Drinking at the last chance saloon
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;340:c394 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Preventing alcohol related harm to health
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2010;340:c372 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exposure to radiation and higher risk of circulatory disease
	Mark P Little
	BMJ  2010;340:b4326 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Using biomarkers to prioritise patients with stable angina pectoris for bypass surgery
	Christian Juhl Terkelsen, Werner Vach
	BMJ  2010;340:b5414 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Differences in UK health care after devolution
	Peter Donnelly
	BMJ  2010;340:c262 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of open fractures of the lower limb
	Kevin W Louie
	BMJ  2009;339:b5092 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Physical examination: Coals to Newcastle?
	Humphrey J F Hodgson, Sheila Sherlock
	BMJ  2010;340:c287 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Physical examination: The limitations of the "Stanford 25"
	Tony Nicholson
	BMJ  2010;340:c288 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Physical examination: Include heart murmurs
	Francis G Dunn
	BMJ  2010;340:c290 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In praise of the physical examination: Include "eyeballing" the patient
	Rhodri H Davies, Brian Rees
	BMJ  2010;340:c291 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postoperative thromboembolism: Prolonged prophylaxis for all?
	Barrie D White
	BMJ  2010;340:c284 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Atrial fibrillation: DIONYSOS study comparing dronedarone with amiodarone
	G Elliott Cook, Larry D Sasich, Sana R Sukkari
	BMJ  2010;340:c285 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anorexia nervosa: Awareness is key
	Anna M Crane
	BMJ  2010;340:c295 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors' hours, again: Still not enough doctors
	Roger A Fisken
	BMJ  2010;340:c307 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selling patients: Medical rhetoric
	Stephen F Loftus
	BMJ  2010;340:c299 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selling patients: Driving a hard bargain
	Mohyudin Dingle
	BMJ  2010;340:c304 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Academic who took on industry: Is there no place for integrity in academic medicine?
	Peter T Wilmshurst
	BMJ  2010;340:c281 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS in the simulator: Why expect the rational?
	Peter A West
	BMJ  2010;340:c294 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS in the simulator: An unbalanced equation
	Minoo Irani
	BMJ  2010;340:c296 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS in the simulator: What the NHS can learn from Ford in the 1980s
	Ken Charman
	BMJ  2010;340:c297 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Speed and road deaths: Message from the heart
	Paul G Rainsbury, Karolina Z Jankowska
	BMJ  2010;340:c282 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spanish flu through BMJ eyes: Prevention by toxic gases?
	Michael A McDowall
	BMJ  2010;340:c283 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Group awards: Professors need only apply?
	David L Bisset
	BMJ  2010;340:c280 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Editor's note: Raw data for study
	BMJ  2010;340:c415 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	UK nations have "troubling differences" in efficiency of health service
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;340:c381 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Damage to Haiti’s infrastructure is "almost unbelievable," says WHO chief
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;340:c378 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Out of hours care scrutinised as inquest begins into deaths of two patients
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c286 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government proposes fines for bars that have "all you can drink" offers
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;340:c390 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New partnership pumps £1m into stem cell research for multiple sclerosis
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2010;340:c292 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	London health service faces serious financial problems and cuts of £5bn by 2017
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;340:c393 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c348 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial begins in Kansas of man who killed abortion doctor
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c330 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Healthcare providers sometimes take part in torture and ill treatment, report alleges
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;340:c329 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Indonesian doctors are told to prescribe generics to reduce health costs
	Ben Bland
	BMJ  2010;340:c349 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European Commission targets drug firms over illegal patent protection
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2010;340:c268 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New EU health chief questions plan to let drug industry communicate directly with patients
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2010;340:c353 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Group Awards: Getting Research into Practice category: Making the evidence matter
	Karen Pettersen
	BMJ  2010;340:c305 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Head of German NICE should remain in post, doctors urge
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2010;340:c318 (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:c275 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Medical Research: A very public break-up
	Jonathan Gornall
	BMJ  2010;340:c110 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Failure of self regulation of UK alcohol advertising
