Old wisdoms
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2008;336, doi:10.1136/bmj.39595.468634.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Survival after extremely preterm birth
	Neena Modi
	BMJ  2008;336:1199-1200, doi:10.1136/bmj.39559.518391.BE (published 9 May 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking cessation in primary care
	Sean P David, Marcus R Munafò
	BMJ  2008;336:1200-1201, doi:10.1136/bmj.39546.520694.80 (published 27 April 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Increasing drug resistant tuberculosis in the UK
	James J C Lewis, Violet N Chihota
	BMJ  2008;336:1201-1202, doi:10.1136/bmj.39560.630613.80 (published 1 May 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reforming NHS dentistry
	Ruth Freeman
	BMJ  2008;336:1202-1203, doi:10.1136/bmj.39546.440822.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Type of hormone replacement therapy and risk of venous thromboembolism
	Helen Roberts
	BMJ  2008;336:1203-1204, doi:10.1136/bmj.39556.666944.80 (published 20 May 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Blunt abdominal trauma: Trauma services must improve
	David O Kessel, Anthony A Nicholson
	BMJ  2008;336:1205, doi:10.1136/bmj.a168 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All cause mortality: Meaningless without time frame
	Robert W Leckridge
	BMJ  2008;336:1205, doi:10.1136/bmj.a163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Top-up fees: Not allowing top-up fees is unethical
	Christoph C Lees
	BMJ  2008;336:1205, doi:10.1136/bmj.a164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Top-up fees: Top-up fairly according to means
	Alfred P J Lake
	BMJ  2008;336:1205, doi:10.1136/bmj.a165 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unnecessary emergency visits: Middle East has an answer
	Dilip J DaCruz
	BMJ  2008;336:1206, doi:10.1136/bmj.a166 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Writing on the wall for UNAIDS: UNAIDS replies
	Paul De Lay
	BMJ  2008;336:1206, doi:10.1136/bmj.a160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Writing on the wall for UNAIDS: Consequences of mythology
	Jeremiah Norris
	BMJ  2008;336:1206, doi:10.1136/bmj.a162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Writing on the wall for UNAIDS: Let’s use our tools creatively
	Michael L Rekart
	BMJ  2008;336:1206, doi:10.1136/bmj.a159 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The secret lives of doctors: Inspired by disease and death
	Olusola O A Oni
	BMJ  2008;336:1206, doi:10.1136/bmj.a167 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Google launches free electronic health records service for patients
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;336:1207, doi:10.1136/bmj.a208 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Thousands of migrants need treatment after xenophobic attacks
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2008;336:1207, doi:10.1136/bmj.39595.585625.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;336:1208, doi:10.1136/bmj.39591.643681.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Merck to pay $58m in settlement over rofecoxib advertising
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2008;336:1208-1209, doi:10.1136/bmj.39591.705231.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Italian police arrest drug agency officials over alleged falsification of data
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2008;336:1208-1209, doi:10.1136/bmj.39591.450856.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New Yorkers are told to take to the stairs
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;336:1209, doi:10.1136/bmj.a181 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health services in China face enormous challenge after earthquake
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2008;336:1209, doi:10.1136/bmj.39591.545602.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Finding a solution to hospital associated infections
	Henry Creagh
	BMJ  2008;336:1210, doi:10.1136/bmj.a175 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Prison mental health services are underfunded, report says
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:1210-1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.39590.660174.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	East Africa faces starvation as rising food prices worsen effect of war and drought
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.39590.590995.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs support no change in 24 week limit on abortion
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.39589.537083.DB (published 21 May 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Report names hospitals with highest proportions of deaths related to MRSA and C difficile
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.39591.467431.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Number of alcohol related admissions in England has doubled in 12 years
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.39591.506389.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Patchy blood testing in central Asia raises risk of HIV infection
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.39590.579456.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Parliament debates bill to compensate torture survivors
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.39590.614664.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Food labelling should extend to restaurants and take-aways, experts say
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.39591.520440.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	FDA begins active monitoring of drug safety
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.a211 [Extract] [Full text]

	Poor countries urgently need to scale up training of healthcare workers, task force warns
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.a190 [Extract] [Full text]

	National institute offers NHS trusts £64m for collaborative research projects
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.a188 [Extract] [Full text]

