Editor's choice: Memento mori
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39147.418310.43 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	US editor's choice: What we know and what we do
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39148.366412.43 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Radioiodine treatment of hyperthyroidism
	Anthony Toft, Thekkepat C Sandeep
	BMJ  2007;334:483-484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39140.373646.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Exercise in survivors of cancer
	Julie K Silver
	BMJ  2007;334:484-485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39134.625012.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Researching a good death
	Stephen Workman
	BMJ  2007;334:485-486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39141.417454.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ratio of boys to girls at birth
	Jens Peter Ellekilde Bonde, Allen Wilcox
	BMJ  2007;334:486-487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39141.622917.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Infant feeding and HIV
	Nigel C Rollins
	BMJ  2007;334:487-488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39135.411563.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Dog bites: Education of dog owners is key to reducing attacks
	Katherine M Clarke
	BMJ  2007;334:489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.022326.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dog bites: Science, rather than politics, is needed for progress
	Daniel S Mills
	BMJ  2007;334:489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.012558.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Malaria: Stop ambiguous messages on malaria diagnosis
	Valérie D'Acremont, Christian Lengeler, Blaise Genton
	BMJ  2007;334:489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.024838.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Malaria: UK recommendations for severe malaria are worrying
	Nicholas J White, Nicholas P J Day, Arjen Dondorp, Nicholas Anstey
	BMJ  2007;334:490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.014005.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Translation services: Let's talk about critical consciousness
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2007;334:490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.032801.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Translation services: English classes are being cut
	Philip R Matthews
	BMJ  2007;334:490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.031296.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS Redress Act: Support from the United States
	Steve Kraman
	BMJ  2007;334:490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.030046.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Academic medicine: Thwarted by bureaucracy
	W A Carrock Sewell
	BMJ  2007;334:491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.528981.FA [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Academic medicine: Academia needs to acknowledge the needs of trainees
	Anna C Bibby
	BMJ  2007;334:491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.556771.FA [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Academic medicine: UK response
	John Tooke
	BMJ  2007;334:491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.590000.FA [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Academic medicine: Who should call the tune?
	James R Philp
	BMJ  2007;334:491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.543611.FA [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Academic medicine: Time for a scientific social network
	Felix E C Greaves, Alexander Finlayson
	BMJ  2007;334:491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.615579.FA [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Former FDA commissioner is fined $90 000 for failing to disclose conflicts of interest
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;334:492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39142.592130.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hospital doctors will get below inflation pay increase, while GPs get nothing
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2007;334:492-493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.586840.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Protestors take to the streets over NHS cuts and closures
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2007;334:493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39147.550602.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MRC wants to cut the time from bench to bedside
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2007;334:493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.416725.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hybrid device brings non-invasive assessment of coronary arteries a step closer
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2007;334:494-495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.415347.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK report proposes a new harms index to rate dangers of drugs and alcohol
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2007;334:494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39147.339560.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK may allow creation of "cybrids" for stem cell research
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2007;334:495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.448345.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Looking at life and death
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2007;334:495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.630775.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Safety of anaemia drug erythropoietin is to be reviewed
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2007;334:495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.387789.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In Brief: News
	BMJ  2007;334:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.598148.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	University medical school accepts tobacco company funding
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2007;334:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39147.388194.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch inspectors slam standards of preoperative care
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2007;334:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.633171.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US public service advertising could learn from the UK
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;334:497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.364757.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Heathrow doctor's case at GMC will be heard in private
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2007;334:497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.365475.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Unhygienic circumcisions may increase risk of HIV transmission
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2007;334:498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.414456.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Polish politicians argue over right to expel sick foreigners
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2007;334:498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.574433.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Heart group's approval of fast food meals angers critics
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2007;334:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39142.589144.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Carruthers report calls for doctors to be more involved in NHS change
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2007;334:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.676528.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Health reforms abandoned due to lack of funds, say hospital doctors
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2007;334:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39147.345914.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Smoking in pregnancy slows growth of baby's head
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2007;334:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.416343.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	UK government announces review of selection process for junior doctors
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2007;334:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39149.606308.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Hepatitis E vaccine works (briefly) for Nepalese men
	BMJ  2007;334:500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.500 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Drug eluting stents: risks of late restenosis sustained for up to three years
	BMJ  2007;334:500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.385012.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Link between vancomycin and serious thrombocytopenia
	BMJ  2007;334:500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.500-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Opening windows could slow the spread of tuberculosis
	BMJ  2007;334:500-501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.500-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Antioxidant supplements may damage your health
	BMJ  2007;334:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.501 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: "Mild" IVF can work as well as the intensive option
	BMJ  2007;334:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.501-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: One in four US women have human papilloma virus infection
	BMJ  2007;334:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.501-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Diabetes soars among adults in Ontario
	BMJ  2007;334:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.501-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Feature

