15 December 2007 (Vol 335, Issue 7632)

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Editor's Choice

Reasons for optimism

BMJ 2007;335:0.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

News

WHO launches campaign to make drugs safer for children

BMJ 2007;335:1227.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

Diarrhoeal diseases still kill more than 1.5m children under 5 each year

BMJ 2007;335:1227.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

US needs universal access to health care, American College of Physicians says

BMJ 2007;335:1228.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

Opposition grows in France to new charges for drugs and ambulance trips

BMJ 2007;335:1228.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

Doctors at church operated hospitals in Germany demand better pay and conditions

BMJ 2007;335:1228.3 (Published 13 December 2007)

Drug companies expected to get more leeway in communicating with patients in Europe

BMJ 2007;335:1228.4 (Published 13 December 2007)

FDA may allow drug and device companies to promote “off-label” uses

BMJ 2007;335:1229 (Published 13 December 2007)

GMC approves change in the standard of proof

BMJ 2007;335:1230.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

NHS trusts lambasted for failing to tackle race inequality

BMJ 2007;335:1230.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

Exhibition celebrates groundbreaking plastic surgery in second world war

BMJ 2007;335:1230.3 (Published 13 December 2007)

Older people will be given budgets to buy personal care

BMJ 2007;335:1231.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

UK government to spend £105m to improve stroke services

BMJ 2007;335:1231.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

In brief

BMJ 2007;335:1232.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

Europe’s research councils call for spending to be doubled to 0.25% of GDP

BMJ 2007;335:1232.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

Doctors’ leaders partly to blame for recruitment chaos, MPs told

BMJ 2007;335:1232.3 (Published 13 December 2007)

Did sculpting give artists a health advantage before antibiotics?

BMJ 2007;335:1233.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

Minority groups still show high rates of admission to mental health services in England and Wales

BMJ 2007;335:1233.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

Goliath moves into healthcare records

BMJ 2007;335:1233.3 (Published 13 December 2007)

Use military and private sector to cope with disasters, aid agencies told

BMJ 2007;335:1233.4 (Published 13 December 2007)

News - continued

UK government sets up pilot studies to evaluate medical abortion services outside hospitals

BMJ 2007;335:1233.5 (Published 13 December 2007)

Editorials

Antithrombin III in critically ill patients

BMJ 2007;335:1219 (Published 13 December 2007)

Treatment of displaced intracapsular hip fractures in elderly patients

BMJ 2007;335:1220 (Published 13 December 2007)

Regulation of drugs for children in Europe

BMJ 2007;335:1221 (Published 13 December 2007)

The future for trainee doctors

BMJ 2007;335:1222 (Published 13 December 2007)

Assuring the confidentiality of shared electronic health records

BMJ 2007;335:1223 (Published 13 December 2007)

Short Cuts

What’s new in the other general journals

BMJ 2007;335:1234 (Published 13 December 2007)

Research

Population screening for coeliac disease in primary care by district nurses using a rapid antibody test: diagnostic accuracy and feasibility study

BMJ 2007;335:1244 (Published 13 December 2007)

Antithrombin III in critically ill patients: systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis

BMJ 2007;335:1248 (Published 13 December 2007)

Hemiarthroplasty or internal fixation for intracapsular displaced femoral neck fractures: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2007;335:1251 (Published 13 December 2007)

Analysis

Unequal weight: equity oriented policy responses to the global obesity epidemic

BMJ 2007;335:1241 (Published 13 December 2007)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Unacceptable in the under 50s

BMJ 2007;335:1225.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

Don’t group COPD and asthma

BMJ 2007;335:1225.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

Not all bad?

BMJ 2007;335:1225.3 (Published 13 December 2007)

Points raised in responses

BMJ 2007;335:1226.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

GMC guidance on confidentiality

BMJ 2007;335:1226.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

How much longer will patients trust us?

BMJ 2007;335:1226.3 (Published 13 December 2007)

Observations

Being an NHS manager is a fool’s errand

Nigel Hawkes

BMJ 2007;335:1239 (Published 13 December 2007)

A remedy for lonely hearts?

Petra Boynton

BMJ 2007;335:1240 (Published 13 December 2007)

Views & Reviews

Open letter to the General Medical Council

R Wheatley

BMJ 2007;335:1265 (Published 13 December 2007)

A time of change in abortion

Des Spence

BMJ 2007;335:1266.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

Food glorious food

Mary E Black

BMJ 2007;335:1266.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

English lessons

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2007;335:1267.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

Cardiac Arrest

Nidhi Gupta

BMJ 2007;335:1267.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

So, did Gerry fix it?

Rebecca Coombes

BMJ 2007;335:1268 (Published 13 December 2007)

Clinical Review

Cystic fibrosis

BMJ 2007;335:1255 (Published 13 December 2007)

Practice

Investigating rectal bleeding

BMJ 2007;335:1260 (Published 13 December 2007)

Management of atopic eczema in children aged up to 12 years: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2007;335:1263 (Published 13 December 2007)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:1270.1 (Published 13 December 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:1270.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

Features

Thin living

BMJ 2007;335:1236 (Published 13 December 2007)

Steps to a leaner Europe

BMJ 2007;335:1238 (Published 13 December 2007)

Corrections

Minerva

BMJ 2007;335:0.2 (Published 13 December 2007)

Investigating progressive unexplained renal impairment and hypertension

BMJ 2007;335:0.3 (Published 13 December 2007)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

John Hilton Edwards

BMJ 2007;335:1269 (Published 13 December 2007)