An embarrassment of riches
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2009;339:b3186 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Managing low grade and borderline cervical abnormalities
	Eduardo L Franco
	BMJ  2009;339:b3014 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical screening according to age and HPV status
	Guglielmo Ronco, Marc Arbyn, Nereo Segnan
	BMJ  2009;339:b3005 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shift work and cancer
	Lin Fritschi
	BMJ  2009;339:b2653 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health systems and increased longevity in people with HIV and AIDS
	R A Atun, I Gurol-Urganci, M McKee
	BMJ  2009;338:b2165 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving performance in the NHS
	Tim Wilson
	BMJ  2009;339:b2773 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Assisted suicide: Clinicians need clarification
	Sally E Hall
	BMJ  2009;339:b3132 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted suicide: The issue is patient safety
	Peter D O Davies
	BMJ  2009;339:b3135 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted suicide: Time for safety and consistency
	Peter-Marc Fortune
	BMJ  2009;339:b3137 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heat waves and the elderly: Adverse drug events
	Agnes Sommet, Anne Castot, Jean-Louis Montastruc
	BMJ  2009;339:b3146 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heat waves and the elderly: Drugs for Parkinson’s disease
	Richard W Genever
	BMJ  2009;339:b3145 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical device industry: Dermal fillers are medical devices in the UK
	Nigel S G Mercer
	BMJ  2009;339:b2923 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The errr-portfolio: Surgery’s flawed e-portfolio
	Sally-Ann S Price
	BMJ  2009;339:b3142 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The errr-portfolio: Utility of the McNamara fallacy
	Michael H Basler
	BMJ  2009;339:b3141 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Purdy wins battle for clarity of law for people who accompany relatives abroad for assisted suicide
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b3131 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK offers to help world’s poorest countries provide free health care
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b3177 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;339:b3161 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Survival after heart surgery continues to improve after publication of mortality data
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2009;339:b3102 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Science writer is refused permission to appeal against libel ruling over comments on chiropractors
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b3166 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Judge rules that birth defects could have been caused by toxic waste from steel works
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b3162 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Soda tax" could help tackle obesity, says US director of public health
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;339:b3176 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity is risk factor in 70 000 new cancers a year in Europe, study shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;339:b3171 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Practice makes perfect: refining the rules that judge safe medicine
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b3113 (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:b3144 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Drug Safety: Battle over popular bone drug Fosamax bursts into court
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2009;339:b3155 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Assisted Suicide: The law as it stands on assisted suicide could not be clearer
	Alex Carlile
	BMJ  2009;339:b3169 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Life and Death: Dirty work
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2009;339:b3149 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Access to antimalarial therapy: accurate diagnosis is essential to achieving long term goals
	Heidi Hopkins, Caroline Asiimwe, David Bell
	BMJ  2009;339:b2606 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Short term persistence of human papillomavirus and risk of cervical precancer and cancer: population based cohort study
	Philip E Castle, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, Robert D Burk, Rolando Herrero, Sholom Wacholder, Mario Alfaro, Jorge Morales, Diego Guillen, Mark E Sherman, Diane Solomon, Mark Schiffman, for the Proyecto Epidemiologico Guanacaste (PEG) Group
	BMJ  2009;339:b2569 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of cervical screening with age: population based case-control study of prospectively recorded data
	Peter Sasieni, Alejandra Castanon, Jack Cuzick
	BMJ  2009;339:b2968 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cytological surveillance compared with immediate referral for colposcopy in management of women with low grade cervical abnormalities: multicentre randomised controlled trial
	TOMBOLA Group
	BMJ  2009;339:b2546 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Biopsy and selective recall compared with immediate large loop excision in management of women with low grade abnormal cervical cytology referred for colposcopy: multicentre randomised controlled trial
	TOMBOLA Group
	BMJ  2009;339:b2548 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Options for managing low grade cervical abnormalities detected at screening: cost effectiveness study
	TOMBOLA Group
	BMJ  2009;339:b2549 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement
	David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Douglas G Altman, for the PRISMA Group
	BMJ  2009;339:b2535 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	The management of interstitial cystitis or painful bladder syndrome in women
	Serge P Marinkovic, Robert Moldwin, Lisa M Gillen, Stuart L Stanton
	BMJ  2009;339:b2707 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Easily missed?: Cow’s milk allergy in children
	John R Apps, R Mark Beattie
	BMJ  2009;339:b2275 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Aphthous ulcers
	Erik W M A Bischoff, Annemarie Uijen, Mark van der Wel
	BMJ  2009;339:b2382 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Jerri Nielsen
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2009;339:b3163 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Bell
	Joyce Williamson
	BMJ  2009;339:b3105 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Anthony Bennett
	Neil R Bennett
	BMJ  2009;339:b3103 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Martin Briggs
	Elizabeth Fisher
	BMJ  2009;339:b3098 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Pathy
	Deidre Hine, Damian Pathy
	BMJ  2009;339:b3097 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charles Romer
	Margaret C Davies
	BMJ  2009;339:b3096 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Noel Sebire
	Peter Sebire
	BMJ  2009;339:b3026 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clare Neville Smith
	Jenny Tyrrell, Bridget Revell, Jon Heuch
	BMJ  2009;339:b3127 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: It’s my time to change
	Samir Dawlatly
	BMJ  2009;339:b3156 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Behind the fairground curtain
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2009;339:b3157 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Forgotten pleasures
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b3138 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Marriage A-la-Mode
	Michael Baum, Simona Di Nepi
	BMJ  2009;339:b3143 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Doctor's Notes: No border control
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2009;339:b3067 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In and Out of Hospital: Norwegian sea
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2009;339:b3136 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture quiz: Exertional dyspnoea and abnormal chest radiography
	Luis Corral-Gudino, Ramon J Jorge-Sanchez, Maria Borao-Cengotita-Bengoa, Judit Garcia-Aparicio, Manuel Cascon-Bueno
	BMJ  2009;339:b2920 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: Abdominal pain and swelling
	Saeed Mirsadraee, David Kessel
	BMJ  2009;339:b2870 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Number needed to treat
	Siva K Talluri
	BMJ  2009;339:b3130 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Palliative care
	BMJ  2009;339:b3133 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	S Abdul Ghaffar, S A Holme
	BMJ  2009;339:b3108 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2009;339:b3109 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	From our archive: Arthur Conan Doyle takes it to the limit (1879)
	BMJ  2009;339:b2861 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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