In search of equity
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;337:a1554 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Using aspirin to prevent cognitive decline
	John W Eikelboom, Martin O'Donnell
	BMJ  2008;337:a958 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs
	Barbara Mintzes
	BMJ  2008;337:a985 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	State violence towards sex workers
	Belinda Brooks-Gordon
	BMJ  2008;337:a908 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bariatric surgery
	David Arterburn
	BMJ  2008;337:a755 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling health inequities
	George Davey Smith, Nancy Krieger
	BMJ  2008;337:a1526 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Eye donation: Just ask: donating eyes doesn’t need a change in policy
	Rachel Pilling
	BMJ  2008;337:a1506 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug prices: The ranibizumab saga of drug profiteering
	Andrew C K Lee, John Radford
	BMJ  2008;337:a1532 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypercholesterolaemia: Reasons to be cautious about cholesterol lowering drugs
	Mark Struthers
	BMJ  2008;337:a1493 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hormone replacement therapy: Irresponsible to modify current guidelines
	Ellen C G Grant
	BMJ  2008;337:a1494 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unusual case of hyperhidrosis: ’Twas idiopathic unilateral circumscribed hyperhidrosis
	Neil H Cox
	BMJ  2008;337:a1498 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acting as an expert witness: Where now for expert witnesses?
	Michael J White
	BMJ  2008;337:a1418 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical error: We need to develop wider vision to reduce errors
	Alan Murray
	BMJ  2008;337:a1500 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Bias alone could account for benefit attributed to flu vaccine, study finds
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1550 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European paediatric clinical trials miss priority needs, warns review
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2008;337:a1551 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	Patients who have new types of hip and knee replacement are more likely to need revision
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a1520 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Low cost intervention reduces suicide rate in poorer countries, study shows
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;337:a1524 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cutting price of alcohol is associated with higher mortality, study shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1504 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Switching antibiotics to pharmacy sale will increase resistance, doctors say
	Lisa Hitchen
	BMJ  2008;337:a1538 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths from drug poisoning in English and Welsh men reach five year peak
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2008;337:a1521 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Refused asylum seekers are entitled to free NHS care, says BMA
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a1552 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New vaccines and screening can reduce cervical cancer incidence in poor countries
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1545 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charity calls for better training of police in handling mentally ill people
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2008;337:a1531 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	German health insurance companies reluctantly agree to doctors’ pay rise
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2008;337:a1533 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government ruling would protect US healthcare workers who object to abortion
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a1509 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peanut allergy may be transferred by lung transplantation, case shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1512 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE introduces cost sharing scheme for sight drug
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1487 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Two doses of chickenpox vaccine are needed, US figures confirm
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a1534 (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:a1510 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Medical imaging: Outsourced radiology: will doctors be deskilled?
	Amy Davis
	BMJ  2008;337:a785 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Yankee Doodling: Jabbering about jabs
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2008;337:a1517 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Are national qualifying examinations a fair way to rank medical students? Yes
	Chris Ricketts, Julian Archer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1282 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are national qualifying examinations a fair way to rank medical students? No
	Ian S G Noble
	BMJ  2008;337:a1279 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Continuity of care matters
	Bruce Guthrie, John W Saultz, George K Freeman, Jeannie L Haggerty
	BMJ  2008;337:a867 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Health related quality of life after combined hormone replacement therapy: randomised controlled trial
	Amanda J Welton, Madge R Vickers, Joseph Kim, Deborah Ford, Beverley A Lawton, Alastair H MacLennan, Sarah K Meredith, Jeannett Martin, Tom W Meade, for the WISDOM team
	BMJ  2008;337:a1190 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Low dose aspirin and cognitive function in middle aged to elderly adults: randomised controlled trial
	Jackie F Price, Marlene C Stewart, Ian J Deary, Gordon D Murray, Peter Sandercock, Isabella Butcher, F Gerald R Fowkes, on behalf of the AAA Trialists
	BMJ  2008;337:a1198 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of illicit direct to consumer advertising on use of etanercept, mometasone, and tegaserod in Canada: controlled longitudinal study
	Michael R Law, Sumit R Majumdar, Stephen B Soumerai
	BMJ  2008;337:a1055 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Police violence and sexual risk among female and transvestite sex workers in Serbia: qualitative study
	Tim Rhodes, Milena Simic, Sladjana Baros, Lucy Platt, Bojan Zikic
	BMJ  2008;337:a811 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Managing drug resistant tuberculosis
	Alison Grant, Philip Gothard, Guy Thwaites
	BMJ  2008;337:a1110 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Qualitative Research: Discourse analysis
	Brian David Hodges, Ayelet Kuper, Scott Reeves
	BMJ  2008;337:a879 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Extensive transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 9 year old child with pulmonary tuberculosis and negative sputum smear
	S Paranjothy, M Eisenhut, M Lilley, S Bracebridge, I Abubakar, R Mulla, K Lack, D Chalkley, J Howard, S Thomas, M McEvoy
	BMJ  2008;337:a1184 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uncertainties Page: How can we best prevent new foot ulcers in people with diabetes?
	Fay Crawford
	BMJ  2008;337:a1234 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Alexei Mikhailovich Svetukhin
	Boleslav Lichterman, Sergey Glyantsev
	BMJ  2008;337:a1511 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eric Reeves Carter
	David Colin-Thome
	BMJ  2008;337:a1455 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kenneth Arthur Day
	Tom Berney
	BMJ  2008;337:a1446 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Allan Watson Downie
	John Hern
	BMJ  2008;337:a1459 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Ronald Harries
	Anthony D Harries
	BMJ  2008;337:a1467 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Anthony Guy Horton
	J C Stoddart
	BMJ  2008;337:a1463 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Esmée Dorothy Martin
	Martin Goff
	BMJ  2008;337:a1458 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Are we all Balintians now?
	Jeremy Holmes
	BMJ  2008;337:a1549 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The tablets of stone
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;337:a1523 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: The nano state
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2008;337:a1519 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A world not his own
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;337:a1527 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Morceaux Choisis
	John Black
	BMJ  2008;337:a1503 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Kidney disease and the generation game
	Damien Fogarty
	BMJ  2008;337:a1268 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case Report: Chest pain after emotional and physical upset
	P Parulekar, M Z O Khawaja, E T McWilliams
	BMJ  2008;337:a107 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: Imaging after trauma to the neck
	Bernard Wee, John H Reynolds, Anthony Bleetman
	BMJ  2008;337:a207 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Continuous variables
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2008;337:a196 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prize quiz: Wound healing
	BMJ  2008;337:a1482 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	R Anand, R A Ramsey, I P Downie
	BMJ  2008;337:a1152 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;337:a1486 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Occluded circulation
	Jules Dussek
	BMJ  2008;337:a992 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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