A time for courage
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	Fondaparinux reduces thromboembolism in elderly medical patients [Full text]

	Babies of HBsAg positive mothers should be immunised [Full text]

	Primary care has to be considered in STI surveillance [Full text]

	Displaced survivors of tsunami had reduced mortality [Full text]

	Case reports of suspected adverse drug reactions are of limited value [Full text]

Editorials

	The tobacco industry in developing countries
	Ernesto Sebrié, Stanton A Glantz
	BMJ  2006;332:313-314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.313 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details]

	President Bush's proposals for healthcare reform
	Uwe Reinhardt
	BMJ  2006;332:314-315, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.314 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A new direction for NHS community services
	Richard Q Lewis
	BMJ  2006;332:315-316, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.315 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is amiodarone safe in heart failure?
	Michele Coceani, Rita Mariotti
	BMJ  2006;332:317-318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.317 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research and development in stroke services
	Damian Jenkinson, Gary A Ford
	BMJ  2006;332:318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.318 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

Letters

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	Partial smoking ban would worsen health inequalities
	Geraint H Lewis, David C Osborne, Tim J B Crayford, Adrian C Brown
	BMJ  2006;332:362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.362 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sex workers to pay the price: Prostitution strategy is a missed opportunity
	Sam Ramaiah
	BMJ  2006;332:362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.362-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sex workers to pay the price: A street sex worker responds to new government strategy
	Linda Cusick
	BMJ  2006;332:362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.362-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Turning round NHS deficits: ...is more difficult for PCTs
	Hilary G Pickles
	BMJ  2006;332:363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.363 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Turning round NHS deficits: Who says there are surplus hospital beds?
	Peter G Davies
	BMJ  2006;332:363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.363-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Turning round NHS deficits: Deficits are not for turning
	David Churchill
	BMJ  2006;332:363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.363-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Turning round NHS deficits: Clinical governance, 1998-2006: RIP
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  2006;332:363-364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.363-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Venous thromboembolism: Potentially dangerous diagnostic pitfalls arise from diagnostic tests
	Oscar M Jolobe
	BMJ  2006;332:364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.364 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Venous thromboembolism: Stockings are important
	Daniel A Shaerf
	BMJ  2006;332:364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.364-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Venous thromboembolism: Heparins are of porcine origin
	Colin White
	BMJ  2006;332:364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.364-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnostics is not Cinderella of health technology assessment
	John Gabbay, Tom Walley
	BMJ  2006;332:364-365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.364-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Students validate problem based learning
	J Burke, R G Matthew, M Field, D Lloyd
	BMJ  2006;332:365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.365 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Research governance is important
	Mick E Bond
	BMJ  2006;332:365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.365-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Half of extra money for the NHS has gone on pay rises
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2006;332:319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.319 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;332:320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.320 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patient takes her fight for trastuzumab to the High Court
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.320-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US primary care is on verge of collapse, says doctors' body
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.320-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Inhaled insulin is approved in Europe and United States
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2006;332:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.321 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Study shows that tobacco firms covertly hired scientists
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;332:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.321-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	UK trainee doctors spurn obstetrics and gynaecology
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2006;332:323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.323-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Published death rates may distort work of Scottish surgical "heroes"
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2006;332:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.324 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rebuilding of Afghanistan is hampered by the Taliban
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2006;332:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.324-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	UK defies US by funding abortion programmes
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;332:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.322 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Charities laud Scotland’s free personal care for elderly people
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2006;332:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.322-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Italy introduces “baby boxes” to save lives of abandoned newborns
	Clare Chapman
	BMJ  2006;332:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.322-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK report supports EU proposals to test drugs in children
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.322-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors with history of drug misuse will face spot checks
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.322-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Saw palmetto extract is not effective for benign prostatic hyperplasia
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2006;332:323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.323 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Watchdog rules that Merck violated the UK industry code of practice
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.323-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New coroners’ system to be set up in England and Wales
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.323-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Twin study shows that genetic factors influence the development and timing of Alzheimer’s disease
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.324-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Scottish study will look at genetic and lifestyle causes of ill health in families
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2006;332:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.324-c [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS prescription charges work against aims of new white paper
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2006;332:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.324-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Scientists refute claims that pesticides cause ill health
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2006;332:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.324-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Spain’s smoking restrictions spark tobacco price war
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2006;332:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.324-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Bid to cut waiting lists has pushed safety down NHS agenda
	Lisa Hitchen
	BMJ  2006;332:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.324-g [Extract] [Full text]

