28 November 2009(vol 339, issue 7732)

Editor's Choice

• Death and dying

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Editorials

• New interim guidance on assisted suicide

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• Aspirin for primary prevention of vascular disease in people with diabetes

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• Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4952 (Published 25 November 2009)

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Letters

• 18 Liverpool consultants reply

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• Author’s reply

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• More information needed

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• Response to the Liverpool trust

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• Clarification on gagging clauses

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• Clarification of a clarification

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• Selection bias explains seasonal vaccine’s protection

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• Authors’ reply

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• Sedating unfasted children may be dangerous

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• We could do better

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• Utility of intranasal midazolam

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• Call to action: catch The Wave

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News

• UK government outlines details of free personal care for people most in need

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• New recommendations on mammography and cervical cancer screening disrupt US health reform debate

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• Private company suspended from providing out of hours services while concerns investigated

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• GPs and criminal justice staff to receive training as part of national strategy to improve offenders’ health

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• Social enterprise providing services to Wandsworth prison goes bust

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• First cases of spread of oseltamivir resistant swine flu between patients are reported in Wales

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• Australian hospital staff set up anonymous blog to voice concerns about cutbacks

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• Series of studies highlights health benefits of action on climate change

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• Health professionals from around world are urged to campaign on climate change

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• Football is enlisted in fight against malaria

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• Dutch legal protection scheme for doctors involved in mercy killing of babies receives first report

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• In brief

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• Road deaths three times higher in poorer European countries

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• Senator asks US medical schools about rules on ghostwriting

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• GMC clears child psychiatrist accused of alleged misconduct as expert witness

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• Deadline to end world hunger by 2025 is being allowed to “quietly wither away”

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Opportunity knocks: health wins from action on global warming

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Observations

• Wonder in medicine

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Analysis

• Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests?

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• Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests? Medical opinion

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• Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests? Legal advice

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• Are advance directives legally binding or simply the starting point for discussion on patients’ best interests? Ethical view

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Research

• Concept of unbearable suffering in context of ungranted requests for euthanasia: qualitative interviews with patients and physicians

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4362 (Published 16 November 2009)

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• Aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events in people with diabetes: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

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• Applicability and generalisability of published results of randomised controlled trials and non-randomised studies evaluating four orthopaedic procedures: methodological systematic review

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• Evaluating the causal relevance of diverse risk markers: horizontal systematic review

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• Reliability of self reported smoking status by pregnant women for estimating smoking prevalence: a retrospective, cross sectional study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4347 (Published 30 October 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Developmental dysplasia of the hip

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Practice

• Multiple sclerosis

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• Should more patients with acute ischaemic stroke receive thrombolytic treatment?

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• Metformin associated lactic acidosis

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Obituaries

• Marek Edelman

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• Anthony Sidney Fairbank Butcher

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• Noel Francis Harley

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• Donald Yardley Mackenzie

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• Terence Harold Pringle

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• Neil Watson

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• Anthony Whiteside

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• Raymond Ivor John Williams

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Views & Reviews

• Letting go

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• The new black death

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• Smoking: out for the count

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• George’s Marvellous Medicine

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• Comrades in arms

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• Come dance with me in Ireland

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Endgames

• A case of diplopia and arm weakness

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• Random allocation II

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• Headaches in children

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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