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15 September 2007 (Vol 335, No 7619)
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The fight for primary care
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39336.570116.47
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The future of smoke-free legislation
Simon Chapman
BMJ  2007;335:521-522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39315.616169.BE, (Published 9 September 2007)
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Achieving health equity for all
Alan Maryon-Davis
BMJ  2007;335:522-523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39328.478044.80, (Published 6 September 2007)
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Problems with performance related pay in primary care
David S Wald
BMJ  2007;335:523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39329.384329.BE
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Dealing with scientific misconduct
Xavier Bosch
BMJ  2007;335:524-525, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39325.624618.BE
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Direct to consumer advertising of drugs in Europe
Nicola Magrini, Maria Font
BMJ  2007;335:526, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39310.506308.AD
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Spotting the sick child: Video clip is worth 1000 words
William A M Cutting
BMJ  2007;335:527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.441204.3A
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Spotting the sick child: Face to face always
Ffion C Davies
BMJ  2007;335:527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.422801.3A
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NICE behaviour: QALYs in the community
Andrew N Bamji
BMJ  2007;335:527-528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39325.446019.3A
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NICE behaviour: ME guideline is unworkable
Charles B Shepherd
BMJ  2007;335:528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.455706.3A
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Time to drop eponyms?: Curbing Medicalese is the issue
David J Ogden
BMJ  2007;335:528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.450995.3A
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Job for life: Satan what done it
Paul E Plsek
BMJ  2007;335:528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.411829.3A
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Job for life: Enlightenment, finally
James M Taylor
BMJ  2007;335:528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.421007.3A
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Primary care pays only "lip service" to clinical governance, MPs say
Michael Day
BMJ  2007;335:529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39336.502847.DB
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Record investment in NHS fails to improve productivity, Wanless finds
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;335:529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39336.545336.80
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Genome sequence of one individual is published for first time
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2007;335:530-531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.753009.94
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US medical authorities are accused of failing to act over doctors in Guantanamo
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2007;335:530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.601794.DB
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Teen suicide rate rises as prescribing of SSRIs falls, study finds
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2007;335:531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39334.760174.BE
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Regulator gives green light to research using human-animal embryos
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;335:531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39331.432037.47, (Published 6 September 2007)
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In Brief: News
BMJ  2007;335:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.519861.DB
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Off-label use of erythropoietin may be harmful, doctors are told
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2007;335:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.495289.DB
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New international health partnership is set up to improve delivery of aid
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2007;335:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.610394.DB
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Chikungunya fever is transmitted locally in Europe for first time
Rory Watson
BMJ  2007;335:532-533, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.708738.DB
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Two thirds favour organ donation, but only one in 20 take steps to facilitate it
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2007;335:533, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.479583.DB
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BMA calls for investigation into cost of MTAS
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2007;335:534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.615718.DB
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GPs and patients clash over use of premium rate phone lines
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2007;335:534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39334.746088.BE
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Doctors react angrily to withdrawal of free copies of BNF for students
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2007;335:534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39336.438067.DB
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Hospital closures: the great taboo
Nick Timmins
BMJ  2007;335:535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.652488.DB
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Number of bipolar disorder diagnoses leaps among US young people
New York
BMJ  2007;335:535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.363137.DB
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Israel's anaesthetists protest at plan to expand role of nurses
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  2007;335:535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.604954.DB
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Congressional staff are briefed on methamphetamine
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2007;335:535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39336.370139.DB
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Shortcuts from other journals: Patients do better when doctors follow guidelines
BMJ  2007;335:536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7619.536
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Shortcuts from other journals: Combined antihypertensive may not be as good as it looks for type 2 diabetes
BMJ  2007;335:536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7619.536-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: Impregnated catheters reduce bacteriuria and funguria in trauma patients
BMJ  2007;335:536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7619.536-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: Poor communicators attract complaints
BMJ  2007;335:536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7619.536-c
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Shortcuts from other journals: Erythropoietin not recommended for most critically ill patients
BMJ  2007;335:537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7619.537
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Shortcuts from other journals: US patients unharmed by shorter working hours for doctors
BMJ  2007;335:537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.399259.BE
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Shortcuts from other journals: Food additives impair children's behaviour
BMJ  2007;335:537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7619.537-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: New drug for atrial fibrillation passes its first test
BMJ  2007;335:537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7619.537-c
