07 March 2009(vol 338, issue 7694)

Editor's Choice

• Ethics checklists and sharing patients’ information

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b913 (Published 05 March 2009)

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Editorials

• Fertility drugs and ovarian cancer

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3075 (Published 06 February 2009)

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• Preconception care

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b22 (Published 12 February 2009)

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• Sun protection in teenagers

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a2997 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Dopamine agonists and hyperprolactinaemia

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b381 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Amendments to the Coroners and Justice Bill

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b895 (Published 03 March 2009)

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Letters

• Pay attention to the first week

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b862 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Basic training of frontline staff needs to be better

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b859 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Experience of a new mum

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b857 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• What do people think about breasts and breast feeding?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b858 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Memory clinics are all about stigma, not screening

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b860 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Predictions are overly dire

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b775 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Authors’ reply

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b777 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Patient centred comes at a price

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b861 (Published 03 March 2009)

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News

• Healthcare reform forms a big part of Obama’s budget

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b892 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Inquest begins into deaths after concerns about diamorphine prescribing

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b903 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Sexual violence must be treated as medical emergency, charity says

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b850 (Published 05 March 2009)

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• India’s health ministry is accused of damaging vaccine production

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b864 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• New “academic trusts” will signal start of reorganisation of NHS in England

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b906 (Published 04 March 2009)

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• GMC is to reconsider guidance on end of life care

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b875 (Published 02 March 2009)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b904 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• NHS can learn from “exemplary” service provided to UK soldiers on front line

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b893 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Organisations question EC changes on drug information for patients

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b894 (Published 04 March 2009)

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• US supplied phosphorus shells used in Gaza, says Amnesty International

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b828 (Published 26 February 2009)

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• Roche’s vouchers to patients breach regulatory code

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b899 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Dutch and British doctors lead in information technology while Canada and the US slow to adopt it, study shows

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b827 (Published 26 February 2009)

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• New website brings history of medicine into 21st century

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b900 (Published 04 March 2009)

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• Healthcare workers and patients demonstrate against privatisation in Madrid’s health service

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b785 (Published 04 March 2009)

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• Charities call for “public-researcher partnership” in sharing electronic patient data

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b856 (Published 27 February 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b863 (Published 03 March 2009)

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Feature

• Bad blood: gay men and blood donation

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b779 (Published 27 February 2009)

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Observations

• Rethinking ward rounds

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b879 (Published 04 March 2009)

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Head to Head

• Should men who have ever had sex with men be allowed to give blood? Yes

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b311 (Published 27 February 2009)

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• Should men who have ever had sex with men be allowed to give blood? No

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b318 (Published 27 February 2009)

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Analysis

• Responding to and learning from childhood deaths

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b531 (Published 23 February 2009)

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Research

• Resting heart rate as a low tech predictor of coronary events in women: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b219 (Published 04 February 2009)

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• Use of fertility drugs and risk of ovarian cancer: Danish population based cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b249 (Published 06 February 2009)

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• Abuse of people with dementia by family carers: representative cross sectional survey

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b155 (Published 23 January 2009)

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• Women’s compliance with nutrition and lifestyle recommendations before pregnancy: general population cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b481 (Published 12 February 2009)

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• Adolescents’ use of purpose built shade in secondary schools: cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b95 (Published 17 February 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Difficult to treat asthma in adults

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b494 (Published 24 February 2009)

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Practice

• Diagnosis and treatment of early breast cancer, including locally advanced disease—summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b438 (Published 25 February 2009)

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Obituaries

• Owen Lyndon Wade

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b848 (Published 04 March 2009)

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• Muna Hassan Alwaidh

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b842 (Published 02 March 2009)

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• John Bennett

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b838 (Published 02 March 2009)

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• Peter Leslie Masters

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b839 (Published 02 March 2009)

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• Mohammad Ripon Mustafa

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b840 (Published 02 March 2009)

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• Margery Adela Pollock

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b841 (Published 02 March 2009)

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• James Gray Scott

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b843 (Published 02 March 2009)

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• John Winstanley

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b723 (Published 23 February 2009)

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Views & Reviews

• Let’s not turn elderly people into patients

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b873 (Published 04 March 2009)

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• The roots of our obsession

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b882 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Rhyme and reason

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b888 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• Primitive Physic: Or, an Easy and Natural Method of Curing most Diseases

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b908 (Published 04 March 2009)

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• Comic leadership

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b887 (Published 03 March 2009)

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• The old dead white guys’ room

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b889 (Published 03 March 2009)

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Endgames

• Non-parametric tests

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b781 (Published 05 March 2009)

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• Stroke

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b783 (Published 05 March 2009)

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• A woman with a suprarenal mass and hypertension

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b333 (Published 05 March 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b836 (Published 02 March 2009)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b849 (Published 02 March 2009)

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