Editor's choice: For patient or population?
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39203.526481.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	US editor's choice: Where the patient is
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39204.441678.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Recurrent pharyngo-tonsillitis
	Paul Little
	BMJ  2007;334:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39184.617049.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Telephone interventions for disease management in heart failure
	Hugo O Grancelli, Daniel C Ferrante
	BMJ  2007;334:910-911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39197.577442.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Onset of action of antidepressants
	Andre Tylee, Paul Walters
	BMJ  2007;334:911-912, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39197.619190.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Euthanasia in neonates
	Kate Costeloe
	BMJ  2007;334:912-913, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39177.456481.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health and welfare of older people in care homes
	Marion E T McMurdo, Miles D Witham
	BMJ  2007;334:913-914, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39191.405833.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Candour on unfunded treatments: Ignorance is a public health issue
	Michael V Williams
	BMJ  2007;334:915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.440104.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Candour on unfunded treatments: Patients do not live in an information vacuum
	John Perry
	BMJ  2007;334:915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.465648.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Candour on unfunded treatments: All that is needed is for good men to say nothing
	Graham Kyle
	BMJ  2007;334:915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.466875.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Royal colleges and MMC/MTAS: We are alive and kicking and have upped our game
	Carol M Black
	BMJ  2007;334:915-916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.479479.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	IT and patient safety: Software must be robust
	Roger L Weeks
	BMJ  2007;334:916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.442384.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New care after surgery: How new is new?
	Wolfgang Schwenk
	BMJ  2007;334:916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.453831.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asylum seekers: Detained asylum seekers may be being re-traumatised
	Frank W Arnold
	BMJ  2007;334:916-917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39191.724097.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asylum seekers: Highest attainable standard of health is a human right
	Peter Hall
	BMJ  2007;334:917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.468287.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asylum seekers: BMA's response
	Julian Sheather
	BMJ  2007;334:917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.523368.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dependence on OTC drugs: Over the counter drugs can be highly addictive
	Chris Ford, Beth Good
	BMJ  2007;334:917-918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.472326.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Masking or blinding?: Blinding is better than masking
	Kenneth F Schulz, Douglas G Altman, David Moher
	BMJ  2007;334:918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.461644.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Transparency of NICE: NICE was explicit in constructing guideline
	Philip R Alderson, Mercia Page, Peter Littlejohns
	BMJ  2007;334:918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.482616.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Government will not know for years whether consultants' contract has paid off
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2007;334:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39203.422882.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Blair trumpets Labour's investment in NHS—and stands by his reforms of the past decade
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2007;334:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.632072.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In Brief: News
	BMJ  2007;334:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39203.372708.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Number of UK patients awaiting a transplant reaches record high
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2007;334:920-921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.378194.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Some executed US prisoners may have suffocated
	Anne Harding
	BMJ  2007;334:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.648993.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health secretary should resign over training application debacle, say junior doctors
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2007;334:921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39203.385289.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US health experts discuss setting up a centre for effectiveness
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2007;334:921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39201.774479.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Nearly all English general practices are set to run their own budgets
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2007;334:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.341609.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cost effectiveness of heart drugs varies widely, study shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2007;334:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.472361.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Publicly available performance tables do not make surgeons avoid high risk cases
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2007;334:922-923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39203.369109.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Abortion does not raise risk of breast cancer, US study finds
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;334:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.487789.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Women celebrate abortion bill victory
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2007;334:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39203.502593.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	C difficile infections rise—but MRSA rates drop
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2007;334:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.446331.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US health insurance firm settles class action lawsuit brought by 900 000 doctors
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2007;334:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.418345.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Access to health care in Afghanistan is improving, study shows
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2007;334:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39201.772083.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Nations signal support for WHO to stockpile H5N1 vaccine
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2007;334:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.693299.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government takes first step towards regulating GPs with a specialist interest
	Julia Schofield
	BMJ  2007;334:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39197.718576.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	National clinical directors' reports show improvements in care over Labour's 10 years in power
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2007;334:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.714838.4E [Extract] [Full text]

	Medicare proposes to expand payments to encourage trials of effectiveness
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;334:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.413912.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch study shows that 40% of adverse incidents in hospital are avoidable
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2007;334:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.498137.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	HFEA is to launch public debate on hybrid animal-human embryos
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2007;334:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.669907.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Occupational cancer kills more than 200 000 people a year
	Kaushal Raj Pandey
	BMJ  2007;334:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.548588.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Journal withdraws paper on grounds of prior publication but avoids issue of plagiarism
	Jonathan Gornall
	BMJ  2007;334:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.589086.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Older people get weaker during bed rest
	BMJ  2007;334:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39198.635035.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: New antifungal looks safer than liposomal amphotericin B
	BMJ  2007;334:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.926-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Common genetic polymorphisms linked to macular degeneration
	BMJ  2007;334:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.926-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: US doctors still have strong ties with drug industry
	BMJ  2007;334:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.926-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Antidepressants ineffective in bipolar depression
	BMJ  2007;334:926-927, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.926-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Antiretroviral agents associated with heart attack
	BMJ  2007;334:927, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.927 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: New recreational drug has its first casualty in UK
	BMJ  2007;334:927, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.927-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Disease resurgence threatens success of pneumococcal vaccine
	BMJ  2007;334:927, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.927-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Carpal tunnel syndrome rarely predicts underlying disease
	BMJ  2007;334:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.928 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Road traffic noise linked to hypertension
	BMJ  2007;334:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.928-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Chondroitin sulphate may help knee osteoarthritis a little
	BMJ  2007;334:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.928-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Better interaction on prescribing needed between GPs and hospitals
	BMJ  2007;334:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.928-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: "Superhero" boys live to tell the tale—just
	BMJ  2007;334:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.928-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: INR easily monitored at home
	BMJ  2007;334:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39191.635637.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Feature

