29 November 2008(vol 337, issue 7681)

Editor's Choice

• Where commerce and health collide

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2751 (Published 27 November 2008)

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Editorials

• Electrocardiography in suspected angina

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2340 (Published 14 November 2008)

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• BCG vaccination in children

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2086 (Published 13 November 2008)

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• Falls in older people

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2320 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• International regulation of alcohol

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2364 (Published 07 November 2008)

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• Global research for health

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2733 (Published 25 November 2008)

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Letters

• NOGG guideline should be implemented

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2691 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• Confusion from analyses and conflicts of interest

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2683 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• Say Dr No to shifting from falls to osteoporosis

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2684 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• Breakthrough cancer pain

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2689 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• Value in the placebo response

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2685 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• Illusion is disease mongering

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2686 (Published 25 November 2008)

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News

• Generic substitution of drugs to be introduced in 2010

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2699 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• Resources must be diverted to allow people to die at home

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2750 (Published 26 November 2008)

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• UK government hopes to introduce new “fit note” in 2009

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2745 (Published 26 November 2008)

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• HIV testing should rise in areas of high prevalence, report says

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2748 (Published 26 November 2008)

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• Scotland sets six week target for diagnostic tests from April

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2709 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• More staff training needed to promote breast feeding when babies leave neonatal care

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2671 (Published 21 November 2008)

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• Uninsured people get poor deal from organ donation in the US

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2704 (Published 26 November 2008)

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• Doctors must warn women who seek abortion in South Dakota

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2707 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• Patient makes good recovery after transplant of a bioengineered airway

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2676 (Published 21 November 2008)

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• FDA opens office in China to regulate safety of exported drugs

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2700 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2716 (Published 26 November 2008)

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• Dutch health minister announces measures to enforce smoking ban

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2679 (Published 21 November 2008)

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• Zimbabwe faces a “major health disaster,” as hospitals close

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2710 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• Developing countries should have a greater say in local research agendas

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2713 (Published 25 November 2008)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2681 (Published 25 November 2008)

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Feature

• The invisible epidemic

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2566 (Published 26 November 2008)

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• AIDS and the irrational

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2638 (Published 26 November 2008)

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Observations

• Our perfectly designed US healthcare system

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2702 (Published 24 November 2008)

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Analysis

• Role of routines in collaborative work in healthcare organisations

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2448 (Published 17 November 2008)

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Research

• Incremental prognostic value of the exercise electrocardiogram in the initial assessment of patients with suspected angina: cohort study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2240 (Published 14 November 2008)

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• Efficacy of percutaneous versus intradermal BCG in the prevention of tuberculosis in South African infants: randomised trial

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2052 (Published 13 November 2008)

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• Inability to get up after falling, subsequent time on floor, and summoning help: prospective cohort study in people over 90

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2227 (Published 17 November 2008)

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• Recruitment to multicentre trials—lessons from UKCTOCS: descriptive study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2079 (Published 13 November 2008)

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Clinical Review

• Melanoma—Part 1: epidemiology, risk factors, and prevention

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2249 (Published 20 November 2008)

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Practice

• Giving feedback in clinical settings

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1961 (Published 10 November 2008)

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Obituaries

• Robert Shields

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2470 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• Isabel Mary Cant (née Martineau)

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2356 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• Norah Helen Colquhoun Clarke

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2647 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• Richard John Frankel

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2649 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• Ian McGibbon

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2650 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• Alexander Logan Speirs

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2653 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• David Christopher White

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2652 (Published 24 November 2008)

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Views & Reviews

• Life is for living

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2529 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• Our people

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2715 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• Would you advise anyone to become a doctor?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2739 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• The death of the author

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2717 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• L’Assommoir

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2573 (Published 24 November 2008)

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• The livers of London

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2730 (Published 25 November 2008)

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Endgames

• A case of right sided weakness

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2427 (Published 27 November 2008)

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• Non-healing ulcer on the toe

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2460 (Published 27 November 2008)

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• Allergy

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2734 (Published 27 November 2008)

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• Who dunnit?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2705 (Published 27 November 2008)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2668 (Published 25 November 2008)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2672 (Published 25 November 2008)

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Filler

• The peril of treating your progeny

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a2307 (Published 26 November 2008)

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