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31 March 2007 (Vol 334, No 7595)
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This week's Editor's choice

Editor's choice: Easing the spring
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.549178.43
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US editor's choice: Evidence based parenting and anticoagulating
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.480775.3A
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This week's Editorials

Anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism
John W Eikelboom, Jeffrey S Ginsberg, Jack Hirsh
BMJ  2007;334:645, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39161.665579.BE
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Conduct disorders in children
Stephen Scott
BMJ  2007;334:646, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39161.370498.BE
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Acute coronary syndrome
A Khavandi, P R Walker
BMJ  2007;334:647-648, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39149.369329.80
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Erythropoiesis stimulating agents
David P Steensma
BMJ  2007;334:648-649, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39163.536852.80
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Institutional racism in mental health care
Kwame McKenzie, Kamaldeep Bhui
BMJ  2007;334:649-650, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39163.395972.80
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This week's Letters

Caring for oldest old: Oldest old are not just passive recipients of care
Desmond O'Neill, Hannah McGee
BMJ  2007;334:651, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.428044.1F
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Cord clamping: NICE is encouraging artificial intervention
David J R Hutchon
BMJ  2007;334:651, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.428843.1F
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Perinatal death in twins: Absolute risk: better basis for decision making
Christopher Cheetham
BMJ  2007;334:651-652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.420150.1F
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Asthma in pregnancy: Attacks seem rare in labour
Michael de Swiet
BMJ  2007;334:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.411400.1F
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A good death: Dying on the acute take can be improved
Suzie Gillon, Kathryn Mannix, David A Price
BMJ  2007;334:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.410532.1F
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MTAS: New system threatens UK clinical research
J Bell, John Tooke
BMJ  2007;334:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.423449.1F
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Publisher boycott: Editorial misses the point
Laurie R Davis
BMJ  2007;334:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.414213.1F
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Publisher boycott: It's a hatchet job
Christopher E Nancollas
BMJ  2007;334:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.408785.1F
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This week's News

Junior doctors still told to attend interviews as applications process flounders
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2007;334:653, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.704086.4E
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MPs say NHS workforce planning has been "a disastrous failure"
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;334:653, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.372002.DB
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NICE faces legal challenge over Alzheimer's drug
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2007;334:654-655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.342523.DB
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US judge bans use of term "light cigarette" worldwide
Anne Harding
BMJ  2007;334:654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.562604.DB
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Drug company payments to doctors still hard to access despite disclosure laws
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2007;334:655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.663044.DB
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New York Times reveals payments to doctors by drug firms
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2007;334:655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.423738.DB
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In Brief: News
BMJ  2007;334:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.437083.4E
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UN calls for tougher rules to prevent sale of children's organs
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2007;334:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.483438.DB
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Irish people have highest estimation of their own health in Europe
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2007;334:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.336551.DB
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NICE recommends women should choose where to give birth
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2007;334:657, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.376366.DB
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Tackle substance misuse in young people early, says NICE
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2007;334:657, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.348194.DB
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UK government fails to stem rise in tuberculosis cases
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;334:658, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.566736.DB
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Sexual healing
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;334:658-659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39150.554213.DB
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UK Biobank gets 10% response rate as it starts recruiting volunteers
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2007;334:659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.407616.DB
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Global tuberculosis levels plateau while extensively drug resistant strains increase
Anne Glusker
BMJ  2007;334:659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.416319.DB
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Patients with tuberculosis in poor countries must be tested for HIV
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2007;334:659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.337616.DB
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Gynaecologist wins right to challenge fertility authority over raids at his clinics
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2007;334:659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.417743.DB
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UK universities offer degrees in "pseudoscience," Nature article says
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2007;334:659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39163.672847.DB
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Minister backs social enterprise model in healthcare market
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2007;334:659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.489838.DB
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Shortcuts from other journals: Delayed cord clamping is good for healthy babies born at term
BMJ  2007;334:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39163.629086.80
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Shortcuts from other journals: New rule helps predict CT findings in minor head injury
BMJ  2007;334:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7595.660-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: Working fire fighters die of heart disease, not burns or smoke inhalation
BMJ  2007;334:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7595.660-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: Independent trial guides doctors through epilepsy treatments
BMJ  2007;334:660-661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7595.660-c
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Shortcuts from other journals: Treated port wine stains eventually darken
BMJ  2007;334:661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7595.661
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Shortcuts from other journals: Treatment related cancers still occur 30 years after ALL
BMJ  2007;334:661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7595.661-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: Alendronate combats skeletal side effects of antiandrogen therapy
BMJ  2007;334:661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7595.661-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: New treatment for heart failure given cautious welcome
BMJ  2007;334:661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7595.661-c
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This week's Feature

