A difficult balance
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;337:a2033 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Medically certified sickness absence
	Johannes R Anema, Allard J van der Beek
	BMJ  2008;337:a1174 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing child abuse
	Naomi F Sugar
	BMJ  2008;337:a1398 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking cessation services for young people
	Gill M Grimshaw, Alan Stanton
	BMJ  2008;337:a1394 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Automated external defibrillators in the workplace
	Alexis Descatha, Michel Baer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1816 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recognising excellence, innovation, and integrity
	Fiona Godlee, Stella Dutton
	BMJ  2008;337:a2013 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Doctors and nurses: Multimorbidity may be stumbling block
	Carmel M Martin
	BMJ  2008;337:a1975 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and nurses: One clear remedy for nurses’ ambitions
	Richard D Rawlins
	BMJ  2008;337:a1976 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and nurses: Skills are very different
	Elaine R Carter
	BMJ  2008;337:a1974 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Babies' ethnic diversity: Data on births by ethnic group now available for England and Wales
	Kath A Moser, Nirupa Dattani, David A Leon, Kristina M Stanfield
	BMJ  2008;337:a1967 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Functional dyspepsia: At least recommend hypnotherapy
	Raj L Sharma
	BMJ  2008;337:a1972 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Modern approaches to teaching and learning anatomy: Modern models are already being applied
	Mark D Stringer, Helen D Nicholson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1966 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Publish and be damned: An old story
	Pamela Ben-Eliezer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1964 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Contract for GPs in England "failed to live up to expectations," say MPs
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2025 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Three Europeans win Nobel medicine prize for discovering HIV and HPV
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2008;337:a2023 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Taranissi dismissed symptoms as anxiety day before patient was admitted to intensive care
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1995 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cricket legend Tendulkar tells Indian children to wash their hands
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2011 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Only 3% of NHS trusts failed to balance their books in 2007-8
	Paul Dinsdale
	BMJ  2008;337:a1981 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A new use for doctors’ ties
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a1994 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consensus statement on ovarian cancer aims to settle dispute over symptoms
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;337:a2007 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care trusts must "challenge the fiction of the wonder drug"
	Lisa Hitchen
	BMJ  2008;337:a1970 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US tells African governments to stop supplying international family planning group
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;337:a1986 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New Portuguese code no longer defines abortion as ethical misconduct
	Tiago Villanueva
	BMJ  2008;337:a1945 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Letting art do the healing
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a1998 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical isotopes supply is likely to return to 80% by end of October
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2008;337:a2035 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unicef aims to eliminate tetanus in mothers and babies by 2012
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;337:a1987 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;337:a2016 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Crackly crisps taste better, costly placebos work better, and fleas jump higher on dogs than cats
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a1992 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Angry relatives attack doctors and hospitals in Nepal
	Khagendra Dahal
	BMJ  2008;337:a1946 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Campaigners demand equal treatment for all thalidomide victims
	Miguel Jara
	BMJ  2008;337:a2024 (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:a1954 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	How patients rate doctors
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a1408 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Ethics Man: The harms of medicoplasty
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2008;337:a1983 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Early detection of chronic kidney disease
	J Feehally, K E Griffith, E J Lamb, D J O'Donoghue, C R V Tomson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1618 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Making a difference: Improving generalist end of life care: national consultation with practitioners, commissioners, academics, and service user groups
	Cathy Shipman, Marjolein Gysels, Patrick White, Allison Worth, Scott A Murray, Stephen Barclay, Sarah Forrest, Jonathan Shepherd, Jeremy Dale, Steve Dewar, Marilyn Peters, Suzanne White, Alison Richardson, Karl Lorenz, Jonathan Koffman, Irene J Higginson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1720 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of improved home heating on asthma in community dwelling children: randomised controlled trial
	Philippa Howden-Chapman, Nevil Pierse, Sarah Nicholls, Julie Gillespie-Bennett, Helen Viggers, Malcolm Cunningham, Robyn Phipps, Mikael Boulic, Par Fjallstrom, Sarah Free, Ralph Chapman, Bob Lloyd, Kristin Wickens, David Shields, Michael Baker, Chris Cunningham, Alistair Woodward, Chris Bullen, Julian Crane
	BMJ  2008;337:a1411 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a predictor of mortality: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study
	Jenny Head, Jane E Ferrie, Kristina Alexanderson, Hugo Westerlund, Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimaki
	BMJ  2008;337:a1469 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patterns of skeletal fractures in child abuse: systematic review
	Alison M Kemp, Frank Dunstan, Sara Harrison, Susan Morris, Mala Mann, Kim Rolfe, Shalini Datta, D Phillip Thomas, Jonathan R Sibert, Sabine Maguire
	BMJ  2008;337:a1518 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Management of travellers’ diarrhoea
	David R Hill, Edward T Ryan
	BMJ  2008;337:a1746 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Rational Imaging: Investigating painless haematuria
	Sylvia A O'Keeffe, Sorcha McNally, Mary T Keogan
	BMJ  2008;337:a260 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Slow ventricular tachycardia
	Nicolas Leitz, Zarqa Khawaja, Martin Been
	BMJ  2008;337:a424 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Raised blood glucose concentration
	Tim A Holt, Claire J Holt
	BMJ  2008;337:a1073 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Timothy Gordon Cooke
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2008;337:a2000 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Matthew Kenyon Alexander
	Matthew Alexander
	BMJ  2008;337:a1905 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Christopher Bruce Bissett
	Peter Slimmings
	BMJ  2008;337:a1861 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Christison
	Alistair Rennie, John Christison
	BMJ  2008;337:a1883 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Hamilton Fairley
	Patrick Anderson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1863 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patrick Adrian Hopkins
	M J Egginton
	BMJ  2008;337:a1860 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hugh Owen Hughes
	John Hughes
	BMJ  2008;337:a1862 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Staig
	Peter Brunyate
	BMJ  2008;337:a1838 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: The kindness of strangers
	Eileen Palmer
	BMJ  2008;337:a1993 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Bombs in the sexual health war
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;337:a2028 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: A knot in the ribbon
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2008;337:a2009 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The fatal sleep
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;337:a2031 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Conquest of Happiness
	Kate S Robertson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1745 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Out of the shadows
	Brian Greenwood
	BMJ  2008;337:a2008 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: A pain in the bottom
	Robert Marshall, Rebecca Hampson, John Young
	BMJ  2008;337:a1804 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Distributions
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2008;337:a202 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prize quiz: Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infection in children
	BMJ  2008;337:a1977 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: Anaemia in a 17 year old student
	A-R Abu-Sitta, Harry R Dalton
	BMJ  2008;337:a1845 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Marie-Claire Jaberoo, Hesham Saleh
	BMJ  2008;337:a1947 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;337:a1951 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	TinyURL
	Simon Scott
	BMJ  2008;337:a564 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable consultation
	Sarah Farmer
	BMJ  2008;337:a986 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A shocking tale
	Arie Roth
	BMJ  2008;337:a271 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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