03 January 2009 (Vol 338, Issue 7685)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Networking for health

BMJ 2008;337:a3153 (Published 29 December 2008)

News

This week's News section

Screening for bowel cancer is set to save 2500 lives a year in UK

BMJ 2008;337:a3125 (Published 24 December 2008)

Medicine takes two of top three places in research assessment exercise

BMJ 2008;337:a3121 (Published 23 December 2008)

Memory clinics could improve dementia care, say experts

BMJ 2008;337:a3127 (Published 24 December 2008)

Pharmacists are to offer the pill in London pilot scheme

BMJ 2008;337:a3016 (Published 16 December 2008)

Challenging time ahead for NHS as recession bites and health problems increase

BMJ 2008;337:a3081 (Published 18 December 2008)

Researchers refine in vitro test that will reduce the risk of “first in humans” drug trials

BMJ 2008;337:a3061 (Published 18 December 2008)

In brief

BMJ 2008;337:a3132 (Published 24 December 2008)

Perinatal mortality in Netherlands third worst in Europe

BMJ 2008;337:a3118 (Published 23 December 2008)

German paediatricians want law changed to make it easier to report child abuse

BMJ 2008;337:a3116 (Published 22 December 2008)

US Supreme Court says smokers can sue over “light” cigarettes

BMJ 2008;337:a3120 (Published 23 December 2008)

Bush administration issues rule to protect health workers who object to medical procedures

BMJ 2008;337:a3122 (Published 23 December 2008)

US Institute of Medicine calls for greater commitment to global health

BMJ 2008;337:a3119 (Published 23 December 2008)

Proposal to allow drug companies to give information to public sparks outcry

BMJ 2008;337:a3043 (Published 16 December 2008)

Spanish chemists will offer HIV tests to members of public in pilot project

BMJ 2008;337:a3004 (Published 15 December 2008)

Plans to update European working time legislation in disarray

BMJ 2008;337:a3080 (Published 19 December 2008)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Happiness, social networks, and health

BMJ 2008;337:a2781 (Published 4 December 2008)

The rational clinical examination in emergency care

BMJ 2008;337:a2374 (Published 15 December 2008)

Innovations in publishing BMJ research

BMJ 2008;337:a3123 (Published 29 December 2008)

Adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer

BMJ 2008;337:a2843 (Published 30 December 2008)

The future of the quality and outcomes framework

BMJ 2008;337:a3017 (Published 19 December 2008)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts section

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2008;337:a3096 (Published 23 December 2008)

Research

This week's Research section

Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study

BMJ 2008;337:a2338 (Published 4 December 2008)

Commentary: Understanding social network analysis

BMJ 2008;337:a1957 (Published 4 December 2008)

Detecting implausible social network effects in acne, height, and headaches: longitudinal analysis

BMJ 2008;337:a2533 (Published 4 December 2008)

Elbow extension test to rule out elbow fracture: multicentre, prospective validation and observational study of diagnostic accuracy in adults and children

BMJ 2008;337:a2428 (Published 9 December 2008)

Risk of Parkinson’s disease after hospital contact for head injury: population based case-control study

BMJ 2008;337:a2494 (Published 15 December 2008)

New format for BMJ research articles in print

BMJ 2008;337:a2946 (Published 29 December 2008)

Feature

This week's Feature section

All change on the road to better health care

BMJ 2008;337:a2779 (Published 8 December 2008)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Extending the benefits of One Laptop per Child to health

BMJ 2008;337:a2459 (Published 1 December 2008)

Commentary: the joy of mesh

BMJ 2008;337:a2500 (Published 3 December 2008)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Sensitivity and specificity of exercise ECG in heart disease

BMJ 2008;337:a3098 (Published 24 December 2008)

Which “angiographic positives” will die from heart disease?

BMJ 2008;337:a3100 (Published 24 December 2008)

Cost effective investigation of suspected angina

BMJ 2008;337:a3097 (Published 24 December 2008)

Morphine remains gold standard in breakthrough cancer pain

BMJ 2008;337:a3104 (Published 24 December 2008)

Universal BCG in the UK again?

BMJ 2008;337:a3101 (Published 24 December 2008)

Clinical routines in practice

BMJ 2008;337:a3102 (Published 24 December 2008)

Wii seems safe with pacemakers

BMJ 2008;337:a3103 (Published 24 December 2008)

Observations

This week's Observations section

“But you’re not a doctor!”

Daniel K Sokol

BMJ 2008;337:a3077 (Published 23 December 2008)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

A poster poser—doing it in tiles

Adesh Shrivastava

BMJ 2008;337:a2923 (Published 24 December 2008)

The new ethics of research into terrorism

Edgar Jones, Kamaldeep Bhui

BMJ 2008;337:a3069 (Published 22 December 2008)

Nothing to be sad about

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2008;337:a3088 (Published 29 December 2008)

African Highway: The Battle for Health in Central Africa

Douglas J Buchanan

BMJ 2008;337:a2940 (Published 23 December 2008)

Views & Reviews - continued

Humbug?

Des Spence

BMJ 2008;337:a3124 (Published 29 December 2008)

Sorry, you’re barred

Ike Iheanacho

BMJ 2008;337:a3086 (Published 29 December 2008)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Dennis Walder

BMJ 2008;337:a3126 (Published 23 December 2008)

Norman Levinson

BMJ 2008;337:a3046 (Published 22 December 2008)

John George Clarke Munro

BMJ 2008;337:a3048 (Published 22 December 2008)

Ganapathiraju Ravichandran

BMJ 2008;337:a2898 (Published 8 December 2008)

George Innes Macdonald Ross

BMJ 2008;337:a2899 (Published 8 December 2008)

George Malcolm Ross Smith

BMJ 2008;337:a3052 (Published 22 December 2008)

Dayananda Sirisena Wanigaratne

BMJ 2008;337:a3051 (Published 22 December 2008)

Michael George Wilson

BMJ 2008;337:a3054 (Published 22 December 2008)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Blood pressure self monitoring: questions and answers from a national conference

BMJ 2008;337:a2732 (Published 22 December 2008)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Interpreting research findings to guide treatment in practice

BMJ 2008;337:a1499 (Published 24 October 2008)

What is the optimal management of partial epilepsy uncontrolled by a first choice anticonvulsant?

BMJ 2008;337:a2199 (Published 14 November 2008)

Acute phosphate nephropathy after sodium phosphate preparations

BMJ 2008;337:a182 (Published 17 July 2008)

Sleep disorder (insomnia)

BMJ 2008;337:a1245 (Published 28 November 2008)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Acute dyspnoea, dysphagia, and non-specific chest pain in a smoker

BMJ 2008;337:a2678 (Published 29 December 2008)

A case of hepatomegaly

BMJ 2008;337:a3090 (Published 29 December 2008)

Abdominal pain in children

BMJ 2008;337:a3093 (Published 29 December 2008)

Response rates to surveys

BMJ 2008;337:a3094 (Published 29 December 2008)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2008;337:a2961 (Published 23 December 2008)

Minerva

BMJ 2008;337:a3007 (Published 23 December 2008)