Rules of conscience
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;338:b1972 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Home UVB phototherapy for psoriasis
	Alex Anstey
	BMJ  2009;338:b607 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Natriuretic peptides in elderly people with acute myocardial infarction
	Antonio Luiz P Ribeiro
	BMJ  2009;338:b787 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating failed asylum seekers in the NHS
	Christopher Newdick
	BMJ  2009;338:b1614 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Perinatal mortality in the Netherlands
	Marc J N C Keirse
	BMJ  2009;338:b1491 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Does the FDA have the authority to trump the Declaration of Helsinki?
	Michael D E Goodyear, Trudo Lemmens, Dominique Sprumont, Godfrey Tangwa
	BMJ  2009;338:b1559 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Blood glucose in type 2 diabetes: New QOF glycaemia targets are achievable and evidence based
	Simon Griffin, Jonathan Graffy
	BMJ  2009;338:b1915 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood glucose in type 2 diabetes: Time to abolish QOF
	Ted Willis
	BMJ  2009;338:b1916 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood glucose in type 2 diabetes: When is a target an inducement?
	Harry Hall
	BMJ  2009;338:b1918 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors as leaders: Leadership is not management
	David Oliver
	BMJ  2009;338:b1900 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors as leaders: If I had a hammer
	Joan McClusky
	BMJ  2009;338:b1901 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obama's team on health care: Rationing is needed in the US
	Adam M Ali
	BMJ  2009;338:b1903 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deprivation and prognosis: Home based cardiac rehabilitation could improve outcomes
	Hasnain M Dalal, Jenny Wingham, Philip Evans, Rod Taylor, John Campbell
	BMJ  2009;338:b1921 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deprivation and prognosis: Waste not, want not
	Michael R Chester, John Bridson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1924 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health promotion: Cycle to work scheme in the NHS
	Christopher M Jack, Max Edwards, Mirant Parikh, Samuel Rajaratnam
	BMJ  2009;338:b1896 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing medical research data: Financial conflicts should be included in online abstracts
	M Felix Freshwater
	BMJ  2009;338:b1934 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increasing access to medicines: Time for category of pharmacist consultation and supply
	Jeffrey K Aronson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1899 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Placebo misery: Escaping from placebo prison
	Jeremy Howick
	BMJ  2009;338:b1898 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Benefits and alcoholics: Feasibility study
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  2009;338:b1897 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	More people should be supported to die at home, MPs say
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b1965 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systemic failings in NHS contributed to death of Baby P
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2009;338:b1967 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Canadian media company demands right to publish direct to consumer drug advertising
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2009;338:b1912 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Merck defends Vioxx in court, as publisher apologises for fake journal
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2009;338:b1914 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Number of confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases doubles over one weekend
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b1962 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gaza patients "forced" to help security services in exchange for Israeli medical treatment
	Merav Sarig
	BMJ  2009;338:b1879 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b1951 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK adopts growth charts based on data from breastfed babies
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2009;338:b1892 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs should get specific training on dealing with patients’ alcohol problems, MPs hear
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b1913 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rules on top-up payments risk creating two tier system in NHS, MPs warn
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2009;338:b1973 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Watchdog warns government over inaccurate data on road casualties
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2009;338:b1906 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Young women at more risk of HIV infection than young men
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2009;338:b1883 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Agencies scale up search for alternatives to DDT to control malaria
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b1942 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deregistered psychiatrist is reconvicted for murder of former boss
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2009;338:b1911 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hackers demand $10m for eight million medical records they are holding "hostage"
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2009;338:b1917 (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:b1895 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Life and Death: Wit and the lost lessons of history
