Doctors and the drug industry
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39444.472708.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Non-drug industry funded research
	Paolo Bruzzi
	BMJ  2008;336:1-2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39416.559942.BE, (Published 6 December 2007) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Overprescribing proton pump inhibitors
	Ian Forgacs, Aathavan Loganayagam
	BMJ  2008;336:2-3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39406.449456.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Home haemodialysis
	Christopher R Blagg
	BMJ  2008;336:3-4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39392.575208.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing hospital admissions
	Sarah Purdy, Tom Griffin
	BMJ  2008;336:4-5, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39394.402465.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetes, cognitive impairment, and dementia
	Mark W J Strachan, Jacqueline F Price, Brian M Frier
	BMJ  2008;336:6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39386.664016.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Obesity: Stop all further research—and act
	Nicole S Lavery
	BMJ  2008;336:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.486146.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Orlistat over the counter: People should be free to spend their money as they wish
	Caroline Mozley
	BMJ  2008;336:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.502801.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Orlistat over the counter: Is it worth it?
	Timothy P Connery
	BMJ  2008;336:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39434.694421.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tibolone: Still waiting and searching for answers
	Emilio Maestri, Susanna Maltoni, Vittorio Basevi, Annamaria Marata, Nicola Magrini
	BMJ  2008;336:7-8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.568056.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commercial CT scans: VOMIT—victim of medical investigative technology
	U Shaikh, Huw Lewis-Jones
	BMJ  2008;336:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.572731.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health care and markets: We need to be more pragmatic
	Adam Paul Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  2008;336:8-9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.425174.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic health records: Time for an NHS smart card?
	Prasanna de Silva
	BMJ  2008;336:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39434.702477.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for coeliac disease: But where does it take us?
	David S Sanders, Andrew D Hopper, John S Leeds, Marios Hadjivassiliou
	BMJ  2008;336:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.531296.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bare below the elbows: Clinical value of a wristwatch
	James Henderson, Sarah McCracken
	BMJ  2008;336:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.586331.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disseminating guidance: You’ll find it on the intranet
	Alice Z Harney
	BMJ  2008;336:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.482975.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time of change in abortion: Abortion care in family medicine
	Linda W Prine
	BMJ  2008;336:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.525486.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Nigerian judge orders arrests of Pfizer officials
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2008;336:11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39444.446725.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Charity highlights "forgotten crises"
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39443.458900.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In Brief
	BMJ  2008;336:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39443.512905.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US healthcare executive pays back $600m in stock options case
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;336:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.632188.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Research sparks public concern about risk from nuclear power
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2008;336:13, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.618368.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Child in gene therapy programme develops leukaemia
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2008;336:13, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39436.582292.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Committee warns of risk of private computed tomography
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:14-15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39436.610938.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Royal college sets up working party to improve relations between doctors and drug industry
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2008;336:14, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39428.617431.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA rejects government proposals for longer hours for GPs
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2008;336:14, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39437.635579.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors are urged to train in aviation medicine
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2008;336:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39433.644988.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Plans for cross border care costs to be met by home country are halted
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;336:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39437.509965.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Top US medical school dismisses former FDA commissioner as dean
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2008;336:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39443.623299.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Variation in number of women being recalled after breast cancer screening needs to be looked into
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39437.531887.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	South Africa is to publish complaints about drug marketing
	Liza Gibson
	BMJ  2008;336:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39429.521123.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Many British people think civilians legitimate target in war, survey shows
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39436.619144.DB [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:16-17, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.587975.BE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Profile: Face of the future
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2008;336:18-19, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39433.451424.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Medicine and the Media: Doctor takes "march of shame" to atone for drug company payments
	Jeanne Lenzer, Shannon Brownlee
	BMJ  2008;336:20-21, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39437.473576.0F [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Yankee Doodling: Waiting for the genetic revolution
