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24 February 2007 (Vol 334, No 7590)
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Editor's choice: Ethics at the BMJ
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.472199.43
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US editor's choice: Research misconduct—easy to suspect, hard to prove
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39134.432662.3A
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Diagnosis and treatment of malaria
Ambrose O Talisuna, Denise Njama Meya
BMJ  2007;334:375-376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39126.485370.BE
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Prescribing oral chemotherapy
Sandeep D Parsad, Mark J Ratain
BMJ  2007;334:376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.449317.BE
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Coffee and pregnancy
Edmund Hey
BMJ  2007;334:377, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39122.395058.80
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Managing suspected research misconduct
Charles Young, Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2007;334:378-379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.611516.80
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Atherothrombosis and ischaemic stroke
P M Rothwell
BMJ  2007;334:379-380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38964.489051.80
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Radiotherapy harm: Service delivery should be funded centrally
Bruce Sizer, Philip Murray, Alan Lamont
BMJ  2007;334:381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.707569.3A
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Radiotherapy harm: Culture of secrecy must be tackled
Michael V Williams
BMJ  2007;334:381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.703692.3A
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Ranibizumab and bevacizumab: The cheaper drug, bevacizumab, should be referred to NICE
James P Raftery, Andrew Lotery
BMJ  2007;334:381-382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.708565.3A
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Mental health of offenders: Young military veterans show similar help seeking behaviour
Lauren N van Staden, Nicola Fear, Amy Iversen, Claire French, Christopher Dandeker, Simon Wessely
BMJ  2007;334:382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.705718.3A
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Abortion: Time to erase the line?
Niall L Cox
BMJ  2007;334:382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.715613.3A
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Nutritionists: Give us food sense, not nonsense
Catherine Collins
BMJ  2007;334:382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.716343.3A
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NHS pays £500m too much for prescription drugs
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2007;334:383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.543438.DB
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Novartis faces growing pressure to drop patent case against Indian government
Sally Hargreaves
BMJ  2007;334:383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.422338.4E
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Roche fined over "extravagant" meals for doctors
Bob Burton
BMJ  2007;334:384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.465150.DB
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Government suffers three defeats over Mental Health Bill
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2007;334:384-385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.464444.DB
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Southall's files to be legally scrutinised
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2007;334:385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.551852.DB
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US campaign aims to end industry gifts, speaking fees, and travel for doctors
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2007;334:385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.345174.DB
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Prison improves health of female drug users
Anne Griffin
BMJ  2007;334:386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.482963.DB
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German project to treat drug addicts not extended despite good results
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2007;334:386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.343449.DB
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Tough new measures are needed to tackle doping in sport, say MPs
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;334:387, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.511563.DB
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UK pilot allows pharmacists to supply sildenafil without prescription
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2007;334:387, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.344097.DB
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Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2007;334:388-389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.728264.DB
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In Brief: News
BMJ  2007;334:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.469896.4E
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EC to promote open access publishing
Rory Watson
BMJ  2007;334:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.642130.DB
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Doctors in Netherlands worry court ruling erodes patient confidentiality
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2007;334:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.667824.DB
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Boycott publisher because of holdings in arms trade, readers told
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2007;334:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.531979.DB
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Counsel women about increased risks associated with pregnancy at later age, study recommends
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2007;334:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.344491.DB
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Many young south Asian women in UK lack vitamin D, study finds
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2007;334:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.351516.DB
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Waiting time targets are achievable, says Department of Health
Sally Hargreaves
BMJ  2007;334:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.489306.DB
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Union calls for halt in creeping NHS privatisation
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2007;334:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.661655.4E
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Doctors lose power to regulate their profession
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2007;334:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39135.460266.DB
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Shortcuts from other journals: Drug eluting stents may increase long term mortality due to late stent thrombosis
BMJ  2007;334:390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.451308.BE
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Shortcuts from other journals: New models predict more accurately women's cardiovascular risk
BMJ  2007;334:390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.390-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: Surgery better than endoscopy for chronic pancreatitis with dilated duct
BMJ  2007;334:390-391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.390-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: Pulse corticosteroids don't help most children with Kawasaki disease
BMJ  2007;334:391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.391
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Shortcuts from other journals: New antenatal blood test for Down's syndrome looks promising
BMJ  2007;334:391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.391-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: How much fish should pregnant women eat?
BMJ  2007;334:391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.391-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: Phlebotomy didn't improve outcomes in peripheral arterial disease
BMJ  2007;334:391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.391-c
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Research ethics: Doubts over head injury studies
Ian Roberts, Richard Smith, Stephen Evans
BMJ  2007;334:392-394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39118.480023.BE
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Head to head: Should the NHS curb spending on translation services?
Kate Adams
BMJ  2007;334:398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39126.572431.47
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Head to head: Should the NHS curb spending on translation services?
