Going to extremes
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39385.488796.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Paramedic practitioners and emergency admissions
	Malcolm Woollard
	BMJ  2007;335:893-894, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39356.700139.BE, (Published 4 October 2007) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Occupational therapy after stroke
	Kathryn M McPherson, Caroline Ellis-Hill
	BMJ  2007;335:894-895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39370.600729.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Device therapy in heart failure
	Finlay A McAlister
	BMJ  2007;335:895-896, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39353.546933.BE, (Published 11 October 2007) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diet and the risk of cancer
	Tim Key
	BMJ  2007;335:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39373.676204.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mental Capacity Act 2005
	Andrew Alonzi, Mike Pringle
	BMJ  2007;335:898, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39372.691076.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Allergy after breast feeding: Study was not designed to test the hypothesis
	Karen M Silvers, Michael J Epton, Chris M Frampton
	BMJ  2007;335:899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.395197.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Abdominal aortic aneurysm: Screening reduces all cause mortality in men
	Hisato Takagi, Norikazu Kawai, Takuya Umemoto
	BMJ  2007;335:899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.375972.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Value of video clips: Useful in acute upper airway obstruction in children
	Graham A M Wilson, Thomas Engelhardt, Bruno Marciniak
	BMJ  2007;335:899-900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.484873.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Honouring advance decisions: You don't in psychiatry
	Thomas Szasz
	BMJ  2007;335:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.503287.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Observational studies: More than high standards needed
	Guy Lloyd
	BMJ  2007;335:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.434919.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Talk of psychosocial factors: Tell the whole story
	Charles T Vivian
	BMJ  2007;335:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.514780.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	UK report calls for new services to improve out of hours acute care
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2007;335:901, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.593634.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cardiopulmonary resuscitation decisions should be extended to nurses
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2007;335:901, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.681829.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In Brief: News
	BMJ  2007;335:902, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.555336.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Prison inspector's report slates mental health provision
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2007;335:902, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.445150.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	No evidence backs reduction in abortion time limit, minister says
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2007;335:903, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.521481.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US Congress asked to suspend funding for Planned Parenthood
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;335:903, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.487326.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GP who benefited from patient's will failed to disclose details when signing cremation form
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2007;335:903, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.649745.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	London trusts overhaul primary care without consultation
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2007;335:904, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.586262.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Striking medics in Gaza temporarily return to work after talks with Hamas
	Merav Sarig
	BMJ  2007;335:904-905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.458935.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Watchdog could close hospitals in a day to tackle infections
	Helen Mooney
	BMJ  2007;335:904-905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.464907.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	German doctors may have to report patients who have piercings and beauty treatments
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2007;335:905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.581377.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US passes bill granting mandatory access to data
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2007;335:906, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.638241.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Beauty is truth, truth beauty
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2007;335:906, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.738947.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health authority forced to publish private contract for hospital build
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2007;335:906-907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.520486.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Agency urges researchers to make more use of yellow card data
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2007;335:907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.659688.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	European Commission asked to investigate use of snus to reduce smoking
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2007;335:907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.528507.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government backs MRC chairman's appointment
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2007;335:907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.713218.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Practice based commissioning lacks adequate information and support
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2007;335:907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.490139.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	UN official warns of deteriorating health situation in Gaza Strip
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2007;335:907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.526944.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Doctors and patients feel the same after medical errors
	BMJ  2007;335:908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39380.679039.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Still no consensus over link between hysterectomy and incontinence
	BMJ  2007;335:908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7626.908-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Provide for the world's poorest first
	BMJ  2007;335:908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7626.908-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Basal insulin safest in badly controlled type 2 diabetes
	BMJ  2007;335:908-909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7626.908-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Atrial natriuretic peptide helps limit infarct size after heart attack
	BMJ  2007;335:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7626.909 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Hepatitis A vaccination is effective after exposure
	BMJ  2007;335:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7626.909-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: An unhealthier future for most Americans
	BMJ  2007;335:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7626.909-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortcuts from other journals: Inequality drives the HIV epidemic
	BMJ  2007;335:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7626.909-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Feature

	Lyme wars
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2007;335:910-912, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39363.530961.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Body Politic: Observations
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2007;335:913, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.648681.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Uncertainty in heterogeneity estimates in meta-analyses
	John P A Ioannidis, Nikolaos A Patsopoulos, Evangelos Evangelou
	BMJ  2007;335:914-916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39343.408449.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web extra]

	Measuring quality through performance: Improving the quality of care with performance indicators
	Azeem Majeed, Helen Lester, Andrew B Bindman
	BMJ  2007;335:916-918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39337.539120.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Effectiveness of paramedic practitioners in attending 999 calls from elderly people in the community: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Suzanne Mason, Emma Knowles, Brigitte Colwell, Simon Dixon, Jim Wardrope, Robert Gorringe, Helen Snooks, Julie Perrin, Jon Nicholl
	BMJ  2007;335:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39343.649097.55, (Published 4 October 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Occupational therapy for patients with problems in personal activities of daily living after stroke: systematic review of randomised trials
	Lynn Legg, Avril Drummond, Jo Leonardi-Bee, J R F Gladman, Susan Corr, Mireille Donkervoort, Judi Edmans, Louise Gilbertson, Lyn Jongbloed, Pip Logan, Catherine Sackley, Marion Walker, Peter Langhorne
	BMJ  2007;335:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39343.466863.55, (Published 27 September 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references] FREE

