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25 February 2006 (Vol 332, Issue 7539)

Anticholinergic drugs may cause cognitive decline in elderly people

BMJ 2006;332:0.5 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Students may have a higher risk for meningococcal disease than other adolescents

BMJ 2006;332:0.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Use a combined strategy in prenatal chromosomal diagnostics

BMJ 2006;332:0.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Are you standing comfortably?

BMJ 2006;332:0.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Don't plan to quit, just do it

BMJ 2006;332:0.4 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Editor's Choice

Do not resuscitate, or fly

BMJ 2006;332:0.7 (Published 23 February 2006)

Editorials

Optimising prenatal diagnosis of Down's syndrome

BMJ 2006;332:433 (Published 23 February 2006)

Should obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome receive treatment for infertility?

BMJ 2006;332:434 (Published 23 February 2006)

Lost in transition? Between paediatric and adult services

BMJ 2006;332:435 (Published 23 February 2006)

Behavioural medicine: changing our behaviour

BMJ 2006;332:437 (Published 23 February 2006)

Letters

Case reports of suspected adverse drug reactions: Case reports were dismissed too quickly

BMJ 2006;332:488.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

Case reports of suspected adverse drug reactions: Case reports generate signals efficiently

BMJ 2006;332:488.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Pain is an issue in renal impairment

BMJ 2006;332:488.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Proteinuria in chronic renal disease was not mentioned

BMJ 2006;332:489.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Compensation for non-negligent harm in trials remains shaky

BMJ 2006;332:489.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Referrals between consultants: Public should rise to the defence

BMJ 2006;332:490.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Referrals between consultants: System has potential for error

BMJ 2006;332:490.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Referrals between consultants: Consultant referrals are funded

BMJ 2006;332:490.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Prognostic assessment will be important in flu pandemic

BMJ 2006;332:490.4 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Best research: New strategy is warmly welcomed

BMJ 2006;332:491.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Best research: Research originating in primary care needs support

BMJ 2006;332:491.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Tobacco: are we all to blame?

BMJ 2006;332:491.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

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News

Meadow should never have been brought before the GMC

BMJ 2006;332:439 (Published 23 February 2006)

In brief

BMJ 2006;332:440.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

England will ban smoking in enclosed public places

BMJ 2006;332:440.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

Film makers should show they accepted no gifts from tobacco industry

BMJ 2006;332:440.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

Doctor sues for unfair dismissal claiming Roche feared she would blow the whistle

BMJ 2006;332:441.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

Health minister is stripped of his right to veto use of abortion pill

BMJ 2006;332:441.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

Patient is to appeal High Court ruling on breast cancer drug

BMJ 2006;332:443.4 (Published 23 February 2006)

US cancer mortality falls for the first time

BMJ 2006;332:444.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

News - continued

Mental Health Bill for England and Wales may be postponed

BMJ 2006;332:444.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

Research

Risk and protective factors for meningococcal disease in adolescents: matched cohort study

BMJ 2006;332:445 (Published 23 February 2006)

Physical work environment risk factors for long term sickness absence: prospective findings among a cohort of 5357 employees in Denmark

BMJ 2006;332:449 (Published 23 February 2006)

Fetal nuchal translucency scan and early prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities by rapid aneuploidy screening: observational study

BMJ 2006;332:452 (Published 23 February 2006)

Non-degenerative mild cognitive impairment in elderly people and use of anticholinergic drugs: longitudinal cohort study

BMJ 2006;332:455 (Published 23 February 2006)

“Catastrophic” pathways to smoking cessation: findings from national survey

BMJ 2006;332:458 (Published 23 February 2006)

Barriers to implementing a policy not to attempt resuscitation in acute medical admissions: prospective, cross sectional study of a successive cohort

BMJ 2006;332:461 (Published 23 February 2006)

Clinical Review

Management of pre-eclampsia

BMJ 2006;332:463 (Published 23 February 2006)

Practice

Cushing's syndrome without excess cortisol

BMJ 2006;332:469 (Published 23 February 2006)

A 28 year old postpartum woman with right sided chest discomfort: case progression

BMJ 2006;332:471 (Published 23 February 2006)

Pressure ulcers

BMJ 2006;332:472 (Published 23 February 2006)

