18 July 2009(vol 339, issue 7713)

Editor's Choice

• Let’s talk about assisted dying

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2883 (Published 16 July 2009)

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Editorials

• QRISK or Framingham for predicting cardiovascular risk?

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• Reducing pregnancy and health risk behaviours in teenagers

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2054 (Published 09 July 2009)

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• Treatment of chronic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2481 (Published 14 July 2009)

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• Heat waves and dehydration in the elderly

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Letters

• More testing needed

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• Too many false positives

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• How specific is TYM?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2830 (Published 15 July 2009)

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• Age profile?

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• Diagnoses can be meddlesome

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• Authors’ reply

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• Physicians have been involved

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• Authors’ reply

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• Not a silent killer

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2719 (Published 06 July 2009)

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• Where is the NHS Macpherson?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2722 (Published 06 July 2009)

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• Sitting leaders ask you to stand up for safety

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2816 (Published 15 July 2009)

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• Cancer targets not as rational as testing

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• No enrichment without consent

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2812 (Published 15 July 2009)

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• Time for continuity of record

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2813 (Published 15 July 2009)

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• Joy of shared health records

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2814 (Published 15 July 2009)

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News

• GPs will lead UK’s swine flu vaccination campaign

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• Healthcare workers should get top priority for vaccination against A/H1N1 flu, WHO says

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• US National Institutes of Health issue guidelines on stem cell

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2804 (Published 10 July 2009)

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• NHS in England is found to be too slow to diagnose and treat rheumatoid arthritis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2882 (Published 15 July 2009)

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• Girl is healthy after having donor heart removed

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• House of Lords votes against immunity from prosecution for relatives who help in assisted suicide abroad

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• European auditors question the value of EU funded public health programmes

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• Legal loophole sees hundreds of Dutch cafes escape smoking ban

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2824 (Published 13 July 2009)

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• Viewing child pornography does not seem to increase risk of abusing children, study concludes

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2876 (Published 14 July 2009)

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• Schemes to collect and destroy handguns help to cut homicide rate

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• In brief

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• Médecins Sans Frontières campaigns to increase treatment of Chagas disease

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• Non-communicable diseases must have greater priority, says WHO

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• European Commission berates drug industry for delays in access to generics

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• Elsevier says offering $25 gift cards for positive reviews was mistake

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Assisted suicide: the fight goes on

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2868 (Published 16 July 2009)

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• Searching for Lazarus

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Head to Head

• Is systolic blood pressure all that matters? Yes

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• Is systolic blood pressure all that matters? No

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Observations

• Don’t just blame the media

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Analysis

• Russia’s healthcare system: in need of modernisation

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b2132 (Published 25 June 2009)

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Research

• An independent external validation and evaluation of QRISK cardiovascular risk prediction: a prospective open cohort study

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• Health outcomes of youth development programme in England: prospective matched comparison study

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• Laparoscopic fundoplication compared with medical management for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: cost effectiveness study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2576 (Published 14 July 2009)

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• Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2651 (Published 02 July 2009)

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Multiple imputation for missing data in epidemiological and clinical research: potential and pitfalls

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Clinical Review

• Cell-free fetal DNA and RNA in maternal blood: implications for safer antenatal testing

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• Commentary: No risk, no objections? Ethical pitfalls of cell-free fetal DNA and RNA testing

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Practice

• Lithium and chronic kidney disease

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2452 (Published 03 July 2009)

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• Parametric v non-parametric methods for data analysis

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• Diabetic muscle infarction

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Obituaries

• Ian Gregg

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• Roger Benjamin Bowes Bishton

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• Stanislaw Ganczakowski

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• Thomas Garrett

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• Robin Trevor Andrew Ross

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• Philip Henry Sutton

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• Henry Maxwell White

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• Philip Henry Nicholls Wood

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Views & Reviews

• An extremely interesting time to die

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• Getting hot and bothered

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• Doing the books

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• Dr Spock’s Baby and Child Care

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• The errr-portfolio

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• Where the hearts is

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Endgames

• Study design

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• A painful rash

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2293 (Published 15 July 2009)

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• Old age psychiatry

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• Cervical radiography

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• Fever in the Zambesi (1861)

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• What would you ask Margaret Chan?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2544 (Published 06 July 2009)

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• Anyone for an algorithm?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2412 (Published 15 July 2009)

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