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07 February 2009 (Vol 338, Issue 7690)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Doctors, patients, and the drug industry

BMJ 2009;338:b463 (Published 5 February 2009)

News

This week's News section

Individual drug firms should stop paying for medical education

BMJ 2009;338:b442 (Published 4 February 2009)

Every town and city in England to have a memory clinic, says health secretary

BMJ 2009;338:b464 (Published 4 February 2009)

NICE recommends long term campaign to encourage young people to exercise

BMJ 2009;338:b373 (Published 30 January 2009)

Opposition MPs object to data sharing clause in coroners bill

BMJ 2009;338:b412 (Published 2 February 2009)

Number of breast cancer cases detected by screening has doubled in a decade in England

BMJ 2009;338:b414 (Published 2 February 2009)

More spending on NHS has led to highest satisfaction rates in 25 years, report says

BMJ 2009;338:b374 (Published 30 January 2009)

Obama drops funding from bill, alarming family planning groups

BMJ 2009;338:b422 (Published 2 February 2009)

Westminster primary care trust introduces programme to prevent heart disease

BMJ 2009;338:b377 (Published 3 February 2009)

Treatment target of 18 weeks is incompatible with “choice” agenda, says BMA

BMJ 2009;338:b346 (Published 30 January 2009)

In brief

BMJ 2009;338:b451 (Published 4 February 2009)

UN launches humanitarian appeal for Gaza

BMJ 2009;338:b446 (Published 3 February 2009)

Gates foundation pledges new funds to fight neglected diseases

BMJ 2009;338:b454 (Published 3 February 2009)

Nine patients are killed as hospital is caught in cross fire in Sri Lankan war zone

BMJ 2009;338:b455 (Published 3 February 2009)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Does acupuncture relieve pain?

BMJ 2009;338:a2760 (Published 27 January 2009)

Follow-up by telephone after treatment for breast cancer

BMJ 2009;338:a2753 (Published 14 January 2009)

New definition of myocardial infarction

BMJ 2008;337:a3078 (Published 24 December 2008)

Antibiotics for spontaneous preterm birth

BMJ 2008;337:a3015 (Published 30 December 2008)

Doctors, patients, and the pharmaceutical industry

BMJ 2009;338:b443 (Published 3 February 2009)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2009;338:b409 (Published 4 February 2009)

Research

This week's Research section

Acupuncture treatment for pain: systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no acupuncture groups

BMJ 2009;338:a3115 (Published 27 January 2009)

Effectiveness of acute geriatric units on functional decline, living at home, and case fatality among older patients admitted to hospital for acute medical disorders: meta-analysis

BMJ 2009;338:b50 (Published 23 January 2009)

Comparing hospital and telephone follow-up after treatment for breast cancer: randomised equivalence trial

BMJ 2009;338:a3147 (Published 14 January 2009)

Research - continued

Long term survival after evidence based treatment of acute myocardial infarction and revascularisation: follow-up of population based Perth MONICA cohort, 1984-2005

BMJ 2009;338:b36 (Published 26 January 2009)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Jeffery Taubenberger: Back to the future

BMJ 2009;338:b264 (Published 4 February 2009)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Relationships with the drug industry: More regulation, greater transparency

BMJ 2009;338:b211 (Published 3 February 2009)

Relationships with the drug industry: Collaboration to improve care

BMJ 2009;338:b232 (Published 3 February 2009)

Relationships with the drug industry: Focus on better information

BMJ 2009;338:b252 (Published 3 February 2009)

Relationships with the drug industry: Keep at arm’s length

BMJ 2009;338:b222 (Published 3 February 2009)

Relationships with the drug industry: Build trust based on good science

BMJ 2009;338:b234 (Published 3 February 2009)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Patients’ attendance at clinics is worse with choose and book

BMJ 2009;338:b396 (Published 2 February 2009)

Patients’ preference and mental capacity

BMJ 2009;338:b385 (Published 2 February 2009)

A waste of time and money

BMJ 2009;338:b394 (Published 2 February 2009)

What about the cost to use the measures?

