In from the cold
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;340:c1688 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Obama’s giant step towards universal health insurance
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2010;340:c1674 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing sunbed use in young people
	J Mark Elwood, Richard P Gallagher
	BMJ  2010;340:c990 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Put Edward Jenner’s statue back in Trafalgar Square
	Gareth Williams
	BMJ  2010;340:c1582 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The new CONSORT statement
	Gerd Antes
	BMJ  2010;340:c1432 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring HPV vaccination programmes
	Karen Canfell
	BMJ  2010;340:c1666 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Coroners: Role of the coroner’s office
	Gemma L Kemp
	BMJ  2010;340:c1564 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coroners: Leadership is needed
	Sebastian B Lucas
	BMJ  2010;340:c1566 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coroners: We can communicate better thanks to the new act
	Peter N Furness
	BMJ  2010;340:c1563 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Priority treatment for veterans: Lest we forget
	Ian D Morris
	BMJ  2010;340:c1474 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Moral obligations: What about abuse other than torture?
	Desmond O'Neill
	BMJ  2010;340:c1610 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Age related macular degeneration: Is associated with Charles Bonnet syndrome
	Gregor Russell
	BMJ  2010;340:c1611 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted suicide: A step backwards?
	Simon Kenwright
	BMJ  2010;340:c1609 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A life free of drug reps: Come into obstetrics
	D Rennie Urquhart
	BMJ  2010;340:c1612 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	US House of Representatives approves historic healthcare reform bill
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c1635 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US drug manufacturers will have to disclose payments to doctors
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2010;340:c1648 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Identification and brief advice could reduce alcohol harm, survey says
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;340:c1595 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government’s response to alcohol report is "too complacent"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;340:c1619 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	British boy receives trachea transplant built with his own stem cells
	Jeremy Laurance
	BMJ  2010;340:c1633 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mid Staffordshire and Milton Keynes are granted conditional registration
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;340:c1608 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Royal college calls for smoking ban in cars
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;340:c1689 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE guideline focuses on diagnosis of acute chest pain to improve outcomes
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;340:c1670 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Latest tuberculosis statistics are a "wake-up call for all governments to act immediately"
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;340:c1614 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor countries must promote healthy choices to reduce heart disease mortality
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c1658 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgeon’s mistakes revive issue of regulation of European locums
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1584 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c1625 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One in eight black teenage girls in US is extremely obese, study shows
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c1631 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Southall appeals against being struck off medical register
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1684 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Global Fund will eliminate vertical transmission of HIV by 2015 if funding continues at present level, report says
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1632 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patent on BRCA1 gene should never have been granted, researchers say
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1629 (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:c1599 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	US health reform: Obama’s health dream: reality at last?
	Susan Dentzer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1576 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Competing Interests: Independence of nutritional information?
	Phil Chamberlain
	BMJ  2010;340:c1438 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Is underdiagnosis the main pitfall when diagnosing bipolar disorder? Yes
	Daniel J Smith, Nassir Ghaemi
	BMJ  2010;340:c854 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is underdiagnosis the main pitfall in diagnosing bipolar disorder? No
	Mark Zimmerman
	BMJ  2010;340:c855 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Body Politic: Trade unions and the health secretary: is the tail wagging the dog?
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c1604 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: The hard sell in cosmetic surgery advertising
	Neil Graham
	BMJ  2010;340:c1223 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	New drugs for old: disinvestment and NICE
	Dyfrig A Hughes, Robin E Ferner
	BMJ  2010;340:c572 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Sunbed use in children aged 11-17 in England: face to face quota sampling surveys in the National Prevalence Study and Six Cities Study
	Catherine S Thomson, Sarah Woolnough, Matthew Wickenden, Sara Hiom, Chris J Twelves
	BMJ  2010;340:c877 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality among contraceptive pill users: cohort evidence from Royal College of General Practitioners’ Oral Contraception Study
	Philip C Hannaford, Lisa Iversen, Tatiana V Macfarlane, Alison M Elliott, Valerie Angus, Amanda J Lee
	BMJ  2010;340:c927 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of miscarriage with bivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18: pooled analysis of two randomised controlled trials
	Sholom Wacholder, Bingshu Eric Chen, Allen Wilcox, George Macones, Paula Gonzalez, Brian Befano, Allan Hildesheim, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, Diane Solomon, Rolando Herrero, Mark Schiffman, for the CVT group
	BMJ  2010;340:c712 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The quality of reports of randomised trials in 2000 and 2006: comparative study of articles indexed in PubMed
	Sally Hopewell, Susan Dutton, Ly-Mee Yu, An-Wen Chan, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2010;340:c723 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials
	Kenneth F Schulz, Douglas G Altman, David Moher, for the CONSORT Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c332 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Subjective memory problems
	Steve Iliffe, Louise Pealing
	BMJ  2010;340:c1425 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Pharmacological management of neuropathic pain in non-specialist settings: summary of NICE guidance
	Toni Tan, Peter Barry, Stefanie Reken, Mark Baker, On behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c1079 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Sexual health consultation for men who have sex with men
	William C W Wong, Christopher K Fairley
	BMJ  2010;340:c958 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Jo Eirik Asvall
	Franklin Apfel
	BMJ  2010;340:c1652 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robert James Dallas
	Alan Dallas
	BMJ  2010;340:c1420 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mary Ellis (née Heald)
	Maureen Ellis
	BMJ  2010;340:c1546 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charles Patrick Gore
	Charles Gore, Tim Jerram
	BMJ  2010;340:c1525 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Innes
	J Alastair Innes
	BMJ  2010;340:c1548 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alastair Hugh Bailey Masson
	Tony Wildsmith, Ewan Masson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1541 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	June Paterson-Brown (née Garden)
	Simon Paterson-Brown, Sara Paterson-Brown
	BMJ  2010;340:c1522 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rita Walford (née Gleiberman)
	Diana Walford
	BMJ  2010;340:c1406 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Assisted suicide: a substitute for a caring doctor?
	Brian Livesley
	BMJ  2010;340:c1590 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Opening up the past
	Richard Villar
	BMJ  2010;340:c1643 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The fine art of the surgeon
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c1660 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Round Table: Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear
	Keith Taylor
	BMJ  2010;340:c1597 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Doing our duty on episodic hypertension
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c1650 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: Search for the hero inside
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2010;340:c1500 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical Question: Variables and parameters
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c1568 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: A woman with fatigue, dyspnoea, and orthopnoea
	Vishal Sharma, Mukul P Agarwal
	BMJ  2010;340:c1277 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: Life threatening lactic acidosis
	M Lemyze, J F Baudry, F Collet, N Guinard
	BMJ  2010;340:c857 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Haematological disorders
	BMJ  2010;340:c1588 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Dimple Patel, Rosie Brennan
	BMJ  2010;340:c1593 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;340:c1586 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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