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14 March 2009 (Vol 338, Issue 7695)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Interactive case reports

BMJ 2009;338:b1012 (Published 11 March 2009)

News

This week's News section

England gets five academic health science centres to compete on global stage

BMJ 2009;338:b1005 (Published 11 March 2009)

Supreme Court orders Wyeth to pay $6.7m in damages to guitarist who lost hand

BMJ 2009;338:b964 (Published 9 March 2009)

Prominent celecoxib researcher admits fabricating data in 21 articles

BMJ 2009;338:b966 (Published 9 March 2009)

Obama reverses US federal funding restrictions on stem cell research

BMJ 2009;338:b1011 (Published 11 March 2009)

Government removes data sharing clause from coroners’ bill

BMJ 2009;338:b1009 (Published 11 March 2009)

Expulsion of 13 relief agencies from Darfur could devastate health care

BMJ 2009;338:b985 (Published 10 March 2009)

In brief

BMJ 2009;338:b1010 (Published 11 March 2009)

Target to reduce child mortality is under threat from lack of progress on diarrhoea

BMJ 2009;338:b972 (Published 11 March 2009)

Aid agencies condemn drug confiscation

BMJ 2009;338:b1002 (Published 11 March 2009)

Inept laboratory work botched cancer patients’ results, inquiry finds

BMJ 2009;338:b952 (Published 9 March 2009)

Spain plans to legalise abortion on demand

BMJ 2009;338:b922 (Published 6 March 2009)

Palestinian health crisis will end only with withdrawal of Israel

BMJ 2009;338:b970 (Published 9 March 2009)

Dreadful visitations and deliverances

BMJ 2009;338:b1003 (Published 11 March 2009)

From bench to bedside to population

BMJ 2009;338:b990 (Published 10 March 2009)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Passive smoking and cognitive impairment

BMJ 2009;338:a3070 (Published 12 February 2009)

Risk of stroke and lifestyle

BMJ 2009;338:b14 (Published 19 February 2009)

Adjunctive non-invasive ways of healing bone fractures

BMJ 2009;338:b11 (Published 27 February 2009)

Systemic management of diabetic retinopathy

BMJ 2009;338:b441 (Published 12 February 2009)

The National Dementia strategy in England

BMJ 2009;338:b931 (Published 10 March 2009)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2009;338:b963 (Published 11 March 2009)

Research

This week's Research section

Exposure to secondhand smoke and cognitive impairment in non-smokers: national cross sectional study with cotinine measurement

BMJ 2009;338:b462 (Published 12 February 2009)

Research - continued

Combined effects of overweight and smoking in late adolescence on subsequent mortality: nationwide cohort study

BMJ 2009;338:b496 (Published 25 February 2009)

Combined effect of health behaviours and risk of first ever stroke in 20 040 men and women over 11 years’ follow-up in Norfolk cohort of European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC Norfolk): prospective population study

BMJ 2009;338:b349 (Published 19 February 2009)

Effect of tobacco smoking on survival of men and women by social position: a 28 year cohort study

BMJ 2009;338:b480 (Published 17 February 2009)

Low intensity pulsed ultrasonography for fractures: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2009;338:b351 (Published 27 February 2009)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Industry attack on academics

BMJ 2009;338:b736 (Published 9 March 2009)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Patient and public involvement in chronic illness: beyond the expert patient

BMJ 2009;338:b49 (Published 17 February 2009)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Standardise all leaflets now

BMJ 2009;338:b975 (Published 9 March 2009)

Will ductal carcinoma in situ defeat breast cancer screening?

BMJ 2009;338:b957 (Published 9 March 2009)

Reality of ductal carcinoma in situ

BMJ 2009;338:b958 (Published 9 March 2009)

The right to a diagnosis?

BMJ 2009;338:b956 (Published 9 March 2009)

Heart failure is in need of a diagnosis

BMJ 2009;338:b961 (Published 9 March 2009)

Assessing heart failure with normal ejection fraction

BMJ 2009;338:b960 (Published 9 March 2009)

Targets destroy morale and do not help patients

BMJ 2009;338:b953 (Published 9 March 2009)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Cry freedom

Tony Delamothe

BMJ 2009;338:b982 (Published 11 March 2009)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Lack of political will is a clinical issue

Tarek Meguid

BMJ 2009;338:b1013 (Published 11 March 2009)

When death took a holiday

Richard Smith

BMJ 2009;338:b941 (Published 11 March 2009)

Too much information

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2009;338:b938 (Published 11 March 2009)

Studies on Hysteria

Viv Lucas

BMJ 2009;338:b989 (Published 11 March 2009)

Letter from America

Des Spence

BMJ 2009;338:b988 (Published 11 March 2009)

A sax and a rose

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2009;338:b939 (Published 11 March 2009)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Tony Smith

BMJ 2009;338:b983 (Published 10 March 2009)

John Albert Campbell Ball

BMJ 2009;338:b844 (Published 2 March 2009)

Samuel James Barr

BMJ 2009;338:b926 (Published 6 March 2009)

John Bishop Borthwick

BMJ 2009;338:b726 (Published 6 March 2009)

Howard Brewster

BMJ 2009;338:b928 (Published 6 March 2009)

George William Arthur Hesse

BMJ 2009;338:b925 (Published 6 March 2009)

Joan Frieda Trevelyan (née Scott)

BMJ 2009;338:b920 (Published 6 March 2009)

Jeffery Miles Walker

BMJ 2009;338:b924 (Published 6 March 2009)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Thyroid eye disease

BMJ 2009;338:b560 (Published 6 March 2009)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Guidelines: Diagnosis and treatment of advanced breast cancer: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2009;338:b509 (Published 25 February 2009)

Drug Points: High doses of deferiprone may be associated with cerebellar syndrome

BMJ 2009;338:a2319 (Published 22 January 2009)

: A 38 year old woman with hypotensive shock at the onset of menstruation: case outcome

BMJ 2009;338:b247 (Published 9 March 2009)

: Commentary: The value of complexity

BMJ 2009;338:b796 (Published 9 March 2009)

: Commentary: Managing clinician’s assessment

BMJ 2009;338:b868 (Published 9 March 2009)

: Commentary: Think anaphylaxis

BMJ 2009;338:b846 (Published 9 March 2009)

: Commentary: Condition is often overlooked

BMJ 2009;338:b799 (Published 9 March 2009)

: Commentary: Patient’s view

BMJ 2009;338:b867 (Published 9 March 2009)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Imaging after trauma to the pelvis and hip

BMJ 2009;338:b289 (Published 11 March 2009)

Something’s in the air

BMJ 2009;338:b425 (Published 11 March 2009)

On Examination quiz

BMJ 2009;338:b881 (Published 11 March 2009)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2009;338:b853 (Published 10 March 2009)

Minerva

BMJ 2009;338:b852 (Published 10 March 2009)

Filler

A fine thread

BMJ 2009;338:b341 (Published 11 March 2009)