21 October 2006 (Vol 333, Issue 7573)

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This Week In the BMJ

Sexual and reproductive health of young Arab people needs to be improved

BMJ 2006;333:0.5 (Published 19 October 2006)

Neurological presentation of malaria in Yemen has poor prognosis

BMJ 2006;333:0.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

Learning more about responding to conflict and disaster

BMJ 2006;333:0.4 (Published 19 October 2006)

Child mortality is high in Eastern Mediterranean countries

BMJ 2006;333:0.3 (Published 19 October 2006)

Health burden of genetic disorders is high in the Arab world

BMJ 2006;333:0.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Editor's Choice

Messages from the Middle East

BMJ 2006;333:0.6 (Published 19 October 2006)

Editorials

Health in the Middle East

BMJ 2006;333:815 (Published 19 October 2006)

Sexual and reproductive health of women

BMJ 2006;333:816 (Published 19 October 2006)

Humanitarian aid: some political realities

BMJ 2006;333:817 (Published 19 October 2006)

Genetic disease in the Arab world

BMJ 2006;333:819 (Published 19 October 2006)

Lessons in tackling chronic disease

BMJ 2006;333:820 (Published 19 October 2006)

Letters

Obstacles to health in the Arab world

BMJ 2006;333:859.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Reforming Egypt's health system: is it that simple?

BMJ 2006;333:859.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

Road traffic deaths in the Middle East: call for action

BMJ 2006;333:860.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Cancer prevention and control in Eastern Mediterranean region

BMJ 2006;333:860.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

Relation between mental health care and general development

BMJ 2006;333:861.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Cause of death of Sri Lankan migrant workers employed in the Middle East

BMJ 2006;333:861.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

Child labour in Arab countries: call for action

BMJ 2006;333:861.3 (Published 19 October 2006)

Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors

BMJ 2006;333:862.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Letters - continued

Lessons learnt from the front line in Israel

BMJ 2006;333:862.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

News

NHS chief admits to errors in costing of pay reform

BMJ 2006;333:821.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

More than half a million Iraqis have been killed since invasion

BMJ 2006;333:821.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

In brief

BMJ 2006;333:822.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Southall faces further hearing—on secret medical records

BMJ 2006;333:822.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

Violence against children is widespread

BMJ 2006;333:822.3 (Published 19 October 2006)

Failed vaccine campaigns may lead to polio resurgence, experts warn

BMJ 2006;333:823.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Israeli doctors are arrested in investigation

BMJ 2006;333:823.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

Government launches campaign to cut alcohol related deaths

BMJ 2006;333:825.3 (Published 19 October 2006)

Victory for women's rights in Kuwait reawakens hope

BMJ 2006;333:826 (Published 19 October 2006)

Research

Severe malaria in children in Yemen: two site observational study

BMJ 2006;333:827 (Published 19 October 2006)

Practice

Genetic disorders in the Arab world

BMJ 2006;333:831 (Published 19 October 2006)

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2006;333:835 (Published 19 October 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;333:866 (Published 19 October 2006)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Decline in smoking accounts for 40% of fall in US male cancer mortality

BMJ 2006;333:824.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Epilepsy is misdiagnosed in 90 000 people a year in England and Wales

BMJ 2006;333:824.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

One in four autopsy reports in UK is substandard, report finds

BMJ 2006;333:824.3 (Published 19 October 2006)

US eases its restrictions on prescription drugs from Canada

BMJ 2006;333:824.4 (Published 19 October 2006)

SSRI use during pregnancy is associated with fetal abnormalities

BMJ 2006;333:824.5 (Published 19 October 2006)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] - continued

New gonorrhoea strains are resistant to antibiotics

BMJ 2006;333:825.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

South Africa acts to curb spread of lethal strain of TB

BMJ 2006;333:825.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

Analysis and Comment

Can action on health achieve political and social reform?

BMJ 2006;333:837 (Published 19 October 2006)

Child health and survival in the Eastern Mediterranean region

BMJ 2006;333:839 (Published 19 October 2006)

Learning from conflict and disaster in the Eastern Mediterranean region

BMJ 2006;333:843.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Preparedness for humanitarian crises needs to be improved

BMJ 2006;333:843.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

Hope and despair over health in Gaza

BMJ 2006;333:845 (Published 19 October 2006)

Darfur—dependent population at risk of another catastrophe

BMJ 2006;333:846 (Published 19 October 2006)

Iraq lacks facilities and expertise in emergency medicine

BMJ 2006;333:847 (Published 19 October 2006)

Can Lebanon conjure a public health phoenix from the ashes?

BMJ 2006;333:848 (Published 19 October 2006)

Reproductive health of Arab young people

BMJ 2006;333:849 (Published 19 October 2006)

HIV in the Middle East

BMJ 2006;333:851 (Published 19 October 2006)

Tackling social determinants of health through community based initiatives

BMJ 2006;333:854 (Published 19 October 2006)

Regional collaboration in the Middle East to deal with H5N1 avian flu

BMJ 2006;333:856 (Published 19 October 2006)

Reviews

Games without frontiers

BMJ 2006;333:863.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

Net gain for Arab health?

BMJ 2006;333:863.2 (Published 19 October 2006)

Keeping alive the “jazba”

BMJ 2006;333:864 (Published 19 October 2006)

Soldiering on

BMJ 2006;333:865.1 (Published 19 October 2006)

All Russian to me

BMJ 2006;333:865.2 (Published 19 October 2006)