Editor's choice: Routine reporting
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.552940.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	US editor's choice: Safety at what cost?
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39092.694572.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Incident reporting and patient safety
	Charles Vincent
	BMJ  2007;334:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39071.441609.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Protection of sex workers
	Michael D E Goodyear, Linda Cusick
	BMJ  2007;334:52-53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39087.642801.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

	Preventing falls in elderly people living in hospitals and care homes
	Ian D Cameron, Susan Kurrle
	BMJ  2007;334:53-54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39084.388553.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Chronic hepatitis C
	Kosh Agarwal, Timothy J S Cross, Charles Gore
	BMJ  2007;334:54-55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39050.576644.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Food and Drug Administration
	Linda R Horton
	BMJ  2007;334:55-56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.545880.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Stent thrombosis: Antiplatelets alone won't do the job
	Hans Van Brabandt
	BMJ  2007;334:57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.931019.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Stent thrombosis: Patient card on discontinuing clopidogrel is available
	Sotiris Antoniou, Martin T Rothman
	BMJ  2007;334:57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.917720.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Stent thrombosis: Consider also low response to antiplatelets
	Andrew J Wiper, David H Roberts
	BMJ  2007;334:57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.925718.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mental Health Act: What not to learn from devolution
	James Finlayson, Daniel Vincent Riordan
	BMJ  2007;334:57-58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.914109.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Traumatised refugees: Refugee status—a yellow flag in managing back pain
	Andrew O Frank
	BMJ  2007;334:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.911065.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Umbrella test: Urethral dilator is real enough
	David L Bradford
	BMJ  2007;334:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.914977.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Careers advice: Paper is essential reading for the tall and beautiful
	Rhys H Thomas
	BMJ  2007;334:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.919051.1F [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Drug company seeks to suppress internal memos
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2007;334:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.484074.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In Brief: News
	BMJ  2007;334:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.533819.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Andrew Wakefield drops libel case against Channel 4
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2007;334:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.395509.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Medical emergencies in conflict areas are too often ignored, says aid agency
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2007;334:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.385556.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Leaked report exposes mismatch in NHS staffing levels
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2007;334:61, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.709803.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	New WHO chief urges member states to step up efforts for flu pandemic
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2007;334:61, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.553993.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Most cancers in Europe avoidable
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2007;334:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39087.526794.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Influential nutritional research often funded by industry, study finds
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2007;334:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.483935.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	German doctors threaten to boycott patient record project
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2007;334:63, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.604248.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	German health reforms hang in the balance
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2007;334:63, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.645683.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	A wind of change from the west
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2007;334:64-65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.664155.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Drug makers end free lunches
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2007;334:64-65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39087.480069.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In Brief: News
	BMJ  2007;334:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.448634.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	London hospital defends decision not to publish damning report
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2007;334:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.494213.DB [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	More cases of polonium-210 contamination are uncovered in London
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2007;334:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.604641.DB [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Italian authorities deny that climate change has brought malaria back to its shores
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2007;334:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.600938.DB [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Shortcuts from other journals: Pexelizumab fails to improve outcomes after heart attack
	BMJ  2007;334:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.633090.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from other journals: Heart failure services need better quality indicators
	BMJ  2007;334:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.66-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from other journals: Using the law to fight obesity
	BMJ  2007;334:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.66-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from other journals: Pet rodents spread Salmonella enterica
	BMJ  2007;334:66-67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.66-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from other journals: Pergolide and cabergoline are associated with damage to heart valves
	BMJ  2007;334:67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.67 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from other journals: Extra folate may slow hearing loss in old age
	BMJ  2007;334:67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.67-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from other journals: Herceptin prolongs overall survival in the right kind of breast cancer
	BMJ  2007;334:67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.67-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from other journals: Prevalence of cerebral palsy falls among infants with low birth weight
	BMJ  2007;334:67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.67-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Speech pathologists can help chronic cough
	BMJ  2007;334:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39063.497361.68 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: US nursing homes less safe than hospitals
	BMJ  2007;334:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.68-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Pepper lung
	BMJ  2007;334:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.68-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Feedback of audit can work sometimes (a little)
	BMJ  2007;334:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.68-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Smokers should quit not reduce
	BMJ  2007;334:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.68-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Shortcuts from BMJPG journals: Dying patients wish to control their lives
	BMJ  2007;334:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7584.68-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

