08 November 2008(vol 337, issue 7678)

Editor's Choice

• Patients are ready for partnership

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2431 (Published 06 November 2008)

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Editorials

• Preventing postextubation airway complications in adults

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1565 (Published 20 October 2008)

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• Eating behaviour and obesity

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1926 (Published 21 October 2008)

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• Preventing diabetes in Bangladeshi people in Britain

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2010 (Published 04 November 2008)

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• Enabling women to breast feed

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1570 (Published 25 September 2008)

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• Fresh thinking about the Declaration of Helsinki

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2128 (Published 17 October 2008)

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Letters

• Firstly, improve availability of endoscopy

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2385 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Secondly, improve availability of interventional radiology

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2382 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Involve complementary medicine practitioners in research

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2389 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Inconsistency over payment

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2388 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Disposable instrument issue affects lots of doctors too

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2277 (Published 28 October 2008)

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• Experience from Royal Marsden Hospital

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2290 (Published 28 October 2008)

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• People, not weather, cause mass starvation

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2383 (Published 03 November 2008)

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News

• Major US consumer group asks FDA to ban drug for diabetes

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2401 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• Patients in England are given green light to buy drugs privately alongside NHS care

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2418 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• NICE publishes osteoporosis guidance after more than six years of consultation

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2397 (Published 04 November 2008)

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• Only a minority of serious patient safety incidents are reported, MPs hear

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2384 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• Treasure chest of medicine past

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2415 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• Clinical audit has lacked a national strategy and cooperation from GPs

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2422 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• Delaying HIV treatment increases risk of mortality

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2369 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2411 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• US senators inquire into ties between stent makers and doctors

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2363 (Published 04 November 2008)

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• FDA warns Bayer about illegally marketing two over the counter products containing aspirin

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2402 (Published 04 November 2008)

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• Patient fails in attempt to get law on aiding suicide abroad clarified

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2368 (Published 31 October 2008)

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• Exhibition captures beauty and power of humanitarian action and the human spirit

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2419 (Published 04 November 2008)

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• Cardiologist is sued for comments on potential migraine device

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2412 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• “Humanitarian corridor” for medical aid is vital in Congo, says Miliband

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2413 (Published 04 November 2008)

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• Teenage rape victim is stoned to death as violence sweeps Somalia

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2403 (Published 06 November 2008)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2391 (Published 03 November 2008)

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Feature

• What price education?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2333 (Published 31 October 2008)

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• Cutting out human error

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2370 (Published 04 November 2008)

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Observations

• Copy them in

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2324 (Published 04 November 2008)

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Analysis

• Regulation—the real threat to clinical research

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1732 (Published 16 October 2008)

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Research

• Prophylactic administration of parenteral steroids for preventing airway complications after extubation in adults: meta-analysis of randomised placebo controlled trials

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1841 (Published 20 October 2008)

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• The joint impact on being overweight of self reported behaviours of eating quickly and eating until full : cross sectional survey

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2002 (Published 21 October 2008)

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• Prevention of type 2 diabetes in British Bangladeshis: qualitative study of community, religious, and professional perspectives

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1931 (Published 04 November 2008)

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• Prescribing “placebo treatments”: results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1938 (Published 23 October 2008)

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Clinical Review

• Managing skeletal related events resulting from bone metastases

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2041 (Published 03 November 2008)

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Practice

• Control of pain in adults with cancer: summary of SIGN guidelines

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2154 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• Commentary: Controversies in SIGN guidance on pain control in patients with cancer

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2234 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• Managing the anticoagulated patient with atrial fibrillation at high risk of stroke who needs coronary intervention

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a840 (Published 12 September 2008)

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Obituaries

• Hugh Roland Butt

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2196 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Amer Amen

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2361 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Dick Bruce

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2242 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Hugh John Hughes

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2250 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Stephen Lazar

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2248 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Anna Cecilia McKee (née Martin)

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2353 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Melanie Peisach

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2254 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Jeremy Rowe

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2252 (Published 03 November 2008)

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Views & Reviews

• Poppy love

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2334 (Published 31 October 2008)

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• A fat chance

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2432 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• The bottom line

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2395 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• In small town America

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2400 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• The Death of Ivan Ilych

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2399 (Published 05 November 2008)

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• Lessons from the killing fields

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2394 (Published 05 November 2008)

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Endgames

• A noisy teenager

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2289 (Published 06 November 2008)

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• An 11 month old girl with bilateral wrist swelling

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2149 (Published 06 November 2008)

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• Blood transfusion

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2297 (Published 06 November 2008)

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• Relative risk

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2295 (Published 06 November 2008)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2372 (Published 03 November 2008)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2371 (Published 03 November 2008)

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Filler

• Old age swimming

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1189 (Published 06 November 2008)

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• Crisis

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a551 (Published 21 August 2008)

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