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21 June 2008 (Vol 336, Issue 7658)

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Editor's Choice

Key opinion leaders, your time is up

BMJ 2008;336:0.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

News

Neonatal service reorganisation fails to iron out regional variation in death rates

BMJ 2008;336:1393.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

One in four NHS trusts in England fail hygiene standards

BMJ 2008;336:1393.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

British woman is given go ahead to clarify law on assisted suicide

BMJ 2008;336:1394.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

EU launches plan to tackle mental illness and reduce number of suicides

BMJ 2008;336:1394.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

Dutch doctors publish guide to “careful suicide”

BMJ 2008;336:1394.3 (Published 19 June 2008)

Psychiatrist admits plagiarism but denies dishonesty

BMJ 2008;336:1394.4 (Published 19 June 2008)

Government insists on second public consultation before regulating complementary medicine

BMJ 2008;336:1395 (Published 19 June 2008)

Europe’s drug companies are better than those in US in making drugs accessible to poor countries

BMJ 2008;336:1396.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

Research organisations join forces to develop treatments for neglected infectious diseases

BMJ 2008;336:1396.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

More than 100 000 children in Ethiopia need therapeutic feeding

BMJ 2008;336:1397.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

High prices drive down flow of food aid

BMJ 2008;336:1397.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

In brief

BMJ 2008;336:1398.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

Survival of women treated for early breast cancer detected by screening is same as in general population, audit shows

BMJ 2008;336:1398.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

Health department and BMA may reach compromise on records system

BMJ 2008;336:1398.3 (Published 19 June 2008)

NHS will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2050, minister says

BMJ 2008;336:1399.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

More than a million people signed petition against polyclinics

BMJ 2008;336:1399.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

Olympic Games will bring health gains to the non-sporting public, says Princess Anne

BMJ 2008;336:1399.3 (Published 19 June 2008)

Agency finds it harder to monitor infections after surgery as length of hospital stay falls

BMJ 2008;336:1399.4 (Published 19 June 2008)

Welsh agency for specialist healthcare services should be wound up, report says

BMJ 2008;336:1399.5 (Published 19 June 2008)

Underinsurance threatens physical and financial wellbeing of US families

BMJ 2008;336:1399.6 (Published 19 June 2008)

Singaporean medical team reports back from Burma

BMJ 2008;336:1399.7 (Published 19 June 2008)

Editorials

Vitamin A supplements in newborns and child survival

BMJ 2008;336:1385 (Published 19 June 2008)

Editorials - continued

Risk factors for gastroschisis

BMJ 2008;336:1386 (Published 19 June 2008)

Wheeze in preschool children

BMJ 2008;336:1387 (Published 19 June 2008)

Preventing injury in childhood

BMJ 2008;336:1388 (Published 19 June 2008)

Health and wealth in Europe

BMJ 2008;336:1390 (Published 19 June 2008)

Short Cuts

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2008;336:1400 (Published 19 June 2008)

Research

Effect of 50 000 IU vitamin A given with BCG vaccine on mortality in infants in Guinea-Bissau: randomised placebo controlled trial

BMJ 2008;336:1416 (Published 19 June 2008)

Case-control study of self reported genitourinary infections and risk of gastroschisis: findings from the national birth defects prevention study, 1997-2003

BMJ 2008;336:1420 (Published 19 June 2008)

Long term prognosis in preschool children with wheeze: longitudinal postal questionnaire study 1993-2004

BMJ 2008;336:1423 (Published 19 June 2008)

Body piercing in England: a survey of piercing at sites other than earlobe

BMJ 2008;336:1426 (Published 19 June 2008)

Analysis

A centrally funded health service, free at the point of delivery

BMJ 2008;336:1410 (Published 19 June 2008)

Reasons or excuses for avoiding meta-analysis in forest plots

BMJ 2008;336:1413 (Published 19 June 2008)

Letters

This week's Letters section

The mole remains the same

BMJ 2008;336:1391.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

Darzi’s five pledges for polyclinics are being ignored

BMJ 2008;336:1391.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

Interdisciplinary team approach to general practice in Canada

BMJ 2008;336:1391.3 (Published 19 June 2008)

More causes of hypocalcaemia

BMJ 2008;336:1392.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

Use of oral calcium to treat hypocalcaemia

BMJ 2008;336:1392.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

Service provision for carers and wellbeing

BMJ 2008;336:1392.3 (Published 19 June 2008)

Observations

Manners in medicine

Tessa Richards

BMJ 2008;336:1408 (Published 19 June 2008)

Views & Reviews

Is it about the patients?

BMJ 2008;336:1438 (Published 19 June 2008)

Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Richard Hurley

BMJ 2008;336:1439 (Published 19 June 2008)

Delay, shame, and blame

Des Spence

BMJ 2008;336:1440.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

The last appraisal

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2008;336:1440.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

A man of wit and clinical wisdom

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2008;336:1441.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

Views & Reviews - continued

When the air hits your brain

Chris Barrett

BMJ 2008;336:1441.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Murray Elias Jarvik

BMJ 2008;336:1442 (Published 19 June 2008)

Robert Alexander Blair

BMJ 2008;336:1443.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

Charles Gavin Elliott

BMJ 2008;336:1443.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

James Gordon Latimer

BMJ 2008;336:1443.3 (Published 19 June 2008)

Caroline Jane Lewis (née Bucknall)

BMJ 2008;336:1443.4 (Published 19 June 2008)

David Wreford Ranken Lyle

BMJ 2008;336:1443.5 (Published 19 June 2008)

Maev O’Connell

BMJ 2008;336:1443.6 (Published 19 June 2008)

Abulfatah Akram Sayeed

BMJ 2008;336:1443.7 (Published 19 June 2008)

Clinical Review

Recent changes in the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults

BMJ 2008;336:1429 (Published 19 June 2008)

Practice

Rational Imaging: Endovascular stenting to treat obstruction of the superior vena cava

BMJ 2008;336:1434 (Published 19 June 2008)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2008;336:1444.1 (Published 19 June 2008)

Minerva

BMJ 2008;336:1444.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

Head to Head

Should the drug industry work with key opinion leaders? Yes

BMJ 2008;336:1404 (Published 19 June 2008)

Should the drug industry work with key opinion leaders? No

BMJ 2008;336:1405 (Published 19 June 2008)

Features

Key opinion leaders: independent experts or drug representatives in disguise?

BMJ 2008;336:1402 (Published 19 June 2008)

Private practice

BMJ 2008;336:1406 (Published 19 June 2008)

Corrections

Minerva

BMJ 2008;336:0.6 (Published 19 June 2008)

Going from evidence to recommendations

BMJ 2008;336:0.3 (Published 19 June 2008)

Incorporating considerations of resources use into grading recommendations

BMJ 2008;336:0.4 (Published 19 June 2008)

Obstetricians seek recognition for Chinese pioneers of safe abortion

BMJ 2008;336:0.2 (Published 19 June 2008)

Inequity of access to investigation and effect on clinical outcomes: prognostic study of coronary angiography for suspected stable angina pectoris

BMJ 2008;336:0.5 (Published 19 June 2008)