11 April 2009(vol 338, issue 7699)

Editor's Choice

• Good medicine

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Editorials

• Hot tea and increased risk of oesophageal cancer

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• Eating a light diet during labour

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• Screening for MCAD deficiency in newborns

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• Practice based commissioning in the UK

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• Minimally invasive surgery for breast cancer

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Letters

• What about the cost?

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• Many questions remain about treatments for CFS

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• Warnings about unsafe systems

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• A bin is a bin by any other name

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• Maturity needs further study

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News

• Pilot sites in England to test the impact of integrating health and social care

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• Court hears how drug giant Merck tried to “neutralise” and “discredit” doctors critical of Vioxx

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• In brief

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• EU strengthens requirement for patients to get prior approval before being treated abroad

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• UK government agrees 1.5% pay rise for NHS doctors and dentists

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• WHO calls for five year plan to tackle multidrug resistant tuberculosis

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• Parts of Italy’s law on assisted reproduction are ruled unconstitutional

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• WHO urges governments to build better hospitals that can withstand disasters

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• American Medical Association sues biggest US health plan over claims of underpayment of doctors

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• Promoting hand washing, stroke prevention, and tobacco control are recognised at BMJ Group award ceremony

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• How will the financial crisis affect health?

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• Commentary: Look after the pennies

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Observations

• What to cut

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Analysis

• Spain: a decentralised health system in constant flux

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Research

• Effectiveness and safety of nicotine replacement therapy assisted reduction to stop smoking: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1024 (Published 02 April 2009)

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• Neonatal vitamin A supplementation for prevention of mortality and morbidity in infancy: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

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• Tea drinking habits and oesophageal cancer in a high risk area in northern Iran: population based case-control study

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• Effect of food intake during labour on obstetric outcome: randomised controlled trial

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Clinical Review

• Cauda equina syndrome

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Practice

• Investigating hypertension in a young person

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• Practising safely in the foundation years

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Obituaries

• William T Close

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• Anthony James Allen

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• Peter John Holmes Barron

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• Geoffrey Bennett

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• Hugh Sutherland Dodd

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• Sarah Kathryn Groome

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• Derek Herbert Isaac

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• William Thomas Walker Lawson

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Views & Reviews

• Hospital chaplaincy services are not only for religious patients

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• City on the verge of a nervous breakdown

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• The surgeon’s prayer

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• Det Syke Barn (The Sick Child)

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• Save our souls

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• No going back

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Endgames

• A skin lesion on the back of a young woman’s hand

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• Interpreting a low P value

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• Upper gastrointestinal tract

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• A 20 month old girl with respiratory distress

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• A memorable ward round

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