Critical thinking
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;338:b1662 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Management of lateral hip pain
	Roald Bahr, Karim Khan
	BMJ  2009;338:b713 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inhaled corticosteroids after respiratory syncytial virus infection
	Jenny Handforth, Jon S Friedland, Mike Sharland
	BMJ  2009;338:b164 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Social deprivation and poor prognosis after cardiac surgery
	Martin A Denvir, Vipin Zamvar
	BMJ  2009;338:b721 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increasing access to medicines
	Roger Finch, Sarah Garner
	BMJ  2009;338:b1397 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	HIV testing in primary care
	Gavin Bryce
	BMJ  2009;338:b1085 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Care of refused asylum seekers: Bad news for everyone
	Tom Yates, Lizzie Moore, Marion Birch, John S Yudkin, Alexander Macara
	BMJ  2009;338:b1597 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary medical care market: Destabilisation of primary care with equitable access
	John S Ashcroft
	BMJ  2009;338:b1600 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health checks every five years: Ankle brachial pressure index?
	Patrick Chong, David Gerrard, Peter Leopold
	BMJ  2009;338:b1599 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neurogenic bladder dysfunction: Bladder stimulation for neurogenic bladder
	Martin S Knapp
	BMJ  2009;338:b1603 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Competing interests et al: JAMA’s rule needs time limit
	Nigel Dudley
	BMJ  2009;338:b1615 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Competing interests et al: Stealth advertising and academic stalking
	David Antonuccio, David Healy
	BMJ  2009;338:b1612 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Studies on Hysteria: The dark side of Freud’s legacy
	Sarah C Vaughan
	BMJ  2009;338:b1606 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Three elderly patients died from inappropriate drugs, inquest finds
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b1657 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug industry protests over need to register trial results
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;338:b1652 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home birth as safe as in hospital for low risk women, study shows
	Helen MacDonald
	BMJ  2009;338:b1616 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government will still publish hospital standardised mortality ratios despite criticism
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b1641 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors warn against removing benefits from alcoholics who refuse treatment
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b1591 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should "body MOTs" and DNA profiling be regulated?
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2009;338:b1646 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b1633 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Amnesty International fears for safety of human rights activists in Sudan
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;338:b1636 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	FDA puts restrictions on an institutional review board after secret investigation
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b1618 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	West Africa has worst meningitis epidemic for 10 years
	Chibuzo Odigwe
	BMJ  2009;338:b1638 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obama’s team hopes to lower healthcare costs and increase insurance coverage
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;338:b1580 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New funding mechanism is launched to combat malaria
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;338:b1627 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patent pools: an idea whose time has come
	Elizabeth Sukkar
	BMJ  2009;338:b1630 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO policy on antivenom provision in Africa and Asia may result in more deaths, report says
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1629 (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:b1617 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Out of Hours: Fighting a lost cause?
