20 September 2008(vol 337, issue 7671)

Editor's Choice

• What skills do doctors and nurses need?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1722 (Published 18 September 2008)

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Editorials

• Drug eluting stents in patients with diabetes

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1359 (Published 31 August 2008)

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• Telephone triage in out of hours call centres

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1167 (Published 12 September 2008)

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• Collection of data on ethnic origin in England

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1107 (Published 21 August 2008)

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Letters

• Effect of antipsychotics on stroke risk remains unproved

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1673 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Madness of modern medicine

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1670 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Conclusions from knee and hip registry data miss the point

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1677 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• So much for harm reduction techniques reducing drug deaths

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1671 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Should medical science ignore the past?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1681 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Clarifications from adverse drug reactions agency

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1669 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• HRT in premature menopause

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1668 (Published 16 September 2008)

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News

• Lancet withdraws research paper and warns authors about rules of “gift authorship”

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1711 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• Matthias Rath drops libel action against Guardian

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1710 (Published 18 September 2008)

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• Vulvovaginal surgery is being carried out without evidence of safety or benefits, gynaecologists say

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1684 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Myeloma patient wins fight for drug not yet approved by NICE

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1695 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Organisations reluctantly come out in support of top-up payments

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1685 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Pathology departments are still holding human tissue, report says

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1713 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1698 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• Doctors must do more to identify child abuse, Dutch association says

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1679 (Published 15 September 2008)

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• Spain may legalise assisted suicide, health minister says

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1697 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• Israeli government wants better monitoring of children’s welfare, after three murders

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1693 (Published 15 September 2008)

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• US nurses start “health insurance casualty of the day” website

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1696 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• World still faces big challenges in meeting millennium development goals, says UN

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1692 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• New antibiotics are needed as resistance grows, expert says

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1660 (Published 12 September 2008)

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• Campaigners seek release of Iranian doctors

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1699 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• WHO report shows progress in efforts to reduce malaria incidence

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1678 (Published 17 September 2008)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1661 (Published 16 September 2008)

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Head to Head

• Should primary care be nurse led? Yes

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1157 (Published 04 September 2008)

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• Should primary care be nurse led? No

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1169 (Published 04 September 2008)

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Feature

• Dr Nurse will see you now

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1522 (Published 09 September 2008)

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Observations

• Diagnosis by machine

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1703 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• Picture imperfect

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1659 (Published 17 September 2008)

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Analysis

• Modern approaches to teaching and learning anatomy

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1310 (Published 09 September 2008)

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Research

• Drug eluting and bare metal stents in people with and without diabetes: collaborative network meta-analysis

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1331 (Published 31 August 2008)

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• Adherence to Mediterranean diet and health status: meta-analysis

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1344 (Published 11 September 2008)

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• Quality of clinical aspects of call handling at Dutch out of hours centres: cross sectional national study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1264 (Published 12 September 2008)

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• Misperceptions and misuse of Bear Brand coffee creamer as infant food: national cross sectional survey of consumers and paediatricians in Laos

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1379 (Published 09 September 2008)

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Clinical Review

• Investigating dyspepsia

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1400 (Published 15 September 2008)

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Practice

• Critically appraising qualitative research

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1035 (Published 07 August 2008)

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• Teaching in an ambulatory care setting

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1156 (Published 03 September 2008)

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Obituaries

• Pierre Lasjaunias

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1701 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Sarah Benton

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1638 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• William Benjamin Clee

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• Anna Isobel Cupples (née Pillow)

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• Robert David Mayer

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1215 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Mauveen Ethel Vera Munk (née Evans)

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1641 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Mark Hamilton Towriss

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Views & Reviews

• Because I’m worth it

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1248 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• Medicine—a victim of fashion?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1709 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• Publish and be damned

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1644 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• A pinch of salts

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1706 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• Hall of Mirrors

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1716 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• New ways of thinking about autism

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1664 (Published 17 September 2008)

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Endgames

• Breathless beyond obvious

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1405 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• t tests

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a198 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• The placenta

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1333 (Published 17 September 2008)

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• Breast imaging

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1674 (Published 16 September 2008)

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• Minerva

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Filler

• My best friend

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a995 (Published 11 September 2008)

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