Reds
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2008;336, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.493449.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Self monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes
	Martin Gulliford
	BMJ  2008;336:1139-1140, doi:10.1136/bmj.39538.469421.80 (published 17 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for and prevention of type 2 diabetes
	Elizabeth C Goyder
	BMJ  2008;336:1140-1141, doi:10.1136/bmj.39553.480706.80 (published 21 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency treatment of anaphylaxis
	F Estelle R Simons
	BMJ  2008;336:1141-1142, doi:10.1136/bmj.39547.452153.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Quality improvement in the NHS
	Nick Black
	BMJ  2008;336:1143, doi:10.1136/bmj.a127 (published 20 May 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Food additives and hyperactivity
	Andrew Kemp
	BMJ  2008;336:1144, doi:10.1136/bmj.39582.375336.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	All about polyclinics: What is and what is not a polyclinic
	Nigel Higson
	BMJ  2008;336:1145, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.689433.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All about polyclinics: Community hospitals are polyclinics by another name
	Kit Stone
	BMJ  2008;336:1145, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.696655.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All about polyclinics: Where is the money for Darzi centres coming from?
	Ninawatie V Tiwari
	BMJ  2008;336:1145-1146, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.699965.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All about polyclinics: Should "policlinics" replace "polyclinics"?
	Michel R Odent
	BMJ  2008;336:1146, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.688426.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human papillomavirus vaccine: Effect of ethnic group should be clarified
	Gee Yen Shin
	BMJ  2008;336:1146, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.716991.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human papillomavirus vaccine: Some issues around consent remain unresolved
	Elizabeth C F Brown
	BMJ  2008;336:1146, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.741921.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Everyone's a radiologist now: Shift training from NHS trusts to skills laboratories ...
	Julie Michelle Walton
	BMJ  2008;336:1146, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.753044.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Everyone's a radiologist now: ... and maintain competency
	Usman Shaikh, Dan Earnshaw
	BMJ  2008;336:1146-1147, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.750150.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic health records: Massive change is driven by generations X and Y
	Alec Holt
	BMJ  2008;336:1147, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.756933.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic health records: Access to your own GP record is available now
	Brian H Fisher
	BMJ  2008;336:1147, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.764109.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bloody diarrhoea: Test early for verotoxin producing Escherichia coli
	Roland L Salmon, Meirion R Evans, Brendan W Mason, Dirk Werber
	BMJ  2008;336:1147-1148, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.767766.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Compression stockings: We need to look critically at evidence for universal use
	Martyn J Parker
	BMJ  2008;336:1148, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.772234.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reproductive liberty and deafness: Outlawing selection is move against discrimination
	Simon Stallworthy
	BMJ  2008;336:1148, doi:10.1136/bmj.39577.619144.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Premature menopause: Hormone replacement therapy is indeed indicated
	Margaret C P Rees
	BMJ  2008;336:1148, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.774769.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Undiagnosed diseases are focus of new NIH programme
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2008;336:1149, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.334630.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs vote to allow creation of "admixed" embryos
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:1149, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.463148.DB (published 21 May 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	One in three people in the US want to see "radical change" in health care
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2008;336:1150, doi:10.1136/bmj.39584.497824.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New law bans selling of products with unjustified health claims
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;336:1150, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.461262.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Walk-in clinics at US retail outlets run into financial problems
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2008;336:1150-1151, doi:10.1136/bmj.39584.559074.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	34 000 die in Chinese quake—but authorities say major disease outbreak avoided
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2008;336:1151, doi:10.1136/bmj.39587.419317.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC asks doctors to take greater care over consent after law changes
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2008;336:1152-1153, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.450127.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK enquiry shows lack of knowledge about complications in patients with sickle cell disease
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:1152, doi:10.1136/bmj.a121 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Outcomes from Khartoum heart hospital match the best Western centres
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2008;336:1152-1153, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.392431.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Electronic health records may not be available in secondary care until 2015
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2008;336:1153, doi:10.1136/bmj.39587.706204.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;336:1154, doi:10.1136/bmj.39587.669051.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Kenyan Muslim clerics decide to campaign against use of condoms
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:1154, doi:10.1136/bmj.a123 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Retrial ordered over murder of Australian psychiatrist
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2008;336:1154-1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.39587.372766.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors step up campaign for paediatrician imprisoned for a year without trial
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.419745.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Alliance aims to help health workers in poor countries challenge corruption, excessive pricing, and waste of drugs
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.a124 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health gains do not match investment in health services, says report
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.659167.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Cancer charity starts research programme with drug "borrowed" from industry
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.708125.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	World Medical Association scales up training for multidrug resistant tuberculosis to fight epidemic
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.39584.662130.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	More health resources needed to curtail obesity epidemic in Europe
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.39587.398866.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Life expectancy gap between better and less educated in US widens
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.a125 [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO chief calls for united front in face of three crises: food, climate change, and pandemic influenza
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.355162.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Climate change could flood London any time after 2030, warns expert
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.665174.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Frequent interruptions linked to drug errors
	Lisa Hitchen
	BMJ  2008;336:1155, doi:10.1136/bmj.39584.477951.DB [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:1156-1157, doi:10.1136/bmj.39584.399618.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

