Shared decisions
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;341:c7089 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Driving after a first seizure
	Charles Warlow
	BMJ  2010;341:c6890 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug treatment for users of smokeless tobacco
	Tim Lancaster, Lindsay Stead
	BMJ  2010;341:c6598 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Carbamazepine in pregnancy
	Irena Nulman
	BMJ  2010;341:c6582 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The new public health strategy for England
	Lindsey Davies
	BMJ  2010;341:c7049 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training programmes in global health
	Sten H Vermund, Carolyn M Audet, Marie H Martin, Douglas H Heimburger
	BMJ  2010;341:c6860 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Dutch perinatal mortality: Too early to question effectiveness of Dutch system
	Ank de Jonge, Ben Willem Mol, Birgit Y van der Goes, Jan G Nijhuis, Joris A van der Post, Simone E Buitendijk
	BMJ  2010;341:c7020 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch perinatal mortality: Results don’t seem generalisable
	Victor J Pop, Hennie Wijnen
	BMJ  2010;341:c7022 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch perinatal mortality: Authors’ reply
	Annemieke C C Evers, Hens A A Brouwers, Chantal W P M Hukkelhoven, Peter G J Nikkels, Janine Boon, Anneke van Egmond-Linden, Jacqueline Hillegersberg, Yvette S Snuif, Sietske Sterken-Hooisma, Hein W Bruinse, Anneke Kwee
	BMJ  2010;341:c7023 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch perinatal mortality: Study did a good job
	Jan P Vandenbroucke
	BMJ  2010;341:c7042 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stockholm Network: CEO replies
	Helen Disney
	BMJ  2010;341:c7013 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stockholm Network: Authors’ reply
	Steven Harkins, Melissa Jones, David Miller
	BMJ  2010;341:c7015 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Food and Drug Administration: FDA is gold standard of review
	Mark B Leahey
	BMJ  2010;341:c7004 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Food and Drug Administration: Surveillance and medical devices
	Alun Tomkinson, Wendy Harrison, Mark Temple, Peter Phillips
	BMJ  2010;341:c6999 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Orphan drugs: BioMarin Europe replies
	Adrian Quartel, James Lennertz
	BMJ  2010;341:c7006 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Orphan drugs: Viridian Pharma replies
	Timothy J Rockley
	BMJ  2010;341:c7010 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Orphan drugs: Regulation is flawed
	Carl E Counsell
	BMJ  2010;341:c7016 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Orphan drugs: Dutch situation is similar
	Marcel Bouvy
	BMJ  2010;341:c7018 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Low dose aspirin reduces risk of dying from a range of cancers
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;341:c7082 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Negotiators try to persuade Japan, Canada, and Russia to soften opposition to climate treaty
	John Vidal
	BMJ  2010;341:c7079 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;341:c7046 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consultants should be available to admit patients to hospital 12 hours a day
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2010;341:c7021 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Senior Tory minister is asked to scrutinise Lansley’s plans for NHS
	Nicholas Timmins
	BMJ  2010;341:c7024 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cuts in social care could put pressure on hospitals to care for dying patients
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2010;341:c7035 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	French doctors demand to know why drug stayed on the market for so long
	Paul Benkimoun
	BMJ  2010;341:c6882 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European Medicines Agency widens access to its documents
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2010;341:c7039 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New centre opens up clinical trials to more cancer patients
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;341:c7048 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tight regulation of French drug reps mean French doctors get more balanced information than doctors in the US
	Ann Silversides
	BMJ  2010;341:c6964 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Independent drug review group in Canada is squeezed out
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2010;341:c7009 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Babies born at night have higher risk of encephalopathy, Californian study shows
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;341:c7036 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	German anaesthetist is dismissed because of forged study
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2010;341:c7026 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Most Americans and Canadians get enough calcium and vitamin D, report says
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;341:c6998 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inequality in child health is greatest in Hungary, least in Netherlands, shows study of rich countries
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2010;341:c7034 (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:c7019 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Research Ethics: The rules of retraction
	Melanie Newman
	BMJ  2010;341:c6985 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The Bribery Act: what it means for you
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;341:c6996 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conflict and Rape: After war, what next?
