23 January 2010(vol 340, issue 7739)

Editor's Choice

• Drinking at the last chance saloon

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c394 (Published 21 January 2010)

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Editorials

• Preventing alcohol related harm to health

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c372 (Published 21 January 2010)

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• Exposure to radiation and higher risk of circulatory disease

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b4326 (Published 15 January 2010)

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• Using biomarkers to prioritise patients with stable angina pectoris for bypass surgery

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5414 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• Differences in UK health care after devolution

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c262 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• Management of open fractures of the lower limb

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b5092 (Published 17 December 2009)

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Letters

• Coals to Newcastle?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c287 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• The limitations of the “Stanford 25”

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c288 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Include heart murmurs

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c290 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Include “eyeballing” the patient

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c291 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Prolonged prophylaxis for all?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c284 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• DIONYSOS study comparing dronedarone with amiodarone

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c285 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Awareness is key

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c295 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Still not enough doctors

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c307 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Medical rhetoric

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c299 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Driving a hard bargain

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c304 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Is there no place for integrity in academic medicine?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c281 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Why expect the rational?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c294 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• An unbalanced equation

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c296 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• What the NHS can learn from Ford in the 1980s

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c297 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Message from the heart

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c282 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• Prevention by toxic gases?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c283 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Professors need only apply?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c280 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Raw data for study

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c415 (Published 20 January 2010)

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News

• UK nations have “troubling differences” in efficiency of health service

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c381 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• Damage to Haiti’s infrastructure is “almost unbelievable,” says WHO chief

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c378 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• Out of hours care scrutinised as inquest begins into deaths of two patients

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c286 (Published 15 January 2010)

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• Government proposes fines for bars that have “all you can drink” offers

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c390 (Published 21 January 2010)

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• New partnership pumps £1m into stem cell research for multiple sclerosis

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c292 (Published 15 January 2010)

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• London health service faces serious financial problems and cuts of £5bn by 2017

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c393 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c348 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• Trial begins in Kansas of man who killed abortion doctor

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c330 (Published 18 January 2010)

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• Healthcare providers sometimes take part in torture and ill treatment, report alleges

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c329 (Published 21 January 2010)

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• Indonesian doctors are told to prescribe generics to reduce health costs

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c349 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• European Commission targets drug firms over illegal patent protection

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c268 (Published 15 January 2010)

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• New EU health chief questions plan to let drug industry communicate directly with patients

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c353 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• Making the evidence matter

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c305 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Head of German NICE should remain in post, doctors urge

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c318 (Published 18 January 2010)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c275 (Published 20 January 2010)

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Feature

• A very public break-up

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c110 (Published 18 January 2010)

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Analysis

• Failure of self regulation of UK alcohol advertising

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5650 (Published 21 January 2010)

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Observations

• The Portman Group

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5659 (Published 21 January 2010)

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• EU reshuffle has health potential

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c382 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• End libel law’s chilling effect on science

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c339 (Published 21 January 2010)

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Research

• The association between BMI and mortality using offspring BMI as an indicator of own BMI: large intergenerational mortality study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b5043 (Published 23 December 2009)

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• Utility of genetic and non-genetic risk factors in prediction of type 2 diabetes: Whitehall II prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b4838 (Published 15 January 2010)

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• Radiation exposure and circulatory disease risk: Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor data, 1950-2003

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5349 (Published 15 January 2010)

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• Assessing the cost effectiveness of using prognostic biomarkers with decision models: case study in prioritising patients waiting for coronary artery surgery

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5606 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• Quality of life three years after diagnosis of localised prostate cancer: population based cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4817 (Published 27 November 2009)

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Use of multiperspective qualitative interviews to understand patients’ and carers’ beliefs, experiences, and needs

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4122 (Published 14 October 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Managing comorbid disease in patients with psoriasis

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5666 (Published 15 January 2010)

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Practice

• Self diagnosis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b4418 (Published 11 November 2009)

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• Diagnosis and pharmacological management of Parkinson’s disease: summary of SIGN guidelines

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5614 (Published 12 January 2010)

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• Protein and creatine supplements and misdiagnosis of kidney disease

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5027 (Published 08 January 2010)

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• Tennis elbow

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3180 (Published 02 September 2009)

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Obituaries

• Yvonne Helen Carter

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c367 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Brenda Moffat Dudley (née MacAdam)

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c323 (Published 18 January 2010)

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• John Hardy

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c324 (Published 18 January 2010)

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• Robin Francis McNab Jones

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c325 (Published 18 January 2010)

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• Michael Richard Mole

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c327 (Published 18 January 2010)

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• Estomih Elikanenyi Shoo

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c326 (Published 18 January 2010)

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• David Ian Stirk

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c167 (Published 11 January 2010)

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• Charles Geoffrey Sykes

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c322 (Published 18 January 2010)

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Views & Reviews

• Electronic cigarettes: miracle or menace?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c311 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• Be magnificent

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c352 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• The ailments of the Lambs

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c301 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• The Country Doctor

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c313 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• School dinners and the nanny state

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c354 (Published 20 January 2010)

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• The shame of obstetrics

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c303 (Published 20 January 2010)

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Endgames

• A 56 year old man with headache, fever, and neurological symptoms

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5603 (Published 21 January 2010)

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• Placebos

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c247 (Published 21 January 2010)

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• A woman with hypophosphataemia and raised alkaline phosphatase

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5564 (Published 21 January 2010)

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• Bowel obstruction

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c261 (Published 21 January 2010)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c128 (Published 19 January 2010)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c129 (Published 19 January 2010)

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