Editor's choice: Think again
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.558148.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Continuous deep sedation in patients nearing death
	Scott A Murray, Kirsty Boyd, Ira Byock
	BMJ  2008;336:781-782, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39511.514051.80, (Published 14 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out of hospital cardiac arrest
	Jasmeet Soar, Jerry P Nolan
	BMJ  2008;336:782-783, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39541.489699.80, (Published 7 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Universal RHD genotyping in fetuses
	Sailesh Kumar
	BMJ  2008;336:783-784, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39533.358252.BE, (Published 3 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Oral bisphosphonates and atrial fibrillation
	Sumit R Majumdar
	BMJ  2008;336:784-785, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.481065.80, (Published 11 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Selecting medical students
	Celia A Brown, Richard J Lilford
	BMJ  2008;336:786, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.679977.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Over the counter medicines: Don’t include trimethoprim
	Robin A Howe
	BMJ  2008;336:787, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.480324.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Direct to consumer advertising: A cynical consultation exercise?
	Charles Medawar
	BMJ  2008;336:787, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.489329.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Direct to consumer advertising: Include cost of treatment
	Anthony N Glaser
	BMJ  2008;336:788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.430451.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UKCAT among the pigeons: Undermining access ...
	David G Samuel
	BMJ  2008;336:788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.509063.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UKCAT among the pigeons: ... and excluding the empathic
	Geoffrey F Searle
	BMJ  2008;336:788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.467627.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health of the workers: Sick sick notes (sic)
	Peter Hutchison, Colin Jamieson
	BMJ  2008;336:788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.474942.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health of the workers: Another ethical muddle for GMC
	Anthony N Williams
	BMJ  2008;336:788-789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.452662.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health of the workers: Sick note, fit note, no note?
	Martyn J F Davidson
	BMJ  2008;336:789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.435127.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Predicting citations: Validating prediction models
	Ewout W Steyerberg, Hester F Lingsma
	BMJ  2008;336:789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.610000.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ditching impact factors: Time for the single researcher impact factor
	Gianluca Castelnuovo
	BMJ  2008;336:789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.514745.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gynaecomastia: Drugs and surgical concerns
	John F Colin
	BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.441539.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gynaecomastia: Are surgical guidelines realistic?
	Negin Shamsian, Luke Jones, Sudip Ghosh
	BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.719699.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robotic prostatectomy: Data, please
	Gary J Schwitzer
	BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.470012.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC guidance on beliefs: Denies conscientious objection
	Eugene G Breen
	BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.450961.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Multiple health problems: Presentation is important too
	Nigel C Smeeton
	BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.465451.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Computer says yes: Let the patient decide
	Michael F Vagg
	BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.463345.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Paediatricians debate a motion of no confidence in General Medical Council
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:791, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.627685.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA angered by below inflation pay offer
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2008;336:791, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.336736.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Roche fined for breaching direct to consumer advertising ban and publishing unbalanced advertisements
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2008;336:792, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.583669.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US federal funded website bans "abortion" as search term
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2008;336:792-793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.500833.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	EC proposals fail to distinguish between information and advertising
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;336:792-793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.406262.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Growing trend for trials of new cancer drugs to stop early, review shows
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.565694.DB, (Published 9 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Survivor competition draws attention to problem of landmines
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.703646.BD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;336:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.589468.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors urged to prompt action on climate change
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2008;336:794-795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.338623.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Canadian Medical Association launches online health consultations
	Barbara Kermode-Scott
	BMJ  2008;336:794-795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.351690.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors’ images grace gallery walls
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.587731.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trusts need to improve their handling of complaints, commission says
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2008;336:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.597743.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Germany has two tier health service, study shows
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2008;336:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.400451.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Exhibition explores the last taboo: death
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.424097.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Unicef reports progress in reducing vertical transmission of HIV
	BMJ  2008;336:796-797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.637512.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Three in five patients on Portuguese waiting lists spurn scheme to get surgery sooner
	Tiago Villanueva
	BMJ  2008;336:796-797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.393669.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Donors agree financial arrangement to stimulate vaccine development
	Andrew Jack
	BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.371956.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Company’s decision to lengthen lipid lowering trial causes controversy
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.529028.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	US ready for healthcare reform, conference told
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.551574.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Plagiarism detection service to be launched in June
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.337963.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Exposure to chemicals may contribute to risk of breast cancer, report says
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.605301.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA asks government to support campaign for more consultants
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.513345.4E [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA welcomes expanded role for pharmacists
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.348426.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors are mostly happy in their work, but concerned at staffing levels, survey shows
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.442627.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	UK doctors show most interest in falls among elderly people, but French more curious about type 2 diabetes
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.608866.DB [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:798-799, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.570509.BE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Public Health: Suicide and the internet
	Lucy Biddle, Jenny Donovan, Keith Hawton, Navneet Kapur, David Gunnell
	BMJ  2008;336:800-802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.442674.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Safety nets
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2008;336:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.565208.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Public Policy: Does the NHS really need a constitution?