Biobanks: Genes on ice
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2007;334:662-663, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39162.630914.94
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Advertising prescription drugs: Sweetening the pill
Hannah Brown
BMJ  2007;334:664-666, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39153.511701.BE
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Autism research: What makes an expert?
Brian Deer
BMJ  2007;334:666-667, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.498785.BE
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This week's Observations

The week in medicine: Open all hours
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2007;334:668-669, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39163.683785.4E
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Life and death: The growing gap
Iona Heath
BMJ  2007;334:670, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.469815.47
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This week's Analysis

Towards sustainable clinical trials
Sustainable Trials Study Group
BMJ  2007;334:671-673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39140.623137.BE
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This week's Research

Anticoagulation for three versus six months in patients with deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, or both: randomised trial
I A Campbell, D P Bentley, R J Prescott, P A Routledge, H G M Shetty, I J Williamson
BMJ  2007;334:674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39098.583356.55, (Published 8 February 2007)
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Parenting intervention in Sure Start services for children at risk of developing conduct disorder: pragmatic randomised controlled trial
Judy Hutchings, Tracey Bywater, Dave Daley, Frances Gardner, Chris Whitaker, Karen Jones, Catrin Eames, Rhiannon T Edwards
BMJ  2007;334:678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39126.620799.55, (Published 9 March 2007)
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Parenting programme for parents of children at risk of developing conduct disorder: cost effectiveness analysis
Rhiannon T Edwards, Alan Céilleachair, Tracey Bywater, Dyfrig A Hughes, Judy Hutchings
BMJ  2007;334:682, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39126.699421.55, (Published 9 March 2007)
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This week's Clinical review

Managing the acute psychotic episode
Peter Byrne
BMJ  2007;334:686-692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39148.668160.80
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This week's Practice

Cases in primary care laboratory medicine: Spurious hyperkalaemia
W Stuart A Smellie
BMJ  2007;334:693-695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39119.607986.47
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This week's Views & reviews

Personal view: Is it time to jump off the training bandwagon?
Rob Walker
BMJ  2007;334:696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39156.655718.47
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Addiction in America: in search of a fix
Chloe Veltman
BMJ  2007;334:697, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.528021.59
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From the frontline: Our chemical romance
Des Spence
BMJ  2007;334:698, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.435498.59
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Past caring: Keeping mum
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2007;334:698, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39157.514815.47
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Between the lines: Crimes and misdescriptions
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2007;334:699, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39162.716481.47
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Medical classics: The Doctor Stories
Iain McClure
BMJ  2007;334:699, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.453900.47
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This week's Obituaries

Ian Pretyman Stevenson
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2007;334:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39141.529792.65
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John Montgomery Bowen and Marjorie Ethel Bowen (née Bright)
John Bowen
BMJ  2007;334:701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39163.220833.BE
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Margaret Anne Haigh (née Mitchell)
Fiona Haigh
BMJ  2007;334:701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39155.700683.BE
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Macpherson Knowles
Polly Knowles
BMJ  2007;334:701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39163.290127.BE
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David MacLennan Piercy
James M Dunlop
BMJ  2007;334:701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39153.732940.FA
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Frank Haddow Scadding
Patricia Chapman, Gabriel Laszlo, Angus Robson
BMJ  2007;334:701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39163.274479.BE
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David Alexander James Williamson
Leslie Bartlet
BMJ  2007;334:701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39125.543148.80
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  2007;334:702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.781389.791
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Minerva
Katherine Sears, Naz Raoof, John Talbot
BMJ  2007;334:702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.781389.79
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This week's Fillers

New doctors
Phyllida Roe
BMJ  2007;334:673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39154.688403.BE
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This week's Corrections

Short Cuts
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39161.639537.AD
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A bridge over troubled waters
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39161.673333.AD
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This Week
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39162.618646.AD
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