The science and art of medicine
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;339:b4125 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	The future of influenza vaccines
	Menno D de Jong, Rogier W Sanders
	BMJ  2009;339:b4014 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prognosis of low back pain in primary care
	Elaine M Hay, Kate M Dunn
	BMJ  2009;339:b3694 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Escherichia coli O157
	Mary Locking, John Cowden
	BMJ  2009;339:b4076 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical care in dementia
	Marja-Liisa Laakkonen, Kaisu Pitkala
	BMJ  2009;339:b3993 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Applying quality improvement approaches to health care
	Martin Marshall
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Letters

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	Contraception for women: First consultation for the pill
	Nicola D Jones
	BMJ  2009;339:b4061 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethnic group and medical care: What about doctor factors?
	Claire L Morgan, Hendrik J Beerstecher
	BMJ  2009;339:b4060 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sickness absence: Interpreting sickness absence rates of NHS employees
	Philip A Wynn
	BMJ  2009;339:b4062 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Wicked encyclopaedia: Libraries of the future
	Imraan Jhetam
	BMJ  2009;339:b4065 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Equity and NHS reforms: Waiting times are poor marker for equity
	Srinivasa V Katikireddi
	BMJ  2009;339:b4066 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of care economics: The blind leading the disempowered
	Peter J Mahaffey
	BMJ  2009;339:b4067 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How patients make us feel: Negotiating the power gradient
	Anna Sobel, Farhana Mann
	BMJ  2009;339:b4063 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Nobel medicine prize is won by scientists for work on chromosomal telomeres
	Geoff Watts
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	US health reform bill will hinder introduction of generic forms of biological drugs, critics say
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b4088 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	People with asthma are most at risk of complications from swine flu, study shows
	Oliver Ellis
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	Teenager who died after having HPV vaccine had a malignant chest tumour
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;339:b4032 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coroner rules that treating 26 year old woman who wanted to die would have been unlawful
	Clare Dyer
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	More people should be tested for HIV to reduce late diagnosis and prevent deaths, say guidelines
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;339:b4058 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antiviral drugs should not be used to treat Bell’s palsy, Cochrane analysis concludes
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;339:b4086 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charity campaigns for drug companies to pool patents for newer HIV drugs
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;339:b4056 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charity and drug company work together to develop cure for Chagas’ disease
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;339:b4084 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS will now be "preferred provider" of care, says health secretary
	Nicholas Timmins
	BMJ  2009;339:b4085 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	Medical relief efforts in Sumatra and Pacific islands are stepped up
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;339:b4090 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	German health policy is likely to become more pro-doctor, expert predicts
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2009;339:b4126 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hot-pink bras, cracked knuckles, and bar room brawls are this year’s winners at the Ig Nobel awards
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2009;339:b4089 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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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	International Aid: The cost of donated drugs
	Elizabeth Sukkar
	BMJ  2009;339:b3830 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Should youth mental health become a specialty in its own right? Yes
	Patrick McGorry
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	Should youth mental health become a specialty in its own right? No
	Peter Birleson
	BMJ  2009;339:b3371 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Medicine and the Media: Cervarix: definitely not the new MMR
	Rebecca Coombes
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	Legal Tender: Live and let die
	Sheila A M McLean
	BMJ  2009;339:b4112 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and Human Rights: The Israeli Medical Association and doctors’ complicity in torture
	John S Yudkin
	BMJ  2009;339:b4078 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Looking to Europe: The Netherlands: regulated competition behind the dykes?