Research

	Efficacy and safety of fondaparinux for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in older acute medical patients: randomised placebo controlled trial
	Alexander T Cohen, Bruce L Davidson, Alexander S Gallus, Michael R Lassen, Martin H Prins, Witold Tomkowski, Alexander G G Turpie, Jan F M Egberts, Anthonie W A Lensing, ARTEMIS Investigators
	BMJ  2006;332:325-329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38733.466748.7C, (Published 26 January 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: ARTEMIS group members][extra: Spanish version: Versi�n en espa�ol pdf][extra: Italian translation] FREE

	Effect of hepatitis B immunisation in newborn infants of mothers positive for hepatitis B surface antigen: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Chuanfang Lee, Yan Gong, Jesper Brok, Elizabeth H Boxall, Christian Gluud
	BMJ  2006;332:328-336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38719.435833.7C, (Published 27 January 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

	Trends in sexually transmitted infections in general practice 1990-2000: population based study using data from the UK general practice research database
	Jackie A Cassell, Catherine H Mercer, Lorna Sutcliffe, Irene Petersen, Amir Islam, M Gary Brook, Jonathan D Ross, George R Kinghorn, Ian Simms, Gwenda Hughes, Azeem Majeed, Judith M Stephenson, Anne M Johnson, Andrew C Hayward
	BMJ  2006;332:332-334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38726.404120.7C, (Published 26 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Timing of mortality among internally displaced persons due to the tsunami in Sri Lanka: cross sectional household survey
	Nobuyuki Nishikiori, Tomoko Abe, Dehiwala G M Costa, Samath D Dharmaratne, Osamu Kunii, Kazuhiko Moji
	BMJ  2006;332:334-335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38693.465023.7C, (Published 6 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Case reports of suspected adverse drug reactions—systematic literature survey of follow-up
	Yoon Kong Loke, Deirdre Price, Sheena Derry, Jeffrey K Aronson
	BMJ  2006;332:335-339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38701.399942.63, (Published 18 January 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

Clinical review

	The first seizure and its management in adults and children
	Bernd Pohlmann-Eden, Ettore Beghi, Carol Camfield, Peter Camfield
	BMJ  2006;332:339-342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.339 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Identifying a hepatitis B outbreak by molecular surveillance: a case study
	N Fisker, N L T Carlsen, H J Kolmos, L Tønning-Sørensen, A Høst, P B Christensen
	BMJ  2006;332:343-345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.343 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Opiate toxicity in patients with renal failure
	B R Conway, D G Fogarty, W E Nelson, C C Doherty
	BMJ  2006;332:345-346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.345 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of wound healing: Venous and arterial leg ulcers
	Joseph E Grey, Keith G Harding, Stuart Enoch
	BMJ  2006;332:347-350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.347 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;332:351-352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.351 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Public health: Mexico and the tobacco industry: doing the wrong thing for the right reason?
	Jonathan Samet, Heather Wipfli, Rogelio Perez-Padilla, Derek Yach
	BMJ  2006;332:353-354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.353 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	Public health: British American Tobacco's erosion of health legislation in Uzbekistan
	Anna B Gilmore, Jeff Collin, Martin McKee
	BMJ  2006;332:355-358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.355 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	Health policy: Applying clinical epidemiological methods to health equity: the equity effectiveness loop
	Peter Tugwell, Don de Savigny, Gillian Hawker, Vivian Robinson
	BMJ  2006;332:358-361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.358 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

