Sport and politics
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2010;340:c2932 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	How will we know if the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics benefit health?
	Mike Weed
	BMJ  2010;340:c2202 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the accuracy of predicting cardiovascular risk
	Ian Scott
	BMJ  2010;340:c2334 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Balancing the intended and unintended effects of statins
	Alawi A Alsheikh-Ali, Richard H Karas
	BMJ  2010;340:c2240 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Falling research in the NHS
	Michael Rees, Frank Wells
	BMJ  2010;340:c2375 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health of indigenous peoples
	Chris Cunningham
	BMJ  2010;340:c1840 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Regulating medical students: Misconduct is a behaviour, not a state
	Andrew J Ashworth
	BMJ  2010;340:c2852 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulating medical students: Reduction to the absurd?
	Roderick Neilson
	BMJ  2010;340:c2855 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulating medical students: GMC registration is impractical
	Gerald Freshwater
	BMJ  2010;340:c2854 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulating medical students: Suffer the medical students?
	Christoph Lees
	BMJ  2010;340:c2856 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiovascular prevention: Go for targeted screening
	A C Felix Burden, Andrew Rouse
	BMJ  2010;340:c2866 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community pharmacy: Appalling bias
	Jonathan R Martin
	BMJ  2010;340:c2880 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community pharmacy: Costs of minor ailment schemes
	Navin S Sewak
	BMJ  2010;340:c2865 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Failure of modern textbooks: Memorable textbooks
	Anthony Papagiannis
	BMJ  2010;340:c2857 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	NICE recommends minimum price for alcohol to curb high risk drinking
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;340:c2927 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS Confederation chief quits over plans for staffing services for trusts
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2010;340:c2909 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c2908 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Judge rules that cancer patient should have lifesaving surgery
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2010;340:c2875 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spanish doctors set to carry out first double leg transplant in the world
	Maria de Lago
	BMJ  2010;340:c2905 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Donor fatigue is slashing access to AIDS care in Africa, warns charity
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;340:c2844 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA criticises latest plans for revalidation
	Rebecca Wilkins
	BMJ  2010;340:c2850 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	German experts question efficacy of expensive new cancer drugs
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2010;340:c2915 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS London chief resigns in protest at government axing of plans
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;340:c2879 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developing countries call on WHO to focus on public health issues not drug patents
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2010;340:c2867 (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:c2873 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Out of Hours: Why medicine is overweight
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2010;340:c2800 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Profile: Richard Budgett: Olympic challenge
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2010;340:c2904 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine in Developing Countries: Do schools hold the key to controlling parasitic disease?
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2010;340:c1565 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	How New Zealand has contained expenditure on drugs
	Jacqueline Cumming, Nicholas Mays, Jacob Daube
	BMJ  2010;340:c2441 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	The health and socioeconomic impacts of major multi-sport events: systematic review (1978-2008)
	Gerry McCartney, Sian Thomas, Hilary Thomson, John Scott, Val Hamilton, Phil Hanlon, David S Morrison, Lyndal Bond
	BMJ  2010;340:c2369 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Inpatient rehabilitation specifically designed for geriatric patients: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Stefan Bachmann, Christoph Finger, Anke Huss, Matthias Egger, Andreas E Stuck, Kerri M Clough-Gorr
	BMJ  2010;340:c1718 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	An independent and external validation of QRISK2 cardiovascular disease risk score: a prospective open cohort study
	Gary S Collins, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2010;340:c2442 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Unintended effects of statins in men and women in England and Wales: population based cohort study using the QResearch database
	Julia Hippisley-Cox, Carol Coupland
	BMJ  2010;340:c2197 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Spironolactone use and renal toxicity: population based longitudinal analysis
	Li Wei, Allan D Struthers, Tom Fahey, Alexander D Watson, Thomas M MacDonald
	BMJ  2010;340:c1768 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Evaluation of oral ulceration in primary care
	Vinidh Paleri, Konrad Staines, Philip Sloan, Adam Douglas, Janet Wilson
	BMJ  2010;340:c2639 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Diagnosis and management of idiopathic childhood constipation: summary of NICE guidance
	Lauren Bardisa-Ezcurra, Roz Ullman, Jenny Gordon, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c2585 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Competent Novice: Motivational interviewing
	Stephen Rollnick, Christopher C Butler, Paul Kinnersley, John Gregory, Bob Mash
	BMJ  2010;340:c1900 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10 Minute Consultation: Vitamin B-12 deficiency
	Ben Hudson
	BMJ  2010;340:c2305 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Jack Tinker
	Janet Fricker
	BMJ  2010;340:c2920 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	William Harry Ruxton Auld
	Charles D Auld
	BMJ  2010;340:c2914 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ian Keith Campbell
	Jes Russell
	BMJ  2010;340:c2890 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alexander Macdonald Clark
	A J Clark
	BMJ  2010;340:c2889 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neil Harrison Cox
	Colin Munro
	BMJ  2010;340:c2891 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Martyn Lewsey
	Tony Walsh
	BMJ  2010;340:c2774 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cyril John Elmes Monk
	Robert Owen
	BMJ  2010;340:c2906 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Philip Samuel Weston Wilkins
	John Owen
	BMJ  2010;340:c2892 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: What lies beneath this World Cup frenzy
	David Barr
	BMJ  2010;340:c2702 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Who owns my cells?
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c1598 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A sanatorium in a world of its own
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c2928 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Social World of the Ants Compared With That of Man
	Desmond O'Neill
	BMJ  2010;340:c2918 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: A fashion for uniformity
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c2926 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: Bedtime stories
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2010;340:c2925 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: The dizzy patient
	Bryan Joseph Renton
	BMJ  2010;340:c2646 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Independent samples t test
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c2673 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Epilepsy in children
	BMJ  2010;340:c2868 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Muthuswamy Nagarajan, Uma Raja, Bruce Pollock, Michael Murphy
	BMJ  2010;340:c2871 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;340:c2838 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Endpiece: "Big pharma"
	BMJ  2010;340:c2137 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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