18 November 2006 (Vol 333, Issue 7577)

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Editor's Choice

Hands across the ocean

BMJ 2006;333:0.7 (Published 16 November 2006)

US Highlights

BMJ 2006;333:0.8 (Published 16 November 2006)

News

Ethics group rules on treating premature babies

BMJ 2006;333:1033 (Published 16 November 2006)

News

BMJ 2006;333:1034.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

US health industry to set safety guides for hospitals

BMJ 2006;333:1034.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Dutch insurers pay midwives not to refer breech presentations to hospital

BMJ 2006;333:1034.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

Royal College of Surgeons give cautious approval for face transplants

BMJ 2006;333:1035.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

GMC strikes off expert in drug addiction

BMJ 2006;333:1035.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

GMC hears parents' complaints about Southall

BMJ 2006;333:1036.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Chief medical officer's plans for undergraduate education are attacked

BMJ 2006;333:1036.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

European health commissioner praises food firms for efforts to cut obesity

BMJ 2006;333:1036.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

Indian health activists criticise voluntary price cuts by drug industry

BMJ 2006;333:1036.4 (Published 16 November 2006)

Doha Declaration has failed to deliver cheap drugs to developing countries, Oxfam says

BMJ 2006;333:1036.5 (Published 16 November 2006)

Charity demands better alcohol treatment services as death rates double

BMJ 2006;333:1037.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

High Court judge over-rules GMC decision not to proceed against GP

BMJ 2006;333:1037.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Woman dies after doctors fail to intervene because of new abortion law in Nicaragua

BMJ 2006;333:1037.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

Law to resolve small negligence claims gets royal assent

BMJ 2006;333:1038.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Medical education and training is cut to achieve NHS savings, warns BMA

BMJ 2006;333:1038.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

A new direction for health?

BMJ 2006;333:1039 (Published 16 November 2006)

Who's using whom?

BMJ 2006;333:1040.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Australian Senate votes to allow therapeutic cloning

BMJ 2006;333:1040.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Greater collaboration needed to reduce global burden of disease

BMJ 2006;333:1040.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

South Asia struggles to meet targets on health and hunger

BMJ 2006;333:1040.4 (Published 16 November 2006)

Editorials

Resuscitation using albumin in critically ill patients

BMJ 2006;333:1029 (Published 16 November 2006)

Glomerular filtration rate

BMJ 2006;333:1030 (Published 16 November 2006)

Tackling childhood obesity

BMJ 2006;333:1031 (Published 16 November 2006)

Research

Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children: cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2006;333:1041 (Published 16 November 2006)

Effect of baseline serum albumin concentration on outcome of resuscitation with albumin or saline in patients in intensive care units: analysis of data from the saline versus albumin fluid evaluation (SAFE) study

BMJ 2006;333:1044 (Published 16 November 2006)

Screening strategies for chronic kidney disease in the general population: follow-up of cross sectional health survey

BMJ 2006;333:1047 (Published 16 November 2006)

Letters

Reactions to the chief medical officer's report

BMJ 2006;333:1071.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Reactions to the chief medical officer's report

BMJ 2006;333:1071.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Reactions to the chief medical officer's report

BMJ 2006;333:1071.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

Reactions to the chief medical officer's report

BMJ 2006;333:1072.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

How to measure renal function in clinical practice

BMJ 2006;333:1072.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

How to measure renal function in clinical practice

BMJ 2006;333:1072.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

Authors' reply on Cochrane reviews v industry supported meta-analyses

BMJ 2006;333:1072.4 (Published 16 November 2006)

Delayed cord clamping may also be beneficial in rich settings

BMJ 2006;333:1073.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Scotland v England deal on prescribed drugs

BMJ 2006;333:1073.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Scotland v England deal on prescribed drugs

BMJ 2006;333:1073.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

Obituaries

James McNaught Inglis

BMJ 2006;333:1074.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Ross Galbraith Mitchell

BMJ 2006;333:1074.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Edmund George Oram

BMJ 2006;333:1074.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

Rowena Marion Ryan

BMJ 2006;333:1074.4 (Published 16 November 2006)

Edulji (“Eddy”) Rustumji Sethna

BMJ 2006;333:1074.5 (Published 16 November 2006)

Robert Woolstencroft

BMJ 2006;333:1074.6 (Published 16 November 2006)

Clinical Review

Chronic constipation in children

BMJ 2006;333:1051 (Published 16 November 2006)

Practice

Methadone tolerance testing in drug misusers

BMJ 2006;333:1056 (Published 16 November 2006)

Obesity and vascular disease

BMJ 2006;333:1060 (Published 16 November 2006)

Chloroquine sensitive malaria returns to Malawi

BMJ 2006;333:1064.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Disabled women get suboptimal treatment for early breast cancer

BMJ 2006;333:1064.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Low systolic blood pressure signals a high risk of death in people with acute heart failure

BMJ 2006;333:1064.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

Practice - continued

Inhaled insulin is a promising alternative for patients who won't inject

BMJ 2006;333:1064.4 (Published 16 November 2006)

Heart disease and a diet low in carbohydrate aren't linked

BMJ 2006;333:1065.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Most patients with heart failure have diastolic dysfunction

BMJ 2006;333:1065.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

High blood glucose concentrations cause millions of cardiovascular deaths worldwide

BMJ 2006;333:1065.3 (Published 16 November 2006)

Patients with achalasia often need repeat procedures, usually balloon dilatation

BMJ 2006;333:1065.4 (Published 16 November 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;333:1078.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Minerva

BMJ 2006;333:1078.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Filler

Smaller atraumatic needles are probably best for diagnostic lumbar punctures

BMJ 2006;333:0.6 (Published 16 November 2006)

Western influence in the Holy Land

BMJ 2006;333:1046 (Published 16 November 2006)

The matter with “issue”

BMJ 2006;333:1059 (Published 16 November 2006)

Doctor, pharmacist, or specialist nurse: who are you?

BMJ 2006;333:1063 (Published 16 November 2006)

Analysis and Comment

Refusing to provide a prenatal test: can it ever be ethical?

BMJ 2006;333:1066 (Published 16 November 2006)

Analogies between reading of medical and religious texts

BMJ 2006;333:1068 (Published 16 November 2006)

Walking London's medical history

BMJ 2006;333:1075 (Published 16 November 2006)

Clinical Thinking, Evidence, Communication, and DecisionMaking

BMJ 2006;333:1076.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Trust is Not Enough: Bringing Human Rights to Medicine

BMJ 2006;333:1076.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Clinician led management can fix the NHS

BMJ 2006;333:1077.1 (Published 16 November 2006)

Drink! Drink! Drink!

BMJ 2006;333:1077.2 (Published 16 November 2006)

Corrections

Pulmonary artery catheters

BMJ 2006;333:0.11 (Published 16 November 2006)

ABC of obesity: Management: Part III—Surgery

BMJ 2006;333:0.14 (Published 16 November 2006)

How to measure renal function in clinical practice

BMJ 2006;333:0.13 (Published 16 November 2006)

Self management of arthritis in primary care: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2006;333:0.9 (Published 16 November 2006)

Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors

BMJ 2006;333:0.10 (Published 16 November 2006)

Measles in the United Kingdom: can we eradicate it by 2010?

BMJ 2006;333:0.12 (Published 16 November 2006)