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2010;341:c6910 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: what interventions work for victims of conflict related rape?
	Charlotte Woodhead, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2010;341:c7038 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Lobby Watch: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
	Jane Cassidy
	BMJ  2010;341:c6992 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	How do patients use information on health providers?
	Martin Marshall, Vin McLoughlin
	BMJ  2010;341:c5272 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What do patients want of performance information?
	Ilaria Passarani
	BMJ  2010;341:c6955 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Stopping smokeless tobacco with varenicline: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial
	Karl Fagerstrom, Hans Gilljam, Michael Metcalfe, Serena Tonstad, Michael Messig
	BMJ  2010;341:c6549 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of recurrence after a first seizure and implications for driving: further analysis of the Multicentre study of early Epilepsy and Single Seizures
	L J Bonnett, C Tudur-Smith, P R Williamson, A G Marson
	BMJ  2010;341:c6477 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Intrauterine exposure to carbamazepine and specific congenital malformations: systematic review and case-control study
	Janneke Jentink, Helen Dolk, Maria A Loane, Joan K Morris, Diana Wellesley, Ester Garne, Lolkje de Jong-van den Berg, for the EUROCAT Antiepileptic Study Working Group
	BMJ  2010;341:c6581 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Non-specific effects of standard measles vaccine at 4.5 and 9 months of age on childhood mortality: randomised controlled trial
	Peter Aaby, Cesario L Martins, May-Lill Garly, Carlito Bale, Andreas Andersen, Amabelia Rodrigues, Henrik Ravn, Ida M Lisse, Christine S Benn, Hilton C Whittle
	BMJ  2010;341:c6495 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Investigating and managing chronic scrotal pain
	S R Keoghane, M E Sullivan
	BMJ  2010;341:c6716 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Easily Missed?: Infective endocarditis
	Mark Connaughton, John G Rivett
	BMJ  2010;341:c6596 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Acute liver failure after administration of paracetamol at the maximum recommended daily dose in adults
	Lee C Claridge, Bertus Eksteen, Amanda Smith, Tahir Shah, Andrew P Holt
	BMJ  2010;341:c6764 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	James Noel Curran
	Mary Curran
	BMJ  2010;341:c7031 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aitolia English (née Georgiadis)
	Gill Haggie
	BMJ  2010;341:c7027 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Michael Giblin
	Myfanwy Giblin
	BMJ  2010;341:c7028 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anthony Mark Barrington Golding
	Catriona Richardson
	BMJ  2010;341:c6869 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Richard Humphrey Humphreys
	Peter Warren, Alison Humphreys, Patrick Richmond, Michael Johnson, Veronika Sekules, Roger Gamble
	BMJ  2010;341:c7032 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Douglas Ewen Walker
	William Todd, Alex Spence
	BMJ  2010;341:c7030 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Albert Dennis Wardle
	Rosalind M Wardle
	BMJ  2010;341:c7029 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Silent night
	Paul W Keeley
	BMJ  2010;341:c6989 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: Our chemical romance
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2010;341:c7052 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: Music and the art of being human
	John A Mathews
	BMJ  2010;341:c6965 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Doctors in the valleys
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;341:c6969 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Carry on Doctor
	Oliver Ellis
	BMJ  2010;341:c6967 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The problems of controlling controlled drugs
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;341:c7040 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In and Out of Hospital: Maternal mortality: how many miles to Bethlehem?
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2010;341:c6966 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical Question: Sources of bias in randomised controlled trials
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;341:c6995 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Question: Vaginal discharge
	BMJ  2010;341:c6976 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anatomy quiz: Sagittal computed tomography image through the face (bone windows)
	James Halls
	BMJ  2010;341:c6974 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: Raynaud’s phenomenon and macrocytic anaemia
	V Flower, J D Pauling, J A Shipley, N J McHugh
	BMJ  2010;341:c6011 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Chidi C Ekwobi, Lyndsey R Highton, Ahmed Zahir Babar
	BMJ  2010;341:c6960 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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