21 February 2009(vol 338, issue 7692)

Editor's Choice

• Tricky thing, choice

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Editorials

• Prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b140 (Published 13 February 2009)

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• Minimising pain during intravenous cannulation

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a2993 (Published 10 February 2009)

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• Adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy in complex emergency settings

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a2662 (Published 18 February 2009)

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• Use of melanotan I and II in the general population

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b566 (Published 18 February 2009)

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• Defining polycystic ovary syndrome

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a2968 (Published 13 February 2009)

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Letters

• Simultaneous lidocaine may have confounded results

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b641 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• What is rotator cuff disease anyway?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b642 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• The next step?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b640 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Time for a reality check of NPfIT’s problems

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b643 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Interpreting the rights in the NHS constitution

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b633 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Consider employers’ duty of care

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b637 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Staying away might be better

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b638 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• NICE does consider patient views

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b652 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• NICE should engage generalists—public and professional

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b639 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• NICE: alone in Europe but not the world

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b636 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Could NICE anxiety guidelines be made more user friendly?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b653 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• NICE guidance on insulin pumps is not without drawbacks

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b661 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Hospital at Night nomination

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b644 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• NICE should follow example of Scottish Medicines Consortium

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b634 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Efficacy of BCG: three quarters full or one quarter empty?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b635 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• How about enforced choice?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b654 (Published 17 February 2009)

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News

• US court rejects vaccine connection to autism

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b673 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• GSK promises to cap price of its drugs in poorest countries

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b686 (Published 18 February 2009)

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• World Bank provides $2.4bn to pay mothers to take their babies to health clinics

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b619 (Published 13 February 2009)

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• Aid money is wasted on private healthcare programmes in poor countries, says Oxfam

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b667 (Published 16 February 2009)

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• Older Americans are not as healthy as older Europeans, study says

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b675 (Published 18 February 2009)

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• Bayer to spend $20m to correct misleading advertising for oral contraceptive Yaz

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b674 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• In Brief

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b685 (Published 19 February 2009)

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• NHS needs to prepare for era of non-invasive fetal DNA tests

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b618 (Published 13 February 2009)

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• GMC consults on dropping vexatious complaints at an early stage

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b625 (Published 13 February 2009)

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• Reform of death certificate system doesn’t go far enough, says Shipman inquiry judge

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b660 (Published 16 February 2009)

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• UK government rejects advice from drugs adviser to downgrade ecstasy

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b592 (Published 13 February 2009)

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• African countries are unlikely to reach target level of doctors for more than 30 years

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b682 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Where children die for little reason

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b695 (Published 18 February 2009)

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• Searching for a gem with practical uses

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b656 (Published 16 February 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b627 (Published 17 February 2009)

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Feature

• Beyond the impact factor

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b553 (Published 13 February 2009)

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Head to Head

• Have targets done more harm than good in the English NHS? Yes

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3130 (Published 16 January 2009)

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• Have targets done more harm than good in the English NHS? No

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3129 (Published 16 January 2009)

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Observations

• “Nothing is too good for ordinary people”

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• Jade, class, and cervical cancer

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b691 (Published 18 February 2009)

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Analysis

• Breast screening: the facts—or maybe not

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b86 (Published 28 January 2009)

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Research

• Impact of a new national screening policy for Down’s syndrome in Denmark: population based cohort study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2547 (Published 28 November 2008)

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• Comparison of different strategies in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome: cost effectiveness analysis of computer simulation

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b138 (Published 13 February 2009)

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• Effect of topical alkane vapocoolant spray on pain with intravenous cannulation in patients in emergency departments: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b215 (Published 10 February 2009)

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• Combination antiretroviral therapy in population affected by conflict: outcomes from large cohort in northern Uganda

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b201 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Outcome of depression in later life in primary care: longitudinal cohort study with three years’ follow-up

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3079 (Published 02 February 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Alzheimer’s disease

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b158 (Published 05 February 2009)

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Practice

• Planning a patient’s discharge from hospital

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• Fatal thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy in a young man

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a531 (Published 28 November 2008)

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

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b246 (Published 16 February 2009)

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Obituaries

• George Godber

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b710 (Published 18 February 2009)

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• George Harry Berry

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b543 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• John Henry Elias-Jones

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• Herman Christian Nohl-Oser

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b671 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Timothy Clive Northfield

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b145 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• Kasam Rajeshwar

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• Douglas William John Radcliffe

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b502 (Published 17 February 2009)

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• James Robertson Angus White

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b540 (Published 09 February 2009)

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Views & Reviews

• The educationalists’ standard stranglehold

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• Repairing the damage of war

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b631 (Published 18 February 2009)

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• Nil by mouth

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b680 (Published 18 February 2009)

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• The Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen in Rhyme

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• A walk down memory lane

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b687 (Published 18 February 2009)

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• No place for Mary Poppins

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b681 (Published 18 February 2009)

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Endgames

• Life threatening liver disease during treatment with monoclonal antibodies

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b508 (Published 19 February 2009)

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• Normal distribution

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b646 (Published 19 February 2009)

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• The spine

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b649 (Published 19 February 2009)

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• Jaundice and malaise in a middle aged man

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3175 (Published 19 February 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b620 (Published 16 February 2009)

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