18 August 2007 (Vol 335, Issue 7615)

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Editor's Choice

Why this unholy trinity?

BMJ 2007;335:0.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

News

High Court upholds NICE decision to limit treatments for Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2007;335:319.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

NICE delays decision on drugs for macular degeneration

BMJ 2007;335:319.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

Audit Scotland calls for more evidence of effective care for long term illness

BMJ 2007;335:320.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

GMC to look into higher number of complaints against overseas trained doctors

BMJ 2007;335:320.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

South African health minister sacked after attending AIDS conference

BMJ 2007;335:321.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

Extreme weather affects half a billion people each year

BMJ 2007;335:321.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

UK heart surgeons improve patients' survival

BMJ 2007;335:321.3 (Published 16 August 2007)

FDA needs more funding, NEJM says, amid questions about antidiabetes drug

BMJ 2007;335:322.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

Skin cancer is on the increase—but incidence of lung cancer is falling

BMJ 2007;335:322.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

MRI may be better than mammography for early detection of breast cancer

BMJ 2007;335:323.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

Screening for osteoporosis may pay off in some groups of older men

BMJ 2007;335:323.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

Geriatric conditions are prevalent and disabling, but neglected

BMJ 2007;335:323.3 (Published 16 August 2007)

Women with diabetes miss out on mortality improvements 1971 to 2000

BMJ 2007;335:323.4 (Published 16 August 2007)

Another neuroprotective drug fails to make its mark

BMJ 2007;335:324.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

D-dimer test might help exclude deep vein thrombosis in pregnancy

BMJ 2007;335:324.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

Rituximab works for severe pemphigus but there are serious side effects

BMJ 2007;335:324.3 (Published 16 August 2007)

How best to save joints in severe haemophilia A

BMJ 2007;335:324.4 (Published 16 August 2007)

Mediterranean diet reduces child asthma and allergy

BMJ 2007;335:325.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

Carvedilol less diabetogenic than metoprolol

BMJ 2007;335:325.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

News - continued

Adalimumab maintains remission in Crohn's disease

BMJ 2007;335:325.3 (Published 16 August 2007)

Chlamydia infection increases risk of premature delivery

BMJ 2007;335:325.4 (Published 16 August 2007)

Television soap operas set a poor example

BMJ 2007;335:325.5 (Published 16 August 2007)

Editorials

Assertive community treatment in psychiatry

BMJ 2007;335:311 (Published 16 August 2007)

Umbilical cord clamping after birth

BMJ 2007;335:312 (Published 16 August 2007)

Obstructive sleep apnoea

BMJ 2007;335:313 (Published 16 August 2007)

Effects of air pollution on health

BMJ 2007;335:314 (Published 16 August 2007)

Developing nurse prescribing in the UK

BMJ 2007;335:316 (Published 16 August 2007)

Research

Use of intensive case management to reduce time in hospital in people with severe mental illness: systematic review and meta-regression

BMJ 2007;335:336 (Published 16 August 2007)

Probiotics for treatment of acute diarrhoea in children: randomised clinical trial of five different preparations

BMJ 2007;335:340 (Published 16 August 2007)

Analysis

Potential of electronic personal health records

BMJ 2007;335:330 (Published 16 August 2007)

Medical education research remains the poor relation

BMJ 2007;335:333 (Published 16 August 2007)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Incentives help vulnerable patients to stay well

BMJ 2007;335:317.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

Drug misusers are likely to abuse the system

BMJ 2007;335:317.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

Management skills need to be systematically learnt

BMJ 2007;335:317.3 (Published 16 August 2007)

We need imaginative approaches to training

BMJ 2007;335:318.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

Value for money is nothing new

BMJ 2007;335:318.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

ENT form of Saturday night palsy

BMJ 2007;335:318.3 (Published 16 August 2007)

Is the BMJ fit for purpose?

BMJ 2007;335:318.4 (Published 16 August 2007)

Observations

Internal affairs

Douglas Kamerow

BMJ 2007;335:327 (Published 16 August 2007)

Views & Reviews

Life under liberty

Robbie Foy

BMJ 2007;335:349 (Published 16 August 2007)

Trouble down under

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2007;335:350.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

Skippy's last show

Liam Farrell

BMJ 2007;335:350.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

Where there's a will

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2007;335:351.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

The Anatomy of Melancholy

George Dunea

BMJ 2007;335:351.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

Cosmetic artistry

Colin Martin

BMJ 2007;335:352 (Published 16 August 2007)

Clinical Review

Carpal tunnel syndrome

BMJ 2007;335:343 (Published 16 August 2007)

Practice

Investigation of suspected breast cancer

BMJ 2007;335:347 (Published 16 August 2007)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:354.1 (Published 16 August 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:354.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

Features

An unenviable role

BMJ 2007;335:326 (Published 16 August 2007)

Is depression overdiagnosed? Yes

BMJ 2007;335:328 (Published 16 August 2007)

Is depression overdiagnosed? No

BMJ 2007;335:329 (Published 16 August 2007)

Filler

The medical profession's misfortune

BMJ 2007;335:348 (Published 16 August 2007)

Corrections

Management of asthma in children

BMJ 2007;335:0.2 (Published 16 August 2007)

Diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of a simplified low cost method of counting CD4 cells with flow cytometry in Malawi: diagnostic accuracy study

BMJ 2007;335:0.3 (Published 16 August 2007)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Edward Joseph Lister Lowbury

BMJ 2007;335:353 (Published 16 August 2007)