Human as hero
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;338:b238 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Antibiotic prophylaxis for minor dermatological surgery in primary care
	Joseph E Grey, Brendan Healy, Keith Harding
	BMJ  2009;338:a2749 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Indoor radon and deaths from lung cancer
	Anssi Auvinen, Goran Pershagen
	BMJ  2009;338:a3128 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statins and familial hypercholesterolaemia
	Andrew Neil, Steve E Humphries
	BMJ  2009;338:a3041 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical safety checklists
	Jasmeet Soar, James Peyton, Michael Leonard, Anne M Pullyblank
	BMJ  2009;338:b220 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What should clinicians do when faced with conflicting recommendations?
	Andrew D Oxman, Paul Glasziou, John W Williams Jr
	BMJ  2008;337:a2530 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Coffee creamer as infant food: Nestlé’s works to ensure appropriate use of milk products
	Roland Stieger
	BMJ  2009;338:b196 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coffee creamer as infant food: Authors’ reply to Nestlé
	Hubert Barennes, Leila M Srour
	BMJ  2009;338:b198 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	End stage chronic lung disease: What is the best way to manage the last stages of COPD?
	Andrew Thorns
	BMJ  2009;338:b44 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	End stage chronic lung disease: Authors’ reply
	Daisy J A Janssen, Ton P G Alsemgeest, Guy A M Widdershoven, Emiel F M Wouters, Jos M G A Schols, Martijn A Spruit
	BMJ  2009;338:b45 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health in intellectual disability: Infectious diseases in people with intellectual disabilities
	Antoon A De Schryver, Andre Meheus
	BMJ  2009;338:b194 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality and outcomes framework: QOF as Trojan horse
	Dougal J Jeffries
	BMJ  2009;338:b191 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Eli Lilly pays record $1.4bn for promoting off-label use of olanzapine
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b217 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal health budgets are to be piloted in England this summer
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2009;338:b210 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical checklist reduces complications by one third
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;338:b157 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Palestinian doctor appeals for end to killing after losing three daughters
	Merav Sarig
	BMJ  2009;338:b213 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors call for experts to lead fact finding mission in Gaza
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b228 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	FDA allows drug firms to distribute journal articles about unapproved uses
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b187 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK firms sign up to display calories on menus
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2009;338:b182 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK government sets up inquiry into premature deaths in people with learning disabilities
	Janet Snell
	BMJ  2009;338:b227 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lack of funding prevents human-animal stem cell research in UK
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b207 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trusts back reading groups to boost health and wellbeing
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2009;338:b163 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b224 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Singapore to speed up medical council’s disciplinary procedures
	Ben Bland
	BMJ  2009;338:b226 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Germany’s organ procurement body wants powers to run donation process
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2009;338:b206 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Two thirds of US prisoners with chronic conditions in local jails do not get medical care, study shows
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b208 (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:b176 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Drug Industry: Radical treatments for difficult times
	Andrew Jack
	BMJ  2009;338:a2955 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Should the contraceptive pill be available without prescription? Yes
	Daniel Grossman
	BMJ  2008;337:a3044 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should the contraceptive pill be available without prescription? No
	Sarah Jarvis
	BMJ  2008;337:a3056 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Ethical Debate: Students whose behaviour causes concern: Case history
	BMJ  2008;337:a2874 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical debate: Students whose behaviour causes concern: Role of universities
	Jon Cohen
	BMJ  2008;337:a2884 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical Debate: Students whose behaviour causes concern: Ethical perspective
	Deborah Bowman
	BMJ  2008;337:a2882 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical Debate: Students whose behaviour causes concern: The GMC’s view
	Joan Trowell
	BMJ  2008;337:a2876 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical Debate: Students whose behaviour causes concern: Am I my brother’s keeper?
	Moses Galukande
	BMJ  2008;337:a2875 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Outcomes of conduct problems in adolescence: 40 year follow-up of national cohort
	Ian Colman, Joseph Murray, Rosemary A Abbott, Barbara Maughan, Diana Kuh, Tim J Croudace, Peter B Jones
	BMJ  2009;338:a2981 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does single application of topical chloramphenicol to high risk sutured wounds reduce incidence of wound infection after minor surgery? Prospective randomised placebo controlled double blind trial
	Clare F Heal, Petra G Buettner, Robert Cruickshank, David Graham, Sheldon Browning, Jayne Pendergast, Herwig Drobetz, Robert Gluer, Carl Lisec
	BMJ  2009;338:a2812 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lung cancer deaths from indoor radon and the cost effectiveness and potential of policies to reduce them
	Alastair Gray, Simon Read, Paul McGale, Sarah Darby
	BMJ  2009;338:a3110 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of Framingham risk score and new biomarkers to predict cardiovascular mortality in older people: population based observational cohort study
	Wouter de Ruijter, Rudi G J Westendorp, Willem J J Assendelft, Wendy P J den Elzen, Anton J M de Craen, Saskia le Cessie, Jacobijn Gussekloo
	BMJ  2009;338:a3083 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Efficacy of statins in familial hypercholesterolaemia: a long term cohort study
	Jorie Versmissen, Daniella M Oosterveer, Mojgan Yazdanpanah, Joep C Defesche, Dick C G Basart, Anho H Liem, Jan Heeringa, Jacqueline C Witteman, Peter J Lansberg, John J P Kastelein, Eric J G Sijbrands
	BMJ  2008;337:a2423 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Assessment and management of non-visible haematuria in primary care
	John D Kelly, Derek P Fawcett, Lawrence C Goldberg
	BMJ  2009;338:a3021 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Rational Imaging: Definitive characterisation of adrenal lesions
	J C Miller, M A Blake, G W L Boland
	BMJ  2009;338:a3092 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Carleton Gajdusek
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2009;338:b15 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Wylie Beattie
	Brian Payne, N Alan Green
	BMJ  2009;338:b117 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Simon Andrew William Samuel Biggart
	Clive Lawson
	BMJ  2009;338:b58 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ruth Abigail Mary Bridgewater
	Joe Kai
	BMJ  2009;338:b142 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sam Citron
	Neil Citron
	BMJ  2009;338:b143 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Johnson
	Graham Johnson
	BMJ  2009;338:b135 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Marcus Alexander Sleightholm
	Rhys Davies, Mike Smith
	BMJ  2009;338:b144 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Aid, aid everywhere but still not a drop in the sink
	Helena Watson
	BMJ  2009;338:a3136 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: In a class on their own
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b221 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: The currency of personal medical data
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2009;338:b218 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Desperate house calls
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b212 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Mary Barton
	Neil H Metcalfe
	BMJ  2009;338:a2721 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Cancer and its poster children
	Perri Klass
	BMJ  2009;338:b199 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: A 3 year old girl presenting with strabismus
	Catherine E Stewart, Clare M Wilson, Alistair R Fielder
	BMJ  2009;338:b68 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Measures of spread
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b230 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: Sudden onset of pain in the eye and blurring of vision
	Neha R Chopra, Daniel A Jones, Narasinha Gadi, Farhad Huwez
	BMJ  2009;338:a3111 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quiz: Murmurs
	BMJ  2009;338:b169 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;338:b162 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Balaji Ramabhadran, Peter Merry
	BMJ  2009;338:b168 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Are you working?
	Amanda Williams
	BMJ  2009;338:a859 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable 18 years
	Martin Carroll
	BMJ  2009;338:b123 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A thank you
	Holly B Fontenot
	BMJ  2009;338:b130 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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