04 July 2009(vol 339, issue 7711)

Editor's Choice

• The rhythm method

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2668 (Published 02 July 2009)

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Editorials

• Imaging in patients with acute abdominal pain

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1678 (Published 26 June 2009)

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• Kidney function and the risk of cardiovascular disease

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1307 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Intravenous fluids in adults undergoing surgery

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2418 (Published 24 June 2009)

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Letters

• Law’s flaw?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2596 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• All cause absolute benefit?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2597 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Up to a point

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2601 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Best use of resources?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2598 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Assumptions and extrapolation

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2600 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Authors’ reply

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2602 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Home monitoring, a way to go?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2623 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• The London stroke strategy

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2616 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Erythromycin in whooping cough

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2615 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Don’t forget amaurosis fugax

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2607 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Don’t use urine microscopy to confirm microscopic haematuria

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2629 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Time to adapt the workplace

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2608 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Points of information

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2619 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Time for root and branch reform

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2621 (Published 29 June 2009)

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News

• Two more people in UK die from swine flu, as swabbing policy ends in “hot spot” areas

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2670 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Cost of US health reforms is estimated at $1.6 trillion for first 10 years

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2571 (Published 25 June 2009)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2581 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Doctors’ leaders back new guidance on using patients’ records for research

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2641 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Gordon Brown turns waiting time targets into a patient’s right

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2657 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Age for starting cervical cancer screening in England will not be lowered

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2583 (Published 26 June 2009)

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• Experts suggest ways to tackle shortage of sperm donors

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2620 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• NHS staff are invited to see climate change film free of charge

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2661 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• US neurosurgeons earn nearly $0.5m in their first year

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2637 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Some 45 000 people die each month in Congo as result of collapsed health service, says UN official

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2652 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Urgent action is needed to prevent deaths among Himalayan pilgrims, says climbing federation

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2628 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• BMA chairman calls for end to market in health care

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2659 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Patients’ safety must not be sacrificed to financial targets, doctors say

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2660 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• BMA meeting: NHS doctors must not be “muzzled,” BMA chairman says

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2656 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• BMA meeting: BMA representatives vote to end prescription charges in England

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2650 (Published 01 July 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2590 (Published 29 June 2009)

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Feature

• Watching over the medical device industry

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2321 (Published 23 June 2009)

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Observations

• Mind the gap

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2604 (Published 30 June 2009)

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Analysis

• Errors in clinical reasoning: causes and remedial strategies

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1860 (Published 08 June 2009)

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Research

• Anatomy of health effects of Mediterranean diet: Greek EPIC prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2337 (Published 24 June 2009)

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• Imaging strategies for detection of urgent conditions in patients with acute abdominal pain: diagnostic accuracy study

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2431 (Published 26 June 2009)

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• Risk of pre-eclampsia in first and subsequent pregnancies: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2255 (Published 18 June 2009)

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• Kidney function and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in women: a prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2392 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• The benefits of statins in people without established cardiovascular disease but with cardiovascular risk factors: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2376 (Published 30 June 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Managing hepatitis C virus infection

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2366 (Published 26 June 2009)

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Practice

• Test of time

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1878 (Published 15 June 2009)

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• Acute diarrhoea in adults

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1877 (Published 15 June 2009)

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Obituaries

• Mark Howard Beers

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2605 (Published 01 July 2009)

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• Ralph Bannister

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2634 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Valère Corbett

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2630 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• John Stuart Miller

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2632 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Frederick William Martin Mott

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2631 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• James Piggot

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2646 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Peter Hubert Smith

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2633 (Published 30 June 2009)

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Views & Reviews

• From doctor to carer: mission impossible?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2614 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• A brief history of shroud waving through the centuries

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2610 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Ancients or moderns?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2410 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• A Doctor’s Occupation

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2603 (Published 29 June 2009)

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• Cooking the books

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2647 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• The scholar’s tale

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2644 (Published 30 June 2009)

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Endgames

• Correlation

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2578 (Published 01 July 2009)

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• Lipids

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2589 (Published 01 July 2009)

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• Fast and Furious

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2339 (Published 01 July 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2582 (Published 30 June 2009)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2579 (Published 30 June 2009)

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Filler

• Different

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b1929 (Published 01 July 2009)

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• The plague of the East (1894)

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2247 (Published 01 July 2009)

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