Tricky thing, choice
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2009;338:b707 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome
	Zarko Alfirevic
	BMJ  2009;338:b140 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimising pain during intravenous cannulation
	Andrew Moore, Sebastian Straube, Henry McQuay
	BMJ  2009;338:a2993 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy in complex emergency settings
	Shevin T Jacob, George Abongomera
	BMJ  2009;338:a2662 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of melanotan I and II in the general population
	Michael Evans-Brown, Rob T Dawson, Martin Chandler, Jim McVeigh
	BMJ  2009;338:b566 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Defining polycystic ovary syndrome
	Adam Balen, Roy Homburg, Stephen Franks
	BMJ  2009;338:a2968 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Rotator cuff disease: Simultaneous lidocaine may have confounded results
	Karim Ochosi
	BMJ  2009;338:b641 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rotator cuff disease: What is rotator cuff disease anyway?
	Gabriel Symonds
	BMJ  2009;338:b642 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rotator cuff disease: The next step?
	Graeme Mackenzie
	BMJ  2009;338:b640 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS national programme for IT: Time for a reality check of NPfIT’s problems
	Claudia Pagliari, Peter Singleton, Don E Detmer
	BMJ  2009;338:b643 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A constitution for the NHS: Interpreting the rights in the NHS constitution
	Elaine S Heaver, David Wainwright
	BMJ  2009;338:b633 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When can doctors stay away?: Consider employers’ duty of care
	John Davies
	BMJ  2009;338:b637 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When can doctors stay away?: Staying away might be better
	Roderick Champ
	BMJ  2009;338:b638 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All about NICE: NICE does consider patient views
	Marcia Kelson, Carole Longson, Peter Littlejohns
	BMJ  2009;338:b652 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All about NICE: NICE should engage generalists—public and professional
	Stephen Head
	BMJ  2009;338:b639 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All about NICE: NICE: alone in Europe but not the world
	Malcolm B Gillies
	BMJ  2009;338:b636 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All about NICE: Could NICE anxiety guidelines be made more user friendly?
	Louisa A Rhodes, June S L Brown
	BMJ  2009;338:b653 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All about NICE: NICE guidance on insulin pumps is not without drawbacks
	Martin Press, Jan Holland, Ruth Miller, Denise Kunka, Penelope Cream
	BMJ  2009;338:b661 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ awards: Hospital at Night nomination
	Benjamin Dean
	BMJ  2009;338:b644 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK rationing of new medicines: NICE should follow example of Scottish Medicines Consortium
	S John Cornell
	BMJ  2009;338:b634 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unnecessary universal BCG in UK: Efficacy of BCG: three quarters full or one quarter empty?
	David J M Lewis
	BMJ  2009;338:b635 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Presumed consent and donation: How about enforced choice?
	Karen Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b654 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	US court rejects vaccine connection to autism
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2009;338:b673 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GSK promises to cap price of its drugs in poorest countries
	Andrew Jack
	BMJ  2009;338:b686 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	World Bank provides $2.4bn to pay mothers to take their babies to health clinics
	Ben Bland
	BMJ  2009;338:b619 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aid money is wasted on private healthcare programmes in poor countries, says Oxfam
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b667 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Older Americans are not as healthy as older Europeans, study says
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b675 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bayer to spend $20m to correct misleading advertising for oral contraceptive Yaz
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b674 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In Brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b685 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS needs to prepare for era of non-invasive fetal DNA tests
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b618 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC consults on dropping vexatious complaints at an early stage
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b625 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reform of death certificate system doesn’t go far enough, says Shipman inquiry judge
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b660 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK government rejects advice from drugs adviser to downgrade ecstasy
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b592 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	African countries are unlikely to reach target level of doctors for more than 30 years
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;338:b682 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Where children die for little reason
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b695 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Searching for a gem with practical uses
	Domhnall MacAuley
	BMJ  2009;338:b656 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2009;338:b627 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Academic Medicine: Beyond the impact factor
