Death and dying
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2009;339:b5044 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	New interim guidance on assisted suicide
	Richard Huxtable, Karen Forbes
	BMJ  2009;339:b4900 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aspirin for primary prevention of vascular disease in people with diabetes
	Richard Haynes, Louise Bowman, Jane Armitage
	BMJ  2009;339:b4596 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
	Jenny Griffiths, Mala Rao
	BMJ  2009;339:b4952 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	The price of silence: 18 Liverpool consultants reply
	Elizabeth Adams, Iwan Lewis-Jones, Zarko Alfirevic, Robert MacDonald, Feroza Dawood, Shuba Mallaiah, Edwin Djabatey, Derek Parkinson, Roy Farquharson, David Patrick, Gillian Fowler, Mark Turner, Dharani Hapangama, Todd Wauchob, Charles Kingsland, Andrew Weeks, Robert Kingston, John Kirwan
	BMJ  2009;339:b4981 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The price of silence: Author’s reply
	Jonathan Gornall
	BMJ  2009;339:b4986 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The price of silence: More information needed
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  2009;339:b4989 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The price of silence: Response to the Liverpool trust
	Peter Bousfield
	BMJ  2009;339:b4983 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The price of silence: Clarification on gagging clauses
	Peter Rubin
	BMJ  2009;339:b4991 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The price of silence: Clarification of a clarification
	Gerald Shaw
	BMJ  2009;339:b4994 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Seasonal vaccine and H1N1: Selection bias explains seasonal vaccine’s protection
	Naveed Z Janjua, Danuta M Skowronski, Travis S Hottes, Gaston De Serres, Natasha S Crowcroft, Laura C Rosella
	BMJ  2009;339:b4972 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Seasonal vaccine and H1N1: Authors’ reply
	Lourdes Garcia-Garcia, Jose Luis Valdespino-Gomez
	BMJ  2009;339:b4978 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency sedation in children: Sedating unfasted children may be dangerous
	David C Crawford, Avinish Kapoor
	BMJ  2009;339:b4959 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency sedation in children: We could do better
	Auni Sen
	BMJ  2009;339:b4958 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency sedation in children: Utility of intranasal midazolam
	Angela De Cunto, Egidio Barbi, Patrizia Salierno
	BMJ  2009;339:b4957 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Climate change: Call to action: catch The Wave
	Jienchi Dorward, Tony Waterston, Frances Mortimer, Robin Stott, Jonny Currie
	BMJ  2009;339:b4962 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	UK government outlines details of free personal care for people most in need
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;339:b4939 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New recommendations on mammography and cervical cancer screening disrupt US health reform debate
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b5012 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private company suspended from providing out of hours services while concerns investigated
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2009;339:b4955 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs and criminal justice staff to receive training as part of national strategy to improve offenders’ health
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;339:b4918 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Social enterprise providing services to Wandsworth prison goes bust
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2009;339:b5014 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	First cases of spread of oseltamivir resistant swine flu between patients are reported in Wales
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2009;339:b4975 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Australian hospital staff set up anonymous blog to voice concerns about cutbacks
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2009;339:b4919 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Series of studies highlights health benefits of action on climate change
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b5024 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health professionals from around world are urged to campaign on climate change
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b4933 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Football is enlisted in fight against malaria
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5021 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch legal protection scheme for doctors involved in mercy killing of babies receives first report
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2009;339:b4993 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;339:b5020 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Road deaths three times higher in poorer European countries
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b4951 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Senator asks US medical schools about rules on ghostwriting
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b5013 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC clears child psychiatrist accused of alleged misconduct as expert witness
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b4999 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deadline to end world hunger by 2025 is being allowed to "quietly wither away"
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2009;339:b4977 (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:b4963 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Climate Change: Opportunity knocks: health wins from action on global warming
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  2009;339:b4947 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Ethics Man: Wonder in medicine
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2009;339:b4976 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Ethical debate: Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests?
