The world is watching the English experiment
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;337:a953 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Dietary iron and blood pressure
	Saverio Stranges, Eliseo Guallar
	BMJ  2008;337:a547 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylaxis with co-trimoxazole for HIV infected adults in Africa
	Xavier Anglaret, Serge Eholie
	BMJ  2008;337:a304 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A strategy for end of life care in the UK
	Julia Riley
	BMJ  2008;337:a943 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence of support for biobanking practices
	Graeme Laurie
	BMJ  2008;337:a337 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling knife violence
	Jonathan Shepherd, Iain Brennan
	BMJ  2008;337:a849 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Death in young athletes: Medicalising sport will yield unintended results
	Laurie R Davis
	BMJ  2008;337:a909 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death in young athletes: Screening is inefficient and too expensive for the NHS
	Jonathan R Hanson
	BMJ  2008;337:a906 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anti-doping: "Doping" is pejorative and misleading
	Norman Fost
	BMJ  2008;337:a910 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Killings among young people: Poverty, murder, and respect: unlikely to be linked in UK
	Niyi Awofeso
	BMJ  2008;337:a911 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental capacity: Who decides on treatment for mental illness?
	Sahoo Saddichha
	BMJ  2008;337:a899 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental capacity: Authors’ reply
	Matthew Hotopf, Gareth S Owen, Anthony S David, Genevra Richardson
	BMJ  2008;337:a902 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental capacity: Clarification of mental capacity and psychiatric admission
	Brian Murray
	BMJ  2008;337:a917 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Geriatric medicine: Geriatric medicine remains a specialty
	Catherine E Yelland
	BMJ  2008;337:a894 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Geriatric medicine: Geriatric syndromes continue to be poorly managed and recognised
	David Oliver
	BMJ  2008;337:a892 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antipsychotics for dementia: Antipsychotic prescribing in care homes
	Clive E Bowman
	BMJ  2008;337:a895 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endoscopic ablation: Irreversible tide of technological advancement?
	Hashim U Ahmed, Manit Arya, Mark Emberton
	BMJ  2008;337:a903 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Capsule endoscopy: Capsule endoscopy in a district general hospital
	Elmuhtady M Said
	BMJ  2008;337:a905 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Left handed presidents: Trend in left handed presidents may be due to chance
	Jonathan Belsey
	BMJ  2008;337:a915 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Health care in US ranks lowest among developed countries
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2008;337:a889 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Violence and overcrowding characterise many mental health wards in England
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2008;337:a959 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	Joint guidelines call for speedier assessment of patients with stroke
	Henry Creagh
	BMJ  2008;337:a955 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Watchdog says councils are unprepared for England’s ageing population
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2008;337:a872 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	End of life strategy offers home nursing care for 24 hours a day
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;337:a871 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human rights abuses are fuelling HIV epidemic, charities say
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;337:a900 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human and animal health agencies must cooperate to prevent spread of infections
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;337:a927 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Senator asks psychiatrists’ association about drug company funding
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a929 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Three jailed in Germany for selling a fraudulent cancer cure to terminally ill patients
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2008;337:a875 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	German genetics society condemns doctors who took part in eugenics programme in Nazi era
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2008;337:a876 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sudanese doctor describes "hell on earth" in Darfur
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;337:a951 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European Commission proposes moves to increase tax on cigarettes and reduce influence of tobacco industry
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;337:a873 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO returns to Iraq to find major problems among 2.8 million internally displaced Iraqis
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;337:a928 (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:a891 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Information technology: How the internet is changing health care
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2008;337:a883 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Is sun exposure a major cause of melanoma? No
	Sam Shuster
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	Is sun exposure a major cause of melanoma? Yes
	Scott W Menzies
	BMJ  2008;337:a763 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Medicine and the Media: Naming names: is there an (unbiased) doctor in the house?
	Jeanne Lenzer, Shannon Brownlee
	BMJ  2008;337:a930 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Yankee Doodling: Should we screen for and treat childhood dyslipidaemia?
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2008;337:a886 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Will the NHS strategic plan benefit patients?
	Donald W Light
	BMJ  2008;337:a824 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal paper: A transatlantic review of the NHS at 60
	Donald M Berwick
	BMJ  2008;337:a838 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Relation of iron and red meat intake to blood pressure: cross sectional epidemiological study
	Ioanna Tzoulaki, Ian J Brown, Queenie Chan, Linda Van Horn, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Liancheng Zhao, Jeremiah Stamler, Paul Elliott, for the International Collaborative Research Group on Macro-/Micronutrients and Blood Pressure
	BMJ  2008;337:a258 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A model based on age, sex, and morbidity to explain variation in UK general practice prescribing: cohort study
	Rumana Z Omar, Caoimhe O'Sullivan, Irene Petersen, Amir Islam, Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  2008;337:a238 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Role of co-trimoxazole prophylaxis in reducing mortality in HIV infected adults being treated for tuberculosis: randomised clinical trial
	Andrew J Nunn, Peter Mwaba, Chifumbe Chintu, Alwyn Mwinga, Janet H Darbyshire, Alimuddin Zumla, for the UNZA-UCLMS Project LUCOT Collaboration
	BMJ  2008;337:a257 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients’ refusal to consent to storage and use of samples in Swedish biobanks: cross sectional study
	Linus Johnsson, Mats G Hansson, Stefan Eriksson, Gert Helgesson
	BMJ  2008;337:a345 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Guillain-Barré syndrome
	John B Winer
	BMJ  2008;337:a671 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Antibiotic prescribing for self limiting respiratory tract infections in primary care: summary of NICE guidance
	Toni Tan, Paul Little, Tim Stokes, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2008;337:a437 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Controversies in NICE guidance on antibiotic prescribing for self limiting respiratory tract infections in primary care
	Christopher C Butler, Nicholas Francis
	BMJ  2008;337:a656 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Review of the Week: Health care USA: don’t make a drama out of a crisis
	Jerome P Kassirer
	BMJ  2008;337:a946 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View: Lessons from polyclinics in Central and Eastern Europe
	Bernd Rechel, Martin McKee
	BMJ  2008;337:a952 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Harms of target driven health care
	Nigel Rawlinson
	BMJ  2008;337:a885 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Reveille
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;337:a940 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: Not a silly story
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2008;337:a919 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Success stories
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;337:a877 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Doctors
	Sanjay Pai
	BMJ  2008;337:a922 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Michael Ellis DeBakey
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2008;337:a870 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ivor Ernest Doney
	Tony Lavelle
	BMJ  2008;337:a754 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thomas Bryce Dunn
	John Armstrong
	BMJ  2008;337:a862 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ronald Napier Robertson Grant
	Alison Grant, George Thomas
	BMJ  2008;337:a858 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Robert Hearnshaw
	Paul McNally, Hilary Hearnshaw
	BMJ  2008;337:a856 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stanley Laurie Kaye
	Jeremy Kaye
	BMJ  2008;337:a861 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Malcolm Panter-Brick
	Alan Craft
	BMJ  2008;337:a846 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sylvia Todd (née Dennison)
	Norman D Jarvie
	BMJ  2008;337:a860 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Nada Hassan, Karl Gaffney
	BMJ  2008;337:a898 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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Filler

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	When I use a word: Tom Swifties
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2008;337:a836 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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