22 November 2008(vol 337, issue 7680)

Editor's Choice

• A good QOFfing whine

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2632 (Published 20 November 2008)

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Editorials

• Injury and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2244 (Published 07 November 2008)

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• Micronutrient supplementation in pregnancy in developing countries

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1942 (Published 07 November 2008)

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• The UK quality and outcomes framework

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2095 (Published 29 October 2008)

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• Statins and primary prevention of cardiovascular events

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2576 (Published 14 November 2008)

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• Influenza vaccine in the over 65s

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Letters

• Government fully considered HPV vaccine

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• “Annoyance” of genital warts

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2553 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• All data on both vaccines must be considered

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2554 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Uncertainties in preserving fertility in cancer treatment

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2577 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Guidelines or misguidance?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2578 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Individuals, averages, and evidence based medicine

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• Don’t stop taking aspirin

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2581 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Author’s reply

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• Time for a proper study of aspirin after a vascular event?

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• What have we really learnt?

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• Disruptiveness of Google Health

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2596 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Patient care drives mandatory vaccination

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2588 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Scandinavian solution

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News

• Taskforce rejects system of presumed consent for organ donation in UK

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2621 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• New approach is needed to reinvigorate practice based commissioning

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2623 (Published 20 November 2008)

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• Acute medicine needs better standards to guide development of the specialty

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2609 (Published 17 November 2008)

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• A window to meditate by

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2617 (Published 18 November 2008)

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• The best is yet to come

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2484 (Published 14 November 2008)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2630 (Published 18 November 2008)

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• France needs to clarify how important genetic information is passed to patients’ relatives, agency says

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2610 (Published 17 November 2008)

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• X ray pictures in 88% of Michigan doctor’s asbestosis diagnoses were found to be normal

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2549 (Published 18 November 2008)

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• Underfunding of Australian health system leads to 1500 unnecessary deaths a year, doctors say

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2608 (Published 17 November 2008)

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• German transplant surgeon denies accusations of blackmail and fraud

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2574 (Published 18 November 2008)

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• Nepalese woman dies after banishment to shed during menstruation

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2520 (Published 14 November 2008)

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• Chlamydia was most often reported infection in Europe in 2006, new data show

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2622 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Training local researchers in poor countries is the best way to improve health worldwide

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2620 (Published 18 November 2008)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• The fattening truth about restaurant food

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2229 (Published 18 November 2008)

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Head to Head

• Should we use regulation to demand improved public health outcomes from industry? Yes

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1750 (Published 02 October 2008)

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• Should we use regulation to demand improved public health outcomes from industry? No

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1761 (Published 02 October 2008)

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Observations

• Who’s watching the watchdogs?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2535 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• National obesity strategy: what’s the big idea?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2548 (Published 18 November 2008)

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Analysis

• Is health care getting safer?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2426 (Published 13 November 2008)

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Research

• Early head injury and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: retrospective cohort study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1984 (Published 07 November 2008)

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• Impact of micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy on birth weight, duration of gestation, and perinatal mortality in rural western China: double blind cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2001 (Published 07 November 2008)

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• Effect of social deprivation on blood pressure monitoring and control in England: a survey of data from the quality and outcomes framework

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2030 (Published 29 October 2008)

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• Patient safety indicators for England from hospital administrative data: case-control analysis and comparison with US data

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1702 (Published 17 October 2008)

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Research Methods and Reporting

• Improving the reporting of pragmatic trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2390 (Published 11 November 2008)

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Clinical Review

• Management of acute moderate and severe childhood malnutrition

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2180 (Published 13 November 2008)

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Practice

• Diagnosis and management of headache in adults: summary of SIGN guideline

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2329 (Published 20 November 2008)

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• Commentary: Controversies in SIGN guidance on diagnosing and managing headache in adults

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2445 (Published 20 November 2008)

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• Memory problems in an older person

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1170 (Published 10 October 2008)

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Obituaries

• Ronald Mark Davis

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• Bahgat Fathalla Allam

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2604 (Published 18 November 2008)

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• Gordon Esslemont Fordyce

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• Peter Michael Stephen Gillam

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• Syed Abu Zariat Mohammad Irfanul Haque

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• Ronald Carl Alan Pearson

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2437 (Published 07 November 2008)

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• John Anthony Seymour-Jones

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• Barclay John Sherry

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Views & Reviews

• Zimbabwe’s health system is now in a state of collapse

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2637 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Lay your money down

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• Alma-Ata no more

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2613 (Published 18 November 2008)

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• Talk of the devil

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2618 (Published 18 November 2008)

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• Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of Surgery

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2601 (Published 18 November 2008)

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• “You are bipolar, and I claim my £5”

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2631 (Published 19 November 2008)

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Endgames

• A case of severe hyponatraemia

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2377 (Published 20 November 2008)

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• A patient with β thalassaemia major and back pain

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• Distributions

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• The eye

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2557 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2572 (Published 19 November 2008)

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Filler

• A statistical outlier

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2305 (Published 19 November 2008)

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• Goodbye

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2169 (Published 19 November 2008)

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