Singing the body electronic
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2006;332, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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	Bleeding on warfarin influences doctors' prescribing [Full text] FREE

	Promotion process for consultants needs examining [Full text] FREE

	Secondary prevention for CHD increases after framework [Full text] FREE

	Early treatment for rheumatoid arthritis could virtually cure [Full text] FREE

	Oncolytic gene therapy is not innocuous [Full text] FREE

Editorials

	Personal knowledge
	Kieran Sweeney
	BMJ  2006;332:129-130, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.129 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Using personal health information in medical research
	Tom Walley
	BMJ  2006;332:130-131, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.130 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Turning around NHS deficits
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2006;332:131-132, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.131 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Naltrexone and problems in pain management
	A P Vickers, A Jolly
	BMJ  2006;332:132-133, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.132 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intrapleural streptokinase for pleural infection
	Demosthenes Bouros, Katerina M Antoniou, Richard W Light
	BMJ  2006;332:133-134, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.133 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Hospital trust prosecuted for not supervising junior doctors
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:135, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.135 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Surgery journal bans authors who hide conflicts of interest
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:135, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.135-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;332:136, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.136 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Turkey reports more cases as Asia prepares for bird flu
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2006;332:136, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.136-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Campaigners predict a complete public smoking ban for England
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:136, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.136-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Ultra-Orthodox Jews criticised over circumcision practice
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:137, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.137 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Regular exercise reduces risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:137, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.137-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Prostate cancer patients get worse care than other cancer patients
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:139, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.139-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hanging doctors out to dry
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Religious women in the US are more likely to use health screening
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cloning pioneer denies intentionally falsifying results
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Poor patients in rich countries have fair access to GPs but not to specialists
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK trusts urged to stamp out bullying and harassment at work
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Roma women were unlawfully sterilised
	Katka Krosnar
	BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Independent treatment centres will have to provide training
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2006;332:139, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.139 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New campaign to encourage use of national IT programme begins
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:139, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.139-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS trusts are using cash meant for sexual health services to balance their books
	Kaye M McIntosh
	BMJ  2006;332:139, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.139-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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	Gene tests show that two fifths of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from four women
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors decry Darfur “genocide”
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Guarantee of anonymity leads to surge in reports of safety incidents
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Better access to personal data is urgently needed to improve health for all
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140-d [Extract] [Full text]

