06 January 2007 (Vol 334, Issue 7583)

Editor's Choice

The new BMJ

BMJ 2007;334:0.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

US Highlights

BMJ 2007;334:0.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

News

Anaesthetist helps Italian patient who wanted to die

BMJ 2007;334:9.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

GPs to follow up patients after surgery

BMJ 2007;334:9.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

News

BMJ 2007;334:10.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

Hepatitis C morbidity is set to double in next decade

BMJ 2007;334:10.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

New MRSA strain is not at epidemic level, expert says

BMJ 2007;334:10.3 (Published 4 January 2007)

Outrage over death sentences in Libyan AIDS trial

BMJ 2007;334:11.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

Dramatic drop in HIV infections halts circumcision trials

BMJ 2007;334:11.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

The Netherlands bans private stem cell therapy

BMJ 2007;334:12.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

Safety agency must simplify reporting of patient incidents

BMJ 2007;334:12.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

Anatomy teaching in United Kingdom is in crisis, new report says

BMJ 2007;334:12.3 (Published 4 January 2007)

Patients can opt out of controversial national records system

BMJ 2007;334:12.4 (Published 4 January 2007)

Planned changes in law on embryo research will hit researchers

BMJ 2007;334:12.5 (Published 4 January 2007)

FDA proposes changes in access and charges for experimental drugs

BMJ 2007;334:12.6 (Published 4 January 2007)

Doctors criticise proposal for community practitioners in rural India

BMJ 2007;334:12.7 (Published 4 January 2007)

Government got its NHS workforce plans wrong, say experts

BMJ 2007;334:12.8 (Published 4 January 2007)

High court upholds General Medical Council's rejection of case against neurologist

BMJ 2007;334:12.9 (Published 4 January 2007)

GMC must disclose files on Wakefield to documentary makers

BMJ 2007;334:12.10 (Published 4 January 2007)

Herbal supplements don't relieve menopausal flushes

BMJ 2007;334:13.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

We don't know the best way to treat renal artery stenosis

BMJ 2007;334:13.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

Cognitive training may improve daily functioning in elderly people

BMJ 2007;334:13.3 (Published 4 January 2007)

News - continued

High serum vitamin D may protect against multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2007;334:13.4 (Published 4 January 2007)

Editorials

Communicating with parents on the neonatal unit

BMJ 2007;334:1 (Published 4 January 2007)

Lower urinary tract symptoms in men

BMJ 2007;334:2 (Published 4 January 2007)

Case management for elderly people in the community

BMJ 2007;334:3 (Published 4 January 2007)

Why submit your research to the BMJ?

BMJ 2007;334:4 (Published 4 January 2007)

GPs, operations, and the community

BMJ 2007;334:5 (Published 4 January 2007)

Research

Letters

Special report adds nothing new, say paper authors

BMJ 2007;334:7.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

Ellipsis marks an important omission

BMJ 2007;334:7.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

Author's reply

BMJ 2007;334:7.3 (Published 4 January 2007)

New contract reduces quality of patient-nurse relationship

BMJ 2007;334:8.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

What of Asian, African, and South American patients?

BMJ 2007;334:8.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

Taste in food also changes

BMJ 2007;334:8.3 (Published 4 January 2007)

Obituaries

Anthony Oakhill

BMJ 2007;334:48 (Published 4 January 2007)

Lewis Saunt Castleden

BMJ 2007;334:49.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

James Irvine Havelock Hadfield

BMJ 2007;334:49.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

George Masterton

BMJ 2007;334:49.3 (Published 4 January 2007)

Frances Mary Mules

BMJ 2007;334:49.4 (Published 4 January 2007)

Isobel Stewart Proctor

BMJ 2007;334:49.5 (Published 4 January 2007)

Roger Unwin

BMJ 2007;334:49.6 (Published 4 January 2007)

Clinical Review

Acute gastroenteritis in children

BMJ 2007;334:35 (Published 4 January 2007)

Practice

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;334:50.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;334:50.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

Features

Clicking for pills

BMJ 2007;334:14 (Published 4 January 2007)

Should smokers be refused surgery?

BMJ 2007;334:20 (Published 4 January 2007)

Should smokers be refused surgery?

BMJ 2007;334:21 (Published 4 January 2007)

observations

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

BMJ 2007;334:16.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

Are medical secrets up for grabs?

BMJ 2007;334:16.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

Libyan HIV death sentences

BMJ 2007;334:17 (Published 4 January 2007)

Sucked into the Herceptin maelstrom

BMJ 2007;334:18 (Published 4 January 2007)

In defence of a National Sickness Service

BMJ 2007;334:19 (Published 4 January 2007)

Analysis and Comment

A new look at NHS commissioning

BMJ 2007;334:22 (Published 4 January 2007)

Filler

A former colleague?

BMJ 2007;334:24 (Published 4 January 2007)

Long term hormone replacement therapy with estradiol alone is linked to breast cancer

BMJ 2007;334:3434 (Published 4 January 2007)

We don't need another 400 plastic surgeons

BMJ 2007;334:44 (Published 4 January 2007)

Medical journals: past their sell by date?

BMJ 2007;334:45 (Published 4 January 2007)

The generation game

BMJ 2007;334:46.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

Shy and retiring?

BMJ 2007;334:46.2 (Published 4 January 2007)

Home truths about anatomy

BMJ 2007;334:47.1 (Published 4 January 2007)

M*A*S*H

BMJ 2007;334:47.2 (Published 4 January 2007)