Lessons from around the world
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;341:c6936 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Brazil’s Family Health Programme
	Matthew Harris, Andy Haines
	BMJ  2010;341:c4945 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Referral from primary to secondary care
	Moyez Jiwa
	BMJ  2010;341:c6175 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving access to treatment for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
	Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Veronika J Wirtz, Stefano M Bertozzi
	BMJ  2010;341:c6546 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Implantable cardioverter defibrillators after acute myocardial infarction
	Reginald Liew
	BMJ  2010;341:c5741 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Employee ownership in the NHS
	Chris Ham, Jo Ellins
	BMJ  2010;341:c6759 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Selecting tomorrow's doctors: Three ways to widen participation
	Susan E Duncan
	BMJ  2010;341:c6828 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selecting tomorrow's doctors: Go back to the future
	Raj S Bhopal
	BMJ  2010;341:c6834 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selecting tomorrow's doctors: Money, motivation, and medicine
	Omar A R Mahroo
	BMJ  2010;341:c6830 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antibiotic resistance: Intractable, and here’s why
	Madhab K Chattopadhyay, Hans-Peter Grossart
	BMJ  2010;341:c6848 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suicide and antidepressants: Beware extrapolation from ecological data
	Tarek A Hammad, Andrew D Mosholder
	BMJ  2010;341:c6844 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Extracorporeal life support: ECMO patients overestimated
	Andrew R Davies, Colin McArthur, Ian M Seppelt, Steven A R Webb
	BMJ  2010;341:c6847 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Priority setting in Israel: Trade-offs have to be made everywhere
	David Chinitz, Avi Israeli
	BMJ  2010;341:c6827 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Darzi centres: Not "costly duplication," but a complementary service
	John O'Malley
	BMJ  2010;341:c6849 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Darzi centres: Flawed assumptions have hampered emergency care
	John R Heyworth
	BMJ  2010;341:c6852 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GP-led commissioning: Let the competition begin
	David Allen
	BMJ  2010;341:c6833 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Academic sponsorship: Time to treat as independent
	Tom MacDonald, Chris Hawkey, Ian Ford
	BMJ  2010;341:c6837 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Open access citations: Still robust after three years
	Philip M Davis
	BMJ  2010;341:c6854 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK export of death row drug: Like rope to England, or steel to France
	Aston A A Knibb
	BMJ  2010;341:c6836 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Financial deal is vital for any climate change agreement, poor countries say
	John Vidal
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	"Local innovation" is to replace "central control" in public health strategy
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;341:c6938 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	UK business secretary imposes restrictions on export of execution drug
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c6915 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK sets out to measure happiness alongside GDP
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;341:c6824 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reporting scheme leads to cut in central line infection rates
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2010;341:c6861 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mutual organisation takes over ailing NHS hospital
	Nicholas Timmins
	BMJ  2010;341:c6876 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK women seek infertility treatment abroad because of shortage of donor gametes at home, survey finds
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c6874 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Strictly come medicine
	Kirsten Patrick
	BMJ  2010;341:c6934 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health atlas shows large variations in care in England
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2010;341:c6809 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rate of late diagnosis of HIV remains too high in UK, new data show
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;341:c6838 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stricter rules on prescribing will cut 1.3bn from Spain’s deficit
	Aser Garcia Rada
	BMJ  2010;341:c6817 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch health insurer ranks hospitals on breast cancer surgery
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2010;341:c6853 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Refocus on prevention and education to make progress on AIDS, say US scientists
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;341:c6920 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug companies may provide information directly to EU patients but under strict conditions
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2010;341:c6883 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Germany limits number of hospitals that care for very low birthweight babies
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2010;341:c6881 (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:c6808 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Brazil: Economic success threatens aspirations of Brazil’s public health system
	Tom Hennigan
	BMJ  2010;341:c5453 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Save the Children BMJ Christmas Appeal: Mobile clinics in Delhi
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2010;341:c6800 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Professional Values: Responsibilities beyond the patient
	Jacqui Wise, Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2010;341:c6832 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Life and Death: How can we learn from the killing of David Gray?
