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61 articles published between 06 Apr 2009 and 12 Apr 2009

Editor's Choice

Good medicine

BMJ 2009;338:b1455 (Published 8 April 2009)

Research

Frailty and type of death among older adults in China: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2009;338:b1175 (Published 9 April 2009)

China’s excess males, sex selective abortion, and one child policy: analysis of data from 2005 national intercensus survey

BMJ 2009;338:b1211 (Published 9 April 2009)

News

Expert evidence should be reliability tested, says law reform body

BMJ 2009;338:b1516 (Published 9 April 2009)

Bringing sight to the blind

BMJ 2009;338:b1521 (Published 9 April 2009)

Plans to introduce electronic medical cards in Germany stall as doctors refuse to buy equipment

BMJ 2009;338:b1522 (Published 9 April 2009)

Disaster agencies treat wounded after Italian earthquake damages hospital

BMJ 2009;338:b1524 (Published 9 April 2009)

Inquiry into vaccine trial in India suggests ineffective oversight

BMJ 2009;338:b1418 (Published 8 April 2009)

Hospital safety incidents in Medicare patients cost $6.9bn a year

BMJ 2009;338:b1479 (Published 8 April 2009)

Climate change could stretch health systems to breaking point, European Commission says

BMJ 2009;338:b1430 (Published 7 April 2009)

GMC is accused of having altered the burden of proof in Southall case

BMJ 2009;338:b1446 (Published 7 April 2009)

Commission focuses on early childhood development to improve health in US

BMJ 2009;338:b1448 (Published 7 April 2009)

WHO urges governments to build better hospitals that can withstand disasters

BMJ 2009;338:b1453 (Published 7 April 2009)

In brief

BMJ 2009;338:b1454 (Published 7 April 2009)

Pilot sites in England to test the impact of integrating health and social care

BMJ 2009;338:b1416 (Published 6 April 2009)

American Psychiatric Association says no to industry funding for symposiums

BMJ 2009;338:b1426 (Published 6 April 2009)

American Medical Association sues biggest US health plan over claims of underpayment of doctors

BMJ 2009;338:b1427 (Published 6 April 2009)

Report shows doubling of care staff in Wales sacked for alleged abuse

BMJ 2009;338:b1429 (Published 6 April 2009)

Court hears how drug giant Merck tried to “neutralise” and “discredit” doctors critical of Vioxx

BMJ 2009;338:b1432 (Published 6 April 2009)

News - continued

21 NHS trusts in England not doing enough to prevent infection, regulator warns

BMJ 2009;338:b1441 (Published 6 April 2009)

Parts of Italy’s law on assisted reproduction are ruled unconstitutional

BMJ 2009;338:b1447 (Published 6 April 2009)

Short Cuts

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2009;338:b1423 (Published 6 April 2009)

Observations

What to cut

Tony Delamothe

BMJ 2009;338:b1457 (Published 7 April 2009)

Analysis

Using financial incentives to achieve healthy behaviour

BMJ 2009;338:b1415 (Published 10 April 2009)

Clinical Review

Emergency and early management of burns and scalds

BMJ 2009;338:b1037 (Published 8 April 2009)

Practice

Easily Missed? : Obstructive sleep apnoea in adults

BMJ 2009;338:b1165 (Published 7 April 2009)

A Patient’s Journey : Hyperhidrosis

BMJ 2009;338:b1166 (Published 7 April 2009)

Statistics Notes: Analysis of continuous data from small samples

BMJ 2009;338:a3166 (Published 6 April 2009)

Rational Testing: Investigating hypertension in a young person

BMJ 2009;338:b1043 (Published 6 April 2009)

Views & Reviews

The surgeon’s prayer

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2009;338:b1392 (Published 7 April 2009)

Save our souls

Des Spence

BMJ 2009;338:b1420 (Published 7 April 2009)

City on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Trevor Jackson

BMJ 2009;338:b1422 (Published 7 April 2009)

Hospital chaplaincy services are not only for religious patients

Mark Newitt

BMJ 2009;338:b1403 (Published 6 April 2009)

No going back

Ike Iheanacho

BMJ 2009;338:b1419 (Published 6 April 2009)

Det Syke Barn (The Sick Child)

Colin Martin

BMJ 2009;338:b1439 (Published 6 April 2009)

Endgames

A 20 month old girl with respiratory distress

BMJ 2009;338:b1216 (Published 8 April 2009)

Interpreting a low P value

BMJ 2009;338:b1381 (Published 8 April 2009)

Upper gastrointestinal tract

BMJ 2009;338:b1386 (Published 8 April 2009)

Endgames - continued

A skin lesion on the back of a young woman’s hand

BMJ 2009;338:b980 (Published 8 April 2009)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2009;338:b1405 (Published 8 April 2009)

Minerva

BMJ 2009;338:b1408 (Published 8 April 2009)

Editorial

HIV testing in primary care

BMJ 2009;338:b1085 (Published 9 April 2009)

Ratio of males to females in China

BMJ 2009;338:b483 (Published 9 April 2009)

Care of older people in China

BMJ 2009;338:b601 (Published 9 April 2009)

Increasing access to medicines

BMJ 2009;338:b1397 (Published 7 April 2009)

Obituary

Else Pappenheim

BMJ 2009;338:b1300 (Published 9 April 2009)

Alexander Gordon

BMJ 2009;338:b1433 (Published 7 April 2009)

Ian Macdonald

BMJ 2009;338:b1436 (Published 7 April 2009)

Cedric John Vincent Helliwell

BMJ 2009;338:b1444 (Published 7 April 2009)

Theo Legate Schofield

BMJ 2009;338:b1445 (Published 7 April 2009)

Willie Philip Mitchell

BMJ 2009;338:b1449 (Published 7 April 2009)

Bernard Cecil Rosenberg

BMJ 2009;338:b1450 (Published 7 April 2009)

Norah Frances Metcalf (née Lambe)

BMJ 2009;338:b1452 (Published 7 April 2009)

William T Close

BMJ 2009;338:b1438 (Published 6 April 2009)

Letter

What about the cost?

BMJ 2009;338:b1370 (Published 7 April 2009)

Many questions remain about treatments for CFS

BMJ 2009;338:b1371 (Published 7 April 2009)

Warnings about unsafe systems

BMJ 2009;338:b1372 (Published 7 April 2009)

Maturity needs further study

BMJ 2009;338:b1373 (Published 7 April 2009)

Free up the canon

BMJ 2009;338:b1375 (Published 7 April 2009)

Web based patient feedback

BMJ 2009;338:b1377 (Published 7 April 2009)

Filler

A memorable ward round

BMJ 2009;338:b447 (Published 7 April 2009)