B is for British
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Lidocaine spray doesn't reduce perineal pain [Full text]

	Poor children are more likely to die from injury [Full text]

	Worm treatment improves weight gain in Ugandan preschool children [Full text]

	Improving knowledge on female genital mutilation [Full text]

	How to manage cataract [Full text]

Editorials

	Mass deworming in Ugandan children
	Mickey Chopra
	BMJ  2006;333:105, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.105 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Female genital mutilation: whose problem, whose solution?
	Ronán M Conroy
	BMJ  2006;333:106-107, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.106 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reform of investigation of deaths
	Richard Baker, Stephen Cordner
	BMJ  2006;333:107-108, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.107 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Analgesia in the second stage of labour
	Michel Boulvain, Michel-Ange Morales
	BMJ  2006;333:108-109, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.108 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Failed asylum seekers and health care
	Peter Hall
	BMJ  2006;333:109-110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.109 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	To opt in or opt out of electronic patient records?: Isle of Wight and Scottish projects are not opt out schemes
	Paul R Cundy, Alan Hassey
	BMJ  2006;333:146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.146 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	To opt in or opt out of electronic patient records?: Integration technology is key to success
	Jon M Orrell
	BMJ  2006;333:146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.146-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	To opt in or opt out of electronic patient records?: Electronic patient record is incompatible with confidentiality
	Michael Foley
	BMJ  2006;333:146-147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.146-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	To opt in or opt out of electronic patient records?: Poor training of locums in using hospital computer systems poses risk
	Amir Ismail, Muhammad Ismail
	BMJ  2006;333:147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.147 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	To opt in or opt out of electronic patient records?: Analogy for soft paternalism in shared electronic records is flawed
	Anthony P Winston
	BMJ  2006;333:147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.147-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS has not learnt IT lessons from 1999
	Christopher Oliver
	BMJ  2006;333:147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.147-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hip fracture: heparin is for thromboembolic prophylaxis
	Michael L Jenkinson
	BMJ  2006;333:147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.147-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient involvement in health care will improve quality
	Robert Hunter, Rosie Cameron
	BMJ  2006;333:147-148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.147-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cholesterol and risk of stroke: Cholesterol, stroke, and age
	Anton J M de Craen, Gerard J Blauw, Rudi G J Westendorp
	BMJ  2006;333:148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.148 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cholesterol and risk of stroke: Study lumps apples and oranges
	Bruce Ovbiagele
	BMJ  2006;333:148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.148-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cholesterol and risk of stroke: The Japanese comparison
	Malcolm E Kendrick
	BMJ  2006;333:148-149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.148-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thinking the unthinkable: selling kidneys
	Kuldip P Anand, Ajit Kashyap, Surekha Kashyap
	BMJ  2006;333:149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.149 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Say no to the market: Time to mobilise in the political arena
	Steven Ford
	BMJ  2006;333:149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.149-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Say no to the market: Say yes to the market
	Geoffrey M Knox
	BMJ  2006;333:149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.149-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Say no to the market: Might as well say no to the weather
	L S Lewis
	BMJ  2006;333:149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.149-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Strokes should be taken as seriously as heart attacks, MPs say
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2006;333:111, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.111 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC and attorney general challenge immunity for witnesses
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;333:111, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.111-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;333:112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.112 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Publicly funded research in the UK must be freely accessible
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;333:112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.112-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In the line of inquiry
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;333:112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.112-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs are told to tender for their own practice
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;333:113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.113 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Dutch consider excluding costly treatments from health insurance
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2006;333:113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.113-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Crime victims are given right to object to disclosure of their medical records to courts
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;333:115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.115-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Send for Kochi
	Christiane Rehwagen
	BMJ  2006;333:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.116 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Three in five NHS trusts in England fail on basic care
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;333:114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.114 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Firm involved in drug trial fiasco files for bankruptcy
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;333:114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.114-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Beauty and horrors of the molecular world
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2006;333:114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.114-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Two in five practices have expressed an interest in commissioning
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2006;333:114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.114-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	CDC recommends expensive vaccine for all girls aged 11-12
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.114-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	All India Institute staff is split over attempt to dismiss director
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2006;333:115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.115 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	South Africa blames deaths of 22 infants on the legacy of apartheid
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2006;333:115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.115-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Poor leadership is blamed for financial problems in NHS
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;333:115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.115-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Australian court suppresses report questioning effectiveness of complementary remedy
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2006;333:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.116-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Community hospitals still face problems, despite extra £750m
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;333:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.116-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Care for people with learning disabilities is to be audited
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2006;333:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.116-c [Extract] [Full text]

	EU countries disagree over stockpiling drugs for flu pandemic
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2006;333:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.116-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Germany proposes radical plans to tackle financial crisis in health care
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2006;333:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.116-e [Extract] [Full text]

	NEJM “failed its readers” by delay in publishing its concerns about VIGOR trial
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;333:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.116-f [Extract] [Full text]