	Iranian organ donation: Kidneys on demand
	Anne Griffin
	BMJ  2007;334:502-505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39141.493148.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Head to head: Should NICE evaluate complementary and alternative medicine?
	Linda Franck, Cyril Chantler, Michael Dixon
	BMJ  2007;334:506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39122.512211.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Head to head: Should NICE evaluate complementary and alternative medicines?
	David Colquhoun
	BMJ  2007;334:507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39122.551250.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	The week in medicine: How specialist training reform sparked crisis of confidence
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2007;334:508-509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.640613.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What's on the web: Tracking the editor's carbon footprint
	Balaji Ravichandran
	BMJ  2007;334:509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39147.635058.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Border crossing: My illness, my record
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2007;334:510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.615081.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Getting services right for those sick enough to die
	Sydney Dy, Joanne Lynn
	BMJ  2007;334:511-513, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39127.653704.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Effects of antithyroid drugs on radioiodine treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Martin A Walter, Matthias Briel, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Steen J Bonnema, John Connell, David S Cooper, Heiner C Bucher, Jan Müller-Brand, Beat Müller
	BMJ  2007;334:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39114.670150.BE, (Published 19 February 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Benefits of supervised group exercise programme for women being treated for early stage breast cancer: pragmatic randomised controlled trial
	Nanette Mutrie, Anna M Campbell, Fiona Whyte, Alex McConnachie, Carol Emslie, Laura Lee, Nora Kearney, Andrew Walker, Diana Ritchie
	BMJ  2007;334:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39094.648553.AE, (Published 16 February 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Key challenges and ways forward in researching the "good death": qualitative in-depth interview and focus group study
	Marilyn Kendall, Fiona Harris, Kirsty Boyd, Aziz Sheikh, Scott A Murray, Duncan Brown, Ian Mallinson, Nora Kearney, Allison Worth
	BMJ  2007;334:521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39097.582639.55, (Published 28 February 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Sex ratio and time to pregnancy: analysis of four large European population surveys
	Mike Joffe, James Bennett, Nicky Best, Tina Kold Jensen
	BMJ  2007;334:524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39097.508426.BE, (Published 2 February 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Cervical spondylosis and neck pain
	Allan I Binder
	BMJ  2007;334:527-531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39127.608299.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References]

Practice

	A patient's journey: whooping cough
	Ros Levenson
	BMJ  2007;334:532-533, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39120.556296.AE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	10-minute consultation: Dry mouth
	Mark Taubert, Eleanor M R Davies, Ian Back
	BMJ  2007;334:534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39036.433542.68 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What the educators are saying: Putting the cart before the horse: testing to improve learning
	Kevin W Eva
	BMJ  2007;334:535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38993.466678.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Personal views: A good death—but no thanks to the NHS
	Paula Newton
	BMJ  2007;334:536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39127.437998.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the week: Making sense of madness
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2007;334:537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.702836.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the frontline: The inverse care law has had its day
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2007;334:538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.637685.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the box: Best wishes for your incurable illness
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2007;334:538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.492870.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the lines: A novel approach to typhus
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2007;334:539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39146.538588.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical classics: Arrowsmith
	Robert Bud
	BMJ  2007;334:539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39132.707998.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2007;334:542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.537940.471 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	C Fleming, L Peltola, D Limb
	BMJ  2007;334:542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39143.537940.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A memorable meeting: 100 years ago?
	Claudia Hanso
	BMJ  2007;334:533, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39129.597766.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Heading for a crash
	BMJ  2007;334:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s82, (Published 10 March 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	All change
	BMJ  2007;334:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s82-a, (Published 10 March 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Giving the wrong drug
	BMJ  2007;334:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s82-b, (Published 10 March 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas doctors
	BMJ  2007;334:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s82-c, (Published 10 March 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	GMC condemns e-prescribing
	BMJ  2007;334:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s82-d, (Published 10 March 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ways of learning
	Stephanie Young
	BMJ  2007;334:s83, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s83, (Published 10 March 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from patients
	Ed Beveridge
	BMJ  2007;334:s83-s84, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s83-a, (Published 10 March 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Advanced life support in obstetrics
	Rajani Tyagi
	BMJ  2007;334:s85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s85, (Published 10 March 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Anaesthetics
	Henrik Reschreiter
	BMJ  2007;334:s86-s87, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s86, (Published 10 March 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	...dealing with needlestick injuries
	Daniel G Morritt
	BMJ  2007;334:s87, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s87, (Published 10 March 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Foundation programmes in academic medicine
	Asiya Yunus
	BMJ  2007;334:s88, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s88, (Published 10 March 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	MSc in clinical microbiology
	Joanne Malkin
	BMJ  2007;334:s89, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s89, (Published 10 March 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A natural health practitioner
	Wisam Alwan
	BMJ  2007;334:s90, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7592.s90, (Published 10 March 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Arthur Hamilton Crisp
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2007;334:540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39125.617153.FA [Extract] [Full text]

	Charles Maxwell Boucher
	Sue Redman
	BMJ  2007;334:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39118.473241.80 [Extract] [Full text]

	George ("Steve") Hargreaves Dunstone
	Antony Cook, David Wood
	BMJ  2007;334:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39125.603472.80 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hugh Douglas Gemmell
	John E Evans
	BMJ  2007;334:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39125.573206.80 [Extract] [Full text]

	Henry Bushman Goodall
	Norman Kinnear Smith
	BMJ  2007;334:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39122.516863.80 [Extract] [Full text]

	Struan Robertson
	Peter Davies
	BMJ  2007;334:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39115.682280.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Albert Carson Scott
	Jennifer Scott
	BMJ  2007;334:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39115.586863.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Nigel Ewart Wood
	Julian Wood, Gordon Wood
	BMJ  2007;334:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39115.633356.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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