	Combined resynchronisation and implantable defibrillator therapy in left ventricular dysfunction: Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Simon K H Lam, Andrew Owen
	BMJ  2007;335:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39343.511389.BE, (Published 11 October 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references] FREE

Clinical review

	Management of sepsis
	Iain Mackenzie, Andrew Lever
	BMJ  2007;335:929-932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39346.696620.AE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Pregnancy Plus: Systemic lupus erythematosus
	Lucy H Mackillop, Sarah J Germain, Catherine Nelson-Piercy
	BMJ  2007;335:933-936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39358.519491.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references]

	Lesson of the week: Anal ulceration induced by nicorandil
	Fayyaz Akbar, Andrew Maw, Arnab Bhowmick
	BMJ  2007;335:936-937, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39246.714896.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Personal view: The price of life
	Brendan D Kelly, Sharon R Foley
	BMJ  2007;335:938, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39378.691296.3A [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the week: Life through a lens
	Amy Davis
	BMJ  2007;335:939, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.456181.34 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the frontline: The baby shambles
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2007;335:940, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.481308.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The bigger picture: Crown of thorns
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2007;335:940, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.530833.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the lines: The therapy of obedience
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2007;335:941, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.494769.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Doctor, his Patient and the Illness
	James Curran
	BMJ  2007;335:941, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39384.467928.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2007;335:944, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.454387.471 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	O Kulkarni, D Gosal, T Majeed
	BMJ  2007;335:944, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.454387.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39386.490150.94 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	See you Jimmy
	BMJ  2007;335:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39380.794109.CE, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	All in good faith
	BMJ  2007;335:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39380.794109.CE1, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Crossing borders
	BMJ  2007;335:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39380.794109.CE2, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Gone to seed
	BMJ  2007;335:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39380.794109.CE3, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Injury time
	BMJ  2007;335:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39380.794109.CE4, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postgrad status
	BMJ  2007;335:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39380.794109.CE5, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Also rans . . .
	BMJ  2007;335:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39380.794109.CE6, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	On a musical note
	BMJ  2007;335:s158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.335.7626.158-g, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Let's hear it for the good guys
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2007;335:s159, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.582188.80, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is there a doctor in the house?
	Ruth Hansford
	BMJ  2007;335:s159-s161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39380.788808.7D, (Published 3 November 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The Specialist Registrar and New Consultant Handbook (3rd edn)
	Rachel Hooke
	BMJ  2007;335:s161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39112.645093.7D, (Published 3 November 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	We need to reappraise appraisals
	Alan M Campion
	BMJ  2007;335:s162, doi: 10.1136/sbmj.39372.619653.7D, (Published 3 November 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General practice or rehabilitation medicine: why not both?
	Jeremy Gibson
	BMJ  2007;335:s164-s165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39351.629884.7D, (Published 3 November 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The man behind the Tooke Report
	Jonathan Dewhurst
	BMJ  2007;335:s166, doi: 10.1136/sbmj.39378.476551.7D, (Published 3 November 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	John Douglas Andrew
	Alan Craft, Andrew Cottrell
	BMJ  2007;335:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39364.740671.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Rex Penry Edward Barton
	Nicola Barton
	BMJ  2007;335:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39364.695463.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Edwin Melville Mack Besterman
	E M M Besterman
	BMJ  2007;335:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39364.591887.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Anne Gall (née Kirkby)
	Jean Mcmillan, Joanna Gall
	BMJ  2007;335:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39372.661238.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Geoffrey Brooke Hirst
	J Hirst
	BMJ  2007;335:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39377.694387.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Andrew Wilson Lees
	Andrew Dickie
	BMJ  2007;335:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39364.651944.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	William Mathews
	Hilary M L Mathews
	BMJ  2007;335:943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39377.586840.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Anthony John Membrey
	Helen Membrey
	BMJ  2007;335:943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39379.539572.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Kusum Mehta
	Moira Pinkney, Nick Edwards, Hanza Mehta
	BMJ  2007;335:943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39364.727002.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Thilliampalam Paramananthan
	B Thalayasingam, Ratna Paramananthan, A D Piyasena
	BMJ  2007;335:943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39377.640185.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Seyed Abdolmajid Rooholamini
	Bita Manzouri
	BMJ  2007;335:943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39365.540718.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	James Picton Douglas Thomas
	John Peters, M F Scanlon
	BMJ  2007;335:943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39365.499248.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Maxwell Herman Turner
	Deborah C Turner
	BMJ  2007;335:943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39377.710602.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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