It’s time to change how Europe regulates research
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;337:a2986 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Treatment of irritable bowel syndrome in primary care
	Roger Jones
	BMJ  2008;337:a2213 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiovascular disease and cancer in very old age
	Timo E Strandberg
	BMJ  2008;337:a2521 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How should health be defined?
	Alejandro R Jadad, Laura O'Grady
	BMJ  2008;337:a2900 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cryotherapy and high intensity focused ultrasound for prostate cancer
	Fergus Macbeth, Nathan Bromham, Robert Kagan
	BMJ  2008;337:a2540 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trading regulations and health foods
	M E J Lean
	BMJ  2008;337:a2408 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Regulation's threat to research: Can anyone beat my delays?
	Martyn Parker
	BMJ  2008;337:a2914 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation's threat to research: Time for patients to speak out?
	Christine A Gratus
	BMJ  2008;337:a2915 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation's threat to research: Regulation has run amok
	Bonnie Sibbald
	BMJ  2008;337:a2916 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation's threat to research: Barrier is impossible to leap
	David G Samuel
	BMJ  2008;337:a2917 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation's threat to research: Research is no longer attractive
	Richard I G Holt
	BMJ  2008;337:a2918 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation's threat to research: A regulator writes
	Hugh T Davies
	BMJ  2008;337:a2920 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation's threat to research: A UK problem
	Ingolf Cascorbi, Michael Orme, John R Cockroft, On behalf of the EACPT Executive Committee
	BMJ  2008;337:a2919 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	JUPITER study: JUPITER may yet change practice
	Mikael Rabaeus
	BMJ  2008;337:a2921 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	QOFing whine: Don’t be an ostrich
	Jessica Harris
	BMJ  2008;337:a2925 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	QOFing whine: Soft and hard end points matter
	Martin Roland
	BMJ  2008;337:a2922 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	QOFing whine: Accurate deprivation scores are needed
	Mark Strong
	BMJ  2008;337:a2926 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Copying letters to patients: Copying patients in is not as simple as it seems
	Brian McKinstry
	BMJ  2008;337:a2687 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Copying letters to patients: Copying in or copping out?
	John Main
	BMJ  2008;337:a2688 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Copying letters to patients: Try it and see
	Charles D Shee
	BMJ  2008;337:a2786 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National obesity strategy: There might be one big idea
	Greg Fell
	BMJ  2008;337:a2927 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bailey and Love: Textbook response (1968)
	John Doherty
	BMJ  2008;337:a2929 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Flu vaccine in over 65s: A proper RCT is needed
	Harry Hall
	BMJ  2008;337:a2924 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10 minutes on memory problems: Another 10 minute miracle
	Julian J Moore
	BMJ  2008;337:a2928 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Glasgow gang members offered way out of violent lifestyle
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2972 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Simple measures could halve global deaths from unintentional injury, report says
	Caroline White
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	In brief
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	A 60th birthday present for the NHS from children’s laureate
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2904 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parents will not be prosecuted over son’s suicide
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;337:a2990 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients take £7.6m a month out of NHS as they choose and book private sector treatment
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;337:a2911 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health bill will oblige staff to take account of NHS constitution
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;337:a2903 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lymphatic filariasis has been eliminated in 16 countries, monitoring indicates
	Malcolm Dean
	BMJ  2008;337:a2944 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Abortion does not cause mental health problems, says large review
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;337:a2902 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Experts agree guidelines to ensure responsible use of stem cell treatments
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;337:a2941 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Zimbabwe appeals for medical aid as it declares state of emergency over cholera epidemic
	Ryan Truscott
	BMJ  2008;337:a2942 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A chance of life
	David Nott
