NHS reforms—why now?
	Fiona Godlee
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Editorials

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	Dr Lansley’s Monster
	Tony Delamothe, Fiona Godlee
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	Vitamin D and bone health in children
	Nick Shaw
	BMJ  2011;342:d192 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Palliative care in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	Andrew Thorns, Declan Cawley
	BMJ  2011;342:d106 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One nudge forward, two steps back
	Chris Bonell, Martin McKee, Adam Fletcher, Paul Wilkinson, Andy Haines
	BMJ  2011;342:d401 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Carbamazepine in pregnancy: Levetiracetam and lamotrigine are better options
	Ivan Iniesta
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	Carbamazepine in pregnancy: Author’s reply
	Irena Nulman
	BMJ  2011;342:d282 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Febrile neutropenia: National guidelines are urgently needed
	Michael A Przybylo, Achyut Guleri, Rashmi Sharma, Ruth Palmer
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	Reference intakes of vitamin D: Need to be implemented in UK
	Elina Hypponen, Barbara Boucher
	BMJ  2011;342:d444 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MMR scare: UCL’s response
	John Tooke, David Price
	BMJ  2011;342:d460 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MMR scare: Piltdown—hoax or fraud?
	Stephen F Hayes
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	Treatment abroad: A long journey to healing
	Tayeem Pathan, Amra S Rao
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	Assisted dying debate: Try another approach, BMJ
	Trisha Greenhalgh
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	Assisted dying debate: Put everything out in the open
	Stuart H McClelland
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	Assisted dying debate: Let’s get the words right too
	Aodhan Breathnach
	BMJ  2011;342:d461 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted dying debate: What of virtue and integrity?
	Rhona A Knight
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	Insulin manufacture: Marketing insulins
	Robert Tattersall
	BMJ  2011;342:d471 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Industry sponsored bias: NICE may be biased too
	Martin J Toal
	BMJ  2011;342:d474 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Commissioning will cost £1.3bn less every year under GP consortiums, says Lansley
	Jacqui Wise
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	NHS reforms may mean a drop in quality of GP services, warns watchdog
	Adrian O'Dowd
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	Hospital closures are inevitable under health reforms, conference hears
	Matthew Limb
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	Food and drink industry rejects claims of irresponsibility over obesity and alcoholism
	Adrian O'Dowd
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	Cochrane review questions evidence for statins for primary prevention in low risk groups
	Susan Mayor
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	Humana pulls out of UK as another private provider admits reforms are no "gold rush"
	Nick Timmins
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	In brief
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	Philadelphia doctor who ran "baby charnel house" is charged with murder
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2011;342:d489 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GSK set aside $3.4bn in last quarter of 2010 to cover legal costs
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
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	Rich countries dominate cancer league table
	Jo Carlowe
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	European parliament agrees rules on cross border healthcare
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2011;342:d492 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vaccination programme to protect children against pneumonia and diarrhoea needs more funds
	Kate Womersley
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	WHO calls for action to restrict marketing of unhealthy foods and drinks to children
	John Zarocostas
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	Hong Kong’s murky skyline is linked with excess deaths
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2011;342:d498 (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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	Briefing: Health and Social Care Bill
	Rebecca Coombes
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	Profile: Andrew Lansley and his big gamble
	Peter Davies
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	Embryology: New life for the HFEA?
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2011;342:d439 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Body Politic: Lansley had no choice but to make a full frontal assault
	Nigel Hawkes
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	Competing Interests: When do your politics become a competing interest?
	Gerry McCartney, Lisa Garnham, Darryl Gunson, Chik Collins
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	Yankee Doodling: Guns don’t kill crowds, people with semi-automatics do
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2011;342:d477 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Judging nudging: can nudging improve population health?
	Theresa M Marteau, David Ogilvie, Martin Roland, Marc Suhrcke, Michael P Kelly
	BMJ  2011;342:d228 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effects of vitamin D supplementation on bone density in healthy children: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Tania Winzenberg, Sandi Powell, Kelly Anne Shaw, Graeme Jones
	BMJ  2011;342:c7254 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: multi-perspective longitudinal qualitative study
	Hilary Pinnock, Marilyn Kendall, Scott A Murray, Allison Worth, Pamela Levack, Mike Porter, William MacNee, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2011;342:d142 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Monitoring adherence to drug treatment by using change in cholesterol concentration: secondary analysis of trial data
	Katy J L Bell, Adrienne Kirby, Andrew Hayen, Les Irwig, Paul Glasziou
	BMJ  2011;342:d12 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of Parkinson’s disease: nested case-control study
	Jane A Driver, Giancarlo Logroscino, Linda Lu, J Michael Gaziano, Tobias Kurth
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Clinical Review

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	From Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin: Preventing exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
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Practice

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	Easily Missed?: Joint hypermobility syndrome
	Juliette Ross, Rodney Grahame
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	A Patient's Journey: Joint hypermobility syndrome
	Isobel Knight, H A Bird
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	Guidelines: Management of generalised anxiety disorder in adults: summary of NICE guidance
	Tim Kendall, John Cape, Melissa Chan, Clare Taylor, On behalf of the Guideline Development Group
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Obituaries

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	Patrick Melvin Barclay
	Andrew Barclay
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	Mary Howarth Bunney
	Claire Benton
	BMJ  2011;342:d483 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eric Cecil Cowan
	Desmond B Archer
	BMJ  2011;342:d482 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ian Louis Foster
	Sarah Montgomery
	BMJ  2011;342:d321 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kenneth James McGhee
	Mary McGhee
	BMJ  2011;342:d484 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paul Wadsworth
	Bob Tranter
	BMJ  2011;342:d485 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Should the spectacle of surgery be sold to the highest bidder?
	Simon Chapman
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	Review of the Week: Reality bites
	Kinesh Patel
	BMJ  2011;342:d493 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Hiding and hauntings
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2011;342:d515 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Yellow Wallpaper
	Omar Mukhtar
	BMJ  2011;342:d428 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Greed isn’t good
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2011;342:d524 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Continuity of care
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2011;342:d445 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: An odd eruption
	A Abdul-Wahab, P Banerjee
	BMJ  2011;342:c6845 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Quiz: Gynaecomastia
	BMJ  2011;342:d395 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Meta-analyses III
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2011;342:d244 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Colin Chu, Nicholas Price
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