25 August 2007 (Vol 335, Issue 7616)

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Editor's Choice

Nice feedback

BMJ 2007;335:0.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

News

Cancer survival in UK is improving but could be better

BMJ 2007;335:363.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Australian drugs regulator cancels registration of COX 2 inhibitor

BMJ 2007;335:363.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

News

BMJ 2007;335:364.1 (Published 10 September 2007)

Charities say UK government must do more to help soldiers returning from battle

BMJ 2007;335:364.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

South Africa's health minister rebuffs allegations of alcoholism

BMJ 2007;335:364.3 (Published 23 August 2007)

Thousands of patients wait more than 26 weeks for tests, as 18 week diagnostic target looms

BMJ 2007;335:365.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

GMC opens consultation on level of proof needed to strike off doctors

BMJ 2007;335:365.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

US firm to advise Scottish health service on quality improvement

BMJ 2007;335:366.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Move to weaken picture warnings on tobacco packets in India causes outcry

BMJ 2007;335:366.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Israel tries to stop import of nicotine “sweet” from Sweden

BMJ 2007;335:366.3 (Published 23 August 2007)

Report highlights abuse of older people's human rights in hospitals and homes

BMJ 2007;335:367.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Longer ambulance journeys raise mortality in patients with life threatening conditions

BMJ 2007;335:367.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Urban children healthier than rural children in developing world

BMJ 2007;335:367.3 (Published 23 August 2007)

Prophylactic cranial radiotherapy improves survival in extensive small cell lung cancer

BMJ 2007;335:368.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

HPV vaccines don't help treat existing infections

BMJ 2007;335:368.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Diet may matter for prognosis of colon cancer

BMJ 2007;335:368.3 (Published 23 August 2007)

Periodic limb movements get their gene

BMJ 2007;335:368.4 (Published 23 August 2007)

Diabetes worsens prognosis in acute coronary syndrome

BMJ 2007;335:369.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Drug induced abortions don't complicate future pregnancies

BMJ 2007;335:369.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Apolipoprotein ratio no better than traditional lipids for predicting coronary heart disease

BMJ 2007;335:369.3 (Published 23 August 2007)

Editorials

Diagnosing atrial fibrillation in general practice

BMJ 2007;335:355 (Published 23 August 2007)

Management of urinary tract infection in children

BMJ 2007;335:356 (Published 23 August 2007)

Editorials - continued

Human papillomavirus vaccination programmes

BMJ 2007;335:357 (Published 23 August 2007)

NICE's cost effectiveness threshold

BMJ 2007;335:358 (Published 23 August 2007)

Improving the outcome of stroke

BMJ 2007;335:359 (Published 23 August 2007)

Research

Accuracy of diagnosing atrial fibrillation on electrocardiogram by primary care practitioners and interpretative diagnostic software: analysis of data from screening for atrial fibrillation in the elderly (SAFE) trial

BMJ 2007;335:380 (Published 23 August 2007)

Screening versus routine practice in detection of atrial fibrillation in patients aged 65 or over: cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2007;335:383 (Published 23 August 2007)

Antibiotic treatment for pyelonephritis in children: multicentre randomised controlled non-inferiority trial

BMJ 2007;335:386 (Published 23 August 2007)

Feature

Hyperactivity in children: the Gillberg affair

BMJ 2007;335:370 (Published 23 August 2007)

Analysis

Challenges of implementing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination policy

BMJ 2007;335:375 (Published 23 August 2007)

Commentary: Health inequity could increase in poor countries if universal HPV vaccination is not adopted

BMJ 2007;335:378 (Published 23 August 2007)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Breast cancer experience has wider implications

BMJ 2007;335:361.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Breast cancer growth rates favour abolition of rule

BMJ 2007;335:361.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Later life's complexity needs a scalpel rather than an axe

BMJ 2007;335:361.3 (Published 23 August 2007)

Three unresolved issues

BMJ 2007;335:362.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Article was disappointing

BMJ 2007;335:362.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

More information urgently needed

BMJ 2007;335:362.3 (Published 23 August 2007)

Observations

The hitch hiker's guide to population growth and climate change

Tessa Richards

BMJ 2007;335:374 (Published 23 August 2007)

Views & Reviews

The Alzheimer's Society, drug manufacturers, and public trust

Iain Chalmers

BMJ 2007;335:400 (Published 23 August 2007)

Facebook for scientists?

Deborah Cohen

BMJ 2007;335:401 (Published 23 August 2007)

Dying to get home

Des Spence

BMJ 2007;335:402.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Now wash your hands

Wendy Moore

BMJ 2007;335:402.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Resistance to good sense

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2007;335:403.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Views & Reviews - continued

A Treatise on Madness

John Beard

BMJ 2007;335:403.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Laurence Fraser Levy

BMJ 2007;335:404.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Philip Hopkins

BMJ 2007;335:404.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Catherine Louise Chapman (née Chambers)

BMJ 2007;335:405.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Richard Lewis McCorry

BMJ 2007;335:405.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

William Cathcart Moonie

BMJ 2007;335:405.3 (Published 23 August 2007)

Rachel Elisabeth Need

BMJ 2007;335:405.4 (Published 23 August 2007)

Leon Robinson

BMJ 2007;335:405.5 (Published 23 August 2007)

David Charles Tennant

BMJ 2007;335:405.6 (Published 23 August 2007)

Nicholas John Unsworth

BMJ 2007;335:405.7 (Published 23 August 2007)

Clinical Review

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

BMJ 2007;335:389 (Published 23 August 2007)

Practice

Diagnosis and management of urinary tract infection in children: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2007;335:395 (Published 23 August 2007)

Milk alkali syndrome without the milk

BMJ 2007;335:397 (Published 23 August 2007)

Occupational dermatitis in a hairdresser

BMJ 2007;335:399 (Published 23 August 2007)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:406.1 (Published 23 August 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:406.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Filler

Buying cake is our job

BMJ 2007;335:379 (Published 23 August 2007)

Can you say “no”?

BMJ 2007;335:398 (Published 23 August 2007)

Corrections

Neglected tropical diseases

BMJ 2007;335:0.2 (Published 23 August 2007)

Fifty sudden deaths may be related to central suppression

BMJ 2007;335:0.3 (Published 23 August 2007)