13 December 2008 (Vol 337, Issue 7683)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

It’s time to change how Europe regulates research

BMJ 2008;337:a2986 (Published 11 December 2008)

News

This week's News section

Glasgow gang members offered way out of violent lifestyle

BMJ 2008;337:a2972 (Published 10 December 2008)

Simple measures could halve global deaths from unintentional injury, report says

BMJ 2008;337:a2939 (Published 10 December 2008)

In brief

BMJ 2008;337:a2949 (Published 10 December 2008)

A 60th birthday present for the NHS from children’s laureate

BMJ 2008;337:a2904 (Published 5 December 2008)

Parents will not be prosecuted over son’s suicide

BMJ 2008;337:a2990 (Published 10 December 2008)

Patients take £7.6m a month out of NHS as they choose and book private sector treatment

BMJ 2008;337:a2911 (Published 5 December 2008)

Health bill will oblige staff to take account of NHS constitution

BMJ 2008;337:a2903 (Published 5 December 2008)

Lymphatic filariasis has been eliminated in 16 countries, monitoring indicates

BMJ 2008;337:a2944 (Published 10 December 2008)

Abortion does not cause mental health problems, says large review

BMJ 2008;337:a2902 (Published 5 December 2008)

Experts agree guidelines to ensure responsible use of stem cell treatments

BMJ 2008;337:a2941 (Published 9 December 2008)

Zimbabwe appeals for medical aid as it declares state of emergency over cholera epidemic

BMJ 2008;337:a2942 (Published 10 December 2008)

A chance of life

BMJ 2008;337:a2958 (Published 10 December 2008)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Treatment of irritable bowel syndrome in primary care

BMJ 2008;337:a2213 (Published 13 November 2008)

Cardiovascular disease and cancer in very old age

BMJ 2008;337:a2521 (Published 10 December 2008)

How should health be defined?

BMJ 2008;337:a2900 (Published 10 December 2008)

Cryotherapy and high intensity focused ultrasound for prostate cancer

BMJ 2008;337:a2540 (Published 1 December 2008)

Trading regulations and health foods

BMJ 2008;337:a2408 (Published 25 November 2008)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2008;337:a2947 (Published 10 December 2008)

Research

This week's Research section

Effect of fibre, antispasmodics, and peppermint oil in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2008;337:a2313 (Published 13 November 2008)

Hypersensitivity reactions to human papillomavirus vaccine in Australian schoolgirls: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2008;337:a2642 (Published 2 December 2008)

Effects of algorithm for diagnosis of active labour: cluster randomised trial

BMJ 2008;337:a2396 (Published 8 December 2008)

Incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer in advanced age: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2008;337:a2467 (Published 9 December 2008)

Research - continued

Discrepancies in sample size calculations and data analyses reported in randomised trials: comparison of publications with protocols

BMJ 2008;337:a2299 (Published 4 December 2008)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Research funding goes metric

BMJ 2008;337:a1805 (Published 13 October 2008)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Fairness of financial penalties to improve control of Clostridium difficile

BMJ 2008;337:a2097 (Published 20 November 2008)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Can anyone beat my delays?

BMJ 2008;337:a2914 (Published 10 December 2008)

Time for patients to speak out?

BMJ 2008;337:a2915 (Published 10 December 2008)

Regulation has run amok

BMJ 2008;337:a2916 (Published 10 December 2008)

Barrier is impossible to leap

BMJ 2008;337:a2917 (Published 10 December 2008)

Research is no longer attractive

BMJ 2008;337:a2918 (Published 10 December 2008)

A regulator writes

BMJ 2008;337:a2920 (Published 10 December 2008)

A UK problem

BMJ 2008;337:a2919 (Published 10 December 2008)

JUPITER may yet change practice

BMJ 2008;337:a2921 (Published 10 December 2008)

Don’t be an ostrich

BMJ 2008;337:a2925 (Published 10 December 2008)

Soft and hard end points matter

BMJ 2008;337:a2922 (Published 10 December 2008)

Accurate deprivation scores are needed

BMJ 2008;337:a2926 (Published 10 December 2008)

Copying patients in is not as simple as it seems

BMJ 2008;337:a2687 (Published 10 December 2008)

Copying in or copping out?

BMJ 2008;337:a2688 (Published 10 December 2008)

Try it and see

BMJ 2008;337:a2786 (Published 10 December 2008)

There might be one big idea

BMJ 2008;337:a2927 (Published 10 December 2008)

Textbook response (1968)

BMJ 2008;337:a2929 (Published 10 December 2008)

A proper RCT is needed

BMJ 2008;337:a2924 (Published 10 December 2008)

Another 10 minute miracle

BMJ 2008;337:a2928 (Published 10 December 2008)

Observations

This week's Observations section

This allergies hysteria is just nuts

Nicholas A Christakis

BMJ 2008;337:a2880 (Published 10 December 2008)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

An unusual day in court

Peter D Donnelly, Jackie Tombs

BMJ 2008;337:a2959 (Published 11 December 2008)

Views & Reviews - continued

The dumping ground

Des Spence

BMJ 2008;337:a2952 (Published 10 December 2008)

Selecting the next generation

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2008;337:a2963 (Published 10 December 2008)

A fundamental question

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2008;337:a2948 (Published 10 December 2008)

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Alexandra Pitman

BMJ 2008;337:a2791 (Published 10 December 2008)

Joking apart

Richard Smith

BMJ 2008;337:a2719 (Published 9 December 2008)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

George Emil Palade

BMJ 2008;337:a2872 (Published 9 December 2008)

Edmund Howarth

BMJ 2008;337:a2758 (Published 1 December 2008)

Roger Youdell Jones

BMJ 2008;337:a2759 (Published 1 December 2008)

Maurice Hirsh Oelbaum

BMJ 2008;337:a2757 (Published 1 December 2008)

Eldred Wright Walls

BMJ 2008;337:a2867 (Published 8 December 2008)

Margaret Mary Whitty (née Shrubsall)

BMJ 2008;337:a2763 (Published 1 December 2008)

Philip Arthur Wilkinson

BMJ 2008;337:a2770 (Published 1 December 2008)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Managing health problems in people with intellectual disabilities

BMJ 2008;337:a2507 (Published 8 December 2008)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Should we prescribe diuretics for patients with prediabetes and hypertension?

BMJ 2008;337:a679 (Published 21 August 2008)

The last wish of a patient with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ 2008;337:a2701 (Published 8 December 2008)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

A man with congenital abnormalities and psychotic symptoms

BMJ 2008;337:a2706 (Published 10 December 2008)

Interpreting an underpowered trial

BMJ 2008;337:a2957 (Published 10 December 2008)

Radiology

BMJ 2008;337:a2956 (Published 10 December 2008)

Recurrent loss of consciousness

BMJ 2008;337:a2703 (Published 10 December 2008)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2008;337:a2909 (Published 10 December 2008)

Minerva

BMJ 2008;337:a2908 (Published 10 December 2008)

Head to Head

This week's Head to Head section

Should there be a ceiling on what percentage of GDP countries spend on health? Yes

BMJ 2008;337:a1040 (Published 25 September 2008)