21 November 2009(vol 339, issue 7731)

Editor's Choice

• The power of stories

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Editorials

• Slow walking speed in elderly people

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• Greater equality and better health

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• Control of hepatitis B and C worldwide

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• Population, gender, and climate change

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• Capping earnings from private patients in NHS foundation trusts

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Letters

• For contraception try IUDs …

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• … or progestin-only pills

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• Misleading relative risks?

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• Author’s reply

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• Calcium is the harmful agent

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• Avoiding spurious hyperkalaemia

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• Benzylpenicillin potassium

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• Time to flag up “detox” drinks?

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• The third way

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News

• First official citywide electronic record system for patients is launched in London

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• Patents on breast cancer genes are illegal and stymie research, say scientists

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• Poor service provision is blamed for overuse of antipsychotics in dementia patients

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• Misconduct panel investigates research of doctor convicted of lacing lover’s drink

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• Chlamydia screening in young people fails to reduce prevalence

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• Three more government drug advisers resign

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• In brief

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• Less than 2% of food aid is spent on interventions to reduce malnutrition in children

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• Deaths from swine flu in UK rise, while cases fall

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• Success of climate change control depends on access to reproductive health care

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• Image of brain tumour wins competition

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• Global alliance of funders of public health research agrees top priorities

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• Low and middle income countries must do more to prevent spread of AIDS, experts say

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4739 (Published 13 November 2009)

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• Condom couture

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• Australia operates “closed shop” to restrict doctors from overseas, say critics

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• Landmines and other explosive war remnants maim or kill 20 people a day

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Doctors in management

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Head to Head

• Should the NHS strive to eradicate all unexplained variation? Yes

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• Should the NHS strive to eradicate all unexplained variation? No

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Observations

• Are the Conservatives serious?

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Analysis

• Can quality and productivity improve in a financially poorer NHS?

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Research

• Income inequality, mortality, and self rated health: meta-analysis of multilevel studies

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• Teenage pregnancy and social disadvantage: systematic review integrating controlled trials and qualitative studies

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• Effect of tailored practice and patient care plans on secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4220 (Published 29 October 2009)

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• Slow walking speed and cardiovascular death in well functioning older adults: prospective cohort study

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• Trends in Down’s syndrome live births and antenatal diagnoses in England and Wales from 1989 to 2008: analysis of data from the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register

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Clinical Review

• Diagnosis and management of dengue

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Practice

• National Patient Safety Agency: combining stories with statistics to minimise harm

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• Avoiding midazolam overdose: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency

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• A woman with acute myelopathy in pregnancy: case progression

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• Slipped capital femoral epiphysis

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• Tennis elbow

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Obituaries

• Leon Eisenberg

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• Richard Stuart Carruthers

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• Richard James Lance Davis

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• Edgar Gordon Goff

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• Charles Hilton Jones

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• Peter Gordon Cochrane Robertson

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• Frederick Peter Stephens

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• John Finbarr Walsh

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Views & Reviews

• The health department and the NHS: time to separate?

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• Politics, science, and the White House

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• An inside story

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• The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease

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• It shouldn’t happen to a vet

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• Rhyme and reason

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Endgames

• Random allocation I

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• Acute abdomen

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• An unusual cause of acute renal failure

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• Sign of the cross

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• Convalescence

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