Editor's Choice: All the Cs
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39553.574525.47, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Complaints against doctors
	Paul Kinnersley, Adrian Edwards
	BMJ  2008;336:841-842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.658565.80, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical treatment of pilonidal disease
	John Bascom
	BMJ  2008;336:842-843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39535.397292.BE, (Published 7 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intergenerational recurrence of breech delivery
	Janet R Hardy
	BMJ  2008;336:843-844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.608542.80, (Published 27 March 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Darzi’s review of quality of care in the NHS
	Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  2008;336:844-845, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39541.622917.80, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths in custody
	Alison Frater
	BMJ  2008;336:845-846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.635729.80, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Preventing falls among older people in hospital: Interpreting the null result
	Frances Healey
	BMJ  2008;336:847, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.430162.3A, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing falls among older people in hospital: Results are not surprising
	Alan Walmsley
	BMJ  2008;336:847, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.489896.3A, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Leprosy chemoprophylaxis: What’s the need?
	Mohammad M Rahman
	BMJ  2008;336:847-848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.445521.3A, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing NHS carbon footprint: Time for a culture change
	Mike Simpson
	BMJ  2008;336:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.480671.3A, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The woman question: Why is this news?
	Sacha C Haworth
	BMJ  2008;336:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.485660.3A, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The woman question: Sweden is a good model
	Rosalind M Duhs
	BMJ  2008;336:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.487465.3A, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The woman question: Change in attitude is required
	Helen Fernandes
	BMJ  2008;336:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.488692.3A, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Merck used ghostwriters and selective data in Vioxx publications, JAMA says
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;336:849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39553.344965.DB, (Published 16 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health department’s denial of free health care to asylum seekers was unlawful, judge says
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.549896.DB, (Published 16 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Wakefield admits fabricating events when he took children’s blood samples
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:850, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39553.506597.DB, (Published 17 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Australian drug industry seeks to improve its image
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2008;336:850-851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39551.656875.C2, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	HFEA will defend challenge from Christian group on hybrid embryo research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:850-851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.380370.C2, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Germany liberalises law on stem cell research
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2008;336:851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.538356.DB, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;336:852, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.462014.4E, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	More than 10% of hospital deaths could be avoided, conference is told
	Henry Creagh
	BMJ  2008;336:852, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.618426.DB, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US hospitals pass on most of the costs of errors
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;336:852, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39551.680417.C2, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	How to cheat at anatomy
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2008;336:852-853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.487315.DB, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Two doctors in Holland are to be prosecuted over use of complementary therapy
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2008;336:853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.636586.DB, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health authority knew its cancer testing was inaccurate two years before publicly revealing it, inquiry is told
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2008;336:853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.410938.DB, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New combined pill to treat malaria is launched
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;336:854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.490856.4E, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK psychiatrists offer help to colleagues in Iraq
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:854-855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.413241.4E, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Egyptian doctors who took part in forced HIV testing "violated medical ethics"
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39551.667778.C2, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	More than 26 000 Americans die each year because of lack of health insurance
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;336:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.693981.DB, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US is urged to expand its healthcare workforce to cope with surge in number of elderly people
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2008;336:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39553.682685.94, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Better delivery, not more funding, is crucial to improving health care
	Hugh Ip
	BMJ  2008;336:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39553.336308.DB, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:856-857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39548.662211.80, (Published 19 April 2008) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

	Should we screen for abdominal aortic aneurysm? Yes
	Stephen Brearley
	BMJ  2008;336:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.443796.AD, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should we screen for aortic aneurysm? No
	James N Johnson
	BMJ  2008;336:863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.494167.AD, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing: Knowing me, knowing you
	Jeanne Lenzer, Shannon Brownlee
	BMJ  2008;336:858-860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39534.451458.AD, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Life and Death: A general practitioner for every person in the world
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2008;336:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39548.435023.59, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Development of palliative care and legalisation of euthanasia: antagonism or synergy?
	Jan L Bernheim, Reginald Deschepper, Wim Distelmans, Arsène Mullie, Johan Bilsen, Luc Deliens
	BMJ  2008;336:864-867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39497.397257.AD, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Healing by primary closure versus open healing after surgery for pilonidal sinus: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Iain J D McCallum, Peter M King, Julie Bruce
	BMJ  2008;336:868-871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.808160.BE, (Published 7 April 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references] FREE

	Maternal and paternal contribution to intergenerational recurrence of breech delivery: population based cohort study
	Tone Irene Nordtveit, Kari Klungsoyr Melve, Susanne Albrechtsen, Rolv Skjaerven
	BMJ  2008;336:872-876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39505.436539.BE, (Published 27 March 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Internal and external validity of cluster randomised trials: systematic review of recent trials
	Sandra Eldridge, Deborah Ashby, Catherine Bennett, Melanie Wakelin, Gene Feder
	BMJ  2008;336:876-880, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.495764.25, (Published 25 March 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table A][extra: List of trials included in review] FREE

Clinical review

	Breast feeding
	Pat Hoddinott, David Tappin, Charlotte Wright
	BMJ  2008;336:881-887, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39521.566296.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Competent Novice: Confidentiality
	Julius Bourke, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2008;336:888-891, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39521.357731.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	The tale of an anorexic male medical student
	David Gwynfor Samuel
	BMJ  2008;336:892, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.715347.94, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Lost in translation
	Pardeep Grewal
	BMJ  2008;336:893, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39535.519167.4E, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Are there too many middle class doctors?
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:894, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.500556.94, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: You do agree, don’t you?
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2008;336:894, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.633530.94, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Just saying no
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.629317.59, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Applied Physiology
	Leonard Sinclair
	BMJ  2008;336:895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.498796.34, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	B S Dhillon, M C Nuttall, N Coull, T S O’Brien
	BMJ  2008;336:898, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39548.521852.47, (Published 19 April 2008) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;336:898, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39548.573727.47, (Published 19 April 2008) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Losing our way
	James Barrett
	BMJ  2008;336:867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39514.464144.AD, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dreaming diagnosis
	Nageena Hussain
	BMJ  2008;336:891, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39419.499039.25, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Mobile phone text messaging can help young people manage asthma
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.645775.AD, (Published 19 April 2008) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of the diabetes education and self management for ongoing and newly diagnosed (DESMOND) programme for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: cluster randomised controlled trial
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39553.528299.AD, (Published 19 April 2008) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Gerrit Bras
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2008;336:896, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39552.447928.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Margaret Campbell Barnet
	Tony Dale
	BMJ  2008;336:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39547.542894.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Colin Mackenzie Davidson
	Roy May
	BMJ  2008;336:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.764028.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Vincent Dolan
	John Neary
	BMJ  2008;336:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.727222.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Martin Vincent Lush Foss
	Caroline Tucker
	BMJ  2008;336:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39533.633669.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	William Knott Pallister
	G Westbury, D J Pearce
	BMJ  2008;336:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39547.633507.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	William Harford Rutherford
	John Rutherford, Jonathan Marrow
	BMJ  2008;336:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.755637.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

	Peter John Webb
	Mark Webb
	BMJ  2008;336:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39533.712002.BE, (Published 19 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text]

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