Who will deliver better public health?
	Fiona Godlee
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Editorials

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	Avoidance of endobronchial intubation
	Christopher J O'Connor
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	Intravenous thrombolysis for stroke
	Laurent Derex
	BMJ  2010;341:c5891 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is early retirement good for your health?
	Alex Burdorf
	BMJ  2010;341:c6089 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol and heart disease
	Annie Britton
	BMJ  2010;341:c5957 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The extension of personal budgets in social care and health
	Bob Hudson
	BMJ  2010;341:c6696 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	GP haemoglobinopathy screening: Coding issues at the coalface
	Anna Eleri Livingstone, Kambiz Boomla
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	GP haemoglobinopathy screening: GPs may not be the answer
	Richard P Smith
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	GP haemoglobinopathy screening: One more thing for GPs
	Kirsty Challen
	BMJ  2010;341:c6661 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and welfare reform: And another thing
	Melvyn M Jones
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	Doctors and welfare reform: Ask a social worker
	Jeremy Luke
	BMJ  2010;341:c6656 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	International tobacco control: Still some way to go in China
	Wen-Chao Yan, Yan-Jun Zhang, Jeff J Guo
	BMJ  2010;341:c6659 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Decision aids and screening: Information v promotion
	Ben Hudson
	BMJ  2010;341:c6650 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Decision aids and screening: Editorial was amoral
	Craig B Dalton
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	Measuring patient satisfaction: Theoretical foundation needed
	Edwin van Teijlingen
	BMJ  2010;341:c6319 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sticky labels: Labels unstuck
	Juliet C B Stevens
	BMJ  2010;341:c6652 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity related illness: Beware swallowing whole
	J Lennert Veerman, Jan J Barendregt
	BMJ  2010;341:c6660 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Seeking treatment abroad: Challenge of migrating patients
	Luisa M Massimo, Thomas J Wiley
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	Forcing treatment on patients: Guidelines, please
	Peter L Hall
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	Opiate substitution and death: GPs need guidance, please
	Peter Wilson
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	Obsolete clinical signs: Signs of the times
	Shyan Lii Goh
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News

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	Staff who dislike healthcare reforms should go now, says NHS chief
	Caroline White
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	Survival rate after NHS heart surgery is higher than European average
	Zosia Kmietowicz
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	In brief
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	Think rationally rather than intuitively to avoid diagnostic errors, doctors are told
	Rebecca Coombes
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	Integration of care should be at heart of NHS reform, says King’s Fund
	Helen Mooney
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	Commission is set up to consider law on assisted dying
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c6622 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC clears former BMA chairman of most charges
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c6667 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New HIV infections fall by a sixth in a decade
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2010;341:c6739 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	HIV drugs halve infection rate in men who have sex with men, study finds
	Bob Roehr
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	Pope’s comment on condom use will help HIV prevention, say activists
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;341:c6734 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More than a billion people can’t afford costs of healthcare, says WHO
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2010;341:c6715 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New charity hopes to provide cheap pulse oximeters to hospitals in poor countries
	Jane Feinmann
	BMJ  2010;341:c6649 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Indian government warns Indian Medical Association against product endorsements
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2010;341:c6695 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A quarter of patients in some European hospitals acquire infections
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2010;341:c6700 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US healthcare continues to lag behind other countries despite double the costs
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;341:c6628 (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:c6640 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Pathology: Imaging the dead
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2010;341:c6600 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public Health: Is the UK turning the clock back on public health advances?
	Jacqui Wise
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Observations

