01 September 2007 (Vol 335, Issue 7617)

Editor's Choice

How to do it

BMJ 2007;335:0.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

News

Surgery outcomes are to be made public—but a five year wait is likely

BMJ 2007;335:416.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

GMC clears GP accused of giving court “junk science” on MMR vaccine

BMJ 2007;335:416.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Patients' groups welcome NICE decisions on arthritis and multiple sclerosis drugs

BMJ 2007;335:416.3 (Published 30 August 2007)

Out of hours cover in Scotland is unsustainable, audit finds

BMJ 2007;335:417 (Published 30 August 2007)

News

BMJ 2007;335:418.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Infectious diseases are spreading more rapidly than ever before, WHO warns

BMJ 2007;335:418.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Growing displacement of refugees causes new problems in Iraq

BMJ 2007;335:418.3 (Published 30 August 2007)

Web tool indicates the most effective health measures in deprived areas

BMJ 2007;335:419.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Canada's health system needs overhaul, say nation's doctors

BMJ 2007;335:419.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Dying for a drink

BMJ 2007;335:420.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Childhood leukaemia in England and Wales has seen a real increase since 1970s

BMJ 2007;335:420.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Government data show higher mortality in babies of lower gestational age

BMJ 2007;335:420.3 (Published 30 August 2007)

US National Institutes of Health investigates one of its own institutes

BMJ 2007;335:420.4 (Published 30 August 2007)

Surgery prolongs life in obese people

BMJ 2007;335:421.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Preoperative ischaemia of the arm reduces heart muscle injury during bypass surgery

BMJ 2007;335:421.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Paediatric hypertension often goes unrecognised

BMJ 2007;335:421.3 (Published 30 August 2007)

New genes implicated in aetiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

BMJ 2007;335:421.4 (Published 30 August 2007)

Editorials

Prescribing antibiotics in primary care

BMJ 2007;335:407 (Published 30 August 2007)

Reassessing normal blood pressure

BMJ 2007;335:408 (Published 30 August 2007)

Recognising serious illness in feverish young children in primary care

BMJ 2007;335:409 (Published 30 August 2007)

Pain and heavy bleeding with intrauterine contraceptive devices

BMJ 2007;335:410 (Published 30 August 2007)

Chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis

BMJ 2007;335:411 (Published 30 August 2007)

Research

Analysis

Has Modernising Medical Careers lost its way?

BMJ 2007;335:426 (Published 30 August 2007)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Task of primary care is to grade depression

BMJ 2007;335:413.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Walking the Black Dog

BMJ 2007;335:413.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Global perspectives

BMJ 2007;335:413.3 (Published 30 August 2007)

Nerve studies are not that useful in diagnosis

BMJ 2007;335:414.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Consider microbial cause

BMJ 2007;335:414.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

All nutritional supplements should be classified as drugs

BMJ 2007;335:414.3 (Published 30 August 2007)

Reasons to be cheerful

BMJ 2007;335:414.4 (Published 30 August 2007)

Other journals, other means

BMJ 2007;335:415.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Time to get our acts together

BMJ 2007;335:415.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Generic ID card to save jobs

BMJ 2007;335:415.3 (Published 30 August 2007)

Views & Reviews

Peer usage versus peer review

Bruce G Charlton

BMJ 2007;335:451 (Published 30 August 2007)

About the boys and the Bs

Des Spence

BMJ 2007;335:452.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Slowly, the monster dies

Ike Iheanacho

BMJ 2007;335:452.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Arms and the man

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2007;335:453.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

The Book of Job

John Launer

BMJ 2007;335:453.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Should we loosen the grip on drug companies?

Richard Smith

BMJ 2007;335:454 (Published 30 August 2007)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Stephen John Forsdick

BMJ 2007;335:455.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Herbert William Gallagher

BMJ 2007;335:455.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Mahendra Prasad Jaiswal

BMJ 2007;335:455.3 (Published 30 August 2007)

Leonard Geoffrey Cadoux Martin

BMJ 2007;335:455.4 (Published 30 August 2007)

George Crosthwaite Mathers

BMJ 2007;335:455.5 (Published 30 August 2007)

Maurice (“Monty”) Murray

BMJ 2007;335:455.6 (Published 30 August 2007)

Clinical Review

Parkinson's disease

BMJ 2007;335:441 (Published 30 August 2007)

Practice

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:456.1 (Published 30 August 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:456.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Features

Silver syndrome

BMJ 2007;335:422 (Published 30 August 2007)

Should eponyms be abandoned? Yes

BMJ 2007;335:424 (Published 30 August 2007)

Should eponyms be abandoned? No

BMJ 2007;335:425 (Published 30 August 2007)

Filler

Me and my friends

BMJ 2007;335:428 (Published 30 August 2007)

A depressed gorilla

BMJ 2007;335:445 (Published 30 August 2007)

Remember the null hypothesis

BMJ 2007;335:450 (Published 30 August 2007)

Corrections

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:0.6 (Published 30 August 2007)

Self management for men with lower urinary tract symptoms: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2007;335:0.7 (Published 30 August 2007)

Dressings for venous leg ulcers: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2007;335:0.8 (Published 30 August 2007)

Management of psoriasis in pregnancy

BMJ 2007;335:0.5 (Published 30 August 2007)

BMJ Updates: Yearly infusion of zoledronic acid helps prevent fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis

BMJ 2007;335:0.2 (Published 30 August 2007)

Syphilis

BMJ 2007;335:0.3 (Published 30 August 2007)

The rise of the doctor-manager

BMJ 2007;335:0.4 (Published 30 August 2007)