Big subjects: education and obesity
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2008;337:a1448 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Continuing medical education in the 21st century
	Robert F Woollard
	BMJ  2008;337:a119 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informed consent and palliative chemotherapy
	Daniel F Munday, E Jane Maher
	BMJ  2008;337:a868 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity in children
	Tim Lobstein
	BMJ  2008;337:a669 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Complications of type 1 diabetes in adolescents
	David B Dunger, M Loredana Marcovecchio, Francesco Chiarelli
	BMJ  2008;337:a770 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Severe interscapular pain: Limitations of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT)
	Edward D Nicol, James Stirrup
	BMJ  2008;337:a1402 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical outcome data: Interpret surgical outcome data with care
	Peter J E Holt, Jan D Poloniecki, Matt M Thompson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1401 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Care and quality indicators: QOF and public health priorities don’t improve care in ageing
	David Oliver
	BMJ  2008;337:a1403 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postnatal depression: Don’t forget children and fathers
	Ruth V Reed
	BMJ  2008;337:a1414 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paradoxical medicine: Ayurvedic herbal extract has evidence base cough syrup lacks
	Saul R Berkovitz
	BMJ  2008;337:a1413 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mainstreaming jargon: Public health exposes jargon epidemic
	Alan Maryon-Davis
	BMJ  2008;337:a1415 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	WHO calls for better living conditions to reduce health gap
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;337:a1451 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Australia to try US-style physician assistants
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2008;337:a1407 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;337:a1439 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE is accused of "jockeying for position" in new drug pricing scheme
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2008;337:a1422 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetes care needs to focus more on ethnic inequalities, say experts
	Paul Dinsdale
	BMJ  2008;337:a1421 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pakistani doctors protest about terrorist attack on hospital
	Ashfaq Yusufzai
	BMJ  2008;337:a1426 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	France, Italy, and Spain split from EU doctors’ lobby group
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2008;337:a1433 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Palliative care in Scotland is too focused on cancer, says national report
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2008;337:a1428 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor economy means more Americans have trouble paying medical bills
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a1430 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Professors call for review of way cancer drugs in NHS are rationed
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a1450 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Number of items dispensed in Wales rose by 5% after prescriptions became free
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1444 (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:a1423 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Sponsorship of Medical Education: Is the relationship between pharma and medical education on the rocks?
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2008;337:a925 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing Medical Education: Pharma and CME: View from the US
	Suzanne Fletcher
	BMJ  2008;337:a1023 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing Medical Education: End of the free lunch?
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2008;337:a1399 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Body Politic: New Labour shows its true colours over the blues
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2008;337:a1412 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Rethinking continuing medical education
	Alfredo Pisacane
	BMJ  2008;337:a973 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	What oncologists tell patients about survival benefits of palliative chemotherapy and implications for informed consent: qualitative study
	Suzanne Audrey, Julian Abel, Jane M Blazeby, Stephen Falk, Rona Campbell
	BMJ  2008;337:a752 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Role of blood pressure in development of early retinopathy in adolescents with type 1 diabetes: prospective cohort study
	Patricia Herold Gallego, Maria E Craig, Stephen Hing, Kim C Donaghue
	BMJ  2008;337:a918 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Do overweight children necessarily make overweight adults? Repeated cross sectional annual nationwide survey of Japanese girls and women over nearly six decades
	Ikuko Funatogawa, Takashi Funatogawa, Eiji Yano
	BMJ  2008;337:a802 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Hypercholesterolaemia and its management
	Deepak Bhatnagar, Handrean Soran, Paul N Durrington
	BMJ  2008;337:a993 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Familial hypercholesterolaemia: summary of NICE guidance
	Anthony S Wierzbicki, Steve E Humphries, Rubin Minhas, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2008;337:a1095 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Controversies in NICE guidance on familial hypercholesterolaemia
	David Wald
	BMJ  2008;337:a1304 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Qualitative Research: Qualitative research methodologies: ethnography
	Scott Reeves, Ayelet Kuper, Brian David Hodges
	BMJ  2008;337:a1020 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: The trouble with blood pressure cuffs
	J E Bellamy, H Pugh, D J Sanders
	BMJ  2008;337:a431 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Incapacity benefit reform and the politics of ill health
	Clare I Bambra
	BMJ  2008;337:a1452 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: History on a knife edge
	Harold Ellis
	BMJ  2008;337:a1362 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Clinical ethics comes of age
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2008;337:a1443 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Team MB
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;337:a1449 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: Sunrise, sunset
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2008;337:a1431 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The wisdom of Falstaff
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;337:a1417 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Aphorisms and Facetiae of Bela Schick
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2008;337:a1358 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	John Raymond Hobbs
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2008;337:a1434 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eric Aylmer Burkitt
	Alison House
	BMJ  2008;337:a1316 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anthony John Fogarty
	Kevin Fogarty
	BMJ  2008;337:a1391 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mary Ethel Inekhomo Obiyan
	Bernadette Ewah, Sarah Akindolie
	BMJ  2008;337:a1393 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James O’Reilly
	Mary Lutton
	BMJ  2008;337:a1392 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charles Frederick Rolland
	Jim Cox
	BMJ  2008;337:a1383 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peter George Smith
	Peter James, Peter Toghill
	BMJ  2008;337:a1222 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2008;337:a1396 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pauline Ho, Waqar Bhatti, Badal Pal
	BMJ  2008;337:a1153 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Endpiece: Patients are volunteers
	BMJ  2008;337:a554 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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