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31 May 2008 (Vol 336, Issue 7655)

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Editor's Choice

Old wisdoms

BMJ 2008;336:7655 (Published 29 May 2008)

News

Google launches free electronic health records service for patients

BMJ 2008;336:1207.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

Thousands of migrants need treatment after xenophobic attacks

BMJ 2008;336:1207.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

In brief

BMJ 2008;336:1208.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

Merck to pay $58m in settlement over rofecoxib advertising

BMJ 2008;336:1208.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

Italian police arrest drug agency officials over alleged falsification of data

BMJ 2008;336:1208.3 (Published 29 May 2008)

New Yorkers are told to take to the stairs

BMJ 2008;336:1209.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

Health services in China face enormous challenge after earthquake

BMJ 2008;336:1209.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

Finding a solution to hospital associated infections

BMJ 2008;336:1210.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

Prison mental health services are underfunded, report says

BMJ 2008;336:1210.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

East Africa faces starvation as rising food prices worsen effect of war and drought

BMJ 2008;336:1211.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

MPs support no change in 24 week limit on abortion

BMJ 2008;336:1211.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

Report names hospitals with highest proportions of deaths related to MRSA and C difficile

BMJ 2008;336:1211.3 (Published 29 May 2008)

Number of alcohol related admissions in England has doubled in 12 years

BMJ 2008;336:1211.4 (Published 29 May 2008)

Patchy blood testing in central Asia raises risk of HIV infection

BMJ 2008;336:1211.5 (Published 29 May 2008)

Parliament debates bill to compensate torture survivors

BMJ 2008;336:1211.6 (Published 29 May 2008)

Food labelling should extend to restaurants and take-aways, experts say

BMJ 2008;336:1211.7 (Published 29 May 2008)

FDA begins active monitoring of drug safety

BMJ 2008;336:1211.8 (Published 29 May 2008)

Poor countries urgently need to scale up training of healthcare workers, task force warns

BMJ 2008;336:1211.9 (Published 29 May 2008)

National institute offers NHS trusts £64m for collaborative research projects

BMJ 2008;336:1211.10 (Published 29 May 2008)

Standard chemotherapy shows no benefit for certain types of colon cancer

BMJ 2008;336:1211.11 (Published 29 May 2008)

Editorials

Survival after extremely preterm birth

BMJ 2008;336:1199 (Published 29 May 2008)

Smoking cessation in primary care

BMJ 2008;336:1200 (Published 29 May 2008)

Editorials - continued

Increasing drug resistant tuberculosis in the UK

BMJ 2008;336:1201 (Published 29 May 2008)

Reforming NHS dentistry

BMJ 2008;336:1202 (Published 29 May 2008)

Type of hormone replacement therapy and risk of venous thromboembolism

BMJ 2008;336:1203 (Published 29 May 2008)

Short Cuts

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2008;336:1212 (Published 29 May 2008)

Research

Survival of extremely premature babies in a geographically defined population: prospective cohort study of 1994-9 compared with 2000-5

BMJ 2008;336:1221 (Published 29 May 2008)

Nortriptyline plus nicotine replacement versus placebo plus nicotine replacement for smoking cessation: pragmatic randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2008;336:1223 (Published 29 May 2008)

Hormone replacement therapy and risk of venous thromboembolism in postmenopausal women: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2008;336:1227 (Published 29 May 2008)

Increasing antituberculosis drug resistance in the United Kingdom: analysis of national surveillance data

BMJ 2008;336:1231 (Published 29 May 2008)

Feature

Leaping to conclusions

BMJ 2008;336:1213 (Published 29 May 2008)

Analysis

Founding principles

BMJ 2008;336:1216 (Published 29 May 2008)

Is there an epidemic of admissions for surgical treatment of dental abscesses in the UK?

BMJ 2008;336:1219 (Published 29 May 2008)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Trauma services must improve

BMJ 2008;336:1205.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

Meaningless without time frame

BMJ 2008;336:1205.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

Not allowing top-up fees is unethical

BMJ 2008;336:1205.3 (Published 29 May 2008)

Top-up fairly according to means

BMJ 2008;336:1205.4 (Published 29 May 2008)

Middle East has an answer

BMJ 2008;336:1206.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

UNAIDS replies

BMJ 2008;336:1206.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

Consequences of mythology

BMJ 2008;336:1206.3 (Published 29 May 2008)

Let’s use our tools creatively

BMJ 2008;336:1206.4 (Published 29 May 2008)

Inspired by disease and death

BMJ 2008;336:1206.5 (Published 29 May 2008)

Observations

Let’s not widen the gulf in the health care of children

Iona Heath

BMJ 2008;336:1215 (Published 29 May 2008)

Views & Reviews

The case for resurrecting the long case

Narci C Teoh, Francis J Bowden

BMJ 2008;336:1250 (Published 29 May 2008)

Views & Reviews - continued

How not to make a drama out of a crisis

Simon Wessely

BMJ 2008;336:1251 (Published 29 May 2008)

The rubber ear

Des Spence

BMJ 2008;336:1252.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

Campaign for real lectures

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2008;336:1252.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

Tobacco meets its match

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2008;336:1253.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

La Regenta

Carmen Pinto

BMJ 2008;336:1253.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Peter John Firth Baskett

BMJ 2008;336:1254 (Published 29 May 2008)

Jeffrey Joseph Cream

BMJ 2008;336:1255.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

Anthony Michael Jelliffe

BMJ 2008;336:1255.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

Satya Bhushan Kapur

BMJ 2008;336:1255.3 (Published 29 May 2008)

James Wallace Mathews

BMJ 2008;336:1255.4 (Published 29 May 2008)

Vernon Smith

BMJ 2008;336:1255.5 (Published 29 May 2008)

Ayşe Olcay Tiryaki (Aydintuğ)

BMJ 2008;336:1255.6 (Published 29 May 2008)

Amanda Jane Tuggey (née Scotney)

BMJ 2008;336:1255.7 (Published 29 May 2008)

Clinical Review

Management of retinal detachment: a guide for non-ophthalmologists

BMJ 2008;336:1235 (Published 29 May 2008)

Practice

The Competent Novice: Audit: how to do it in practice

BMJ 2008;336:1241 (Published 29 May 2008)

Guidelines: Risk assessment and lipid modification for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease: summary of NICE guidance

BMJ 2008;336:1246 (Published 29 May 2008)

: Commentary: Controversies in NICE guidance on lipid modification for the prevention of cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2008;336:1248 (Published 29 May 2008)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2008;336:1256.1 (Published 29 May 2008)

Minerva

BMJ 2008;336:1256.2 (Published 29 May 2008)

Filler

Crunching ice cube syndrome

BMJ 2008;336:1234 (Published 29 May 2008)

On the nose

BMJ 2008;336:1240 (Published 29 May 2008)

Rubber gloves

BMJ 2008;336:1249 (Published 29 May 2008)