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2009;338:b1621 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Doctors as leaders
	Candace Imison, Richard W Giordano
	BMJ  2009;338:b1555 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	This House believes doctors are neglecting their duty to lead health service change: Proposer
	Alan Maynard
	BMJ  2009;338:b1578 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	This House believes doctors are neglecting their duty to lead health service change: Opposer
	James Cave
	BMJ  2009;338:b1577 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	This House believes doctors are neglecting their duty to lead health service change: Seconder
	James Mountford
	BMJ  2009;338:b1572 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	This house believes doctors are neglecting their duty to lead health service changes: Second opposer
	Mark Goldman
	BMJ  2009;338:b1573 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Using financial incentives to achieve healthy behaviour
	Theresa M Marteau, Richard E Ashcroft, Adam Oliver
	BMJ  2009;338:b1415 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Comparison of fluoroscopically guided and blind corticosteroid injections for greater trochanteric pain syndrome: multicentre randomised controlled trial
	Steven P Cohen, Scott A Strassels, Leslie Foster, John Marvel, Kayode Williams, Matthew Crooks, Andrew Gross, Connie Kurihara, Cuong Nguyen, Necia Williams
	BMJ  2009;338:b1088 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Social deprivation and prognostic benefits of cardiac surgery: observational study of 44 902 patients from five hospitals over 10 years
	D Pagano, N Freemantle, B Bridgewater, N Howell, D Ray, M Jackson, B M Fabri, J Au, D Keenan, B Kirkup, B E Keogh, on behalf of the Quality and Outcomes Research Unit (QuORU) UHB Birmingham and the North West Quality Improvement Programme in Cardiac Interventions (UKNWQIP)
	BMJ  2009;338:b902 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Baseline self reported functional health and vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder after combat deployment: prospective US military cohort study
	Cynthia A LeardMann, Tyler C Smith, Besa Smith, Timothy S Wells, Margaret A K Ryan, for the Millennium Cohort Study Team
	BMJ  2009;338:b1273 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Improving quality of mother-infant relationship and infant attachment in socioeconomically deprived community in South Africa: randomised controlled trial
	Peter J Cooper, Mark Tomlinson, Leslie Swartz, Mireille Landman, Chris Molteno, Alan Stein, Klim McPherson, Lynne Murray
	BMJ  2009;338:b974 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The effect of high dose inhaled corticosteroids on wheeze in infants after respiratory syncytial virus infection: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial
	Marieke J J Ermers, Maroeska M Rovers, Job B van Woensel, Jan L L Kimpen, Louis J Bont, on behalf of the RSV Corticosteroid Study Group
	BMJ  2009;338:b897 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Clopidogrel in acute coronary syndromes
	Doson Chua, Andrew Ignaszewski
	BMJ  2009;338:b1180 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Diagnosis in General Practice: Diagnostic strategies used in primary care
	C Heneghan, P Glasziou, M Thompson, P Rose, J Balla, D Lasserson, C Scott, R Perera
	BMJ  2009;338:b946 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis in General Practice: Excluding serious illness in feverish children in primary care: restricted rule-out method for diagnosis
	Matthew J Thompson, Anthony Harnden, Chris Del Mar
	BMJ  2009;338:b1187 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines: Diarrhoea and vomiting caused by gastroenteritis in children under 5 years: summary of NICE guidance
	Rajesh Khanna, Monica Lakhanpaul, Shona Burman-Roy, M Stephen Murphy, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group and the technical team
	BMJ  2009;338:b1350 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Philip Poole-Wilson
	Tom Treasure
	BMJ  2009;338:b1639 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rex Ernest Coupland
	Stanley Monkhouse
	BMJ  2009;338:b1541 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Moullin Davies
	Elizabeth Davies, Peter Davies
	BMJ  2009;338:b1562 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Jeevan Muddappa Deyanda
	Patricia de Lacy
	BMJ  2009;338:b1554 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ian Kirkland Hart
	Nicholas Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b1465 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Brian Higgs
	Richard Higgs
	BMJ  2009;338:b1594 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bernard Cecil Rosenberg
	Rosemary Rosenberg, Sarah Rosenberg, Rebecca Rosenberg, David Fenton
	BMJ  2009;338:b1450 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sheila Margaret Spedding (née Ruell)
	Anne V Spedding
	BMJ  2009;338:b1592 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: It’s time to put the placebo out of our misery
	Robin Nunn
	BMJ  2009;338:b1568 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Pardon?
	John Quin
	BMJ  2009;338:b1277 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The cup of immoderation
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b1608 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Rigoletto
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2009;338:b1610 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Pride and prejudice
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b1632 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: Safe passage
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2009;338:b1637 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical question: Outcome measures in case-control studies
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b1575 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Painful joints and osteoarthritis
	BMJ  2009;338:b1579 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: A man with Wegener’s granulomatosis and haemoptysis
	Richard Lee, Rhodri Martin, David D'Cruz
	BMJ  2009;338:b1461 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;338:b1585 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nicole Sakka, Parmjit Duhra
	BMJ  2009;338:b1593 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Mental illness—not a laughing matter
	Naaheed Mukadam
	BMJ  2009;338:b708 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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