Dreaming of a fairer world
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;341:c3658 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Antibiotic prophylaxis after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
	Matthew Kurien, David S Sanders
	BMJ  2010;341:c2898 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity and poor sexual health outcomes
	Sandy Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  2010;340:c2826 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hearing loss and personal music players
	Peter M Rabinowitz
	BMJ  2010;340:c1261 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ten years of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation
	Kelley Lee, Andrew Harmer
	BMJ  2010;340:c2004 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community acquired pneumonia
	L Mandell
	BMJ  2010;341:c2916 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Four hour emergency target: Targets still lead care in emergency departments
	Suzanne Mason, Jon Nicholl, Thomas Locker
	BMJ  2010;341:c3579 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MS risk sharing scheme: Response from chair of scientific advisory committee
	Richard J Lilford
	BMJ  2010;341:c3590 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MS risk sharing scheme: Some clarification needed
	Richard G Richards
	BMJ  2010;341:c3589 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MS risk sharing scheme: Outcome based schemes are more common than you think
	Andrea Messori
	BMJ  2010;341:c3588 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Second generation mephedrone: The confusing case of NRG-1
	Simon D Brandt, Harry R Sumnall, Fiona Measham, Jon Cole
	BMJ  2010;341:c3564 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic kidney disease: Alternative view of CKD and QOF
	Andrew Connor, Donal O'Donoghue
	BMJ  2010;341:c3580 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic kidney disease: Reality at the coal face
	L Sam Lewis
	BMJ  2010;341:c3582 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic kidney disease: CKD is misunderstood
	Dominic de Takats
	BMJ  2010;341:c3574 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Competing interests: The odium of industry engagement
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  2010;341:c3575 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Competing interests: NICE conflicts
	Benjamin Dean
	BMJ  2010;341:c3581 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poland's market reforms: Different view of Polish health policy
	Jolanta Sabbat
	BMJ  2010;341:c3593 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Generic substitution: Reimbursement requires reform
	Martin G Duerden
	BMJ  2010;341:c3566 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Generic substitution: Controversy over generic substitution
	Jon Emery, Anne McKenzie, Caroline Bulsara, D'Arcy Holman
	BMJ  2010;341:c3570 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	GPs in A&E could help tackle rise in emergency hospital admissions
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;341:c3618 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs need better incentives to reduce health inequalities, says audit office
	Jo Carlowe
	BMJ  2010;341:c3558 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Italian auditor criticises contract for H1N1 vaccine
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2010;341:c3546 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK response to H1N1 pandemic was highly satisfactory, independent review says
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;341:c3569 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity among over 65s in UK reflects "lifetime of gaining weight"
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2010;341:c3585 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE issues the first of 150 quality standards for the NHS
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2010;341:c3536 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	IN BRIEF
	BMJ  2010;341:c3604 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Campaigners hope a vote for a complete smoking ban in Bavaria will spread to other German states
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2010;341:c3631 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Call for change in law on assisted suicide is defeated in conference debate
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c3568 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US teaching hospitals must address conflicts of interest, leadership group says
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;341:c3605 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study shows higher rates of neonatal mortality with planned home births
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;341:c3551 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New meningitis A vaccine is a "breakthrough" for 430 million people at risk
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;341:c3552 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spanish abortion law comes under threat as opposition groups win judicial review
	Maria de Lago
	BMJ  2010;341:c3606 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hanging in the balance
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;341:c3586 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Situation on health targets "is hardly any better" than it was 10 years ago
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;341:c3521 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Danes impose 25% tax increases on ice cream, chocolate, and sweets to curb disease
	Rebecca Wilkins
	BMJ  2010;341:c3592 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2010;341:c3561 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Medical Screening: Smear fears
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2010;340:c2830 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	BMA Presidency Acceptance Speech: BMA presidency acceptance speech: fighting the alligators of health inequalities
	Michael Marmot
	BMJ  2010;341:c3617 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Budget crises, health, and social welfare programmes
	David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee
	BMJ  2010;340:c3311 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Novel approach to antibiotic prophylaxis in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG): randomised controlled trial
	John Blomberg, Pernilla Lagergren, Lena Martin, Fredrik Mattsson, Jesper Lagergren
	BMJ  2010;341:c3115 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Efficacy of standardised manual therapy and home exercise programme for chronic rotator cuff disease: randomised placebo controlled trial
	Kim Bennell, Elin Wee, Sally Coburn, Sally Green, Anthony Harris, Margaret Staples, Andrew Forbes, Rachelle Buchbinder
	BMJ  2010;340:c2756 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Transdermal and oral hormone replacement therapy and the risk of stroke: a nested case-control study
	Christel Renoux, Sophie Dell'Aniello, Edeltraut Garbe, Samy Suissa
	BMJ  2010;340:c2519 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sexuality and obesity, a gender perspective: results from French national random probability survey of sexual behaviours
	Nathalie Bajos, Kaye Wellings, Caroline Laborde, Caroline Moreau, for the CSF Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c2573 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Perioperative acute kidney injury: risk factors, recognition, management, and outcomes
	Emma Borthwick, Andrew Ferguson
	BMJ  2010;341:c3365 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Management of bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in children and young people: summary of NICE guidance
	Cristina Visintin, Moira A Mugglestone, Ella J Fields, Paul Jacklin, M Stephen Murphy, Andrew J Pollard, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c3209 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety Alerts: Checking for pregnancy before surgery: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
	Tara Lamont, Tracy Coates, Dinah Mathew, John Scarpello, Andrew Slater
	BMJ  2010;341:c3402 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality Improvement Report: A telephone hotline for transient ischaemic attack and stroke: prospective audit of a model to improve rapid access to specialist stroke care
	Enda Kerr, Nolan Arulraj, Maggie Scott, Mike McDowall, Margrethe van Dijke, Sarah Keir, Peter Sandercock, Martin Dennis
	BMJ  2010;341:c3265 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	James Scott Robson
	Andrew Doig, Anne Lambie, Robin Winney
	BMJ  2010;341:c3535 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Jean Rosemary Campbell Burton-Brown
	Mary J Starbuck
	BMJ  2010;341:c3603 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mark Akim Erooga
	Marcus Erooga
	BMJ  2010;341:c3600 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Geoffrey Gilling-Smith
	Averil Mansfield
	BMJ  2010;341:c3597 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Jeffrey Joseph Segall
	Malcolm Segall
	BMJ  2010;341:c3599 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Henry Jeffray Weston
	Richard H R White
	BMJ  2010;341:c3596 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Owen Glynn Williams
	Erbin H Williams
	BMJ  2010;341:c3598 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Don’t forget the family
	Timothy C Mulherin
	BMJ  2010;341:c3486 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Exit, pursued by a carer: an opera about Alzheimer’s disease
	Alison Convey
	BMJ  2010;341:c3526 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A sore point
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;341:c3624 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
	Fred Kavalier
	BMJ  2010;341:c3524 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The end of targets?
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;341:c3619 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: Listen up: deafness and personal audio players
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2010;341:c3539 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: Dyspnoea in a 60 year old man
	Yuri K Gupta, Asif A Mazumder, David V Hughes, David C Howlett
	BMJ  2010;341:c3404 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: Decision about stopping hormone replacement therapy
	Helen Roberts
	BMJ  2010;341:c2421 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Pregnancy
	BMJ  2010;341:c3541 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Survival (time to event) data I
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;341:c3537 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Rajesh Nair, Greg Shaw, John Peters
	BMJ  2010;341:c3525 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;341:c3528 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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