11 February 2012(vol 344, issue 7843)

Editor's Choice

• A commitment to protect health and save lives

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e971 (Published 09 February 2012)

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News

• Nearly 2000 amendments are not enough to save health bill, says BMA

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e935 (Published 06 February 2012)

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• Clinical commissioning groups and councils must have single process for commissioning services for elderly, say MPs

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e932 (Published 08 February 2012)

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• Susceptibility of people with long term illness to depression and anxiety is not recognised, report says

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e950 (Published 08 February 2012)

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• Training can help GPs provide a better death for patients

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e881 (Published 03 February 2012)

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• Southall plans to sue GMC for delays and an unfair trial

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e954 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Fall in suicides among mental health patients linked to improvements in mental health services

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e831 (Published 02 February 2012)

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• New evidence of worse outcomes for weekend patients reignites call for seven day hospital services

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e892 (Published 06 February 2012)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e923 (Published 09 February 2012)

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• Car users in Wales are being urged not to smoke in vehicles carrying children

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e934 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Cancer charity rates TV shows in terms of junk food advertising

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e883 (Published 03 February 2012)

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• Imperial Tobacco fails to block ban on cigarette displays in Scotland

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e952 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• “Golden Pill” award remains unfilled for the fourth year running

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e841 (Published 02 February 2012)

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• Contaminated drugs are held responsible for 120 deaths in Pakistan

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e951 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Around 1000 women with private sector PIP implants seek NHS help

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e972 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Europe launches investigation into health risks of faulty breast implants

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e939 (Published 07 February 2012)

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Editorials

• The management of the NHS in England

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e928 (Published 08 February 2012)

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• Agriculture and health

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7834 (Published 17 January 2012)

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• Antihypertensives in people with gout or asymptomatic hyperuricaemia

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7961 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• A prescription for improving antibiotic prescribing in primary care

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7955 (Published 02 February 2012)

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• Hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e815 (Published 08 February 2012)

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• Urinary incontinence after treatment for prostate cancer

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6298 (Published 18 November 2011)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e854 (Published 08 February 2012)

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Research

• Effectiveness of agricultural interventions that aim to improve nutritional status of children: systematic review

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8222 (Published 17 January 2012)

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• Effectiveness of multifaceted educational programme to reduce antibiotic dispensing in primary care: practice based randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8173 (Published 02 February 2012)

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• Antihypertensive drugs and risk of incident gout among patients with hypertension: population based case-control study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8190 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• Influence of experience on performance of individual surgeons in thyroid surgery: prospective cross sectional multicentre study

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8041 (Published 11 January 2012)

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Feature

• Wendell Potter: Pulling the curtains back on spin

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e833 (Published 07 February 2012)

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Analysis

• Pragmatic randomised trials using routine electronic health records: putting them to the test

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e55 (Published 07 February 2012)

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Letters

• Midwifery ratios might explain some differences in perinatal and maternal outcomes

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e891 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Should healthcare purchasers be funding home birth for nulliparous women?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e918 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• We need more data before reconfiguring maternity services

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e893 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Telemedicine doctors abroad don’t have to register with the GMC

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e873 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Daily contact with a nurse may be more important than high tech telecare

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e875 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Are those who quit smoking paying with their lives because of NRT’s failure?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e886 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Might wipe clean covers for mobile phones reduce risk of spread of pathogens?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e871 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Health and wellbeing boards are at risk in fury over NHS reforms

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e876 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Full steam ahead on to the rocks

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e884 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Dynamic interaction between slightly right wing minister and slightly left wing mandarins

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e931 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Lansley fails to see impact and damage of his reforms

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e926 (Published 07 February 2012)

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• Martin McKee replies to Andrew Lansley

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e921 (Published 08 February 2012)

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Observations

• Migrant healthcare: public health versus politics

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e924 (Published 08 February 2012)

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• Would you like your telomeres tested?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e681 (Published 08 February 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Expatriate surgeons have helped advance orthopaedic care in Africa

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e938 (Published 08 February 2012)

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• Our medical heritage has lessons for the future

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e697 (Published 09 February 2012)

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• Leave the quacks alone

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e843 (Published 08 February 2012)

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• The National Health: a Radical Perspective

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e829 (Published 08 February 2012)

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Obituaries

• Donald Jeffries

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e922 (Published 09 February 2012)

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• Patrick Joseph Connolly

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e419 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Elizabeth Heitzman

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e426 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Robert Goudie MacFarlane

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e414 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Paul Sebastian Richardson

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e425 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Helen Street

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e559 (Published 01 February 2012)

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• Ian Douglas Hutchinson Todd

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e421 (Published 01 February 2012)

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Clinical Review

• Diagnosis and management of Raynaud’s phenomenon

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e289 (Published 07 February 2012)

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Practice

• Raised inflammatory markers

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e454 (Published 03 February 2012)

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• Reviewing a patient with coeliac disease

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8152 (Published 17 January 2012)

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• Cholestasis secondary to anabolic steroid use in young men

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e468 (Published 02 February 2012)

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Endgames

• An unfortunate teenager

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6170 (Published 29 September 2011)

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• “n of 1” trials

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e844 (Published 09 February 2012)

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• Exertional dyspnoea and syncope

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8317 (Published 11 January 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Continuity is never out of fashion

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e957 (Published 08 February 2012)

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• Extreme measures: the history of breast cancer surgery

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e834 (Published 08 February 2012)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e852 (Published 08 February 2012)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e851 (Published 08 February 2012)

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