A hesitation to be brave
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;339:b3468 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Sore throat in primary care
	Paul Little
	BMJ  2009;339:b2476 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New methods to deal with publication bias
	Hans-Hermann Dubben
	BMJ  2009;339:b3272 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pain and radiographic damage in osteoarthritis
	Theodore Pincus, Joel A Block
	BMJ  2009;339:b2802 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of stable angina
	Salim Yusuf, Madhu Natarajan, Ganesan Karthikeyan, David Taggart
	BMJ  2009;339:b2789 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Future NHS funding
	John Appleby
	BMJ  2009;339:b2736 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Cervical screening by age: Let’s not screen women under 25 throughout the UK
	Colm O'Mahony, Nicola Steedman, Michelle Yong, Elizabeth R Anderson, Vicki Finnegan, Lynn Price
	BMJ  2009;339:b3426 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 pandemic: Misdiagnosis in the time of meningitis
	Thomas W Bourke, Michael D Shields
	BMJ  2009;339:b3423 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Painful bladder syndrome: Role of psychological factors
	Timothy R Nicholson, Richard A Kanaan, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2009;339:b3424 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast screening: Fundamental errors in estimate of lives saved by screening
	Karsten J Jorgensen, Peter C Gotzsche
	BMJ  2009;339:b3359 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Congenital abnormalities: Data needed to establish causes
	Elizabeth S Draper, Judith Rankin, Ann Tonks, Patricia Boyd, Diana Wellesley, David Tucker, Judith Budd, members of the BINOCAR Management Committee.
	BMJ  2009;339:b3428 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted suicide: Doctors, steer clear
	Julia Cumberlege
	BMJ  2009;339:b3422 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Metal smelting plants poison hundreds of Chinese children
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2009;339:b3433 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Care for people with neuromuscular conditions is unacceptable, say MPs and peers
	Zosia Kmietowicz
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	In brief
	BMJ  2009;339:b3459 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shortfall of family doctors means US faces "absolute crisis" by 2020
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b3431 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opposition to swine flu vaccine seems to be growing worldwide
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b3461 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Take more responsibility for your own health, NHS staff told
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2009;339:b3406 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drive-in vaccination allows 16 seconds per shot
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;339:b3462 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation of medical research is hampering improvement in US health care, critics say
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;339:b3370 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch hospital consultants threaten legal action over wholesale pay cuts
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2009;339:b3408 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK has more guidance on dealing with abandoned cars than abandoned babies, study finds
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;339:b3438 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO warns against using homoeopathy to treat serious diseases
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2009;339:b3447 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Misuse of ADHD drugs by young people is rising, US poisons data show
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2009;339:b3434 (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:b3437 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Adverse events: You can say sorry
	Jane Feinmann
	BMJ  2009;339:b3057 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	On the Contrary: Assisted dying: what’s disability got to do with it?
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2009;339:b3446 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	We need minimally disruptive medicine
	Carl May, Victor M Montori, Frances S Mair
	BMJ  2009;339:b2803 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Corticosteroids for pain relief in sore throat: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Gail Hayward, Matthew Thompson, Carl Heneghan, Rafael Perera, Chris Del Mar, Paul Glasziou
	BMJ  2009;339:b2976 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Alarm symptoms and identification of non-cancer diagnoses in primary care: cohort study
	Roger Jones, Judith Charlton, Radoslav Latinovic, Martin C Gulliford
	BMJ  2009;339:b3094 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Novel methods to deal with publication biases: secondary analysis of antidepressant trials in the FDA trial registry database and related journal publications
	Santiago G Moreno, Alex J Sutton, Erick H Turner, Keith R Abrams, Nicola J Cooper, Tom M Palmer, A E Ades
	BMJ  2009;339:b2981 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between radiographic features of knee osteoarthritis and pain: results from two cohort studies
	Tuhina Neogi, David Felson, Jingbo Niu, Michael Nevitt, Cora E Lewis, Piran Aliabadi, Burt Sack, James Torner, Lawrence Bradley, Yuqing Zhang
	BMJ  2009;339:b2844 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of smokeless tobacco and risk of myocardial infarction and stroke: systematic review with meta-analysis
	Paolo Boffetta, Kurt Straif
	BMJ  2009;339:b3060 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	The double jeopardy of clustered measurement and cluster randomisation
	Michael S Kramer, Richard M Martin, Jonathan A C Sterne, Stanley Shapiro, Mourad Dahhou, Robert W Platt
	BMJ  2009;339:b2900 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	An overview of how asbestos exposure affects the lung
	Graeme P Currie, Stephen J Watt, Nick A Maskell
	BMJ  2009;339:b3209 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	A patient's journey: Mesothelioma
	Kieran Sweeney, Liz Toy, Jocelyn Cornwell
	BMJ  2009;339:b2862 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
	Neeraj Bhala, Tim Usherwood, Jacob George
	BMJ  2009;339:b2474 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Thomas Edgar Syme Fergusson
	Duncan Munro
	BMJ  2009;339:b3311 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Norman William Imlah
	Ash Kahn
	BMJ  2009;339:b3316 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kalman Laszlo Keczkes von Ganoz
	Shernaz Walton
	BMJ  2009;339:b3315 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rosemary Maling (née Dearden)
	Enid Howells, Heather Hornung
	BMJ  2009;339:b3312 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ronald Marks
	Stephen D Marks
	BMJ  2009;339:b3314 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Simon Nurick
	John Rees
	BMJ  2009;339:b3309 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Glad to be here
	Adrian Manning
	BMJ  2009;339:b3356 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Men behaving madly
	Gwen Adshead
	BMJ  2009;339:b3095 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: We need ideas based medicine
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;339:b3432 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: The Unforgettable Dr Farrell
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2009;339:b3351 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case Report: Orthopnoea in a young woman
	Jessica Jenkins, Ben Hope-Gill
	BMJ  2009;339:b3093 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: An unusual case of haemorrhagic stroke
	Hani Marcus, Ibrahim Jalloh, Rhys Roberts, Peter Martin
	BMJ  2009;339:b3204 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Thyroid disease
	BMJ  2009;339:b3404 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Kathir Yoganathan, Susannah Danino
	BMJ  2009;339:b3414 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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Filler

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	A lengthy illness
	Thomas Bewley
	BMJ  2009;339:b2934 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The best time to go around
	Ghaleb Eltaji Elfarouki
	BMJ  2009;339:b2935 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Laughing gas: the best medicine?
	Shreelata Datta, David J Houghton
	BMJ  2008;337:a570 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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