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	Body Politic: So whose business is public health?
	Nigel Hawkes
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	Medicine and the Media: Selling health to the public
	Margaret McCartney
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	Out of Hours: A lesson from Lapland
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2010;341:c6366 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Essay: Equality, sustainability, and quality of life
	Richard G Wilkinson, Kate E Pickett, Roberto De Vogli
	BMJ  2010;341:c5816 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Continuous positive airway pressure as treatment for systemic hypertension in people with obstructive sleep apnoea: randomised controlled trial
	Joaquin Duran-Cantolla, Felipe Aizpuru, Jose Maria Montserrat, Eugeni Ballester, Joaquin Teran-Santos, Jose Ignacio Aguirregomoscorta, Monica Gonzalez, Patricia Lloberes, Juan Fernando Masa, Monica De La Pena, Santiago Carrizo, Mercedes Mayos, Ferran Barbe, Spanish Sleep and Breathing Group
	BMJ  2010;341:c5991 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endobronchial intubation detected by insertion depth of endotracheal tube, bilateral auscultation, or observation of chest movements: randomised trial
	Christian Sitzwohl, Angelika Langheinrich, Andreas Schober, Peter Krafft, Daniel I Sessler, Harald Herkner, Christopher Gonano, Christian Weinstabl, Stephan C Kettner
	BMJ  2010;341:c5943 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Thrombolysis in very elderly people: controlled comparison of SITS International Stroke Thrombolysis Registry and Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive
	Nishant K Mishra, Niaz Ahmed, Grethe Andersen, Jose A Egido, Perttu J Lindsberg, Peter A Ringleb, Nils G Wahlgren, Kennedy R Lees, for the VISTA and SITS collaborators
	BMJ  2010;341:c6046 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of retirement on major chronic conditions and fatigue: French GAZEL occupational cohort study
	Hugo Westerlund, Jussi Vahtera, Jane E Ferrie, Archana Singh-Manoux, Jaana Pentti, Maria Melchior, Constanze Leineweber, Markus Jokela, Johannes Siegrist, Marcel Goldberg, Marie Zins, Mika Kivimaki
	BMJ  2010;341:c6149 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patterns of alcohol consumption and ischaemic heart disease in culturally divergent countries: the Prospective Epidemiological Study of Myocardial Infarction (PRIME)
	Jean-Bernard Ruidavets, Pierre Ducimetiere, Alun Evans, Michele Montaye, Bernadette Haas, Annie Bingham, John Yarnell, Philippe Amouyel, Dominique Arveiler, Frank Kee, Vanina Bongard, Jean Ferrieres
	BMJ  2010;341:c6077 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Three techniques for integrating data in mixed methods studies
	Alicia O'Cathain, Elizabeth Murphy, Jon Nicholl
	BMJ  2010;341:c4587 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Managing frostbite
	Marc-James Hallam, Tania Cubison, Baljit Dheansa, Chris Imray
	BMJ  2010;341:c5864 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Safety Alerts: Prescribing and monitoring lithium therapy: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
	David Gerrett, Tara Lamont, Carol Paton, Thomas R E Barnes, Amar Shah
	BMJ  2010;341:c6258 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Easily Missed?: Primary HIV infection
	Gautam Das, Piero Baglioni, Onyebuchi Okosieme
	BMJ  2010;341:c4583 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rational Testing: Investigation of peripheral neuropathy
	Richard Hughes
	BMJ  2010;341:c6100 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Alexander Fefer
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2010;341:c6712 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ali Bakran
	Ajay Kumar Sharma
	BMJ  2010;341:c6681 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aleya Banerjee
	Arpan Banerjee, Anjan Banerjee, Avijit Banerjee
	BMJ  2010;341:c6680 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Duncan Stewart Cameron
	J A Wilson
	BMJ  2010;341:c6678 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Howard Michael Parsons
	Luise Parsons
	BMJ  2010;341:c6679 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thomas Boyd Stirling
	Iain Stirling, Alistair Stirling, Fionna Stirling, Denys Wells
	BMJ  2010;341:c6683 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Winston Turner
	Alan Day
	BMJ  2010;341:c6682 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	What the white paper might mean for public health
	Anthony Kessel, Andy Haines
	BMJ  2010;341:c6623 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: On the blink
	John Quin
	BMJ  2010;341:c6072 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Lacking moral fibre
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;341:c6635 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: On Being Ill
	Barry Newport
	BMJ  2010;341:c6633 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Unreadable codes
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;341:c6694 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In and Out of Hospital: Who needs press releases?
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2010;341:c6638 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Anatomy quiz: Coronal computed tomography image through the face (bone windows)
	James Halls
	BMJ  2010;341:c6631 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: Forgotten, but not gone
	Emilie Sanchez, Sowsan F Atabani, Jana Kaplanova, Paul Griffiths, Anna Maria Geretti, Tanzina Haque
	BMJ  2010;341:c5246 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Quiz: Congenital neck masses
	BMJ  2010;341:c6468 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Reference and normal ranges
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;341:c6666 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Rebecca Campbell, Karen Hughes, Periasamy Balasubramaniam
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Filler

This week's Filler

	A memorable patient: Being prepared
	Camille Gajria
	BMJ  2010;341:c6249 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Calculate the carbon footprint of your hospital
	Paul Grant, Sarah Lou Bailey
	BMJ  2010;341:c2366 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Food (and cranberry juice) for thought
	Peter Lawrence Zaki Labib
	BMJ  2010;341:c5914 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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