The rhythm method
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2009;339:b2668 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Imaging in patients with acute abdominal pain
	Adrian K Dixon, Christopher J Watson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1678 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kidney function and the risk of cardiovascular disease
	Daniel E Weiner, Dena E Rifkin
	BMJ  2009;338:b1307 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intravenous fluids in adults undergoing surgery
	Bette Liu, Simon Finfer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2418 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Drug prevention of hypertension: Law’s flaw?
	L Sam Lewis
	BMJ  2009;338:b2596 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug prevention of hypertension: All cause absolute benefit?
	Patrick Bower
	BMJ  2009;338:b2597 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug prevention of hypertension: Up to a point
	Michael Schachter
	BMJ  2009;338:b2601 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug prevention of hypertension: Best use of resources?
	Anthony N Glaser
	BMJ  2009;338:b2598 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug prevention of hypertension: Assumptions and extrapolation
	Sripal Bangalore, Franz H Messerli
	BMJ  2009;338:b2600 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug prevention of hypertension: Authors’ reply
	Malcolm Law, Joan K Morris, Nicholas Wald
	BMJ  2009;338:b2602 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood pressure in primary care: Home monitoring, a way to go?
	Joao Calinas-Correia
	BMJ  2009;338:b2623 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Priorities in stroke care: The London stroke strategy
	Nick Losseff, Diane Ames, Geoff Cloud, Gill Cluckie, Patrick Gompertz, Binnie Grant, Hugh Markus, Martin M Brown
	BMJ  2009;338:b2616 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Whooping cough: Erythromycin in whooping cough
	Gianluca Tornese, Federica Patarino, Federico Marchetti
	BMJ  2009;338:b2615 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time to carotid endarterectomy: Don’t forget amaurosis fugax
	Stella J Hornby, Emily Adams
	BMJ  2009;338:b2607 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Haematuria: Don’t use urine microscopy to confirm microscopic haematuria
	Peter A Andrews
	BMJ  2009;338:b2629 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Future of female doctors: Time to adapt the workplace
	Helen Fernandes
	BMJ  2009;338:b2608 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Celibacy of Catholic priests: Points of information
	Paul W Keeley
	BMJ  2009;338:b2619 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Celibacy and Catholic priests: Time for root and branch reform
	Alex Scott-Samuel
	BMJ  2009;338:b2621 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Two more people in UK die from swine flu, as swabbing policy ends in "hot spot" areas
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b2670 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cost of US health reforms is estimated at $1.6 trillion for first 10 years
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;338:b2571 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b2581 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors’ leaders back new guidance on using patients’ records for research
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b2641 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gordon Brown turns waiting time targets into a patient’s right
	Helen Mooney
	BMJ  2009;338:b2657 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Age for starting cervical cancer screening in England will not be lowered
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2009;338:b2583 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Experts suggest ways to tackle shortage of sperm donors
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2620 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS staff are invited to see climate change film free of charge
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b2661 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US neurosurgeons earn nearly $0.5m in their first year
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b2637 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Some 45 000 people die each month in Congo as result of collapsed health service, says UN official
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b2652 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Urgent action is needed to prevent deaths among Himalayan pilgrims, says climbing federation
	Siddhartha Yadav
	BMJ  2009;338:b2628 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA chairman calls for end to market in health care
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2009;338:b2659 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients’ safety must not be sacrificed to financial targets, doctors say
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2009;338:b2660 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA meeting: NHS doctors must not be "muzzled," BMA chairman says
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2009;338:b2656 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA meeting: BMA representatives vote to end prescription charges in England
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2009;339:b2650 (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:b2590 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Patient Safety: Watching over the medical device industry
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2321 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Body Politic: Mind the gap
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;338:b2604 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Errors in clinical reasoning: causes and remedial strategies
	Ian A Scott
	BMJ  2009;338:b1860 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Anatomy of health effects of Mediterranean diet: Greek EPIC prospective cohort study
	Antonia Trichopoulou, Christina Bamia, Dimitrios Trichopoulos
	BMJ  2009;338:b2337 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Imaging strategies for detection of urgent conditions in patients with acute abdominal pain: diagnostic accuracy study
	Wytze Lameris, Adrienne van Randen, H Wouter van Es, Johannes P M van Heesewijk, Bert van Ramshorst, Wim H Bouma, Wim ten Hove, Maarten S van Leeuwen, Esteban M van Keulen, Marcel G W Dijkgraaf, Patrick M M Bossuyt, Marja A Boermeester, Jaap Stoker, on behalf of the OPTIMA study group
	BMJ  2009;338:b2431 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of pre-eclampsia in first and subsequent pregnancies: prospective cohort study
	Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, Sengwee Toh, Sven Cnattingius
	BMJ  2009;338:b2255 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Kidney function and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in women: a prospective cohort study
	Tobias Kurth, Paul E de Jong, Nancy R Cook, Julie E Buring, Paul M Ridker
	BMJ  2009;338:b2392 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The benefits of statins in people without established cardiovascular disease but with cardiovascular risk factors: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	J J Brugts, T Yetgin, S E Hoeks, A M Gotto, J Shepherd, R G J Westendorp, A J M de Craen, R H Knopp, H Nakamura, P Ridker, R van Domburg, J W Deckers
	BMJ  2009;338:b2376 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Managing hepatitis C virus infection
	Kathryn L Nash, Ian Bentley, Gideon M Hirschfield
	BMJ  2009;338:b2366 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Diagnosis in General Practice: Test of time
	Susanna C Almond, Nick Summerton
	BMJ  2009;338:b1878 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis in General Practice: Acute diarrhoea in adults
	Roger Jones, Greg Rubin
	BMJ  2009;338:b1877 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Mark Howard Beers
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2009;339:b2605 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ralph Bannister
	Gordon Bannister
	BMJ  2009;338:b2634 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Valère Corbett
	Elan Preston-Whyte
	BMJ  2009;338:b2630 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Stuart Miller
	Gareth Williams
	BMJ  2009;338:b2632 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Frederick William Martin Mott
	Paul Mott
	BMJ  2009;338:b2631 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Piggot
	Robert Owen
	BMJ  2009;338:b2646 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peter Hubert Smith
	Katherine Spiller, Robin Spiller
	BMJ  2009;338:b2633 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: From doctor to carer: mission impossible?
	Anthony H Knight
	BMJ  2009;338:b2614 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: A brief history of shroud waving through the centuries
	Tom Jefferson
	BMJ  2009;338:b2610 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Ancients or moderns?
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b2410 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: A Doctor’s Occupation
	Aidan M O'Donnell
	BMJ  2009;338:b2603 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Cooking the books
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b2647 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: The scholar’s tale
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2009;338:b2644 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical quiz: Correlation
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;339:b2578 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	On Examination quiz: Lipids
	BMJ  2009;339:b2589 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: Fast and Furious
	Justine Bhar-Amato
	BMJ  2009;339:b2339 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Charles Quartey-Papafio
	BMJ  2009;338:b2582 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2009;338:b2579 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Different
	Alexis Descatha
	BMJ  2009;339:b1929 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From our archive: The plague of the East (1894)
	BMJ  2009;339:b2247 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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