Let’s talk about assisted dying
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;339:b2883 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	QRISK or Framingham for predicting cardiovascular risk?
	Rod Jackson, Roger Marshall, Andrew Kerr, Tania Riddell, Sue Wells
	BMJ  2009;339:b2673 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing pregnancy and health risk behaviours in teenagers
	Douglas Kirby
	BMJ  2009;339:b2054 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of chronic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
	Alexander C Ford, Paul Moayyedi
	BMJ  2009;339:b2481 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heat waves and dehydration in the elderly
	Marcel G M Olde Rikkert, Rene J F Melis, Jurgen A H R Claassen
	BMJ  2009;339:b2663 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	TYM and Alzheimer's disease: More testing needed
	Louise Robinson, Carol Brayne, Steve Iliffe, for the Primary Care Clinical Studies Group, Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network
	BMJ  2009;339:b2825 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TYM and Alzheimer's disease: Too many false positives
	Stephen L Black
	BMJ  2009;339:b2828 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TYM and Alzheimer's disease: How specific is TYM?
	Antonio E Segovia
	BMJ  2009;339:b2830 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TYM and Alzheimer's disease: Age profile?
	Rosaleen A McCarthy
	BMJ  2009;339:b2831 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TYM and Alzheimer's disease: Diagnoses can be meddlesome
	William House
	BMJ  2009;339:b2835 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TYM and Alzheimer's disease: Authors’ reply
	Jeremy Brown, George Pengas, Kate Dawson, Lucy A Brown, Philip Clatworthy
	BMJ  2009;339:b2834 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interrogation of detainees: Physicians have been involved
	Abigail Seltzer
	BMJ  2009;339:b2818 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interrogation of detainees: Authors’ reply
	Kenneth S Pope, Thomas G Gutheil
	BMJ  2009;339:b2845 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ovarian cancer: Not a silent killer
	William Hamilton, Alison Round, Debbie Sharp
	BMJ  2009;339:b2719 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Institutional safety problem: Where is the NHS Macpherson?
	Martin W McNicol
	BMJ  2009;339:b2722 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Institutional safety problem: Sitting leaders ask you to stand up for safety
	Peter T Wilmshurst
	BMJ  2009;339:b2816 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incidental lymphocytosis: Cancer targets not as rational as testing
	Edward Fitzsimons, Heather Wotherspoon
	BMJ  2009;339:b2815 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Summary care records: No enrichment without consent
	Chris Woods
	BMJ  2009;339:b2812 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Summary care records: Time for continuity of record
	Jonathan M Orrell
	BMJ  2009;339:b2813 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Summary care records: Joy of shared health records
	Matthew Curtis
	BMJ  2009;339:b2814 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	GPs will lead UK’s swine flu vaccination campaign
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;339:b2879 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Healthcare workers should get top priority for vaccination against A/H1N1 flu, WHO says
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;339:b2877 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US National Institutes of Health issue guidelines on stem cell
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b2804 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS in England is found to be too slow to diagnose and treat rheumatoid arthritis
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;339:b2882 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Girl is healthy after having donor heart removed
	Daniel M Henderson
	BMJ  2009;339:b2867 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	House of Lords votes against immunity from prosecution for relatives who help in assisted suicide abroad
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b2797 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European auditors question the value of EU funded public health programmes
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2009;339:b2819 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Legal loophole sees hundreds of Dutch cafes escape smoking ban
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2009;339:b2824 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Viewing child pornography does not seem to increase risk of abusing children, study concludes
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;339:b2876 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Schemes to collect and destroy handguns help to cut homicide rate
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;339:b2860 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;339:b2837 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Médecins Sans Frontières campaigns to increase treatment of Chagas disease
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;339:b2859 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-communicable diseases must have greater priority, says WHO
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;339:b2857 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European Commission berates drug industry for delays in access to generics
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2009;339:b2843 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elsevier says offering $25 gift cards for positive reviews was mistake
	Helen Mooney
	BMJ  2009;339:b2841 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2009;339:b2820 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Assisted suicide: the fight goes on
