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The BMJ is building clinical communities through its online community doc2doc (doc2doc.bmj.com) and our BMJ specialty clinical and research portals. We are looking for clinical champions in respiratory medicine, neurology, cardiology, and psychiatry. We want four clinicians with specialist expertise who could spend up to half a day a week feeding ideas and content into relevant doc2doc discussion forums, filtering articles, identifying tools that would be useful to clinicians in primary and secondary care, and answering clinical questions. If you or someone you know would be interested in applying for these roles, please contact community.doc2doc@bmj.com. Please include your CV and twitter handle if you have one. The posts attract modest honorariums.

A comparison of the effectiveness, safety, and acceptability of medical abortion at home as opposed to in a clinic is presented in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2011;89:360-70, doi:10.2471/BLT.10.084046). A systematic review involving nine prospective cohort studies found that home based medical abortion is safe under the conditions in place in the included …