Research

	Effectiveness and acceptability of lidocaine spray in reducing perineal pain during spontaneous vaginal delivery: randomised controlled trial
	Julia Sanders, Rona Campbell, Tim J Peters
	BMJ  2006;333:117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38878.833241.7C, (Published 28 June 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Deaths from injury in children and employment status in family: analysis of trends in class specific death rates
	Phil Edwards, Ian Roberts, Judith Green, Suzanne Lutchmun
	BMJ  2006;333:119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38875.757488.4F, (Published 7 July 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Effect on weight gain of routinely giving albendazole to preschool children during child health days in Uganda: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Harold Alderman, Joseph Konde-Lule, Isaac Sebuliba, Donald Bundy, Andrew Hall
	BMJ  2006;333:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38877.393530.7C, (Published 21 June 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

	Reliability of self reported form of female genital mutilation and WHO classification: cross sectional study
	Susan Elmusharaf, Nagla Elhadi, Lars Almroth
	BMJ  2006;333:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38873.649074.55, (Published 27 June 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Cataract and surgery for cataract
	David Allen, Abhay Vasavada
	BMJ  2006;333:128-132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.128 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Interactive case report: A 22 year old man with persistent regurgitation and vomiting: case outcome
	Mark Fox, Alasdair Young, Roy Anggiansah, Angela Anggiansah, Jeremy Sanderson
	BMJ  2006;333:133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.133 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	Commentary: Patient's view
	Kenneth Neville, Mark Fox
	BMJ  2006;333:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.134 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Wide angle thinking helps patients with distressing illness
	Ed Peile
	BMJ  2006;333:134-135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.134-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Lessons on functional diseases
	Samy A Azer
	BMJ  2006;333:135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.135 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Power of the mind
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;333:136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.136 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: A fairytale ending?
	Domhnall Macauley
	BMJ  2006;333:136-137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.136-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: A clinical challenge
	Robert Logan
	BMJ  2006;333:137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.137 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Ventilatory support
	Gordon Christie, Graeme P Currie, Paul Plant
	BMJ  2006;333:138-140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.138 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;333:141-142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.141 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Drugs: Communicating information about drug safety
	R E Ferner, J K Aronson
	BMJ  2006;333:143-145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.143 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details]

Reviews

	TV: Is radiation really so dangerous?
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2006;333:152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.152 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today; Human Remains: Dissection and its Histories
	Sanjay A Pai
	BMJ  2006;333:153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.153 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Science and Technology in Medicine: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications from Five Centuries
	Arpan K Banerjee
	BMJ  2006;333:154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.154 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: One in Three: A Son's Journey into the History and Science of Cancer
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2006;333:154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.154-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal view: The ticking box travesty
	Neville Goodman
	BMJ  2006;333:155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.155 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings: Death of a houseman
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2006;333:155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.155-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;333:156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.156 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Persistent chest pain predicts cardiovascular disease in women with a normal angiogram
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rare diseases, orphan drugs, and orphan diseases
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2006;333:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.127 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;333:137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.137-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Rational prescribing for children
	BMJ  2006;333:137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.137-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Review of NICE's recommendations, 1999-2005
	BMJ  2006;333:137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.137-c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituary
	BMJ  2006;333:137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.137-d [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  2006;333:137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.137-e [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	Letter of the month Superdad
	Dev Srivastava
	BMJ  2006;333:s22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s22, (Published 15 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Be prepared to work hard at admission
	Dee Singh
	BMJ  2006;333:s22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s22-a, (Published 15 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Communicating with the on-call consultant
	Dominic M D Fay
	BMJ  2006;333:s22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s22-b, (Published 15 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Immo Boekhoff
	BMJ  2006;333:s22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s22-c, (Published 15 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Shiva Sreenivasan
	BMJ  2006;333:s22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s22-d, (Published 15 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Rowland Cottingham
	BMJ  2006;333:s22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s22-e, (Published 15 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PowerPoint and the art of presenting
	Richard J Tozer
	BMJ  2006;333:s22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s22-f, (Published 15 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;333:s23, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s23, (Published 15 July 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Advances in sports medicine training—the World University Games
	Simon Till
	BMJ  2006;333:s23-s24, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s23-a, (Published 15 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Living the dream
	Ellen Welch
	BMJ  2006;333:s25-s26, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s25, (Published 15 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Shooting for gold
	Parag Patel
	BMJ  2006;333:s27-s28, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s27, (Published 15 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Coaching can help your career
	Anita Houghton
	BMJ  2006;333:s29, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s29, (Published 15 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Good sports
	Billy O'Driscoll
	BMJ  2006;333:s30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.s30, (Published 15 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	David Simpson
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2006;333:150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.150 [Extract] [Full text]

	Andrew ("Andy") David Barr
	Patrick Kearns, Anne Mclellan, Andrew Marshall
	BMJ  2006;333:151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.151 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Hector MacDonald Cameron
	Lesley Morrison
	BMJ  2006;333:151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.151-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Elizabeth Findlay Hamilton
	Robert Hunter, Jane Short, Elizabeth Bradford
	BMJ  2006;333:151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.151-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Richard George Michael ("Mike") Letcher
	Alison Letcher
	BMJ  2006;333:151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.151-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Stewart Peden
	Jake Davidson, John Lamb
	BMJ  2006;333:151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.151-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Stanley Rihan
	David Thomas, Wing Lien, Peter Hillenbrand
	BMJ  2006;333:151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.151-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Jacqueline ("Jackie") Vera Watson (née Moorcroft)
	Justin Robbins
	BMJ  2006;333:151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7559.151-f [Extract] [Full text]

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