BMJ 2009;338:b387 (Published 2 February 2009)

Pro-arrhythmic effects of fish oils

BMJ 2009;338:b393 (Published 2 February 2009)

Let us protest loudly

BMJ 2009;338:b397 (Published 2 February 2009)

A lecturer from BSMS explains

BMJ 2009;338:b398 (Published 2 February 2009)

A student from BSMS writes

BMJ 2009;338:b399 (Published 2 February 2009)

ECT’s increasing evidence base and positive profile

BMJ 2009;338:b390 (Published 2 February 2009)

There are no “basics” in child protection

BMJ 2009;338:b408 (Published 2 February 2009)

BMJ pico—a window into the future?

BMJ 2009;338:b392 (Published 2 February 2009)

Different strokes may be needed for different folks

BMJ 2009;338:b391 (Published 2 February 2009)

Obesity is a risk factor for thromboembolism

BMJ 2009;338:b388 (Published 2 February 2009)

Results not strong enough for GPs to implement BMJ study

BMJ 2009;338:b386 (Published 2 February 2009)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Of mondegreens, mismatches, and misunderstandings

Christopher Martyn

BMJ 2009;338:b244 (Published 4 February 2009)

Serious documentary or freak show?

David A Koppel

BMJ 2009;338:b71 (Published 4 February 2009)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Build bridges with the drugs industry—but keep patients in mind

Ian Gilmore

BMJ 2009;338:b439 (Published 4 February 2009)

Views & Reviews - continued

Opera made over

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2009;338:b372 (Published 4 February 2009)

A dish best eaten cold

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2009;338:b433 (Published 4 February 2009)

The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds

Kate Robertson

BMJ 2009;338:a3133 (Published 4 February 2009)

The consumerist

Des Spence

BMJ 2009;338:b445 (Published 4 February 2009)

The first George W

Wendy Moore

BMJ 2009;338:b434 (Published 4 February 2009)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Anna Donald

BMJ 2009;338:b436 (Published 4 February 2009)

Joseph Gauld Bearn

BMJ 2009;338:b363 (Published 3 February 2009)

Peter McAllister Elder

BMJ 2009;338:b427 (Published 3 February 2009)

Peter Terence Jackson

BMJ 2009;338:b362 (Published 3 February 2009)

Pauline Winifred Lane-Mitchell (née Balmer)

BMJ 2009;338:b361 (Published 3 February 2009)

Nabil Fakry Salama (Father Mikhail Ibrahim Salama)

BMJ 2009;338:b359 (Published 3 February 2009)

Abdul Jawad Sheikh

BMJ 2009;338:b269 (Published 3 February 2009)

Kenneth Walter William Henry Walton

BMJ 2009;338:b356 (Published 3 February 2009)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Preventing transmission of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA diseases

BMJ 2009;338:b94 (Published 30 January 2009)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Uncertainties Page: What is the most effective treatment of interstitial cystitis?

BMJ 2008;337:a2325 (Published 27 November 2008)

Practice Pointer: How to webcast lectures and conferences

BMJ 2009;338:b31 (Published 30 January 2009)

Lesson of the Week: Life saving treatment for a “palliative care” patient

BMJ 2008;337:39563.581377.80 (Published 29 July 2008)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A case of “tearing” back pain and acute limb ischaemia

BMJ 2009;338:a3114 (Published 4 February 2009)

Distribution

BMJ 2009;338:b370 (Published 4 February 2009)

A chicken sandwich leading to intensive care

BMJ 2009;338:b200 (Published 4 February 2009)

Anatomy

BMJ 2009;338:b410 (Published 4 February 2009)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2009;338:b416 (Published 3 February 2009)

Minerva

BMJ 2009;338:b430 (Published 3 February 2009)

Filler

Trial registration: advice to authors

BMJ 2009;338:b149 (Published 4 February 2009)