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11 August 2007 (Vol 335, No 7614)
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Editor's choice: How not to do things
Rajendra Kale
BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.450150.BD
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Fast track referral for cancer
Moyez Jiwa, Christobel Saunders
BMJ  2007;335:267-268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39293.453090.AD
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Are health services in England failing our children?
Alan Craft
BMJ  2007;335:268-269, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39282.492801.80, (Published 26 July 2007)
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Neglected tropical diseases
Gavin Yamey, Peter Hotez
BMJ  2007;335:269-270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39281.645035.80
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Self monitoring in diabetes: Useful in which patients?
Andrew Moore, Sheena Derry, Grace McGeogh
BMJ  2007;335:271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.457014.1F
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Self monitoring in diabetes: Education seems to work better
Anthony J Lister
BMJ  2007;335:271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.451250.1F
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Self monitoring in diabetes: Let me own my disease
Patti D Evans
BMJ  2007;335:271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.470324.1F
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Self monitoring in diabetes: Authors' reply
Andrew Farmer, Patricia Yudkin, Elizabeth Goyder, Andrew Neil
BMJ  2007;335:272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.466516.1F
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Insolvent hospitals: It's not just whole hospitals
Stephen Black
BMJ  2007;335:272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39296.743391.3A
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Life saving general practice: Perhaps, if we work less hard
Graeme Mackenzie
BMJ  2007;335:272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39296.737639.3A
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NHS-saving general practice: Not with the state apparatus
L S Lewis
BMJ  2007;335:272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39296.740116.3A
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Government pushes ahead with plan for cheaper drugs deal for NHS
Nicholas Timmins
BMJ  2007;335:273, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.405822.DB
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Court dismisses Novartis challenge to Indian patent law
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2007;335:273, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39301.420012.DB
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Overseas doctors work longer hours, Australian study shows
Stephen Pincock
BMJ  2007;335:274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.491366.DB
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Inquiry to be held after deaths of cancer patients from apparent overdose
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2007;335:274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.394005.DB
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NHS fails to charge local authorities for blocked hospital beds—but delayed discharge is mostly hospitals' fault
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2007;335:274-275, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.446181.DB
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Anaesthetists get new guidelines for morbidly obese patients
Toby Reynolds
BMJ  2007;335:275, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.400266.DB
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In Brief: News
BMJ  2007;335:276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.596759.DB
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German doctors fear that performance rating websites may be libellous
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2007;335:276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.473148.DB
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Summer PSA tests may lead to more biopsies
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2007;335:276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.475694.DB
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Infant mortality rises in Palestinian territories—but other health indicators show improvement
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2007;335:277, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.483252.DB
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CMA's proposals reopen debate over public and private practice
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2007;335:277, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.513032.DB
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Shortcuts from other journals: Unexploded munitions are a serious problem in Afghanistan
BMJ  2007;335:278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.278
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Shortcuts from other journals: Progesterone still an unproven prophylactic against preterm delivery
BMJ  2007;335:278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.437697.80
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Shortcuts from other journals: Interferon beta slightly delays disability in people with early multiple sclerosis
BMJ  2007;335:278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.278-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: War in Uganda leaves deep psychological scars
BMJ  2007;335:278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.278-c
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Shortcuts from other journals: Vulnerable families suffer when soldiers go to war
BMJ  2007;335:279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.279
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Shortcuts from other journals: Lessons in pandemic flu from 1918
BMJ  2007;335:279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.279-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: Screening by visual inspection protects Indian women against cervical cancer
BMJ  2007;335:279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.279-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: Children in developing countries have silent rheumatic heart disease
BMJ  2007;335:279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.279-c
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For richer for poorer
Hannah Brown
BMJ  2007;335:280-283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39293.711088.DE
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Body politic: How not to win friends and influence people
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2007;335:284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.609421.94
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Preventive health care in elderly people needs rethinking
Dee Mangin, Kieran Sweeney, Iona Heath
BMJ  2007;335:285-287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39241.630741.BE1
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Referral patterns, cancer diagnoses, and waiting times after introduction of two week wait rule for breast cancer: prospective cohort study
Shelley Potter, Sasi Govindarajulu, Mike Shere, Fiona Braddon, Geoffrey Curran, Rosemary Greenwood, Ajay K Sahu, Simon J Cawthorn
BMJ  2007;335:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39258.688553.55, (Published 13 July 2007)
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Cost effectiveness of home based population screening for Chlamydia trachomatis in the UK: economic evaluation of chlamydia screening studies (ClaSS) project
Tracy E Roberts, Suzanne Robinson, Pelham M Barton, Stirling Bryan, Anne McCarthy, John Macleod, Matthias Egger, Nicola Low
BMJ  2007;335:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39262.683345.AE, (Published 26 July 2007)
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Clinical Review: Gallstones
Grant Sanders, Andrew N Kingsnorth
BMJ  2007;335:295-299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39267.452257.AD
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Pregnancy plus: Unresolved questions in managing hypothyroidism during pregnancy
Daniel Glinoer, Marcos Abalovich
BMJ  2007;335:300-302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39189.513935.BE
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10-minute consultation: Chronic knee pain
Christian David Mallen, George Peat, Mark Porcheret
BMJ  2007;335:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39231.735498.94
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Personal views: Why do collaborative research?