	Stephen Bonner, Michael Tremlett, Dominic Bell
	BMJ  2009;339:b4667 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical debate: Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests? Medical opinion
	Kevin Mackway-Jones
	BMJ  2009;339:b4697 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical debate: Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests? Legal advice
	Marika Davies
	BMJ  2009;339:b4693 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical debate: Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests? Ethical view
	Sheila A M McLean
	BMJ  2009;339:b4695 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Concept of unbearable suffering in context of ungranted requests for euthanasia: qualitative interviews with patients and physicians
	H R W Pasman, M L Rurup, D L Willems, B D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
	BMJ  2009;339:b4362 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events in people with diabetes: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Giorgia De Berardis, Michele Sacco, Giovanni F M Strippoli, Fabio Pellegrini, Giusi Graziano, Gianni Tognoni, Antonio Nicolucci
	BMJ  2009;339:b4531 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Applicability and generalisability of published results of randomised controlled trials and non-randomised studies evaluating four orthopaedic procedures: methodological systematic review
	Leslie Pibouleau, Isabelle Boutron, Barnaby C Reeves, Remy Nizard, Philippe Ravaud
	BMJ  2009;339:b4538 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluating the causal relevance of diverse risk markers: horizontal systematic review
	Hannah Kuper, Amanda Nicholson, Mika Kivimaki, Amina Aitsi-Selmi, Gianpiero Cavalleri, John E Deanfield, Peter Heuschmann, Xavier Jouven, Sofia Malyutina, Bongani M Mayosi, Susanna Sans, Troels Thomsen, Jacqueline C M Witteman, Aroon D Hingorani, Debbie A Lawlor, Harry Hemingway
	BMJ  2009;339:b4265 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reliability of self reported smoking status by pregnant women for estimating smoking prevalence: a retrospective, cross sectional study
	Deborah Shipton, David M Tappin, Thenmalar Vadiveloo, Jennifer A Crossley, David A Aitken, Jim Chalmers
	BMJ  2009;339:b4347 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Developmental dysplasia of the hip
	M D Sewell, K Rosendahl, D M Eastwood
	BMJ  2009;339:b4454 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	A Patient's Journey: Multiple sclerosis
	Debbie Purdy, Wendy Leedham
	BMJ  2009;339:b4470 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uncertainties Page: Should more patients with acute ischaemic stroke receive thrombolytic treatment?
	Joanna M Wardlaw, Peter A G Sandercock, Veronica Murray
	BMJ  2009;339:b4584 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Metformin associated lactic acidosis
	Emma Fitzgerald, Stephen Mathieu, Andrew Ball
	BMJ  2009;339:b3660 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Marek Edelman
	Boleslav Lichterman
	BMJ  2009;339:b4992 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anthony Sidney Fairbank Butcher
	Adrian Fairbank
	BMJ  2009;339:b5007 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Noel Francis Harley
	Nick O'Donovan
	BMJ  2009;339:b5004 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Donald Yardley Mackenzie
	Nicholas J Odom
	BMJ  2009;339:b5006 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Terence Harold Pringle
	Graeme McNeill
	BMJ  2009;339:b5005 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neil Watson
	David K C Cooper
	BMJ  2009;339:b5010 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anthony Whiteside
	Howard Duncalf
	BMJ  2009;339:b4858 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Raymond Ivor John Williams
	Brian Orme
	BMJ  2009;339:b5009 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Letting go
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  2009;339:b4982 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: The new black death
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2009;339:b5047 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Smoking: out for the count
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b5023 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: George’s Marvellous Medicine
	David Warriner
	BMJ  2009;339:b4971 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Comrades in arms
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;339:b5022 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: Come dance with me in Ireland
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2009;339:b4970 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: A case of diplopia and arm weakness
	D K Sennik, D Suresh, E Goodall, R J M Lane
	BMJ  2009;339:b4555 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Random allocation II
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2009;339:b4924 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Headaches in children
	BMJ  2009;339:b4926 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Pankaj Kumar Agarwal, Lik Thai Lim, Charles Diaper
	BMJ  2009;339:b4812 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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