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2009;338:b553 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Have targets done more harm than good in the English NHS? Yes
	James Gubb
	BMJ  2009;338:a3130 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Have targets done more harm than good in the English NHS? No
	Gwyn Bevan
	BMJ  2009;338:a3129 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Life and Death: "Nothing is too good for ordinary people"
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2009;338:b683 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: Jade, class, and cervical cancer
	Jane Cassidy
	BMJ  2009;338:b691 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Breast screening: the facts—or maybe not
	Peter C Gotzsche, Ole J Hartling, Margrethe Nielsen, John Brodersen, Karsten Juhl Jorgensen
	BMJ  2009;338:b86 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Impact of a new national screening policy for Down’s syndrome in Denmark: population based cohort study
	Charlotte K Ekelund, Finn Stener Jorgensen, Olav Bjorn Petersen, Karin Sundberg, Ann Tabor, Danish Fetal Medicine Research Group
	BMJ  2008;337:a2547 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of different strategies in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome: cost effectiveness analysis of computer simulation
	Jean Gekas, Genevieve Gagne, Emmanuel Bujold, Daniel Douillard, Jean-Claude Forest, Daniel Reinharz, Francois Rousseau
	BMJ  2009;338:b138 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of topical alkane vapocoolant spray on pain with intravenous cannulation in patients in emergency departments: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial
	Ramzi Hijazi, David Taylor, Joanna Richardson
	BMJ  2009;338:b215 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Combination antiretroviral therapy in population affected by conflict: outcomes from large cohort in northern Uganda
	Andrew Kiboneka, Ricky Jones Nyatia, Christine Nabiryo, Aranka Anema, Curtis L Cooper, Kimberly Ann Fernandes, Julio S G Montaner, Edward J Mills
	BMJ  2009;338:b201 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Outcome of depression in later life in primary care: longitudinal cohort study with three years’ follow-up
	E Licht-Strunk, H W J Van Marwijk, T Hoekstra, J W R Twisk, M De Haan, A T F Beekman
	BMJ  2009;338:a3079 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Alzheimer’s disease
	Alistair Burns, Steve Iliffe
	BMJ  2009;338:b158 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Competent Novice: Planning a patient’s discharge from hospital
	Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Geoffrey Christopher Cloud
	BMJ  2008;337:a2694 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Fatal thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy in a young man
	May Ching Soh, Michael Croxson
	BMJ  2008;337:a531 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A 38 year old woman with hypotensive shock at the onset of menstruation: case progression
	Sergio Serrano Villar, Juncal Perez-Somarriba, Talia Sainz Costa, Sarah Winstanley, Tomas Santillana Lopez, Luis Escribano Mora, Baltasar Orejas Gonzalez
	BMJ  2009;338:b246 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	George Godber
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2009;338:b710 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	George Harry Berry
	Elizabeth Berry
	BMJ  2009;338:b543 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Henry Elias-Jones
	Susan Blunt
	BMJ  2009;338:b670 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Herman Christian Nohl-Oser
	Raymond Hurt
	BMJ  2009;338:b671 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Timothy Clive Northfield
	Mike Mendall
	BMJ  2009;338:b145 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kasam Rajeshwar
	Sudheer Manthri
	BMJ  2009;338:b669 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Douglas William John Radcliffe
	Emma Radcliffe
	BMJ  2009;338:b502 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Robertson Angus White
	Peter J White
	BMJ  2009;338:b540 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: The educationalists’ standard stranglehold
	Andy Levy
	BMJ  2009;338:b690 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Repairing the damage of war
	Jonathan Kaplan
	BMJ  2009;338:b631 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Nil by mouth
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b680 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen in Rhyme
	Jacob F de Wolff
	BMJ  2009;338:b632 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the frontline: A walk down memory lane
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b687 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: No place for Mary Poppins
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2009;338:b681 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: Life threatening liver disease during treatment with monoclonal antibodies
	Thorsten Kaiser, Joachim Moessner, Keyur Patel, John G McHutchison, Hans L Tillmann
	BMJ  2009;338:b508 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Normal distribution
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b646 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quiz: The spine
	BMJ  2009;338:b649 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: Jaundice and malaise in a middle aged man
	Helen J Fellows, Harry R Dalton
	BMJ  2009;338:a3175 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;338:b617 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peter Tsangaris, Owen Anderson, Ayesha Siddiqi, Leslie Alexander
	BMJ  2009;338:b620 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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