Several horsemen of the apocalypse
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2008;337:a1365 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Conservative non-pharmacological treatment for chronic low back pain
	Maurits van Tulder
	BMJ  2008;337:a974 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring the quality of healthcare systems using composites
	Bruce Guthrie
	BMJ  2008;337:a639 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood immunisation against varicella zoster virus
	Andrew Farlow
	BMJ  2008;337:a1164 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outcomes of the European Working Time Directive
	Hugh Cairns, Bruce Hendry, Andrew Leather, John Moxham
	BMJ  2008;337:a942 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Antibiotics for coughs and colds: Goodbye, virus
	Alistair J Howitt
	BMJ  2008;337:a1143 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antibiotics for coughs and colds: Hello, virus
	Rod A Storring
	BMJ  2008;337:a1144 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Subclinical hypothyroidism: Let’s identify research questions
	Andrew Cook
	BMJ  2008;337:a1259 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE on stroke care: Are NICE stroke guidelines scientific or political?
	Nigel Dudley
	BMJ  2008;337:a1339 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intimate partner violence: Violence between intimate partners knows no age limit
	Desmond O'Neill, Clodagh O'Dwyer, Hannah McGee
	BMJ  2008;337:a1327 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intimate partner violence: Honesty is needed when assuring confidentiality
	Jennifer J Urquhart
	BMJ  2008;337:a1326 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs under attack: Minerva should not perpetuate hearsay
	Stephen Gardiner
	BMJ  2008;337:a1328 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs under attack: More negative spin
	Peter Glover
	BMJ  2008;337:a1329 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Health facilities in Georgia have been attacked
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;337:a1357 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bulgarian minister resigns after bone marrow transplant investigation
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2008;337:a1322 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;337:a1364 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quebec board denied list of patients with cardiac devices
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2008;337:a1314 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospitals should tell police about knife wounds, says GMC
	Lisa Hitchen
	BMJ  2008;337:a1345 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	South Africa withdraws TB drugs because of quality concerns
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2008;337:a1385 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antibiotics account for 19% of emergency department visits in US for adverse events
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2008;337:a1324 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetic patients in chronic disease management programmes live longer
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2008;337:a1348 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Global warming will increase asthma attacks and allergic reactions
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2008;337:a1360 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Israel faces shortage of surgeons, association says
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2008;337:a1315 (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:a1338 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize: Tightening the net around malaria
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2008;337:a1267 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Life and Death: Dare to use your own intelligence
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2008;337:a1319 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Tackling malaria today
	Jo Lines, Allan Schapira, Tom Smith
	BMJ  2008;337:a869 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Randomised controlled trial of Alexander technique lessons, exercise, and massage (ATEAM) for chronic and recurrent back pain
	Paul Little, George Lewith, Fran Webley, Maggie Evans, Angela Beattie, Karen Middleton, Jane Barnett, Kathleen Ballard, Frances Oxford, Peter Smith, Lucy Yardley, Sandra Hollinghurst, Debbie Sharp
	BMJ  2008;337:a884 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Self reported receipt of care consistent with 32 quality indicators: national population survey of adults aged 50 or more in England
	Nicholas Steel, Max Bachmann, Susan Maisey, Paul Shekelle, Elizabeth Breeze, Michael Marmot, David Melzer
	BMJ  2008;337:a957 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of integration of supplemental nutrition with public health programmes in pregnancy and early childhood on cardiovascular risk in rural Indian adolescents: long term follow-up of Hyderabad nutrition trial
	Sanjay Kinra, K V Rameshwar Sarma, Ghafoorunissa, Vishnu Vardhana Rao Mendu, Radhakrishnan Ravikumar, Viswanthan Mohan, Ian B Wilkinson, John R Cockcroft, George Davey Smith, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
	BMJ  2008;337:a605 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physical control and coordination in childhood and adult obesity: longitudinal birth cohort study
	Walter Osika, Scott M Montgomery
	BMJ  2008;337:a699 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Gestational trophoblastic disease: current management of hydatidiform mole
	N J Sebire, M J Seckl
	BMJ  2008;337:a1193 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Qualitative Research: Grounded theory, mixed methods, and action research
	Lorelei Lingard, Mathieu Albert, Wendy Levinson
	BMJ  2008;337:a567 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Review: The luck of the draw
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2008;337:a1366 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: The men of steel
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2008;337:a1363 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The revalidation question
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;337:a1353 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: There is nothing like the real thing
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2008;337:a1346 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Too posh to infect?
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;337:a1354 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Doctor and the Devils
	Alison Cohen
	BMJ  2008;337:a1373 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Victor Almon McKusick
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2008;337:a1351 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Desmond Sackville Gwyn Bath
	Louise Bath, Eleanor Bath
	BMJ  2008;337:a1309 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sylvia Dische (née Goldberg)
	Frederick Dische
	BMJ  2008;337:a1312 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rodney Kevan Hassard Parker
	Tom Boyd
	BMJ  2008;337:a1218 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Glynne Price
	Edward Young
	BMJ  2008;337:a1311 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charles Michael Schmulian
	Richard Laishley
	BMJ  2008;337:a1221 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Roger Henry Secker-Walker
	Jonathan Secker-Walker
	BMJ  2008;337:a1219 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	M W G A Bronkhorst, L H Bouwman
	BMJ  2008;337:a1323 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;337:a1318 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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