Time to face up to the locums scandal
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;340:c3519 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Childhood cancer and proximity to mobile phone masts
	John F Bithell
	BMJ  2010;340:c3015 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acid suppressants and postoperative pneumonia
	Nimish Vakil
	BMJ  2010;340:c2254 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Towards more uniform conflict disclosures
	Jeffrey M Drazen, Peter W de Leeuw, Christine Laine, Cynthia Mulrow, Catherine D DeAngelis, Frank A Frizelle, Fiona Godlee, Charlotte Haug, Paul C Hebert, Richard Horton, Sheldon Kotzin, Ana Marusic, Humberto Reyes, Jacob Rosenberg, Peush Sahni, Martin B Van Der Weyden, Getu Zhaori
	BMJ  2010;340:c3239 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drugs for resuscitation after cardiac arrest
	Benjamin S Abella
	BMJ  2010;340:c1877 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What attributes should clinical ethics committees have?
	Raanan Gillon
	BMJ  2010;340:c2946 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	WHO and pandemic flu: What happened in Mexico
	Asa Cristina Laurell, Joel R Herrera
	BMJ  2010;340:c3465 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Response: WHO Director-General replies to the BMJ
	Margaret Chan
	BMJ  2010;340:c3463 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO and pandemic flu: There was also no new subtype
	Ron Law
	BMJ  2010;340:c3460 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO and pandemic flu: Time for change, WHO
	Tom Jefferson, Peter Doshi
	BMJ  2010;340:c3461 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO and pandemic flu: GlaxoSmithKline UK responds
	Pim Kon
	BMJ  2010;340:c3464 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO and pandemic flu: Another question for GSK
	Peter Doshi, Tom Jefferson
	BMJ  2010;340:c3455 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lower urinary symptoms in men: Older men: cataracts v prostates
	Lucy L J Howe
	BMJ  2010;340:c3446 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch on male circumcision: Non-therapeutic excision of the foreskin
	Antony D Lempert
	BMJ  2010;340:c3437 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Falling research in the NHS: Tackle deprofessionalisation and fragmentation
	Michael Moutoussis
	BMJ  2010;340:c3456 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Falling research in the NHS: Research passports haven’t streamlined processes
	Clare L Gardiner, Merryn Gott, Christine Ingleton
	BMJ  2010;340:c3450 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Falling research in the NHS: Consider fledgling researchers
	Surinder Singh, Richard Meakin, Steve Iliffe
	BMJ  2010;340:c3448 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Falling research in the NHS: Abolish new research governance infrastructure
	Steve W Goodacre
	BMJ  2010;340:c3449 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Trusts will regularly check how patients use personal health budgets
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;340:c3509 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care trusts should relinquish budgets to GPs right away, say NHS chiefs
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2010;340:c3487 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c3413 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Back to the future with the Welsh CMO
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c3382 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lost in translation: trust launches glossary of Yorkshire terms
	Rebecca Wilkins
	BMJ  2010;340:c3431 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE recommends widening choice of biological drugs for patients with rheumatoid arthritis
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;340:c3477 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National audit of care after mastectomy points to need for better information on reconstruction
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;340:c3506 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	China’s psychiatric hospitals collude with officials to stifle dissent, say civil rights’ groups
	Jane Parry, Weiyuan Cui
	BMJ  2010;340:c3371 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US gets least for healthcare spending; Netherlands the most
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c3406 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	German appeal court ruling gives support to right to die campaign
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2010;340:c3501 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US senator calls for tougher rules on ghostwriting
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c3504 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antivaccine lobby resists introduction of Hib vaccine in India
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2010;340:c3508 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA meeting: BMA representatives vote to ban homoeopathy from the NHS
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2010;340:c3513 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA meeting: BMA chairman demands better language checks for foreign doctors
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c3496 (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:c3429 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Locum Staff: How I tried to hire a locum
	Chris Isles
	BMJ  2010;340:c1412 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Locum Staff: Responsibilities of individual doctors
	Niall Dickson
	BMJ  2010;340:c3385 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cross border regulation of doctors
	Clare Dyer, Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2010;340:c3502 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	On the Contrary: Patient choice minus the ulterior motive
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2010;340:c3457 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Safer out of hours primary care
	Paul A Cosford, Justyn M Thomas
	BMJ  2010;340:c3194 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Community based lifestyle intervention for blood pressure reduction in children and young adults in developing country: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Tazeen H Jafar, Muhammad Islam, Juanita Hatcher, Shiraz Hashmi, Rasool Bux, Ayesha Khan, Neil Poulter, Salma Badruddin, Nish Chaturvedi, for the Hypertension Research Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c2641 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Exercise therapy after corticosteroid injection for moderate to severe shoulder pain: large pragmatic randomised trial
	Dickon P Crawshaw, Philip S Helliwell, Elizabeth M A Hensor, Elaine M Hay, Simon J Aldous, Philip G Conaghan
	BMJ  2010;340:c3037 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study
	Paul Elliott, Mireille B Toledano, J Bennett, L Beale, K de Hoogh, N Best, D J Briggs
	BMJ  2010;340:c3077 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postoperative pneumonia in elderly patients receiving acid suppressants: a retrospective cohort analysis
	Donald A Redelmeier, Finlay A McAlister, Christopher E Kandel, Hong Lu, Nick Daneman
	BMJ  2010;340:c2608 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Modified intention to treat reporting in randomised controlled trials: systematic review
	Iosief Abraha, Alessandro Montedori
	BMJ  2010;340:c2697 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Huntington’s disease
	Marianne J U Novak, Sarah J Tabrizi
	BMJ  2010;340:c3109 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Rational Testing: Investigating symmetrical polyarthritis of recent origin
	Allan Binder, Spencer Ellis
	BMJ  2010;340:c3110 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines: Management of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary and secondary care: summary of updated NICE guidance
	John O'Reilly, Melvyn M Jones, Jill Parnham, Kate Lovibond, Michael Rudolf, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c3134 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	David G Simons
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2010;340:c3488 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Masud Anwar
	Farrukh Masud, Tahir Masud, Saira Reynolds, Saima Masud
	BMJ  2010;340:c3470 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Benjamin Leon Gittelson
	John Salinsky
	BMJ  2010;340:c3467 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Jonathan Richard Pedder
	Sheilagh Davies
	BMJ  2010;340:c3345 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Graham Cleverly Pritchard
	Barry Pritchard
	BMJ  2010;340:c3466 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	William Stenhouse Taylor Thomson
	Frances J Dryburgh, Alastair C A Glen
	BMJ  2010;340:c3468 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hugh Whyte
	Lindsay McVicar
	BMJ  2010;340:c3469 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Where are the Churchills of the NHS?
	Yasmin Drabu
	BMJ  2010;340:c3069 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View: Accidental strangulation with a Venetian blind cord—a near miss
	Mahesh Masand
	BMJ  2010;340:c3458 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: In the line of fire
	Jonathan Kaplan
	BMJ  2010;340:c2967 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Much ado about nothing
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c3288 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Christ Stopped at Eboli
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2010;340:c3420 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Medicalisation of ageing: plastic people
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c3494 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: The traveller
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2010;340:c3492 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: A patient with CLL and a dry cough
	Dimitris A Tsitsikas, Sarah Vinicombe, Michael Sheaff, Stephen Ellis, Hasan Rizvi, Rohini Manuel, Samir G Agrawal
	BMJ  2010;340:c3051 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Factorial trials
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c3401 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Oncology
	BMJ  2010;340:c3408 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	R Goel, A McNair
	BMJ  2010;341:c3423 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;341:c3412 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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