The power of stories
	Trish Groves
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Editorials

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	Slow walking speed in elderly people
	Rowan H Harwood, Simon P Conroy
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	Greater equality and better health
	Kate E Pickett, Richard G Wilkinson
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	Control of hepatitis B and C worldwide
	Rakesh Aggarwal, Amit Goel
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	Population, gender, and climate change
	Karen Hardee
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	Capping earnings from private patients in NHS foundation trusts
	John Appleby
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Letters

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	Migraine and risk of stroke: For contraception try IUDs ...
	Veronica Stephenson
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	Migraine and risk of stroke: ... or progestin-only pills
	Christine C Rivet
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	Migraine and risk of stroke: Misleading relative risks?
	Alan J Petrie
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	Migraine and risk of stroke: Author’s reply
	Elizabeth Loder
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	Vitamin D and falls: Calcium is the harmful agent
	Helga M Rhein
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	Hyperkalaemia: Avoiding spurious hyperkalaemia
	Rousseau Gama, Michael Cornes, Clare Ford
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	Hyperkalaemia: Benzylpenicillin potassium
	Habib ur Rehman
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	Hyperkalaemia: Time to flag up "detox" drinks?
	Christopher N Floyd
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	Celebrity patients: The third way
	Jan Willem Coebergh
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News

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	First official citywide electronic record system for patients is launched in London
	Adrian O'Dowd
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	Patents on breast cancer genes are illegal and stymie research, say scientists
	Jeanne Lenzer
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	Poor service provision is blamed for overuse of antipsychotics in dementia patients
	Oona Mashta
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	Misconduct panel investigates research of doctor convicted of lacing lover’s drink
	Clare Dyer
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	Chlamydia screening in young people fails to reduce prevalence
	Susan Mayor
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	Three more government drug advisers resign
	Clare Dyer
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	In brief
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	Less than 2% of food aid is spent on interventions to reduce malnutrition in children
	Michael Day
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	Deaths from swine flu in UK rise, while cases fall
	Andrew Cole
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	Success of climate change control depends on access to reproductive health care
	Jo Carlowe
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	Image of brain tumour wins competition
	Bryan Christie
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	Global alliance of funders of public health research agrees top priorities
	Susan Mayor
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	Low and middle income countries must do more to prevent spread of AIDS, experts say
	Bob Roehr
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	Condom couture
	Bob Roehr
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	Australia operates "closed shop" to restrict doctors from overseas, say critics
	Melissa Sweet
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	Landmines and other explosive war remnants maim or kill 20 people a day
	John Zarocostas
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Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
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Feature

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	Management of Health Care: Doctors in management
	Jo Stephenson
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Head to Head

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	Should the NHS strive to eradicate all unexplained variation? Yes
	Stephen Richards
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	Should the NHS strive to eradicate all unexplained variation? No
	Richard J Lilford
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Observations

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	Body Politic: Are the Conservatives serious?
	Nigel Hawkes
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Analysis

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	Can quality and productivity improve in a financially poorer NHS?
	Bernard Crump, Mahmood Adil
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Research

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	Income inequality, mortality, and self rated health: meta-analysis of multilevel studies
	Naoki Kondo, Grace Sembajwe, Ichiro Kawachi, Rob M van Dam, S V Subramanian, Zentaro Yamagata
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	Teenage pregnancy and social disadvantage: systematic review integrating controlled trials and qualitative studies
	Angela Harden, Ginny Brunton, Adam Fletcher, Ann Oakley
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	Effect of tailored practice and patient care plans on secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: cluster randomised controlled trial
	A W Murphy, M E Cupples, S M Smith, M Byrne, M C Byrne, J Newell, for the SPHERE study team
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	Slow walking speed and cardiovascular death in well functioning older adults: prospective cohort study
	Julien Dumurgier, Alexis Elbaz, Pierre Ducimetiere, Beatrice Tavernier, Annick Alperovitch, Christophe Tzourio
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	Trends in Down’s syndrome live births and antenatal diagnoses in England and Wales from 1989 to 2008: analysis of data from the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register
	Joan K Morris, Eva Alberman
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Clinical Review

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	Diagnosis and management of dengue
	Maria Gloria Teixeira, Mauricio L Barreto
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Practice

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	Safety Alerts: National Patient Safety Agency: combining stories with statistics to minimise harm
	Tara Lamont, John Scarpello
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	Safety Alerts: Avoiding midazolam overdose: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
	Tara Lamont, Linda Matthew, David Cousins, Jonathan Green
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	Interactive Case Report: A woman with acute myelopathy in pregnancy: case progression
	Reinhard Reuss, Paulus S Rommer, Wolfgang Bruck, Friedemann Paul, Michael Bolz, Sven Jarius, Tobias Boettcher, Annette Grossmann, Alexander Bock, Frauke Zipp, Reiner Benecke, Uwe K Zettl
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	Easily missed?: Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
	N M P Clarke, Tony Kendrick
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	10-Minute Consultation: Tennis elbow
	Christian David Mallen, Linda S Chesterton, Elaine M Hay
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Obituaries

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	Leon Eisenberg
	Ned Stafford
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	Richard Stuart Carruthers
	John Kerr, Phil Gunyon
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	Richard James Lance Davis
	Sally Warnke
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	Edgar Gordon Goff
	Martin Goff
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	Charles Hilton Jones
	Keith Wright
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	Peter Gordon Cochrane Robertson
	Andrew J Parkin
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	Frederick Peter Stephens
	Dermot Stephens
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	John Finbarr Walsh
	Andrew J Williams
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Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: The health department and the NHS: time to separate?
	Nigel Crisp
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	Review of the Week: Politics, science, and the White House
	Richard Smith
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	Between the Lines: An inside story
	Theodore Dalrymple
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	Medical Classics: The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease
	Mairead Bartley
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	From the Frontline: It shouldn’t happen to a vet
	Des Spence
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	Past Caring: Rhyme and reason
	Wendy Moore
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Endgames

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	Statistical Question: Random allocation I
	Philip Sedgwick
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	OnExamination Quiz: Acute abdomen
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	Picture Quiz: An unusual cause of acute renal failure
	Philip Dilks, Andrew Shawyer, Thomas C Booth
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Minerva

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	Mark A Kordan
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Filler

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	Sign of the cross
	Elizabeth Ingall
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	Endpiece: Convalescence
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