Editor's choice: Presumed consent
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39287.684086.80 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	US editor's choice: The last choice
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39288.446493.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Technological challenges in diagnosis and management of HIV infection in resource limited settings
	Purnima Madhivanan, Karl Krupp
	BMJ  2007;335:165-166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39275.457188.AE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents
	Noël Cameron
	BMJ  2007;335:166-167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39281.439178.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rediscovering dignity at the bedside
	Irene J Higginson, S Hall
	BMJ  2007;335:167-168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39277.847118.2C [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Weight and pregnancy
	Jennifer M Walsh, Deirdre J Murphy
	BMJ  2007;335:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39267.518808.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What to do with insolvent hospitals: Will politicians allow providers to fail?
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2007;335:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39277.790775.2C [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Probiotics and diarrhoea: Data are not widely applicable
	Mark H Wilcox, Jonathan A Sandoe
	BMJ  2007;335:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.396285.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Probiotics and diarrhoea: No high risk antibiotics?
	Tom Billyard
	BMJ  2007;335:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.421007.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Probiotics and diarrhoea: No proton pump inhibitors?
	Mario B Konfortov
	BMJ  2007;335:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.418021.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Folic acid fortification: Clarify the neurological risks
	Edward Reynolds
	BMJ  2007;335:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39275.976817.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS restructuring: Consider social anthropology
	Annabelle L Mark
	BMJ  2007;335:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.413148.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Journals and drug advertising: Medical schools, take the lead
	David Biles, Patrick Howlett, Robert Hughes
	BMJ  2007;335:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.399907.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Journals and drug advertising: Beware advertising packages
	Vasiliy Vlassov
	BMJ  2007;335:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.402512.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Being at the helm for patients: It's all in the listening
	Malcolm I Thomas
	BMJ  2007;335:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.406366.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Failure to monitor independent centres prevents comparison, says watchdog
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2007;335:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.486551.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Taranissi must stand down as licence holder at infertility clinic
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2007;335:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39287.445139.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In Brief: News
	BMJ  2007;335:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39287.432118.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GP surgeries with poor access told to improve
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2007;335:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39287.410822.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Poll highlights frustration with changes in UK medical training
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2007;335:174-175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39286.551782.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Flooding worsens in Sudan
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2007;335:175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.476644.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	The end is nigh
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;335:175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39287.382650.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK state pension inadequate for healthy living, report says
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2007;335:176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.668912.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Antibiotics still overprescribed, study finds
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2007;335:176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39287.432280.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Some sexually transmitted infections rising, some falling
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2007;335:176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.657604.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patient with tuberculosis who flew internationally has surgery and is sued by passengers
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;335:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39286.532199.BD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Meta-analysis says low LDL cholesterol may be associated with greater risk of cancer
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;335:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39287.415347.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Children's surgery services under threat from competition, says report
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2007;335:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39287.561134.4E [Extract] [Full text]

	German hospital rankings questioned
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2007;335:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.598530.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	C difficile cases rising, but MRSA rates falling
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2007;335:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39288.642593.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Systematic reviews don't last for ever
	BMJ  2007;335:178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39282.632813.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Fludarabine plus cyclophosphamide prolongs disease-free survival in CLL
	BMJ  2007;335:178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.178-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Gonorrhoea increasingly resistant to fluoroquinolones in the US
	BMJ  2007;335:178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.178-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Combining aspirin and oral anticoagulants is unsafe in peripheral arterial disease
	BMJ  2007;335:178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.178-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Researchers get closer to the genetics of coronary heart disease
	BMJ  2007;335:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.179 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Metformin remains the best treatment for type 2 diabetes
	BMJ  2007;335:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.179-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: CT of coronary arteries especially risky for women
	BMJ  2007;335:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.179-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Fruit and vegetables don't prolong survival in women with breast cancer
	BMJ  2007;335:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.179-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Feature

