30 August 2008(vol 337, issue 7668)

Editor's Choice

• Big subjects: education and obesity

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1448 (Published 27 August 2008)

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Editorials

• Continuing medical education in the 21st century

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a119 (Published 22 August 2008)

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• Informed consent and palliative chemotherapy

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a868 (Published 31 July 2008)

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• Obesity in children

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a669 (Published 21 August 2008)

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• Complications of type 1 diabetes in adolescents

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a770 (Published 26 August 2008)

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Letters

• Limitations of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT)

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1402 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Interpret surgical outcome data with care

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1401 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• QOF and public health priorities don’t improve care in ageing

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1403 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Don’t forget children and fathers

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1414 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Ayurvedic herbal extract has evidence base cough syrup lacks

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1413 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Public health exposes jargon epidemic

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1415 (Published 27 August 2008)

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News

• WHO calls for better living conditions to reduce health gap

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1451 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Australia to try US-style physician assistants

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1407 (Published 21 August 2008)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1439 (Published 26 August 2008)

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• NICE is accused of “jockeying for position” in new drug pricing scheme

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1422 (Published 22 August 2008)

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• Diabetes care needs to focus more on ethnic inequalities, say experts

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1421 (Published 22 August 2008)

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• Pakistani doctors protest about terrorist attack on hospital

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1426 (Published 26 August 2008)

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• France, Italy, and Spain split from EU doctors’ lobby group

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1433 (Published 26 August 2008)

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• Palliative care in Scotland is too focused on cancer, says national report

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1428 (Published 26 August 2008)

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• Poor economy means more Americans have trouble paying medical bills

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1430 (Published 26 August 2008)

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• Professors call for review of way cancer drugs in NHS are rationed

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1450 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Number of items dispensed in Wales rose by 5% after prescriptions became free

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1444 (Published 27 August 2008)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1423 (Published 26 August 2008)

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Feature

• Is the relationship between pharma and medical education on the rocks?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a925 (Published 14 August 2008)

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• Pharma and CME: View from the US

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1023 (Published 14 August 2008)

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• End of the free lunch?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1399 (Published 26 August 2008)

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Observations

• New Labour shows its true colours over the blues

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1412 (Published 22 August 2008)

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Analysis

• Rethinking continuing medical education

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a973 (Published 14 August 2008)

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Research

• What oncologists tell patients about survival benefits of palliative chemotherapy and implications for informed consent: qualitative study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a752 (Published 31 July 2008)

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• Role of blood pressure in development of early retinopathy in adolescents with type 1 diabetes: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a918 (Published 26 August 2008)

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• Do overweight children necessarily make overweight adults? Repeated cross sectional annual nationwide survey of Japanese girls and women over nearly six decades

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a802 (Published 21 August 2008)

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Clinical Review

• Hypercholesterolaemia and its management

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a993 (Published 21 August 2008)

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Practice

• Familial hypercholesterolaemia: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1095 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Commentary: Controversies in NICE guidance on familial hypercholesterolaemia

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1304 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Qualitative research methodologies: ethnography

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1020 (Published 07 August 2008)

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• The trouble with blood pressure cuffs

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a431 (Published 31 July 2008)

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Views & Reviews

• Incapacity benefit reform and the politics of ill health

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1452 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• History on a knife edge

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1362 (Published 20 August 2008)

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• Clinical ethics comes of age

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1443 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Team MB

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1449 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Sunrise, sunset

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1431 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• The wisdom of Falstaff

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1417 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Aphorisms and Facetiae of Bela Schick

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1358 (Published 27 August 2008)

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Obituaries

• John Raymond Hobbs

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1434 (Published 26 August 2008)

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• Eric Aylmer Burkitt

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1316 (Published 15 August 2008)

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• Anthony John Fogarty

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1391 (Published 22 August 2008)

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• Mary Ethel Inekhomo Obiyan

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1393 (Published 22 August 2008)

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• James O’Reilly

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1392 (Published 22 August 2008)

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• Charles Frederick Rolland

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1383 (Published 22 August 2008)

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• Peter George Smith

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1222 (Published 08 August 2008)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1396 (Published 27 August 2008)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1153 (Published 27 August 2008)

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Filler

• Patients are volunteers

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a554 (Published 21 August 2008)

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