Reform our libel laws, but not our NHS
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;340:c1404 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in high risk adults
	Sarah A Moberley, Paul Torzillo
	BMJ  2010;340:c1139 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sexual activity in middle to later life
	Patricia Goodson
	BMJ  2010;340:c850 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Waiting times for radiotherapy after breast cancer
	Ruth H Jack, Lars Holmberg
	BMJ  2010;340:c1007 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tiotropium and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	R Andrew McIvor
	BMJ  2010;340:c833 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and assisted suicide
	John Coggon
	BMJ  2010;340:c1394 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Withdrawal of sibutramine: Editorial is judgment in advance of the facts
	Nick Finer, On behalf of the Executive Steering Committee of the Sibutramine Cardiovascular Outcome Trial (SCOUT): Ian Caterson, Walmir Coutinho, Luc Van Gaal, Aldo Maggioni, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Arya Sharma, and Philip James.
	BMJ  2010;340:c1346 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Withdrawal of sibutramine: Author’s reply
	Gareth Williams
	BMJ  2010;340:c1349 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Withdrawal of sibutramine: Magic bullets now uncontrolled
	John S Garrow
	BMJ  2010;340:c1351 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors on the front line: Time for a civilian front line?
	Janos P Baombe
	BMJ  2010;340:c1318 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SSRIs and tamoxifen: Why condemn fluoxetine?
	Michael L Jenkinson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1319 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SSRIs and tamoxifen: Authors’ reply
	Frank Andersohn, Stefan N Willich
	BMJ  2010;340:c1321 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Osteonecrosis of the jaw: Note on dental procedures
	Michael N Pemberton
	BMJ  2010;340:c1317 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating complex interventions: Health improvement programmes: really too complex to evaluate?
	Lyndal Bond, Peter Craig, Matthew Egan, Kathryn Skivington, Hilary Thomson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1332 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating complex interventions: What is and what could be
	Peter A West
	BMJ  2010;340:c1340 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guideline development: Missing published and unpublished data in guidelines
	G Elliott Cook
	BMJ  2010;340:c1337 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Response: Steven L Shafer responds to Jeanne Lenzer
	Steven L Shafer
	BMJ  2010;340:b3920 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Karolinska research dean calls his dismissal an over-reaction
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2010;340:c1389 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US doctors urge a more cautious approach to screening for prostate cancer
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c1293 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c1391 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	First three way kidney transplantations were carried out in UK
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;340:c1343 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tissue watchdog warns against unlawful collection of umbilical cord blood
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;340:c1381 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Virgin gets slice of England’s primary care services
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c1355 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	AstraZeneca is to stop research into 10 diseases to cut costs
	Andrew Jack
	BMJ  2010;340:c1365 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Malaria treatment should begin with parasitological diagnosis where possible, says WHO
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2010;340:c1402 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US pro-life groups ask black women to avoid abortion, calling it genocide
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c1366 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Taxing junk food improves health outcomes, study finds
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c1370 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Restricting sales of barbecue charcoal helps in suicide prevention, study shows
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2010;340:c1324 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MEP moves to increase information to patients on prescription drugs
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1368 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch cafes remove ashtrays from tables once more as law is set to tighten
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2010;340:c1348 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spain allows abortion on demand up to 14 weeks
	Maria de Lago
	BMJ  2010;340:c1401 (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:c1347 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Primary Care: Open all hours
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c1154 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Libel laws and scientific debate: An old battle: England’s libel laws versus scientific debate
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2010;340:c1227 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Lobby Watch: Nurses for Reform
	Tamasin Cave
	BMJ  2010;340:c1371 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Will a market deliver quality and efficiency in health care better than central planning ever could? Yes
	James Gubb
	BMJ  2010;340:c1297 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Will a market deliver quality and efficiency in health care better than central planning ever could? Yes
	Stephen Smith
	BMJ  2010;340:c1299 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Will a market deliver quality and efficiency in health care better than central planning ever could? No
	Neal Lawson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1300 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Will a market deliver quality and efficiency in health care better than central planning ever could? No
	Jonathon Tomlinson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1302 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	BMA Campaign: Stop wasting money on commercialising the NHS
	Hamish Meldrum
	BMJ  2010;340:c1357 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Yankee Doodling: Is hypertension really a neglected disease?
