Old, new—worse, better?
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2011;342:d1381 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Food allergy
	Penny Fitzharris, Jan Sinclair
	BMJ  2011;342:d933 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recurrence after unprovoked venous thromboembolism
	Frederick A Spencer, Jeffrey S Ginberg
	BMJ  2011;342:d611 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is breast cancer associated with tobacco smoking?
	Paolo Boffetta, Philippe Autier
	BMJ  2011;342:d1093 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health services for prisoners
	Michael Levy
	BMJ  2011;342:d351 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cannabis and the increased incidence and persistence of psychosis
	Wayne Hall, Louisa Degenhardt
	BMJ  2011;342:d719 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Is quality of care improving?: View from English pilot site of Safer Patients Initiative
	Stephen Ramsden
	BMJ  2011;342:d1313 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is quality of care improving?: View from Scottish pilot site of Safer Patients Initiative
	Patricia O'Connor
	BMJ  2011;342:d1314 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is quality of care improving?: Author’s reply
	Richard J Lilford
	BMJ  2011;342:d1317 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is quality of care improving?: Improvement efforts need to be targeted at junior doctors
	Rob Bethune, Alice Roueche, Toby Hilman
	BMJ  2011;342:d1323 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is quality of care improving?: What about value for money?
	Alan Maynard
	BMJ  2011;342:d1319 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is quality of care improving?: Hospital safety and complexity
	Anthony P Morton
	BMJ  2011;342:d1320 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aviation in patient safety: UK surgery already applies aviation safety practice
	Adam Lewis, Frank Smith, Peter Tait, Denis Wilkins
	BMJ  2011;342:d1310 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Old drugs, new tricks: Intravenous lipid emulsions in anaesthesia
	David R Uncles
	BMJ  2011;342:d1302 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of skin lightening creams: Survey in a UK general practice
	Supreet K Sidhu, Navreet Pau, Jasmeet S Sidhu, Pippa Oakeshott
	BMJ  2011;342:d1326 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of skin lightening creams: Some clinical pointers to use
	Femi Adebayo
	BMJ  2011;342:d1304 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of skin lightening creams: Dangers from mercury
	Kakoli Choudhury, Jill Morris, Henrietta Harrison, Eamonn O'Moore
	BMJ  2011;342:d1327 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood pressure measurement: Oscillometric devices are good in routine practice
	Mark R Nelson
	BMJ  2011;342:d1297 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood pressure measurement: Ramifications from how blood pressure is measured?
	David Leopold
	BMJ  2011;342:d1295 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Free speech and duty: Sleeping dogs should have been left to lie
	Andrew C Skinner
	BMJ  2011;342:d1299 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Free speech and duty: Juniors needed support over MMC/MTAS
	S Y Chan
	BMJ  2011;342:d1300 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Traits of disruptive doctors: The sin is not perfectionism but poor leadership
	Andre van As
	BMJ  2011;342:d1301 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Government leaves science advice to last minute in emergencies, find MPs
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2011;342:d1379 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One year cancer survival rates in England remain poor despite national strategies, report finds
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2011;342:d1374 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cuts threaten to undermine progress in reducing teenage pregnancies, charities claim
	Matthew Billingsley
	BMJ  2011;342:d1264 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unions clash with government on NHS job cut figures
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2011;342:d1261 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Few doctors believe NHS reforms will improve quality of patient care, shows BMA survey
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2011;342:d1382 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Report calls for National Commissioning Board to have strategic commissioning role
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2011;342:d1355 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Beer is no longer food for Russians
	Andrew Osborn
	BMJ  2011;342:d1369 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US Medicaid programme grows to cover 50 million low income people
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2011;342:d1303 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Australia makes a start on primary healthcare reform, at last
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2011;342:d1341 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Governments need to invest more to deal with health risks of teenagers, says Unicef
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2011;342:d1336 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2011;342:d1338 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tobacco firms move to stop FDA banning menthol cigarettes
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2011;342:d1368 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical journals with advertising are more likely than subscription journals to recommend drugs
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2011;342:d1335 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Employers in China flout laws which ban the testing of employees for hepatitis B
	Weiyuan Cui
	BMJ  2011;342:d1325 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New York bans smoking almost everywhere
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2011;342:d1294 (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:d1328 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Data briefing: What’s happening to waiting times?
	John Appleby
	BMJ  2011;342:d1235 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Group Awards: Research Paper of the Year: Simple interventions that save lives
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2011;342:d1202 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Child Protection: After Baby P: can GPs follow child protection guidance?
