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20 January 2007 (Vol 334, Issue 7585)

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Editor's Choice

A redesigned bmj.com

BMJ 2007;334:0.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Milestones, tombstones, and sex education

BMJ 2007;334:0.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

News

Lack of hospital beds causes emergency departments to miss targets

BMJ 2007;334:111.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

BMJ readers choose the “sanitary revolution” as greatest medical advance since 1840

BMJ 2007;334:111.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

UK regulatory body wants public consultation on human-animal hybrid research

BMJ 2007;334:112.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Democrats push for stem cell research in US

BMJ 2007;334:112.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Compulsive gamblers must get free NHS treatment, BMA says

BMJ 2007;334:113.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Government suffers its first defeat over Mental Health Bill

BMJ 2007;334:113.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

News

BMJ 2007;334:114.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

NHS is accused of “appalling lack of workforce planning”

BMJ 2007;334:114.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

One in four trainee doctors have concerns about their NHS career, study shows

BMJ 2007;334:114.3 (Published 18 January 2007)

Fertilisation authority raids controversial fertility clinics

BMJ 2007;334:115.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Group asks US National Institutes of Health to reveal industry ties

BMJ 2007;334:115.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

High court upholds GMC's rejection of case against neurologist

BMJ 2007;334:116.1 (Published 30 January 2007)

Plan to halve MRSA cases by 2008 is probably not achievable, memo says

BMJ 2007;334:116.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

US health spending grew more slowly in 2005, but it's not all good news

BMJ 2007;334:117.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

GMC accuses doctor of handing out slimming pills “as if they were Smarties”

BMJ 2007;334:117.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Hospital withdraws letter to GPs saying how patients can jump queues

BMJ 2007;334:117.3 (Published 18 January 2007)

Arabian Peninsula states launch plan to eradicate malaria

BMJ 2007;334:117.4 (Published 18 January 2007)

EU is urged to press for global ban on mercury

BMJ 2007;334:117.5 (Published 18 January 2007)

Candidate drug for familial hypercholesterolaemia needs more work

BMJ 2007;334:118.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Adherence to drug treatments prolongs survival after heart attack

BMJ 2007;334:118.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Syphilis returns to China

BMJ 2007;334:118.3 (Published 18 January 2007)

Many Canadian immigrants are susceptible to measles, mumps, or rubella

BMJ 2007;334:118.4 (Published 18 January 2007)

Race is a relentless and exhausting burden for some black American doctors

BMJ 2007;334:119.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

US prisoners have high death rates in the weeks after release

BMJ 2007;334:119.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Patients with drug eluting stents do better on long term clopidogrel

BMJ 2007;334:119.3 (Published 18 January 2007)

Editorials

Sexual health in adolescents

BMJ 2007;334:103 (Published 18 January 2007)

Iron and zinc deficiency in children in developing countries

BMJ 2007;334:104 (Published 18 January 2007)

Tuberculosis in resource poor countries

BMJ 2007;334:105 (Published 18 January 2007)

Surgery for cataract

BMJ 2007;334:107 (Published 18 January 2007)

Renaming schizophrenia

BMJ 2007;334:108 (Published 18 January 2007)

Research

Impact of a theoretically based sex education programme (SHARE) delivered by teachers on NHS registered conceptions and terminations: final results of cluster randomised trial

BMJ 2007;334:133 (Published 18 January 2007)

Effect of isoniazid prophylaxis on mortality and incidence of tuberculosis in children with HIV: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2007;334:136 (Published 18 January 2007)

Effects of fortified milk on morbidity in young children in north India: community based, randomised, double masked placebo controlled trial

BMJ 2007;334:140 (Published 18 January 2007)

Feature

What have we learnt from Vioxx?

BMJ 2007;334:120 (Published 18 January 2007)

Analysis

Graphical method for depicting randomised trials of complex interventions

BMJ 2007;334:127 (Published 18 January 2007)

The in-between world of knowledge brokering

BMJ 2007;334:129 (Published 18 January 2007)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Government should have respected evidence

BMJ 2007;334:109.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Community matrons do make a difference

BMJ 2007;334:109.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Fundamental problem is not lack of preventive care

BMJ 2007;334:109.3 (Published 18 January 2007)

Proposal strikes at the heart of medicine

BMJ 2007;334:109.4 (Published 18 January 2007)

The best time to die (to help fellow taxpayers)

BMJ 2007;334:110.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Make surgeons more active in teaching anatomy at all levels

BMJ 2007;334:110.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Seats must be secured when children are not using them

BMJ 2007;334:110.3 (Published 18 January 2007)

Observations

No quick fix for the NHS

Rebecca Coombes

BMJ 2007;334:124 (Published 18 January 2007)

The Trouble with Medical Journals by Richard Smith: an alternative view

Pritpal S Tamber

BMJ 2007;334:125 (Published 18 January 2007)

Today's doctor's dilemma

Douglas Kamerow

BMJ 2007;334:126 (Published 18 January 2007)

Views & Reviews

Who is responsible for do not resuscitate status in patients with broken hips?

Rahij Anwar, Azeem Ahmed

BMJ 2007;334:155 (Published 18 January 2007)

Netlines

Harry Brown

BMJ 2007;334:156.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Referral management schemes are damaging patients' interests

Peter Lapsley

BMJ 2007;334:156.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Shopping for patients on the high street

Margaret McCartney

BMJ 2007;334:157 (Published 18 January 2007)

Law and disorders

Des Spence

BMJ 2007;334:158.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

What goes around, comes around

Liam Farrell

BMJ 2007;334:158.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

A historical whopper

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2007;334:159.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Doctor in the House

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2007;334:159.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

William Ian McDonald

BMJ 2007;334:160 (Published 18 January 2007)

Moyna Gladys Clark

BMJ 2007;334:161.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Alexander (“Sandy”) Gordon Elder

BMJ 2007;334:161.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Gwilym Penrose Hosking

BMJ 2007;334:161.3 (Published 18 January 2007)

Aloysius (“Lou”) Michels

BMJ 2007;334:161.4 (Published 18 January 2007)

Imrich (“Emery”) Sarkany

BMJ 2007;334:161.5 (Published 18 January 2007)

Peter Thomas John Christopher Plumbly Warner

BMJ 2007;334:161.6 (Published 18 January 2007)

Clinical Review

Syphilis

BMJ 2007;334:143 (Published 18 January 2007)

Practice

: Redesign and modernisation of an NHS cataract service (Fife 1997-2004): multifaceted approach

BMJ 2007;334:148 (Published 18 January 2007)

10-minute consultation: Collapse with loss of awareness

BMJ 2007;334:153 (Published 18 January 2007)

Change page: Don't use minocycline as first line oral antibiotic in acne

BMJ 2007;334:154 (Published 18 January 2007)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;334:162.1 (Published 18 January 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;334:162.2 (Published 18 January 2007)

Filler

A historical view of the future

BMJ 2007;334:132 (Published 18 January 2007)

What is research?

BMJ 2007;334:147 (Published 18 January 2007)

Acupuncture may speed up the active phase of labour in women whose membranes rupture before the onset of labour

BMJ 2007;334:152 (Published 18 January 2007)

Corrections

Minerva

BMJ 2007;334:0.3 (Published 18 January 2007)

Screening strategies for chronic kidney disease in the general population: follow-up of cross sectional health survey

BMJ 2007;334:0.5 (Published 18 January 2007)

Comparison of treatment effects between animal experiments and clinical trials: systematic review

BMJ 2007;334:0.4 (Published 18 January 2007)