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2010;340:c1353 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Graphic medicine: use of comics in medical education and patient care
	Michael J Green, Kimberly R Myers
	BMJ  2010;340:c863 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Efficacy of 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine in preventing pneumonia and improving survival in nursing home residents: double blind, randomised and placebo controlled trial
	Takaya Maruyama, Osamu Taguchi, Michael S Niederman, John Morser, Hiroyasu Kobayashi, Tetsu Kobayashi, Corina D'Alessandro-Gabazza, Sei Nakayama, Kimiaki Nishikubo, Takashi Noguchi, Yoshiyuki Takei, Esteban C Gabazza
	BMJ  2010;340:c1004 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sex, health, and years of sexually active life gained due to good health: evidence from two US population based cross sectional surveys of ageing
	Stacy Tessler Lindau, Natalia Gavrilova
	BMJ  2010;340:c810 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of interval from breast conserving surgery to radiotherapy on local recurrence in older women with breast cancer: retrospective cohort analysis
	Rinaa S Punglia, Akiko M Saito, Bridget A Neville, Craig C Earle, Jane C Weeks
	BMJ  2010;340:c845 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Educational inequalities in mortality over four decades in Norway: prospective study of middle aged men and women followed for cause specific mortality, 1960-2000
	Bjorn Heine Strand, Else-Karin Groholt, Olof Anna Steingrimsdottir, Tony Blakely, Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Oyvind Naess
	BMJ  2010;340:c654 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Economic impact of disease and injury: counting what matters
	Dan Chisholm, Anderson E Stanciole, Tessa Tan Torres Edejer, David B Evans
	BMJ  2010;340:c924 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Treating articular cartilage injuries of the knee in young people
	Simon Macmull, J A Skinner, G Bentley, R W J Carrington, T W R Briggs
	BMJ  2010;340:c998 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Uncertainties Page: Does avoidance of peanuts in early life reduce the risk of peanut allergy?
	Susannah McLean, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2010;340:c424 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Tachycardia due to atrial flutter with rapid 1:1 conduction following treatment of atrial fibrillation with flecainide
	Robert Taylor, Manish M Gandhi, Gavin Lloyd
	BMJ  2010;340:b4684 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Edward A Patrick
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1314 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Edmund Clegg Atkinson
	Richard Edmund Atkinson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1288 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Margaret Billingham
	Susan Stewart, Margaret Burke, John Billingham
	BMJ  2010;340:c1276 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sidney Crown
	Anna Crown
	BMJ  2010;340:c1273 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Earl Evans
	David Whittingham
	BMJ  2010;340:c1291 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Richard Murray Hester
	Krishna Somers
	BMJ  2010;340:c1275 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharif Anwar Hussain
	Mahen Muthiah
	BMJ  2010;340:c1289 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Michael Albert Voyce
	Anne Prendergast (né
	BMJ  2010;340:c1316 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: An unusual visit to court
	BMJ  2010;340:c1377 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Understanding disease: the ninjas are with you
	Joe Knight
	BMJ  2010;340:c1388 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The expert witness, or God’s locum
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c1384 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Man with a Shattered World
	Desmond O'Neill
	BMJ  2010;340:c1315 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Doctors on the dole
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c1392 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: Royal insights on smoking
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2010;340:c1408 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: A pain in the leg and breathlessness
	Harpreet Ranu, Emma Holden, Brendan Madden
	BMJ  2010;340:c925 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Describing the spread of data II
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c1282 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Potassium
	BMJ  2010;340:c1286 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Andrew Yeung, Alice Leaver, Peter Bartholomew, David Peakman, Rosemarie D'Souza
	BMJ  2010;340:c1287 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;340:c1285 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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