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18 August 2007 (Vol 335, No 7615)
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Editor's choice: Why this unholy trinity?
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2007;335, doi:10.1136/bmj.39308.477870.BD
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Assertive community treatment in psychiatry
Helen Killaspy
BMJ  2007;335:311-312, doi:10.1136/bmj.39293.687674.AD
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Umbilical cord clamping after birth
Andrew Weeks
BMJ  2007;335:312-313, doi:10.1136/bmj.39282.440787.80
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Obstructive sleep apnoea
John Stradling
BMJ  2007;335:313-314, doi:10.1136/bmj.39289.484144.BE
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Effects of air pollution on health
Simon Hales, Philippa Howden-Chapman
BMJ  2007;335:314-315, doi:10.1136/bmj.39304.389433.AD
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Developing nurse prescribing in the UK
Anthony J Avery, Veronica James
BMJ  2007;335:316, doi:10.1136/bmj.39285.788808.3B
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Payment for treatment adherence: Incentives help vulnerable patients to stay well
Sue Collinson
BMJ  2007;335:317, doi:10.1136/bmj.39303.690752.3A
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Payment for treatment adherence: Drug misusers are likely to abuse the system
Richard J Stevenson
BMJ  2007;335:317, doi:10.1136/bmj.39303.688611.3A
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Rise of the doctor-manager: Management skills need to be systematically learnt
Sean W O'Kelly
BMJ  2007;335:317-318, doi:10.1136/bmj.39303.671481.3A
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ABCD of dignifying care: We need imaginative approaches to training
Simon J W Watson
BMJ  2007;335:318, doi:10.1136/bmj.39303.685231.3A
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Medicines funding: Value for money is nothing new
Matthew Brougham
BMJ  2007;335:318, doi:10.1136/bmj.39296.765903.3A
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Uvula angio-oedema: ENT form of Saturday night palsy
David P Crampsey, Sarah A Little
BMJ  2007;335:318, doi:10.1136/bmj.39303.678727.3A
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The profession's future: Is the BMJ fit for purpose?
Oliver R Dearlove
BMJ  2007;335:318, doi:10.1136/bmj.39303.684236.3A
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High Court upholds NICE decision to limit treatments for Alzheimer's disease
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2007;335:319, doi:10.1136/bmj.39307.630347.DB
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NICE delays decision on drugs for macular degeneration
Caroline White
BMJ  2007;335:319, doi:10.1136/bmj.39307.507558.DB
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Audit Scotland calls for more evidence of effective care for long term illness
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2007;335:320, doi:10.1136/bmj.39307.702986.DB
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GMC to look into higher number of complaints against overseas trained doctors
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2007;335:320, doi:10.1136/bmj.39307.647766.DB
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South African health minister sacked after attending AIDS conference
Pat Sidley
BMJ  2007;335:321, doi:10.1136/bmj.39307.658021.DB
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Extreme weather affects half a billion people each year
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2007;335:321, doi:10.1136/bmj.39304.656134.DB
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UK heart surgeons improve patients' survival
Toby Reynolds
BMJ  2007;335:321, doi:10.1136/bmj.39307.393750.DB
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FDA needs more funding, NEJM says, amid questions about antidiabetes drug
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2007;335:322, doi:10.1136/bmj.39304.603762.DB
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Skin cancer is on the increase—but incidence of lung cancer is falling
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2007;335:322, doi:10.1136/bmj.39304.486285.DB
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Shortcuts from other journals: MRI may be better than mammography for early detection of breast cancer
BMJ  2007;335:323, doi:10.1136/bmj.39304.602153.80
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Shortcuts from other journals: Screening for osteoporosis may pay off in some groups of older men
BMJ  2007;335:323, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.323-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: Geriatric conditions are prevalent and disabling, but neglected
BMJ  2007;335:323, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.323-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: Women with diabetes miss out on mortality improvements 1971 to 2000
BMJ  2007;335:323-324, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.323-c
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Shortcuts from other journals: Another neuroprotective drug fails to make its mark
BMJ  2007;335:324, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.324
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Shortcuts from other journals: D-dimer test might help exclude deep vein thrombosis in pregnancy
