31 October 2009(vol 339, issue 7728)

Editor's Choice

• Gagging for it

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4444 (Published 29 October 2009)

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Editorials

• Migraine with aura and increased risk of ischaemic stroke

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4380 (Published 27 October 2009)

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• Rehabilitation in patients admitted to intensive care

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3921 (Published 16 October 2009)

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• Use of erythropoietins in patients with renal transplants

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3825 (Published 23 October 2009)

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• Ethics in sports medicine

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3898 (Published 29 September 2009)

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• Improving patient safety through training in non-technical skills

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3595 (Published 23 September 2009)

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Letters

• Time for a moratorium on vitamin D meta-analyses?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4394 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Information on harm is missing

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4395 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Quality of joint replacements not so bad?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4401 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Authors’ reply

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4413 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Autonomy or life saving treatment for the mentally vulnerable?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4400 (Published 28 October 2009)

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News

• Merck discloses $3.7m paid to US doctors for speeches over three months

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4409 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• Most UK doctors will have to register with new safeguarding authority

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4424 (Published 27 October 2009)

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• GlaxoSmithKline sidesteps NICE by negotiating with individual hospitals

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4406 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• Children in deprived areas at most risk of road injuries

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4397 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• World class commissioning in the NHS is achievable, say officials

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4396 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• Doctors warn of dangers of allowing media access to reports in family court cases

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4449 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4416 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Plugging gaps in China’s hepatitis B prevention would be cost effective

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4420 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Full data from Thai HIV vaccine study show no significant protective effect

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4370 (Published 23 October 2009)

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• Lack of palliative care causes unnecessary suffering for India’s terminally ill people

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4404 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• NICE and SIGN given accreditation as guideline developers

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4388 (Published 29 October 2009)

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• Health secretary promises to outlaw ageism from the NHS by 2012

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4408 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• Brown backtracks on promise to allow local authorities to ban 24 hour drinking

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4384 (Published 23 October 2009)

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• European Commission seeks to tackle health inequalities

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4412 (Published 26 October 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4389 (Published 27 October 2009)

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Head to Head

• Should we screen for coeliac disease? Yes

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3592 (Published 17 September 2009)

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• Should we screen for coeliac disease? No

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3674 (Published 17 September 2009)

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Feature

• The price of silence

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3202 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Falling foul of gagging clauses

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4203 (Published 27 October 2009)

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• BMA view on whistleblowing

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4405 (Published 27 October 2009)

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Observations

• The perversion of choice

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4435 (Published 27 October 2009)

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• The chilling effect of English libel law

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4429 (Published 28 October 2009)

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Analysis

• Inconvenient truths about supplier induced demand and unwarranted variation in medical practice

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4073 (Published 20 October 2009)

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Research

• Supervised exercise therapy versus usual care for patellofemoral pain syndrome: an open label randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4074 (Published 20 October 2009)

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• Acceptability of A/H1N1 vaccination during pandemic phase of influenza A/H1N1 in Hong Kong: population based cross sectional survey

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4164 (Published 27 October 2009)

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• Migraine and cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3914 (Published 27 October 2009)

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• The PRaCTICaL study of nurse led, intensive care follow-up programmes for improving long term outcomes from critical illness: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3723 (Published 16 October 2009)

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• Risk of bias versus quality assessment of randomised controlled trials: cross sectional study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4012 (Published 19 October 2009)

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• Mortality in renal transplant recipients given erythropoietins to increase haemoglobin concentration: cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4018 (Published 23 October 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Hyperkalaemia

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4114 (Published 23 October 2009)

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Practice

• Depression in adults, including those with a chronic physical health problem: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4108 (Published 27 October 2009)

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• Chest radiographs in pregnancy

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4057 (Published 09 October 2009)

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• Acute anterior uveitis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2986 (Published 25 August 2009)

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Obituaries

• John Wild

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4428 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• Alexander Auld Cochrane

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4337 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• Pamela Anne Davies

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4345 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• Raymond Davis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4344 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• Edmund John Eastham

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4342 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• Bernard John Harries

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4340 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• John Fairbourne Horley

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4350 (Published 26 October 2009)

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• John Charles Mackie MacDonald

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4348 (Published 29 October 2009)

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Views & Reviews

• The Doctor is sick

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4392 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• The life stories of disease

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4391 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Poet scorner

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4098 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Alcoholics Anonymous: “The Big Book”

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4387 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• The colour purple

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4425 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• I’m a celebrity, get me the best treatment here

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4426 (Published 28 October 2009)

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Endgames

• Painful ears and a cough

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4150 (Published 29 October 2009)

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• Pre-eclampsia

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4358 (Published 29 October 2009)

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• Screening tests IV

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4365 (Published 29 October 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4399 (Published 28 October 2009)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4371 (Published 27 October 2009)

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Filler

• Drink your ale and be damned

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a825 (Published 14 July 2008)

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• Variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease: early warning (1988)

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2091 (Published 28 October 2009)

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