02 December 2006 (Vol 333, Issue 7579)

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Editor's Choice

US Highlights

BMJ 2006;333:0.8 (Published 30 November 2006)

Jam tomorrow

BMJ 2006;333:0.7 (Published 30 November 2006)

News

Patients' views on access will affect GPs' pay

BMJ 2006;333:1137.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Former spy's death causes public health alert

BMJ 2006;333:1137.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

News

BMJ 2006;333:1138.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Canadian doctors develop triage protocol for influenza pandemic

BMJ 2006;333:1138.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

US cancer patients have problems with insurance and care, says survey

BMJ 2006;333:1138.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

FDA approves silicone breast implants 14 years after their withdrawal

BMJ 2006;333:1139.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Nurses should be allowed to run abortion services up to nine weeks, charity says

BMJ 2006;333:1139.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Impasse over patient consent may delay NHS computerisation

BMJ 2006;333:1140.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Red Cross accuses Israeli forces of killing two ambulance workers

BMJ 2006;333:1140.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Relief worker killed as conflict in Darfur spreads to neighbours

BMJ 2006;333:1140.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

Second cancers more common in people who receive donor stem cell transplants

BMJ 2006;333:1140.4 (Published 30 November 2006)

Hungary to close 9000 hospital beds to bring it closer to EU average

BMJ 2006;333:1140.5 (Published 30 November 2006)

US health insurers propose expansion of cover, but plan is widely criticised

BMJ 2006;333:1141.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

NHS needs more consultant surgeons to cope with demand

BMJ 2006;333:1141.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Regulator finds advertising of complementary product “misleading”

BMJ 2006;333:1141.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

Bowel cancer treatment gets better, report says

BMJ 2006;333:1141.4 (Published 30 November 2006)

Feeling the squeeze

BMJ 2006;333:1142.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Southall defends keeping private case files for child protection work

BMJ 2006;333:1142.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Promotion of NHS to be governed by Department of Health code

BMJ 2006;333:1142.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

Professor Doll failed to declare interests when working on vinyl chloride

BMJ 2006;333:1142.4 (Published 30 November 2006)

Influenza kills up to 25 000 people a year in England and Wales, report says

BMJ 2006;333:1142.5 (Published 30 November 2006)

Editorials

Diagnosis using search engines

BMJ 2006;333:1131 (Published 30 November 2006)

Sexual relationships between doctors and former patients

BMJ 2006;333:1132 (Published 30 November 2006)

Donor breast milk banking

BMJ 2006;333:1133 (Published 30 November 2006)

Editorials - continued

Uninsured Americans and the new Democratic Congress

BMJ 2006;333:1134 (Published 30 November 2006)

Reconfiguring acute hospitals in England

BMJ 2006;333:1135 (Published 30 November 2006)

Research

Googling for a diagnosis—use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study

BMJ 2006;333:1143 (Published 30 November 2006)

Lifetime cost effectiveness of simvastatin in a range of risk groups and age groups derived from a randomised trial of 20 536 people

BMJ 2006;333:1145 (Published 30 November 2006)

Strength of evidence for perioperative use of statins to reduce cardiovascular risk: systematic review of controlled studies

BMJ 2006;333:1149 (Published 30 November 2006)

Letters

Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children

BMJ 2006;333:1171.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children

BMJ 2006;333:1171.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children

BMJ 2006;333:1171.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children

BMJ 2006;333:1171.4 (Published 30 November 2006)

Author's response to influenza vaccination: policy v evidence

BMJ 2006;333:1172.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Methadone tolerance testing in drug misusers

BMJ 2006;333:1172.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Methadone tolerance testing in drug misusers

BMJ 2006;333:1173.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

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

BMJ 2006;333:1173.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

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

BMJ 2006;333:1173.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

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

BMJ 2006;333:1174.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

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

BMJ 2006;333:1174.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Even clinician led management won't fix the NHS

BMJ 2006;333:1174.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

Obituaries

Sir Martin Roth

BMJ 2006;333:1175 (Published 30 November 2006)

Thomas (“Tom”) Brearley

BMJ 2006;333:1176.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Dorothy Maud Record (née Tidmas)

BMJ 2006;333:1176.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

John Michael Rice-Oxley

BMJ 2006;333:1176.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

Hugh Bernard Langford Russell

BMJ 2006;333:1176.4 (Published 30 November 2006)

John Andrew Savin

BMJ 2006;333:1176.5 (Published 30 November 2006)

Henry Stoll

BMJ 2006;333:1176.6 (Published 30 November 2006)

Clinical Review

Rheumatic fever and its management

BMJ 2006;333:1153 (Published 30 November 2006)

Practice

Misdiagnosis of angle closure glaucoma

BMJ 2006;333:1157 (Published 30 November 2006)

Obesity and reproduction

BMJ 2006;333:1159 (Published 30 November 2006)

Lumbar discectomy remains unproved

BMJ 2006;333:1163.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Care management helps people live with dementia

BMJ 2006;333:1163.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Chlorhexidine mouthwash and nasal gel helps prevent infections after cardiac surgery

BMJ 2006;333:1163.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

Fetal pulse oximetry doesn't help women in labour or their infants

BMJ 2006;333:1163.4 (Published 30 November 2006)

Bird flu season is back

BMJ 2006;333:1164.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

US guidelines on epoetin alfa tainted by links with industry

BMJ 2006;333:1164.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Medicaid patients miss out on treatments for acute coronary syndrome

BMJ 2006;333:1164.3 (Published 30 November 2006)

Most patients with ischaemic stroke need recanalisation treatments within three hours

BMJ 2006;333:1164.4 (Published 30 November 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;333:1180.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Minerva

BMJ 2006;333:1180.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Filler

Midtrimester amniocentesis is safer than we thought

BMJ 2006;333:0.6 (Published 30 November 2006)

Dead or alive?

BMJ 2006;333:1148 (Published 30 November 2006)

On falling over

BMJ 2006;333:1152 (Published 30 November 2006)

Analysis and Comment

Was message of sudden infant death study misleading?

BMJ 2006;333:1165 (Published 30 November 2006)

Does practice based commissioning avoid the problems of fundholding?

BMJ 2006;333:1168 (Published 30 November 2006)

Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications

BMJ 2006;333:1177.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War

BMJ 2006;333:1177.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

The Brain Hospital

BMJ 2006;333:1178 (Published 30 November 2006)

AIDS: a cause for optimism?

BMJ 2006;333:1179.1 (Published 30 November 2006)

GP or travel agent?

BMJ 2006;333:1179.2 (Published 30 November 2006)

Corrections

Effectiveness of telephone counselling by a pharmacist in reducing mortality in patients receiving polypharmacy: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2006;333:0.11 (Published 30 November 2006)

Independence may be most cost effective way to improve health care

BMJ 2006;333:0.9 (Published 30 November 2006)

This week in the BMJ

BMJ 2006;333:0.10 (Published 30 November 2006)