Health is a human right
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;338:b136 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Neonatal screening for life threatening congenital heart disease
	Keith J Barrington
	BMJ  2009;338:a2663 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fish oil and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
	Eric Brunner, Hiroyasu Iso
	BMJ  2008;337:a2541 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient reported outcome measures in trials
	Andrew Garratt
	BMJ  2009;338:a2597 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Readmissions as a result of adverse drug reactions in older people
	Susan Morgan
	BMJ  2009;338:a2436 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changing behaviour through state intervention
	Theresa M Marteau, Adam Oliver, Richard E Ashcroft
	BMJ  2008;337:a2543 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Irritable bowel syndrome: The problem of insoluble fibre in irritable bowel syndrome
	Peter J Whorwell
	BMJ  2009;338:a3149 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Irritable bowel syndrome: Why pills more than skills?
	Gregory A Plotnikoff, Mark B Weisberg
	BMJ  2009;338:a3148 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Irritable bowel syndrome: Don’t forget amitriptyline
	John S Leeds, Clare M Leeds, David S Sanders
	BMJ  2009;338:a3150 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypersensitivity to HPV vaccine: More data from Australia on sensitivity to HPV vaccine
	Peter B McIntyre, Julia M L Brotherton, Margaret A Burgess, Andrew S Kemp
	BMJ  2009;338:b26 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How should health be defined?: Health is quality of process
	Peter Mansfield
	BMJ  2009;338:b83 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How should health be defined?: Why the definition of health matters
	Peter G Davies
	BMJ  2009;338:b28 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation's threat to research: Regulation of research
	David E B Powell
	BMJ  2009;338:a3140 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation's threat to research: Over-regulation, Russian style
	Vasiliy V Vlassov
	BMJ  2009;338:a3141 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Left-right discrimination: It’s all about coordination and laterality
	Adrian Drake-Lee
	BMJ  2009;338:b34 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality on Mount Everest: Important points in analysing deaths on Mount Everest
	Matiram Pun
	BMJ  2009;338:b41 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do antibiotics and alcohol mix?: Alcohol and sexual behaviour
	Sangeetha S Sundaram, S Samraj, Raj Patel
	BMJ  2009;338:b40 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Welsh rugby and the Pope: Effect of the Pope who would not die on Welsh rugby
	Paul W Keeley
	BMJ  2009;338:b38 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Welsh rugby and the Pope: Don’t worry, Your Holiness!
	Walter Gianni, Paola Gazzaniga, Stefano Zuccaro, Giuseppe Luzi
	BMJ  2009;338:b39 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risks from heavy metal music: 'Mosh pit' breast?
	Philip J Drew
	BMJ  2009;338:b42 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Primary care trusts lack the skills to implement Darzi reforms, say MPs
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b111 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UN reports big increase in number of civilian casualties in Gaza
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b137 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Older US women are less likely than men to get kidney transplants
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b98 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Germany abolishes its compulsory retirement age for doctors
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2009;338:b97 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health crisis in Zimbabwe is "man-made" and needs intervention from all UN states, report says
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;338:b100 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Less than half of essential drugs for children are available in most central African countries
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;338:b96 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK radiation workers have higher than normal cancer risk but lower overall death rate
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b64 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	London trusts lose out in proposed formula for funding primary care
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2009;338:b115 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Milburn is to head initiative to widen entry to medical training
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b116 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethnicity influences breast cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment but not survival, study finds
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;338:b91 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b101 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Working on the Congolese front line
	Brigitte Breuillac
	BMJ  2009;338:b63 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor nations’ health systems must be boosted to improve maternal and newborn health, Unicef says
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b120 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health workers protest at unfair trial in Iran of HIV doctors
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;338:b109 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2009;338:b76 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Genetics: Unravelling the secrets of ageing
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:a3024 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Body Politic: Resource allocation—it’s a jungle out there
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;338:b77 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Yankee Doodling: What should the US surgeon general do?
