Next to cleanliness
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.595255.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Gordon Brown’s agenda for the NHS
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2008;336:53-54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.385868.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Modernising Medical Careers: final report
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2008;336:54-55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.401817.80, (Published 8 January 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Using physical barriers to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
	Martin Dawes
	BMJ  2008;336:55-56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39406.511817.BE, (Published 27 November 2007) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Parliamentary review asks NICE to do better still
	Joe Collier
	BMJ  2008;336:56-57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.496748.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing severe pneumonia in children in developing countries
	Zulfiqar A Bhutta
	BMJ  2008;336:57-58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.672118.80, (Published 8 January 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Financial ties that might bind: Delve deeper to find the links
	John H Noble, Jr
	BMJ  2008;336:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.701262.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Financial ties that might bind: Consider palliative coronary intervention
	Michael R Chester
	BMJ  2008;336:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.691169.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	RCGP's oral contraception study: Study shows greater cancer risk
	Joel Brind
	BMJ  2008;336:59-60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.636875.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	RCGP's oral contraception study: Authors’ reply
	Philip C Hannaford, Alison M Elliott, Lisa Iversen, Amanda J Lee, Sivasubramaniam Selvaraj, Valerie Angus
	BMJ  2008;336:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.650289.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Circumcision: right or wrong?: Summary of responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2008;336:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.714606.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Tooke report proposes a new body to get postgraduate medical training back on track
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:61, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.498600.4E, (Published 8 January 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;336:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.608530.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Prime minister promises raft of new screening tests
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2008;336:62-63, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.738912.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Lack of vitamin D raises risk of heart disease and worsens prognosis for some cancers
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.636192.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Aid agencies provide medical relief in Kenya
	John Zaracostas
	BMJ  2008;336:63, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.593148.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Whistleblower who was excluded from work for five years wins apology
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:63, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.502049.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Human rights charities protest at arrest of Palestinian paramedics in Nablus hospital
	Merav Sarig
	BMJ  2008;336:64-65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.516019.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Leading cancer hospital resumes some services after major fire
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2008;336:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.515972.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Study shows effect on life expectancy of greater spending on treatment
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.695775.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	German patients escape financial penalties for not following their doctor’s advice
	Annette Tufts
	BMJ  2008;336:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.429931.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pakistan’s doctors call for clarity on cause of Bhutto’s death
	Ashfaq Yusufzai
	BMJ  2008;336:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.528576.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hormone treatment plus radiation delays growth of prostate cancer
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;336:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.609514.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	England and Wales are among European countries at highest risk of measles epidemic
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.636146.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Responses to the Tooke inquiry show support for his proposals
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.523090.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Prime minister’s office denies plans to withhold treatment from people with unhealthy lifestyles
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2008;336:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.706563.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Scale of norovirus outbreak may have been exaggerated
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2008;336:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.807234.4E [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What’s new in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.500903.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

	Should heroin be prescribed to heroin misusers? Yes
	Jürgen Rehm, Benedikt Fischer
	BMJ  2008;336:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39421.593692.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should heroin be prescribed to heroin misusers? No
	Neil McKeganey
	BMJ  2008;336:71, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39422.503241.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Substance misuse: More than a quick fix
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2008;336:68-69, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39434.460694.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Atlantic Crossing: Humbled in Taiwan
	Uwe E Reinhardt
	BMJ  2008;336:72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.473380.0F [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sometimes it takes a loss of life to make a difference
	Craig A Sinclair, Jennifer K Makin
	BMJ  2008;336:73, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39430.705752.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	On the trail of quality and safety in health care
	Richard Grol, Donald M Berwick, Michel Wensing
	BMJ  2008;336:74-76, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39413.486944.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses: systematic review
	Tom Jefferson, Ruth Foxlee, Chris Del Mar, Liz Dooley, Eliana Ferroni, Bill Hewak, Adi Prabhala, Sree Nair, Alex Rivetti
	BMJ  2008;336:77-80, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39393.510347.BE, (Published 27 November 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references] FREE

	Chloramphenicol versus ampicillin plus gentamicin for community acquired very severe pneumonia among children aged 2-59 months in low resource settings: multicentre randomised controlled trial (SPEAR study)
	Rai Asghar, Salem Banajeh, Josefina Egas, Patricia Hibberd, Imran Iqbal, Mary Katep-Bwalya, Zafarullah Kundi, Paul Law, William MacLeod, Irene Maulen-Radovan, Greta Mino, Samir Saha, Fernando Sempertegui, Jonathon Simon, Mathuram Santosham, Sunit Singhi, Donald M Thea, Shamim Qazi, for the SPEAR (Severe Pneumonia Evaluation Antimicrobial Research) Study Group
	BMJ  2008;336:80-84, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39421.435949.BE, (Published 8 January 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of respiratory morbidity in term infants delivered by elective caesarean section: cohort study
	Anne Kirkeby Hansen, Kirsten Wisborg, Niels Uldbjerg, Tine Brink Henriksen
	BMJ  2008;336:85-87, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39405.539282.BE, (Published 11 December 2007) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Tension-type headache
	Elizabeth Loder, Paul Rizzoli
	BMJ  2008;336:88-92, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39412.705868.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Pregnancy Plus: Eating disorders in pregnancy
	Veronica Bridget Ward
	BMJ  2008;336:93-96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39393.689595.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Severe weight loss caused by chewing gum
	Juergen Bauditz, Kristina Norman, Henrik Biering, Herbert Lochs, Matthias Pirlich
	BMJ  2008;336:96-97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39280.657350.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Zimbabwe: an eyewitness account
	Kate Adams
	BMJ  2008;336:98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.635579.0F [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What is wrong with US health care
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2008;336:99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39423.674329.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The treatment paradox
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.622824.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Development lesson
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2008;336:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.711840.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Notes and queries
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39436.478414.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
	David Warriner
	BMJ  2008;336:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39415.456331.0F [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2008;336:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39341.438843.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Ian Coulson, Jason Williams, Sandra Windhoven
	BMJ  2008;336:104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.448657.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;336:104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.458322.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Knowing too much
	Sofie Zermansky, Adam Zermansky
	BMJ  2008;336:76, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39322.681296.DE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Agency warns about dosing error for amphotericin after patients with cancer die
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.454676.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editor’s Choice: Doctors and the drug industry
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.471088.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Self monitoring in diabetes
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.485509.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Screening programme evaluation applied to airport security
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.509745.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Riek Stienstra
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2008;336:102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.522963.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Alan Marcus Barker
	Roger Figgins, Quayside Medical Practice
	BMJ  2008;336:103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39421.726435.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Noel Frank Collett Gowing
	Stephen Kane, Albert Cilia-Vincenti
	BMJ  2008;336:103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.693461.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	William Kerr Henderson
	Andrew K Henderson
	BMJ  2008;336:103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.713495.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Anthony James Sear
	C M Sear
	BMJ  2008;336:103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39430.729398.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Ann Elizabeth Snedden
	Ama Addo, Sarah Beesley, Alison Cohen, Kate Slaven
	BMJ  2008;336:103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.735891.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert Alexander Harrison Surtees
	Brian Neville
	BMJ  2008;336:103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.672095.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Michael Kingsley Williams
	Frances Williams
	BMJ  2008;336:103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39392.730602.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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