David Jones
BMJ  2007;334:399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39126.572014.47
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BODY POLITIC: Time to face up to "scandal" of funding formula
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2007;334:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.718067.59
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MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA: Having the last laugh at big pharma
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2007;334:396-397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.480880.59
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What's on the web: 24/7 surgery to cut NHS waiting lists
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2007;334:397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.606181.59
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An alternative to the clinical negligence system
Richard Furniss, Sarah Ormond-Walshe
BMJ  2007;334:400-402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39050.696192.94
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Rapid diagnostic tests compared with malaria microscopy for guiding outpatient treatment of febrile illness in Tanzania: randomised trial
Hugh Reyburn, Hilda Mbakilwa, Rose Mwangi, Ombeni Mwerinde, Raimos Olomi, Chris Drakeley, Christopher J M Whitty
BMJ  2007;334:403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39073.496829.AE, (Published 26 January 2007)
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Oral chemotherapy safety practices at US cancer centres: questionnaire survey
Saul N Weingart, Jonathan Flug, Daniela Brouillard, Laurinda Morway, Ann Partridge, Sylvia Bartel, Lawrence N Shulman, Maureen Connor
BMJ  2007;334:407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39069.489757.55, (Published 12 January 2007)
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Effect of reducing caffeine intake on birth weight and length of gestation: randomised controlled trial
Bodil Hammer Bech, Carsten Obel, Tine Brink Henriksen, Jørn Olsen
BMJ  2007;334:409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39062.520648.BE, (Published 26 January 2007)
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Dog bites
Marina Morgan, John Palmer
BMJ  2007;334:413-417, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39105.659919.BE
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Rational imaging: Investigating suspected pulmonary embolism in pregnancy
Andrew Frederick Scarsbrook, Fergus Vincent Gleeson
BMJ  2007;334:418-419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39071.617257.80
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An undiagnosed bicuspid aortic valve can result in severe left ventricular failure
Sagar Saha, Rachel Bastiaenen, Martin Hayward, Jean R McEwan
BMJ  2007;334:420-422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39065.624815.80
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10-minute consultation: Olfactory loss
E Ofo, B O'Reilly, A O'Doherty
BMJ  2007;334:423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39035.624583.68
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Statistics Notes: Missing data
Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
BMJ  2007;334:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38977.682025.2C
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Personal views: Dog attacks: it's time for doctors to bite back
Rachel Besser
BMJ  2007;334:425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.471505.94
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Netlines
Harry Brown
BMJ  2007;334:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.634688.94
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Personal views: Why nuclear disarmament is a medical issue
Lesley Morrison
BMJ  2007;334:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.668681.94
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Review of the week: Physician, heal thyself
W F Bynum
BMJ  2007;334:427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39127.480197.59
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FROM THE FRONTLINE: Brief encounters
Des Spence
BMJ  2007;334:428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.507847.94
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THE BIGGER PICTURE: Rejection
Mary Black
BMJ  2007;334:428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.686771.59
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BETWEEN THE LINES: Doctors go back to basics
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2007;334:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.645486.59
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MEDICAL CLASSICS: Phantastica
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  2007;334:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.459236.94
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Minerva
BMJ  2007;334:432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.709699.471
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Minerva
K J Hunter, T M Finch
BMJ  2007;334:432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39128.709699.47
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Today's facts are tomorrow's fallacies
Anton Sebastian
BMJ  2007;334:412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39125.428796.DE
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Stornoway sausages—the surgical solution at sea
Elizabeth A McClure
BMJ  2007;334:419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39125.468032.DE
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bmjupdates+: Hypochondriasis is treatable
BMJ  2007;334:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39118.436262.DE
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Obituary: Roland Jacob Levinsky
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39127.607639.BE
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Correction for Heathcote et al (Maggie's Centres)
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39127.667130.BE
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Childhood intelligence and being a vegetarian
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39127.696458.BE
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Obituary of William Ian McDonald
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39127.742813.BE
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Interviewing techniques
BMJ  2007;334:s64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s64, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Life just ain't fair
BMJ  2007;334:s64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s64-a, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Stone wall
BMJ  2007;334:s64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s64-b, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Go for gold
BMJ  2007;334:s64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s64-c, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Are you fit enough?
BMJ  2007;334:s64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s64-d, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Don't forget your homework!
BMJ  2007;334:s64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s64-e, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Top of the form
Sabina Dosani
BMJ  2007;334:s65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s65, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Have you filled in the assessment forms?
Yousef A Shahin
BMJ  2007;334:s65-s66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s65-a, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Maximise your medical career
Marc A Gladman
BMJ  2007;334:s67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s67, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Postgraduate Diploma/Master of Science in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair
David Sainsbury
BMJ  2007;334:s68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s68, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Special skills and placements
Fiona Taylor
BMJ  2007;334:s69, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s69, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Competency based assessments
Daniel G Morritt
BMJ  2007;334:s70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s70, (Published 24 February 2007)
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Master of Minimal Access Surgery (MMAS)
Kaleem Khalilullah
BMJ  2007;334:s71, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s71, (Published 24 February 2007)
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The man who revolutionised anaesthetic practice
Ellen Welch
BMJ  2007;334:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7590.s72, (Published 24 February 2007)
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This week's obituaries [PDF]

Victor Wynn
Caroline Richmond
BMJ  2007;334:430, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39125.710926.FA
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Patrick John Murray Brock
E Young
BMJ  2007;334:431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39118.484873.80
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Bruce Henry Davies
David Hughes, Roger Higson
BMJ  2007;334:431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39118.566447.80
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John Drew Hamer
Andrew J Hamer, John W L Fielding
BMJ  2007;334:431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39118.454306.80
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Sam Wystan Poshela Mhlongo
Gordon Stewart, Andrew Herxheimer
BMJ  2007;334:431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39101.643993.FA
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John Kenyon ("Titus") Oates
David Rowen, Chris Sonnex
BMJ  2007;334:431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39114.479641.80
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John Stanley Mornington Zorab
Peter Baskett, Peter Simpson, John Carter
BMJ  2007;334:431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39122.673275.FA
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