published 14 March 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Are nurses better than doctors?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2010 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Boundaries

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e2028 (Published 14 March 2012)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1767 (Published 14 March 2012)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e1768 (Published 14 March 2012)

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