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2009;338:b122 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	What can we learn from drug marketing efficiency?
	David P Kao
	BMJ  2008;337:a2591 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: The balance between marketing and safety
	Keith Beard
	BMJ  2008;337:a2996 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Impact of pulse oximetry screening on the detection of duct dependent congenital heart disease: a Swedish prospective screening study in 39 821 newborns
	Anne de-Wahl Granelli, Margareta Wennergren, Kenneth Sandberg, Mats Mellander, Carina Bejlum, Leif Inganas, Monica Eriksson, Niklas Segerdahl, Annelie Agren, Britt-Marie Ekman-Joelsson, Jan Sunnegardh, Mario Verdicchio, Ingegerd Ostman-Smith
	BMJ  2009;338:a3037 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of fish oil on arrhythmias and mortality: systematic review
	Hernando Leon, Marcelo C Shibata, Soori Sivakumaran, Marlene Dorgan, Trish Chatterley, Ross T Tsuyuki
	BMJ  2008;337:a2931 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reporting and interpretation of SF-36 outcomes in randomised trials: systematic review
	Despina G Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Anastasia Karvouni, Ioanna Kouri, John P A Ioannidis
	BMJ  2009;338:a3006 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comorbidity and repeat admission to hospital for adverse drug reactions in older adults: retrospective cohort study
	Min Zhang, C D'Arcy J Holman, Sylvie D Price, Frank M Sanfilippo, David B Preen, Max K Bulsara
	BMJ  2009;338:a2752 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Evaluating service delivery interventions to enhance patient safety
	Celia Brown, Richard Lilford
	BMJ  2008;337:a2764 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Evaluating cardiovascular risk assessment for asymptomatic people
	Ian A Scott
	BMJ  2009;338:a2844 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	A Patient's Journey: Electroconvulsive therapy
	Matthew Webber
	BMJ  2008;337:a2998 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Atrial fibrillation
	Kathryn E Griffith, Maurice Pye
	BMJ  2008;337:a475 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Rapidly fatal invasive pertussis in young infants—how can we change the outcome?
	U Theilen, E D Johnston, P A Robinson
	BMJ  2008;337:a343 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Allan Rosenfield
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2009;338:b106 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Victor Clark
	Robin Sheppard, Emma Clark
	BMJ  2009;338:b59 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Desmond Peel Greaves
	Francis Greaves, Ellis Shenken
	BMJ  2009;338:a3062 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Anthony Morgan
	Tim Batchelor, Mark Yeatman, Martin Hetzel
	BMJ  2009;338:b54 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rosemary Pettersson (née Atkinson)
	Mike Pettersson
	BMJ  2009;338:b55 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Alexander Tulloch
	David Dorward, Morag Dorward
	BMJ  2009;338:b60 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Arthur Mayow Wadsworth
	Timothy Wadsworth
	BMJ  2008;337:a3053 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: What do you do if your bosses are bullies?
	BMJ  2009;338:a3108 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Regrets, I have a few
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b107 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: Snow
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2009;338:b110 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A fully rational life
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b74 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Coma
	Hugh Byrne
	BMJ  2009;338:a3117 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: A giddy dance
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2008;337:a2127 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: A woman attending for routine review of her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	Hilary Pinnock
	BMJ  2009;338:b70 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: Progressive shortness of breath
	K Guha, S Piper, P D Collins
	BMJ  2009;338:a3095 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Conditional probabilities
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b113 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quiz: Haemoptysis
	BMJ  2009;338:b125 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;338:b62 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Andrew Findlay, Ananda Chapagain, Deborah E Low, Michael T Sheaff, Neil Ashman
	BMJ  2009;338:b61 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Dangerous fresh fruit: un hommage to Monty Python
	Marc Mendelson
	BMJ  2009;338:a1106 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The other side of the fence
	Rebecca Anne Dobson
	BMJ  2009;338:a966 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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