	Rudolf Klein
	BMJ  2008;336:804, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.432407.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Competition and integration in the English National Health Service
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2008;336:805-807, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.445197.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Let patients control the purse strings
	Vidhya Alakeson
	BMJ  2008;336:807-809, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39524.400498.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Continuous deep sedation for patients nearing death in the Netherlands: descriptive study
	Judith Rietjens, Johannes van Delden, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Hilde Buiting, Paul van der Maas, Agnes van der Heide
	BMJ  2008;336:810-813, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39504.531505.25, (Published 14 March 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of bisphosphonates among women and risk of atrial fibrillation and flutter: population based case-control study
	Henrik Toft Sørensen, Steffen Christensen, Frank Mehnert, Lars Pedersen, Roland D Chapurlat, Steven R Cummings, John A Baron
	BMJ  2008;336:813-816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39507.551644.BE, (Published 11 March 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of high throughput RHD typing of fetal DNA in maternal plasma on use of anti-RhD immunoglobulin in RhD negative pregnant women: prospective feasibility study
	Kirstin Finning, Pete Martin, Joanna Summers, Edwin Massey, Geoff Poole, Geoff Daniels
	BMJ  2008;336:816-818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39518.463206.25, (Published 3 April 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web reference: table] FREE

Clinical review

	Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
	Steven A Lubitz, Avi Fischer, Valentin Fuster
	BMJ  2008;336:819-826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.555150.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Teaching Rounds: The self critical doctor: helping students become more reflective
	Erik Driessen, Jan van Tartwijk, Tim Dornan
	BMJ  2008;336:827-830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39503.608032.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Pulmonary venous stenosis after treatment for atrial fibrillation
	P Kojodjojo, T Wong, A R Wright, O M Kon, W Oldfield, P Kanagaratnam, D W Davies, N S Peters
	BMJ  2008;336:830-832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39457.764942.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	10-minute consultation: Suspected premature menopause
	Georgina Louise Jones, William Ledger, Caroline Mitchell
	BMJ  2008;336:833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39371.652604.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Radical Muslim doctors and what they mean for the NHS
	Irfan Al-Alawi, Stephen Schwartz
	BMJ  2008;336:834, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39282.655035.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Are doctors heartless about death?
	Jerome P Kassirer
	BMJ  2008;336:835, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.423530.DF [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Doublespeak
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.585336.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Benchmarking the turf
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2008;336:836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.650764.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A touch of class
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:837, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.516551.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: A Treatise of the Rickets: Being a Disease Common to Children
	John Black
	BMJ  2008;336:837, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.699387.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Thomas Flannery, Stephen Cooke
	BMJ  2008;336:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39541.524514.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;336:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39541.531586.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Hyperthyroidism and pregnancy
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.531771.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Efficacy of antidepressants
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.427477.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The return of the spoof
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.444942.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Congenital coronary artery disease
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.459583.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	NHS should bring in measures to reduce its carbon footprint, BMA says
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.613900.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Stuart Radcliffe Mawson
	Harold Ludman
	BMJ  2008;336:838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.723958.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	John Robert Ball
	Kenneth Kyle
	BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.763287.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Edwin Robert Bickerstaff
	John Walton Dechant, Lord Walto
	BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.461435.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Ferdinand Hillman
	Martin Hillman
	BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.712870.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Frances Felicity Kerr (née Gibbs)
	Henry R Rollin
	BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39539.733843.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Hilary Owen Meredith King
	Ronald LaPorte, University of Pittsburgh, Martin Silnk, International Diabetes Federation, Jean Claude Mbanya, International Diabetes Federation
	BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.497025.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Peter Michael Roemmele
	Ailbe Beirne
	BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.677083.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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