Editor's Choice: A legal framework for drug safety
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39518.627060.47, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Incentives to quit smoking in primary care
	Raphaël Bize, Jacques Cornuz
	BMJ  2008;336:567-568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39506.386759.80, (Published 6 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Giving antioxidants to infants with Down’s syndrome
	Tim Reynolds
	BMJ  2008;336:568-569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39475.655058.80, (Published 21 February 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating laboratory diagnostic tests
	Tom Walley
	BMJ  2008;336:569-570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.576701.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Illness in people with intellectual disabilities
	Afia Ali, Angela Hassiotis
	BMJ  2008;336:570-571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39490.543137.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Government’s response to the Tooke inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2008;336:571-572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.456748.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Tackling alcohol misuse: Needs in adolescents
	Kelsey D J Jones, David Porter, Huw Williams
	BMJ  2008;336:573, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.687292.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling alcohol misuse: Typical British malaise
	Peter J Mahaffey
	BMJ  2008;336:573, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.714664.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetes education: Selection bias in cluster trial
	David J Torgerson
	BMJ  2008;336:573, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.402535.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetes education: Pilot educational interventions
	Roger A Fisken
	BMJ  2008;336:573-574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.418067.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Joining the DOTS: National "twin study"
	Ulf R Dahle
	BMJ  2008;336:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.423090.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private companies and GPs: A crucial juncture
	Gordon Moore
	BMJ  2008;336:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.449977.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private companies and GPs: An inconvenient truth
	J A Hickling
	BMJ  2008;336:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.463356.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Pfizer asks journal for comments made by peer reviewers
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39518.526389.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK experts call for national system to evaluate diagnostic tests
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.609294.DB, (Published 11 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;336:576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.769201.BD, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Company accused of exploiting unique features of drug to retain market share
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.383484.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK government tightens rules on drug trial results
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2008;336:576-577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.500961.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Demand for prescription drugs in rich areas rises after abolition of charges in Wales
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.695752.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs accept government’s offer on extended hours as lesser of two evils
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2008;336:577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.621053.DB, (Published 6 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	China wants to make health care more affordable to poor
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2008;336:578, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.368808.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Children’s hospital under pressure to end "grotesque" ties with McDonald’s
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2008;336:578, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.479907.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rich countries are accused of "snatching" doctors from poor ones
	Henry Wasswa
	BMJ  2008;336:579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.566227.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Venezuelan doctors resent presence of thousands of Cuban doctors in their country
	Tiago Villanueva, Sara Carrillo de Albornoz
	BMJ  2008;336:579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.642130.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	94% of patients suing Merck over rofecoxib agree to company’s offer
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2008;336:580-581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.541296.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis may have cardiovascular benefits
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;336:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.379977.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Power cut to hospitals in Gaza for 8-12 hours a day
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:580-581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.403947.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scientists consider meat pie mammography and self heating bathtubs
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2008;336:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.614097.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors hope consensus on brain death in China will boost transplants
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2008;336:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39518.354259.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Uptake of bowel screening is only 33% among UK South Asians
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.730718.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	People with learning difficulties face abuse in health settings
	Paul Stephenson
	BMJ  2008;336:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.496481.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Poor communication, poor training, and chaotic drug rounds contribute to drug errors
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2008;336:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39518.355880.DB, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:582-583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.477280.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Emergency medicine: Cabin fever
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2008;336:584-586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39511.444618.AD, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Profile: The gene detective
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2008;336:586-587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39512.672743.94, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Body Politic: Biologically speaking, parliament decides there is no alternative
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2008;336:588, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39512.653727.59, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: The return of the spoof
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2008;336:589, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39503.716412.0F, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Genetic tests for common diseases: new insights, old concerns
	David Melzer, Stuart Hogarth, Katherine Liddell, Tom Ling, Simon Sanderson, Ron L Zimmern
	BMJ  2008;336:590-593, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39506.601053.BE, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Supplementation with antioxidants and folinic acid for children with Down’s syndrome: randomised controlled trial
	Jill M Ellis, Hooi Kuan Tan, Ruth E Gilbert, David P R Muller, William Henley, Robert Moy, Rachel Pumphrey, Cornelius Ani, Sarah Davies, Vanessa Edwards, Heather Green, Alison Salt, Stuart Logan
	BMJ  2008;336:594-597, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.544028.AE, (Published 21 February 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect on smoking quit rate of telling patients their lung age: the Step2quit randomised controlled trial
	Gary Parkes, Trisha Greenhalgh, Mark Griffin, Richard Dent
	BMJ  2008;336:598-600, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39503.582396.25, (Published 6 March 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study
	Lesley Wood, Matthias Egger, Lise Lotte Gluud, Kenneth F Schulz, Peter Jüni, Douglas G Altman, Christian Gluud, Richard M Martin, Anthony J G Wood, Jonathan A C Sterne
	BMJ  2008;336:601-605, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.451748.AD, (Published 3 March 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Prescribing for older people
	James C Milton, Ian Hill-Smith, Stephen H D Jackson
	BMJ  2008;336:606-609, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39503.424653.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Guidelines: Diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer: summary of NICE guidance
	John Graham, Mark Baker, Fergus Macbeth, Victoria Titshall, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2008;336:610-612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39498.525706.AD, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: controversies in NICE guidance on prostate cancer
	Timothy J Wilt
	BMJ  2008;336:612-614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39501.621690.AD, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Change Page: Don’t add aspirin for associated stable vascular disease in a patient with atrial fibrillation receiving anticoagulation
	Gregory Y H Lip
	BMJ  2008;336:614-615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39351.706586.AD, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Personal View: A wing and a prayer: the tale of an in-flight emergency
	Osman A Dar
	BMJ  2008;336:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.477917.59, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: The scourge of the drug pirates
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2008;336:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.415972.34, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Supermarket sweep
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.478333.59, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: Having a nose for it
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2008;336:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.459363.59, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: There will be blood
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39507.528819.94, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Unmasking of Medicine
	James Curran
	BMJ  2008;336:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39505.691042.59, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	David A Lockington, Sadhu Gupta
	BMJ  2008;336:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.405486.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;336:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.570313.80, (Published 15 March 2008) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Congenital coronary artery disease
	Andrew James Burton
	BMJ  2008;336:605, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39449.573356.DE, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Eduard Aleksandrovich Stepanov
	Boleslav Lichterman
	BMJ  2008;336:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.281262.BE, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	John Short Happel
	Sue Happel, Michael Williams
	BMJ  2008;336:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39504.741262.BE, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Ruth D’Arcy Hart
	Oliver Hart
	BMJ  2008;336:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39504.769699.BE, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Thomas Dunn Herriott
	Sara Herriott
	BMJ  2008;336:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39503.679375.BE, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	John Derrick Morris
	Elizabeth J Stone
	BMJ  2008;336:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39504.827546.BE, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert Nash
	Roddy Nash
	BMJ  2008;336:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39504.839919.BE, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Susan Elizabeth Openshaw (née Scott Stokes)
	Peter J M Openshaw
	BMJ  2008;336:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39503.695856.BE, (Published 15 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

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