BMJ  2007;335:324, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.324-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: Rituximab works for severe pemphigus but there are serious side effects
BMJ  2007;335:324, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.324-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: How best to save joints in severe haemophilia A
BMJ  2007;335:324, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.324-c
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Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Mediterranean diet reduces child asthma and allergy
BMJ  2007;335:325, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.325
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Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Carvedilol less diabetogenic than metoprolol
BMJ  2007;335:325, doi:10.1136/bmj.39295.705058.DE
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Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Adalimumab maintains remission in Crohn's disease
BMJ  2007;335:325, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.325-b
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Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Chlamydia infection increases risk of premature delivery
BMJ  2007;335:325, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.325-c
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Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Television soap operas set a poor example
BMJ  2007;335:325, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7615.325-d
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An unenviable role
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2007;335:326, doi:10.1136/bmj.39301.373356.AD
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Head to head: Is depression overdiagnosed? Yes
Gordon Parker
BMJ  2007;335:328, doi:10.1136/bmj.39268.475799.AD
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Head to head: Is depression overdiagnosed? No
Ian Hickie
BMJ  2007;335:329, doi:10.1136/bmj.39268.497350.AD
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Yankee doodling: Internal affairs
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2007;335:327, doi:10.1136/bmj.39307.438252.59
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Potential of electronic personal health records
Claudia Pagliari, Don Detmer, Peter Singleton
BMJ  2007;335:330-333, doi:10.1136/bmj.39279.482963.AD
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Medical education research remains the poor relation
Mathew Todres, Anne Stephenson, Roger Jones
BMJ  2007;335:333-335, doi:10.1136/bmj.39253.544688.94
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Tom Burns, Jocelyn Catty, Michael Dash, Chris Roberts, Austin Lockwood, Max Marshall
BMJ  2007;335:336, doi:10.1136/bmj.39251.599259.55 (published 13 July 2007)
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Roberto Berni Canani, Pia Cirillo, Gianluca Terrin, Luisa Cesarano, Maria Immacolata Spagnuolo, Anna De Vincenzo, Fabio Albano, Annalisa Passariello, Giulio De Marco, Francesco Manguso, Alfredo Guarino
BMJ  2007;335:340, doi:10.1136/bmj.39272.581736.55 (published 9 August 2007)
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Clinical Review: Carpal tunnel syndrome
Jeremy D P Bland
BMJ  2007;335:343-346, doi:10.1136/bmj.39282.623553.AD
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Rational imaging: Investigation of suspected breast cancer
Peter Britton, Ruchi Sinnatamby
BMJ  2007;335:347-348, doi:10.1136/bmj.39234.386470.BE
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Personal view: Life under liberty
Robbie Foy
BMJ  2007;335:349, doi:10.1136/bmj.39300.711053.59
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Out of the box: Trouble down under
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2007;335:350, doi:10.1136/bmj.39307.613553.59
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The best medicine: Skippy's last show
Liam Farrell
BMJ  2007;335:350, doi:10.1136/bmj.39300.453449.59
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Between the lines: Where there's a will
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2007;335:351, doi:10.1136/bmj.39289.512512.59
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Medical classics: The Anatomy of Melancholy
George Dunea
BMJ  2007;335:351, doi:10.1136/bmj.39301.684363.59
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Review of the week: Cosmetic artistry
Colin Martin
BMJ  2007;335:352, doi:10.1136/bmj.39301.718854.59
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This week's obituaries [PDF]

Edward Joseph Lister Lowbury
Caroline Richmond
BMJ  2007;335:353, doi:10.1136/bmj.39301.575081.BE
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Minerva
BMJ  2007;335:354, doi:10.1136/bmj.39304.602882.BD1
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Minerva
M Hashir Ariff
BMJ  2007;335:354, doi:10.1136/bmj.39304.602882.BD
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Endpiece: The medical profession's misfortune
BMJ  2007;335:348, doi:10.1136/bmj.39294.650289.AD
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Management of asthma in children
BMJ  2007;335, doi:10.1136/bmj.39307.649826.AD
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Diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of a simplified low cost method of counting CD4 cells with flow cytometry in Malawi: diagnostic accuracy study
BMJ  2007;335, doi:10.1136/bmj.39308.406053.AD
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