10 September 2005(vol 331, issue 7516)

This Week In the BMJ

• Extension studies need tighter ethical scrutiny

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• Did cardiovascular prevention guidelines go over the top?

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• Women doctors are challenging entrenched attitudes in the UK

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• Chronic stress protects from breast cancer

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• Treatment options for alcoholism haven't advanced

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Editor's Choice

• The kindness of strangers

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Editorials

• Is the UN broken, and can we fix it?

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• Funding the public health response to terrorism

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• British drinking: a suitable case for treatment?

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• Regulating the drugs industry transparently

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• SSRIs and gastrointestinal bleeding

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Letters

• Labour's “Black report” moment?

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• Making prison health care more efficient: The cost may be higher than the price

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• Making prison health care more efficient: Europe's initiative and progress should be noted

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• Preventing severe infection after splenectomy: What about old splenectomies?

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• Preventing severe infection after splenectomy: Risk of malaria and meningitis increases with asplenia

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• Preventing severe infection after splenectomy: Authors' reply

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• Embracing Cicely Saunders's concept of total pain

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• Cardiac impairment or heart failure?: What about “cardiovascular insufficiency syndrome”?

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• Cardiac impairment or heart failure?: “Impairment” is no less alarming or confusing than “failure”

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• Cardiac impairment or heart failure?: Changing the name has knock-on effects

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• Cardiac impairment or heart failure?: What do patients really think?

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• Cardiac impairment or heart failure?: Time for total political correctness?

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News

• US government declares emergency after Hurricane Katrina

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• In brief

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• FDA official resigns over emergency contraception decision

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• Criticism of US fetal pain study escalates

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• Global Fund calls for increased AIDS funding

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• Newer antihypertensive therapy reduces cardiovascular events

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• UK research funding bodies unite against bioterrorism threat

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• UK GP activity exceeds expectations

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• Judges support doctors' decision to stop treating dying man

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Short cuts

• What's new in the other general journals

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Clinical Reviews

• In utero magnetic resonance imaging for brain and spinal abnormalities in fetuses

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• What is health information?

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Minerva

• Minerva

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• UK government fails to tackle weaknesses in drug industry

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• Study highlights extent of medication errors in hospitals

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• Health consequences after Chernobyl disaster are less than feared

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• Dutch government rejects tough measures on genital mutilation

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• Passive smoking increases children's risk of nasal cancer

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• European public are unaware of heart failure symptoms

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• Imported syringes triggered meningitis in Sri Lanka

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Court ruling ends Patel inquiry

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Dr Foster's case notes

• Variation in operation rates by primary care trust

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BMJ family highlights

• What's new this month in BMJ Journals

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Papers

• Effectiveness of treatment for alcohol problems: findings of the randomised UK alcohol treatment trial (UKATT)

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• Cost effectiveness of treatment for alcohol problems: findings of the randomised UK alcohol treatment trial (UKATT)

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• Self reported stress and risk of breast cancer: prospective cohort study

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Primary care

• Estimating the high risk group for cardiovascular disease in the Norwegian HUNT 2 population according to the 2003 European guidelines: modelling study

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Learning in practice

• Intellectual aptitude tests and A levels for selecting UK school leaver entrants for medical school

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• The benefits of aptitude testing for selecting medical students

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• What the educators are saying

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Education and debate

• Women doctors and their careers: what now?

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• Open label extension studies: research or marketing?

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Reviews

• The Healing Touch: 500 years of Scots in sickness and health

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• Who's Who in Orthopedics

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• Asylum

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• Health care in the eye of the storm

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• Revalidation: a view from Africa

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• The past is another country

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Fillers

• Reserve angiography and revascularisation for high risk patients with ongoing ischaemia

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-e (Published 08 September 2005)

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• Disease and fashion

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• Transformational leadership

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• The rules

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• Advice

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Obituaries

• John H C Ho

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• Mohammed Hussain Al Saadi (“Abu Alaa”)

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• Barnett Hilary Bass

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• Keith Bernard Rogers

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• Norman Ronald Sales

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