	Oral vaccines: A spoonful of antigen
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2007;335:180-182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39275.480000.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Life and death: Only general practice can save the NHS
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2007;335:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39286.704722.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Dignity and the essence of medicine: the A, B, C, and D of dignity conserving care
	Harvey Max Chochinov
	BMJ  2007;335:184-187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39244.650926.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Limitations of rapid HIV-1 tests during screening for trials in Uganda: diagnostic test accuracy study
	Ronald H Gray, Fredrick Makumbi, David Serwadda, Tom Lutalo, Fred Nalugoda, Pius Opendi, Godfrey Kigozi, Steven J Reynolds, Nelson K Sewankambo, Maria J Wawer
	BMJ  2007;335:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39210.582801.BE, (Published 1 June 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of a simplified low cost method of counting CD4 cells with flow cytometry in Malawi: diagnostic accuracy study
	Calman A MacLennan, Michael K P Liu, Sarah A White, Joep J G van Oosterhout, Felanji Simukonda, Joseph Bwanali, Michael J Moore, Eduard E Zijlstra, Mark T Drayson, Malcolm E Molyneux
	BMJ  2007;335:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39268.719780.BE, (Published 17 July 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey
	Tim J Cole, Katherine M Flegal, Dasha Nicholls, Alan A Jackson
	BMJ  2007;335:194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39238.399444.55, (Published 25 June 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Diagnosis of asthma in children
	J Townshend, S Hails, M Mckean
	BMJ  2007;335:198-202, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39234.651412.AE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	NICE guidelines: Psychosocial interventions and opioid detoxification for drug misuse: summary of NICE guidance
	Stephen Pilling, John Strang, Clare Gerada
	BMJ  2007;335:203-205, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39265.639641.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: A patient with suspected miscarriage is found to have hypertension, renal failure, and thrombocytopenia: case outcome
	Chris M Laing, Rhys Roberts, Liz Lightstone, Alison Graham, Terry H Cook, Shaun Summers, Charles D Pusey
	BMJ  2007;335:205-206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39239.479560.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Nephrologist
	Robin Woolfson
	BMJ  2007;335:206-207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39279.588507.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: View from clinical education
	Ed Peile
	BMJ  2007;335:207-208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39279.642836.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Author's reply
	Chris M Laing
	BMJ  2007;335:208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39280.407975.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Review of the week: Labour pains
	Duncan Double
	BMJ  2007;335:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.676910.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal views: The perils of unmasking scientific truths
	Felix I D Konotey-Ahulu
	BMJ  2007;335:210-211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39268.553021.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Liste d'attente? Pourquoi?
	John Petri
	BMJ  2007;335:210-211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39282.619641.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the frontline: Speccy-four-eyed-social-misfit-geek
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2007;335:212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39286.475648.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Past caring: Heads you lose
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2007;335:212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39281.611609.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the lines: The lying king
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2007;335:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39281.648553.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical classics: Middlemarch
	Vinod Patel, John Morrissey
	BMJ  2007;335:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39281.661250.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2007;335:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.535926.BD1 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	J A Davidson, S B Patel, A Emin, A M D Bennett
	BMJ  2007;335:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.535926.BD [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Depression screening via Paris
	Andrea J Nies
	BMJ  2007;335:197, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39245.595046.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Can I help you?
	Robert Todd Scott, Jane Bates, Jessica Mack
	BMJ  2007;335:202, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.562801.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Knifeless lung surgery
	Sadananda B Naik
	BMJ  2007;335:208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39245.651887.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	The future of the medical profession
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39282.495938.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	GMC hearing against Wakefield and colleagues opens
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39282.490764.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of a simplified low cost method of counting CD4 cells with flow cytometry in Malawi: diagnostic accuracy study
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39282.492245.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of probiotic Lactobacillus preparation to prevent diarrhoea associated with antibiotics: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.393067.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctor ordered to pay £300 000 in libel damages
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39286.392419.AD, (Published 23 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	Heads won't roll
	BMJ  2007;335:s30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s30, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas development
	BMJ  2007;335:s30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s30-a, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Theories of relativity
	BMJ  2007;335:s30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s30-b, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Transfer value
	BMJ  2007;335:s30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s30-c, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A woman's lot
	BMJ  2007;335:s30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s30-d, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Shrink wrapped
	BMJ  2007;335:s30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s30-e, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Body image
	BMJ  2007;335:s30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s30-f, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Spinal tap
	BMJ  2007;335:s30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s30-g, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	EDITOR'S CHOICE: Goodbye to Goodman
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2007;335:s31, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s31, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Careers in allergy medicine
	Yasmin Akram
	BMJ  2007;335:s31-s32, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s31-a, (Published 28 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	GP leadership training
	Yasmin Akram
	BMJ  2007;335:gp33-gp34, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.sgp33, (Published 28 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Those who can... teach
	Anshuman Sengupta, Jeremy Rodrigues
	BMJ  2007;335:s33, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s33, (Published 28 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New Zealand idyll
	Beth Chapman
	BMJ  2007;335:s34-s35, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s34, (Published 28 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Master of Science (MSc) in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
	Peter Aquino
	BMJ  2007;335:s36, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s36, (Published 28 July 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Call me Neville
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  2007;335:s37, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s37, (Published 28 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One of Jobscore's founders
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2007;335:s38, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7612.s38, (Published 28 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Zinovy Solomonovich Barkagan
	Pavel Vorobyov, Boleslav Lichterman
	BMJ  2007;335:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39262.632523.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Richard Hugh Balme
	Adam Turnbull
	BMJ  2007;335:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39280.656516.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	John Rashleigh Belcher
	P Belcher
	BMJ  2007;335:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39281.713831.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert Francis Patrick Cronin
	Krishna Somers
	BMJ  2007;335:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39280.621944.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Ernest William ("Bill") Deane
	Robert Scott-Jupp
	BMJ  2007;335:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39275.622639.AD [Extract] [Full text]

	Kathleen ("Kay") Mary de Ville
	Georgina Stafford, P Jane Grubb
	BMJ  2007;335:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39280.595255.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Julie Ann Nash
	Kevin A Nash
	BMJ  2007;335:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39280.807060.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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