Can we tame the monster?
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	New onset rectal bleeding should be investigated in everybody over 45 [Full text]

	Psychological treatments improve glycaemic control in children and adolescents with diabetes [Full text]

	Have England's road traffic injuries really fallen? [Full text]

	Drivers can assess when they are sleepy, but they don't act [Full text]

	Drivers of four wheel drive vehicles show risky driving behaviours [Full text]

Editorials

	Death and injury on roads
	Shanthi Ameratunga, Rod Jackson, Robyn Norton
	BMJ  2006;333:53-54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.53 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Colorectal cancer in primary care
	David Weller
	BMJ  2006;333:54-55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.54 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Support for young people with diabetes
	Carine de Beaufort, Peter Swift
	BMJ  2006;333:55-56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.55 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References]

	Better services and more choice in the NHS
	Paul Wallace, Ann Bowling, Jennifer A Roberts
	BMJ  2006;333:56-57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.56 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tuberculosis and social exclusion
	Alistair Story, Rob van Hest, Andrew Hayward
	BMJ  2006;333:57-58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.57 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Injury from lightning strike while using mobile phone: Statistics and physics do not suggest a link
	Ramsey M Faragher
	BMJ  2006;333:96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.96 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Injury from lightning strike while using mobile phone: Mobile phones are not lightning strike risk
	Chris W Althaus
	BMJ  2006;333:96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.96-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Sudden death is rare in young people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
	David S Wald, Malcolm Law
	BMJ  2006;333:96-97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.96-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Combination of blockers and verapamil may be risky
	Javier Borja, Iñaki Izquierdo, Josep Guindo
	BMJ  2006;333:97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.97 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Authors' reply
	Paolo Spirito, Camillo Autore
	BMJ  2006;333:97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.97-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	American Psychiatric Association clarifies its position on human rights
	Steven S Sharfstein
	BMJ  2006;333:97-98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.97-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths on acute hospital wards
	Jane Gibbins, Colette Reid, Carolyn Campbell, Catherine Blinman, Zena Kassim, Candida Cornish
	BMJ  2006;333:98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.98 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human health resources are key to HIV treatment in Africa
	Ntambwe Malangu
	BMJ  2006;333:98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.98-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Does the UK have the highest paid doctors in Europe?
	H E Mackay, M R Cope
	BMJ  2006;333:98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.98-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training doctors in the new English NHS: Political correctness or evidence based education?
	Nicola A Cooper
	BMJ  2006;333:99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.99 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training doctors in the new English NHS: Hidden agenda is obvious
	Nicholas J Sarkies
	BMJ  2006;333:99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.99-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training doctors in the new English NHS: The real challenge to the medical profession
	James Penston
	BMJ  2006;333:99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.99-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Does continuing medical education work?
	Christopher M Buttery
	BMJ  2006;333:99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.99-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Adverse incidents in NHS are still under-reported
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2006;333:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Healthcare group agrees $500m settlement for unnecessary surgery
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2006;333:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.59-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;333:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.60 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health spending rising faster than GDP in most rich countries
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2006;333:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.60-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	UK government accused of privatising the NHS
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;333:61, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.61 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Doctors say no to more privatisation of NHS in England
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;333:61, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.61-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	NEJM joins US debate on abortion and emergency contraception
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:63, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.63-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Doctors backtrack on assisted suicide
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;333:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.64 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Department sends doctors’ productivity data to trusts in value for money bid
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;333:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.62 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Paying hospitals for better performance saves lives, study says
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.62-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Art for health’s sake
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;333:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.62-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UN reports poor progress on millennium goals in Africa
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2006;333:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.62-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Botched circumcisions kill 14 boys in a month
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2006;333:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.62-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Roche’s tiered pricing enables poorer countries to stockpile drugs
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2006;333:63, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.63 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Safeguards for people who lack capacity to consent are inadequate
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;333:63, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.63-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Complacency over sexually transmitted infections leads to rise in cases
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2006;333:63, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.63-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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	UK research gets £84m boost
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2006;333:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.64-a [Extract] [Full text]

	AIDS and malnutrition inextricably linked
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2006;333:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.64-b [Extract] [Full text]

	UK government attacks European ruling on MRI scanners
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2006;333:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.64-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Diethylstilbestrol increases risk of breast cancer death
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;333:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.64-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Inquiry into Welsh E coli outbreak opens in Cardiff
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;333:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.64-e [Extract] [Full text]

	MPs say government scheme for GPs’ premises threatens other primary care needs
	Remi Guillochon
	BMJ  2006;333:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.64-f [Extract] [Full text]

