A new era for blood pressure management
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;338:b2068 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Management of blood pressure in primary care
	Richard J McManus, Jonathan Mant
	BMJ  2009;338:b940 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical training using simulation
	Roger Kneebone, Rajesh Aggarwal
	BMJ  2009;338:b1001 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Folic acid fortification and congenital heart disease
	Helena M Gardiner, Jean-Claude Fouron
	BMJ  2009;338:b1144 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children’s health and the financial crisis
	Terence Stephenson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1783 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safeguarding NHS standards
	Rudolf Klein
	BMJ  2009;338:b1958 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Obstructive sleep apnoea: Treat sleep apnoea before people fall asleep at the wheel
	Nic Tweddell, Seb Schmoller
	BMJ  2009;338:b1976 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Combating malaria: Try public health measures in Africa too
	Felix I D Konotey-Ahulu
	BMJ  2009;338:b1971 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Combating malaria: Public health measures work
	Yolande M Agble
	BMJ  2009;338:b1970 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clopidogrel: Increasing concordance
	Peter D Burrill
	BMJ  2009;338:b1928 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clopidogrel: Bleeding and resistance
	Jonathan Ball
	BMJ  2009;338:b1927 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clopidogrel: More on proton pump inhibitors
	Gareth J Sadler, Andrew P Poullis
	BMJ  2009;338:b1931 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clopidogrel: Patients with peptic ulcers
	Ian L Beales
	BMJ  2009;338:b1932 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clopidogrel: Authors’ reply
	Doson Chua, Andrew Ignaszewski
	BMJ  2009;338:b2006 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nicotine replacement therapy: Authors respond to criticism that treatment is ineffective
	Paul Aveyard, David Moore, Martin Connock, Dechao Wang, Anne Fry-Smith, Pelham Barton
	BMJ  2009;338:b1979 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The death of DNR: Training is needed to dispel confusion around DNAR
	David Pitcher, Gary Smith, Jerry Nolan, Jasmeet Soar
	BMJ  2009;338:b2021 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The death of DNR: Personal resuscitation plans
	Toni Wolff, William Whitehouse
	BMJ  2009;338:b2018 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The death of DNR: The undesirability of acronyms
	Elizabeth L Combeer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2016 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Barriers to organ donation: Shouldn’t be a family affair
	Colin Ferguson
	BMJ  2009;338:b2011 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Barriers to organ donation: Improve staff infrastructure
	Jacquelyn K Lewin
	BMJ  2009;338:b2013 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Barriers to organ donation: Teach medical students
	Eilidh J O'Loughlin
	BMJ  2009;338:b2012 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Insulin pumps exposed to heat: Put an indicator on the bottle
	Hilary M Hearnshaw
	BMJ  2009;338:b2009 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	UK urges more flexibility in criteria for flu pandemic alerts
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b2067 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer research papers with industry ties more likely to report favourable results
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b2052 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b2017 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs save £400m in 2008 by increasing use of generic drugs
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2009;338:b2044 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drugs agency grants its first licence to homoeopathic product
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2009;338:b2055 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Studies back minimum pricing on alcohol to save lives
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b2007 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pilot projects for personal health budgets in England are announced
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b1996 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obama’s budget changes sex education funding from abstinence-only to comprehensive education
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b2008 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study of device to treat severely injured soldiers in Iraq was fake, claims army
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2026 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Journal retracts article about age of transfused blood three years after publication
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2057 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	French doctors demonstrate against law that threatens to turn public hospitals into commercial enterprises
	Paul Benkimoun
	BMJ  2009;338:b2043 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	German doctors’ leader calls for debate on rationing
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2009;338:b2045 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Even insured Americans are paying more for health care, studies show
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b2015 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Red Cross staff witness "humanitarian catastrophe" in Sri Lanka