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2009;338:b1923 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Public Health: Betting on health
	Karen McColl
	BMJ  2009;338:b1456 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Should hospices be exempt from following national cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines? Yes
	Max Watson, Alan McPherson, Scott A Murray
	BMJ  2009;338:b965 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should hospices be exempt from following national cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines? No
	Claud Regnard, Fiona Randall
	BMJ  2009;338:b986 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Contrasting ethical policies of physicians and psychologists concerning interrogation of detainees
	Kenneth S Pope, Thomas G Gutheil
	BMJ  2009;338:b1653 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Home versus outpatient ultraviolet B phototherapy for mild to severe psoriasis: pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled non-inferiority trial (PLUTO study)
	Mayke B G Koek, Erik Buskens, Huib van Weelden, Paul H A Steegmans, Carla A F M Bruijnzeel-Koomen, Vigfus Sigurdsson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1542 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surgical treatments for men with benign prostatic enlargement: cost effectiveness study
	Nigel Armstrong, Luke Vale, Mark Deverill, Ghulam Nabi, Samuel McClinton, James N'Dow, Robert Pickard, for the BPE Study Group
	BMJ  2009;338:b1288 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Longitudinal community plasma HIV-1 RNA concentrations and incidence of HIV-1 among injecting drug users: prospective cohort study
	Evan Wood, Thomas Kerr, Brandon D L Marshall, Kathy Li, Ruth Zhang, Robert S Hogg, P Richard Harrigan, Julio S G Montaner
	BMJ  2009;338:b1649 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research

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	Prognostic value of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in elderly people with acute myocardial infarction: prospective observational study
	L Lorgis, M Zeller, G Dentan, P Sicard, P Buffet, I L'Huillier, J C Beer, M Vincent-Martin, H Makki, P Gambert, Y Cottin, on behalf of the RICO Survey Working Group
	BMJ  2009;338:b1605 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	The role of surgery in Clostridium difficile colitis
	S E Noblett, M Welfare, K Seymour
	BMJ  2009;338:b1563 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Easily Missed?: Streptococcal perianal infection in children
	Richard Lehman, Sarah Pinder
	BMJ  2009;338:b1517 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Patient's Journey: Polycystic kidney disease
	K Schipper, Tineke A Abma, Ronald J Hene, Guy A M Widdershoven
	BMJ  2009;338:b1595 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10 Minute Consultation: Genital warts
	Elizabeth K Delaney, Steve Baguley
	BMJ  2008;337:a1171 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Distinguishing optic disc drusen from papilloedema
	Kuang Hu, Alison Davis, Eoin O'Sullivan
	BMJ  2008;337:a2360 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Point: Strontium ranelate may cause alopecia
	Maria Sainz, Javier Garcia del Pozo, Luis H Martin Arias, Alfonso Carvajal
	BMJ  2009;338:b1494 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	John Watson
	Tom Cochrane, Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2009;338:b1607 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stanley Allen
	Stanley Allen, Susan Collins
	BMJ  2009;338:b1943 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sheila Margaret Child (née Mclean)
	David Child
	BMJ  2009;338:b1946 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Edward Bancroft Jarrett
	Peter Down
	BMJ  2009;338:b1796 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Percy Jewsbury
	M E Jewsbury
	BMJ  2009;338:b1944 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nancy Loudon (née Mann)
	Ailsa E Gebbie
	BMJ  2009;338:b1945 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robert Duncan McKendrick
	Robert Thompson, Jess McKendrick
	BMJ  2009;338:b1947 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Marshall Matthews
	Andrew D B Harrower, W T Andrew Todd
	BMJ  2009;338:b1788 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: The BMJ, of all places
	Ram Poluri
	BMJ  2009;338:b1178 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Cutting it
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  2009;338:b1933 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Do not go gentle into A&E
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b1920 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Medical Ethics or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2009;338:b1936 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: From the outside in
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b1957 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: The unknown warrior
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2009;338:b1919 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: Femur fracture in an infant
	Jenny S Radesky, Naomi F Sugar
	BMJ  2009;338:b1583 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: Unwell man with abdominal pain
	R J Currie, A Watkinson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1635 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Correlation
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b1804 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Deepa Anijeet, Hannah Timlin, Roshini Sanders
	BMJ  2009;338:b1885 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2009;338:b1882 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	A room with a view
	Suzy Stokes
	BMJ  2009;338:b717 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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