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Poverty and health: Improving health through wealth
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2007;335:538-539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39282.431100.AD
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Life and death: The blind leading the blind
Iona Heath
BMJ  2007;335:540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39331.651250.59
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Medicine and the media: Cosmetic surgery gets under Dutch skin
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2007;335:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.547442.59
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Response: Alzheimer's Society replies to Iain Chalmers
Neil Hunt
BMJ  2007;335:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39336.444282.59
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Tackling therapeutic inertia: role of treatment data in quality indicators
Bruce Guthrie, Melanie Inkster, Tom Fahey
BMJ  2007;335:542-544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39259.400069.AD
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Changes in child exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (CHETS) study after implementation of smoke-free legislation in Scotland: national cross sectional survey
Patricia C Akhtar, Dorothy B Currie, Candace E Currie, Sally J Haw
BMJ  2007;335:545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39311.550197.AE, (Published 9 September 2007)
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Changes in exposure of adult non-smokers to secondhand smoke after implementation of smoke-free legislation in Scotland: national cross sectional survey
Sally J Haw, Laurence Gruer
BMJ  2007;335:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39315.670208.47, (Published 9 September 2007)
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Smoking in the home after the smoke-free legislation in Scotland: qualitative study
Richard Phillips, Amanda Amos, Deborah Ritchie, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Claudia Martin
BMJ  2007;335:553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39301.497593.55, (Published 9 September 2007)
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Drug points: Calculate the QT interval in patients taking drugs for dementia
Andrew Leitch, Peter McGinness, David Wallbridge
BMJ  2007;335:557, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39020.710602.47
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Clinical review: Adult coeliac disease
Andrew D Hopper, Marios Hadjivassiliou, Sohail Butt, David S Sanders
BMJ  2007;335:558-562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39316.442338.AD
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Rational imaging: A painful hip
Philip J O'Connor
BMJ  2007;335:563-564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39239.420220.80
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Personal view: The dangers of disease specific programmes for developing countries
Roger England
BMJ  2007;335:565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.520463.94
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From the frontline: An inconvenient truth
Des Spence
BMJ  2007;335:566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.475891.59
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In and out of hospital: Forceps at dawn
James Owen Drife
BMJ  2007;335:566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39331.643484.59
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Between the lines: Live and let die
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2007;335:567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39289.491343.59
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Medical classics: The Plague
Jerome Kassirer
BMJ  2007;335:567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39317.641146.4E
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Review of the week: No patient is an island
Daniel K Sokol
BMJ  2007;335:568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39335.522141.59
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Minerva
BMJ  2007;335:570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.450845.471
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Minerva
Ali M Al-Ani, Kanna Ramaesh
BMJ  2007;335:570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39332.450845.47
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Trust me
Elizabeth M McEvoy
BMJ  2007;335:562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39294.533287.AD
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Endpiece: The whole
BMJ  2007;335:564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39195.779120.BD
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Is there a future in general practice?
Keith Taylor
BMJ  2007;335:s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39315.687928.7D, (Published 15 September 2007)
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Doc at the races
Keith M Porter, Michael Turner
BMJ  2007;335:s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39315.694803.7D, (Published 15 September 2007)
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Call me doctor
Nisar A Mir
BMJ  2007;335:s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39315.699641.7D, (Published 15 September 2007)
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Sharps injuries
Mark T Roberts
BMJ  2007;335:s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39315.709838.7D, (Published 15 September 2007)
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Sharps injuries
Eithne MacMahon
BMJ  2007;335:s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39315.705637.7D, (Published 15 September 2007)
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Saying sorry
Sabina Dosani
BMJ  2007;335:s95, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39331.680949.80, (Published 15 September 2007)
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When sorry seems to be the hardest word
William Sellar
BMJ  2007;335:s95-s96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39252.468067.CE, (Published 15 September 2007)
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NHS PASA—working to uphold standards in locum coverage
Carol Holroyd
BMJ  2007;335:s97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39224.440463.CE, (Published 15 September 2007)
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Gastroenterology
Neel Sharma
BMJ  2007;335:s99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39257.727593.7D, (Published 15 September 2007)
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Stand and deliver
Anthony Easton, Graham Easton
BMJ  2007;335:s100-s101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39317.826759.7D, (Published 15 September 2007)
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Succeeding as a Hospital Doctor—The Experts Share Their Secrets (3rd ed.)
Jonathan Dewhurst
BMJ  2007;335:s101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39317.849282.7D, (Published 15 September 2007)
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A doctor who writes
Tiago Villanueva
BMJ  2007;335:s102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39198.530532.CE, (Published 15 September 2007)
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This week's obituaries [PDF]

Alan Murray Baker
David Allbrook
BMJ  2007;335:569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39323.556701.BE
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William Keith Davidson
Mary W A Davidson
BMJ  2007;335:569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39330.736134.BE
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Albert Henry ("Harry") Hands
C A H Hands
BMJ  2007;335:569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39330.718137.BE
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Patricia Jordan (née Arnold)
Alan J Whitley
BMJ  2007;335:569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39323.640648.BE
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Terence Frederick Seaman
Peter Ham
BMJ  2007;335:569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39323.507049.BE
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Thomas Symington
Alan Symington
BMJ  2007;335:569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39329.734097.BE
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