	Standard chemotherapy shows no benefit for certain types of colon cancer
	Jessica Wapner
	BMJ  2008;336:1211, doi:10.1136/bmj.a210 [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:1212, doi:10.1136/bmj.a173 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Clinical Research: Leaping to conclusions
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2008;336:1213-1214, doi:10.1136/bmj.39589.396840.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Life and Death: Let’s not widen the gulf in the health care of children
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2008;336:1215, doi:10.1136/bmj.a170 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	NHS at 60: Founding principles
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2008;336:1216-1218, doi:10.1136/bmj.39582.501192.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is there an epidemic of admissions for surgical treatment of dental abscesses in the UK?
	Steven J Thomas, Charlotte Atkinson, Ceri Hughes, Peter Revington, Andrew R Ness
	BMJ  2008;336:1219-1220, doi:10.1136/bmj.39549.605602.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Survival of extremely premature babies in a geographically defined population: prospective cohort study of 1994-9 compared with 2000-5
	David J Field, Jon S Dorling, Bradley N Manktelow, Elizabeth S Draper
	BMJ  2008;336:1221-1223, doi:10.1136/bmj.39555.670718.BE (published 9 May 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Nortriptyline plus nicotine replacement versus placebo plus nicotine replacement for smoking cessation: pragmatic randomised controlled trial
	Paul Aveyard, Carol Johnson, Sally Fillingham, Amanda Parsons, Mike Murphy
	BMJ  2008;336:1223-1227, doi:10.1136/bmj.39545.852616.BE (published 27 April 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hormone replacement therapy and risk of venous thromboembolism in postmenopausal women: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Marianne Canonico, Geneviève Plu-Bureau, Gordon D O Lowe, Pierre-Yves Scarabin
	BMJ  2008;336:1227-1231, doi:10.1136/bmj.39555.441944.BE (published 20 May 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web extras] FREE

	Increasing antituberculosis drug resistance in the United Kingdom: analysis of national surveillance data
	Michelle E Kruijshaar, John M Watson, Francis Drobniewski, Charlotte Anderson, Timothy J Brown, John G Magee, E Grace Smith, Alistair Story, Ibrahim Abubakar
	BMJ  2008;336:1231-1234, doi:10.1136/bmj.39546.573067.25 (published 1 May 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Management of retinal detachment: a guide for non-ophthalmologists
	Hyong Kwon Kang, A J Luff
	BMJ  2008;336:1235-1240, doi:10.1136/bmj.39581.525532.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	The Competent Novice: Audit: how to do it in practice
	Andrea Benjamin
	BMJ  2008;336:1241-1245, doi:10.1136/bmj.39527.628322.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines: Risk assessment and lipid modification for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease: summary of NICE guidance
	Angela Cooper, Norma O’Flynn, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2008;336:1246-1248, doi:10.1136/bmj.39554.624086.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Controversies in NICE guidance on lipid modification for the prevention of cardiovascular disease
	Francesco P Cappuccio
	BMJ  2008;336:1248-1249, doi:10.1136/bmj.39580.424352.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	The case for resurrecting the long case
	Narci C Teoh, Francis J Bowden
	BMJ  2008;336:1250, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.596111.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the week: How not to make a drama out of a crisis
	Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2008;336:1251, doi:10.1136/bmj.39587.679086.3A [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: The rubber ear
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:1252, doi:10.1136/bmj.a193 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Campaign for real lectures
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2008;336:1252, doi:10.1136/bmj.39590.515845.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Tobacco meets its match
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:1253, doi:10.1136/bmj.39595.454329.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	La Regenta
	Carmen Pinto
	BMJ  2008;336:1253, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.534525.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Peter John Firth Baskett
	Jerry Nolan, Douglas Chamberlain
	BMJ  2008;336:1254, doi:10.1136/bmj.a176 [Extract] [Full text]

	Jeffrey Joseph Cream
	Chris Bunker
	BMJ  2008;336:1255, doi:10.1136/bmj.39582.696748.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Anthony Michael Jelliffe
	Chris Jelliffe
	BMJ  2008;336:1255, doi:10.1136/bmj.a151 [Extract] [Full text]

	Satya Bhushan Kapur
	E W Geoffrey Davies
	BMJ  2008;336:1255, doi:10.1136/bmj.a148 [Extract] [Full text]

	James Wallace Mathews
	Kenneth Mathews, Colin Mathews
	BMJ  2008;336:1255, doi:10.1136/bmj.a147 [Extract] [Full text]

	Vernon Smith
	Sheila Osborne, Myra Woolfson
	BMJ  2008;336:1255, doi:10.1136/bmj.a152 [Extract] [Full text]

	Aye Olcay Tiryaki (Aydintu)
	Philip Harris, Münire Kologlu-Harris
	BMJ  2008;336:1255, doi:10.1136/bmj.39581.562025.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Amanda Jane Tuggey (née Scotney)
	Justin Tuggey, Andrea Norris
	BMJ  2008;336:1255, doi:10.1136/bmj.39582.644826.BE [Extract] [Full text]

Minerva

	James Stephenson, Demetrius Evriviades, Graham Offer
	BMJ  2008;336:1256, doi:10.1136/bmj.39590.471308.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;336:1256, doi:10.1136/bmj.39590.479942.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Crunching ice cube syndrome
	Francois L P Fouin
	BMJ  2008;336:1234, doi:10.1136/bmj.39555.622998.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	On the nose
	Rose McGready
	BMJ  2008;336:1240, doi:10.1136/bmj.39555.649838.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rubber gloves
	Claire Hilton
	BMJ  2008;336:1249, doi:10.1136/bmj.39555.728981.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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