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27 May 2006 (Vol 332, Issue 7552)

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Editor's Choice

Taking a stand

BMJ 2006;332:0.7 (Published 25 May 2006)

News

Having fewer hospital beds does not mean less health care

BMJ 2006;332:1229.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Attorney general is to intervene in case of expert witness immunity

BMJ 2006;332:1229.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

In brief

BMJ 2006;332:1230.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Report gives snapshot health research funding in the UK

BMJ 2006;332:1230.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Amnesty says human rights have been eclipsed by “war on terror”

BMJ 2006;332:1231.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Human rights group calls on Israel to save Palestinian health services

BMJ 2006;332:1231.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Derbyshire primary care trust “failed to consult” over contract

BMJ 2006;332:1233.4 (Published 25 May 2006)

WHO's director general dies

BMJ 2006;332:1234.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Half a million children a year die of AIDS through lack of drugs

BMJ 2006;332:1234.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Editorials

Spontaneous miscarriage in the first trimester

BMJ 2006;332:1223 (Published 25 May 2006)

How much and how often should we drink?

BMJ 2006;332:1224 (Published 25 May 2006)

Patient agendas in primary care

BMJ 2006;332:1225 (Published 25 May 2006)

Information and intelligence for healthy populations

BMJ 2006;332:1226 (Published 25 May 2006)

The palliative role of orthopaedics

BMJ 2006;332:1227 (Published 25 May 2006)

Research

Management of miscarriage: expectant, medical, or surgical? Results of randomised controlled trial (miscarriage treatment (MIST) trial)

BMJ 2006;332:1235 (Published 25 May 2006)

Effect of patient completed agenda forms and doctors' education about the agenda on the outcome of consultations: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2006;332:1238 (Published 25 May 2006)

Effect of telephone contact on further suicide attempts in patients discharged from an emergency department: randomised controlled study

BMJ 2006;332:1241 (Published 25 May 2006)

Prospective study of alcohol drinking patterns and coronary heart disease in women and men

BMJ 2006;332:1244 (Published 25 May 2006)

Effective control of dengue vectors with curtains and water container covers treated with insecticide in Mexico and Venezuela: cluster randomised trials

BMJ 2006;332:1247 (Published 25 May 2006)

Letters

Lipid lowering drugs in diabetes: Abstract was misleading

BMJ 2006;332:1272.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Lipid lowering drugs in diabetes: Absolute risk reduction is what counts

BMJ 2006;332:1272.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Lipid lowering drugs in diabetes: Lipid lowering has ophthalmic benefits

BMJ 2006;332:1272.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

End of contract for Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin: Cost cutting, or worse?

BMJ 2006;332:1273.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

End of contract for Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin: Bulletin is value for money

BMJ 2006;332:1273.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

End of contract for Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin: Choices

BMJ 2006;332:1273.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

End of contract for Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin: Australian Prescriber was resurrected

BMJ 2006;332:1273.4 (Published 25 May 2006)

Inhaled insulin: Evidence based or industry driven medicine?

BMJ 2006;332:1273.5 (Published 25 May 2006)

Letters - continued

Inhaled insulin: Concerns remain

BMJ 2006;332:1273.6 (Published 25 May 2006)

Spain's high rate of organ donation may hinge on local use

BMJ 2006;332:1274.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Australian public's views on privacy and health research

BMJ 2006;332:1274.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Dame Janet's disappointments: Shipman case is a stick to beat the medical profession with

BMJ 2006;332:1274.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

Dame Janet's disappointments: Dame Janet's indignation helps no one

BMJ 2006;332:1275.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Dame Janet's disappointments: It's not that easy to keep an eye on each other

BMJ 2006;332:1275.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Not so fast with vacuums and maggots as firstline treatment

BMJ 2006;332:1275.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

Access to emergency care in Palestinian West Bank: Study seems not to have been critically appraised

BMJ 2006;332:1275.4 (Published 25 May 2006)

Access to emergency care in Palestinian West Bank: Methods were incomplete

BMJ 2006;332:1276.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Access to emergency care in Palestinian West Bank: Interpretation of results is flawed

BMJ 2006;332:1276.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Humanitarian crisis in Israeli occupied territories

BMJ 2006;332:1276.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

Obituaries

Roger Bryce-Smith

BMJ 2006;332:1277.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Cecil Cameron Ewing

BMJ 2006;332:1278.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Berta (“Betty”) Gol

BMJ 2006;332:1278.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Harry Hanson

