Editor's choice: Jam tomorrow
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.547442.F7 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	US editor's choice: US Highlights
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39050.451759.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Google is a good diagnostician [Full text] FREE

	Should statins be used perioperatively? [Full text] FREE

	Acute rheumatic fever is still a clinical challenge [Full text] FREE

	Practice based commissioning shares fundholding's flaws [Full text] FREE

	Don't miss acute angle closure glaucoma [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Diagnosis using search engines
	Martin Gardner
	BMJ  2006;333:1131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39044.369745.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sexual relationships between doctors and former patients
	Julian Sheather
	BMJ  2006;333:1132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39042.529641.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Donor breast milk banking
	Neena Modi
	BMJ  2006;333:1133-1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39034.651563.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Uninsured Americans and the new Democratic Congress
	Uwe E Reinhardt
	BMJ  2006;333:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39042.375544.BE, (Published 23 November 2006) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reconfiguring acute hospitals in England
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2006;333:1135-1136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39044.592662.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children: Negative outcome or protocol problem?
	Alastair Michell
	BMJ  2006;333:1171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.398646.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children: BMI in the BMJ
	Daniel J Green, Tim Cable
	BMJ  2006;333:1171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.484167.FA [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children: Dietary and behavioural modifications in managing childhood obesity
	S Kapoor
	BMJ  2006;333:1171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.412593.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children: Authors' reply
	John J Reilly, James Y Paton, J H McColl, A Williamson
	BMJ  2006;333:1171-1172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.503958.FA [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Author's response to influenza vaccination: policy v evidence
	Tom Jefferson
	BMJ  2006;333:1172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.403808.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Methadone tolerance testing in drug misusers: Beyond the edge of safety
	Deborah A Zador, Michael Farrell
	BMJ  2006;333:1172-1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.381991.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Methadone tolerance testing in drug misusers: Author's response
	Adam Bakker
	BMJ  2006;333:1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.392928.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Refusing to provide a prenatal test: can it ever be ethical?: Time to re-think the autonomy of future individuals
	Paul D Kelly
	BMJ  2006;333:1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.377037.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Refusing to provide a prenatal test: can it ever be ethical?: Rights of future children
	Tom W Shakespeare
	BMJ  2006;333:1173-1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.375324.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Refusing to provide a prenatal test: can it ever be ethical?: The darker side of medicine
	Nushan P Gunawardana
	BMJ  2006;333:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.378819.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Refusing to provide a prenatal test: can it ever be ethical?: Ethics or humanity?
	Neha S Godre
	BMJ  2006;333:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.370301.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Even clinician led management won't fix the NHS
	Adam R Greenbaum
	BMJ  2006;333:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.400220.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Patients' views on access will affect GPs' pay
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;333:1137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.704838.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Former spy's death causes public health alert
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;333:1137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.690116.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	News
	BMJ  2006;333:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.497859.6C [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Canadian doctors develop triage protocol for influenza pandemic
	Barbara Kermode-Scott
	BMJ  2006;333:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.452292.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US cancer patients have problems with insurance and care, says survey
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.334005.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	FDA approves silicone breast implants 14 years after their withdrawal
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:1139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.332650.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Nurses should be allowed to run abortion services up to nine weeks, charity says
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;333:1139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.615440.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Impasse over patient consent may delay NHS computerisation
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2006;333:1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.682153.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Red Cross accuses Israeli forces of killing two ambulance workers
	Merav Sarig
	BMJ  2006;333:1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39041.573403.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Relief worker killed as conflict in Darfur spreads to neighbours
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2006;333:1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.569120.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Second cancers more common in people who receive donor stem cell transplants
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.334595.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Hungary to close 9000 hospital beds to bring it closer to EU average
	Thomas Land
	BMJ  2006;333:1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.339606.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US health insurers propose expansion of cover, but plan is widely criticised
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.354132.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	NHS needs more consultant surgeons to cope with demand
	Claire Frauenfelder
	BMJ  2006;333:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.341227.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Regulator finds advertising of complementary product "misleading"
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2006;333:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39044.539097.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Bowel cancer treatment gets better, report says
	Toby Reynolds
	BMJ  2006;333:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.340428.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Feeling the squeeze
	Lisa Hitchen
	BMJ  2006;333:1142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39044.677280.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Southall defends keeping private case files for child protection work
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;333:1142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.503958.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Promotion of NHS to be governed by Department of Health code
	Claire Frauenfelder
	BMJ  2006;333:1142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.389028.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Professor Doll failed to declare interests when working on vinyl chloride
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;333:1142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39035.565648.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Influenza kills up to 25 000 people a year in England and Wales, report says
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;333:1142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.477384.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