Research

	Impact of adverse events on prescribing warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation: matched pair analysis
	Niteesh K Choudhry, Geoffrey M Anderson, Andreas Laupacis, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Sharon-Lise T Normand, Stephen B Soumerai
	BMJ  2006;332:141-145, doi:10.1136/bmj.38698.709572.55 (published 10 January 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in older patients after the national service framework: population based study
	Sheena E Ramsay, Peter H Whincup, Debbie A Lawlor, Olia Papacosta, Lucy T Lennon, Mary C Thomas, Shah Ebrahim, Richard W Morris
	BMJ  2006;332:144-145, doi:10.1136/bmj.38704.770127.BE (published 9 January 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of a web based decision aid on parental attitudes to MMR vaccination: a before and after study
	Cate Wallace, Julie Leask, Lyndal J Trevena
	BMJ  2006;332:146-149, doi:10.1136/bmj.38678.681840.68 (published 13 December 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Promotion to hospital consultant: regression analysis using NHS administrative data
	Kostas Mavromaras, Anthony Scott
	BMJ  2006;332:148-151, doi:10.1136/bmj.38628.738935.3A (published 31 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
	Paul Emery
	BMJ  2006;332:152-155, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.152 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Pulmonary embolism in hospital practice
	Grace V Robinson
	BMJ  2006;332:156-160, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.156 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	ABC of breast diseases: Medical treatment of early breast cancer. III: chemotherapy
	Ian Smith, Susan Chua
	BMJ  2006;332:161-162, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.161 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;332:163-164, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Epidemiology: Consent, confidentiality, and the Data Protection Act
	Amy Iversen, Kathleen Liddell, Nicola Fear, Matthew Hotopf, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2006;332:165-169, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.165 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Evidence will help achieve consensus
	Peter Goldblatt
	BMJ  2006;332:169, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.169 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Not lucrative
	BMJ  2006;332:169, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.169-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Controversy: Fighting cancer with oncolytic viruses
	Yuti Chernajovsky, Lorna Layward, Nicholas Lemoine
	BMJ  2006;332:170-172, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.170 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Drugs: Cannabis and psychosis
	David M Fergusson, Richie Poulton, Paul F Smith, Joseph M Boden
	BMJ  2006;332:172-175, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.172 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Science commentary: Cannabis confusions
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2006;332:175-176, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.175 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	JAMA's policy on industry sponsored studies
	Phil B Fontanarosa, Catherine D DeAngelis
	BMJ  2006;332:177, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.177 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US flu mortality estimates are based on solid science
	Lone Simonsen, Robert Taylor, Cecile Viboud, Jonathan Dushoff, Mark Miller
	BMJ  2006;332:177-178, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.177-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stockpiling of raw material for oseltamivir is not justified
	Alberto A E Bertelli
	BMJ  2006;332:178, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.178 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dummies and SIDS: Causality has not been established
	Peter S Blair, Peter J Fleming
	BMJ  2006;332:178, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.178-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dummies and SIDS: Low response rates generate considerable uncertainty
	Christopher J Cates
	BMJ  2006;332:178, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.178-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Funduscopy: to dilate or not?: Precipitation of angle closure may not be a disservice
	Kanchan J Bhan, Andrew Bastawrous, Keith G Davey
	BMJ  2006;332:179, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.179 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Funduscopy: to dilate or not?: Other drugs can cause partial pupil dilatation
	Peter D Cackett
	BMJ  2006;332:179, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.179-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mobile medical teams rethink
	Darren Walter
	BMJ  2006;332:179, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.179-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Resistance to HIV drugs in UK may be lower in some areas
	Julie M Fox, Sarah Fidler, Jonathan Weber
	BMJ  2006;332:179-180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.179-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients get four choices for NHS treatments: Choose and book has not left the station
	David M Lewis
	BMJ  2006;332:180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.180 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients get four choices for NHS treatments: Choose and book will hinder development of good outpatient services
	Jeremy Wood
	BMJ  2006;332:180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.180-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Wishful thinking about primary care in 2015
	Robert D Walker
	BMJ  2006;332:180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.180-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Don't discount magnet therapy
	James T H Teo
	BMJ  2006;332:180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.180-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	John Beale
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:181, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.181 [Extract] [Full text]

	Naresh Gandhi
	Peter Tyrer
	BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alan Higgitt
	David Spalton
	BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Hans O Lithell
	Ilona Koupil, David Leon
	BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Maurice Gerald Nelson
	J M Bridges, E E Mayne
	BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alan Hewett Phillips
	Martin Phillips, Eric Sturdy
	BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Richard William Porter
	Daniel Porter
	BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Gibson (Ian) Taylor
	Alan Green, Neil Cardoe
	BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

reviews

This week's reviews [PDF]

	Book: A Surgical Temptation: The Demonisation of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain
	Stefan Bailis, Daniel Halperin
	BMJ  2006;332:183, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Medical Mysteries: The Testament of a Clinical Scientist
	Ayan Panja
	BMJ  2006;332:184, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Medical Investigation
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2006;332:184, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.184-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal view: Diagnosing Pinochet syndrome
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2006;332:185, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Soundings: Rocky in suburbia
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2006;332:185, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.185-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;332:186, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.186 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Cardiac rehabilitation can be cost effective after a heart attack or an episode of unstable angina
	BMJ  2006;332, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: How to put NICE guidelines into practice
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2006;332:143, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.143 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Bonds of the profession
	Brendan Judge
	BMJ  2006;332:145, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.145 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: An alcoholic patient who continues to drink
	BMJ  2006;332:160, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.160 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blind obedience
	Satheesha Nayak
	BMJ  2006;332:160, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.160-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable accident
	Charlotte Wright
	BMJ  2006;332:176, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Achieving the millennium development goals for health: Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies to combat malaria in developing countries
	BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of health informatics: Improving services with informatics tools
	BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Legislation for smoke-free workplaces and health of bar workers in Ireland: before and after study
	BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Primary care in the United States: problems and possibilities
	BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Extra scrutiny for industry funded trials
	BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-d [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Treatment of bites by adders and exotic venomous snakes
	BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-e [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised placebo controlled multicentre trial to assess short term clarithromycin for patients with stable coronary heart disease: CLARICOR trial
	BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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