Drinking: messages for the beer mat
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2011;342:d1231 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

This week's Editorials [PDF]

	Minimum alcohol pricing in England
	Cordelia E M Coltart, Ian T Gilmore
	BMJ  2011;342:d1063 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High blood pressure in young people and premature death
	Bryan Williams
	BMJ  2011;342:d1104 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
	Jaap W Deckers, Roger S Blumenthal
	BMJ  2011;342:d1048 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pandemic influenza vaccines
	John M Watson, Richard G Pebody
	BMJ  2011;342:d545 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Accessible medical research
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2011;342:d1190 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters [PDF]

	Chronic disease to top agenda: Legislation trumps individual interventions
	Simon Capewell, Klim McPherson
	BMJ  2011;342:d1141 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic disease to top agenda: Beware tobacco companies’ spurious financial arguments
	Constantine I Vardavas, Panagiotis K Behrakis, Gregory N Connolly
	BMJ  2011;342:d1145 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic disease to top agenda: Cardiorespiratory fitness is an important risk factor
	Michael Beary, Hiram J Wildgust
	BMJ  2011;342:d1152 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic disease to top agenda: Stroke and dementia are also chronic diseases
	Desmond O'Neill
	BMJ  2011;342:d1154 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anticoagulation in AF: Anticoagulation uptake remains poor in high risk patients
	Campbell Cowan, Matthew Fay, Kathryn Griffith, Damian Jenkinson
	BMJ  2011;342:d1153 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Generalised anxiety disorder: Recommendation on sertraline
	Tim Kendall
	BMJ  2011;342:d1006 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Research regulation: Limits of anonymisation in NHS data systems
	Ian Brown, Lindsey Brown, Douwe Korff
	BMJ  2011;342:d973 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Getting welfare to work: How the DWP sees GPs
	Chik Collins
	BMJ  2011;342:d1157 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Getting welfare to work: Health professionals’ advice: the ethics
	Edward S Cooper
	BMJ  2011;342:d1155 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor health and NHS reform: Diagnosing cancer still needs more resources
	S Michael Crawford
	BMJ  2011;342:d1162 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor health and NHS reform: Disinformation and distraction
	Tom A Yates, Guppi Bola, Danny McLernon Billows
	BMJ  2011;342:d1164 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted dying debate: Time to be neutral?
	Peter Bruggen
	BMJ  2011;342:d1007 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News [PDF]

	Doctors in UK alcohol network may refuse to sign action pledge because it is too weak
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2011;342:d1224 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	English hospitals are failing to implement safety alerts
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2011;342:d1223 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2011;342:d1161 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA calls on government to abandon price based competition in NHS
	Tomasz Pierscionek
	BMJ  2011;342:d1142 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fewer hospitals in England should perform children’s heart surgery
	Ann McGauran
	BMJ  2011;342:d1129 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pressure mounts for BMA to oppose health bill
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2011;342:d1132 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE publishes guidance to improve diagnosis of food allergy in children
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2011;342:d1206 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asian healthcare needs to innovate to beat poverty
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2011;342:d1192 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making a triumph out of an accident
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2011;342:d1220 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Agency aims to inform girls about contraception to promote development
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2011;342:d1122 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Italy plans random drug testing of healthcare staff
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2011;342:d1185 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Online tests reach the patients other chlamydia tests can’t reach
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2011;342:d1177 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patent rules must not hinder access to cheap drugs in poor countries, experts say
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2011;342:d1219 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical charity is expelled from Darfur
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2011;342:d1225 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Budget cutting US Republicans try to end funds for family planning and health reform
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2011;342:d1186 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European Union clamps down on fake drugs
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2011;342:d1198 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts [PDF]

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2011;342:d1168 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

This week's Feature [PDF]

	BMJ Group Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award: Who will succeed the follower of Lysistrata?
	Annabel Ferriman, Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2011;342:d1062 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Technology: A smarter way to practise
	Tom Nolan
	BMJ  2011;342:d1124 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

This week's Observations [PDF]

