Conquering old age
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;337:a847 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Sexuality and older people
	Peggy J Kleinplatz
	BMJ  2008;337:a239 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the safety of peripheral intravenous catheters
	Dennis G Maki
	BMJ  2008;337:a630 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incidence of bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris
	Pascal Joly
	BMJ  2008;337:a209 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cross border health care in Europe
	Martin McKee, Paul Belcher
	BMJ  2008;337:a610 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of primary and community care in England
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2008;337:a819 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Cancer drugs and copayments: Why not adopt the blacklist of yore?
	L Sam Lewis
	BMJ  2008;337:a807 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer drugs and copayments: Critical issue is rapidity of review of new drugs
	Alan Rodger
	BMJ  2008;337:a779 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Darzi review: Clinical dashboards and open kimonos
	Neil J Hughes
	BMJ  2008;337:a787 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS at 60: Doctors’ infantalisation
	Alexandra Thomson-Moore
	BMJ  2008;337:a791 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media and health service: How the government is failing the health service
	Richard A D O'Brien
	BMJ  2008;337:a784 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Key opinion leaders: Thus are our medical meetings managed
	Adriane Fugh-Berman
	BMJ  2008;337:a789 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Key opinion leaders: Getting them while they’re young
	Carl J Reynolds, Tom Yates, Robert Hughes
	BMJ  2008;337:a792 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Key opinion leaders: How it really works
	Bernard J Carroll
	BMJ  2008;337:a788 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Key opinion leaders: How to spot one
	Alexander S D Spiers
	BMJ  2008;337:a790 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Key opinion leaders: High tech gadgetry introduced by stealth
	Su Sethi, Claire O'Donnell
	BMJ  2008;337:a782 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A friend in need: General practitioners must have their own list
	Alexander Michael Hall-Smith
	BMJ  2008;337:a797 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A friend in need: Caring still lives
	David R Warriner
	BMJ  2008;337:a798 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Manners in medicine: What’s in a name?
	Anke Medrington
	BMJ  2008;337:a687 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antipsychotics for dementia: Antipsychotics for dementia is metaphor for elderly care
	Paddy Quail
	BMJ  2008;337:a796 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Roche is suspended from ABPI for "actions likely to bring discredit" on the industry
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;337:a835 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prosecution over drug price fixing collapses
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;337:a814 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Debate on abortion is deferred until autumn
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;337:a815 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Standards for adult sickle cell disease aim to reduce gaps in care
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;337:a771 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Report calls for better UK coordination to solve devolution problems
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2008;337:a832 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Student rejected by Imperial because of conviction is granted interview at Manchester
	Jessie Colquhoun
	BMJ  2008;337:a830 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rising age of starting family in Netherlands reflects fall in younger not rise in older mothers
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2008;337:a773 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US paediatricians and cardiologists are criticised for recommending statins for children
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a813 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European Commission plans free fruit and vegetable scheme in schools
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;337:a829 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	FDA adds "black box" warning label to fluoroquinolone antibiotics
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a816 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;337:a823 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA meeting: Doctors call for Royal Commission on copayments
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a765 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	News feature: Costly US anticancer drugs pose problems for doctors and patients
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2008;337:a778 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consensus emerges on need for US agency similar to NICE
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2008;337:a817 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;337:a774 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Should disadvantaged people be paid to take care of their health? Yes.
	Richard Cookson
	BMJ  2008;337:a589 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should disadvantaged people be paid to take care of their health? No
	Jennie Popay
	BMJ  2008;337:a594 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Public Health: New York’s road to health
	Karen McColl
	BMJ  2008;337:a673 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Body Politic: A discriminating judgment
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2008;337:a809 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Has the time come to take on time itself?
	Colin Farrelly
	BMJ  2008;337:a414 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century
	Robert N Butler, Richard A Miller, Daniel Perry, Bruce A Carnes, T Franklin Williams, Christine Cassel, Jacob Brody, Marie A Bernard, Linda Partridge, Thomas Kirkwood, George M Martin, S Jay Olshansky
	BMJ  2008;337:a399 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Secular trends in self reported sexual activity and satisfaction in Swedish 70 year olds: cross sectional survey of four populations, 1971-2001
	Nils Beckman, Margda Waern, Deborah Gustafson, Ingmar Skoog
	BMJ  2008;337:a279 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prognosis in patients with recent onset low back pain in Australian primary care: inception cohort study
	Nicholas Henschke, Christopher G Maher, Kathryn M Refshauge, Robert D Herbert, Robert G Cumming, Jane Bleasel, John York, Anurina Das, James H McAuley
	BMJ  2008;337:a171 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Routine care of peripheral intravenous catheters versus clinically indicated replacement: randomised controlled trial
	Joan Webster, Samantha Clarke, Dana Paterson, Anne Hutton, Stacey van Dyk, Catherine Gale, Tracey Hopkins
	BMJ  2008;337:a339 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris—incidence and mortality in the UK: population based cohort study
	S M Langan, L Smeeth, R Hubbard, K M Fleming, C J P Smith, J West
	BMJ  2008;337:a180 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Management of breast cancer—Part II
	Nicholas C Turner, Alison L Jones
	BMJ  2008;337:a540 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Pregnancy Plus: Inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy
	Charles B Ferguson, Samina Mahsud-Dornan, R Neil Patterson
	BMJ  2008;337:a427 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Omeprazole and refractory hypomagnesaemia
	N Shabajee, E J Lamb, I Sturgess, R W Sumathipala
	BMJ  2008;337:a425 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: The great NHS communication breakdown
	Peter Davies
	BMJ  2008;337:a664 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: The secret of HIV control can be found in the back streets
	Joanna Busza
	BMJ  2008;337:a800 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Spam medicine
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;337:a810 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Anyone for Club Med?
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2008;337:a677 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The benefits of gout
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;337:a781 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia
	Aidan O'Donnell
	BMJ  2008;337:a794 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Qiu Fazu
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2008;337:a812 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Joseph Michel Gaston Assing
	Hedwig Assing
	BMJ  2008;337:a767 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reginald Frederick Bolam
	Susan Bolam
	BMJ  2008;337:a668 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peter John Lennox Holt
	Ruth Holt, Tom Warnes, Robert Bernstein
	BMJ  2008;337:a751 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Derek Conrad James
	Matt James, Bob Graham
	BMJ  2008;337:a768 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Margery Lila Moncrieff (née Allen)
	Clare Markham
	BMJ  2008;337:a750 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Harold Holmwood Reynard
	P W Wenham
	BMJ  2008;337:a689 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maxwell Stanley Sewell
	Helen Sewell
	BMJ  2008;337:a758 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2008;337:a783 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Victoria H Smith, Stephen K Jones
	BMJ  2008;337:a793 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Drips, drains, and dressings
	Anthony Craighill
	BMJ  2008;337:a98 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I would use a new word: Abformation
	Jonathan O'B Hourihane
	BMJ  2008;337:a566 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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