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19 May 2007 (Vol 334, Issue 7602)

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Editor's Choice

Alarming results

BMJ 2007;334:0.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Improving patient care

BMJ 2007;334:0.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

News

NHS has not reaped fair benefits from refinancing of PFI schemes, MPs say

BMJ 2007;334:1021.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Experts dispute claims of poor cancer survival in UK

BMJ 2007;334:1021.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Exploring ageing and bereavement

BMJ 2007;334:1022.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

FDA calls for warnings on anaemia drugs amid reports of incentives to doctors

BMJ 2007;334:1022.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Tackle cancer in Africa now to prevent catastrophe, say health activists

BMJ 2007;334:1022.3 (Published 17 May 2007)

New helpline will advise those who blow whistle on research fraud

BMJ 2007;334:1023.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Israeli surgeons are reprimanded for allowing their names to appear on a study they had not done

BMJ 2007;334:1023.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Are plans to introduce practice based commissioning a shambles?

BMJ 2007;334:1024.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Let fingerprints help the healing

BMJ 2007;334:1024.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Consumers fight to halt move towards direct to consumer advertising in Europe

BMJ 2007;334:1025.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

MRC says it will invent, develop, and market its own drugs

BMJ 2007;334:1025.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

News

BMJ 2007;334:1026.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Teenager carrying anencephalic fetus is granted right to travel to UK for abortion

BMJ 2007;334:1026.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Clinton brokers deal to lower price of antiretrovirals

BMJ 2007;334:1026.3 (Published 17 May 2007)

Government will suspend MTAS for second round of job interviews

BMJ 2007;334:1027.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

It's “wrong” to put patients' records on IT system without explicit consent, MPs are told

BMJ 2007;334:1027.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

UK should foster scientific collaboration outside EU

BMJ 2007;334:1027.3 (Published 17 May 2007)

Listen to children when deciding policy, says commissioner

BMJ 2007;334:1027.4 (Published 17 May 2007)

UK must learn from US's mistakes in tackling research misconduct

BMJ 2007;334:1027.5 (Published 17 May 2007)

Primary care needs more management not more private sector involvement, conference hears

BMJ 2007;334:1027.6 (Published 17 May 2007)

Rise in prevalence of autism in children continues to baffle researchers

BMJ 2007;334:1027.7 (Published 17 May 2007)

Pfizer conducts survey of French patients on information provided by industry

BMJ 2007;334:1027.8 (Published 17 May 2007)

Patients give NHS vote of confidence

BMJ 2007;334:1027.9 (Published 17 May 2007)

News - continued

Drug eluting stents are widely used “off label”

BMJ 2007;334:1028.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Aspirin works best in small doses

BMJ 2007;334:1028.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

HPV vaccine highly effective in uninfected young women

BMJ 2007;334:1028.3 (Published 17 May 2007)

Banning Swedish snus makes no sense

BMJ 2007;334:1028.4 (Published 17 May 2007)

Folic acid and B vitamin supplements won't prevent venous thromboembolism

BMJ 2007;334:1029.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

How pharmaceutical representatives change your behaviour

BMJ 2007;334:1029.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Educational intervention helps inner city GPs detect tuberculosis

BMJ 2007;334:1029.3 (Published 17 May 2007)

Physician assisted deaths: no “slippery slope” in the Netherlands or Oregon

BMJ 2007;334:1029.4 (Published 17 May 2007)

Editorials

Alarm symptoms in primary care

BMJ 2007;334:1013 (Published 17 May 2007)

The value of administrative databases

BMJ 2007;334:1014 (Published 17 May 2007)

Functional foods

BMJ 2007;334:1015 (Published 17 May 2007)

Multimorbidity's many challenges

BMJ 2007;334:1016 (Published 17 May 2007)

Thromboprophylaxis for adults in hospital

BMJ 2007;334:1017 (Published 17 May 2007)

Research

Alarm symptoms in early diagnosis of cancer in primary care: cohort study using General Practice Research Database

BMJ 2007;334:1040 (Published 17 May 2007)

Use of administrative data or clinical databases as predictors of risk of death in hospital: comparison of models

BMJ 2007;334:1044 (Published 17 May 2007)

Analysis

Functional foods: the case for closer evaluation

BMJ 2007;334:1037 (Published 17 May 2007)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Time to stop doing tonsillectomies?

BMJ 2007;334:1019.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

More advice to clinicians

BMJ 2007;334:1019.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Role of primary care in improvement

BMJ 2007;334:1019.3 (Published 17 May 2007)

How to bring about changes

BMJ 2007;334:1019.4 (Published 17 May 2007)

Combination shows no advantage over aspirin alone

BMJ 2007;334:1020.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Misuse of confidence intervals threatens conclusions

BMJ 2007;334:1020.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Cancerbackup sets record straight

BMJ 2007;334:1020.3 (Published 17 May 2007)

The illusion of invulnerability

BMJ 2007;334:1020.4 (Published 17 May 2007)

Observations

Cancer drugs: swallowing big pharma's line?

Rebecca Coombes

BMJ 2007;334:1034 (Published 17 May 2007)

Observations - continued

Spend, spend, spend—hide, hide, hide

Nigel Hawkes

BMJ 2007;334:1036 (Published 17 May 2007)

Views & Reviews

Life, but not as I knew it

Jed Rowe

BMJ 2007;334:1058 (Published 17 May 2007)

Penicillin and a series of fortunate events

Allen F Shaughnessy

BMJ 2007;334:1059 (Published 17 May 2007)

Food for thought

Des Spence

BMJ 2007;334:1060.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Call me by my true name

Mary E Black

BMJ 2007;334:1060.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

A viol prejudice

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2007;334:1061.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Healing the Wounds

James Curran

BMJ 2007;334:1061.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Ian McGregor

BMJ 2007;334:1062 (Published 17 May 2007)

Jessie Reid Gray Buchanan

BMJ 2007;334:1063.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Christopher Charles Draper

BMJ 2007;334:1063.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Otto Fleming

BMJ 2007;334:1063.3 (Published 17 May 2007)

Michael Edward Glanvill

BMJ 2007;334:1063.4 (Published 17 May 2007)

Stephen John Hadfield

BMJ 2007;334:1063.5 (Published 17 May 2007)

John Spencer Jones

BMJ 2007;334:1063.6 (Published 17 May 2007)

Andrew Herd Muir

BMJ 2007;334:1063.7 (Published 17 May 2007)

Clinical Review

Genital herpes and its management

BMJ 2007;334:1048 (Published 17 May 2007)

Practice

NICE guidelines: Reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism (deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) in inpatients having surgery: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2007;334:1053 (Published 17 May 2007)

: Commentary: NICE—setting clinical standards

BMJ 2007;334:1054 (Published 17 May 2007)

Rational imaging: Minimally invasive treatment for liver and lung metastases in colorectal cancer

BMJ 2007;334:1056 (Published 17 May 2007)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;334:1064.1 (Published 17 May 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;334:1064.2 (Published 17 May 2007)

Features

NHS: the Blair years

BMJ 2007;334:1030 (Published 17 May 2007)

The locked code

BMJ 2007;334:1032 (Published 17 May 2007)

Filler

Making a difference: now it's your turn

BMJ 2007;334:1055 (Published 17 May 2007)