	BMJ  2008;337:a2958 (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:a2947 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Academic Medicine: Research funding goes metric
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2008;337:a1805 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Should there be a ceiling on what percentage of GDP countries spend on health? Yes
	Nick Bosanquet
	BMJ  2008;337:a1040 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Only Connect: This allergies hysteria is just nuts
	Nicholas A Christakis
	BMJ  2008;337:a2880 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Fairness of financial penalties to improve control of Clostridium difficile
	A Sarah Walker, David Spiegelhalter, Derrick W Crook, David Wyllie, James Morris, Tim E A Peto
	BMJ  2008;337:a2097 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effect of fibre, antispasmodics, and peppermint oil in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Alexander C Ford, Nicholas J Talley, Brennan M R Spiegel, Amy E Foxx-Orenstein, Lawrence Schiller, Eamonn M M Quigley, Paul Moayyedi
	BMJ  2008;337:a2313 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hypersensitivity reactions to human papillomavirus vaccine in Australian schoolgirls: retrospective cohort study
	Liew Woei Kang, Nigel Crawford, Mimi L K Tang, Jim Buttery, Jenny Royle, Michael Gold, Christine Ziegler, Patrick Quinn, Sonja Elia, Sharon Choo
	BMJ  2008;337:a2642 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of algorithm for diagnosis of active labour: cluster randomised trial
	Helen Cheyne, Vanora Hundley, Dawn Dowding, J Martin Bland, Paul McNamee, Ian Greer, Maggie Styles, Carol A Barnett, Graham Scotland, Catherine Niven
	BMJ  2008;337:a2396 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer in advanced age: prospective cohort study
	Jane A Driver, Luc Djousse, Giancarlo Logroscino, J Michael Gaziano, Tobias Kurth
	BMJ  2008;337:a2467 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Discrepancies in sample size calculations and data analyses reported in randomised trials: comparison of publications with protocols
	An-Wen Chan, Asbjorn Hrobjartsson, Karsten J Jorgensen, Peter C Gotzsche, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2008;337:a2299 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Managing health problems in people with intellectual disabilities
	Henny M J van Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk, Patricia Noonan Walsh
	BMJ  2008;337:a2507 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Uncertainties Page: Should we prescribe diuretics for patients with prediabetes and hypertension?
	Bruce Arroll, Timothy Kenealy, C Raina Elley
	BMJ  2008;337:a679 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Patient's Journey: The last wish of a patient with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	Daisy J A Janssen, Ton P G Alsemgeest, Guy A M Widdershoven, Emiel F M Wouters, Jos M G A Schols, Martijn A Spruit
	BMJ  2008;337:a2701 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	George Emil Palade
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2008;337:a2872 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Edmund Howarth
	Hugh Smyllie
	BMJ  2008;337:a2758 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Roger Youdell Jones
	Alison Jones
	BMJ  2008;337:a2759 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maurice Hirsh Oelbaum
	David R Shreeve
	BMJ  2008;337:a2757 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eldred Wright Walls
	Andrew Walls, Bernard Wood, Adrian Hamlyn
	BMJ  2008;337:a2867 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Margaret Mary Whitty (née Shrubsall)
	Richard Whitty
	BMJ  2008;337:a2763 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Philip Arthur Wilkinson
	Nigel Wilkinson
	BMJ  2008;337:a2770 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: An unusual day in court
	Peter D Donnelly, Jackie Tombs
	BMJ  2008;337:a2959 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The dumping ground
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;337:a2952 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Selecting the next generation
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2008;337:a2963 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A fundamental question
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;337:a2948 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
	Alexandra Pitman
	BMJ  2008;337:a2791 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Joking apart
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2008;337:a2719 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case Report: A man with congenital abnormalities and psychotic symptoms
	Toral Thomas, Balasubramanian Saravanan, Fiona Blake
	BMJ  2008;337:a2706 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Interpreting an underpowered trial
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2008;337:a2957 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prize quiz: Radiology
	BMJ  2008;337:a2956 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: Recurrent loss of consciousness
	John Cooke, Sheila Carew, Aine Costello, Tina Sheehy, Declan Lyons
	BMJ  2008;337:a2703 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2008;337:a2909 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kinnar Merchant, Vina Manjunath, Evgenios Dagres
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