Reasons for optimism
	Rajendra Kale
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39427.546030.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Antithrombin III in critically ill patients
	A Torossian, J Graf, A Bauhofer
	BMJ  2007;335:1219-1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39399.552245.80, (Published 23 November 2007) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of displaced intracapsular hip fractures in elderly patients
	Martyn Parker
	BMJ  2007;335:1220-1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39392.353090.80, (Published 4 December 2007) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation of drugs for children in Europe
	Imti Choonara
	BMJ  2007;335:1221-1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39400.376424.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The future for trainee doctors
	Martin Marshall
	BMJ  2007;335:1222-1223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39421.672523.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assuring the confidentiality of shared electronic health records
	Mark McGilchrist, Frank Sullivan, Dipak Kalra
	BMJ  2007;335:1223-1224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39421.544063.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Prostate cancerscreening: Unacceptable in the under 50s
	Alain Braillon, Gérard Dubois
	BMJ  2007;335:1225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39422.598125.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prognostic pessimism: Don’t group COPD and asthma
	Suveer Singh, Daffyd Lloyd, Tasneem Katawala, James Harris, Radha Sabharatnam
	BMJ  2007;335:1225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.433704.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prognostic pessimism: Not all bad?
	Olga M Peters-Polman, Jan G Zijlstra, Jaap E Tulleken, John H Meertens, Jack J Ligtenberg
	BMJ  2007;335:1225-1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.448681.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Caesarean section: Points raised in responses
	Sharon Davies
	BMJ  2007;335:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.481285.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of patients' data: GMC guidance on confidentiality
	John G Jenkins
	BMJ  2007;335:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.423657.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and the state: How much longer will patients trust us?
	Christopher N Jones
	BMJ  2007;335:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.417824.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	WHO launches campaign to make drugs safer for children
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2007;335:1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.581042.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Diarrhoeal diseases still kill more than 1.5m children under 5 each year
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2007;335:1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.352685.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US needs universal access to health care, American College of Physicians says
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;335:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.499560.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Opposition grows in France to new charges for drugs and ambulance trips
	Brad Spurgeon
	BMJ  2007;335:1228-1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.358009.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors at church operated hospitals in Germany demand better pay and conditions
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2007;335:1228-1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.494317.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug companies expected to get more leeway in communicating with patients in Europe
	Anna Sayburn
	BMJ  2007;335:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.661308.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA may allow drug and device companies to promote "off-label" uses
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;335:1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.356759.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC approves change in the standard of proof
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2007;335:1230-1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.356030.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS trusts lambasted for failing to tackle race inequality
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2007;335:1230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.400810.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Exhibition celebrates groundbreaking plastic surgery in second world war
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2007;335:1230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.697153.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Older people will be given budgets to buy personal care
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2007;335:1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.592176.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK government to spend £105m to improve stroke services
	Robert Short
	BMJ  2007;335:1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.703993.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2007;335:1232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39427.378553.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Europe’s research councils call for spending to be doubled to 0.25% of GDP
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2007;335:1232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.700926.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors’ leaders partly to blame for recruitment chaos, MPs told
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2007;335:1232-1233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.354491.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Did sculpting give artists a health advantage before antibiotics?
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2007;335:1233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.603391.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Minority groups still show high rates of admission to mental health services in England and Wales
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2007;335:1233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39427.367234.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Goliath moves into healthcare records
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2007;335:1233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39416.688125.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Use military and private sector to cope with disasters, aid agencies told
	BMJ  2007;335:1233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.620637.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	UK government sets up pilot studies to evaluate medical abortion services outside hospitals
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2007;335:1233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.477095.DB [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What’s new in the other general journals
	BMJ  2007;335:1234-1235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39422.589676.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Childhood obesity: Thin living
	Hannah Westley
	BMJ  2007;335:1236-1237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39409.451678.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity: Steps to a leaner Europe
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2007;335:1238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.452106.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Body Politic: Being an NHS manager is a fool’s errand
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2007;335:1239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.645729.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: A remedy for lonely hearts?