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;338:b2051 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UN tries to secure safe corridors for humanitarian aid in Pakistan
	John Zarocostas, Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;338:b2042 (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:b2003 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Health Policy: Integrated care
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;338:b1484 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Governments must be pulled up for failings over flu
	Andrew Jack
	BMJ  2009;338:b2019 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: In the US things are getting nasty over NICE
	Chris McGreal
	BMJ  2009;338:b2058 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Global priorities for patient safety research
	David W Bates, Itziar Larizgoitia, Nittita Prasopa-Plaizier, Ashish K Jha, on behalf of the Research Priority Setting Working Group of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety
	BMJ  2009;338:b1775 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Use of blood pressure lowering drugs in the prevention of cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of 147 randomised trials in the context of expectations from prospective epidemiological studies
	M R Law, J K Morris, N J Wald
	BMJ  2009;338:b1665 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of virtual reality training on laparoscopic surgery: randomised controlled trial
	Christian R Larsen, Jette L Soerensen, Teodor P Grantcharov, Torur Dalsgaard, Lars Schouenborg, Christian Ottosen, Torben V Schroeder, Bent S Ottesen
	BMJ  2009;338:b1802 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reporting of sample size calculation in randomised controlled trials: review
	Pierre Charles, Bruno Giraudeau, Agnes Dechartres, Gabriel Baron, Philippe Ravaud
	BMJ  2009;338:b1732 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research

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	Long term monitoring in patients receiving treatment to lower blood pressure: analysis of data from placebo controlled randomised controlled trial
	Katherine Keenan, Andrew Hayen, Bruce C Neal, Les Irwig
	BMJ  2009;338:b1492 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of severe congenital heart disease after folic acid fortification of grain products: time trend analysis in Quebec, Canada
	Raluca Ionescu-Ittu, Ariane J Marelli, Andrew S Mackie, Louise Pilote
	BMJ  2009;338:b1673 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Prehospital management of severe traumatic brain injury
	Clare L Hammell, J D Henning
	BMJ  2009;338:b1683 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Diagnosis in General Practice: Chronic cough in adults
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2009;338:b1218 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis in General Practice: Diagnosis using "test of treatment"
	Paul Glasziou, Peter Rose, Carl Heneghan, John Balla
	BMJ  2009;338:b1312 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Willem Kolff
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2009;338:b2027 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Sinclair Rennick Baxter
	Sara Baxter
	BMJ  2009;338:b2034 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paul Dawson-Edwards
	Liz Godfrey, Mick Hughes
	BMJ  2009;338:b1988 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Claire Hazel Epstein
	Helen Parker
	BMJ  2009;338:b2031 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deryck Michael Denys Lambert
	Jill Lambert
	BMJ  2009;338:b2032 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Richard Hartley Martin
	John S Wynn
	BMJ  2009;338:b1948 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Miriam Claire Ogden
	Neil Rane
	BMJ  2009;338:b2035 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: The new religion: screening at your parish church
	Charles Warlow
	BMJ  2009;338:b1940 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: All about Alzheimer’s
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2009;338:b2062 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: A tale of blind faith
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;338:b2069 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The memoir of an opium eater
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b2010 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Brothers Karamazov
	Ivan Iniesta
	BMJ  2009;338:b1999 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Shiny happy people?
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b2048 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Exit the tie
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2009;338:b2047 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: An elderly woman with weight loss and diarrhoea
	Anna L Mitchell, Simon Pearce
	BMJ  2009;338:b1721 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: A characteristic rash
	E E Craythorne, S Wong, R Morris Jones, A W P du Vivier
	BMJ  2009;338:b1451 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Standardised mortality ratios
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b2005 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Emergency medicine: paediatrics
	BMJ  2009;338:b1980 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Haroon Siddique, Ananth Nayak, Baldev Singh, Varadarajan Baskar
	BMJ  2009;338:b1997 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2009;338:b1984 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	From our archive: Childhood malignancies and x-ray exposure (1958)
	BMJ  2009;338:b1268 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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