Less medicine is more
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;338:b2561 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm
	Martin J Buxton
	BMJ  2009;338:b2185 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking in pregnancy
	Rona Campbell, Deirdre J Murphy
	BMJ  2009;338:b2188 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring bone mineral density during antiresorptive treatment for osteoporosis
	Juliet Compston
	BMJ  2009;338:b1276 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reduced use of hormones and the drop in breast cancer
	Helen Roberts
	BMJ  2009;338:b2116 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Summary care records: RCGP supports use of summary care records
	Clare Gerada, Stephen Field
	BMJ  2009;338:b2516 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Summary care records: No one has asked me
	Neil Bhatia
	BMJ  2009;338:b2519 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Whistleblowing: Whistleblowing is crucial for a "world class" NHS
	Christopher L Manning
	BMJ  2009;338:b2514 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conservative Party on health: GP commissioning
	Steve J Hawkins
	BMJ  2009;338:b2526 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conservative Party on health: Exit strategy is a vain hope
	Martin W McNicol
	BMJ  2009;338:b2524 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Homoeopathic product licence: Back to square one
	Stephen J Evans
	BMJ  2009;338:b2332 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Door-to-balloon times: Ups and downs of balloon times
	Brian A Cattle, Darren C Greenwood, Christopher P Gale, Robert M West
	BMJ  2009;338:b2424 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community Clostridium difficile: Clostridium difficile infection
	Mark H Wilcox, Tim Planche
	BMJ  2009;338:b2528 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Laparoscopic surgery training: Try fresh frozen cadavers
	P S Kang, A F Horgan, A G Acheson
	BMJ  2009;338:b2426 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for expensive medicines: Oncologists and top-ups
	Virginia J Warren
	BMJ  2009;338:b2530 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug hypoglycaemia: Reactive hypoglycaemia in severe mental illness
	Ruud van Winkel, Marc De Hert
	BMJ  2009;338:b2536 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-communicable diseases: Please redress the balance of millennium development goals
	Ian Magrath, John Seffrin, David Hill, Werner Burkart, Rajendra A Badwe, Twalib Ngoma
	BMJ  2009;338:b2533 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colorectal cancer: Limitations of trial
	Richard Peto
	BMJ  2009;338:b2531 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Audit finds big improvement in treatment of myocardial infarction
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2009;338:b2557 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety watchdog warns of high dosage errors among children and young people
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b2500 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b2543 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website captures people’s experiences of clinical trials
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b2545 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK swine flu cases near 3000, as GP leader says use of Tamiflu may need to be rethought
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b2565 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK sees rise in people donating a kidney to recipients they do not know
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b2503 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctor who was sacked in Baby P case claims unfair dismissal
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2540 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obama asks AMA to support his healthcare reform package
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b2541 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	German agency refuses to rule on drug’s benefits until Pfizer discloses all trial results
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2009;338:b2521 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ireland’s recommended colorectal cancer screening programme will not get extra government funding
	Muiris Houston
	BMJ  2009;338:b2551 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term exposure to air pollution decreases life expectancy, UK report finds
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b2532 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Championing the champion
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2009;338:b2468 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors call for head of World Medical Association to quit as "matter of priority"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b2556 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	AIDS epidemic in South Africa may be slowing, survey shows
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2009;338:b2485 (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:b2511 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Public Health: Vaccine disputes
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2009;338:b2435 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Is it acceptable for people to take methylphenidate to enhance performance? Yes
	John Harris
	BMJ  2009;338:b1955 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is it acceptable for people to take methylphenidate to enhance performance? No
	Anjan Chatterjee
	BMJ  2009;338:b1956 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Life and Death: It is not wrong to say no
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2009;338:b2529 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	How do psychiatric drugs work?
