Science, debate, and compassion
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;340:c1795 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Staples for skin closure in surgery
	B I Singh, C Mcgarvey
	BMJ  2010;340:c403 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BCG vaccination in developing countries
	Frank Shann
	BMJ  2010;340:c809 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Critical illness as a result of influenza A/H1N1 infection in pregnancy
	Stephen E Lapinsky
	BMJ  2010;340:c1235 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Passive smoking and children
	Roberta Ferrence
	BMJ  2010;340:c1680 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Over the counter chloramphenicol eye drops
	Geoff Scott
	BMJ  2010;340:c1016 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Markets in health care: Markets will never work
	David Barer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1731 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Markets in health care: Solidarity to achieve equality
	Dirk Van Duppen
	BMJ  2010;340:c1733 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commercialising the NHS: Benefits of cooperation
	Andrew J Vallance-Owen
	BMJ  2010;340:c1737 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aspirin in primary prevention: Evidence is lacking
	Peter D Burrill
	BMJ  2010;340:c1613 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aspirin in primary prevention: GPs left in a quandary
	Ian Dickson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1740 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term care: Does care at home mean no care?
	Andrew N Bamji
	BMJ  2010;340:c1334 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data integrity: Everybody’s responsibility
	Michael Goodyear
	BMJ  2010;340:c1744 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Religious leaders call for an end to discrimination against people living with AIDS
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2010;340:c1726 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Protests follow US Congress’s passing of health reform bill
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c1771 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS cuts will make up a third of £11bn savings across public services
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;340:c1724 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC panellist was banned for not disclosing links with Scientologists
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1766 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rise in reports of safety incidents shows heightened awareness, says agency
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;340:c1767 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity treatment is being neglected in favour of prevention, doctor says
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2010;340:c1716 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spanish transplant model would save 20 000 lives a year in EU
	Aser Garcia Rada
	BMJ  2010;340:c1758 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Labour pledges to reform libel laws in England and Wales
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1712 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors no longer have to use Framingham equation to assessheart disease risk, NICE says
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;340:c1774 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Entire NHS commissioning system may need to be scrapped, MPs say
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;340:c1792 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Attempt to introduce smoking ban in public places fails in Poland
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2010;340:c1760 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In Brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c1748 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MPs praise treatment of injured soldiers but call for better contingency planning
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;340:c1785 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ten more trusts are told to make urgent improvements
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;340:c1757 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human papillomavirus vaccine project stirs controversy in India
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2010;340:c1775 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nepal’s premier medical school closes over alleged bribery for exam papers
	Sharan Prakash Sharma
	BMJ  2010;340:c1707 (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:c1735 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Is ADHD a valid diagnosis in adults? Yes
	Philip Asherson, Marios Adamou, Blanca Bolea, Ulrich Muller, Susan Dunn Morua, Mark Pitts, Johannes Thome, Susan Young
	BMJ  2010;340:c549 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is ADHD a valid diagnosis in adults? No
	Joanna Moncrieff, Sami Timimi
	BMJ  2010;340:c547 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Scientific Research: Problems with peer review
	Mark Henderson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1409 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Now and Then: Is the NHS three times better than in 1979?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2010;340:c1769 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US Health Reform: Obama’s reform: no cure for what ails us
	David U Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler
	BMJ  2010;340:c1778 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Multidisciplinary team working in cancer: what is the evidence?
	Cath Taylor, Alastair J Munro, Rob Glynne-Jones, Clive Griffith, Paul Trevatt, Michael Richards, Amanda J Ramirez
	BMJ  2010;340:c951 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Sutures versus staples for skin closure in orthopaedic surgery: meta-analysis
	Toby O Smith, Debbie Sexton, Charles Mann, Simon Donell
	BMJ  2010;340:c1199 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Local anaesthesia for pain control during outpatient hysteroscopy: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Natalie A M Cooper, Khalid S Khan, T Justin Clark
	BMJ  2010;340:c1130 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of revaccination with BCG in early childhood on mortality: randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau
	Adam Edvin Roth, Christine Stabell Benn, Henrik Ravn, Amabelia Rodrigues, Ida Maria Lisse, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Hilton Whittle, Peter Aaby
	BMJ  2010;340:c671 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of integrated care to reduce disability from chronic low back pain in working and private life
	Ludeke C Lambeek, Willem van Mechelen, Dirk L Knol, Patrick Loisel, Johannes R Anema
	BMJ  2010;340:c1035 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Critical illness due to 2009 A/H1N1 influenza in pregnant and postpartum women: population based cohort study
	The ANZIC Influenza Investigators and Australasian Maternity Outcomes Surveillance System
	BMJ  2010;340:c1279 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Long term treatment of depression with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and newer antidepressants
	Steven Reid, Corrado Barbui
	BMJ  2010;340:c1468 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Assessment of recent onset chest pain or discomfort of suspected cardiac origin: summary of NICE guidance
	Angela Cooper, Adam Timmis, Jane Skinner, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c1118 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Easily Missed?: Lichen sclerosus
	Kate Dalziel, Sarah Shaw
	BMJ  2010;340:c731 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Gertrude Blamires
	Cyprian Blamires
	BMJ  2010;340:c1753 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Irvine Cromarty
	BMJ  2010;340:c1751 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Marvale Crossley
	John Taverner
	BMJ  2010;340:c1754 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Arnold Elliott
	Paul Elliott
	BMJ  2010;340:c997 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Andrew Philip Thomas
	Sandy Fraser
	BMJ  2010;340:c1552 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robert John Stuart Weir
	Carol Johnson
	BMJ  2010;340:c1755 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bernard Wilkins
	Rodney Wilkins, Steven Mann
	BMJ  2010;340:c1752 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Lockerbie: why we should be proud of Al-Megrahi’s doctors
	Jim Swire
	BMJ  2010;340:c1725 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: The appliance of science
	Beth Hibbert
	BMJ  2010;340:c1713 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: An author spurned
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c1759 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: A Companion to Manuals of Practical Anatomy
	Martin Eastwood, Jenny Eastwood
	BMJ  2010;340:c1702 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Politics of conflict: doctors, like MPs, should declare their interests
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c1780 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: Old dogs and new tricks
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2010;340:c1730 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: Immunocompromised patient with an ulcerated nasolabial skin lesion
	Emmanuel P Prokopakis, Irene E Panagiotaki, Ioannis A Papadakis, Alexios S Vardouniotis, George M Lagoudianakis, George A Velegrakis
	BMJ  2010;340:c1444 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: An agitated young man
	Farhana Mann, Anna Sobel
	BMJ  2010;340:c732 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Internal and external validity
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c1705 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Psychosis
	BMJ  2010;340:c1710 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Tom K Gallagher, Mary C Barry, Joseph F Dowdall
	BMJ  2010;340:c1739 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;340:c1727 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Always take a careful history
	Alexander Fernandez
	BMJ  2010;340:c418 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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