Let’s proceed with caution
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;340:c1266 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Prophylaxis with systemic antibiotics in patients with severe burns
	David Bracco, Philippe Eggimann
	BMJ  2010;340:c208 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acute asthma in children of school age
	Duncan Keeley
	BMJ  2010;340:c988 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic fatigue syndrome and human retrovirus XMRV
	Myra McClure, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2010;340:c1099 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of full body scanners at airports
	Mahadevappa Mahesh
	BMJ  2010;340:c993 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The first draft of DSM-V
	Allen Frances
	BMJ  2010;340:c1168 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Eyes and alkalis: Wave of paediatric eye injuries from liquid detergent capsules
	Rashmi G Mathew, Katherine Kennedy, Melanie C Corbett
	BMJ  2010;340:c1186 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety of oxygen treatment: What about acute coronary syndrome?
	Zishan Sheikh, Afroze Khan, Shahnawaz Khan
	BMJ  2010;340:c1193 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time to flag up detox drinks?: No need to flag up potassium
	Biji T Kurien, R Hal Scofield
	BMJ  2010;340:c1180 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exposure to CS gas: Guidance needed on secondary effects of CS gas on staff
	Nakul Kain, Anuj Mishra, M I James
	BMJ  2010;340:c1189 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aspirin and primary prevention: BHS reaffirms its guidance
	Peter S Sever, On behalf of the BHS Working Party
	BMJ  2010;340:c1183 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fair Society, Healthy Lives: Too close to home for comfort
	David G Samuel
	BMJ  2010;340:c1188 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fair Society, Healthy Lives: Timing is everything
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  2010;340:c1191 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic fatigue syndrome: More than defeatism greets patients with ME
	Stephanie E Munn
	BMJ  2010;340:c1179 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic fatigue syndrome: Severely affected, severely neglected
	Charles B Shepherd
	BMJ  2010;340:c1181 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Double face of discrimination: Differentiation is not discrimination
	David Oliver
	BMJ  2010;340:c1055 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Double face of discrimination: Legislation offers protection
	Ian Philp
	BMJ  2010;340:c1052 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Response: Peter Wilmshurst: Peter Wilmshurst replies to Jonathan Gornall
	Peter Wilmshurst
	BMJ  2010;340:c1195 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Doctors face greater risk of prosecution than the public for assisting suicide
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1167 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Company in alleged generic drugs cartel pays undisclosed sum to NHS
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1225 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c1196 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US health lobbyists outnumbered members of Congress by eight to one in 2009
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c1203 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Woman gives birth to two babies in separate pregnancies after ovarian transplant
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;340:c1148 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Democrats and Republicans air differences on health reform in television summit
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c1176 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Head of German NICE was sacrificed to satisfy drug industry, says German health expert
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2010;340:c1115 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Group Awards: Junior Doctor of the Year category: Making a mark during training
	Edward Davies
	BMJ  2010;340:c1163 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS has seen little benefit from market reforms, says think tank
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;340:c1194 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smokers to be excluded from Jakarta’s free healthcare schemes
	Ben Bland
	BMJ  2010;340:c1152 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor training, staff cuts, and over emphasis on targets led to failures at Stafford hospital, says inquiry
	Helen Mooney
	BMJ  2010;340:c1137 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC launches consultation on details of revalidation
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2010;340:c1214 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chile needs concerted relief effort after massive earthquake
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;340:c1242 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Group Awards: Excellence in Healthcare Education category: From simulation to innovation
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2010;340:c1200 (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:c1162 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Global Health: Linking up for better health care
	Sophie Cook