BMJ 2006;332:1278.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

Khalid Karam

BMJ 2006;332:1278.4 (Published 25 May 2006)

Kumaran (“Bob”) Ratnasingham

BMJ 2006;332:1278.5 (Published 25 May 2006)

Howard Watson

BMJ 2006;332:1278.6 (Published 25 May 2006)

James Neville Frederick West

BMJ 2006;332:1278.7 (Published 25 May 2006)

Clinical Review

Management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

BMJ 2006;332:1251 (Published 25 May 2006)

Practice

Statistics in practice: The simplest statistical test: how to check for a difference between treatments

BMJ 2006;332:1256 (Published 25 May 2006)

Lesson of the week: Recurrent diabetic ketoacidosis after changing pen devices for insulin injection

BMJ 2006;332:1259 (Published 25 May 2006)

ABC of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Diagnosis

BMJ 2006;332:1261 (Published 25 May 2006)

Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2006;332:1264 (Published 25 May 2006)

This Week In the BMJ

To call your patient after a suicide attempt may help

BMJ 2006;332:0.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

Different methods for managing miscarriage have same infection rates

BMJ 2006;332:0.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Insecticide treated curtains and water jar covers control dengue vector

BMJ 2006;332:0.5 (Published 25 May 2006)

Identifying patients' agendas improves consultations

BMJ 2006;332:0.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Alcohol drinking patterns have different CHD outcomes in men and women

BMJ 2006;332:0.4 (Published 25 May 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;332:1282 (Published 25 May 2006)

Fillers

Many people report pain for a long time after a stroke

BMJ 2006;332:0.6 (Published 25 May 2006)

My worst day

BMJ 2006;332:1250 (Published 25 May 2006)

For surgeons

BMJ 2006;332:1255 (Published 25 May 2006)

Ben

BMJ 2006;332:1258 (Published 25 May 2006)

A cautionary tale

BMJ 2006;332:1260 (Published 25 May 2006)

Nauseated/nauseous

BMJ 2006;332:1271 (Published 25 May 2006)

Advice

BMJ 2006;332:1277.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Consultants' pay goes up, but productivity goes down, MPs told

BMJ 2006;332:1232.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Doctors' faith in the GMC falls, while the public's rises

BMJ 2006;332:1232.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

Science meets art in exhibition of plants and medicines

BMJ 2006;332:1232.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

WHO calls for registration of all clinical trials

BMJ 2006;332:1232.4 (Published 25 May 2006)

Dutch patients are warned against stem cell treatment

BMJ 2006;332:1232.5 (Published 25 May 2006)

Sudanese health minister's advocacy of condoms sparks protest

BMJ 2006;332:1233.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Secret report surfaces showing that Pfizer was at fault in Nigerian drug tests

BMJ 2006;332:1233.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

EU tightens regulations on food labelling

BMJ 2006;332:1233.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Angolan cholera epidemic could have been prevented, says MSF

BMJ 2006;332:1234.3 (Published 25 May 2006)

Hospital use of antibiotics varies threefold across Europe

BMJ 2006;332:1234.4 (Published 25 May 2006)

German hospital doctors temporarily halt strike but vow to continue

BMJ 2006;332:1234.5 (Published 25 May 2006)

Trial of drug for trauma patients includes victims of Iraqi violence

BMJ 2006;332:1234.6 (Published 25 May 2006)

Rise in maternal age has led to increase in pregnancies affected by Down's syndrome

BMJ 2006;332:1234.7 (Published 25 May 2006)

Latest reorganisation of primary care trusts could create planning blight

BMJ 2006;332:1234.8 (Published 25 May 2006)

Doctors are only ones to benefit from changes in out of hours care, say MPs

BMJ 2006;332:1234.9 (Published 25 May 2006)

London complex was fatally flawed, says spending watchdog

BMJ 2006;332:1234.10 (Published 25 May 2006)

Analysis and Comment

Review of NICE's recommendations, 1999-2005

BMJ 2006;332:1266.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

NICE work

BMJ 2006;332:1266.2 (Published 25 May 2006)

How NICE may be outflanked

BMJ 2006;332:1268 (Published 25 May 2006)

Reviews

NHS: The Musical!

BMJ 2006;332:1279 (Published 25 May 2006)

HIV is changing the face of tropical medicine

BMJ 2006;332:1280 (Published 25 May 2006)

Rugby union should ban contested scrums

BMJ 2006;332:1281.1 (Published 25 May 2006)

Advice to science writers

BMJ 2006;332:1281.2 (Published 25 May 2006)