Health, wealth, and politics
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39490.460162.DE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Functional status and long term outcome of stroke
	Helen Rodgers, Richard Thomson
	BMJ  2008;336:337-338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39456.470880.80, (Published 29 January 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Self management training in refractory angina
	Michael McGillion, Heather Arthur, Paulin Andréll, Judy Watt-Watson
	BMJ  2008;336:338-339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.522569.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interpreting trends in fecundity over time
	Jens Peter Ellekilde Bonde, Jørn Olsen
	BMJ  2008;336:339-340, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39463.522708.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Quality failures in the NHS
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2008;336:340-341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.406308.80, (Published 8 February 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Stronger European medical research
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2008;336:341-342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.505208.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Preventing falls: Not at the expense of osteoporosis care
	Jonathan Bayly, Tahir Masud
	BMJ  2008;336:343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.653009.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing falls: Direct intervention is needed
	Barney S Spivack
	BMJ  2008;336:343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.498866.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing falls: Try the stork challenge
	Lyn Williamson
	BMJ  2008;336:343-344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.471678.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing falls: Don’t forget standing blood pressure
	Daniel A Jones, Farhad Huwez
	BMJ  2008;336:344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.512639.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring patient care: PROMs promote health gain and patient involvement
	Andrew J Vallance-Owen
	BMJ  2008;336:344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.488993.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Osteoarthritis of the knee: Topical NSAIDs have unknown effectiveness
	Peter C Gøtzsche
	BMJ  2008;336:344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.438426.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Presumed consent: No such thing
	John Saunders
	BMJ  2008;336:345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.504653.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Presumed consent: A bad choice
	Sarah Boehm
	BMJ  2008;336:345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.453750.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety and the flying doctor: Not just about working hours
	Jonathan R Benger
	BMJ  2008;336:345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.461250.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing problem juniors: Practical advice is available
	Kelwyn D Williams
	BMJ  2008;336:345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39471.711296.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug company payments: Put declaration in abstracts
	Rosemary Stanton
	BMJ  2008;336:345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.497639.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Double blind peer review: Response rate was only 7.7%
	Anne Szarewski
	BMJ  2008;336:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.496146.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inguinal hernias: Is treatment needed?
	Stephen Head
	BMJ  2008;336:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.431088.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inguinal hernias: A case of waste not, want not?
	John G Gooderham
	BMJ  2008;336:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.456875.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unwanted white coats: 31 uses for a white coat
	Nawar Al-Shabibi
	BMJ  2008;336:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.654028.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs criticise otalgia article: Extracts from responses
	James N Hardy
	BMJ  2008;336:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.435174.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs criticise otalgia article: Extracts from responses
	James A Cave
	BMJ  2008;336:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.459699.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs criticise otalgia article: Extracts from responses
	John M Reay
	BMJ  2008;336:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.509329.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs criticise otalgia article: Extracts from responses
	Bruno Capone
	BMJ  2008;336:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.463368.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Graduates from different UK medical schools vary in postgraduate exam performance
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.670822.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Coronary artery disease in US may no longer be declining
	New York
	BMJ  2008;336:347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.375752.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Belgian parents are sentenced to prison for not vaccinating children
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2008;336:348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.577396.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	More than half of Ugandan AIDS patients don’t get the drugs they need
	Henry Wasswa
	BMJ  2008;336:348-349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.598044.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	French doctors are tried for treating children with infected growth hormone
	Brad Spurgeon
	BMJ  2008;336:348-349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.717292.C2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Commercialisation of health care in US distorts resource allocation, expert says
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2008;336:349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.688356.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;336:350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.654178.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Report warns of long waits for UK audiology services and treatment by non-specialists
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:350-351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.674236.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Home Office rules will cut postgraduate training applications from migrants by 2000 next year
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2008;336:350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.585104.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA advises GPs on longer opening hours
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.411354.C2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Unicef seeks $900m for children and women worldwide
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;336:352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.699514.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Industry’s push to woo nurse prescribers has been at "expense of nursing integrity"
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2008;336:352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.709167.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Investigation into Germany’s largest research funder confirms collaboration with Nazi regime
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2008;336:353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.475914.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor-population ratio grows in UK but is still short of that in France and Germany
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.437801.C2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Lack of timely data is hampering payment by results
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39490.406644.4E [Extract] [Full text]

