A future for NICE, and the world’s poorest children
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2010;341:c6422 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Decision rules in diagnosing subarachnoid haemorrhage
	Gabriel J E Rinkel
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	Screening for chronic kidney disease
	Bryce Kiberd
	BMJ  2010;341:c5734 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	After the abolition of the National Patient Safety Agency
	John Scarpello
	BMJ  2010;341:c6076 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future role of NICE
	Alan Maynard, Karen Bloor
	BMJ  2010;341:c6286 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Magnetic resonance mammography
	Malcolm R Kell
	BMJ  2010;341:c5513 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	NHS reforms: Author? Author?
	David Levine
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	NHS reforms: New ways to harm patients
	Hendrik J Beerstecher
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	NHS reforms: New ways to harm doctors
	Roswitha-E Goetze-Pelka
	BMJ  2010;341:c6309 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Glucosamine and osteoarthritis: Effect size is encouraging
	Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Marc C Hochberg, Patrick du Souich, Andre Kahan, Beat A Michel
	BMJ  2010;341:c6328 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Glucosamine and osteoarthritis: Conclusions not supported by methods and results
	Giampaolo Giacovelli, Lucio C Rovati
	BMJ  2010;341:c6338 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Glucosamine and osteoarthritis: Prescribed regimen is effective
	Jean-Yves Reginster, Roy D Altman, Marc C Hochberg
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	Glucosamine and osteoarthritis: Authors’ reply
	Peter Juni, Eveline Nuesch, Sven Trelle
	BMJ  2010;341:c6340 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data openness: Don’t forget preclinical science
	Andrew J Goudie
	BMJ  2010;341:c6324 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data openness: Maintaining trust
	Pim Kon, Andrew Freeman
	BMJ  2010;341:c6326 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chilean miners: Let’s hope doctor is misquoted
	Simon Wessely
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	Journals and consent forms: Policy needs to be revisited
	Abhijit M Bal, Andrew Collier, Al Dowie, Sujoy Ghosh
	BMJ  2010;341:c6147 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Elderly patients are dying after surgery because of poor care, review says
	Susan Mayor
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	Stafford inquiry will probe why external supervision failed
	Clare Dyer
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	In brief
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	Cardiologist Wilmshurt faces further claims of libel over radio comments
	Clare Dyer
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	Doctors hear about "minimally disruptive medicine" and the medical uses of YouTube
	Nigel Hawkes
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	Celebrating life
	Nigel Hawkes
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	Key players for new GP-led commissioning are already leaving jobs
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;341:c6272 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High court is to review UK government’s failure to stop export of death row drug
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c6301 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US adolescents get a fifth of their calories from fast food, study finds
	Bob Roehr
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	Drug companies to declare all payments made to doctors from 2012
	Jo Carlowe
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	Two doctors in Germany are convicted of taking bribes from drug company
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2010;341:c6359 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acute respiratory infections are world’s third leading cause of death
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;341:c6360 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Official resigns amid prostate screening controversy
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2010;341:c6346 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US Republicans take aim at health reform after electoral gains
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;341:c6358 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A third of world’s tuberculosis cases remain undetected, says WHO
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2010;341:c6396 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
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Feature

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	BMJ Christmas Appeal: Children need your help
	Justin Forsyth
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	Primary Care: Darzi centres: an expensive luxury the UK can no longer afford?
	Peter Davies
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Observations

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	Briefing: NICE and value based pricing: what do we know?
	Rebecca Coombes
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	Lobby Watch: The Stockholm Network
	Steven Harkins, Melissa Jones
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	Drug Policy: Drug pricing, NICE, and the PPRS: government gets it right
	Joe Collier
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	Medicine and the Media: Men and midlife crises
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2010;341:c5661 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Health technology assessments: what do differing conclusions tell us?
	Finn Borlum Kristensen, Ansgar Gerhardus
	BMJ  2010;341:c5236 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effects of vitamin E on stroke subtypes: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Markus Schurks, Robert J Glynn, Pamela M Rist, Christophe Tzourio, Tobias Kurth
	BMJ  2010;341:c5702 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Outcome selection and role of patient reported outcomes in contemporary cardiovascular trials: systematic review
	Kazem Rahimi, Aneil Malhotra, Adrian P Banning, Crispin Jenkinson
	BMJ  2010;341:c5707 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	High risk clinical characteristics for subarachnoid haemorrhage in patients with acute headache: prospective cohort study
	Jeffrey J Perry, Ian G Stiell, Marco L A Sivilotti, Michael J Bullard, Jacques S Lee, Mary Eisenhauer, Cheryl Symington, Melodie Mortensen, Jane Sutherland, Howard Lesiuk, George A Wells
	BMJ  2010;341:c5204 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Population based screening for chronic kidney disease: cost effectiveness study
	Braden Manns, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Marcello Tonelli, Flora Au, T Carter Chiasson, James Dong, Scott Klarenbach, on behalf of the Alberta Kidney Disease Network
	BMJ  2010;341:c5869 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Science, medicine, and the future: Translating genomics into improved healthcare
	Aroon D Hingorani, Tina Shah, Meena Kumari, Reecha Sofat, Liam Smeeth
	BMJ  2010;341:c5945 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Quality Improvement Report: Effect of a "Lean" intervention to improve safety processes and outcomes on a surgical emergency unit
	Peter McCulloch, Simon Kreckler, Steve New, Yezen Sheena, Ashok Handa, Ken Catchpole
	BMJ  2010;341:c5469 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety Alerts: Safer treatment doses for low molecular weight heparins: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
	Tara Lamont, David Cousins, Catherine Rosario
	BMJ  2010;341:c5884 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	David Geraint James
	Om P Sharma, Alimuddin Zumla, Correspondence to: O P Sharma osharma@usc.edu
	BMJ  2010;341:c6400 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parakath Asif
	Andrea Gait
	BMJ  2010;341:c6385 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Neville Phillips Hughes
	Gareth Crompton
	BMJ  2010;341:c6388 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Edwin Kerton
	Ian Kerton
	BMJ  2010;341:c6392 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	William Davis Porter
	Keith Edgar
	BMJ  2010;341:c6395 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Edmund James Raffle
	Kay Raffle, John Surtees, Graham Lowe
	BMJ  2010;341:c6397 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alan Edward Wilkinson
	Alan Wilkinson
	BMJ  2010;341:c6399 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Child patients: WNB not DNA
	Michael Roe
	BMJ  2010;341:c6332 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: Written on the body
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2010;341:c6122 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: How to rebuild global health
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2010;341:c5520 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Famous for nothing
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;341:c6379 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Unofficial Secrets: Child Sexual Abuse: the Cleveland Case and Child Sexual Abuse: Whose Problem? Reflections from Cleveland
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  2010;341:c6262 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Why evidence is bad for your health
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;341:c6368 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: Work not welfare
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2010;341:c6371 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	onExamination Quiz: Ketoconazole treatment
	BMJ  2010;341:c6279 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Skewed distributions
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;341:c6276 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anatomy quiz: Axial computed tomography image through the face (bone windows)
	James Halls
	BMJ  2010;341:c6297 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: Pain after amputation of the lower leg
	Adam Low, Sandeep Kapur
	BMJ  2010;341:c4578 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Cheri Mathews John, Katherine Panting, David de Berker
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