07 November 2009(vol 339, issue 7729)

Editor's Choice

• Crunch time for doctors’ hours

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Editorials

• Working time regulations for trainee doctors

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• Supine positioning after intrauterine insemination

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4274 (Published 30 October 2009)

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• Prediction rules in cervical spine injury

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4139 (Published 29 October 2009)

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• Smoking cessation agents and suicide

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4360 (Published 05 November 2009)

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• Alcohol use in South Asians in the UK

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4028 (Published 20 October 2009)

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Letters

• What about male specific HPV related diseases?

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• Inaccurate assumptions about oropharyngeal cancer

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4525 (Published 02 November 2009)

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• Just say no

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4527 (Published 02 November 2009)

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• Informed choice, not coercion

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4511 (Published 02 November 2009)

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• Patients’ right to privacy

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• Author’s reply

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• UK universities are on the case

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• Role of plastic surgery

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News

• Scientists want more protection after government adviser is sacked

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• Report calls for public education on screening to ensure more realistic expectations

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4533 (Published 03 November 2009)

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• Number of swine flu patients going into intensive care is rising

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4528 (Published 02 November 2009)

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• Parents go to court over whether baby son should be allowed to die

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4573 (Published 04 November 2009)

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• Most patients rely on their own experiences to choose hospitals, shows survey

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4529 (Published 04 November 2009)

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• Where youth grows pale . . .

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4508 (Published 02 November 2009)

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• Professor is charged with dishonesty over statements on access to full trial data

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4556 (Published 03 November 2009)

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• Half of people dying within four days of hospital admission lack input from senior doctors, inquiry finds

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4539 (Published 05 November 2009)

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• US drug agency is slow to exclude doctors who commit research crimes from further trials

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4518 (Published 02 November 2009)

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• Glasgow hospital wins design award

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4536 (Published 03 November 2009)

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• US lags behind 10 other countries in primary care

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• Poor progress is made in India’s effort to control measles

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• In brief

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• Task force hopes to deliver affordable cancer drugs to developing countries

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• Four US drug companies pay $124m for defrauding Medicaid

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4500 (Published 29 October 2009)

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• Explore the humanities in illness and medicine

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Innovative financing of health care

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4235 (Published 04 November 2009)

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• Commercial solutions to malnutrition

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• Reducing the burden of malnutrition in Bangladesh

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Observations

• Brave new world

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Analysis

• How long does it take to train a surgeon?

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Research

• Immobilisation versus immediate mobilisation after intrauterine insemination: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4080 (Published 30 October 2009)

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• Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4036 (Published 27 October 2009)

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• Implementation of the Canadian C-Spine Rule: prospective 12 centre cluster randomised trial

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4146 (Published 29 October 2009)

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• Varenicline and suicidal behaviour: a cohort study based on data from the General Practice Research Database

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3805 (Published 01 October 2009)

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• Carbon cost of pragmatic randomised controlled trials: retrospective analysis of sample of trials

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4187 (Published 30 October 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Pain management and sedation for children in the emergency department

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4234 (Published 30 October 2009)

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Practice

• Using probabilistic reasoning

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3823 (Published 03 November 2009)

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• Chest pain

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Obituaries

• Jehoiada John Brown

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4463 (Published 04 November 2009)

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• Walter Samuel Davis

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• Colin Michael Dent

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• Anthony Paul Ryley Eckersley

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• David Gordon Illingworth

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• Lawrence Guthrie Stewart

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Views & Reviews

• The highs and lows of policy based evidence

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• On the concept of trauma

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• Sound sleep advice

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• De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things)

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4562 (Published 04 November 2009)

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• It’s better to give

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4546 (Published 04 November 2009)

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• An interest in teeth

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4526 (Published 04 November 2009)

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Endgames

• Adverse drug reactions

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4501 (Published 05 November 2009)

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• Study design

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• An occult breast mass

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4316 (Published 05 November 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4448 (Published 02 November 2009)

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• Minerva

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Filler

• How would you like your egg?

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• Improperly dressed

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2943 (Published 30 October 2009)

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• Delusions of grandeur and the “manic” preacher

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4355 (Published 30 October 2009)

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