Institutional and editorial misconduct in the MMR scare
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2011;342:d378 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Assuring research integrity in the wake of Wakefield
	Douglas J Opel, Douglas S Diekema, Edgar K Marcuse
	BMJ  2011;342:d2 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation and governance of clinical research in the UK
	Rosalind L Smyth
	BMJ  2011;342:d238 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The life imprisonment of Dr Binayak Sen
	P Zachariah, Ravi Narayan, Rakhal Gaitonde, Sara Bhattacharji, Anand Zachariah, Thelma Narayan
	BMJ  2011;342:d262 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The new BMJ series on therapeutics
	R E Ferner, P A Routledge, M Chew
	BMJ  2011;342:d37 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The BMJ is on the iPad
	David Payne, Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2011;342:d283 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Travel websites: Travel websites should highlight malaria risks
	John Widdrington, John Williams, David R Chadwick, Brendan McCarron
	BMJ  2011;342:d271 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thrombolysis in elderly people: Observational data insufficient to change treatment
	Richard I Lindley, Joanna M Wardlaw, Peter A G Sandercock
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	Thrombolysis in elderly people: Authors’ reply
	Kennedy R Lees, Nishant K Mishra
	BMJ  2011;342:d312 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	French drug reps: Say no to seeing sales reps
	Christophe Kopp
	BMJ  2011;342:d132 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A French king's head: Was it Henri IV’s head?
	Gino Fornaciari
	BMJ  2011;342:d293 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A French king's head: Authors’ reply
	Philippe Charlier, Jean-Pierre Babelon, Bruno Galland
	BMJ  2011;342:d301 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Point of credulity: Professor McLachlan’s fraud
	Avraham Fried
	BMJ  2011;342:d289 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Point of credulity: Author’s reply
	John C McLachlan
	BMJ  2011;342:d288 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Phantom vibration syndrome: Sixty eight per cent of us hallucinate
	Dave W H Baillie
	BMJ  2011;342:d299 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cycling and health: Pernicious use of surrogate markers
	Denis Crankshaw
	BMJ  2011;342:d302 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Too many referral forms?: Hail, universal referral form
	Marcus J Baw
	BMJ  2011;342:d285 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Denialism in public health: Beware SLEAZE tactics
	Simon Capewell, Ann Capewell
	BMJ  2011;342:d287 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Middle ear forceps: Likened to pike in German
	Michaela Ranta
	BMJ  2011;342:d292 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	GP consortiums will need first class management support, says Nuffield Trust
	Adrian O'Dowd
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	Cameron defends moving NHS "from closed markets to open systems"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2011;342:d363 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government has "systematically underestimated" cultural shift needed to implement reforms
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d330 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unions attack plan to allow providers to offer cut price services
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d331 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MPs call for thorough review of PFI to ensure value for money
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2011;342:d361 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MPs criticise UK government over poor transition planning
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2011;342:d358 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	UK government faces court challenge over medical abortion
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2011;342:d264 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulator drops cases against pharmacies offering homoeopathic malaria prophylaxis
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2011;342:d338 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Decline in US abortion rate has stalled, report says
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2011;342:d315 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Illinois assembly votes to abolish death penalty, but governor hesitates
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2011;342:d323 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Organ donors and transplantations decrease in Spain, the leading country in both
	Maria de Lago
	BMJ  2011;342:d242 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Welsh Assembly considers introducing opt-out scheme for organ donation
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2011;342:d273 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Transplantations fall in Israel as new law complicates procedures
	Tamara Traubmann
	BMJ  2011;342:d332 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chief rabbi rules against donor cards and organ donation after brain stem death
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2011;342:d275 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2011;342:d313 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Have we gone too far in translating ideas from aviation to patient safety? Yes
	James Rogers
	BMJ  2011;342:c7309 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Have we gone too far in translating ideas from aviation to patient safety? No
	David M Gaba
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Feature

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	Secrets of the MMR scare: The Lancet’s two days to bury bad news
	Brian Deer
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	Save the Children BMJ Christmas Appeal: Why Southern Sudan needs your help
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2011;342:d176 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	MMR and scientific fraud: Is research safe in their hands?
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2011;342:d284 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Life and Death: How far is it from no society to Big Society and back again?