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b2868 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	South Africa: Searching for Lazarus
	Caroline Lambert
	BMJ  2009;339:b2821 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Is systolic blood pressure all that matters? Yes
	Peter Sever
	BMJ  2009;339:b2665 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is systolic blood pressure all that matters? No
	Eoin O'Brien
	BMJ  2009;339:b2669 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Out of Hours: Don’t just blame the media
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2009;339:b2865 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Russia’s healthcare system: in need of modernisation
	Sergey V Shishkin, Vasiliy V Vlassov
	BMJ  2009;338:b2132 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	An independent external validation and evaluation of QRISK cardiovascular risk prediction: a prospective open cohort study
	Gary S Collins, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2009;339:b2584 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health outcomes of youth development programme in England: prospective matched comparison study
	Meg Wiggins, Chris Bonell, Mary Sawtell, Helen Austerberry, Helen Burchett, Elizabeth Allen, Vicki Strange
	BMJ  2009;339:b2534 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Laparoscopic fundoplication compared with medical management for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: cost effectiveness study
	David Epstein, Laura Bojke, Mark J Sculpher, The REFLUX trial group
	BMJ  2009;339:b2576 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey
	G James Rubin, Richard Amlot, Lisa Page, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2009;339:b2651 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Multiple imputation for missing data in epidemiological and clinical research: potential and pitfalls
	Jonathan A C Sterne, Ian R White, John B Carlin, Michael Spratt, Patrick Royston, Michael G Kenward, Angela M Wood, James R Carpenter
	BMJ  2009;338:b2393 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Science, Medicine, and the Future: Cell-free fetal DNA and RNA in maternal blood: implications for safer antenatal testing
	Caroline F Wright, Lyn S Chitty
	BMJ  2009;339:b2451 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: No risk, no objections? Ethical pitfalls of cell-free fetal DNA and RNA testing
	Dagmar Schmitz, Wolfram Henn, Christian Netzer
	BMJ  2009;339:b2690 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Practice Pointer: Lithium and chronic kidney disease
	Mukesh Kripalani, James Shawcross, Joe Reilly, John Main
	BMJ  2009;339:b2452 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Parametric v non-parametric methods for data analysis
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  2009;338:a3167 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Diabetic muscle infarction
	Malvinder S Parmar
	BMJ  2009;338:b2271 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Ian Gregg
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2009;339:b2811 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Roger Benjamin Bowes Bishton
	Michael Inman
	BMJ  2009;339:b2754 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stanislaw Ganczakowski
	Mary Ganczakowski
	BMJ  2009;339:b2850 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thomas Garrett
	Huw Morgan
	BMJ  2009;339:b2853 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robin Trevor Andrew Ross
	D A Cruikshank, C W Grant
	BMJ  2009;339:b2847 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Philip Henry Sutton
	N Alan Green, Geoffrey Sutton
	BMJ  2009;339:b2852 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Henry Maxwell White
	David Brownridge, Rob Spires
	BMJ  2009;339:b2849 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Philip Henry Nicholls Wood
	Allan St J Dixon, Beatrix Milburn, Julia K Wood
	BMJ  2009;339:b2851 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: An extremely interesting time to die
	Ann McPherson
	BMJ  2009;339:b2827 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Getting hot and bothered
	Stephen Gillam
	BMJ  2009;339:b2869 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Doing the books
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b2806 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Dr Spock’s Baby and Child Care
	Elizabeth Loder
	BMJ  2009;339:b2839 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The errr-portfolio
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;339:b2863 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: Where the hearts is
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2009;339:b2805 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical question: Study design
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2009;339:b2793 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: A painful rash
	Tanya M Monaghan, James D Thomas, William Goddard
	BMJ  2009;339:b2293 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Old age psychiatry
	BMJ  2009;339:b2792 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: Cervical radiography
	M Bernardotto, M Butt
	BMJ  2009;339:b2645 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Phillipa Squires
	BMJ  2009;339:b2796 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2009;339:b2794 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	From our archive: Fever in the Zambesi (1861)
	BMJ  2009;339:b2245 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What would you ask Margaret Chan?
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2009;339:b2544 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anyone for an algorithm?
	Liz Wager
	BMJ  2009;339:b2412 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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