	Will polyclinics deliver real benefits for patients? Yes
	Michael Dixon
	BMJ  2008;336:1164, doi:10.1136/bmj.39577.488507.AD [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Will polyclinics deliver real benefits for patients? No
	Stewart Kay
	BMJ  2008;336:1165, doi:10.1136/bmj.a130 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Feature

	Primary care: Primary concern
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2008;336:1158-1160, doi:10.1136/bmj.39581.507627.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care: Polyclinics: haven’t we been there before?
	Virginia Berridge
	BMJ  2008;336:1161-1162, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.414572.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Ethics Man: The essence of medicine
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2008;336:1163, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.748727.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Research methodology: How to interpret figures in reports of clinical trials
	Stuart J Pocock, Thomas G Travison, Lisa M Wruck
	BMJ  2008;336:1166-1169, doi:10.1136/bmj.39561.548924.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations: Incorporating considerations of resources use into grading recommendations
	Gordon H Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman, Regina Kunz, Roman Jaeschke, Mark Helfand, Alessandro Liberati, Gunn E Vist, Holger J Schünemann, for the GRADE working group
	BMJ  2008;336:1170-1173, doi:10.1136/bmj.39504.506319.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Efficacy of self monitoring of blood glucose in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (ESMON study): randomised controlled trial
	Maurice J O’Kane, Brendan Bunting, Margaret Copeland, Vivien E Coates, on behalf of the ESMON study group
	BMJ  2008;336:1174-1177, doi:10.1136/bmj.39534.571644.BE (published 17 April 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness of self monitoring of blood glucose in patients with non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes: economic evaluation of data from the DiGEM trial
	Judit Simon, Alastair Gray, Philip Clarke, Alisha Wade, Andrew Neil, Andrew Farmer, on behalf of the Diabetes Glycaemic Education and Monitoring Trial Group
	BMJ  2008;336:1177-1180, doi:10.1136/bmj.39526.674873.BE (published 17 April 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Different strategies for screening and prevention of type 2 diabetes in adults: cost effectiveness analysis
	Clare L Gillies, Paul C Lambert, Keith R Abrams, Alex J Sutton, Nicola J Cooper, Ron T Hsu, Melanie J Davies, Kamlesh Khunti
	BMJ  2008;336:1180-1185, doi:10.1136/bmj.39545.585289.25 (published 21 April 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Nephrotic syndrome in adults
	Richard P Hull, David J A Goldsmith
	BMJ  2008;336:1185-1189, doi:10.1136/bmj.39576.709711.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Evidence Based Case Report: Does paracetamol cause hypertension?
	Brett Montgomery
	BMJ  2008;336:1190-1191, doi:10.1136/bmj.39526.654016.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	A mystery shopper reports
	Rob Hull
	BMJ  2008;336:1192, doi:10.1136/bmj.39555.732049.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: The man with x ray eyes
	Arpan Banerjee
	BMJ  2008;336:1193, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.675729.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The problem of salaried GPs
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:1194, doi:10.1136/bmj.39587.548762.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: Defeated yet defiant
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2008;336:1194, doi:10.1136/bmj.39587.502477.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Counting our blessings
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:1195, doi:10.1136/bmj.39588.510694.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Journal of a Disappointed Man
	Robert Heys
	BMJ  2008;336:1195, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.545775.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Frank Joseph Ayd
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2008;336:1196, doi:10.1136/bmj.a131 [Extract] [Full text]

	Catherine Gilray Bailey (née Simpson)
	Mark Bailey
	BMJ  2008;336:1197, doi:10.1136/bmj.39582.708935.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Ronald Duncan Thomson Cape
	Donald Portsmouth
	BMJ  2008;336:1197, doi:10.1136/bmj.39581.666632.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Joseph Erulkar
	Patricia Ainsworth
	BMJ  2008;336:1197, doi:10.1136/bmj.39582.734699.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Derrick Foskett
	Joan Thomas, Eddy Holt
	BMJ  2008;336:1197, doi:10.1136/bmj.39581.596921.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Kenneth Gerald Powell Mackenzie
	Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
	BMJ  2008;336:1197, doi:10.1136/bmj.39575.733762.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	David Gerald Milton-Thompson
	John Billinghurst
	BMJ  2008;336:1197, doi:10.1136/bmj.39581.646701.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Michael William Wellesley Wood
	John O’Shea
	BMJ  2008;336:1197, doi:10.1136/bmj.39582.629028.BE [Extract] [Full text]

Minerva

	V Samarasinghe, S Varma
	BMJ  2008;336:1198, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.477442.BE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;336:1198, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.480162.BE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A pair of memorable patients
	Ben Challacombe
	BMJ  2008;336:1173, doi:10.1136/bmj.39462.429734.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	NHS sees a steady rise in patient satisfaction over five years
	BMJ  2008;336, doi:10.1136/bmj.a138 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	GRADE: grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests and strategies
	BMJ  2008;336, doi:10.1136/bmj.a139 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Pulp fiction
	BMJ  2008;336, doi:10.1136/bmj.a142 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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