Research

This week's Research

	Googling for a diagnosis—use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study
	Hangwi Tang, Jennifer Hwee Kwoon Ng
	BMJ  2006;333:1143-1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE, (Published 10 November 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Lifetime cost effectiveness of simvastatin in a range of risk groups and age groups derived from a randomised trial of 20 536 people
	Heart Protection Study Collaborative
	BMJ  2006;333:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38993.731725.BE, (Published 10 November 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Strength of evidence for perioperative use of statins to reduce cardiovascular risk: systematic review of controlled studies
	Anmol S Kapoor, Hussein Kanji, Jeanette Buckingham, P J Devereaux, Finlay A McAlister
	BMJ  2006;333:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39006.531146.BE, (Published 6 November 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Rheumatic fever and its management
	Antoinette M Cilliers
	BMJ  2006;333:1153-1156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39031.420637.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

Practice

This week's Practice

	Lesson of the week: Misdiagnosis of angle closure glaucoma
	Patel Gordon-Bennett, Tsiang Ung, Chris Stephenson, Melanie Hingorani
	BMJ  2006;333:1157-1158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39024.570313.AE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of obesity: Obesity and reproduction
	Jane E Ramsay, Ian Greer, Naveed Sattar
	BMJ  2006;333:1159-1162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.439444.DE1 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: Lumbar discectomy remains unproved
	BMJ  2006;333:1163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7579.1163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: Care management helps people live with dementia
	BMJ  2006;333:1163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7579.1163-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: Chlorhexidine mouthwash and nasal gel helps prevent infections after cardiac surgery
	BMJ  2006;333:1163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.366377.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: Fetal pulse oximetry doesn't help women in labour or their infants
	BMJ  2006;333:1163-1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7579.1163-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: Bird flu season is back
	BMJ  2006;333:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7579.1164 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: US guidelines on epoetin alfa tainted by links with industry
	BMJ  2006;333:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7579.1164-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: Medicaid patients miss out on treatments for acute coronary syndrome
	BMJ  2006;333:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7579.1164-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: Most patients with ischaemic stroke need recanalisation treatments within three hours
	BMJ  2006;333:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7579.1164-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Analysis and Comment

This week's Analysis and Comment

	Special report: Was message of sudden infant death study misleading?
	Jonathan Gornall
	BMJ  2006;333:1165-1168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39031.590914.68 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Primary care: Does practice based commissioning avoid the problems of fundholding?
	Ian Greener, Russell Mannion
	BMJ  2006;333:1168-1170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39022.486921.94 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Sir Martin Roth
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2006;333:1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39038.720775.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Thomas ("Tom") Brearley
	Peter McWilliam
	BMJ  2006;333:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.706204.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dorothy Maud Record (née Tidmas)
	Ian Leck
	BMJ  2006;333:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39034.542905.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	John Michael Rice-Oxley
	Tim Rice-Oxley
	BMJ  2006;333:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.718576.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Hugh Bernard Langford Russell
	Neil Edward
	BMJ  2006;333:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.529132.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	John Andrew Savin
	John Hunter
	BMJ  2006;333:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.555718.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Henry Stoll
	James Carne
	BMJ  2006;333:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39038.547951.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications
	Petter Kristensen
	BMJ  2006;333:1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.564502.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War
	Vivienne Nathanson
	BMJ  2006;333:1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.681424.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The Brain Hospital
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2006;333:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.600590.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Personal views: AIDS: a cause for optimism?
	Balaji Ravichandran
	BMJ  2006;333:1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39048.719525.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Soundings: GP or travel agent?
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2006;333:1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.432859.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;333:1180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.538356.471 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	Hangwi Tang, Khoa Tran
	BMJ  2006;333:1180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.538356.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Midtrimester amniocentesis is safer than we thought
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39045.665671.BE [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Dead or alive?
	BMJ  2006;333:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39030.662500.F7 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	On falling over
	Elizabeth Davies
	BMJ  2006;333:1152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39035.495150.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Independence may be most cost effective way to improve health care
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.447650.68 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	This week in the BMJ
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.457130.68 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of telephone counselling by a pharmacist in reducing mortality in patients receiving polypharmacy: randomised controlled trial
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.404433.68 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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