17 January 2009(vol 338, issue 7687)

Editor's Choice

• Health is a human right

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b136 (Published 15 January 2009)

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Editorials

• Neonatal screening for life threatening congenital heart disease

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a2663 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Fish oil and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease

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• Patient reported outcome measures in trials

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a2597 (Published 12 January 2009)

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• Readmissions as a result of adverse drug reactions in older people

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a2436 (Published 07 January 2009)

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• Changing behaviour through state intervention

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2543 (Published 15 December 2008)

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Letters

• The problem of insoluble fibre in irritable bowel syndrome

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3149 (Published 06 January 2009)

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• Why pills more than skills?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3148 (Published 06 January 2009)

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• Don’t forget amitriptyline

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3150 (Published 06 January 2009)

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• More data from Australia on sensitivity to HPV vaccine

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b26 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Health is quality of process

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b83 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Why the definition of health matters

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b28 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Regulation of research

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• Over-regulation, Russian style

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• It’s all about coordination and laterality

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b34 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Important points in analysing deaths on Mount Everest

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b41 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Alcohol and sexual behaviour

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b40 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Effect of the Pope who would not die on Welsh rugby

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b38 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Don’t worry, Your Holiness!

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b39 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• “Mosh pit” breast?

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News

• Primary care trusts lack the skills to implement Darzi reforms, say MPs

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b111 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• UN reports big increase in number of civilian casualties in Gaza

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b137 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• Older US women are less likely than men to get kidney transplants

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b98 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• Germany abolishes its compulsory retirement age for doctors

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b97 (Published 12 January 2009)

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• Health crisis in Zimbabwe is “man-made” and needs intervention from all UN states, report says

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• Less than half of essential drugs for children are available in most central African countries

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b96 (Published 12 January 2009)

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• UK radiation workers have higher than normal cancer risk but lower overall death rate

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b64 (Published 08 January 2009)

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• London trusts lose out in proposed formula for funding primary care

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b115 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• Milburn is to head initiative to widen entry to medical training

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• Ethnicity influences breast cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment but not survival, study finds

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• In brief

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b101 (Published 13 January 2009)

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• Working on the Congolese front line

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b63 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• Poor nations’ health systems must be boosted to improve maternal and newborn health, Unicef says

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b120 (Published 15 January 2009)

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• Health workers protest at unfair trial in Iran of HIV doctors

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b109 (Published 13 January 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b76 (Published 13 January 2009)

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Feature

• Unravelling the secrets of ageing

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3024 (Published 08 January 2009)

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Observations

• Resource allocation—it’s a jungle out there

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• What should the US surgeon general do?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b122 (Published 13 January 2009)

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Analysis

• What can we learn from drug marketing efficiency?

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• Commentary: The balance between marketing and safety

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Research

• Impact of pulse oximetry screening on the detection of duct dependent congenital heart disease: a Swedish prospective screening study in 39 821 newborns

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3037 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Effect of fish oil on arrhythmias and mortality: systematic review

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2931 (Published 24 December 2008)

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• Reporting and interpretation of SF-36 outcomes in randomised trials: systematic review

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3006 (Published 12 January 2009)

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• Comorbidity and repeat admission to hospital for adverse drug reactions in older adults: retrospective cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a2752 (Published 07 January 2009)

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Evaluating service delivery interventions to enhance patient safety

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2764 (Published 17 December 2008)

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Clinical Review

• Evaluating cardiovascular risk assessment for asymptomatic people

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a2844 (Published 05 January 2009)

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Practice

• Electroconvulsive therapy

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• Atrial fibrillation

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a475 (Published 24 July 2008)

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• Rapidly fatal invasive pertussis in young infants—how can we change the outcome?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a343 (Published 28 November 2008)

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Obituaries

• Allan Rosenfield

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b106 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• John Victor Clark

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• Desmond Peel Greaves

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• John Anthony Morgan

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b54 (Published 09 January 2009)

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• Rosemary Pettersson (née Atkinson)

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• John Alexander Tulloch

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• Arthur Mayow Wadsworth

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a3053 (Published 22 December 2008)

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Views & Reviews

• What do you do if your bosses are bullies?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3108 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• Regrets, I have a few

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b107 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• Snow

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b110 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• A fully rational life

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b74 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• Coma

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3117 (Published 14 January 2009)

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• A giddy dance

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Endgames

• A woman attending for routine review of her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b70 (Published 15 January 2009)

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• Progressive shortness of breath

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• Conditional probabilities

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• Haemoptysis

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b62 (Published 13 January 2009)

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• Minerva

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Filler

• Dangerous fresh fruit: un hommage to Monty Python

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• The other side of the fence

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a966 (Published 09 January 2009)

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