Patients are ready for partnership
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;337:a2431 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Preventing postextubation airway complications in adults
	Duncan Young, Peter Watkinson
	BMJ  2008;337:a1565 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eating behaviour and obesity
	Elizabeth Denney-Wilson, Karen J Campbell
	BMJ  2008;337:a1926 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing diabetes in Bangladeshi people in Britain
	Shifalika Goenka
	BMJ  2008;337:a2010 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Enabling women to breast feed
	Mary Renfrew, David Hall
	BMJ  2008;337:a1570 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fresh thinking about the Declaration of Helsinki
	Michael D E Goodyear, Lisa A Eckenwiler, Carolyn Ells
	BMJ  2008;337:a2128 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Acute gastrointestinal bleeding: Firstly, improve availability of endoscopy
	Mohammed A Butt, Umair A Mohammed, Anne B Ballinger
	BMJ  2008;337:a2385 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acute gastrointestinal bleeding: Secondly, improve availability of interventional radiology
	Tony Nicholson, David Kessel
	BMJ  2008;337:a2382 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Complementary medicine: Involve complementary medicine practitioners in research
	Jon L Wardle
	BMJ  2008;337:a2389 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Complementary medicine: Inconsistency over payment
	Terry J Hamblin
	BMJ  2008;337:a2388 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk reduction policy costs the environment dear: Disposable instrument issue affects lots of doctors too
	Edmund Willis
	BMJ  2008;337:a2277 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case conferencing an answer to improving generalist end of life care?: Experience from Royal Marsden Hospital
	Julia Riley, Clare Smith, Michael Thick, On behalf of Nigel Dodds, Maria Owens, Diedre Adams, Fiona Wheeler, Joy Ross, David Currow
	BMJ  2008;337:a2290 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Famines and weather: People, not weather, cause mass starvation
	Andrew D Lynk
	BMJ  2008;337:a2383 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Major US consumer group asks FDA to ban drug for diabetes
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a2401 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients in England are given green light to buy drugs privately alongside NHS care
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2418 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE publishes osteoporosis guidance after more than six years of consultation
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2397 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Only a minority of serious patient safety incidents are reported, MPs hear
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2008;337:a2384 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treasure chest of medicine past
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2415 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical audit has lacked a national strategy and cooperation from GPs
	Lisa Hitchen
	BMJ  2008;337:a2422 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Delaying HIV treatment increases risk of mortality
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2008;337:a2369 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;337:a2411 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US senators inquire into ties between stent makers and doctors
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a2363 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	FDA warns Bayer about illegally marketing two over the counter products containing aspirin
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2402 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient fails in attempt to get law on aiding suicide abroad clarified
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;337:a2368 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exhibition captures beauty and power of humanitarian action and the human spirit
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2419 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiologist is sued for comments on potential migraine device
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;337:a2412 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Humanitarian corridor" for medical aid is vital in Congo, says Miliband
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;337:a2413 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teenage rape victim is stoned to death as violence sweeps Somalia
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;337:a2403 (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:a2391 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Continuing medical education: What price education?
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2008;337:a2333 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient safety: Cutting out human error
	Jane Feinmann
	BMJ  2008;337:a2370 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Border Crossing: Copy them in
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2008;337:a2324 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Personal Paper: Regulation—the real threat to clinical research
	Paul M Stewart, Anna Stears, Jeremy W Tomlinson, Morris J Brown
	BMJ  2008;337:a1732 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Prophylactic administration of parenteral steroids for preventing airway complications after extubation in adults: meta-analysis of randomised placebo controlled trials
	Tao Fan, Gang Wang, Bing Mao, Zeyu Xiong, Yu Zhang, Xuemei Liu, Lei Wang, Sai Yang
	BMJ  2008;337:a1841 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The joint impact on being overweight of self reported behaviours of eating quickly and eating until full : cross sectional survey
	Koutatsu Maruyama, Shinichi Sato, Tetsuya Ohira, Kenji Maeda, Hiroyuki Noda, Yoshimi Kubota, Setsuko Nishimura, Akihiko Kitamura, Masahiko Kiyama, Takeo Okada, Hironori Imano, Masakazu Nakamura, Yoshinori Ishikawa, Michinori Kurokawa, Satoshi Sasaki, Hiroyasu Iso
	BMJ  2008;337:a2002 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevention of type 2 diabetes in British Bangladeshis: qualitative study of community, religious, and professional perspectives
	Clare Grace, Reha Begum, Syed Subhani, Peter Kopelman, Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2008;337:a1931 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prescribing "placebo treatments": results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists
	Jon C Tilburt, Ezekiel J Emanuel, Ted J Kaptchuk, Farr A Curlin, Franklin G Miller
	BMJ  2008;337:a1938 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Managing skeletal related events resulting from bone metastases
	Anna N Wilkinson, Raymond Viola, Michael D Brundage
	BMJ  2008;337:a2041 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Control of pain in adults with cancer: summary of SIGN guidelines
	P J Cormie, M Nairn, J Welsh, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2008;337:a2154 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Controversies in SIGN guidance on pain control in patients with cancer
	J R Ross, J Riley
	BMJ  2008;337:a2234 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uncertainties Page: Managing the anticoagulated patient with atrial fibrillation at high risk of stroke who needs coronary intervention
	Gregory Y H Lip
	BMJ  2008;337:a840 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Hugh Roland Butt
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2008;337:a2196 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Amer Amen
	Furrat Amen, Ali Jawad
	BMJ  2008;337:a2361 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dick Bruce
	Roddy Hughes
	BMJ  2008;337:a2242 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hugh John Hughes
	Mark Hughes
	BMJ  2008;337:a2250 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stephen Lazar
	Arthur Hibble
	BMJ  2008;337:a2248 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anna Cecilia McKee (née Martin)
	Martin McKee, Henry McKee
	BMJ  2008;337:a2353 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Melanie Peisach
	Allan Daitz, Vivienne Watkin
	BMJ  2008;337:a2254 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Jeremy Rowe
	Peter Mayer
	BMJ  2008;337:a2252 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Poppy love
	Janet Gillespie
	BMJ  2008;337:a2334 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: A fat chance
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;337:a2432 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Starting Out: The bottom line
	Kinesh Patel
	BMJ  2008;337:a2395 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: In small town America
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;337:a2400 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Death of Ivan Ilych
	Boleslav Lichterman
	BMJ  2008;337:a2399 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Lessons from the killing fields
	Jonathan Kaplan
	BMJ  2008;337:a2394 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: A noisy teenager
	Stephen W Turner
	BMJ  2008;337:a2289 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: An 11 month old girl with bilateral wrist swelling
	R Hodgkinson, D S Urquhart, L Thia, S Padley, A Bush, Atul Gupta
	BMJ  2008;337:a2149 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prize quiz: Blood transfusion
	BMJ  2008;337:a2297 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Relative risk
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2008;337:a2295 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	A D Jordan
	BMJ  2008;337:a2372 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;337:a2371 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Old age swimming
	Claire Hilton
	BMJ  2008;337:a1189 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Crisis
	John Baruch
	BMJ  2008;337:a551 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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