What's new this month in BMJ Journals

BMJ 2006;332:476 (Published 23 February 2006)

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2006;332:477 (Published 23 February 2006)

Minerva

BMJ 2006;332:498 (Published 23 February 2006)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Network is set up to champion independent sector treatment centres

BMJ 2006;332:442.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

Christian supporters of science oppose fundamentalists

BMJ 2006;332:442.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

Doctors are told to ditch “disease spreading” neckties

BMJ 2006;332:442.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

US Congress scrutinises hospitals owned by doctors after patient's death

BMJ 2006;332:442.4 (Published 23 February 2006)

Hospitalisation increases partner's risk of death

BMJ 2006;332:442.5 (Published 23 February 2006)

Industry must be responsible for bird flu vaccine, says UK government

BMJ 2006;332:443.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

Doctor who was remanded for murder wins record damages

BMJ 2006;332:443.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

Specialists call for legalised trade in kidneys

BMJ 2006;332:443.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

UK government says EU directive on services excludes health care

BMJ 2006;332:444.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Italian doctors defy restrictions on abortion pill

BMJ 2006;332:444.4 (Published 23 February 2006)

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WHO to set up international task force on counterfeit drugs

BMJ 2006;332:444.5 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Wales publishes waiting times for diagnostic tests

BMJ 2006;332:444.6 (Published 23 February 2006)

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GMC orders urologist to be retrained

BMJ 2006;332:444.7 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Many sexual health services are “in danger of drowning”

BMJ 2006;332:444.8 (Published 23 February 2006)

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NICE recommends screening patients for malnutrition

BMJ 2006;332:444.9 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Analysis and Comment

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in continuing care settings: time for a rethink?

BMJ 2006;332:479 (Published 23 February 2006)

Using economics to set pragmatic and ethical priorities

BMJ 2006;332:482 (Published 23 February 2006)

Overuse of institutional care for children in Europe

BMJ 2006;332:485 (Published 23 February 2006)

Reviews

Caring Physicians of the World

BMJ 2006;332:494 (Published 23 February 2006)

Suburban Shaman: Tales from Medicine's Frontline

BMJ 2006;332:495.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Knowledge to Action? Evidence-Based Health Care in Context

BMJ 2006;332:495.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

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“That's all I got handed over”

BMJ 2006;332:496.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Hit Parade

BMJ 2006;332:496.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

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When doctors learned to speak carbon

BMJ 2006;332:497.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Medical intuition

BMJ 2006;332:497.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

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Fillers

Smoking in late pregnancy reduces birth weight

BMJ 2006;332:0.6 (Published 23 February 2006)

Fear

BMJ 2006;332:448 (Published 23 February 2006)

Geriatric neologism

BMJ 2006;332:451 (Published 23 February 2006)

Learning for consultants

BMJ 2006;332:454 (Published 23 February 2006)

What's in March's studentBMJ?

BMJ 2006;332:460 (Published 23 February 2006)

Let Ruth into palliative medicine

BMJ 2006;332:462 (Published 23 February 2006)

A major medical decision

BMJ 2006;332:468 (Published 23 February 2006)

Medicine and men of letters

BMJ 2006;332:475 (Published 23 February 2006)

Obituaries

David Clark

BMJ 2006;332:492.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

Michael Hague Dale

BMJ 2006;332:492.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

John Morley Davies

BMJ 2006;332:492.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

John Devine

BMJ 2006;332:492.4 (Published 23 February 2006)

Brian John McDougall Duxbury

BMJ 2006;332:492.5 (Published 23 February 2006)

James Brown Wallace Galloway

BMJ 2006;332:492.6 (Published 23 February 2006)

Ian Ramsay Gray

BMJ 2006;332:492.7 (Published 23 February 2006)

Kathleen Murray Hadden (née Morrison)

BMJ 2006;332:493.1 (Published 23 February 2006)

Andrew James Ogilvy

BMJ 2006;332:493.2 (Published 23 February 2006)

Philip Horsman Rack

BMJ 2006;332:493.3 (Published 23 February 2006)

Frank William Sheffield

BMJ 2006;332:493.4 (Published 23 February 2006)

Gerald Joseph Siegler

BMJ 2006;332:493.5 (Published 23 February 2006)

Rowland James Williams

BMJ 2006;332:493.6 (Published 23 February 2006)

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