Diagnosis—the next frontier
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	Methods and reporting of systematic reviews of diagnostic tests need to improve [Full text]

	Appraising quality of patient decision aids [Full text]

	Furosemide is not effective in preventing and treating acute renal failure [Full text]

	How to manage obsessive-compulsive disorder [Full text]

	Whither professional regulation in the UK? [Full text]

Editorials

	Bridging the gaps in evidence based diagnosis
	Sharon E Straus
	BMJ  2006;333:405-406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38945.464722.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references]

	Early intervention in acute renal failure
	David N Bennett-Jones
	BMJ  2006;333:406-407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38945.596215.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Exempting mental health units from smoke-free laws
	Jonathan Campion, Ann McNeill, Ken Checinski
	BMJ  2006;333:407-408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38944.382106.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	I just wanted to be a doctor: We need to be more than "just" doctors
	Jonathan R Benger
	BMJ  2006;333:446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	I just wanted to be a doctor: Medicine and its representation
	Peter G Davies
	BMJ  2006;333:446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.446-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing conjunctivitis in general practice: Recommendations depend on health system
	Mark R Nelson
	BMJ  2006;333:446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.446-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing conjunctivitis in general practice: Research into management strategies for acute infective conjunctivitis
	Scott J Robbie, Kashif Qureshi, Shahram Kashani, Muhammad A Qureshi
	BMJ  2006;333:446-447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.446-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fixing the NHS: We need fewer and better managers
	Paul L Thorpe
	BMJ  2006;333:447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.447 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fixing the NHS: NHS is undermanaged, but overadministered
	Stephen R Kirkham
	BMJ  2006;333:447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.447-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fixing the NHS: Summary of rapid responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2006;333:447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.447-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heatwaves and hospital staff: Highest level was not reached
	Mike W Gill, Brian McCloskey
	BMJ  2006;333:447-448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.447-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heatwaves and hospital staff: Taking the temperatures may be important
	J Cleo Oliver, Venkat S S Neelapala
	BMJ  2006;333:448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.448 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting: Prevention in context
	John B Carlisle
	BMJ  2006;333:448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.448-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Final guidance issued on Herceptin after appeal rejected
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2006;333:409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.409 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Male circumcision is not a panacea for HIV prevention
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2006;333:409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.409-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;333:410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.410 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Women forced into sterilisation protest to UN
	Katka Krosnar
	BMJ  2006;333:410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.410-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Childhood asthma admissions peak with return to school
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;333:410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.410-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US lifts immigration restrictions for Cuban doctors
	Sara Carrillo de Albornoz
	BMJ  2006;333:411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.411 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Business booms at NHS Direct
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2006;333:411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.411-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cluster bombs remain in Lebanon
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;333:412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.412 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Charity shop finds diary chronicling doctor's last days
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;333:412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.412-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Israel's health care not quite back to normal
	Merav Sarig
	BMJ  2006;333:412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.412-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	US faces looming cost of ischaemic stroke
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.412-c [Extract] [Full text]

	HIV programmes in poor countries lack health workers
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2006;333:412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.412-d [Extract] [Full text]

Research

	Systematic reviews of diagnostic tests in cancer: review of methods and reporting
	Susan Mallett, Jonathan J Deeks, Steve Halligan, Sally Hopewell, Victoria Cornelius, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2006;333:413, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38895.467130.55, (Published 18 July 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List of reviews] FREE

	Developing a quality criteria framework for patient decision aids: online international Delphi consensus process
	Glyn Elwyn, Annette O'Connor, Dawn Stacey, Robert Volk, Adrian Edwards, Angela Coulter, Richard Thomson, Alexandra Barratt, Michael Barry, Steven Bernstein, Phyllis Butow, Aileen Clarke, Vikki Entwistle, Deb Feldman-Stewart, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas, Nora Moumjid, Al Mulley, Cornelia Ruland, Karen Sepucha, Alan Sykes, Tim Whelan, The International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration
	BMJ  2006;333:417, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38926.629329.AE, (Published 14 August 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

	Meta-analysis of frusemide to prevent or treat acute renal failure
	Kwok M Ho, David J Sheridan
	BMJ  2006;333:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38902.605347.7C, (Published 21 July 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 - w22] FREE

Clinical review

	Obsessive-compulsive disorder
	I Heyman, D Mataix-Cols, N A Fineberg
	BMJ  2006;333:424-429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.424 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	A patient's journey: our special girl
	Sandra Dunkelberg
	BMJ  2006;333:430-431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38937.455949.55 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of urology: Urological evaluation
	Hugh N Whitfield
	BMJ  2006;333:432-435, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.432 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ family highlights: What's new this month in BMJ Journals
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2006;333:436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.436 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Kristina Fister
	BMJ  2006;333:437-438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Professional regulation: Does certification improve medical standards?
	Kim Sutherland, Sheila Leatherman
	BMJ  2006;333:439-441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38933.377824.802 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnostic skills: Evidence based diagnosis: does the language reflect the theory?
	Matt T Bianchi, Brian M Alexander
	BMJ  2006;333:442-445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38915.558738.55 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
	Boleslav Lichterman
	BMJ  2006;333:451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.451 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal views: Why are so many people dying on Everest?
	Andrew I Sutherland
	BMJ  2006;333:452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.452 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal views: Between Chicken Little and the four horsemen of the apocalypse
	Joshua Lipsman
	BMJ  2006;333:453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.453 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings: Three Bs, please
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2006;333:453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.453-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;333:454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.454 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Children with very high temperatures are equally likely to have bacterial or viral infections
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	And we thought the British were obsessed with the weather
	Jane E Graham
	BMJ  2006;333:419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.419 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The hazards of being an unemployed SHO
	Belinda Hirsh
	BMJ  2006;333:423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.423 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: Sometimes, never
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2006;333:445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.445 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Regulation and revalidation of doctors
	BMJ  2006;333:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.416 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: prion protein genotype analysis of positive appendix tissue samples from a retrospective prevalence study
	BMJ  2006;333:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.416-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A bipolar story
	BMJ  2006;333:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.416-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Philip D'Arcy Hart
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2006;333:449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.449 [Extract] [Full text]

	Helen Jane Whiston Baker
	Alison Maycock
	BMJ  2006;333:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.450 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Michael John Glavina
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  2006;333:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.450-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Richard Douglas Jack
	Polly Adams
	BMJ  2006;333:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.450-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Frederick Mahler
	Richard Himsworth
	BMJ  2006;333:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.450-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Bekololari ("Beko") Ransome-Kuti
	Leroy Edozien
	BMJ  2006;333:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.450-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Leslie Turk
	Jeremy Turk
	BMJ  2006;333:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.450-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Colin William Ombler Windsor
	Richard Downing
	BMJ  2006;333:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7565.450-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

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