Editor's choice: Images of doctors
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2010;341:c4219 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Do white matter hyperintensities on MRI matter clinically?
	Anders Wallin, Tormod Fladby
	BMJ  2010;341:c3400 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Calcium supplements in people with osteoporosis
	John G F Cleland, Klaus Witte, Sue Steel
	BMJ  2010;341:c3856 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pharmacological enhancement of performance in doctors
	Colin Sugden, Rajesh Aggarwal, Charlotte Housden, Barbara J Sahakian, Ara Darzi
	BMJ  2010;340:c2542 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting self care for minor illness
	Irwin Nazareth, Elizabeth Murray
	BMJ  2010;340:c2913 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy
	Aziz Sheikh, Iris Venderbosch, Ulugbek Nurmatov
	BMJ  2010;340:c2938 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Coalition plans for English NHS: A recipe for disaster?
	Andrew C K Lee
	BMJ  2010;341:c4182 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coalition plans for English NHS: A poisoned chalice?
	Mark Strong
	BMJ  2010;341:c4179 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coalition plans for English NHS: We need some managers
	Stephen Black
	BMJ  2010;341:c4183 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bronchiectasis: Prevalence in general practice
	Nigel J Masters
	BMJ  2010;341:c4163 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Delays in paediatric surgery: "Own goal" or patients’ penalty?
	Peter J Mahaffey
	BMJ  2010;341:c4159 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GAVI and WHO: Demanding accountability
	Jacob M Puliyel
	BMJ  2010;341:c4081 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	AIDS and elderly people: Elderly Africans have AIDS too
	Niyi Awofeso, Anu Rammohan
	BMJ  2010;341:c4169 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Symmetrical polyarthritis: Time for treatment targets in rheumatoid arthritis
	Paul Emery, For the Treat to Target UK Steering Group: Maya H Buch (University of Leeds), Andrew Ostor (School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge), Bruce Kirkham (Rheumatology Department, Guy's Hospital, London), Peter Taylor (Department of Rheu
	BMJ  2010;341:c4170 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical complicity in torture: Time for WMA to take action
	John S Yudkin, Hadas Ziv, Ishai Menuchin
	BMJ  2010;341:c4105 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Competing interests: More queries about H1N1 scandal
	Marc Girard
	BMJ  2010;341:c3716 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tax on sugared drinks: How to raise the prices of unhealthy foods
	Jack T Winkler
	BMJ  2010;341:c4177 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ on obesity: What the journal says
	Simon Challand
	BMJ  2010;341:c4175 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Cut science funding at your peril, MP warns chancellor
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2010;341:c4180 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor mentoring is blamed for infant deaths after cardiac surgery at John Radcliffe hospital
	Jo Carlowe
	BMJ  2010;341:c4157 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK ranks eighth out of 13 developed countries on drug usage, finds analysis
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2010;341:c4128 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bulletin campaigns against withdrawal of Mixtard 30
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;341:c4210 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pool NHS and local authority spending to fund care for older people, says think tank
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2010;341:c4121 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Working time directive puts patients’ lives at risk, surgeons claim
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2010;341:c4212 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;341:c4197 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scottish NHS should not be exempt from budget cuts, independent review advises
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2010;341:c4160 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Urge more women who have previously had a caesarean section to have vaginal delivery, experts say
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;341:c4167 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK aid policy focuses on family planning for world’s women
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;341:c4135 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Agencies act to avert "public health catastrophe" in wake of floods in Pakistan
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;341:c4205 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US doctors’ groups criticise insurance companies’ ratings
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;341:c4168 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Foreign trained doctors score well in comparison with US colleagues
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;341:c4158 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Avandia panel member may be investigated for possible conflicts of interest
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;341:c4083 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New anatomical light is shed on old masterpiece
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2010;341:c4178 (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:c4185 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Dialogue: What can cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian doctors achieve?
	Jumana H Odeh, A Mark Clarfield, Tony Waterston
	BMJ  2010;340:c3081 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Ethics Man: When is restraint appropriate?
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2010;341:c4147 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Helping poorer countries make locally informed health decisions
	Kalipso Chalkidou, Ruth Levine, Andrew Dillon
	BMJ  2010;341:c3651 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	The clinical importance of white matter hyperintensities on brain magnetic resonance imaging: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Stephanie Debette, H S Markus
	BMJ  2010;341:c3666 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of calcium supplements on risk of myocardial infarction and cardiovascular events: meta-analysis
	Mark J Bolland, Alison Avenell, John A Baron, Andrew Grey, Graeme S MacLennan, Greg D Gamble, Ian R Reid
	BMJ  2010;341:c3691 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Genus β human papillomaviruses and incidence of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas of skin: population based case-control study
	Margaret R Karagas, Tim Waterboer, Zhongze Li, Heather H Nelson, Kristina M Michael, Jan Nico Bouwes Bavinck, Ann E Perry, Steven K Spencer, Janet Daling, Adele C Green, Michael Pawlita, for the New Hampshire Skin Cancer Study Group
	BMJ  2010;341:c2986 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Inequalities in premature mortality in Britain: observational study from 1921 to 2007
	Bethan Thomas, Danny Dorling, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2010;341:c3639 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	The vegetative state
	Martin M Monti, Steven Laureys, Adrian M Owen
	BMJ  2010;341:c3765 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Rational Testing: Investigating mildly abnormal serum aminotransferase values
	Jeremy F L Cobbold, Quentin M Anstee, Howard C Thomas
	BMJ  2010;341:c4039 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Patient's Journey: Two hip replacements
	Pat Tomlinson, Geoffrey J Stranks
	BMJ  2010;340:c1502 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Wyn Vaughan Evans
	Anne Evans
	BMJ  2010;341:c4133 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ridley Gibson
	Nicholas Clay
	BMJ  2010;341:c4132 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Magoveny King
	Richard Sill
	BMJ  2010;341:c4134 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Patrick Sexton
	Mike Sexton
	BMJ  2010;341:c4108 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thomas Frederick Stoyle
	Joe Dias, Chris Kershaw, Roeland Raymakers, Richard Power
	BMJ  2010;341:c4129 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Basil Wolman
	Roger Wolman, John Keen, Victor Miller, Robert Boyd
	BMJ  2010;341:c3832 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Zimbabwe’s health system is beginning to function again
	Kate Adams
	BMJ  2010;341:c4211 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: Prostate pain: a long, long story
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2010;341:c4213 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: How can we rediscover the magic of more equal societies?
	Robin Stott
	BMJ  2010;341:c4155 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A slippery slope
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;341:c4152 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Picture of a Lithotomy
	Desmond O'Neill
	BMJ  2010;341:c4156 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Hair haters
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2010;341:c4127 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: Ye olde Tudor health market
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2010;341:c4125 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical Question: Relative risks and confidence intervals
	Philip Sedgwick, Louise Marston
	BMJ  2010;341:c4166 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Question: ICD-10 classification
	BMJ  2010;341:c4116 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anatomy quiz: T2 weighted axial magnetic resonance image of the brain
	A Nair
	BMJ  2010;341:c4117 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: Recurrent vomiting and lethargy in an infant—just another viral illness?
	J Cheung, M Sharrard, H Clements
	BMJ  2010;341:c1037 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Charalambos Tossounis, Luke Clifford, David Farnworth
	BMJ  2010;341:c4027 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;341:c4029 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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