Research

	Psychological interventions to improve glycaemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Kirsty Winkley, Sabine Landau, Ivan Eisler, Khalida Ismail
	BMJ  2006;333:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38874.652569.55, (Published 27 June 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Risk in primary care of colorectal cancer from new onset rectal bleeding: 10 year prospective study
	Jennifer du Toit, William Hamilton, Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2006;333:69-70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38846.684850.2F, (Published 21 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Unsafe driving behaviour and four wheel drive vehicles: observational study
	Lesley Walker, Jonathan Williams, Konrad Jamrozik
	BMJ  2006;333:71, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38848.627731.2F, (Published 23 June 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changes in safety on England's roads: analysis of hospital statistics
	Mike Gill, Michael J Goldacre, David G R Yeates
	BMJ  2006;333:73, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38883.593831.4F, (Published 23 June 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra figure] FREE

	Awareness of driving while sleepy and road traffic accidents: prospective study in GAZEL cohort
	Hermann Nabi, Alice Guéguen, Mireille Chiron, Sylviane Lafont, Marie Zins, Emmanuel Lagarde
	BMJ  2006;333:75, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38863.638194.AE, (Published 23 June 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Current concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of typhoid fever
	Zulfiqar A Bhutta
	BMJ  2006;333:78-82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.78 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

Practice

	Cases in primary care laboratory medicine: Testing pitfalls and summary of guidance in lipid management
	W Stuart A Smellie
	BMJ  2006;333:83-86, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.83 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Acute exacerbations
	Graeme P Currie, Jadwiga A Wedzicha
	BMJ  2006;333:87-89, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.87 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;333:90-91, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.90 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Drug regulation: Did regulators fail over selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors?
	David Healy
	BMJ  2006;333:92-95, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.92 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Film: How Bollywood came to a Welsh hospital
	Naomi Marks
	BMJ  2006;333:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.101 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: When Bollywood came to Wales: see movie clip]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2006;333:102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.102 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Age of Melancholy: Major Depression and its Social Origins
	Philip Thomas
	BMJ  2006;333:102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.102-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal view: Senior doctors must stay part of the picture
	Peter Mahaffey
	BMJ  2006;333:103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.103 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings: Suicidal thinking
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2006;333:103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.103-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;333:104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.104 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Children in care have a high risk of mental illness as adolescents and young adults
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Befriending illness
	Geoffrey Marsh
	BMJ  2006;333:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.70 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Separating a septum sandwich
	A C Leong
	BMJ  2006;333:82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.82 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: A 22 year old man with persistent regurgitation and vomiting
	BMJ  2006;333:95, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.95 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: Was that course you went on any good?
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2006;333:95, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.95-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Achieving the millennium development goals for health: Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies to combat malaria in developing countries
	BMJ  2006;333:86, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.86 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	The overseas plot thickens...
	BMJ  2006;333:s12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s12, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	... and gets even thicker
	BMJ  2006;333:s12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s12-a, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	GP training cuts
	BMJ  2006;333:s12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s12-b, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Beach bum
	BMJ  2006;333:s12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s12-c, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Treating nasty diseases
	BMJ  2006;333:s12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s12-d, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The drugs don't work
	BMJ  2006;333:s12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s12-e, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Registration may extend to students
	BMJ  2006;333:s12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s12-f, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Feedback
	BMJ  2006;333:s12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s12-g, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	And finally
	BMJ  2006;333:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s12-h, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;333:gp13, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.sgp13, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;333:s13, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s13, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Creating a website
	Will Allen
	BMJ  2006;333:s13-s14, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s13-a, (Published 8 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Good information technology makes life easier but doctors are often reluctant to try it
	Mark Wills
	BMJ  2006;333:s15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s15, (Published 8 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Software solutions
	Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
	BMJ  2006;333:s16, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s16, (Published 8 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Core skills in operative orthopaedic surgery
	Alex Ashmore
	BMJ  2006;333:s17, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s17, (Published 8 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Back to BASICS
	Nadia Khan
	BMJ  2006;333:s18-s19, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s18, (Published 8 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	MPhil in medical law
	Christopher Danbury
	BMJ  2006;333:gp20, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.sgp20, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Teaching and Learning in Primary Care
	Bill Irish
	BMJ  2006;333:gp20, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.sgp20-a, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	MPhil in medical law
	Christopher Danbury
	BMJ  2006;333:s20, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s20, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	MRCS revision
	Samiul Muquit
	BMJ  2006;333:s20, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.s20-a, (Published 8 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Christina Aitkenhead Herron (née Crawford)
	Lorna Robinson
	BMJ  2006;333:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.100 [Extract] [Full text]

	Stella Aleruchi Nduka (née Maxwell-Owhochuku)
	N K Offonry
	BMJ  2006;333:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.100-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Gordon Nicholson
	Jimmie Nicholson
	BMJ  2006;333:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.100-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Lucy O'Brien
	John Kelly
	BMJ  2006;333:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.100-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ian Ross Russell
	Rob Ross Russell
	BMJ  2006;333:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7558.100-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

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