	Sue Learner
	BMJ  2011;342:d707 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Life and Death: The politics of fear
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2011;342:d1273 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Ethics and effectiveness: rationing healthcare by thresholds of minimum effectiveness
	Alena M Buyx, Daniel R Friedrich, Bettina Schone-Seifert
	BMJ  2011;342:d54 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Risk of recurrence after venous thromboembolism in men and women: patient level meta-analysis
	James Douketis, Alberto Tosetto, Maura Marcucci, Trevor Baglin, Benilde Cosmi, Mary Cushman, Paul Kyrle, Daniela Poli, R Campbell Tait, Alfonso Iorio
	BMJ  2011;342:d813 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association of active and passive smoking with risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women: a prospective cohort study
	Juhua Luo, Karen L Margolis, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Kimberly Horn, Catherine Messina, Marcia L Stefanick, Hilary A Tindle, Elisa Tong, Thomas E Rohan
	BMJ  2011;342:d1016 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Continued cannabis use and risk of incidence and persistence of psychotic symptoms: 10 year follow-up cohort study
	Rebecca Kuepper, Jim van Os, Roselind Lieb, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Michael Hofler, Cecile Henquet
	BMJ  2011;342:d738 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Provision of acute stroke care and associated factors in a multiethnic population: prospective study with the South London Stroke Register
	Juliet Addo, Ajay Bhalla, Siobhan Crichton, Anthony G Rudd, Christopher McKevitt, Charles D A Wolfe
	BMJ  2011;342:d744 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Widening access to medical education for under-represented socioeconomic groups: population based cross sectional analysis of UK data, 2002-6
	Jonathan Mathers, Alice Sitch, Jennifer L Marsh, Jayne Parry
	BMJ  2011;342:d918 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Pharmacological prevention of migraine
	Nathan Fenstermacher, Morris Levin, Thomas Ward
	BMJ  2011;342:d583 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Diagnosis and assessment of food allergy in children and young people: summary of NICE guidance
	A Sackeyfio, A Senthinathan, P Kandaswamy, P W Barry, B Shaw, M Baker, On behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2011;342:d747 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety Alerts: Safer insertion of suprapubic catheters: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
	Tara Lamont, Simon Harrison, Sukhmeet Panesar, Michael Surkitt-Parr
	BMJ  2011;342:d924 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Bernard Nathanson
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2011;342:d1358 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dariusz Butowski
	Romina Lopez Gaston
	BMJ  2011;342:d1332 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Michael Leighton Huntley Flindt
	Rupert Flindt
	BMJ  2011;342:d1329 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Marion Hildick-Smith
	David Hildick-Smith, Wendy Hildick-Smith, Philippa Hildick-Smith, Bryony Hildick-Smith
	BMJ  2011;342:d1174 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Edmund Steven Howarth
	Christina Oppenheimer
	BMJ  2011;342:d1331 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Norman Lees
	Penny Lees
	BMJ  2011;342:d1333 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stuart Gerard McPhee
	Ian Mellor, Sean Dornan, Anne Marie Brandon
	BMJ  2011;342:d1334 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Lost in translation: be aware of patients’ lives
	Joe Gallagher
	BMJ  2011;342:d1253 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: When rubella ruled
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2011;342:d967 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A real or imagined ailment?
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2011;342:d1269 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Tuesdays with Morrie
	Kathryn Kavanagh
	BMJ  2011;342:d1267 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From The Frontline: Bad medicine: gynaecological examinations
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2011;342:d1342 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: All the world’s knowledge
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2011;342:d1272 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Anatomy quiz: Axial computed tomography image through the base of the skull (bone windows)
	James Halls
	BMJ  2011;342:d935 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: Weight loss and hyponatraemia
	Nantia Othonos, Raashda Sulaiman, Domnick D'Costa, Rousseau Gama
	BMJ  2011;342:d405 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Quiz: Hernias
	BMJ  2011;342:d1259 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Sampling methods I
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2011;342:d1249 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Nick Child, Juan Fernandez, Peter O'Kane
	BMJ  2011;342:d1287 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2011;342:d1281 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	BMJ/Save the Children 2010 Christmas appeal: a thank you
	BMJ  2011;342:d1383 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How many consultants should you invite to a meeting to ensure it will never happen?
	Darrel P Francis
	BMJ  2010;341:c5906 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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