Interactive case reports
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;338:b1012 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Passive smoking and cognitive impairment
	Mark D Eisner
	BMJ  2009;338:a3070 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of stroke and lifestyle
	Matthew F Giles
	BMJ  2009;338:b14 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adjunctive non-invasive ways of healing bone fractures
	Rudolf W Poolman
	BMJ  2009;338:b11 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systemic management of diabetic retinopathy
	Gerald Liew, Paul Mitchell, Tien Y Wong
	BMJ  2009;338:b441 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The National Dementia strategy in England
	Alistair Burns, Philippe Robert
	BMJ  2009;338:b931 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Breast screening: Standardise all leaflets now
	Ruth Talbot, James Williamson, Alexandra Martin
	BMJ  2009;338:b975 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast screening: Will ductal carcinoma in situ defeat breast cancer screening?
	John R Benson
	BMJ  2009;338:b957 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast screening: Reality of ductal carcinoma in situ
	Jane Flanders
	BMJ  2009;338:b958 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Polycystic ovary syndrome: The right to a diagnosis?
	Arnold G Zermansky
	BMJ  2009;338:b956 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heart failure: Heart failure is in need of a diagnosis
	Guy Lloyd
	BMJ  2009;338:b961 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heart failure: Assessing heart failure with normal ejection fraction
	Chris Danbury, Andrew Kitching
	BMJ  2009;338:b960 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS targets—good or bad?: Targets destroy morale and do not help patients
	Richard D Spicer
	BMJ  2009;338:b953 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	England gets five academic health science centres to compete on global stage
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b1005 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Supreme Court orders Wyeth to pay $6.7m in damages to guitarist who lost hand
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b964 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prominent celecoxib researcher admits fabricating data in 21 articles
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2009;338:b966 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obama reverses US federal funding restrictions on stem cell research
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b1011 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government removes data sharing clause from coroners’ bill
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b1009 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Expulsion of 13 relief agencies from Darfur could devastate health care
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b985 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b1010 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Target to reduce child mortality is under threat from lack of progress on diarrhoea
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b972 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aid agencies condemn drug confiscation
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2009;338:b1002 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inept laboratory work botched cancer patients’ results, inquiry finds
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2009;338:b952 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spain plans to legalise abortion on demand
	Maria de Lago
	BMJ  2009;338:b922 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Palestinian health crisis will end only with withdrawal of Israel
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b970 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dreadful visitations and deliverances
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2009;338:b1003 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From bench to bedside to population
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2009;338:b990 (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:b963 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	On the Contrary: Cry freedom
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2009;338:b982 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Research Transparency: Industry attack on academics
	Jonathan Gornall
	BMJ  2009;338:b736 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Patient and public involvement in chronic illness: beyond the expert patient
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2009;338:b49 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Exposure to secondhand smoke and cognitive impairment in non-smokers: national cross sectional study with cotinine measurement
	David J Llewellyn, Iain A Lang, Kenneth M Langa, Felix Naughton, Fiona E Matthews
	BMJ  2009;338:b462 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Combined effects of overweight and smoking in late adolescence on subsequent mortality: nationwide cohort study
	Martin Neovius, Johan Sundstrom, Finn Rasmussen
	BMJ  2009;338:b496 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Combined effect of health behaviours and risk of first ever stroke in 20 040 men and women over 11 years’ follow-up in Norfolk cohort of European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC Norfolk): prospective population study
	Phyo K Myint, Robert N Luben, Nicholas J Wareham, Sheila A Bingham, Kay-Tee Khaw
	BMJ  2009;338:b349 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of tobacco smoking on survival of men and women by social position: a 28 year cohort study
	Laurence Gruer, Carole L Hart, David S Gordon, Graham C M Watt
	BMJ  2009;338:b480 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Low intensity pulsed ultrasonography for fractures: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
	Jason W Busse, Jagdeep Kaur, Brent Mollon, Mohit Bhandari, Paul Tornetta third, Holger J Schunemann, Gordon H Guyatt
	BMJ  2009;338:b351 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Thyroid eye disease
	Petros Perros, Christopher Neoh, Jane Dickinson
	BMJ  2009;338:b560 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Diagnosis and treatment of advanced breast cancer: summary of NICE guidance
	N Murray, J Winstanley, A Bennett, K Francis, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2009;338:b509 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Points: High doses of deferiprone may be associated with cerebellar syndrome
	F Beau-Salinas, M A Guitteny, J Donadieu, A P Jonville-Bera, E Autret-Leca
	BMJ  2009;338:a2319 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A 38 year old woman with hypotensive shock at the onset of menstruation: case outcome
	Sergio Serrano Villar, Juncal Perez-Somarriba, Talia Sainz Costa, Sarah Winstanley, Tomas Santillana Lopez, Luis Escribano Mora, Baltasar Orejas Gonzalez
	BMJ  2009;338:b247 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: The value of complexity
	Ed Peile
	BMJ  2009;338:b796 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Managing clinician’s assessment
	Sergio Serrano Villar
	BMJ  2009;338:b868 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Think anaphylaxis
	Paul L A van Daele
	BMJ  2009;338:b846 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Condition is often overlooked
	Gerhard J Molderings
	BMJ  2009;338:b799 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Patient’s view
	Mrs Barroso, with the support of Sergio Serrano Villar
	BMJ  2009;338:b867 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Tony Smith
	Stephen Lock
	BMJ  2009;338:b983 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Albert Campbell Ball
	Bob Stout
	BMJ  2009;338:b844 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Samuel James Barr
	Patricia Barr, Geoffrey Barr
	BMJ  2009;338:b926 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Bishop Borthwick
	Grant Mooney, T B Anthony
	BMJ  2009;338:b726 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Howard Brewster
	John Brewster, Nigel Brewster, David Brewster
	BMJ  2009;338:b928 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	George William Arthur Hesse
	Peter D Angus
	BMJ  2009;338:b925 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Joan Frieda Trevelyan (née Scott)
	Krishna Somers
	BMJ  2009;338:b920 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Jeffery Miles Walker
	Harold Cohen
	BMJ  2009;338:b924 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Lack of political will is a clinical issue
	Tarek Meguid
	BMJ  2009;338:b1013 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: When death took a holiday
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2009;338:b941 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Too much information
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b938 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Studies on Hysteria
	Viv Lucas
	BMJ  2009;338:b989 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Letter from America
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b988 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In and Out of Hospital: A sax and a rose
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2009;338:b939 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture quiz: Imaging after trauma to the pelvis and hip
	B A Petrisor, M Bhandari
	BMJ  2009;338:b289 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: Something’s in the air
	Martin H de Borst, Marjolein E M Lacor
	BMJ  2009;338:b425 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	On Examination quiz
	BMJ  2009;338:b881 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;338:b853 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anton B Alexandroff, Alex Milligan
	BMJ  2009;338:b852 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	A fine thread
	Yasmin Drabu
	BMJ  2009;338:b341 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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