14 March 2009(vol 338, issue 7695)

Editor's Choice

• Interactive case reports

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Editorials

• Passive smoking and cognitive impairment

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• Risk of stroke and lifestyle

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• Adjunctive non-invasive ways of healing bone fractures

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• Systemic management of diabetic retinopathy

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• The National Dementia strategy in England

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Letters

• Standardise all leaflets now

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• Will ductal carcinoma in situ defeat breast cancer screening?

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• Reality of ductal carcinoma in situ

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• The right to a diagnosis?

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• Heart failure is in need of a diagnosis

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• Assessing heart failure with normal ejection fraction

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• Targets destroy morale and do not help patients

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News

• England gets five academic health science centres to compete on global stage

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• Supreme Court orders Wyeth to pay $6.7m in damages to guitarist who lost hand

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• Prominent celecoxib researcher admits fabricating data in 21 articles

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• Obama reverses US federal funding restrictions on stem cell research

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• Government removes data sharing clause from coroners’ bill

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• Expulsion of 13 relief agencies from Darfur could devastate health care

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• In brief

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• Target to reduce child mortality is under threat from lack of progress on diarrhoea

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• Aid agencies condemn drug confiscation

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• Inept laboratory work botched cancer patients’ results, inquiry finds

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• Spain plans to legalise abortion on demand

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• Palestinian health crisis will end only with withdrawal of Israel

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• Dreadful visitations and deliverances

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• From bench to bedside to population

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Observations

• Cry freedom

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Feature

• Industry attack on academics

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Analysis

• Patient and public involvement in chronic illness: beyond the expert patient

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Research

• Exposure to secondhand smoke and cognitive impairment in non-smokers: national cross sectional study with cotinine measurement

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• Combined effects of overweight and smoking in late adolescence on subsequent mortality: nationwide cohort study

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• Combined effect of health behaviours and risk of first ever stroke in 20 040 men and women over 11 years’ follow-up in Norfolk cohort of European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC Norfolk): prospective population study

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• Effect of tobacco smoking on survival of men and women by social position: a 28 year cohort study

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• Low intensity pulsed ultrasonography for fractures: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

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Clinical Review

• Thyroid eye disease

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Practice

• Diagnosis and treatment of advanced breast cancer: summary of NICE guidance

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• High doses of deferiprone may be associated with cerebellar syndrome

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

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• Commentary: The value of complexity

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• Commentary: Managing clinician’s assessment

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• Commentary: Think anaphylaxis

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• Commentary: Condition is often overlooked

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• Commentary: Patient’s view

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Obituaries

• Tony Smith

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• John Albert Campbell Ball

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• Samuel James Barr

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• John Bishop Borthwick

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• Howard Brewster

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• George William Arthur Hesse

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• Joan Frieda Trevelyan (née Scott)

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• Jeffery Miles Walker

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Views & Reviews

• Lack of political will is a clinical issue

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• When death took a holiday

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• Too much information

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• Studies on Hysteria

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• Letter from America

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• A sax and a rose

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Endgames

• Imaging after trauma to the pelvis and hip

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• Something’s in the air

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• On Examination quiz

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• A fine thread

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