Good medicine
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2009;338:b1455 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Hot tea and increased risk of oesophageal cancer
	David C Whiteman
	BMJ  2009;338:b610 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Eating a light diet during labour
	Soo Downe
	BMJ  2009;338:b732 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for MCAD deficiency in newborns
	Clodagh Loughrey, Michael J Bennett
	BMJ  2009;338:b971 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Practice based commissioning in the UK
	Stephen Gillam, Richard Q Lewis
	BMJ  2009;338:b832 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimally invasive surgery for breast cancer
	Monica Morrow
	BMJ  2009;338:b557 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Investigating thyroid nodules: What about the cost?
	Piero Baglioni, Oneybuchi Okosieme
	BMJ  2009;338:b1370 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic fatigue syndrome: Many questions remain about treatments for CFS
	Tom P Kindlon
	BMJ  2009;338:b1371 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust: Warnings about unsafe systems
	Peter Gooderham
	BMJ  2009;338:b1372 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acting on behalf of mentally disordered offenders: A bin is a bin by any other name
	John Alexander McFadyen
	BMJ  2009;338:b1311 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elite schoolboy footballers: Maturity needs further study
	Alexandre Palma
	BMJ  2009;338:b1373 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Pilot sites in England to test the impact of integrating health and social care
	Helen Mooney
	BMJ  2009;338:b1416 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Court hears how drug giant Merck tried to "neutralise" and "discredit" doctors critical of Vioxx
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2009;338:b1432 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	EU strengthens requirement for patients to get prior approval before being treated abroad
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1400 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK government agrees 1.5% pay rise for NHS doctors and dentists
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2009;338:b1387 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO calls for five year plan to tackle multidrug resistant tuberculosis
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2009;338:b1414 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parts of Italy’s law on assisted reproduction are ruled unconstitutional
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2009;338:b1447 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO urges governments to build better hospitals that can withstand disasters
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b1453 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	American Medical Association sues biggest US health plan over claims of underpayment of doctors
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b1427 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting hand washing, stroke prevention, and tobacco control are recognised at BMJ Group award ceremony
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;338:b1428 (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:b1423 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	How will the financial crisis affect health?
	M G Marmot, Ruth Bell
	BMJ  2009;338:b1314 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Look after the pennies
	Andrew Jack
	BMJ  2009;338:b1380 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	On the Contrary: What to cut
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2009;338:b1457 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Looking to Europe: Spain: a decentralised health system in constant flux
	Jose M Martin-Moreno, Paloma Alonso, Ana Claveria, Lydia Gorgojo, Salvador Peiro
	BMJ  2009;338:b1170 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effectiveness and safety of nicotine replacement therapy assisted reduction to stop smoking: systematic review and meta-analysis
	David Moore, Paul Aveyard, Martin Connock, Dechao Wang, Anne Fry-Smith, Pelham Barton
	BMJ  2009;338:b1024 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Neonatal vitamin A supplementation for prevention of mortality and morbidity in infancy: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
	Siddhartha Gogia, Harshpal Singh Sachdev
	BMJ  2009;338:b919 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Tea drinking habits and oesophageal cancer in a high risk area in northern Iran: population based case-control study
	Farhad Islami, Akram Pourshams, Dariush Nasrollahzadeh, Farin Kamangar, Saman Fahimi, Ramin Shakeri, Behnoush Abedi-Ardekani, Shahin Merat, Homayoon Vahedi, Shahryar Semnani, Christian C Abnet, Paul Brennan, Henrik Moller, Farrokh Saidi, Sanford M Dawsey, Reza Malekzadeh, Paolo Boffetta
	BMJ  2009;338:b929 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of food intake during labour on obstetric outcome: randomised controlled trial
	Geraldine O'Sullivan, Bing Liu, Darren Hart, Paul Seed, Andrew Shennan
	BMJ  2009;338:b784 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Cauda equina syndrome
	Chris Lavy, Andrew James, James Wilson-MacDonald, Jeremy Fairbank
	BMJ  2009;338:b936 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Rational Testing: Investigating hypertension in a young person
	Fabian Hammer, Paul M Stewart
	BMJ  2009;338:b1043 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Competent Novice: Practising safely in the foundation years
	Susannah Long, Graham Neale, Charles Vincent
	BMJ  2009;338:b1046 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	William T Close
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2009;338:b1438 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anthony James Allen
	P H Price, G W Thorpe
	BMJ  2009;338:b1412 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peter John Holmes Barron
	Tim Barron, Michael Atkinson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1243 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Geoffrey Bennett
	Michael Joy
	BMJ  2009;338:b1404 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hugh Sutherland Dodd
	Richard Firth, Jane Doran
	BMJ  2009;338:b1413 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sarah Kathryn Groome
	Brian Groome, Wendy Groome, Nigel Groome
	BMJ  2009;338:b1411 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Derek Herbert Isaac
	Tim Isaac
	BMJ  2009;338:b1409 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	William Thomas Walker Lawson
	Joanna Morris
	BMJ  2009;338:b1407 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Hospital chaplaincy services are not only for religious patients
	Mark Newitt
	BMJ  2009;338:b1403 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: City on the verge of a nervous breakdown
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1422 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The surgeon’s prayer
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b1392 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Det Syke Barn (The Sick Child)
	Colin Martin
	BMJ  2009;338:b1439 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Save our souls
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b1420 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: No going back
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2009;338:b1419 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: A skin lesion on the back of a young woman’s hand
	Jane Morris
	BMJ  2009;338:b980 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Interpreting a low P value
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b1381 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Upper gastrointestinal tract
	BMJ  2009;338:b1386 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: A 20 month old girl with respiratory distress
	D S Urquhart, S M Iqbal, J Bowman, S Suresh
	BMJ  2009;338:b1216 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Daniel El Fassi, Ove Juul Nielsen
	BMJ  2009;338:b1408 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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Filler

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	A memorable ward round
	Douglas Seaton
	BMJ  2009;338:b447 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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