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2008;336:22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39437.453102.0F [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Listen to the data when results are not significant
	Catherine E Hewitt, Natasha Mitchell, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  2008;336:23-25, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39379.359560.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Early life determinants of physical activity in 11 to 12 year olds: cohort study
	Calum Mattocks, Andy Ness, Kevin Deere, Kate Tilling, Sam Leary, Steven N Blair, Chris Riddoch
	BMJ  2008;336:26-29, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39385.443565.BE, (Published 23 November 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Poverty and blindness in Pakistan: results from the Pakistan national blindness and visual impairment survey
	Clare E Gilbert, S P Shah, M Z Jadoon, R Bourne, B Dineen, M A Khan, G J Johnson, M D Khan, on behalf of the Pakistan National Eye Survey Study Group
	BMJ  2008;336:29-32, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39395.500046.AE, (Published 17 December 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of European Clinical Trials Directive on academic drug trials in Denmark: retrospective study of applications to the Danish Medicines Agency 1993-2006
	Louise Berendt, Cecilia Håkansson, Karin Friis Bach, Kim Dalhoff, Per Buch Andreasen, Lene Grejs Petersen, Elin Andersen, Henrik Enghusen Poulsen
	BMJ  2008;336:33-35, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39401.470648.BE, (Published 6 December 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Viral meningitis
	Sarah A E Logan, Eithne MacMahon
	BMJ  2008;336:36-40, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39409.673657.AE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Guidelines: Management of cervical cancer: summary of SIGN guidelines
	R M James, M E Cruickshank, N Siddiqui, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2008;336:41-43, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39399.642894.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Change Page: Upper airway surgery should not be first line treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea in adults
	Adam G Elshaug, John R Moss, Janet E Hiller, Guy J Maddern
	BMJ  2008;336:44-45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.509213.AE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	It’s time to reappraise recruitment of South Asians to clinical trials
	Brian D Gammon, Ashan Gunarathne
	BMJ  2008;336:46, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39416.697778.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Secrets and lies
	Khalid Ali
	BMJ  2008;336:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39420.537801.34 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The state of education
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:48, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39409.757593.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: A winter’s tale
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2008;336:48, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39437.602998.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Where egos dare
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39436.508160.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Ward No 6
	Paul Crichton
	BMJ  2008;336:49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39414.486157.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Linda Williams, Vikram Sharma, Tom Downes
	BMJ  2008;336:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39436.728044.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;336:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39436.620926.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	My first and best role model
	Ami Schattner
	BMJ  2008;336:45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39290.690590.DE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	We've got the map
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2008;336:s1, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39436.722639.80, (Published 5 January 2008) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Professor Sheila Hollins on missing psychiatry, her first cardiac arrest, and breaking bad news
	Hannah Peters
	BMJ  2008;336:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39421.682813.CE, (Published 5 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Careers in academic forensic psychiatry
	Simon Gibbon, Conor Duggan, Matthew Langley, Najat Khalifa
	BMJ  2008;336:s3-s4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39420.527731.CE, (Published 5 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A foundation year 2 programme in prison medicine
	Alex Hickson
	BMJ  2008;336:s5, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39427.636574.CE, (Published 5 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Are we too complacent about patient confidentiality?
	Michael Yousif
	BMJ  2008;336:s6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39415.635162.CE, (Published 5 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	E-mentoring: its pros and cons
	David Macafee
	BMJ  2008;336:s7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39421.771412.CE, (Published 5 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Management of complaints
	Gulshan Jan, Nohaid Ilyas
	BMJ  2008;336:gp8-gp9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39415.664201.CE, (Published 5 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A molecular geneticist
	Steven Gresham, Menaka Jegatheesan
	BMJ  2008;336:s8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39420.853275.CE, (Published 5 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Arthur Kornberg
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2008;336:50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39429.714086.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Esmond William Ball
	Keith Shinton
	BMJ  2008;336:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39412.713102.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Thomas Christie Falconer
	Alistair F Falconer
	BMJ  2008;336:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39421.697523.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Donald Henry Gamage
	Paul Mellor
	BMJ  2008;336:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39428.541829.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	John Lanagan Kelly
	Damian J Kelly
	BMJ  2008;336:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39421.674375.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Keith David Vellacott
	Miles Allison, Brian Stephenson
	BMJ  2008;336:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39413.722095.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Ernest Want
	Christopher Kul-Want
	BMJ  2008;336:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39428.591586.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Donald Drummond Webster
	John Walton, Lord Walton of Detchant
	BMJ  2008;336:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39413.759815.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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