What skills do doctors and nurses need?
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;337:a1722 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Drug eluting stents in patients with diabetes
	Pierfrancesco Agostoni, Frank Van den Branden
	BMJ  2008;337:a1359 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Telephone triage in out of hours call centres
	Josip Car, Elizabeth Koshy, Derek Bell, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2008;337:a1167 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Collection of data on ethnic origin in England
	Veena S Raleigh
	BMJ  2008;337:a1107 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Antipsychotics and stroke risk: Effect of antipsychotics on stroke risk remains unproved
	David Curtis
	BMJ  2008;337:a1673 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antipsychotics and stroke risk: Madness of modern medicine
	Philipp Conradi
	BMJ  2008;337:a1670 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New hip and knee replacements: Conclusions from knee and hip registry data miss the point
	Justin P Cobb
	BMJ  2008;337:a1677 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths from drug poisoning: So much for harm reduction techniques reducing drug deaths
	Peter O'Loughlin
	BMJ  2008;337:a1671 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypercholesterolaemia: Should medical science ignore the past?
	Uffe Ravnskov
	BMJ  2008;337:a1681 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypercholesterolaemia: Clarifications from adverse drug reactions agency
	Anthony Cox
	BMJ  2008;337:a1669 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hormone replacement therapy: HRT in premature menopause
	Margaret C P Rees
	BMJ  2008;337:a1668 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Lancet withdraws research paper and warns authors about rules of "gift authorship"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1711 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Matthias Rath drops libel action against Guardian
	Sarah Boseley
	BMJ  2008;337:a1710 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vulvovaginal surgery is being carried out without evidence of safety or benefits, gynaecologists say
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1684 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Myeloma patient wins fight for drug not yet approved by NICE
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1695 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Organisations reluctantly come out in support of top-up payments
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a1685 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pathology departments are still holding human tissue, report says
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2008;337:a1713 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;337:a1698 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors must do more to identify child abuse, Dutch association says
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2008;337:a1679 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spain may legalise assisted suicide, health minister says
	Tiago Villanueva
	BMJ  2008;337:a1697 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Israeli government wants better monitoring of children’s welfare, after three murders
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2008;337:a1693 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US nurses start "health insurance casualty of the day" website
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a1696 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	World still faces big challenges in meeting millennium development goals, says UN
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;337:a1692 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New antibiotics are needed as resistance grows, expert says
	Philip Wilson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1660 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Campaigners seek release of Iranian doctors
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;337:a1699 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO report shows progress in efforts to reduce malaria incidence
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;337:a1678 (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:a1661 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Should primary care be nurse led? Yes
	Bonnie Sibbald
	BMJ  2008;337:a1157 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should primary care be nurse led? No
	Rhona Knight
	BMJ  2008;337:a1169 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Medical workforce: Dr Nurse will see you now
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2008;337:a1522 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Out of Hours: Diagnosis by machine
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2008;337:a1703 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: Picture imperfect
	Manoj Padman
	BMJ  2008;337:a1659 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Modern approaches to teaching and learning anatomy
	John P Collins
	BMJ  2008;337:a1310 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Drug eluting and bare metal stents in people with and without diabetes: collaborative network meta-analysis
	Christoph Stettler, Sabin Allemann, Simon Wandel, Adnan Kastrati, Marie Claude Morice, Albert Schomig, Matthias E Pfisterer, Gregg W Stone, Martin B Leon, Jose Suarez de Lezo, Jean-Jacques Goy, Seung-Jung Park, Manel Sabate, Maarten J Suttorp, Henning Kelbaek, Christian Spaulding, Maurizio Menichelli, Paul Vermeersch, Maurits T Dirksen, Pavel Cervinka, Marco De Carlo, Andrejs Erglis, Tania Chechi, Paolo Ortolani, Martin J Schalij, Peter Diem, Bernhard Meier, Stephan Windecker, Peter Juni
	BMJ  2008;337:a1331 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Adherence to Mediterranean diet and health status: meta-analysis
	Francesco Sofi, Francesca Cesari, Rosanna Abbate, Gian Franco Gensini, Alessandro Casini
	BMJ  2008;337:a1344 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Quality of clinical aspects of call handling at Dutch out of hours centres: cross sectional national study
	Hay P Derkx, Jan-Joost E Rethans, Arno M Muijtjens, Bas H Maiburg, Ron Winkens, Harrie G van Rooij, J Andre Knottnerus
	BMJ  2008;337:a1264 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Misperceptions and misuse of Bear Brand coffee creamer as infant food: national cross sectional survey of consumers and paediatricians in Laos
	Hubert Barennes, Todisoa Andriatahina, Vattanaphone Latthaphasavang, Margot Anderson, Leila M Srour
	BMJ  2008;337:a1379 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Investigating dyspepsia
	Rocco Maurizio Zagari, Lorenzo Fuccio, Franco Bazzoli
	BMJ  2008;337:a1400 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Qualitative Research: Critically appraising qualitative research
	Ayelet Kuper, Lorelei Lingard, Wendy Levinson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1035 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teaching Rounds: Teaching in an ambulatory care setting
	Caroline Sprake, Peter Cantillon, Jane Metcalf, John Spencer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1156 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Pierre Lasjaunias
	J J Bhattacharya
	BMJ  2008;337:a1701 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sarah Benton
	Carlos de Sousa
	BMJ  2008;337:a1638 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	William Benjamin Clee
	Patricia Clee
	BMJ  2008;337:a1642 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anna Isobel Cupples (née Pillow)
	Brian B Cupples, Margaret Cupples
	BMJ  2008;337:a1650 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robert David Mayer
	Jonathan Riddell, Sandra Rachman
	BMJ  2008;337:a1215 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mauveen Ethel Vera Munk (née Evans)
	Ian G Mowat, Malcolm G Sadler
	BMJ  2008;337:a1641 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mark Hamilton Towriss
	Ute Towriss
	BMJ  2008;337:a1639 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Because I’m worth it
	Robert Mayer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1248 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Medicine—a victim of fashion?
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;337:a1709 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Starting Out: Publish and be damned
	Kinesh Patel
	BMJ  2008;337:a1644 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A pinch of salts
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;337:a1706 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Hall of Mirrors
	Jerry O'Sullivan
	BMJ  2008;337:a1716 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: New ways of thinking about autism
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2008;337:a1664 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: Breathless beyond obvious
	Chloe Bloom
	BMJ  2008;337:a1405 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: t tests
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2008;337:a198 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prize quiz: The placenta
	BMJ  2008;337:a1333 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: Breast imaging
	Peter D Britton
	BMJ  2008;337:a1313 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Dev S Shah, Periasamy Balasubramiam
	BMJ  2008;337:a1674 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;337:a1676 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	My best friend
	Hakan Buyukhatipoglu
	BMJ  2008;337:a995 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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