Anisur Rahman
BMJ  2007;335:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.500544.94
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Review of the week: Rage against the dying of the light
Richard Huxtable
BMJ  2007;335:305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.479086.4E
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From the frontline: The return of the Saturday surgery?
Des Spence
BMJ  2007;335:306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.420116.59
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The bigger picture: Gifts
Mary E Black
BMJ  2007;335:306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39289.470150.59
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Between the lines: A Donne deal
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2007;335:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39289.418299.59
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Medical classics: Memoirs of a Physician
Boleslav Lichterman
BMJ  2007;335:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39295.707986.68
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Minerva
BMJ  2007;335:310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.426273.BD1
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Minerva
Susan P Mollan, Deepun Gosrani, Andrew B Callear
BMJ  2007;335:310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39297.426273.BD
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Why don't doctors use HTML?
Emma Stapleton
BMJ  2007;335:287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.653472.DE
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bmjupdates+: Soy phytoestrogen genistein increases bone mineral density in postmenopausal women
BMJ  2007;335:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39287.690475.AD
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Minerva
BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39302.423299.AE
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August bodies
BMJ  2007;335:s50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s50, (Published 11 August 2007)
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In perfect harmony?
BMJ  2007;335:s50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s50-a, (Published 11 August 2007)
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Fed up with medicine?
BMJ  2007;335:s50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s50-b, (Published 11 August 2007)
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The great escape
BMJ  2007;335:s50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s50-c, (Published 11 August 2007)
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Curriculum, curriculum, curricula
BMJ  2007;335:s50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s50-d, (Published 11 August 2007)
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Who cares?
BMJ  2007;335:s50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s50-e, (Published 11 August 2007)
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Pay rise for SAS grades
BMJ  2007;335:s50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s50-f, (Published 11 August 2007)
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EDITOR'S CHOICE: Working abroad
Jonathan Dewhurst
BMJ  2007;335:s51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s51, (Published 11 August 2007)
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South Indian idyll
Katrina Darke
BMJ  2007;335:s51-s53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s51-a, (Published 11 August 2007)
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Genitourinary medicine
Yasmin Akram
BMJ  2007;335:s53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s53, (Published 11 August 2007)
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Clinical immunology: more than just immunoglobulins?
Kyla Thomas
BMJ  2007;335:s54-s55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.s54, (Published 11 August 2007)
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New doctors start here
Karen Hebert
BMJ  2007;335:gp58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.sgp58, (Published 11 August 2007)
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Prehospital trauma life support course (PHTLS)
Jonathan Birks
BMJ  2007;335:gp59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.sgp59, (Published 11 August 2007)
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The president of the British Geriatrics Society
Amit Arora
BMJ  2007;335:gp60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7614.sgp60, (Published 11 August 2007)
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This week's obituaries [PDF]

Daniel Turnberg
Caroline Richmond
BMJ  2007;335:308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39295.554792.BE
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Diana Margaret Riley (née Dean)
Teresa Riley
BMJ  2007;335:308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39295.629850.BE
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Tarsem Lal Garg
Scot Garg
BMJ  2007;335:309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39294.631481.BE
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James Crawford Little of Morton Rig
Alan Kerr
BMJ  2007;335:309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39294.655567.BE
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Edward Lawson McDonald
Hazel M Baker
BMJ  2007;335:309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39294.733727.BE
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Sadie Bessie ("Bess") Michaels
Andrew Coleman
BMJ  2007;335:309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39294.531620.BE
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Robert MacGregor ("Rab") Milne
Alex Cargill
BMJ  2007;335:309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39288.571227.BE
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Patrick Joseph Evanson Smyth
Elizabeth Smyth, Edward Smyth
BMJ  2007;335:309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39288.533981.BE
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