To receive this page (and more) by e-mail, subscribe to Customised @lerts

10 May 2008 (Vol 336, No 7652)
space
Cover image

[Cover note]

Other Issues:
Previous Next
space
Down Editor's choice FREE
Down Editorials
Down Letters
Down News
Down Short cuts
Down Feature
Down Observations
Down Analysis
Down Research FREE
Down Clinical review
Down Practice
Down Views & reviews
Down Obituaries
Down Minerva
Down Fillers
Down Career focus FREE
space Press releases
space



[Search ALL Issues]


To see an article, click its [Full Text] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.

spaceEditor's choice back

Editor's Choice: What our advisory board can, and can’t, tell us
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2008;336, doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.574676.47
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

spaceEditorials back

Migration and health behaviour during pregnancy
Krista M Perreira
BMJ  2008;336:1027-1028, doi:10.1136/bmj.39540.596782.BE (published 10 April 2008)
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

HPV vaccination in the UK
Jo Waller, Jane Wardle
BMJ  2008;336:1028-1029, doi:10.1136/bmj.39555.668229.80 (published 24 April 2008)
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal electronic health records: MySpace or HealthSpace?
Michael R Kidd
BMJ  2008;336:1029-1030, doi:10.1136/bmj.39567.550301.80 (published 6 May 2008)
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Scalpel injuries in the operating theatre
Amber M Watt, Michael Patkin, Michael J Sinnott, Robert J Black, Guy J Maddern
BMJ  2008;336:1031, doi:10.1136/bmj.39548.418009.80
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Misoprostol in resource poor countries
Staffan Bergström, Annette Aronsson
BMJ  2008;336:1032, doi:10.1136/bmj.39554.346759.BE
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

spaceLetters back

This week's letters [PDF]

Hernia repair: Outcomes other than recurrence should be analysed
Martin Kurzer, Alan E Kark, Tahir Hussain
BMJ  2008;336:1033, doi:10.1136/bmj.39568.437975.80
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Sentinel lymph node biopsy: Let’s get back to basics in managing melanoma
Anthony Dixon
BMJ  2008;336:1033, doi:10.1136/bmj.39568.466910.80
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Premature menopause: Article’s recommendation of HRT is highly questionable
Mark D Lewars
BMJ  2008;336:1033-1034, doi:10.1136/bmj.39563.620266.80
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Lung age: Study’s conclusion about screening is unwarranted
Kenneth W Lin
BMJ  2008;336:1034, doi:10.1136/bmj.39556.492176.80
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Selecting medical students: Beware of self selection and self fulfilling prophecy
Peter D Singleton
BMJ  2008;336:1034, doi:10.1136/bmj.39563.591481.80
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Why I love a free lunch: Free lunches are not the answer
Brett D Montgomery
BMJ  2008;336:1034, doi:10.1136/bmj.39568.498125.80
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Why I love a free lunch: You must be joking
Adrian H Sie
BMJ  2008;336:1034, doi:10.1136/bmj.39568.509722.80
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Reduce, reuse, recycle: Cool for cats
Charles Oxley
BMJ  2008;336:1034, doi:10.1136/bmj.39568.519595.80
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceNews back

US medical schools should say no to pharma support
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;336:1035, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.475428.DB
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Appeal Court rules that NICE procedure was unfair
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;336:1035, doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.351782.DB
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

In brief
BMJ  2008;336:1036, doi:10.1136/bmj.39570.481979.4E
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Cash incentives might help to change behaviour, MPs told
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2008;336:1036, doi:10.1136/bmj.39568.749815.DB
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Fifteen children a day attend Scottish emergency departments as result of drinking alcohol
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2008;336:1036-1037, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.487998.DB
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

House of Lords rules against government’s restriction on foreign doctors
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;336:1037, doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.363924.DB
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Hospital finds space for art
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2008;336:1037, doi:10.1136/bmj.39566.641979.4E
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Campaigners draw attention to disfiguring childhood disease
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2008;336:1038-1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39570.659016.DB
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

US Senate outlaws genetic discrimination
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;336:1038, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.467998.DB
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Proposals to strengthen ban on prenatal sex determination hide inaction, activists claim
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2008;336:1038-1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39570.359965.DB
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Prevalence of pre-existing diabetes in pregnancy doubled in seven years in a Californian population
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2008;336:1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.628866.DB
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

German doctor stands trial for forcibly administering emetic to police suspect who died
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2008;336:1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.341285.DB
[Extract] [Full text]

Number of patients from Gaza getting travel permits for medical treatment falls by 90%, says charity
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2008;336:1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.396088.DB
[Extract] [Full text]

UK doctors increasingly likely to encounter tropical diseases, symposium told
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2008;336:1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.594815.DB
[Extract] [Full text]

Imaging technology could be useful in poor countries
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  2008;336:1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39570.509225.DB
[Extract] [Full text]

Global health initiatives need to be better coordinated
Tessa Richards
BMJ  2008;336:1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39570.352824.DB
[Extract] [Full text]

Compulsory recording of patients’ ethnic details will help to show disease trends
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2008;336:1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39567.616146.4E
[Extract] [Full text]

