23 May 2009(vol 338, issue 7705)

Editor's Choice

• A new era for blood pressure management

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2068 (Published 21 May 2009)

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Editorials

• Management of blood pressure in primary care

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b940 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• Surgical training using simulation

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1001 (Published 15 May 2009)

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• Folic acid fortification and congenital heart disease

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1144 (Published 13 May 2009)

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• Children’s health and the financial crisis

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1783 (Published 15 May 2009)

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• Safeguarding NHS standards

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1958 (Published 13 May 2009)

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Letters

• Treat sleep apnoea before people fall asleep at the wheel

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1976 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Try public health measures in Africa too

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1971 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Public health measures work

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1970 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Increasing concordance

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1928 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Bleeding and resistance

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1927 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• More on proton pump inhibitors

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1931 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Patients with peptic ulcers

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1932 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Authors’ reply

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2006 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Authors respond to criticism that treatment is ineffective

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1979 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Training is needed to dispel confusion around DNAR

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2021 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Personal resuscitation plans

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2018 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• The undesirability of acronyms

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2016 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Shouldn’t be a family affair

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2011 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Improve staff infrastructure

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2013 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Teach medical students

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2012 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Put an indicator on the bottle

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2009 (Published 20 May 2009)

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News

• UK urges more flexibility in criteria for flu pandemic alerts

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2067 (Published 21 May 2009)

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• Cancer research papers with industry ties more likely to report favourable results

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2052 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2017 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• GPs save £400m in 2008 by increasing use of generic drugs

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2044 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Drugs agency grants its first licence to homoeopathic product

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2055 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Studies back minimum pricing on alcohol to save lives

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2007 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• Pilot projects for personal health budgets in England are announced

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1996 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Obama’s budget changes sex education funding from abstinence-only to comprehensive education

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2008 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Study of device to treat severely injured soldiers in Iraq was fake, claims army

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2026 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• Journal retracts article about age of transfused blood three years after publication

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2057 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• French doctors demonstrate against law that threatens to turn public hospitals into commercial enterprises

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2043 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• German doctors’ leader calls for debate on rationing

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2045 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Even insured Americans are paying more for health care, studies show

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2015 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Red Cross staff witness “humanitarian catastrophe” in Sri Lanka

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2051 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• UN tries to secure safe corridors for humanitarian aid in Pakistan

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2042 (Published 20 May 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2003 (Published 20 May 2009)

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Feature

• Integrated care

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1484 (Published 08 May 2009)

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Observations

• Governments must be pulled up for failings over flu

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2019 (Published 15 May 2009)

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• In the US things are getting nasty over NICE

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2058 (Published 21 May 2009)

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Analysis

• Global priorities for patient safety research

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1775 (Published 14 May 2009)

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Research

• Use of blood pressure lowering drugs in the prevention of cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of 147 randomised trials in the context of expectations from prospective epidemiological studies

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1665 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• Effect of virtual reality training on laparoscopic surgery: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1802 (Published 15 May 2009)

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• Reporting of sample size calculation in randomised controlled trials: review

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1732 (Published 12 May 2009)

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Research

• Long term monitoring in patients receiving treatment to lower blood pressure: analysis of data from placebo controlled randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1492 (Published 30 April 2009)

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• Prevalence of severe congenital heart disease after folic acid fortification of grain products: time trend analysis in Quebec, Canada

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1673 (Published 13 May 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Prehospital management of severe traumatic brain injury

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1683 (Published 19 May 2009)

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Practice

• Chronic cough in adults

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1218 (Published 24 April 2009)

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• Diagnosis using “test of treatment”

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1312 (Published 24 April 2009)

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Obituaries

• Willem Kolff

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2027 (Published 21 May 2009)

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• James Sinclair Rennick Baxter

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2034 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• Paul Dawson-Edwards

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1988 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• Claire Hazel Epstein

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2031 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• Deryck Michael Denys Lambert

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2032 (Published 19 May 2009)

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• Richard Hartley Martin

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1948 (Published 12 May 2009)

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• Miriam Claire Ogden

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2035 (Published 19 May 2009)

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Views & Reviews

• The new religion: screening at your parish church

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1940 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• All about Alzheimer’s

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2062 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• A tale of blind faith

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2069 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• The memoir of an opium eater

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2010 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• The Brothers Karamazov

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1999 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Shiny happy people?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2048 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Exit the tie

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2047 (Published 20 May 2009)

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Endgames

• An elderly woman with weight loss and diarrhoea

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1721 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• A characteristic rash

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1451 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Standardised mortality ratios

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2005 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Emergency medicine: paediatrics

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1980 (Published 20 May 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1997 (Published 20 May 2009)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1984 (Published 20 May 2009)

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Filler

• Childhood malignancies and x-ray exposure (1958)

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1268 (Published 21 May 2009)

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