	Charity is set up to improve adolescents’ health care
	Henry Creagh
	BMJ  2008;336:353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.415972.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Government is setting aside £42m for water fluoridation
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39490.749537.C2 [Extract] [Full text]

	Regional crisis is feared as violence overtakes Chad
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.633275.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Combating cancer is priority while Slovenia holds presidency of Europe
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;336:353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.379942.DB [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:354-355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.398356.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

	Should doctors advocate snus and other nicotine replacements? Yes
	John Britton
	BMJ  2008;336:358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.427477.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should doctors advocate snus and other nicotine replacements? No
	Alexander W Macara
	BMJ  2008;336:359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.491319.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Profile: No job for the spineless
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2008;336:356-357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39476.472789.0F [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Life and Death: An open letter to the Prime Minister
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2008;336:360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39484.540127.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Use of randomised trials to decide when to monitor response to new treatment
	Katy J L Bell, Les Irwig, Jonathan C Craig, Petra Macaskill
	BMJ  2008;336:361-365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39476.623611.25 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Appendix]

Research

	New onset and persistent symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder self reported after deployment and combat exposures: prospective population based US military cohort study
	Tyler C Smith, Margaret A K Ryan, Deborah L Wingard, Donald J Slymen, James F Sallis, Donna Kritz-Silverstein, for the Millennium Cohort Study Team
	BMJ  2008;336:366-371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39430.638241.AE, (Published 15 January 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Inequalities in mortality during and after restructuring of the New Zealand economy: repeated cohort studies
	Tony Blakely, Martin Tobias, June Atkinson
	BMJ  2008;336:371-375, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.596181.25, (Published 24 January 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables A and B][extra: Tables C and D][extra: Tables C and D][extra: Tables C and D] FREE

	Impact of functional status at six months on long term survival in patients with ischaemic stroke: prospective cohort studies
	Karsten Bruins Slot, Eivind Berge, Paul Dorman, Steff Lewis, Martin Dennis, Peter Sandercock, on behalf of the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project, the International Stroke Trial (UK), and the Lothian Stroke Register
	BMJ  2008;336:376-379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39456.688333.BE, (Published 29 January 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Management of haemorrhoids
	Austin G Acheson, John H Scholefield
	BMJ  2008;336:380-383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.674745.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Teaching Rounds: Teaching when time is limited
	David M Irby, LuAnn Wilkerson
	BMJ  2008;336:384-387, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39456.727199.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rational imaging: Investigating perianal pain of uncertain cause
	Rebecca Greenhalgh, C Richard Cohen, David Burling, Stuart Andrew Taylor
	BMJ  2008;336:387-389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.393299.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Personal View: Electronic patient records: reasons to be cheerful
	Jonathan Gornall
	BMJ  2008;336:390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39484.423391.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: What becomes of the broken hearted?
	John Quin
	BMJ  2008;336:391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.605197.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Zero tolerance
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.602627.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: The mother ship has come in
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2008;336:392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.452269.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Singing the royal blues
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:393, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.668403.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
	David Warriner
	BMJ  2008;336:393, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.675451.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Wendy Craig, Kirsteen Wintour, S M Walker, G G Youngson
	BMJ  2008;336:396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.541725.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;336:396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39486.532593.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A memorable patient: The "Chinese room" argument and patient education
	Gérard Reach
	BMJ  2008;336:365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39458.701146.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tale of the unexpected
	Elizabeth Ingall
	BMJ  2008;336:379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39388.636100.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Oleg Georgievich Gazenko
	Alexandr Grigoriev, Mikhail Ugryumov, Boleslav Lichterman
	BMJ  2008;336:394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.514282.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Vera Archer Giles (née Wallace)
	George McKenna
	BMJ  2008;336:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.642581.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Keith Edmund Edwin Hubble
	Philip Carter
	BMJ  2008;336:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39477.721991.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Gordon John Ker
	Alison Ker
	BMJ  2008;336:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39484.651620.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Kevin McCarthy
	Judith Stephenson
	BMJ  2008;336:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39484.670278.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	James Harper Milligan
	Don Milligan
	BMJ  2008;336:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39477.743218.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	John Matheson Ritchie
	Tony Grabham
	BMJ  2008;336:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.665324.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Margaret Shinton
	Keith Shinton, Roger Shinton
	BMJ  2008;336:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39477.707153.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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