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29 September 2007 (Vol 335, Issue 7621)

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Editor's Choice

When is hospital the right place to be?

BMJ 2007;335:0.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

News

Prime minister promises a more personal NHS

BMJ 2007;335:631.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Annual check-ups aren't needed, US study says

BMJ 2007;335:631.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Ten per cent of English girls have HPV by age of 16, survey shows

BMJ 2007;335:632.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Health service needs to engage more with patients, says Nuffield Trust

BMJ 2007;335:632.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Doctors rank myocardial infarction as most “prestigious” disease and fibromyalgia as least

BMJ 2007;335:632.3 (Published 27 September 2007)

Doctors get advice on rights of children and young people

BMJ 2007;335:633.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Advice to pregnant women to avoid eating peanuts should be withdrawn, says Lords committee

BMJ 2007;335:633.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

German media describe allocation of organs to Saudi patients as unfair

BMJ 2007;335:634.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

UK hip fracture audit is launched to improve care and reduce costs

BMJ 2007;335:634.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

UK considers moving to system of presumed consent to transplantation

BMJ 2007;335:634.3 (Published 27 September 2007)

Enter the circle, invites Nobel prize winning poet

BMJ 2007;335:635.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Better access to drugs could save 10 million lives a year, says UN expert

BMJ 2007;335:635.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

In brief

BMJ 2007;335:636.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Doctors should speak out on climate change, expert says

BMJ 2007;335:636.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Hillary Clinton unveils plan for healthcare reform

BMJ 2007;335:637.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Children's health insurance in jeopardy as US Congress battles Bush

BMJ 2007;335:637.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Healthcare giant advertises to children in classrooms

BMJ 2007;335:637.3 (Published 27 September 2007)

Aid agencies launch appeal for Iraqi refugees, while cholera spreads in northern Iraq

BMJ 2007;335:637.4 (Published 27 September 2007)

Nightly dialysis looks a promising alternative for haemodialysis patients

BMJ 2007;335:638.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Global child mortality is falling too slowly

BMJ 2007;335:638.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Exercise is an important treatment for type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2007;335:638.3 (Published 27 September 2007)

Women taking teratogenic drugs need contraceptive advice

BMJ 2007;335:638.4 (Published 27 September 2007)

US doctors must become the voice of the poor

BMJ 2007;335:639.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Triglycerides have an independent effect on risk of heart disease

BMJ 2007;335:639.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Mosquito nets reduce child deaths in Kenya

BMJ 2007;335:639.3 (Published 27 September 2007)

News - continued

Worries remain over safety of repeated antenatal steroids

BMJ 2007;335:639.4 (Published 27 September 2007)

Editorials

Risk of cancer and the oral contraceptive pill

BMJ 2007;335:621 (Published 27 September 2007)

New methods of analysing cost effectiveness

BMJ 2007;335:622 (Published 27 September 2007)

Effectiveness of chest pain units

BMJ 2007;335:623 (Published 27 September 2007)

The Declaration of Helsinki

BMJ 2007;335:624 (Published 27 September 2007)

Physician assisted death in vulnerable populations

BMJ 2007;335:625 (Published 27 September 2007)

Research

Cancer risk among users of oral contraceptives: cohort data from the Royal College of General Practitioner's oral contraception study

BMJ 2007;335:651 (Published 27 September 2007)

Preventive strategies for group B streptococcal and other bacterial infections in early infancy: cost effectiveness and value of information analyses

BMJ 2007;335:655 (Published 27 September 2007)

Effectiveness and safety of chest pain assessment to prevent emergency admissions: ESCAPE cluster randomised trial

BMJ 2007;335:659 (Published 27 September 2007)

Analysis

Use of process measures to monitor the quality of clinical practice

BMJ 2007;335:648 (Published 27 September 2007)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Rheumatic presentations are common

BMJ 2007;335:627.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Mobile phone videos could help treat sick children

BMJ 2007;335:627.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Summary of responses

BMJ 2007;335:627.3 (Published 27 September 2007)

None so blind

BMJ 2007;335:628.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Ignorance isn't always bliss

BMJ 2007;335:628.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Capitalism is a force for good

BMJ 2007;335:628.3 (Published 27 September 2007)

Profound ethical issues were smoothed over

BMJ 2007;335:629.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

BMA is in denial

BMJ 2007;335:629.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

BMA's reply

BMJ 2007;335:630.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Uniquely disadvantaged

BMJ 2007;335:630.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Confessions of an accordion cleaner

BMJ 2007;335:630.3 (Published 27 September 2007)

Observations

Who are the doctor bloggers and what do they want?

Rebecca Coombes

BMJ 2007;335:644 (Published 27 September 2007)

Patients' blogs—do doctors have anything to fear?

Matthew Hurley, Craig Smith

BMJ 2007;335:645 (Published 27 September 2007)

The dangers of attacking disease programmes for developing countries

Simon Collins, Brook K Baker, Gregg Gonsales, Marco Gomes

BMJ 2007;335:646 (Published 27 September 2007)

Wham, bam, thank you CAM

Douglas Kamerow

BMJ 2007;335:647 (Published 27 September 2007)

Views & Reviews

Ethicist on the ward round

Daniel K Sokol

BMJ 2007;335:670 (Published 27 September 2007)

The alcohol industry: taking on the public health critics

Michael Farrell

BMJ 2007;335:671 (Published 27 September 2007)

Running with the pantomime horses

Des Spence

BMJ 2007;335:672.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

A different perspective

Liam Farell

BMJ 2007;335:672.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Doctor-anarchists in class war

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2007;335:673.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Cancer Ward

Paul Crichton

BMJ 2007;335:673.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Bjørn Ibsen

BMJ 2007;335:674 (Published 27 September 2007)

Michael Gerald Askew

BMJ 2007;335:675.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Nina Agnes Jane Carson

BMJ 2007;335:675.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Ian Patrick Mulligan

BMJ 2007;335:675.3 (Published 27 September 2007)

Anand Mohan Sur

BMJ 2007;335:675.4 (Published 27 September 2007)

David Tidmarsh

BMJ 2007;335:675.5 (Published 27 September 2007)

Japhet Mara Urasa

BMJ 2007;335:675.6 (Published 27 September 2007)

Clinical Review

Managing anovulatory infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome

BMJ 2007;335:663 (Published 27 September 2007)

Practice

Guidelines: Care of healthy women and their babies during childbirth: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2007;335:667 (Published 27 September 2007)

Change Page: Patients with cardiac chest pain should call emergency services

BMJ 2007;335:669 (Published 27 September 2007)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:676.1 (Published 27 September 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:676.2 (Published 27 September 2007)

Features

How far is too far?

BMJ 2007;335:640 (Published 27 September 2007)

Is there enough evidence to judge midwife led units safe? Yes

BMJ 2007;335:642 (Published 27 September 2007)

Do we have enough evidence to judge midwife led maternity units safe? No

BMJ 2007;335:643 (Published 27 September 2007)

Filler

Bupropion helps primary care patients stop smoking

BMJ 2007;335:662 (Published 27 September 2007)

Relative risk

BMJ 2007;335:666 (Published 27 September 2007)

Correction

News: Number of serious adverse events doubles in seven years in US

BMJ 2007;335:0.2 (Published 27 September 2007)