The best laid plans?
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2010;340:c2194 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Screening for chlamydia
	Jessica Sheringham
	BMJ  2010;340:c1698 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing obesity in primary schoolchildren
	Esther M F van Sluijs, Alison McMinn
	BMJ  2010;340:c819 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Where now for social care in England?
	Christina R Victor
	BMJ  2010;340:c2017 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commissioning in the English NHS
	Calum Paton
	BMJ  2010;340:c1979 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oropharyngeal carcinoma related to human papillomavirus
	Hisham Mehanna, Terence M Jones, Vincent Gregoire, K Kian Ang
	BMJ  2010;340:c1439 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Pain control in hysteroscopy: Finesse, not local anaesthesia
	Pietro Gambadauro, Adam Magos
	BMJ  2010;340:c2097 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lichen sclerosus: Biopsy to exclude malignancy
	Rebecca E Dale, Tayo Oke
	BMJ  2010;340:c2108 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spanish transplantation model: We need different comparisons
	David Bihari
	BMJ  2010;340:c2117 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sunbed use in children: The bigger picture
	Nadeem Mazi-Kotwal, Protiva Datta
	BMJ  2010;340:c2120 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Multidisciplinary cancer teams: Crucial for population health
	Fiona Day, Colin Pollock, Caroline Brook, Alex Albus
	BMJ  2010;340:c2125 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE on recent onset chest pain: Squaring the guideline circle
	Jonathan D Sleath
	BMJ  2010;340:c2129 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Public to be asked its views on ethics of incentives for organ donation
	Josephine Hayes
	BMJ  2010;340:c2182 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bone marrow patients are in critical condition as they wait for ash cloud to shift
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;340:c2185 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paediatrician David Southall wins appeal against GMC
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c2195 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Wellcome Trust is to close its centre for history of medicine
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2010;340:c2094 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Project to decode genomes in cancer samples promises new treatments
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2010;340:c2149 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Researchers transfer genetic material between two eggs
	Donald Asprey
	BMJ  2010;340:c2079 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS puts brake on roll-out of summary care records
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2010;340:c2158 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch nurse jailed for seven murders has conviction quashed
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2010;340:c2100 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chiropractors drop their libel action against science writer Simon Singh
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c2086 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More than 15% of antibiotic sales in Greece are over the counter
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2010;340:c2143 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK ministers must "reconsider" decision on compensation to haemophiliacs
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c2123 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c2147 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UN launches new action plan on maternal and child health
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;340:c2122 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Institute urges overhaul of US cancer trials network
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c2142 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US Global Health Initiative takes shape
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c2131 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US spends the most but doesn’t get the best results, a comparison of health data shows
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c2144 (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:c2087 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Election views
	BMJ  2010;340:c2095 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK election: what the main parties say about health care
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c2058 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Yankee Doodling: Prevention and the new US health reform act
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2010;340:c2116 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	How to identify when a performance indicator has run its course
	David Reeves, Tim Doran, Jose M Valderas, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Paul Trueman, Matt Sutton, Stephen Campbell, Helen Lester
	BMJ  2010;340:c1717 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Randomised controlled trial of screening for Chlamydia trachomatis to prevent pelvic inflammatory disease: the POPI (prevention of pelvic infection) trial
	Pippa Oakeshott, Sally Kerry, Adamma Aghaizu, Helen Atherton, Sima Hay, David Taylor-Robinson, Ian Simms, Phillip Hay
	BMJ  2010;340:c1642 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of preventive primary care outreach on health related quality of life among older adults at risk of functional decline: randomised controlled trial
	Jenny Ploeg, Kevin Brazil, Brian Hutchison, Janusz Kaczorowski, Dawn M Dalby, Charles H Goldsmith, William Furlong
	BMJ  2010;340:c1480 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	HPV testing on self collected cervicovaginal lavage specimens as screening method for women who do not attend cervical screening: cohort study
	Murat Gok, Danielle A M Heideman, Folkert J van Kemenade, Johannes Berkhof, Lawrence Rozendaal, Johan W M Spruyt, Feja Voorhorst, Jeroen A M Belien, Milena Babovic, Peter J F Snijders, Chris J L M Meijer
	BMJ  2010;340:c1040 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The volume-mortality relation for radical cystectomy in England: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics
	Erik K Mayer, Alex Bottle, Ara W Darzi, Thanos Athanasiou, Justin A Vale
	BMJ  2010;340:c1128 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Problem of immortal time bias in cohort studies: example using statins for preventing progression of diabetes
	Linda E Levesque, James A Hanley, Abbas Kezouh, Samy Suissa
	BMJ  2010;340:b5087 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Screening and treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis infections
	Sebastian Kalwij, Mary Macintosh, Paula Baraitser
	BMJ  2010;340:c1915 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Practice Pointer: Practical management of coagulopathy associated with warfarin
	David Garcia, Mark A Crowther, Walter Ageno
	BMJ  2010;340:c1813 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Change Page: Don’t use aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
	Helen Barnett, Peter Burrill, Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2010;340:c1805 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Patient's Journey: Spinal cord injury
	Peter Sonksen, Stephen Hillier
	BMJ  2010;340:b5204 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Barton Childs
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2010;340:c2151 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Livingstone Cowan
	Caroline Buddery
	BMJ  2010;340:c2076 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Donald Morley Gambier
	David Gambier
	BMJ  2010;340:c2075 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Geoffrey Russell Steele Grogono
	Basil J S Grogono
	BMJ  2010;340:c2089 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peter Murray Kerr
	Jack Wilson
	BMJ  2010;340:c2077 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charles Humphrey Jules Rey
	David Swainston
	BMJ  2010;340:c2072 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ian Fairley Smith
	W D B Darbishire
	BMJ  2010;340:c2090 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ronald William Ware
	Lynda Ware
	BMJ  2010;340:c2078 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: A volcanic disruption
	Desmond O'Neill
	BMJ  2010;340:c2180 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Food, glorious food?
	Juliet Walker
	BMJ  2010;340:c2099 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The father of cremation
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c2183 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Round Table: The Lucifer Effect
	Andy Hall
	BMJ  2010;340:c2110 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: New kids on the blog: new media and medicine
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c2145 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: Watch the wood
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2010;340:c1991 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: A 58 year old man with epigastric pain and mass
	Shouvik Saha, Naren Basu, David Howlett
	BMJ  2010;340:c1908 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: A man with penoscrotal swelling and bruising
	Manique Wijesinghe, Rajinder Singh
	BMJ  2010;340:c1283 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Genetics
	BMJ  2010;340:c2080 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Statistical hypothesis testing
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c2059 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Nancy Grover, Furrat Amen, Lloyd Savy, Gerald Brookes
	BMJ  2010;340:c2081 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;340:c2083 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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