Premature deaths should be the priority for prevention
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;341:c3946 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Strategies to prevent suicide
	D Gunnell, M Miller
	BMJ  2010;341:c3054 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Completed suicide after attempted suicide
	Keith Hawton
	BMJ  2010;341:c3064 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Faecal calprotectin for the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
	Robert Logan
	BMJ  2010;341:c3636 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reorganisation of the NHS in England
	Kieran Walshe
	BMJ  2010;341:c3843 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New WHO guidelines for the treatment of malaria
	Hugh Reyburn
	BMJ  2010;340:c2637 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Endometriosis: More on the missed disease
	Caroline Overton, Claire Park
	BMJ  2010;341:c3727 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Child influenza vaccination: Panvax febrile reactions not a predictor
	Ruth Lopert, Terry Nolan
	BMJ  2010;341:c3714 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing summary care records: Time for a rethink
	Roz Foad
	BMJ  2010;341:c3707 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Locum issues: The price of saving money
	Alexandros Tsikoudas
	BMJ  2010;341:c3875 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Locum issues: The elephant in out of hours primary care
	Timothy Jefferson Cantor
	BMJ  2010;341:c3881 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Locum issues: Time to tackle the system
	Erik T Walbeehm
	BMJ  2010;341:c3876 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Locum issues: New scheme for staff shortages
	Peter N Trewby
	BMJ  2010;341:c3880 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Locum issues: English as she is spoke
	Abhijit M Bal
	BMJ  2010;341:c3882 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetes and Ramadan: Fasts after bariatric surgery
	Fiona Chan, Chris Slater, Akheel A Syed
	BMJ  2010;341:c3706 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to think like an ethicist: Think like a cop
	Tom Koch
	BMJ  2010;341:c3702 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Circumcision: Parity for the sexes?
	Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  2010;341:c3888 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Strangulation by blind cords: Victoria offers safety kit
	Malcolm D Dobbin
	BMJ  2010;341:c3868 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Response: Open letter to Professor Peter Rubin, chair of the General Medical Council
	John M Bridson, Martin Samuels, Nigel Speight, Catherine Williams
	BMJ  2010;341:c3884 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	GPs will see little disruption in forthcoming NHS reforms, health secretary says
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;341:c3953 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Activists storm stage at AIDS conference to demand that funders meet their pledges
	Richard Hurley
	BMJ  2010;341:c3950 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Locked-in" patient asks for ruling on mercy killing
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c3943 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE recommended four in five drugs it evaluated in past decade
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;341:c3935 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK is ranked top out of 40 countries on quality of death thanks to hospice network
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;341:c3836 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Too few people in UK at high risk of stroke are getting carotid endarterectomies
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;341:c3879 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;341:c3858 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Baby P’s GP is suspended for 12 months for "limited insight" into his failings
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c3887 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Freedom of information requests could suffer in government cuts
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c3877 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	German doctors and politicians disagree on reimbursement for homoeopathy
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2010;341:c3902 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	FDA committee urges tight restrictions on rosiglitazone
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;341:c3862 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ugandan hospitals ration AIDS treatment as antiretrovirals start to run out
	Henry Wasswa
	BMJ  2010;341:c3900 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US announces its domestic strategy for tackling AIDS
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;341:c3817 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	North Korea’s healthcare system is in dire straits, says Amnesty report
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2010;341:c3903 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical supplies are trapped in Haitian ports as NGOs struggle with paperwork and delays
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2010;341:c3820 (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:c3861 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Private Finance Initiative: Hard times: is this the end of the road for the private finance initiative?
	Peter Davies
	BMJ  2010;341:c3828 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Child Protection: Expert witnesses above the parapet
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c3672 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	White Paper: GPs have reasons not to be so cheerful over commissioning plans
	Polly Toynbee
	BMJ  2010;341:c3839 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Life and Death: What do we want to die from?
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2010;341:c3883 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Malaria control beyond 2010
	Robert D Newman
	BMJ  2010;340:c2714 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effect of a barrier at Bloor Street Viaduct on suicide rates in Toronto: natural experiment
	Mark Sinyor, Anthony J Levitt
	BMJ  2010;341:c2884 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Method of attempted suicide as predictor of subsequent successful suicide: national long term cohort study
	Bo Runeson, Dag Tidemalm, Marie Dahlin, Paul Lichtenstein, Niklas Langstrom
	BMJ  2010;341:c3222 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overweight and obesity in mothers and risk of preterm birth and low birth weight infants: systematic review and meta-analyses
	Sarah D McDonald, Zhen Han, Sohail Mulla, Joseph Beyene, on behalf of the Knowledge Synthesis Group
	BMJ  2010;341:c3428 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Faecal calprotectin for screening of patients with suspected inflammatory bowel disease: diagnostic meta-analysis
	Patrick F van Rheenen, Els Van de Vijver, Vaclav Fidler
	BMJ  2010;341:c3369 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Functional decline after incident wrist fractures—Study of Osteoporotic Fractures: prospective cohort study
	Beatrice J Edwards, Jing Song, Dorothy D Dunlop, Howard A Fink, Jane A Cauley
	BMJ  2010;341:c3324 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Investigation and management of congestive heart failure
	Bruce Arroll, Robert Doughty, Victoria Andersen
	BMJ  2010;341:c3657 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Quality Improvement Report: Reducing Clostridium difficile infection in acute care by using an improvement collaborative
	Maxine Power, Neil Wigglesworth, Emma Donaldson, Paul Chadwick, Stephen Gillibrand, Donald Goldmann
	BMJ  2010;341:c3359 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety Alerts: Reducing the risk of retained swabs after vaginal birth: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
	Tara Lamont, Anita Dougall, Sara Johnson, Dinah Mathew, John Scarpello, Edward Morris
	BMJ  2010;341:c3679 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uncertainties Page: How beneficial is surgery for cervical radiculopathy and myelopathy?
	Ioannis P Fouyas, Peter A G Sandercock, Patrick F X Statham, Ioannis Nikolaidis
	BMJ  2010;341:c3108 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Ann Christine Evans
	Dan Cocker
	BMJ  2010;341:c3896 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Raymond Clive Gledhill
	Julia Gledhill
	BMJ  2010;341:c3894 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neville Emmanuel Lipkin
	Ashley Reece
	BMJ  2010;341:c3898 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	George Donald William McKendrick
	Mike McKendrick
	BMJ  2010;341:c3897 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christopher Wrey Savile
	Isabel Savile, John Surtees, John Prosser
	BMJ  2010;341:c3893 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	George Taylor
	J P Taylor
	BMJ  2010;341:c2338 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Will the new UK government change our approach to risk?
	Alys Cole-King, Peter Leppina
	BMJ  2010;341:c3890 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Fear of the known
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;341:c3912 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: All the Madmen
	David Ingle
	BMJ  2010;341:c3809 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Bad medicine: medicated minors
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;341:c3907 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: Civilisation
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2010;341:c3905 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture quiz: Black legs
	Futoshi Shintani, Masaki Izumi
	BMJ  2010;341:c3511 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: The log rank test
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;341:c3773 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Question: Asthma
	BMJ  2010;341:c3779 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2010;341:c3842 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	R A Sharma, L T Lim, B H Browne
	BMJ  2010;341:c3849 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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