	Joanna Moncrieff, David Cohen
	BMJ  2009;338:b1963 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Screening men for abdominal aortic aneurysm: 10 year mortality and cost effectiveness results from the randomised Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study
	S G Thompson, H A Ashton, L Gao, R A P Scott, on behalf of the Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study Group
	BMJ  2009;338:b2307 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Analysis of cost effectiveness of screening Danish men aged 65 for abdominal aortic aneurysm
	Lars Ehlers, Kim Overvad, Jan Sorensen, Soren Christensen, Merete Bech, Mette Kjolby
	BMJ  2009;338:b2243 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Variation in antibiotic prescribing and its impact on recovery in patients with acute cough in primary care: prospective study in 13 countries
	C C Butler, K Hood, T Verheij, P Little, H Melbye, J Nuttall, M J Kelly, S Molstad, M Godycki-Cwirko, J Almirall, A Torres, D Gillespie, U Rautakorpi, S Coenen, H Goossens
	BMJ  2009;338:b2242 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Factors associated with mortality in Scottish patients receiving methadone in primary care: retrospective cohort study
	C McCowan, B Kidd, T Fahey
	BMJ  2009;338:b2225 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Spontaneous preterm birth and small for gestational age infants in women who stop smoking early in pregnancy: prospective cohort study
	Lesley M E McCowan, Gustaaf A Dekker, Eliza Chan, Alistair Stewart, Lucy C Chappell, Misty Hunter, Rona Moss-Morris, Robyn A North, On behalf of the SCOPE consortium
	BMJ  2009;338:b1081 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Value of routine monitoring of bone mineral density after starting bisphosphonate treatment: secondary analysis of trial data
	Katy J L Bell, Andrew Hayen, Petra Macaskill, Les Irwig, Jonathan C Craig, Kristine Ensrud, Douglas C Bauer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2266 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Management of the effects of exposure to tear gas
	Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Bertrand Yersin
	BMJ  2009;338:b2283 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Quality Improvement Report: Comprehensive care and HIV prophylaxis after sexual assault in rural South Africa: the Refentse intervention study
	Julia C Kim, Ian Askew, Lufuno Muvhango, Ntabozuko Dwane, Tanya Abramsky, Stephen Jan, Ennica Ntlemo, Jane Chege, Charlotte Watts
	BMJ  2009;338:b515 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rational Testing: Incidental finding of lymphocytosis in an asymptomatic patient
	Carolyn S Grove, George A Follows, Wendy N Erber
	BMJ  2009;338:b2119 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	I Herbert Scheinberg
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2009;338:b2429 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Edward Nigel Armitage
	C S B Child
	BMJ  2009;338:b2508 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peter John Cook
	Alison Cook
	BMJ  2009;338:b2483 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Walter Brown Shelley
	James Stanley Comaish
	BMJ  2009;338:b2033 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Frederick Smith
	G C Jackson
	BMJ  2009;338:b2439 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anne Uttley (née Dubber)
	John Pattison
	BMJ  2009;338:b2506 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ian Duncan Willatt
	Philip Willatt
	BMJ  2009;338:b2509 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ruth Annette Janie Willatt (née Evershed)
	Philip Willatt
	BMJ  2009;338:b2512 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Don’t throw out the mop with the muck
	Jeremy Thompson
	BMJ  2009;338:b2416 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Bad science, risky medicine
	David A C Elliman, Helen E Bedford
	BMJ  2009;338:b2537 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Blow your own trumpet
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b2409 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Games People Play
	Michael Archer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2478 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The problems of mankind
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b2552 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: Women of substance
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2009;338:b2522 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical question: Number needed to treat
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b2493 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: A woman with tuberous sclerosis and acute onset right sided abdominal pain
	Anu Balan, David Kessel
	BMJ  2009;338:b987 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: A case of secondary amenorrhoea
	J Cheung, R Shaw
	BMJ  2009;338:b2282 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	On Examination quiz:
	BMJ  2009;338:b2494 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;338:b2496 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Frew, Clive Peedell, Sath Gokul
	BMJ  2009;338:b2497 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	From our archive: Introductory address (1840)
	BMJ  2009;338:b2457 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What’s in a name?
	Chris A Lamb
	BMJ  2009;338:b2389 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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