Iatrogenic radiation, and unethical health reforms
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2011;342:d1551 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Ethnicity and academic performance in the UK
	Aneez Esmail
	BMJ  2011;342:d709 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cystic fibrosis and survival in patients with advanced lung disease
	Elliott C Dasenbrook
	BMJ  2011;342:d726 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New drugs for hyponatraemia
	Anjali Amin, Karim Meeran
	BMJ  2010;341:c6219 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Using bibliometrics to define the quality of primary care research
	Alison L Weightman, Chris C Butler
	BMJ  2011;342:d1083 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A new mental health strategy for England
	Graham Thornicroft
	BMJ  2011;342:d1346 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs: Use of GLP-1 analogues needs great caution
	John S Yudkin, Richard Lehman, Harlan M Krumholz
	BMJ  2011;342:d1478 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs: Are GLP-1 analogues affordable?
	Donald Macaulay
	BMJ  2011;342:d1482 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypoglycaemia: Avoid 50% dextrose
	Mark L Evans
	BMJ  2011;342:d1470 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypoglycaemia: Hypoglycaemia unawareness
	David H Cove
	BMJ  2011;342:d1474 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Care of elderly people: Is there freedom of speech in the medical profession?
	Claire Hilton
	BMJ  2011;342:d1484 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	English north-south divide: Local authority budget cuts and health inequalities
	David Taylor-Robinson, Rachael Gosling
	BMJ  2011;342:d1487 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	India’s proposed pact with Europe may choke its generic drug exports, health rights activists fear
	Ganapati Mudur
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	German doctors are told to have an open attitude to placebos
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2011;342:d1535 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	GPs are accused of using profits from commissioning to meet practice expenses
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d1471 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctor who injected her sister with unlicensed drug is struck off register
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2011;342:d1512 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs could share profits from savings made through consortiums
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d1439 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lansley writes price competition out of the health bill
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2011;342:d1481 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chief medical officer post goes to woman for first time
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2011;342:d1469 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More women at low risk of problems should have midwife led care, says King’s Fund
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2011;342:d1495 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS managers are more worried about financial squeeze than reform, survey finds
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2011;342:d1496 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidance on intravenous fluid therapy is to be reviewed after six quoted articles are withdrawn
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2011;342:d1492 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US citizens report slightly less sexual activity than in 2002
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2011;342:d1500 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Norway’s plan to change placement scheme for trainee doctors proves controversial
	Kari Skinningsrud
	BMJ  2011;342:d1475 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Italian court edict over discharge rules causes controversy
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2011;342:d1494 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UN seeks $160m to help a million people affected by Libyan crisis
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2011;342:d1536 (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:d1457 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Should physicians routinely be involved in the care of elderly surgical patients? Yes
	Kathy Wilkinson, Helen Wilson
	BMJ  2011;342:d1070 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should physicians be routinely involved in the care of elderly surgical patients? No
	Barbara Herd
	BMJ  2011;342:d1072 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	BMJ Group Awards: Best Improvement in Quality and Safety
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2011;342:d1398 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genetics: The hunt for the mystery genes
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2011;342:d1463 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Body Politic: Talking therapies: can the centre hold?
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d1459 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Healthcare in Turkey: from laggard to leader
	Enis Baris, Salih Mollahaliloglu, Sabahattin Aydin
	BMJ  2011;342:c7456 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Ethnicity and academic performance in UK trained doctors and medical students: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Katherine Woolf, Henry W W Potts, I C McManus
	BMJ  2011;342:d901 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of weekly, low dose, high frequency ultrasound for hard to heal venous leg ulcers: the VenUS III randomised controlled trial
	Judith M Watson, Arthur R Kang'ombe, Marta O Soares, Ling-Hsiang Chuang, Gill Worthy, J Martin Bland, Cynthia Iglesias, Nicky Cullum, David Torgerson, E Andrea Nelson, on behalf of the VenUS III Team
	BMJ  2011;342:d1092 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Improved survival at low lung function in cystic fibrosis: cohort study from 1990 to 2007
	P M George, W Banya, N Pareek, D Bilton, P Cullinan, M E Hodson, N J Simmonds
	BMJ  2011;342:d1008 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Quality of chronic disease care for older people in care homes and the community in a primary care pay for performance system: retrospective study
	Sunil M Shah, Iain M Carey, Tess Harris, Stephen DeWilde, Derek G Cook
	BMJ  2011;342:d912 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Research output on primary care in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States: bibliometric analysis
	Julie Glanville, Tony Kendrick, Rosalind McNally, John Campbell, FD Richard Hobbs
	BMJ  2011;342:d1028 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	The risks of radiation exposure related to diagnostic imaging and how to minimise them
	H E Davies, C G Wathen, F V Gleeson
	BMJ  2011;342:d947 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Rational Testing: Investigating hyponatraemia
	Ammar Wakil, Jen Min Ng, Stephen L Atkin
	BMJ  2011;342:d1118 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Easily Missed?: Cholesteatoma
	Mahmood F Bhutta, Ian G Williamson, Holger H Sudhoff
	BMJ  2011;342:d1088 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	George Wadsworth
	Bert Clough
	BMJ  2011;342:d777 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Angus Donald
	R Thomson
	BMJ  2011;342:d1409 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Hugh Auchinleck Jewell
	Tony Jewell
	BMJ  2011;342:d1406 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Malcolm Mencer Martin
	Walton of Detchant
	BMJ  2011;342:d1403 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thomas John Phillips
	Eric Ward, David Beard, Jeremy Mills
	BMJ  2011;342:d1404 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Edward Pringle
	Hugh Pringle
	BMJ  2011;342:d1418 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Selby Strachan
	Peter Strachan
	BMJ  2011;342:d1330 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rupert Sykes
	P A Sykes
	BMJ  2011;342:d1405 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: It’s unethical for general practitioners to be commissioners
	Mark Sheehan
	BMJ  2011;342:d1430 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Keeping big pharma in check?
	Jerome P Kassirer
	BMJ  2011;342:d1103 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Frightening memoirs
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2011;342:d1427 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Wild Swans
	Belinda Magnus
	BMJ  2011;342:d1411 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Sticks and stones?
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2011;342:d1568 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: The prophet of nudge
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2011;342:d1448 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: Atypical diabetic retinopathy
	Hon Shing Ong, Areeb H Moosavi, Susanne R Althauser
	BMJ  2011;342:d678 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Quiz: Total hip replacement
	BMJ  2011;342:d1420 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Sampling methods II
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2011;342:d1387 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: A young woman with rigors and abdominal pain
	O A Leach, E J Gilbert, A Evans, G I van Boxel
	BMJ  2011;342:d689 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Ali Powell, James Sneddon, Paul Jenkins
	BMJ  2011;342:d1431 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2011;342:d1432 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Early days of anaesthesia and the BMJ
	Perry Board
	BMJ  2010;341:c3338 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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