Feature

This week's Feature

	Putting the public at the heart of the NHS
	Will Hutton
	BMJ  2007;334:69-70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39080.574699.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Head to head: Should Muslims have faith based health services?
	Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2007;334:74, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39072.347720.68 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Head to head: Should Muslims have faith based health services?
	Aneez Esmail
	BMJ  2007;334:75, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39071.595301.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Observations

This week's Observations

	BODY POLITIC: Fat chance of hitting obesity targets
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2007;334:71, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.625822.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THE WEEK IN MEDICINE: Ashley X: a difficult moral choice
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2007;334:72-73, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.555856.B7 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Nightmare on NEJM Street
	Richard Lehman
	BMJ  2007;334:73, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.590093.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research

This week's Research

	Sensitivity of routine system for reporting patient safety incidents in an NHS hospital: retrospective patient case note review
	Ali Baba-Akbari Sari, Trevor A Sheldon, Alison Cracknell, Alastair Turnbull
	BMJ  2007;334:79, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39031.507153.AE, (Published 15 December 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Strategies to prevent falls and fractures in hospitals and care homes and effect of cognitive impairment: systematic review and meta-analyses
	David Oliver, James B Connelly, Christina R Victor, Fiona E Shaw, Anne Whitehead, Yasemin Genc, Alessandra Vanoli, Finbarr C Martin, Margot A Gosney
	BMJ  2007;334:82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.706493.55, (Published 8 December 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Review of stroke rehabilitation
	John Young, Anne Forster
	BMJ  2007;334:86-90, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39059.456794.68 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

Practice

This week's Practice

	Cases in primary care laboratory medicine: Cases in primary care laboratory medicine: testing pitfalls and summary of guidance on sex hormone testing
	W Stuart A Smellie
	BMJ  2007;334:91-94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39038.614317.AE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clinical epidemiology notes: What is heterogeneity and is it important?
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2007;334:94-96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39057.406644.68 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Analysis and Comment

This week's Analysis and Comment

	When should antiretroviral therapy for HIV be started?
	Andrew N Phillips, Brian G Gazzard, Nathan Clumeck, Marcelo H Losso, Jens D Lundgren
	BMJ  2007;334:76-78, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39064.406389.94 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Alfred Beck
	M Beck
	BMJ  2007;334:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39069.712998.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	David Millar Bell
	S Bell
	BMJ  2007;334:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39059.717431.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Charles ("Charlie") MacKenzie Hendry
	Helen Charley
	BMJ  2007;334:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39087.528356.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Eric Boxall Jackson
	Reginald Britt, Anthony James
	BMJ  2007;334:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.547361.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Philip Francis Malim
	Rena Partridge
	BMJ  2007;334:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.532037.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Mary Wilkie
	Jim Stewart
	BMJ  2007;334:101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39087.704120.FA [Extract] [Full text] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Personal views: What's wrong with the wards?
	Katherine Teale
	BMJ  2007;334:97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39063.450243.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	FROM THE FRONTLINE: Small beer or G and T?
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2007;334:98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39090.397222.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THE BIGGER PICTURE: Serbian smoke gets in Belfast eyes
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  2007;334:98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39051.549757.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	BETWEEN THE LINES: Premature burial
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2007;334:99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39066.570590.B7 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical Classics: The House of God
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2007;334:99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39084.673889.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	REVIEW OF THE WEEK: When doctor meets dictator
	Chloe Veltman
	BMJ  2007;334:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39085.675856.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2007;334:102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39072.452257.801 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	Kishore Shetty
	BMJ  2007;334:102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39072.452257.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Rectal examinations can improve your hearing
	Frances Marr
	BMJ  2007;334:85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39030.667245.F7 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	If at first you don't succeed
	James Hanslip
	BMJ  2007;334:90, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39057.489907.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Preventing and treating hepatitis B infection
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39057.715428.68 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituary: Florence Cadogan
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.578750.BE [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Maggie's Centres
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.601331.BE [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cover of BMJ
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39086.615532.BE [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	GMC should not have thrown out case against neurologist
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.497870.BE [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	High court upholds General Medical Council's rejection of case against neurologist
	BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39091.499884.BE [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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