Reviews

	TV: Panorama: Herceptin: Wanting the Wonder Drug
	Joe Collier
	BMJ  2006;332:368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.368 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: The Secret Life of Dr Chandra
	Terry Hamblin
	BMJ  2006;332:369, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.369 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Theatre: Thalidomide!! A Musical
	Aula Abbara, Huda Al-Hadithy
	BMJ  2006;332:369, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.369-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2006;332:370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.370 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal views: Changing titles
	Sam Ramaiah
	BMJ  2006;332:370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.370-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Defending referrals between consultants
	Michael Goodman
	BMJ  2006;332:371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.371 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings: Great Toe of This Assembly
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2006;332:371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.371-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;332:372, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.372 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Diclofenac gel provides modest pain relief for people with osteoarthritis in one knee
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Students forever
	Sadananda B Naik
	BMJ  2006;332:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.346 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Memorable patients: Prisoners of war
	Ian D Conacher
	BMJ  2006;332:350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.350 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2006;332:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.367-h [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	What are the implications of withdrawing from an SHO post after accepting it?
	Trevor Pickersgill
	BMJ  2006;332:s52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s52, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am an A level student wanting a career in medical research. Would a degree in medicine or one in an academic discipline, such as physiology, be more useful? If I were to opt for medicine, would it be a problem that I have little intention of becoming a doctor and therefore little evidence that I am interested in the field?
	Howard Clark
	BMJ  2006;332:s52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s52-a, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I will complete my postgraduate degree (MD in anaesthesia) in India in March 2006, and I have passed the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test part 2. However, the current situation for overseas doctors in the UK and the development of super specialties in the field of anaesthesia in India is making me think twice before I move to the UK. What should I do?
	Peter Shirley
	BMJ  2006;332:s52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s52-b, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:gp53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.sgp53, (Published 11 February 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:s53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s53, (Published 11 February 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Working for the drug industry
	Elaine Ford
	BMJ  2006;332:s53-s54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s53-a, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postgraduate trainers: the new "lost tribe"
	Ray Clarke
	BMJ  2006;332:s55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s55, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New tax legislation and the world of business angels
	James Ward
	BMJ  2006;332:s56-s57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s56, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical mentoring on the phone
	Susan E Kersley
	BMJ  2006;332:gp58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.sgp58, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Setting up a research project as an SHO, and getting it published: part 2
	Amar Alwitry
	BMJ  2006;332:s58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s58, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The World Medical and Health Games: the annual Olympics for medics
	Thiru Siva
	BMJ  2006;332:s59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s59, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fifteen minutes with... Professor Sir John Lilleyman
	BMJ  2006;332:s60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s60, (Published 11 February 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A great clinical teacher
	Sudhir Kalaskar
	BMJ  2006;332:s60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.s60-a, (Published 11 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Sir John Peel
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2006;332:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.366 [Extract] [Full text]

	Alan Margeston Harris
	Stuart D Rosen, Aubrey Leatham
	BMJ  2006;332:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.367 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Philip John Pegg
	David E Pegg
	BMJ  2006;332:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.367-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Lucien Read
	Pauline Edgson
	BMJ  2006;332:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.367-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Denis Wilson Robertson
	Derek Bull
	BMJ  2006;332:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.367-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Cecilia Valentine Russell (née Urquhart)
	Hilary Lancaster
	BMJ  2006;332:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.367-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mathew Philip Thoppil
	Joseph Thoppil
	BMJ  2006;332:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.367-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Kenneth Johnstone Walls
	L M Adams
	BMJ  2006;332:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.367-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mary Lorraine Whiteside (née Stringer)
	Trevor Whiteside
	BMJ  2006;332:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.367-g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

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