Patients first
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2009;339:b4010 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Prostate specific antigen for detecting early prostate cancer
	Dragan Ilic, Sally Green
	BMJ  2009;339:b3572 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Introduction of rotavirus vaccine
	U K Griffiths, A D Clark, K M Mulholland
	BMJ  2009;339:b3482 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The direct and indirect costs of explosive violence
	Caecilie Buhmann
	BMJ  2009;339:b3944 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The election debate on the NHS
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2009;339:b3917 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Closing the evidence gap in integrative medicine
	Hugh MacPherson, David Peters, Catherine Zollman
	BMJ  2009;339:b3335 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Ovarian cancer: Usefulness of abdominal symptoms in early diagnosis
	Graham Wheatley
	BMJ  2009;339:b3954 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ovarian cancer: Symptoms are not early signs of ovarian cancer
	Marian J Mourits, Geertruida H de Bock
	BMJ  2009;339:b3955 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bran and irritable bowels: Bran’s deleterious effects: much ado about nothing
	Alexander C Ford, Paul Moayyedi
	BMJ  2009;339:b3956 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rosiglitazone and pioglitazone: Beware fractures
	Alok Dixit, Pinki Pandey
	BMJ  2009;339:b3957 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interventions and knee pain: When knee pain is not osteoarthritis
	Derek Baxter
	BMJ  2009;339:b3978 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sarcoidosis: Technique to enable diagnosis
	Andrew R L Medford, Sanjay Agrawal, Jonathan A Bennett
	BMJ  2009;339:b3962 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From sick notes to fit notes: Bridging the chasm
	Ian Buchanan
	BMJ  2009;339:b3971 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From sick notes to fit notes: Not a simple answer
	John Merrick
	BMJ  2009;339:b3972 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asbestos and the lung: Diffuse pleural thickening has new definition for claims
	Jennifer L Hoyle, Jonathan K R Walker
	BMJ  2009;339:b3953 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 flu pandemic: Managing neutropenic sepsis
	S Michael Crawford
	BMJ  2009;339:b3960 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 flu pandemic: A/H1N1 and other viruses affecting cystic fibrosis
	Paul Whitaker, Christine Etherington, Miles Denton, Steven Conway, Daniel Peckham
	BMJ  2009;339:b3958 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 flu pandemic: By any maths would be as weak
	Ron Law
	BMJ  2009;339:b3959 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug prevention of hypertension: Contradicting Cochrane
	Ray F O'Connor, Ruth Moloney
	BMJ  2009;339:b3997 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	More advice is needed in dementia care to deal with difficult treatment decisions, say experts
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;339:b4017 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors must report knife injuries to police under new GMC guidance
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b4004 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs are to refer suspected cancer patients for tests in a week under new scheme
	Oliver Ellis
	BMJ  2009;339:b3994 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consultants may win right to work in independent sector treatment centres as well as NHS
	Nicholas Timmins
	BMJ  2009;339:b3987 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients who use acute mental health services in England feel let down, survey shows
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b3942 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US survey favours acknowledging medical study ghostwriters
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b3986 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	African leaders join forces to boost fight against malaria
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;339:b3970 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UN seeks $1.5bn and donations of vaccines to help poor nations fight swine flu
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;339:b3988 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	HIV vaccine reduces infection rate by a third, study shows
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;339:b3963 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European agency approves swine flu vaccines for licensing
	Sophie Cook
	BMJ  2009;339:b3992 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;339:b3975 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Professor to face GMC over his claim to have seen full trial data
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b3990 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors explore research potential of blood samples from newborns
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;339:b3984 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Donors raise £3.2bn for free health care in world’s poorest countries
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;339:b3961 (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:b3945 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Health Informatics: Can the NHS get connected?
