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06 October 2007 (Vol 335, Issue 7622)

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Editor's Choice

Tooth and nail

BMJ 2007;335:7622 (Published 4 October 2007)

News

Africans die in pain because of fears of opiate addiction

BMJ 2007;335:685.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

Future of US children's health insurance still uncertain

BMJ 2007;335:685.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

Netherlands considers introducing preconception care

BMJ 2007;335:686.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

UK does well on giving information to patients but poorly on access to new treatments

BMJ 2007;335:686.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

Italian court upholds couple's demand for preimplantation genetic diagnosis

BMJ 2007;335:687.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

African-American leaders call for concerted action on AIDS in US

BMJ 2007;335:687.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

BMA claims GMC guidance on conscience goes too far

BMJ 2007;335:688.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

Medical Research Council appoints new head

BMJ 2007;335:688.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

Patients win right to have their advance decisions honoured

BMJ 2007;335:688.3 (Published 4 October 2007)

Treat elderly people with dignity, trusts warned

BMJ 2007;335:689.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

GMC says hospital at fault for failing to support cancer screening service

BMJ 2007;335:689.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

News

BMJ 2007;335:690.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

NHS continues to flout rights of disabled people to health care, watchdog says

BMJ 2007;335:690.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

Doctors who help give lethal injections should be punished, says Amnesty

BMJ 2007;335:690.3 (Published 4 October 2007)

Australian efforts to tackle abuse of Aboriginal children raise alarm

BMJ 2007;335:691.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

Doctors disagree about directive on European clinical trials

BMJ 2007;335:691.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

FDA is failing to oversee human clinical trials, report says

BMJ 2007;335:691.3 (Published 4 October 2007)

Doctors and managers come up with design rules for future NHS reform

BMJ 2007;335:691.4 (Published 4 October 2007)

Polyclinics are not the answer for NHS in London, says BMA

BMJ 2007;335:691.5 (Published 4 October 2007)

Treating depression is good for business

BMJ 2007;335:692.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

Too much salt takes its toll in the US

BMJ 2007;335:692.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

Heart failure associated with thiazolidinediones doesn't reduce survival

BMJ 2007;335:692.3 (Published 4 October 2007)

News - continued

Mercury in thimerosal is unlikely to damage children's development

BMJ 2007;335:692.4 (Published 4 October 2007)

HDL and LDL cholesterol independently predict cardiovascular risk

BMJ 2007;335:693.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

Bird flu can cross the placenta in pregnant women

BMJ 2007;335:693.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

Coronary heart disease and colorectal lesions often coexist

BMJ 2007;335:693.3 (Published 4 October 2007)

Risk of venous thromboembolism after a long haul flight is less than one in 5000

BMJ 2007;335:693.4 (Published 4 October 2007)

Editorials

Encouraging children and adolescents to be more active

BMJ 2007;335:677 (Published 4 October 2007)

Occlusion therapy for amblyopia

BMJ 2007;335:678 (Published 4 October 2007)

Mental health in disaster settings

BMJ 2007;335:679 (Published 4 October 2007)

Reform of the coroner system and death certification

BMJ 2007;335:680 (Published 4 October 2007)

Diagnosing left ventricular hypertrophy in arterial hypertension

BMJ 2007;335:681 (Published 4 October 2007)

Research

Effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity in children and adolescents: systematic review of controlled trials

BMJ 2007;335:703 (Published 4 October 2007)

Objectively monitored patching regimens for treatment of amblyopia: randomised trial

BMJ 2007;335:707 (Published 4 October 2007)

Accuracy of electrocardiography in diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in arterial hypertension: systematic review

BMJ 2007;335:711 (Published 4 October 2007)

Analysis

Adding fluoride to water supplies

BMJ 2007;335:699 (Published 4 October 2007)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Cascade testing is tried and tested and cost effective

BMJ 2007;335:683.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

Child-parent screening may have adverse psychological effects

BMJ 2007;335:683.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

The world of the market place

BMJ 2007;335:683.3 (Published 4 October 2007)

Full house

BMJ 2007;335:684.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

The real elephant in the room

BMJ 2007;335:684.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

A cheap soundbite

BMJ 2007;335:684.3 (Published 4 October 2007)

Observations

An age old problem

Tessa Richards

BMJ 2007;335:698 (Published 4 October 2007)

Views & Reviews

Fluoride: a whiter than white reputation?

Rod Griffiths

BMJ 2007;335:723 (Published 4 October 2007)

Power to the people

Des Spence

BMJ 2007;335:724.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

Dear Ofcare . . .

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2007;335:724.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

A burning question

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2007;335:725.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

A Journal of the Plague Year

Christopher Martyn

BMJ 2007;335:725.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

Keeping up appearances

Richard Hurley

BMJ 2007;335:726 (Published 4 October 2007)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

James Hill (“Hamish”) Barber

BMJ 2007;335:727.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

Francis Oughterson Brown

BMJ 2007;335:727.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

Adrian Michael Easty

BMJ 2007;335:727.3 (Published 4 October 2007)

Dorothea Koffman (née Herrmann)

BMJ 2007;335:727.4 (Published 4 October 2007)

Rita Statham

BMJ 2007;335:727.5 (Published 4 October 2007)

Edward Hamilton Wood

BMJ 2007;335:727.6 (Published 4 October 2007)

Clinical Review

Colorectal cancer

BMJ 2007;335:715 (Published 4 October 2007)

Practice

Guidelines: Assessment, investigation, and early management of head injury: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2007;335:719 (Published 4 October 2007)

Rational imaging: Uterine artery embolisation to treat symptomatic uterine fibroids

BMJ 2007;335:720 (Published 4 October 2007)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:728.1 (Published 4 October 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:728.2 (Published 4 October 2007)

Features

Industry funded patient information and the slippery slope to New Zealand

BMJ 2007;335:694 (Published 4 October 2007)

Should general practitioners resume 24 hour responsibility for their patients? Yes

BMJ 2007;335:696 (Published 4 October 2007)

Should general practitioners resume 24 hour responsibility for their patients? No

BMJ 2007;335:697 (Published 4 October 2007)