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2010;341:c6814 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics Man: Of interviews and examination machines
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2010;341:c6899 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: What next for public understanding of research?
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2010;341:c6862 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lobby Watch: Demos
	Jane Cassidy
	BMJ  2010;341:c6810 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Health equity in Brazil
	Frederico C Guanais
	BMJ  2010;341:c6542 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Community based integrated intervention for prevention and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Guangdong, China: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Yumin Zhou, Guoping Hu, Dali Wang, Shaoyi Wang, Yujun Wang, Zhigang Liu, Jinxin Hu, Zhe Shi, Gongyong Peng, Shengming Liu, Jiachun Lu, Jingping Zheng, Jian Wang, Nanshan Zhong, Pixin Ran
	BMJ  2010;341:c6387 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Integrated motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy for people with psychosis and comorbid substance misuse: randomised controlled trial
	Christine Barrowclough, Gillian Haddock, Til Wykes, Ruth Beardmore, Patricia Conrod, Tom Craig, Linda Davies, Graham Dunn, Emily Eisner, Shon Lewis, Jan Moring, Craig Steel, Nicholas Tarrier
	BMJ  2010;341:c6325 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between general and central adiposity in childhood, and change in these, with cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence: prospective cohort study
	Debbie A Lawlor, Li Benfield, Jennifer Logue, Kate Tilling, Laura D Howe, Abigail Fraser, Lynne Cherry, Pauline Watt, Andrew R Ness, George Davey Smith, Naveed Sattar
	BMJ  2010;341:c6224 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Explaining variation in referral from primary to secondary care: cohort study
	Dulcie McBride, Sarah Hardoon, Kate Walters, Stuart Gilmour, Rosalind Raine
	BMJ  2010;341:c6267 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Oesophageal cancer
	Jesper Lagergren, Pernilla Lagergren
	BMJ  2010;341:c6280 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: managing oesophageal cancer in a resource poor setting—a Malawian example
	Alexander Thumbs, Eric Borgstein
	BMJ  2010;341:c6723 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Practice Pointer: Assessing fitness for work and writing a "fit note"
	David Coggon, Keith T Palmer
	BMJ  2010;341:c6305 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Gout
	William E Cayley Jr
	BMJ  2010;341:c6155 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Frank Fenner
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2010;341:c6850 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Philip Russell Campbell
	Iain Serrell
	BMJ  2010;341:c6772 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prafulla Kumar Ganguli
	Stephen G Davies
	BMJ  2010;341:c6867 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Robert Harvey
	Neena Modi
	BMJ  2010;341:c6773 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Hirsch Highman
	Wilma Highman
	BMJ  2010;341:c6868 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Siddig Ahmed Ismail
	Khalid Elmalik
	BMJ  2010;341:c6871 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ramaiah Sampangi Ramaiah
	Jammi Nagaraj Rao
	BMJ  2010;341:c6870 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Why do obstetricians and midwives still rush to clamp the cord?
	David J R Hutchon
	BMJ  2010;341:c5447 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View: Towards an end to stillbirths
	Alexander E Heazell
	BMJ  2010;341:c5070 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: A slice of life
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2010;341:c6794 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: (Not such) good fortune
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;341:c6798 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: A Very Peculiar Practice
	Stuart Handysides
	BMJ  2010;341:c6791 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Why age matters in healthcare
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;341:c6891 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: Cover to cover
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2010;341:c6859 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: A woman with a distended abdomen
	A Shaw, B Smith, D Howlett
	BMJ  2010;341:c5878 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: z scores
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;341:c6746 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Quiz: Renal colic in general practice
	BMJ  2010;341:c6785 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	S Vaz Fernandes, M A Simons
	BMJ  2010;341:c6807 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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