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2009;339:b3647 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient Safety: Risky business
	Oliver Ellis
	BMJ  2009;339:b3964 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Only Connect: Indirectly doing harm
	Nicholas A Christakis
	BMJ  2009;339:b3980 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: Online video sharing and patients’ privacy
	Heiman F L Wertheim, Jeremy Farrar, Peter Horby
	BMJ  2009;339:b3991 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Screening for prostate cancer remains controversial
	Jennifer R Stark, Lorelei Mucci, Kenneth J Rothman, Hans-Olov Adami
	BMJ  2009;339:b3601 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Public health impact and cost effectiveness of mass vaccination with live attenuated human rotavirus vaccine (RIX4414) in India: model based analysis
	Johnie Rose, Rachael L Hawthorn, Brook Watts, Mendel E Singer
	BMJ  2009;339:b3653 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses: systematic review
	Tom Jefferson, Chris Del Mar, Liz Dooley, Eliana Ferroni, Lubna A Al-Ansary, Ghada A Bawazeer, Mieke L van Driel, Ruth Foxlee, Alessandro Rivetti
	BMJ  2009;339:b3675 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prostate specific antigen for early detection of prostate cancer: longitudinal study
	Benny Holmstrom, Mattias Johansson, Anders Bergh, Ulf-Hakan Stenman, Goran Hallmans, Par Stattin
	BMJ  2009;339:b3537 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Economic evaluation of arthritis self management in primary care
	Anita Patel, Marta Buszewicz, Jennifer Beecham, Mark Griffin, Greta Rait, Irwin Nazareth, Angela Atkinson, Julie Barlow, Andy Haines
	BMJ  2009;339:b3532 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Filtering Medline for a clinical discipline: diagnostic test assessment framework
	Amit X Garg, Arthur V Iansavichus, Nancy L Wilczynski, Monika Kastner, Leslie A Baier, Salimah Z Shariff, Faisal Rehman, Matthew Weir, K Ann McKibbon, R Brian Haynes
	BMJ  2009;339:b3435 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Science, medicine, and the future: Capsule endoscopy
	Andrea Moglia, Andrea Pietrabissa, Alfred Cuschieri
	BMJ  2009;339:b3420 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Quality Improvement Report: The role of specialists in managing the health of populations with chronic illness: the example of chronic kidney disease
	Brian J Lee, Ken Forbes
	BMJ  2009;339:b2395 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uncertainties Page: Should statins be prescribed for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease?
	Andrew Connor, Charlie Tomson
	BMJ  2009;339:b2949 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Clinical management of injured patients with ankylosing spondylitis
	Steve Fordham, Gavin Lloyd
	BMJ  2009;339:b2568 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Obituaries: Fred Stone
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2009;339:b3950 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Roger Kirby
	Gordon H D McNaught
	BMJ  2009;339:b3826 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alex George Larson
	Claire Larson, Gary Smith
	BMJ  2009;339:b3824 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hélène Julia Mair
	Eve Hunnings, Anneke Rees
	BMJ  2009;339:b3931 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alan Benjamin Otlet
	Anthony B Lavelle
	BMJ  2009;339:b3932 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Frederick Norman Shuttleworth
	Frank Marshall, John Surtees
	BMJ  2009;339:b3930 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Tolland
	Hugh Tolland
	BMJ  2009;339:b3968 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Harold Zalin
	A M Zalin
	BMJ  2009;339:b3716 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Improving the use of IT in the NHS
	Phil Leonard
	BMJ  2009;339:b3922 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Gone to pie
	John Quin
	BMJ  2009;339:b3889 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Now I’m a believer
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b3982 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
	Joshua Hill
	BMJ  2009;339:b4009 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Black dog
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;339:b3995 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: Dr Johnson’s "peculiar pleasure"
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2009;339:b3979 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: A seaman with blindness and confusion
	Leo J Schep, Robin J Slaughter, J Allister Vale, D Michael G Beasley
	BMJ  2009;339:b3929 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Screening tests
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2009;339:b3941 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Intracranial pathology
	BMJ  2009;339:b3940 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	H J Whitley, J E Sansom
	BMJ  2009;339:b3977 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2009;339:b3966 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	How could I have done that?
	Phillip D Snashall
	BMJ  2009;339:b1926 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management styles
	Andrew Kirby
	BMJ  2009;339:a2528 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Medical mockery
	BMJ  2008;337:a559 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Timeless iatrogenicity
	BMJ  2008;337:a556 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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