04 February 2012(vol 344, issue 7842)

Editor's Choice

• The NHS is heading down a hole—should we stop digging?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e805 (Published 01 February 2012)

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News

• “No win, no fee” system is proving costly to NHS, report says

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e777 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Doctor who helped locate bin Laden family worked for the CIA

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e785 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e772 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Medical profession is divided over whether to demand health bill’s withdrawal

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e720 (Published 27 January 2012)

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• Competition can help NHS but must be used with care, report says

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e800 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Europe is updating rules on medical devices after implant fiasco

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e766 (Published 30 January 2012)

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• DNA methylation may be associated with health inequalities

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e722 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Two tests may be better than one in bowel cancer screening, finds study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e783 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Councils face a £500m shortfall in funding social care for older people

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e715 (Published 30 January 2012)

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• Dutch microbiologists are disciplined for delays during pneumonia outbreak

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e755 (Published 30 January 2012)

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• Doctors can help “right to die” man prepare his legal case without fear of prosecution

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e762 (Published 30 January 2012)

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• NHS watchdog is failing patients and unfit for purpose, MPs are told

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e695 (Published 27 January 2012)

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• Indian health ministry challenges report of totally drug resistant tuberculosis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e702 (Published 27 January 2012)

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• Governments and drug companies pledge to eliminate 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e773 (Published 31 January 2012)

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Editorials

• Lansley’s NHS “reforms”

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e709 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• The consequences of abandoning the Health and Social Care Bill

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e748 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• The decline in coronary heart disease; did it fall or was it pushed?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7809 (Published 25 January 2012)

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• SSRIs and persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7642 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• Dual renin-angiotensin system blockade

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e656 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Ensuring dignity in the care of older people

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e533 (Published 26 January 2012)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e700 (Published 01 February 2012)

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Research

• Determinants of the decline in mortality from acute myocardial infarction in England between 2002 and 2010: linked national database study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8059 (Published 25 January 2012)

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• 25 year trends in first time hospitalisation for acute myocardial infarction, subsequent short and long term mortality, and the prognostic impact of sex and comorbidity: a Danish nationwide cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e356 (Published 25 January 2012)

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• Decline in mortality from coronary heart disease in Poland after socioeconomic transformation: modelling study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8136 (Published 25 January 2012)

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• The effect of combination treatment with aliskiren and blockers of the renin-angiotensin system on hyperkalaemia and acute kidney injury: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e42 (Published 09 January 2012)

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• Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy and risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension in the newborn: population based cohort study from the five Nordic countries

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8012 (Published 12 January 2012)

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Clinical prediction rules

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8312 (Published 16 January 2012)

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Feature

• English NHS hospital activity: doing less (with less or the same)?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e733 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Into the abyss? How the health bill affects the NHS

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e767 (Published 01 February 2012)

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Analysis

• Shared decision making: really putting patients at the centre of healthcare

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e256 (Published 27 January 2012)

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Letters

• Hypotension is more risky than hypertension in very old people

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e721 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Evidence supports the need to offer treatment as part of shared decision making

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e727 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Lifestyle intervention in preschool children has little effect on obesity

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e714 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Authors’ reply to Metcalf and Wilkin

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e717 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Does the BMJ have a particular ideology to pursue in assisted dying?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e731 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• ABPI responds to article on concept of Pharmacare

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e736 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Why not sell alcohol in alcohol units or metric units, not volume?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e740 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Hard end points are needed for intensive glycaemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e708 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Authors’ reply to Yudkin and Lipska

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e710 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Type 2 diabetes is a poor example of the overuse of surrogate markers

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e735 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Surrogate end points: studying their benefits, taxonomy, and semantics

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e750 (Published 31 January 2012)

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• Brave new post-iconoclastic world

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e738 (Published 31 January 2012)

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Observations

• Why legislation is necessary for my health reforms

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e789 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Matters of life and death and quality of life

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e775 (Published 01 February 2012)

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Obituaries

• Peter Andersen

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e422 (Published 26 January 2012)

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• Martin Hugh Daly

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8087 (Published 26 January 2012)

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• Kenneth Charles Robertson Halliday

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e564 (Published 26 January 2012)

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• Keith Remington Lothian

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e569 (Published 26 January 2012)

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• Peter James Young Scott

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8103 (Published 26 January 2012)

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• Peter Arbuthnot Watt

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8102 (Published 26 January 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• A revolution in an Egyptian hospital

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e576 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Stop the medicalisation of old age

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e803 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Cholera in couplets

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e698 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• The Primal Scream

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e696 (Published 01 February 2012)

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Clinical Review

• Improving healthcare access for people with visual impairment and blindness

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e542 (Published 30 January 2012)

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Practice

• Diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children: summary of updated NICE guidance

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e281 (Published 26 January 2012)

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• Newer drugs for focal epilepsy in adults

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e345 (Published 26 January 2012)

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• Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e360 (Published 26 January 2012)

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Endgames

• Periocular lesion in an infant

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7461 (Published 28 November 2011)

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• Why match in case-control studies?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e691 (Published 02 February 2012)

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• Ischaemia of the extremities in a smoker

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8193 (Published 21 December 2011)

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Views & Reviews

• Lessons from America: primary care

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e760 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Are we prepared to sacrifice good feeling for pensions?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e699 (Published 01 February 2012)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e693 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e692 (Published 01 February 2012)

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