22 August 2009(vol 339, issue 7718)

Editor's Choice

• Pandemic flu: will there be a second wave?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3394 (Published 20 August 2009)

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Editorials

• Risk of suicidal behaviour in adults taking antidepressants

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3066 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Diagnosis of venous thromboembolism

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2799 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• BMJ pico for original research in the print BMJ

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3168 (Published 06 August 2009)

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Letters

• Osteoarthritis and protection from global functional decline

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3352 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• Case definition is too loose

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3365 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• Increasing adherence to quinine

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3349 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• Primary outcome measures

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3368 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• Nodules and hyperthyroidism

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3346 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• Thyroid cancer and the young

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3347 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• Why the desperation?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3345 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• Astronomical data lead the way

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3344 (Published 18 August 2009)

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News

• Health secretary urges GPs to be “creative” in prescribing exercise

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3364 (Published 17 August 2009)

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• Obama tries to defuse anger over healthcare reforms

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3385 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3377 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• Full impact in Taiwan of typhoon is yet to emerge

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3376 (Published 17 August 2009)

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• Four at-risk groups will be first to be vaccinated against swine flu, says chief medical officer

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3363 (Published 17 August 2009)

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• Preventing diarrhoea should be global priority, says WHO

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3372 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• Sub-Saharan Africa needs to double number of health workers, study finds

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3332 (Published 14 August 2009)

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• Doctors condemn NHS comparison website

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3341 (Published 14 August 2009)

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• Bringing some breathing space to the NHS

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3358 (Published 14 August 2009)

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• City council considers adults only certificate for films featuring smoking

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3379 (Published 18 August 2009)

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• Recession could increase alcohol and drug addiction and mental health problems, watchdog warns

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3361 (Published 17 August 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3350 (Published 19 August 2009)

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Feature

• Pandemic lessons from Australia

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3317 (Published 18 August 2009)

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Observations

• Views from Venice

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3362 (Published 17 August 2009)

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Analysis

• What’s the difference between a hospital and a bottling factory?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2727 (Published 20 July 2009)

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Research

• Risk of suicidality in clinical trials of antidepressants in adults: analysis of proprietary data submitted to US Food and Drug Administration

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2880 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Effect of withdrawal of co-proxamol on prescribing and deaths from drug poisoning in England and Wales: time series analysis

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2270 (Published 18 June 2009)

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• Five year prognosis in patients with angina identified in primary care: incident cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3058 (Published 06 August 2009)

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• Prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence among a prospective cohort of female sex workers

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2939 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Effect of timing of first postnatal care home visit on neonatal mortality in Bangladesh: a observational cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2826 (Published 14 August 2009)

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• Neuraminidase inhibitors for treatment and prophylaxis of influenza in children: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3172 (Published 10 August 2009)

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• Excluding venous thromboembolism using point of care D-dimer tests in outpatients: a diagnostic meta-analysis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2990 (Published 14 August 2009)

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Clinical Review

• The changing epidemiology of lung cancer with a focus on screening

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3053 (Published 17 August 2009)

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Practice

• Initial investigation of amenorrhoea

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2184 (Published 04 August 2009)

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• Herpes zoster ophthalmicus

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2624 (Published 13 August 2009)

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Obituaries

• Vasily Aksyonov

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3280 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• Alexander Gordon Bearn

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3190 (Published 07 August 2009)

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• John Alexander Erskine Clark

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3200 (Published 07 August 2009)

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• Richard Charles Cumming Groves

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3201 (Published 07 August 2009)

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• Suryamoni Mitra (née Devi)

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3193 (Published 07 August 2009)

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• Robert Pringle

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3195 (Published 07 August 2009)

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• Ian Ranger

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3198 (Published 07 August 2009)

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• Dorothy Lindsay Smith (née Grieve)

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3205 (Published 07 August 2009)

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Views & Reviews

• Priority patients in a pandemonium

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3321 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• Rekindled passion: fire and fallout

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3270 (Published 14 August 2009)

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• Doctors and the dictator

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3306 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3355 (Published 17 August 2009)

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• The American crisis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3375 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• Evidence based medicine: new storylines needed

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3296 (Published 18 August 2009)

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Endgames

• Fever in the vaccinated returning traveller

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2985 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• Unusual computed tomography findings in a patient presenting with acute abdominal pain

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3192 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• Orthopaedics: fractures and dislocations

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3325 (Published 19 August 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3319 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3320 (Published 19 August 2009)

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Filler

• How did he learn to speak Russian?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2386 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• Caution with home fetal Doppler devices

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3220 (Published 19 August 2009)

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• Making waves with aneurysms

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3212 (Published 19 August 2009)

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