	BMJ  2010;340:c768 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Out of Hours: What doctors can learn from the factory floor
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2010;340:c1217 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: Science, chronic fatigue syndrome, and me
	Cathie Sudlow
	BMJ  2010;340:c1260 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lobby Watch: The Social Issues Research Centre
	David Miller, Marisa De Andrade
	BMJ  2010;340:c484 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Helping to stop doctors becoming complicit in torture
	Peter B Polatin, Jens Modvig, Therese Rytter
	BMJ  2010;340:c973 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assessing torture: Interrogating the role of mental health professionals in assessing torture
	Derrick M Silove, Susan J Rees
	BMJ  2010;340:c124 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Prophylactic antibiotics for burns patients: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Tomer Avni, Ariela Levcovich, Dean D Ad-El, Leonard Leibovici, Mical Paul
	BMJ  2010;340:c241 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Parent initiated prednisolone for acute asthma in children of school age: randomised controlled crossover trial
	P J Vuillermin, C F Robertson, J B Carlin, S L Brennan, M I Biscan, M South
	BMJ  2010;340:c843 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	HIV mortality and infection in India: estimates from nationally representative mortality survey of 1.1 million homes
	Prabhat Jha, Rajesh Kumar, Ajay Khera, Madhulekha Bhattacharya, Paul Arora, Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Prakash Bhatia, Derek Kam, Diego G Bassani, Ashleigh Sullivan, Wilson Suraweera, Catherine McLaughlin, Neeraj Dhingra, Nico Nagelkerke, on behalf of the Million Death Study Collaborators
	BMJ  2010;340:c621 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome in the Netherlands: retrospective analysis of samples from an established cohort
	Frank J M van Kuppeveld, Arjan S de Jong, Kjerstin H Lanke, Gerald W Verhaegh, Willem J G Melchers, Caroline M A Swanink, Gijs Bleijenberg, Mihai G Netea, Jochem M D Galama, Jos W M van der Meer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1018 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Meta-analysis of individual participant data: rationale, conduct, and reporting
	Richard D Riley, Paul C Lambert, Ghada Abo-Zaid
	BMJ  2010;340:c221 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Age related macular degeneration
	Usha Chakravarthy, Jennifer Evans, Philip J Rosenfeld
	BMJ  2010;340:c981 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Easily missed?: Constipation in people with learning disability
	Justin Coleman, Geoffrey Spurling
	BMJ  2010;340:c222 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Patient's Journey: Dopa responsive dystonia
	Karen Low, Teresa Harding, Philip Jardine
	BMJ  2010;340:c668 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Acute cough in adults
	Jochen W L Cals, Nick A Francis
	BMJ  2010;340:c574 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Edwin Krebs
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2010;340:c1224 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elizabeth Susan Bye (née Ridgway)
	Stephen Ridgway
	BMJ  2010;340:c1174 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Norman Coulshed
	Chris Evans
	BMJ  2010;340:c1165 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charlotte Emma Hall
	George Kinghorn
	BMJ  2010;340:c1012 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John William Kibukamusoke
	Krishna Somers
	BMJ  2010;340:c1175 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gwyneth Geraldine Seymour (née Allen)
	Ingrid V Allen, Grace E Allen
	BMJ  2010;340:c1172 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prakash Dayanand Shrivastava
	Sheikh M Amin
	BMJ  2010;340:c1170 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sarosh Dhunjishaw Vakil
	J M S Pearce
	BMJ  2010;340:c1173 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: My year without drug reps
	Shane O'Hanlon
	BMJ  2010;340:c1102 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between The Lines: Public robbery and the NHS
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c1221 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: A Study in Scarlet
	Sabreena Malik
	BMJ  2010;340:c1138 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Bad medicine: type 2 diabetes
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c1216 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In and Out of Hospital: An avalanche of apple pie: too many guidelines?
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2010;340:c1208 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	OnExamination quiz: Drugs for cardiac disease
	BMJ  2010;340:c1153 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: More than skin deep?
	Mark J Austin
	BMJ  2010;340:c932 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Describing the spread of data I
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c1116 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Naveed Kara, John Hill, Ivan Zammit-Maempel
	BMJ  2010;340:c1169 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;340:c1158 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Endpiece: Life and sex
	BMJ  2008;337:a557 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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