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2 September 2006 (Vol 333, No 7566)
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This week's Editor's choice

A doctor's dilemma
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.0-f
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Triaging patients with mild head injury with CT is effective... [Full text] FREE
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This week's Editorials

Managing minor head injury in children
Harvey Marcovitch
BMJ  2006;333:455-456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38954.516933.DE
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Growing pains
Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Bruce Arroll
BMJ  2006;333:456-457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38950.463877.80
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Restless legs syndrome
P Medcalf, K P Bhatia
BMJ  2006;333:457-458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.457
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A prescription for better prescribing
Jeffrey K Aronson, Graeme Henderson, David J Webb, Michael D Rawlins
BMJ  2006;333:459-460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38946.491829.BE
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Prevention of psychosocial problems in adolescence
Sabina Dosani
BMJ  2006;333:460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38951.482431.BE
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This week's Letters

Where next for China?: Rising inequalities in health and wealth are biggest challenge
Sonal Singh
BMJ  2006;333:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.499
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Where next for China?: Keep to the basic principles of critical appraisal
Carl J Heneghan
BMJ  2006;333:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.499-a
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Where next for China?: User fees increase China's health challenges
Saroj A Jayasinghe
BMJ  2006;333:499-500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.499-b
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Where next for China?: Birth ratio in India is also dwindling
Charu Chanana
BMJ  2006;333:500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.500
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Where next for China?: Rose tinted spectacles do not help
Vaughan P Smith
BMJ  2006;333:500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.500-a
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Where next for China?: Doctors' consciences are called on
Kim D Miller
BMJ  2006;333:500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.500-b
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Spironolactone and risk of upper gastrointestinal events: Spironolactone may not be guilty
Eugene Campbell, Anthony Shonde, Stephen Foley
BMJ  2006;333:500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.500-c
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Spironolactone and risk of upper gastrointestinal events: Author's reply
Katia M Verhamme, Jeanne P Dieleman, Bruno H Ch Stricker, Miriam C J M Sturkenboom
BMJ  2006;333:500-501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.500-d
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Spironolactone and risk of upper gastrointestinal events: Association is unproved
Muhammad F Dawwas
BMJ  2006;333:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.501
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Spironolactone and risk of upper gastrointestinal events: Causality remains unconvincing
Gruffydd P Jones
BMJ  2006;333:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.501-a
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Avoid delaying surgery in patients with severe ulcerative colitis
Neil J Smart
BMJ  2006;333:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.501-b
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FDA finally approves Plan B—but with restrictions
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2006;333:461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.461
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Derbyshire village wins court battle
Sophie Arie
BMJ  2006;333:461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.461-a
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In brief
BMJ  2006;333:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.462
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England's cancer plan needs an overhaul, think tank says
Michael Day
BMJ  2006;333:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.462-a
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Incidence of childhood cancer rises
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2006;333:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.462-b
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More than 12 million adults in England will be obese by 2010
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2006;333:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.463
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Waits for diagnostic tests threaten 18 week treatment target
Caroline White
BMJ  2006;333:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.463-a
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On a mission: how Cuba uses its doctors abroad
Sara Carrillo de Albornoz
BMJ  2006;333:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.464
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This week's News extra

Israel Medical Association condemns attacks on hospitals—but not Israel’s use of cluster bombs
Merav Sarig
BMJ  2006;333:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.464-a
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Bush tells federal agencies to gather and share data on health quality and cost
Janice Tanne
BMJ  2006;333:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.464-b
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Maternity unit is criticised again for high mortality
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2006;333:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.464-c
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Floods wreak havoc in East Africa
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2006;333:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.464-d
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Meagre success rates of drug treatment programmes are falling
Michael Day
BMJ  2006;333:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.464-e
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This week's Research