Government to revise health inequality proposals
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2008;336:1039, doi:10.1136/bmj.39570.545336.DB
[Extract] [Full text]

spaceShort cuts back

All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;336:1040, doi:10.1136/bmj.39568.680440.80
[Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

spaceFeature back

Medical Imaging: Everyone’s a radiologist now
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2008;336:1041-1043, doi:10.1136/bmj.39560.444468.AD
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

spaceObservations back

Out of Hours: The secret lives of doctors
Christopher Martyn
BMJ  2008;336:1044, doi:10.1136/bmj.39570.465266.59
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

spaceAnalysis back

Autonomy, stress, and treatment of depression
Paul Biegler
BMJ  2008;336:1046-1048, doi:10.1136/bmj.39541.470023.AD
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations: Going from evidence to recommendations
Gordon H Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman, Regina Kunz, Yngve Falck-Ytter, Gunn E Vist, Alessandro Liberati, Holger J Schünemann, for the GRADE Working Group
BMJ  2008;336:1049-1051, doi:10.1136/bmj.39493.646875.AE
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

spaceResearch back

Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Kate Lamb, Tim J Cole, Catherine Law, the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group
BMJ  2008;336:1052-1055, doi:10.1136/bmj.39532.688877.25 (published 10 April 2008)
[Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Loretta Brabin, Stephen A Roberts, Rebecca Stretch, David Baxter, Gloria Chambers, Henry Kitchener, Rosemary McCann
BMJ  2008;336:1056-1058, doi:10.1136/bmj.39541.534109.BE (published 24 April 2008)
[Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Neha Sekhri, Adam Timmis, Ruoling Chen, Cornelia Junghans, Niamh Walsh, Justin Zaman, Sandra Eldridge, Harry Hemingway, Gene Feder
BMJ  2008;336:1058-1061, doi:10.1136/bmj.39534.571042.BE (published 24 April 2008)
[Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

spaceClinical review back

Medical management of Crohn’s disease
J R Fraser Cummings, Satish Keshav, Simon P L Travis
BMJ  2008;336:1062-1066, doi:10.1136/bmj.39547.603218.AE
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

spacePractice back

Rational Imaging: Investigation of abdominal pain to detect pancreatic cancer
J Ashley Guthrie, Maria B Sheridan
BMJ  2008;336:1067-1069, doi:10.1136/bmj.39525.415521.AD
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A Patient's Journey: Obsessive compulsive disorder with associated hypochondriasis
Pamela Harrington
BMJ  2008;336:1070-1071, doi:10.1136/bmj.39555.608252.AD
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

spaceViews & reviews back

The writing is on the wall for UNAIDS
Roger England
BMJ  2008;336:1072, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.497708.94
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Review of the Week: Observations from on high
Colin Douglas
BMJ  2008;336:1073, doi:10.1136/bmj.39539.430938.DF
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

From the Frontline: The bland bombshell
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;336:1074, doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.432708.59
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

In and Out of Hospital: The Royal College of Lay People
James Owen Drife
BMJ  2008;336:1074, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.596134.59
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Between the Lines: Dangerous, ignorant, presuming fools
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;336:1075, doi:10.1136/bmj.39560.552593.94
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Classics: The Anatomy Lesson
Munier Hossain
BMJ  2008;336:1075, doi:10.1136/bmj.39559.677708.3A
[Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

spaceObituaries back

This week's obituaries [PDF]

Nikolai Pavlovich Napalkov
Boleslav Lichterman
BMJ  2008;336:1076, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.692512.BE
[Extract] [Full text]

Raphael Balcon
Nicholas Brooks
BMJ  2008;336:1077, doi:10.1136/bmj.39567.695567.BE
[Extract] [Full text]

Cyril John Bintcliffe
Deric Hawkins
BMJ  2008;336:1077, doi:10.1136/bmj.39566.635602.BE
[Extract] [Full text]

Ralph Fallows
David Watts
BMJ  2008;336:1077, doi:10.1136/bmj.39567.599039.BE
[Extract] [Full text]

Anthony Gabriel
Peter Ward Booth
BMJ  2008;336:1077, doi:10.1136/bmj.39566.666667.BE
[Extract] [Full text]

Lillian Mary Matheson
David Matheson, Colette Clark, Colin Howden
BMJ  2008;336:1077, doi:10.1136/bmj.39567.665000.BE
[Extract] [Full text]

John Campbell Miller
John Keene
BMJ  2008;336:1077, doi:10.1136/bmj.39560.595440.BE
[Extract] [Full text]

Paul Hex Venn
John Surtees, Peter Nash, Bill Watson, Brian Steer
BMJ  2008;336:1077, doi:10.1136/bmj.39566.705336.BE
[Extract] [Full text]

spaceMinerva back

BMJ  2008;336:1078, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.722836.47
[Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Catherine M L Roberts, Andrew J Birnie, Martin Hewitt, Kate Forman, Ruth Murphy, Jane C Ravenscroft
BMJ  2008;336:1078, doi:10.1136/bmj.39569.712720.47
[Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

spaceFillers back

That was obstetrics that was
Marcus Molony
BMJ  2008;336:1048, doi:10.1136/bmj.39451.697951.DE
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endpiece: Two kinds of surgery
BMJ  2008;336:1051, doi:10.1136/bmj.39258.472905.BD
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

The golden tooth
BMJ  2008;336:1069, doi:10.1136/bmj.39372.555544.DE
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceCareer focus back

Read this week's articles on http://careers.bmj.com/careers/

To see an article, click its [Full Text] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.




Student BMJ

Risk of surgery for inflammatory bowel disease: record linkage studies

What can you learn from this BMJ paper? Read Leanne Tite's Paper+

www.student.bmj.com

Listen to the latest BMJ Interview