06 September 2008(vol 337, issue 7669)

Editor's Choice

• In search of equity

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1554 (Published 03 September 2008)

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Editorials

• Using aspirin to prevent cognitive decline

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a958 (Published 01 September 2008)

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• Direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a985 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• State violence towards sex workers

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a908 (Published 30 July 2008)

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• Bariatric surgery

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a755 (Published 31 July 2008)

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• Tackling health inequities

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Letters

• Just ask: donating eyes doesn’t need a change in policy

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1506 (Published 03 September 2008)

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• The ranibizumab saga of drug profiteering

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1532 (Published 03 September 2008)

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• Reasons to be cautious about cholesterol lowering drugs

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• Irresponsible to modify current guidelines

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• ’Twas idiopathic unilateral circumscribed hyperhidrosis

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• Where now for expert witnesses?

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• We need to develop wider vision to reduce errors

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News

• Bias alone could account for benefit attributed to flu vaccine, study finds

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1550 (Published 03 September 2008)

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• European paediatric clinical trials miss priority needs, warns review

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• In brief

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• Patients who have new types of hip and knee replacement are more likely to need revision

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• Low cost intervention reduces suicide rate in poorer countries, study shows

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1524 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• Cutting price of alcohol is associated with higher mortality, study shows

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1504 (Published 01 September 2008)

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• Switching antibiotics to pharmacy sale will increase resistance, doctors say

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1538 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• Deaths from drug poisoning in English and Welsh men reach five year peak

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1521 (Published 03 September 2008)

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• Refused asylum seekers are entitled to free NHS care, says BMA

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1552 (Published 03 September 2008)

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• New vaccines and screening can reduce cervical cancer incidence in poor countries

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• Charity calls for better training of police in handling mentally ill people

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1531 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• German health insurance companies reluctantly agree to doctors’ pay rise

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• Government ruling would protect US healthcare workers who object to abortion

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1509 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• Peanut allergy may be transferred by lung transplantation, case shows

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1512 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• NICE introduces cost sharing scheme for sight drug

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1487 (Published 29 August 2008)

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• Two doses of chickenpox vaccine are needed, US figures confirm

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Outsourced radiology: will doctors be deskilled?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a785 (Published 11 August 2008)

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Observations

• Jabbering about jabs

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Head to Head

• Are national qualifying examinations a fair way to rank medical students? Yes

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• Are national qualifying examinations a fair way to rank medical students? No

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Analysis

• Continuity of care matters

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a867 (Published 07 August 2008)

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Research

• Health related quality of life after combined hormone replacement therapy: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1190 (Published 21 August 2008)

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• Low dose aspirin and cognitive function in middle aged to elderly adults: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1198 (Published 01 September 2008)

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• Effect of illicit direct to consumer advertising on use of etanercept, mometasone, and tegaserod in Canada: controlled longitudinal study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1055 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• Police violence and sexual risk among female and transvestite sex workers in Serbia: qualitative study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a811 (Published 30 July 2008)

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Clinical Review

• Managing drug resistant tuberculosis

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1110 (Published 28 August 2008)

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Practice

• Discourse analysis

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a879 (Published 07 August 2008)

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• Extensive transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 9 year old child with pulmonary tuberculosis and negative sputum smear

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• How can we best prevent new foot ulcers in people with diabetes?

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Obituaries

• Alexei Mikhailovich Svetukhin

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1511 (Published 03 September 2008)

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• Eric Reeves Carter

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• Kenneth Arthur Day

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• Allan Watson Downie

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• James Ronald Harries

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• John Anthony Guy Horton

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• Esmée Dorothy Martin

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Views & Reviews

• Are we all Balintians now?

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• The tablets of stone

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• The nano state

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• A world not his own

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• Morceaux Choisis

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• Kidney disease and the generation game

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1268 (Published 03 September 2008)

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Endgames

• Chest pain after emotional and physical upset

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• Imaging after trauma to the neck

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• Continuous variables

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• Wound healing

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• Occluded circulation

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a992 (Published 07 August 2008)

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