Medical outcome after immediate computed tomography or admission for observation in patients with mild head injury: randomised controlled trial
Jean-Luc af Geijerstam, Sven Oredsson, Mona Britton, OCTOPUS Study Investigators
BMJ  2006;333:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38918.669317.4F, (Published 8 August 2006)
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Immediate computed tomography or admission for observation after mild head injury: cost comparison in randomised controlled trial
Anders Norlund, Lars-Åke Marké, Jean-Luc af Geijerstam, Sven Oredsson, Mona Britton, OCTOPUS Study
BMJ  2006;333:469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38918.659120.4F, (Published 8 August 2006)
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Effects of psychosocial stimulation and dietary supplementation in early childhood on psychosocial functioning in late adolescence: follow-up of randomised controlled trial
Susan P Walker, Susan M Chang, Christine A Powell, Emily Simonoff, Sally M Grantham-McGregor
BMJ  2006;333:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38897.555208.2F, (Published 28 July 2006)
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This week's Clinical review

Prevention and early detection of vascular complications of diabetes
Sally M Marshall, Allan Flyvbjerg
BMJ  2006;333:475-480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38922.650521.80
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This week's Practice

Cases in primary care laboratory medicine: Biochemical "liver function tests"
W Stuart A Smellie, Stephen D Ryder
BMJ  2006;333:481-483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.481
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Interactive case report: Fever of unknown origin: case presentation
R Sivakumar, S Pavulari, S Ellis
BMJ  2006;333:484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38950.394340.68
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10-minute consultation: Preventing development of allergic disorders in children
Chantelle Anandan, Aziz Sheikh
BMJ  2006;333:485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.485
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ABC of urology: Common paediatric problems
A R Prem
BMJ  2006;333:486-489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.486
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Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
Kristina Fister
BMJ  2006;333:490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.490
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This week's Analysis and Comment

Controversy: Role of cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia care needs rethinking
Anthony J Pelosi, Seamus V McNulty, Graham A Jackson
BMJ  2006;333:491-493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38945.478160.94
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For and against: Are the dangers of childhood food allergy exaggerated?
Allan Colver
BMJ  2006;333:494-496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.494
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For and against: Are the dangers of childhood food allergy exaggerated?
Jonathan O'B Hourihane
BMJ  2006;333:496-498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38931.581505.801
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This week's Reviews

Book: The New NHS: A Guide
David J Hunter
BMJ  2006;333:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.503
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Book: Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2006;333:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.504
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Personal view: The sour taste of aid snobbery
Daniel Magnus
BMJ  2006;333:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.505
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Soundings: Busman's holiday
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2006;333:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.505-a
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  2006;333:506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.506
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This week's Fillers

bmjupdates+: People with psychoses commit about 5% of the violent crimes in Sweden
BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.0-e
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The conscientious physician
Jeremy Hugh Baron
BMJ  2006;333:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.474
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The first teaching ward round: Leyden 1660
Jeremy Hugh Baron
BMJ  2006;333:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.483
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Wrong side surgery—the "code of silence"
Wai Pui Ng
BMJ  2006;333:484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.484-a
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Retrospective blues: Robert Johnson—an open letter to Eric Clapton
David Connell
BMJ  2006;333:489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.489
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Endpiece: For foundation year doctors
Kieran Walsh
BMJ  2006;333:493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.493
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This week's Corrections

Health professionals' and service users' interpretation of screening test results: experimental study
BMJ  2006;333:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.468
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Book review
BMJ  2006;333:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.468-a
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Serum cholesterol, haemorrhagic stroke, ischaemic stroke, and myocardial infarction: Korean national health system prospective cohort study
BMJ  2006;333:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.468-b
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Mortality after Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in two hospitals in Oxfordshire, 1997-2003: cohort study
BMJ  2006;333:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.468-c
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A randomised controlled trial of management strategies for acute infective conjunctivitis in general practice
BMJ  2006;333:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.468-d
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This week's Obituaries

John Calder
Martin Eastwood
BMJ  2006;333:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.502
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Shah Mazharul ("Mazhar") Islam Chowdhury
Peter Halim Chowdhury, Mariam Chowdhury, Sophia Chowdhury, James Yasin Chowdhury
BMJ  2006;333:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.502-a
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Mangalam Kumaraswamy Sridhar
Eamonn Brankin, Martyn R Partridge
BMJ  2006;333:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.502-b
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Richard ("Dick") Vernon Sykes
Ian Sykes
BMJ  2006;333:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.502-c
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William Tod Thom
Charles Court-Brown
BMJ  2006;333:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7566.502-d
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