21 April 2007 (Vol 334, Issue 7598)

Editor's Choice

Delirium, opioid regulation, and pathological gambling

BMJ 2007;334:0.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Straight thinking

BMJ 2007;334:0.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

News

Health department considers how to make NHS more independent

BMJ 2007;334:815.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

Benefits of £12bn IT programme in NHS are “unclear,” MPs say

BMJ 2007;334:815.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

New approach to surgical care aims to improve recovery and reduce length of hospital stay

BMJ 2007;334:816.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

Aspirin reduced risk of cancer in large US study

BMJ 2007;334:816.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Three Russian doctors face trial for vaccine tests

BMJ 2007;334:817.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

Zimbabwean doctors' group calls on world's health professionals to support right to treatment

BMJ 2007;334:817.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

News

BMJ 2007;334:818.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

Health secretary sets up review of Modernising Medical Careers

BMJ 2007;334:818.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Woman loses final round of battle to use her frozen embryos

BMJ 2007;334:818.3 (Published 19 April 2007)

Drug company campaign adds to pressure on Dutch doctors to vaccinate against HPV

BMJ 2007;334:819.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

People with diabetes are not given enough information on self care, survey shows

BMJ 2007;334:819.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Future of historic paintings is uncertain after closure of hospital site

BMJ 2007;334:820.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

US should ease its travel restrictions on HIV positive people, think tank says

BMJ 2007;334:820.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

England's new research funding system leaves some fields of psychiatry out in cold

BMJ 2007;334:821.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

English patients will be able to go anywhere in England for hip operations

BMJ 2007;334:821.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Georgian drug misusers switch to Western heroin substitute

BMJ 2007;334:821.3 (Published 19 April 2007)

Pilot your plane safely

BMJ 2007;334:822.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

Stem cell autotransplantation shows promise for type 1 diabetes

BMJ 2007;334:822.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Anakinra improves glycaemia in type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2007;334:822.3 (Published 19 April 2007)

Genes that carry cardiovascular risk still elude us

BMJ 2007;334:822.4 (Published 19 April 2007)

Radiotherapy improves survival in elderly people with malignant glioma

BMJ 2007;334:823.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

News - continued

Preliminary results raise hope for darunavir in HIV-1

BMJ 2007;334:823.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Corticosteroids prevent atrial fibrillation after heart surgery

BMJ 2007;334:823.3 (Published 19 April 2007)

Screening newborns for cystic fibrosis pays off

BMJ 2007;334:823.4 (Published 19 April 2007)

Editorials

Improving outcomes in pregnancy

BMJ 2007;334:807 (Published 19 April 2007)

NHS walk-in centres

BMJ 2007;334:808 (Published 19 April 2007)

Palliative care in the community

BMJ 2007;334:809 (Published 19 April 2007)

Pathological gambling in Parkinson's disease

BMJ 2007;334:810 (Published 19 April 2007)

Regulation of opioid prescribing

BMJ 2007;334:811 (Published 19 April 2007)

Research

Analysis

When professional opinion is not enough

BMJ 2007;334:831 (Published 19 April 2007)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Time for action on chlamydia

BMJ 2007;334:813.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

Case for angioplasty to treat angina

BMJ 2007;334:813.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Case presented does not wash

BMJ 2007;334:813.3 (Published 19 April 2007)

Construction and assumptions of models should be explicit

BMJ 2007;334:814.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

Data on alcohol hand rubs are equivocal

BMJ 2007;334:814.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

What about stigma, evidence base, and consistency?

BMJ 2007;334:814.3 (Published 19 April 2007)

Gender neutrality is crucial

BMJ 2007;334:814.4 (Published 19 April 2007)

Observations

A better way to die

Tessa Richards

BMJ 2007;334:830 (Published 19 April 2007)

Views & Reviews

What would you do, doctor?

Daniel K Sokol

BMJ 2007;334:853 (Published 19 April 2007)

Home alone

Des Spence

BMJ 2007;334:854.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

Doing medicine

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2007;334:854.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Views & Reviews - continued

Where are all the blighters?

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2007;334:855.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

The Citadel

Marcos Martinez Del Pero

BMJ 2007;334:855.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Living in a box

David Woods

BMJ 2007;334:856 (Published 19 April 2007)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

John Swanson Beck

BMJ 2007;334:857.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

John Brittain

BMJ 2007;334:857.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Benjamin Anthony Gwynne Jenkins

BMJ 2007;334:857.3 (Published 19 April 2007)

Harold Ian Jory

BMJ 2007;334:857.4 (Published 19 April 2007)

Frank McLaren McGown

BMJ 2007;334:857.5 (Published 19 April 2007)

John Neilson

BMJ 2007;334:857.6 (Published 19 April 2007)

Clinical Review

Delirium in older people

BMJ 2007;334:842 (Published 19 April 2007)

Practice

BMJ Masterclass for GPs: Asthma

BMJ 2007;334:847 (Published 19 April 2007)

Lesson of the week: Information technology cannot guarantee patient safety

BMJ 2007;334:851 (Published 19 April 2007)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2007;334:858.1 (Published 19 April 2007)

Minerva

BMJ 2007;334:858.2 (Published 19 April 2007)

Features

MTAS—where are we now?

BMJ 2007;334:824 (Published 19 April 2007)

Should you tell patients about beneficial treatments that they cannot have? Yes

BMJ 2007;334:826 (Published 19 April 2007)

Should you tell patients about beneficial treatments that they cannot have? No

BMJ 2007;334:827 (Published 19 April 2007)

Gambling with the nation's health

BMJ 2007;334:828 (Published 19 April 2007)

Filler

Living with a smoker increases mortality among non-smokers

BMJ 2007;334:841 (Published 19 April 2007)

Don't give up

BMJ 2007;334:850 (Published 19 April 2007)

What's in a name?

BMJ 2007;334:852 (Published 19 April 2007)

Correction

Intermittent claudication

BMJ 2007;334:0.3 (Published 19 April 2007)