Editor's choice: Acts of no mercy
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2010;341:c4384 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	UK cancer survival statistics
	Valerie Beral, Richard Peto
	BMJ  2010;341:c4112 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Can dementia be prevented?
	Tobias Kurth, Giancarlo Logroscino
	BMJ  2010;341:c4201 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Survival after diagnosis of dementia in primary care
	Elizabeth England
	BMJ  2010;341:c3530 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Temperature changes and the risk of cardiac events
	Paola Michelozzi, Manuela De Sario
	BMJ  2010;341:c3720 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Radiosurgery for brain tumours
	Susan Short, Jeffrey Tobias
	BMJ  2010;340:c3247 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Congestive heart failure: Advances in management
	Jonathan R Dalzell, Mark C Petrie, Roy S Gardner
	BMJ  2010;341:c4280 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Congestive heart failure: Author’s reply
	Bruce Arroll
	BMJ  2010;341:c4282 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Congestive heart failure: Don’t forget rehabilitation
	Hasnain Dalal, Jackie Austin (Monmouthshire), Russell Davis ( Birmingham), Kate Jolly (Birmingham), Colin Green (Exeter), Bob Lewin (York), Rod Taylor (Exeter), David Thompson (East Melbourne, Australia), Robert Williams (Glamorgan), Jenny Wingham (Truro); on behalf of
	BMJ  2010;341:c4286 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stroke and endarterectomy: Pathway for transient ischaemic attacks
	Anthony Rudd, Geoff Cloud
	BMJ  2010;341:c4299 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing summary care records: Results from Scottish emergency care summary
	Libby M M Morris, Jonathan Cameron, Colin Brown, Jeremy C Wyatt
	BMJ  2010;341:c4305 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing summary care records: Same risks whichever way
	John R Nicholas
	BMJ  2010;341:c4304 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing summary care records: What about advance directives?
	Celia C Kitzinger
	BMJ  2010;341:c4307 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private finance initiative: Public finance indiscretion
	Andrew N Bamji
	BMJ  2010;341:c4295 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private finance initiative: Who owns these PFI contracts?
	Richard G Richards
	BMJ  2010;341:c4289 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Performance indicators: How valid are the indicators?
	G A Gooiker, R A E M Tollenaar
	BMJ  2010;341:c4284 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Expert witnesses: Hearings in camera are bad public policy
	Peter J Stephens
	BMJ  2010;341:c4294 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ruling on mercy killing: Suicide and euthanasia paradox
	Ian J MacCormick
	BMJ  2010;341:c4291 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rudeness at work: It’s rude to argue?
	D B Double
	BMJ  2010;341:c4301 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chocolate and blood pressure: Chocolate dose may be too much
	Karin Ried, Oliver R Frank, Nigel P Stocks
	BMJ  2010;341:c4176 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Aid agency pledges to carry on in Afghanistan despite medical workers’ deaths
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;341:c4366 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Costly referral management centres fail to deliver savings
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2010;341:c4351 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Flooding and insecurity threaten relief supplies to "hungriest place on earth"
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2010;341:c4261 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spain finally recognises thalidomide victims
	Miguel Jara
	BMJ  2010;341:c4335 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctor shortage and chronic underfunding spark crisis in Israel’s public hospitals
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2010;341:c4298 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tobacco industry makes plain cigarette packs an Australian election issue
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2010;341:c4300 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;341:c4288 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Moscow smog and nationwide heat wave claim thousands of lives
	Andrew Osborn
	BMJ  2010;341:c4360 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical negligence claims continue to rise, thanks to "no win no fee" deals
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2010;341:c4258 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scottish government is forced to consider alternatives to minimum alcohol price
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2010;341:c4285 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Royal Marsden reopens critical care unit destroyed by fire
	Josephine Hayes
	BMJ  2010;341:c4353 (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:c4339 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Asylum Centres: Poor diagnosis for asylum seekers’ health needs
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2010;341:c4106 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pain control: The politics of pain
	Tatum Anderson
	BMJ  2010;341:c3800 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	On the Contrary: Throwing the baby back into the bathwater
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2010;341:c4292 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Shifting views on lipid lowering therapy
	Harlan M Krumholz, Rodney A Hayward
	BMJ  2010;341:c3531 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Disparities in breast cancer mortality trends between 30 European countries: retrospective trend analysis of WHO mortality database
	Philippe Autier, Mathieu Boniol, Carlo LaVecchia, Lars Vatten, Anna Gavin, Clarisse Hery, Mary Heanue
	BMJ  2010;341:c3620 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Designing prevention programmes to reduce incidence of dementia: prospective cohort study of modifiable risk factors
	K Ritchie, I Carriere, C W Ritchie, C Berr, S Artero, M-L Ancelin
	BMJ  2010;341:c3885 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Survival of people with clinical diagnosis of dementia in primary care: cohort study
	Greta Rait, Kate Walters, Christian Bottomley, Irene Petersen, Steve Iliffe, Irwin Nazareth
	BMJ  2010;341:c3584 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short term effects of temperature on risk of myocardial infarction in England and Wales: time series regression analysis of the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) registry
	Krishnan Bhaskaran, Shakoor Hajat, Andy Haines, Emily Herrett, Paul Wilkinson, Liam Smeeth
	BMJ  2010;341:c3823 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Managing urinary incontinence in older people
	Subashini Thirugnanasothy
	BMJ  2010;341:c3835 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Easily Missed?: Ectopic pregnancy
	Sheikha Al-Jabri, Michael Malus, Togas Tulandi
	BMJ  2010;341:c3770 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10 Minute Consultation: Chalazion
	Esmaeil M Arbabi, Ross J Kelly, Zia I Carrim
	BMJ  2010;341:c4044 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Richard Pengelley Ashfield
	Peter Down, David Cove
	BMJ  2010;341:c4242 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Joseph Norman Blau
	Anne MacGregor
	BMJ  2010;341:c4246 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kenneth Brotherston
	Michael Ryan
	BMJ  2010;341:c4233 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ian Cameron Geddes
	J Edmund Riding, Ronald S Jones
	BMJ  2010;341:c3831 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paul Winchester Houghton
	Mark Houghton
	BMJ  2010;341:c4214 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Livingstone Wilson
	Neil I L Wilson
	BMJ  2010;341:c4234 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Does anyone care?
	BMJ  2010;341:c4310 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A decent man
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;341:c4345 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Acts of Mercy
	Colin Martin
	BMJ  2010;341:c4349 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Do charities need a health warning?
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2010;341:c4352 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: Casablanca
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2010;341:c4340 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: Loss of consciousness on turning the patient
	G I van Boxel, A J Goodman, J Green, R M Orme
	BMJ  2010;341:c3542 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Relative risks and statistical significance
	Philip Sedgwick, Louise Marston
	BMJ  2010;341:c4265 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Question: Anatomy
	BMJ  2010;341:c4272 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Y M Bhatt, A Nigam, M C J Sissons
	BMJ  2010;341:c4222 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2010;341:c4223 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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