Predicting and preparing for pandemic flu
	Fiona Godlee
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Editorials

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	How well are we managing the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in the UK?
	Roy M Anderson
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	Overdiagnosis and mammography screening
	H Gilbert Welch
	BMJ  2009;339:b1425 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inappropriate referencing in research
	Dean Fergusson
	BMJ  2009;339:b2049 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why has mortality from coronary heart disease in young adults levelled off?
	Alastair H Leyland, John W Lynch
	BMJ  2009;339:b2515 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Mind the gap: Do we mind the gap?
	Angela M Jones
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	Mind the gap: Reducing the gap
	Evan L Lloyd
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	Mind the gap: Regional inequalities and cancer
	Michael V Williams
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	Health as a weapon of war?: A misrepresentation of reality
	Nihal Jayasinghe
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	Health as a weapon of war?: Confirmation of my experience
	Bobby Sundaralingam
	BMJ  2009;339:b2952 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast screening: Breast screening saves lives
	Nicholas J Wald, Malcolm R Law, Stephen W Duffy
	BMJ  2009;339:b2922 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Government tries to end confusion over swine flu advice to pregnant women
	Adrian O'Dowd
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	Leading academic calls for shake-up in NICE procedures
	Lynn Eaton
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	In brief
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	Commissioners publish highly critical reports on mental health services
	Lynn Eaton
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	Scientific testing on animals grew again last year, Home Office says
	Helen Mooney
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	Ara Darzi resigns as health minister but remains government adviser
	Nigel Hawkes
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	Academics criticise plan to allow new drugs to bypass NICE
	Deborah Cohen
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	Ultraorthodox Jews riot in Israel after mother arrested for Munchausen by proxy
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
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	Subsidise artemisinin for malaria to delay resistance, say analysts
	Bob Roehr
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	JAMA should change its policy on investigating competing interests, AMA says
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
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	HIV clinics are halting enrolment of new patients as funding stalls, MSF warns
	Bob Roehr
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Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
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Feature

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	A/H1N1 influenza update
	Adrian O'Dowd
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	Profile: Hans Rosling: Animated about statistics
	Geoff Watts
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Observations

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	The future of health care: Why innovation matters today
	Ara Darzi
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Analysis

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	Measuring patients’ experiences and outcomes
	Nick Black, Crispin Jenkinson
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Research

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	Overdiagnosis in publicly organised mammography screening programmes: systematic review of incidence trends
	Karsten Juhl Jorgensen, Peter C Gotzsche
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	How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network
	Steven A Greenberg
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	Exploring preferences for place of death with terminally ill patients: qualitative study of experiences of general practitioners and community nurses in England
	Daniel Munday, Mila Petrova, Jeremy Dale
	BMJ  2009;339:b2391 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Coronary heart disease mortality among young adults in Scotland in relation to social inequalities: time trend study
	Martin O'Flaherty, Jennifer Bishop, Adam Redpath, Terry McLaughlin, David Murphy, James Chalmers, Simon Capewell
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Research Methods & Reporting

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	Assessing the severity of the novel influenza A/H1N1 pandemic
	Tini Garske, Judith Legrand, Christl A Donnelly, Helen Ward, Simon Cauchemez, Christophe Fraser, Neil M Ferguson, Azra C Ghani
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Clinical Review

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	Diagnosing and managing vaginismus
	Tessa Crowley, David Goldmeier, Janice Hiller
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Practice

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	Guidelines: When to suspect child maltreatment: summary of NICE guidance
	Julia Saperia, Monica Lakhanpaul, Alison Kemp, Danya Glaser, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group and Technical Team.
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	Rational Testing: Assessing candiduria in a critically ill patient
	William W Hope
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	Lesson of the Week: A case of mistaken mesial temporal identity
	A Neligan, D R Holdright, F J Rugg-Gunn, J W Sander
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	10-Minute Consultation: Acne vulgaris
	Fiona Hamilton, Josip Car, Alison Layton
	BMJ  2009;338:a2738 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Cecil Helman
	Joe Rosenthal, Surinder Singh
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	Joseph Attard
	R Attard
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	Lisa Bawden
	Claire Dunstan
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	Dorothy Black (née Stewart)
	Desmond Archer
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	Stella Candler (née Hill)
	Hilary Richards, Clive Richards
	BMJ  2009;339:b2956 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Luka Randi
	Bernard A Foex, Simon Carley, Douglas Speake
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	John Richard Burton Williams
	Sylvia Watkins
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	John Forrester Brown Wyper
	D J Wyper
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Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Who wants to be the flu doctor?
	Daniel K Sokol
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	Personal View: "You can’t have swine flu"
	Susan Mayor
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	Review of the Week: Updike: diagnostician of the human condition
	John Quin
	BMJ  2009;339:b2948 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A telling tale
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b2953 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: A Grotesque Old Woman
	Christopher Cook
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	From the Frontline: When it’s worth repeating
	Des Spence
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	Starting Out: Are some doctors more equal than others?
	Kinesh Patel
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Endgames

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	OnExamination quiz: Paediatric haematology
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	Statistical question: Study design
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2009;339:b2893 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: A boy frightened of going to bed and bumps in the night
	C James, A Gupta, D Cheng, S Padley, N Goulden, S Skellett
	BMJ  2009;339:b2787 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: Black and blue . . . and unconscious
	Marieke van Onna, Thomas van Bemmel, Erik van Wensen, Cees Schaar, Hein Slis, Peter E Spronk
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Minerva

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	Ali Ali, Keith Wiener, Venkat Sridharan
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