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How should painful bladder syndrome in women be managed? Why is it easy to miss cow's milk allergy in children? To find out more about this week's <i>BMJ</i> print issue, read Trish Groves's editor's choice, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3186">An embarrassment of riches</a>, and the print issue's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/current.dtl">table of contents</a>. 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The accompanying <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b2476">editorial</a> agrees that steroids reduce pain in the first day but points out that data on harms are lacking. </p> </div> <div id="Item"> <h2>Research</h2> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3058">Five year prognosis in patients with angina identified in primary care</a></h3> <p>In patients with angina in primary care, male sex is significantly associated with subsequent acute myocardial infarction, death related to heart disease, or death from any cause. Prevention of subsequent acute myocardial infarction is important in patients with a diagnosis of angina to avoid a significantly increased risk of death. </p> </div> <div id="Item"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3255"><img src="/web/20090808134949im_/http://www.bmj.com/channels/icons/aidsafrica.jpg " width="160" height="110" border="0" alt="subsidies for ehalthcare in developing countries" class="Photo"></a> <h2>News</h2> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3255">Uganda runs out of antiretroviral drugs after shortfall in aid</a></h3> <p>Ugandan government ministers have warned that the country is running out of AIDS drugs, blaming the global financial crisis and a successful testing policy. The health ministry says that only 190 000 patients receive antiretroviral drugs out of the 357 000 who qualify for them. </p> <p><strong>Also published on 7 August:</strong><br/> <ul> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3210">More effort needed to prevent unintentional drug poisoning in children</a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3235">MPs call for better treatment of court witnesses with mental health problems</a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3258">Security Council votes to name and shame people who abuse children in conflict</a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3263">Officials watch events in southern hemisphere as swine flu rates in UK slow down</a></li> </ul> </p> </div> <div id="Item"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.40024.494213.4D"><img src="/web/20090808134949im_/http://www.bmj.com/channels/icons/merck.jpg " width="160" height="110" border="0" alt="Merck logo" class="Photo"></a> <h2>Comment</h2> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.40024.494213.4D">Battle over popular bone drug Fosamax bursts into court</a></h3> <p>In this feature Ray Moynihan finds that a New York judge has revealed internal Merck discussions about a possible link between its widely prescribed drug (alendronic acid or alendronate sodium) and dead jaw syndrome. </p> <p><strong>Other comment published on 7 August:</strong><br/> <ul> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3168">BMJ pico for original research in the print BMJ</a></li> </p> </div> <div id="Item"> <img src="/web/20090808134949im_/http://www.bmj.com/channels/icons/endgames_chess.jpg" width="160" height="110" border="0" alt="pandemic flu" class="Photo"></a> <h2>Education</h2> <h3>Endgames</h3> <p>Endgames is the <i>BMJ's</i> free interactive quiz to help doctors prepare for their postgraduate examinations. Questions are made up of case reports and picture quizzes, providing you with a practical and quick revision tool for common topics rather than clinical rarities. Help us to develop Endgames further by completing our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.groupbmj.com/se.ashx?s=705E3ED5263FA24A">online survey</a>. <br/> <strong>This week's Endgames articles:</strong><br/> <ul> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b2870">Case report: Abdominal pain and swelling </a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b2920">Picture quiz: Exertional dyspnoea and abnormal chest radiography</a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3130">Statistical question: Number needed to treat </a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b3133">OnExamination quiz: Palliative care </a></li> </ul> </p> </div> <div id="Item"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/video/"><img src="/web/20090808134949im_/http://www.bmj.com/channels/icons/crofton.jpg " width="160" height="110" border="0" alt="John Crofton" class="Photo"></a> <h2>Video</h2> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090808134949/http://www.bmj.com/video/">The TB trials</a></h3> <p>John Crofton pioneered the randomised controlled trial in a 1948 BMJ paper which looked at the antibiotic streptomycin to treat TB. 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