Questions for research
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;340:c94 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Health and disease in people over 85
	Thomas Perls
	BMJ  2009;339:b4715 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Topical intranasal corticosteroids for otitis media with effusion in primary care
	Roger A M J Damoiseaux, Maroeska M Rovers
	BMJ  2010;340:b5380 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is primary care research a lost cause?
	Chris Del Mar
	BMJ  2009;339:b4810 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving outcomes after surgery
	Michael P W Grocott
	BMJ  2009;339:b5173 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Energy drinks for children and adolescents
	W H Oddy, T A O'Sullivan
	BMJ  2009;339:b5268 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Diagnosis of diabetes: First define impaired fasting glycaemia
	Raashda Sulaiman, Mourad Labib
	BMJ  2009;339:b5642 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis of diabetes: Haemoglobin A1c: ethnic differences apply to the UK
	Rousseau Gama, Taruna Likhari
	BMJ  2009;339:b5648 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis of diabetes: Consider life span of red cells
	Rod C Champ
	BMJ  2009;339:b5645 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypercalcaemia: Two myths
	Richard Quinton, Earn-Hui Gan, Shahid T Wahid
	BMJ  2009;339:b5649 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking status and pregnancy: Utility of point of care cotinine test during pregnancy
	Graham F Cope
	BMJ  2009;339:b5652 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 flu pandemic: Fever as nature’s engine?
	Alan W Fowler
	BMJ  2009;339:b3874 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Progest—erone, ogen, in?: Which is it?
	M Joy Spark
	BMJ  2009;339:b5142 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	US Senate passes health reform bill
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b5671 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Earlier help could reduce current "unsustainable" burden on NHS of alcohol
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;340:c80 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c55 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Nil by mouth" feeding should be last resort for all patients, experts say
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;340:c60 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical cancer virus can be transmitted through same sex relationships, report warns
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;339:b5667 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospitals urged to review how far key emergency staff live from work
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5674 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Free holiday is offered to volunteers willing to test diarrhoea vaccine
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2010;340:c49 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch probiotics study is criticised for its "design, approval, and conduct"
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2010;340:c77 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Group awards: Clinical leadership category: Enthusing, negotiating, pacifying—all part of a leader’s work
	Cath McDermott and Helen Morant, BMJ Learning
	BMJ  2010;340:b5620 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Growth in US healthcare spending is at slowest in 50 years
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c81 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2010;340:b5686 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Health Policy: Handing over the prescription pad
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;339:b4835 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Should boys receive the human papillomavirus vaccine? Yes
	Sam Hibbitts
	BMJ  2009;339:b4928 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should boys receive the human papillomavirus vaccine? No
	Kate Cuschieri
	BMJ  2009;339:b4921 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Ethics Man: Searching for medical Rumpoles
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2010;340:c42 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Looking to Europe: Will Swedish healthcare reforms affect equity?
	Bo Burstrom
	BMJ  2009;339:b4566 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Mortality from pandemic A/H1N1 2009 influenza in England: public health surveillance study
	Liam J Donaldson, Paul D Rutter, Benjamin M Ellis, Felix E C Greaves, Oliver T Mytton, Richard G Pebody, Iain E Yardley
	BMJ  2009;339:b5213 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Topical intranasal corticosteroids in 4-11 year old children with persistent bilateral otitis media with effusion in primary care: double blind randomised placebo controlled trial
	Ian Williamson, Sarah Benge, Sheila Barton, Stavros Petrou, Louise Letley, Nicky Fasey, Mark Haggard, Paul Little
	BMJ  2009;339:b4984 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Are people with negative diabetes screening tests falsely reassured? Parallel group cohort study embedded in the ADDITION (Cambridge) randomised controlled trial
	Charlotte A M Paddison, Helen C Eborall, Stephen Sutton, David P French, Joana Vasconcelos, A Toby Prevost, Ann-Louise Kinmonth, Simon J Griffin
	BMJ  2009;339:b4535 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reflux related hospital admissions after fundoplication in children with neurological impairment: retrospective cohort study
	Rajendu Srivastava, Jay G Berry, Matt Hall, Earl C Downey, Molly O'Gorman, J Michael Dean, Douglas C Barnhart
	BMJ  2009;339:b4411 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health and disease in 85 year olds: baseline findings from the Newcastle 85+ cohort study
	Joanna Collerton, Karen Davies, Carol Jagger, Andrew Kingston, John Bond, Martin P Eccles, Louise A Robinson, Carmen Martin-Ruiz, Thomas von Zglinicki, Oliver F W James, Thomas B L Kirkwood
	BMJ  2009;339:b4904 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Treatment for hepatitis B
	Graham S Cooke, Janice Main, Mark R Thursz
	BMJ  2010;340:b5429 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Uncertainties Page: Is combining or alternating antipyretic therapy more beneficial than monotherapy for febrile children?
	Mona Nabulsi
	BMJ  2009;339:b3540 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rational Imaging: Acute lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage
	Andrew J Edwards, Giles F Maskell
	BMJ  2009;339:b4156 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Easily missed?: Ovarian cancer
	William Hamilton, Usha Menon
	BMJ  2009;339:b4650 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Generalised tetanus in a patient with a chronic ulcerated skin lesion
	Beatriz Aranegui, Angeles Florez, Ignacio Garcia-Doval, Aranzazu Garcia-Cruz, Carlos de la Torre, Manuel Cruces
	BMJ  2009;339:b4419 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Humphrey Kay
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2010;340:b5685 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Douglas Andrew Begg
	Patricia A Ireland
	BMJ  2009;339:b5513 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ian Stanley Berg
	Philip Graham
	BMJ  2009;339:b5519 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kenneth McIntyre MacLeod
	Brian J Kirby
	BMJ  2009;339:b5676 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Michael James Henry Piachaud
	Angela Burnett, Nicholas Piachaud, Thomas Piachaud, Marko Kerac, Sheila Hollins, Chris Harmer, Phil Cowley, Lynn Barnett
	BMJ  2009;339:b5678 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Howard Sidney Reeve
	Brigid Reeve
	BMJ  2009;339:b5517 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Frank Richard Taylor
	Simon Hughes, Maggie Glaze
	BMJ  2009;339:b5518 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christopher Wood
	Ann Thuo
	BMJ  2009;339:b5679 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Review of the Week: Always look on the bright side of life?
	Polly Toynbee
	BMJ  2009;339:b5494 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: Death becomes us
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2010;340:c79 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View: Thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke: example of a health divide?
	Hyun Choi
	BMJ  2010;340:c45 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: When pedants err
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:b5478 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classic: The Doctor
	Chris Barrett
	BMJ  2010;340:b5660 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Bad medicine: pain
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:b5683 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: Lacking proof of identity
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2010;340:b5675 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	OnExamination quiz: Ear problems in general practice
	BMJ  2010;340:b5680 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: Microscopic colitis in primary care
	Kamal R Mahtani, Peter W Rose, Niall van Someren
	BMJ  2010;340:b5520 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Sampling II
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:b5677 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: The perils of a "FOOSH"
	Anand Shantilal Patel, Alan Macleod
	BMJ  2010;340:b5438 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Gregory W Ruhnke, Yoshimoto Serizawa
	BMJ  2010;340:b5579 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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Filler

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	50 years ago: polio epidemics, immunisation, and politics
	Domokos Boda
	BMJ  2010;340:b5297 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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