	Gert P Westert, Jako S Burgers, Harry Verkleij
	BMJ  2009;339:b3397 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Fall prevention with supplemental and active forms of vitamin D: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	H A Bischoff-Ferrari, B Dawson-Hughes, H B Staehelin, J E Orav, A E Stuck, R Theiler, J B Wong, A Egli, D P Kiel, J Henschkowski
	BMJ  2009;339:b3692 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Partial protection of seasonal trivalent inactivated vaccine against novel pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009: case-control study in Mexico City
	Lourdes Garcia-Garcia, Jose Luis Valdespino-Gomez, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, Aida Jimenez-Corona, Anjarath Higuera-Iglesias, Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Bulmaro Cano-Arellano, Antonio Garcia-Anaya, Elizabeth Ferreira-Guerrero, Renata Baez-Saldana, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Samuel Ponce-de-Leon-Rosales, Celia Alpuche-Aranda, Mario Henry Rodriguez-Lopez, Rogelio Perez-Padilla, Mauricio Hernandez-Avila
	BMJ  2009;339:b3928 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Life expectancy in relation to cardiovascular risk factors: 38 year follow-up of 19 000 men in the Whitehall study
	Robert Clarke, Jonathan Emberson, Astrid Fletcher, Elizabeth Breeze, Michael Marmot, Martin J Shipley
	BMJ  2009;339:b3513 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Longitudinal histories as predictors of future diagnoses of domestic abuse: modelling study
	Ben Y Reis, Isaac S Kohane, Kenneth D Mandl
	BMJ  2009;339:b3677 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prognosis for patients with chronic low back pain: inception cohort study
	Luciola da C Menezes Costa, Christopher G Maher, James H McAuley, Mark J Hancock, Robert D Herbert, Kathryn M Refshauge, Nicholas Henschke
	BMJ  2009;339:b3829 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Adiposity and weight change in mid-life in relation to healthy survival after age 70 in women: prospective cohort study
	Qi Sun, Mary K Townsend, Olivia I Okereke, Oscar H Franco, Frank B Hu, Francine Grodstein
	BMJ  2009;339:b3796 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Serum tumour markers: how to order and interpret them
	C M Sturgeon, L C Lai, M J Duffy
	BMJ  2009;339:b3527 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Rational Testing: Appropriate requesting of serum tumour markers
	Eric S Kilpatrick, Michael J Lind
	BMJ  2009;339:b3111 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Exacerbation of atopic eczema in children
	Matthew Ridd, Sarah Purdy
	BMJ  2009;339:b2997 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug point: Chitosan may decrease serum valproate and increase the risk of seizure reappearance
	Pasquale Striano, Federico Zara, Carlo Minetti, Salvatore Striano
	BMJ  2009;339:b3751 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Ronald Howard Fox
	Sue Beckers
	BMJ  2009;339:b4071 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Kenneth Binns
	Robert G Priest
	BMJ  2009;339:b4021 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guy Christopher Brill
	Stephen Brill, Peter Burrows
	BMJ  2009;339:b4023 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alexander Aitken Clark
	Stuart Clark
	BMJ  2009;339:b3933 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Henry Edwards
	John Edwards, Sarah Willard
	BMJ  2009;339:b4007 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Philip Michael McAllen
	Robin McAllen
	BMJ  2009;339:b4019 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David John Thornberry
	Charles S Perkins, E Anne Thornberry
	BMJ  2009;339:b4016 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: We must defend personal continuity in primary care
	Helen Richards
	BMJ  2009;339:b3923 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Too independent for patients’ own good?
	Nicholas Clarke
	BMJ  2009;339:b4077 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: No fleas on me
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b4099 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates
	Seamus Mac Suibhne
	BMJ  2009;339:b4109 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Defending the indefensible
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;339:b4093 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: The silver lining
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2009;339:b4072 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	OnExamination quiz: Sexual health
	BMJ  2009;339:b4043 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: A breathless woman with asthma
	Robert H Thomas, Christopher Burke, David Howlett
	BMJ  2009;339:b4008 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Screening tests II
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2009;339:b4030 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Teng-Teng Chung, Norbert Avril, Shern L Chew
	BMJ  2009;339:b4042 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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Filler

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	A tale of mind and body
	Barrie Rapoport
	BMJ  2009;339:b2383 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Pseudo-extubation"?
	Peter Fowlie, Hazel Stewart
	BMJ  2009;339:b3679 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"What care I for a goose feather bed"
	Antony M Segal
	BMJ  2009;339:a2163 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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