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2011;342:d303 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lobby Watch: Civitas
	Jane Cassidy
	BMJ  2011;342:d61 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Six months of exclusive breast feeding: how good is the evidence?
	Mary Fewtrell, David C Wilson, Ian Booth, Alan Lucas
	BMJ  2011;342:c5955 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Use of weaning protocols for reducing duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill adult patients: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis
	Bronagh Blackwood, Fiona Alderdice, Karen Burns, Chris Cardwell, Gavin Lavery, Peter O'Halloran
	BMJ  2011;342:c7237 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Headache, migraine, and structural brain lesions and function: population based Epidemiology of Vascular Ageing-MRI study
	Tobias Kurth, Shajahal Mohamed, Pauline Maillard, Yi-Cheng Zhu, Hugues Chabriat, Bernard Mazoyer, Marie-Germaine Bousser, Carole Dufouil, Christophe Tzourio
	BMJ  2011;342:c7357 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association of change in daily step count over five years with insulin sensitivity and adiposity: population based cohort study
	T Dwyer, A-L Ponsonby, O C Ukoumunne, A Pezic, A Venn, D Dunstan, E Barr, S Blair, J Cochrane, P Zimmet, J Shaw
	BMJ  2011;342:c7249 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Non-invasive prenatal assessment of trisomy 21 by multiplexed maternal plasma DNA sequencing: large scale validity study
	Rossa W K Chiu, Ranjit Akolekar, Yama W L Zheng, Tak Y Leung, Hao Sun, K C Allen Chan, Fiona M F Lun, Attie T J I Go, Elizabeth T Lau, William W K To, Wing C Leung, Rebecca Y K Tang, Sidney K C Au-Yeung, Helena Lam, Yu Y Kung, Xiuqing Zhang, John M G van Vugt, Ryoko Minekawa, Mary H Y Tang, Jun Wang, Cees B M Oudejans, Tze K Lau, Kypros H Nicolaides, Y M Dennis Lo
	BMJ  2011;342:c7401 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Diagnosis and management of hereditary haemochromatosis
	M A van Bokhoven, C Th B M van Deursen, D W Swinkels
	BMJ  2011;342:c7251 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Therapeutics: New oral anticoagulants for thromboprophylaxis in patients having hip or knee arthroplasty
	John W Eikelboom, Jeffrey I Weitz
	BMJ  2011;342:c7270 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety Alerts: Early detection of complications after laparoscopic surgery: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
	Tara Lamont, Fran Watts, Sukhmeet Panesar, John MacFie, Dinah Matthew
	BMJ  2011;342:c7221 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Robert Cameron Affleck
	David Barnes
	BMJ  2011;342:d155 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John David Chaloner
	Dominic Faux
	BMJ  2011;342:d317 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Leopold Goldman
	Anne Lyons
	BMJ  2011;342:d318 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Susan Marie Hayward (née Moss)
	Andrew Cross, Edmund Hayward
	BMJ  2011;342:d314 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nigel Richard Steel
	Stephen Beardsworth, Fiona Thomson, Ricky Saharia
	BMJ  2011;342:d319 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alexander Stone
	D R Morgan
	BMJ  2011;342:d316 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Frank Ewart Webb
	Tim Webb
	BMJ  2011;342:d320 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: How campaigners and the media push bad science
	Andy Alaszewski
	BMJ  2011;342:d236 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View: Why do pharmacists sell homoeopathic remedies?
	Fred Kavalier
	BMJ  2011;342:d349 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Poverty, plague, and prison
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2011;342:d231 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Red Beard
	Mohsin Badat
	BMJ  2011;342:d232 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Overweening on weaning
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2011;342:d334 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: I’ll do anything
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2011;342:d309 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case Report: A rare cause of thunderclap headache
	Jonathan M Coutinho, Jan Stam
	BMJ  2011;341:c6054 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Meta-analyses II
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2011;341:d229 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Quiz: Managing a high international normalised ratio
	BMJ  2011;341:d251 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Araz Pourkashanian, Christopher Gubran, Russell C Davis
	BMJ  2011;342:d248 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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Filler

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	Endpiece: Banker, speculator, or gambler?
	BMJ  2011;342:c5880 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	End piece: Elocution lesson
	BMJ  2011;342:d233 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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