Case of Baby P: Let’s go back to basics in child protection
	Minoo Irani
	BMJ  2009;338:a3137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3137 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing melanoma: Early detection of melanoma is key, so let’s teach it
	Stephen F Hayes
	BMJ  2009;338:a3138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3138 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reporting stab wounds: Duty in reporting stab wounds
	Michael Keegan
	BMJ  2009;338:a3139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3139 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation's threat to research: Regulation of research
	David E B Powell
	BMJ  2009;338:a3140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3140 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trading laws and health foods: Lip service legislation
	Leslie B Rose, John Garrow
	BMJ  2009;338:a3145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3145 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Irritable bowel syndrome: Why pills more than skills?
	Gregory A Plotnikoff, Mark B Weisberg
	BMJ  2009;338:a3148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3148 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Irritable bowel syndrome: The problem of insoluble fibre in irritable bowel syndrome
	Peter J Whorwell
	BMJ  2009;338:a3149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3149 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Irritable bowel syndrome: Don’t forget amitriptyline
	John S Leeds, Clare M Leeds, David S Sanders
	BMJ  2009;338:a3150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3150 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Metastatic spinal compression: Coordination improves outcomes in malignant cord compression
	Pamela Levack, Lynsay Allan, Lee Baker, Trudy McLeay, Graeme Houston, John Dewar, Sam Eljamel, Robert Grant, Alastair Munro
	BMJ  2009;338:a3151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3151 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News [PDF]

	English government launches initiative to cut obesity
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b1, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b1 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	Irish government backpedals on decision to reduce entitlement to free health care
	Muiris Houston
	BMJ  2009;338:b2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	NICE lifts cost limit on drugs to improve access to end of life treatments
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b3 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	MPs accuse government of delaying and diluting antidiscrimination law for disabled people
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b10 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	Controversy sparked in Switzerland after doctor who used unproved, unlicensed therapy is cleared of non-treatment conviction
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2009;338:a3091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3091 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	Colleagues call for doctor acquitted of bomb plots to be released from custody
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:a3170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3170 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

	US university psychiatrist loses chairmanship over drug company payments
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:a3188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.a3188 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text]

Views & reviews

This week's Views & reviews [PDF]

	Between the Lines: All in the mind?
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4 (Published 6 January 2009) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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