	Petra Boynton
	BMJ  2007;335:1240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39420.414803.34 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Unequal weight: equity oriented policy responses to the global obesity epidemic
	Sharon Friel, Mickey Chopra, David Satcher
	BMJ  2007;335:1241-1243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39377.622882.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Population screening for coeliac disease in primary care by district nurses using a rapid antibody test: diagnostic accuracy and feasibility study
	Ilma R Korponay-Szabó, Katalin Szabados, Jánosné Pusztai, Katalin Uhrin, Éva Ludmány, Éva Nemes, Katri Kaukinen, Anikó Kapitány, Lotta Koskinen, Sándor Sipka, Anikó Imre, Markku Mäki
	BMJ  2007;335:1244-1247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39405.472975.80, (Published 6 December 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antithrombin III in critically ill patients: systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis
	Arash Afshari, Jørn Wetterslev, Jesper Brok, Ann Møller
	BMJ  2007;335:1248-1251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39398.682500.25, (Published 23 November 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references] FREE

	Hemiarthroplasty or internal fixation for intracapsular displaced femoral neck fractures: randomised controlled trial
	Frede Frihagen, Lars Nordsletten, Jan Erik Madsen
	BMJ  2007;335:1251-1254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39399.456551.25, (Published 4 December 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Clinical Review: Cystic fibrosis
	Jane C Davies, Eric W F W Alton, Andrew Bush
	BMJ  2007;335:1255-1259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39391.713229.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Rational Imaging: Investigating rectal bleeding
	David Burling, James E East, Stuart A Taylor
	BMJ  2007;335:1260-1262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39379.598090.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines: Management of atopic eczema in children aged up to 12 years: summary of NICE guidance
	Sue Lewis-Jones, Moira A Mugglestone, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2007;335:1263-1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39405.503773.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Open letter to the General Medical Council
	R Wheatley
	BMJ  2007;335:1265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39427.640069.DE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the frontline: A time of change in abortion
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2007;335:1266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.497813.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Bigger Picture: Food glorious food
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2007;335:1266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.486424.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: English lessons
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2007;335:1267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.731806.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Cardiac Arrest
	Nidhi Gupta
	BMJ  2007;335:1267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39241.671308.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: So, did Gerry fix it?
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2007;335:1268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.643449.0F [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Gareth Lewis, Claire Morton
	BMJ  2007;335:1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39422.841215.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2007;335:1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39422.530000.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Minerva
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.477188.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Investigating progressive unexplained renal impairment and hypertension
	BMJ  2007;335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.471736.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	The essence of Ellis
	Ray Parsons
	BMJ  2007;335:s216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39422.592801.CE, (Published 15 December 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In praise of teenage scribblers
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2007;335:s217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.472662.80, (Published 15 December 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ireland's CME set-up
	Pat Harrold
	BMJ  2007;335:s217-s218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39196.473194.CE, (Published 15 December 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Professor Dame Carol Black, chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and immediate past president of the Royal College of Physicians
	Hannah Peters
	BMJ  2007;335:s219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39419.793796.CE, (Published 15 December 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Primary care education in the United Arab Emirates
	Deen M Mirza
	BMJ  2007;335:s220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39162.543600.CE, (Published 15 December 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Systematic Training in Acute Illness Recognition and Treatment for surgery
	Robbie Ray
	BMJ  2007;335:s221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39404.824479.CE, (Published 15 December 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Polo
	Noor Kafil-Hussain
	BMJ  2007;335:s222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.474873.7D, (Published 15 December 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The other end of the baguette
	Faith Dyer
	BMJ  2007;335:s232-s233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39412.544954.CE, (Published 15 December 2007) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning anatomy online
	Natalie Blencowe
	BMJ  2007;335:s233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39412.527373.CE, (Published 15 December 2007) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	John Hilton Edwards
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2007;335:1269, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.632292.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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