	Gerard Hastings, Oona Brooks, Martine Stead, Kathryn Angus, Thomas Anker, Tom Farrell
	BMJ  2010;340:b5650 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Lobby Watch: The Portman Group
	Claire Harkins
	BMJ  2010;340:b5659 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Border Crossing: EU reshuffle has health potential
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2010;340:c382 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Philosophically Speaking: End libel law’s chilling effect on science
	A C Grayling
	BMJ  2010;340:c339 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	The association between BMI and mortality using offspring BMI as an indicator of own BMI: large intergenerational mortality study
	George Davey Smith, Jonathan AC Sterne, Abigail Fraser, Per Tynelius, Debbie A Lawlor, Finn Rasmussen
	BMJ  2009;339:b5043 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Utility of genetic and non-genetic risk factors in prediction of type 2 diabetes: Whitehall II prospective cohort study
	Philippa J Talmud, Aroon D Hingorani, Jackie A Cooper, Michael G Marmot, Eric J Brunner, Meena Kumari, Mika Kivimaki, Steve E Humphries
	BMJ  2010;340:b4838 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Radiation exposure and circulatory disease risk: Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor data, 1950-2003
	Yukiko Shimizu, Kazunori Kodama, Nobuo Nishi, Fumiyoshi Kasagi, Akihiko Suyama, Midori Soda, Eric J Grant, Hiromi Sugiyama, Ritsu Sakata, Hiroko Moriwaki, Mikiko Hayashi, Manami Konda, Roy E Shore
	BMJ  2010;340:b5349 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessing the cost effectiveness of using prognostic biomarkers with decision models: case study in prioritising patients waiting for coronary artery surgery
	Martin Henriksson, Stephen Palmer, Ruoling Chen, Jacqueline Damant, Natalie K Fitzpatrick, Keith Abrams, Aroon D Hingorani, Ulf Stenestrand, Magnus Janzon, Gene Feder, Bruce Keogh, Martin J Shipley, Juan-Carlos Kaski, Adam Timmis, Mark Sculpher, Harry Hemingway
	BMJ  2010;340:b5606 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Quality of life three years after diagnosis of localised prostate cancer: population based cohort study
	David P Smith, Madeleine T King, Sam Egger, Martin P Berry, Phillip D Stricker, Paul Cozzi, Jeanette Ward, Dianne L O'Connell, Bruce K Armstrong
	BMJ  2009;339:b4817 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Use of multiperspective qualitative interviews to understand patients’ and carers’ beliefs, experiences, and needs
	Marilyn Kendall, Scott A Murray, Emma Carduff, Allison Worth, Fiona Harris, Anna Lloyd, Debbie Cavers, Liz Grant, Kirsty Boyd, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2009;339:b4122 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Managing comorbid disease in patients with psoriasis
	Wolf-Henning Boehncke, Sandra Boehncke, Michael P Schon
	BMJ  2010;340:b5666 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Diagnosis in General Practice: Self diagnosis
	Clare Goyder, Ann McPherson, Paul Glasziou
	BMJ  2009;339:b4418 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines: Diagnosis and pharmacological management of Parkinson’s disease: summary of SIGN guidelines
	D G Grosset, G J A Macphee, M Nairn, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2010;340:b5614 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Protein and creatine supplements and misdiagnosis of kidney disease
	Joanna Willis, Rachael Jones, Nneka Nwokolo, Jeremy Levy
	BMJ  2010;340:b5027 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Tennis elbow
	Christian David Mallen, Linda S Chesterton, Elaine M Hay
	BMJ  2009;339:b3180 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Yvonne Helen Carter
	Michael Bannon
	BMJ  2010;340:c367 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Brenda Moffat Dudley (née MacAdam)
	Jane Richmond
	BMJ  2010;340:c323 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Hardy
	David McKinlay, Mike Smith
	BMJ  2010;340:c324 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robin Francis McNab Jones
	Alan Johnson
	BMJ  2010;340:c325 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Michael Richard Mole
	Alex Mole
	BMJ  2010;340:c327 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Estomih Elikanenyi Shoo
	Jeffrey Freeman
	BMJ  2010;340:c326 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Ian Stirk
	Nicholas Markham
	BMJ  2010;340:c167 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charles Geoffrey Sykes
	Philip Sykes
	BMJ  2010;340:c322 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Electronic cigarettes: miracle or menace?
	Andreas D Flouris, Dimitris N Oikonomou
	BMJ  2010;340:c311 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Be magnificent
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2010;340:c352 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The ailments of the Lambs
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c301 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Country Doctor
	Jerry O'Sullivan
	BMJ  2010;340:c313 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: School dinners and the nanny state
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c354 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The shame of obstetrics
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2010;340:c303 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture quiz: A 56 year old man with headache, fever, and neurological symptoms
	Ruth Dobson, Clare Shannon
	BMJ  2010;340:b5603 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Placebos
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c247 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: A woman with hypophosphataemia and raised alkaline phosphatase
	Joanne K Y Lam, Karen S L Lam, Kathryn C B Tan, Wing-Sun Chow, Annette W K Tso, Annie W C Kung
	BMJ  2010;340:b5564 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Bowel obstruction
	BMJ  2010;340:c261 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	J A H Harvey, V Hedley, A P Poullis
	BMJ  2010;340:c128 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;340:c129 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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