	Complementary medicine: Mapping the alternative route
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2007;334:929-931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39192.475382.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should patient groups accept money from drug companies? Yes
	Alastair Kent
	BMJ  2007;334:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39185.461968.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should patient groups accept money from drug companies? No
	Barbara Mintzes
	BMJ  2007;334:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39185.394005.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Media watch: Given the choice, I'd have the miracle pill story
	Ben Goldacre
	BMJ  2007;334:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39203.455856.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the media: Thalidomide: the true story?
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2007;334:933, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.637986.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	NICE appraisals should be everybody's business
	Jane Wells, Claire Cheong-Leen
	BMJ  2007;334:936-938, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39190.420081.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Tonsillectomy versus watchful waiting in recurrent streptococcal pharyngitis in adults: randomised controlled trial
	Olli-Pekka Alho, Petri Koivunen, Tomi Penna, Heikki Teppo, Markku Koskela, Jukka Luotonen
	BMJ  2007;334:939, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39140.632604.55, (Published 8 March 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Telemonitoring or structured telephone support programmes for patients with chronic heart failure: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Robyn A Clark, Sally C Inglis, Finlay A McAlister, John G F Cleland, Simon Stewart
	BMJ  2007;334:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39156.536968.55, (Published 10 April 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

Clinical review

	blockers in hypertension and cardiovascular disease
	H T Ong
	BMJ  2007;334:946-949, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39185.440382.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references]

Practice

	Pregnancy plus: HIV and pregnancy
	Glenda E Gray, James A McIntyre
	BMJ  2007;334:950-953, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39176.674977.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References]

	Psoriasis
	Ray Jobling
	BMJ  2007;334:953-954, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39184.615150.802 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Personal views: Is menstruation obsolete?
	Paula S Derry
	BMJ  2007;334:955, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.597512.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the frontline: Knowing what you don't know
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2007;334:956, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.421910.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Past caring: Grave expectations
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2007;334:956, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39198.467373.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the lines: Green tea and monkey business
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2007;334:957, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39203.431597.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical classics: The Final Diagnosis
	Sanjay A Pai
	BMJ  2007;334:957, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.500324.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lies with everything
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;334:958, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39202.541586.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2007;334:960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.505486.791 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	Lyndsey Paul, Calum Lyon
	BMJ  2007;334:960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.505486.79 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Obituary: William Ian McDonald
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39197.565463.AE [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	I am currently doing psychiatry and am interested in general practice. However I have been out of touch with medical and surgical specialties since 2001. I was wondering what courses and options are available for me. I have a specialty training 1 interview for GPVTS but am nervous about starting in acute medicine
	Rodger Charlton
	BMJ  2007;334:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.s158, (Published 5 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I have been selected for a fellowship in spinal surgery in a prestigious institute in New York for a year. This won't fit into my present curriculum of spinal injuries and rehabilitation. But I don't want to give it a miss or lose my NTN either. Can I take a sabbatical and if so who has to sanction it?
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2007;334:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.s158-a, (Published 5 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am considering leaving medicine. I would like to use my degree and experience in some form though. What examples of jobs have other medics gone into?
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2007;334:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.s158-b, (Published 5 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	EDITOR'S CHOICE: The write stuff
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2007;334:s159, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.s159, (Published 5 May 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The highly skilled migrant programme
	Yasir Abbasi
	BMJ  2007;334:s159-s160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.s159-a, (Published 5 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What, where, and how to publish
	Arun Natarajan
	BMJ  2007;334:s161-s162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.s161, (Published 5 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Radiology
	Rob McGuire
	BMJ  2007;334:s162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.s162, (Published 5 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A renowned clinical leader
	Rachel Hooke
	BMJ  2007;334:s163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.s163, (Published 5 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Should medical education be free?
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2007;334:gp171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.sgp171, (Published 5 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Snow joking matter
	Induja Bandara
	BMJ  2007;334:gp172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.sgp172, (Published 5 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Degree of Master of Surgery (Orthopaedics), MChOrth
	Shah Alam Khan
	BMJ  2007;334:gp173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7600.sgp173, (Published 5 May 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Geoffrey Battersby Barker
	A Barker
	BMJ  2007;334:959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39197.638715.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Melville Robert ("Peter") Fell
	P M S Gillam
	BMJ  2007;334:959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39183.458981.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	William George Grenville Loyn
	Hugh Herbert
	BMJ  2007;334:959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39190.764618.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Henry Gemmell Morgan
	Jim Shepherd, Alan Shenkin
	BMJ  2007;334:959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39190.610127.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert Roaf
	Roger Croston
	BMJ  2007;334:959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39196.761713.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Carl John Williams
	Simon Carley, Gary Boland
	BMJ  2007;334:959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39197.668484.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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