	Medicine and the Media: How the media helped ban mephedrone
	Jeremy Sare
	BMJ  2011;342:d1138 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lobby Watch: The Work Foundation
	Jane Cassidy
	BMJ  2011;342:d1230 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reality Check: Overdiagnosis and the dangers of early detection
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2011;342:d1140 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

This week's Analysis [PDF]

	Going local: devolving national pay for performance programmes
	Christopher Millett, Azeem Majeed, Christopher Huckvale, Josip Car
	BMJ  2011;342:c7085 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

This week's Research [PDF]

	Association of alcohol consumption with selected cardiovascular disease outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
	Paul E Ronksley, Susan E Brien, Barbara J Turner, Kenneth J Mukamal, William A Ghali
	BMJ  2011;342:d671 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of alcohol consumption on biological markers associated with risk of coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies
	Susan E Brien, Paul E Ronksley, Barbara J Turner, Kenneth J Mukamal, William A Ghali
	BMJ  2011;342:d636 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Emotional distress in infertile women and failure of assisted reproductive technologies: meta-analysis of prospective psychosocial studies
	J Boivin, E Griffiths, C A Venetis
	BMJ  2011;342:d223 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Peer support for patients with type 2 diabetes: cluster randomised controlled trial
	S M Smith, G Paul, A Kelly, D L Whitford, E O'Shea, T O'Dowd
	BMJ  2011;342:d715 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association of blood pressure in late adolescence with subsequent mortality: cohort study of Swedish male conscripts
	Johan Sundstrom, Martin Neovius, Per Tynelius, Finn Rasmussen
	BMJ  2011;342:d643 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review [PDF]

	Treatment of breast infection
	J Michael Dixon, Lucy R Khan
	BMJ  2011;342:d396 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

This week's Practice [PDF]

	Guidelines: Diagnosis, assessment, and management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence: summary of NICE guidance
	Stephen Pilling, Amina Yesufu-Udechuku, Clare Taylor, Colin Drummond, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2011;342:d700 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Patient's Journey: Alcoholism
	Anonymous, Adrian M Raby
	BMJ  2011;342:d956 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rational Imaging: Role of brain imaging in early parkinsonism
	David P Breen, James B Rowe, Roger A Barker
	BMJ  2011;342:d638 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries [PDF]

	Arthur Schatzkin
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2011;342:d1222 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hazel Baker (née Hill)
	Richard Baker
	BMJ  2011;342:d1030 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Samareswar Bhattacharya
	Jo Bhattacharya
	BMJ  2011;342:d1172 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Denis Vincent Primo D’Auria
	Aodhan O'Carroll
	BMJ  2011;342:d1167 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Roger Duchene de Vere
	Gerald Westbury, Humphrey Roberts, Roger Marwood
	BMJ  2011;342:d1173 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Richard Charles Eve
	Tom Eve
	BMJ  2011;342:d1175 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ronald Michael Vanreenen
	John B Stewart
	BMJ  2011;342:d1176 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anna Wilkes (née Book)
	Derek Wilkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d653 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews [PDF]

	Personal View: Should "legal highs" be regulated as medicinal products?
	Michael Evans-Brown, Mark A Bellis, Jim McVeigh
	BMJ  2011;342:d1101 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Poet turned patient
	Leyla Sanai
	BMJ  2011;342:d1215 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Malice, intention, patience, and resource
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2011;342:d1100 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Long Day’s Journey into Night
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2011;342:d1096 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The number needed not to treat
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2011;342:d1197 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In and Out of Hospital: Bombs and tunnels
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2011;342:d1136 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

This week's Endgames [PDF]

	Picture Quiz: Pigmentation and confusion
	Wui-hang Cheung, Janet Dua, Johanna Reed, Sabina Russell
	BMJ  2011;342:c7437 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Meta-analyses VII
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2011;342:d1108 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Quiz: Vaccination
	BMJ  2011;342:d1107 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva [PDF]

	Susana Sidhu, Andrew D Morris
	BMJ  2011;342:d1133 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2011;342:d1134 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

This week's Filler

	A disorder of eating or of values?
	Jane Morris, Daniel Seng
	BMJ  2011;342:d38 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

Read this week's articles on http://careers.bmj.com/careers/

To see an article, click its [Full Text] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.