05 January 2008 (Vol 336, Issue 7634)

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Editor's Choice

Doctors and the drug industry

BMJ 2008;336:7634 (Published 3 January 2008)

News

Nigerian judge orders arrests of Pfizer officials

BMJ 2008;336:11.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

Charity highlights “forgotten crises”

BMJ 2008;336:11.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

In Brief

BMJ 2008;336:12.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

US healthcare executive pays back $600m in stock options case

BMJ 2008;336:12.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Research sparks public concern about risk from nuclear power

BMJ 2008;336:13.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

Child in gene therapy programme develops leukaemia

BMJ 2008;336:13.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Committee warns of risk of private computed tomography

BMJ 2008;336:14.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

Royal college sets up working party to improve relations between doctors and drug industry

BMJ 2008;336:14.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

BMA rejects government proposals for longer hours for GPs

BMJ 2008;336:14.3 (Published 3 January 2008)

Doctors are urged to train in aviation medicine

BMJ 2008;336:15.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

Plans for cross border care costs to be met by home country are halted

BMJ 2008;336:15.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Top US medical school dismisses former FDA commissioner as dean

BMJ 2008;336:15.3 (Published 3 January 2008)

Variation in number of women being recalled after breast cancer screening needs to be looked into

BMJ 2008;336:15.4 (Published 3 January 2008)

South Africa is to publish complaints about drug marketing

BMJ 2008;336:15.5 (Published 3 January 2008)

Many British people think civilians legitimate target in war, survey shows

BMJ 2008;336:15.6 (Published 3 January 2008)

Editorials

Non-drug industry funded research

BMJ 2008;336:1 (Published 3 January 2008)

Overprescribing proton pump inhibitors

BMJ 2008;336:2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Home haemodialysis

BMJ 2008;336:3 (Published 3 January 2008)

Reducing hospital admissions

BMJ 2008;336:4 (Published 3 January 2008)

Diabetes, cognitive impairment, and dementia

BMJ 2008;336:6 (Published 3 January 2008)

Short Cuts

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2008;336:16 (Published 3 January 2008)

Research

Early life determinants of physical activity in 11 to 12 year olds: cohort study

BMJ 2008;336:26 (Published 3 January 2008)

Poverty and blindness in Pakistan: results from the Pakistan national blindness and visual impairment survey

BMJ 2008;336:29 (Published 3 January 2008)

Effect of European Clinical Trials Directive on academic drug trials in Denmark: retrospective study of applications to the Danish Medicines Agency 1993-2006

BMJ 2008;336:33 (Published 3 January 2008)

Feature

Face of the future

BMJ 2008;336:18 (Published 3 January 2008)

Analysis

Listen to the data when results are not significant

BMJ 2008;336:23 (Published 3 January 2008)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Stop all further research—and act

BMJ 2008;336:7.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

People should be free to spend their money as they wish

BMJ 2008;336:7.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Is it worth it?

BMJ 2008;336:7.3 (Published 3 January 2008)

Still waiting and searching for answers

BMJ 2008;336:7.4 (Published 3 January 2008)

VOMIT—victim of medical investigative technology

BMJ 2008;336:8.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

We need to be more pragmatic

BMJ 2008;336:8.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Time for an NHS smart card?

BMJ 2008;336:9.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

But where does it take us?

BMJ 2008;336:9.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Clinical value of a wristwatch

BMJ 2008;336:10.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

You’ll find it on the intranet

BMJ 2008;336:10.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Abortion care in family medicine

BMJ 2008;336:10.3 (Published 3 January 2008)

Observations

Doctor takes “march of shame” to atone for drug company payments

Jeanne Lenzer, Shannon Brownlee

BMJ 2008;336:20 (Published 3 January 2008)

Waiting for the genetic revolution

Douglas Kamerow

BMJ 2008;336:22 (Published 3 January 2008)

Views & Reviews

The state of education

Des Spence

BMJ 2008;336:48.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

Where egos dare

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2008;336:49.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

Ward No 6

Paul Crichton

BMJ 2008;336:49.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

It’s time to reappraise recruitment of South Asians to clinical trials

Brian D Gammon, Ashan Gunarathne

BMJ 2008;336:46 (Published 3 January 2008)

Secrets and lies

Khalid Ali

BMJ 2008;336:47 (Published 3 January 2008)

A winter’s tale

Liam Farrell

BMJ 2008;336:48.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Arthur Kornberg

BMJ 2008;336:50 (Published 3 January 2008)

Esmond William Ball

BMJ 2008;336:51.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

Thomas Christie Falconer

BMJ 2008;336:51.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Donald Henry Gamage

BMJ 2008;336:51.3 (Published 3 January 2008)

John Lanagan Kelly

BMJ 2008;336:51.4 (Published 3 January 2008)

Keith David Vellacott

BMJ 2008;336:51.5 (Published 3 January 2008)

Ernest Want

BMJ 2008;336:51.6 (Published 3 January 2008)

Donald Drummond Webster

BMJ 2008;336:51.7 (Published 3 January 2008)

Clinical Review

Viral meningitis

BMJ 2008;336:36 (Published 3 January 2008)

Practice

Management of cervical cancer: summary of SIGN guidelines

BMJ 2008;336:41 (Published 3 January 2008)

Upper airway surgery should not be first line treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea in adults

BMJ 2008;336:44 (Published 3 January 2008)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2008;336:52.1 (Published 3 January 2008)

Minerva

BMJ 2008;336:52.2 (Published 3 January 2008)

Filler

My first and best role model

BMJ 2008;336:45 (Published 3 January 2008)