Lessons and legacies of war
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;340:c1119 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Carotid artery stenosis
	A Halliday, J W Norris
	BMJ  2010;340:c748 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the selection of medical students
	David Powis
	BMJ  2010;340:c708 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chemical castration for sex offenders
	Don Grubin, Anthony Beech
	BMJ  2010;340:c74 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of polymyalgia rheumatica
	Eleana Ntatsaki, Richard A Watts
	BMJ  2010;340:c620 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maternal age and diabetes in childhood
	Edwin A M Gale
	BMJ  2010;340:c623 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Glycated haemoglobin below 7%: No to QOF target of less than 7%, again
	Richard Lehman, Harlan M Krumholz
	BMJ  2010;340:c985 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Checklist culture: WHO needs changing
	Kate Hancorn, Stephen Blair
	BMJ  2010;340:c909 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Checklist culture: Seductions of the WHO safe surgery checklist
	Peter J Mahaffey
	BMJ  2010;340:c915 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Checklist culture: We need a safety system (and an operations manual)
	Nicholas J Toff
	BMJ  2010;340:c917 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rising hospital admissions: Fuelled by risk avoidance
	Edmund J Dunstan
	BMJ  2010;340:c1048 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rising hospital admissions: Support the new gatekeepers
	Faisal R Ali
	BMJ  2010;340:c1046 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rising hospital admissions: Costs and costing systems
	Denis J Pereira Gray
	BMJ  2010;340:c1049 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bad medicine: osteoporosis: Oversimplification is dangerous
	J Joseph
	BMJ  2010;340:c1062 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Life after prostate cancer: Time to evaluate focal therapy
	Paul Cathcart, Hashim Uddin Ahmed, Caroline Moore, Mark Emberton
	BMJ  2010;340:c1057 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antihypertensive regimens: Should β blockers be second line treatment?
	Jamal N Khan, Abhishek Chauhan
	BMJ  2010;340:c1065 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long QT syndrome: Don’t forget antipsychotics
	Detlef Degner
	BMJ  2010;340:c1061 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Leadership with a small l: Too many clinical leaders?
	Douglas J Noble
	BMJ  2010;340:c914 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care's lost cause?: Primary care research lives
	Jonathan G Hillman, Hamish K MacNab
	BMJ  2010;340:c1063 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	NHS trust made £300 000 by selling drugs to wholesaler for export
	Jeremy Laurance
	BMJ  2010;340:c1072 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS should stop funding homoeopathy, MPs say
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;340:c1091 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c1093 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private firm will operate entire NHS hospital
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;340:c1060 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Courts are being used "to litigate a scientific debate," counsel claims
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1120 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New figures show big discrepancies in GPs’ funding
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c1071 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US doctors are lax in treating hypertension, report says
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c1074 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	FDA restricts use of erythropoiesis stimulating drugs
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c1050 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GSK hid heart risks of diabetes drug, claims Senate committee
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c1107 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Germany’s commissioner for patients calls for register of doctors’ errors
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2010;340:c1084 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Few US medical schools and medical centres are disclosing industry ties
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c1075 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Group Awards: Secondary Care Team of the Year category: Doctors behaving imaginatively
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2010;340:c1010 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch politicians are under pressure to hold "time to die" debate
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2010;340:c1045 (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:c1067 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Military Medicine: Long road to recovery
	Helen Macdonald
	BMJ  2010;340:c647 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Risk and equality
	Julian Sheather
	BMJ  2010;340:c642 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	On the Contrary: Good and bad coroner stories
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2010;340:c1064 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: Science, politics, and headlines in the home birth war
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2010;340:c826 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Publishing information about ongoing clinical trials for patients
	Fiona Godlee, Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  2010;340:c725 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Short term and intermediate term comparison of endarterectomy versus stenting for carotid artery stenosis: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled clinical trials
	Pascal Meier, Guido Knapp, Umesh Tamhane, Seemant Chaturvedi, Hitinder S Gurm
	BMJ  2010;340:c467 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Psychosocial outcomes of three triage methods for the management of borderline abnormal cervical smears: an open randomised trial
	Kirsten J McCaffery, Les Irwig, Robin Turner, Siew Foong Chan, Petra Macaskill, Mary Lewicka, Judith Clarke, Edith Weisberg, Alex Barratt
	BMJ  2010;340:b4491 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of A level and UKCAT performance in students applying to UK medical and dental schools in 2006: cohort study
	David James, Janet Yates, Sandra Nicholson
	BMJ  2010;340:c478 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational study
	Peter J Pronovost, Christine A Goeschel, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Sam Watson, Lisa H Lubomski, Sean M Berenholtz, David A Thompson, David J Sinopoli, Sara Cosgrove, J Bryan Sexton, Jill A Marsteller, Robert C Hyzy, Robert Welsh, Patricia Posa, Kathy Schumacher, Dale Needham
	BMJ  2010;340:c309 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of reduced immunosuppression after kidney transplant failure on risk of cancer: population based retrospective cohort study
	Marina T van Leeuwen, Angela C Webster, Margaret R E McCredie, John H Stewart, Stephen P McDonald, Janaki Amin, John M Kaldor, Jeremy R Chapman, Claire M Vajdic, Andrew E Grulich
	BMJ  2010;340:c570 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	The routine use of patient reported outcome measures in healthcare settings
	Jill Dawson, Helen Doll, Ray Fitzpatrick, Crispin Jenkinson, Andrew J Carr
	BMJ  2010;340:c186 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	An approach to the evaluation and management of syncope in adults
	Steve W Parry, Maw Pin Tan
	BMJ  2010;340:c880 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Management of obesity: summary of SIGN guideline
	Jennifer Logue, Lorna Thompson, Finn Romanes, David C Wilson, Joyce Thompson, Naveed Sattar, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c154 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-minute consultation: Female stress urinary incontinence
	Rebecca Daniel, Christian David Mallen, Jason Cooper
	BMJ  2010;340:b5533 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Peter Diggory
	Paul Diggory
	BMJ  2010;340:c1081 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stephen Anthony Cullen
	Tony Batchelor, John L Christie
	BMJ  2010;340:c996 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gordon Blair Drummond
	Gordon Drummond (Junior)
	BMJ  2010;340:c1008 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peter Ferry Jones
	George Youngson, Alasdair Munro, Tim Jones
	BMJ  2010;340:c1011 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Michael Talbot
	Charles Talbot, Theo Schofield
	BMJ  2010;340:c1044 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	William Bruce Thomson
	John Kelleher
	BMJ  2010;340:c1043 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eric Wilkes
	Ruth Ostrovskis-Wilkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c991 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Autopsies—why families count too
	BMJ  2010;340:c902 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Time to turn the world upside down
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2010;340:c918 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The draw of dusty tomes
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c1113 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Round Table: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
	Linda Kearney
	BMJ  2010;340:c1082 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Admission of failure
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c1076 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: Survival of the fittest?
	Mary Black
	BMJ  2010;340:c1090 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	OnExamination quiz: Alcohol abuse
	BMJ  2010;340:c1006 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: A series of unfortunate events
	Stephen Ginn
	BMJ  2010;340:c429 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Cohort studies
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c1002 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Russell Mullen, Swayamjyoti Ray, Christopher Ray, Craig Eriksen, Peter Gamble
	BMJ  2010;340:c1015 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;340:c1009 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Endpiece: Beware of the expert
	BMJ  2008;337:a560 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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