Is it time to pilot paying for organs?
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;336, doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.572639.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Prolapsed intervertebral disc
	Jeremy Fairbank
	BMJ  2008;336:1317-1318, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.438773.80 (published 27 May 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Deficiency of sunlight and vitamin D
	Michael F Holick
	BMJ  2008;336:1318-1319, doi:10.1136/bmj.39581.411424.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treating migraine in the emergency department
	Randolph W Evans
	BMJ  2008;336:1320, doi:10.1136/bmj.39560.696748.80 (published 9 June 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring blood pressure in children
	Chris Bird, Colin Michie
	BMJ  2008;336:1321, doi:10.1136/bmj.a150 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The emergence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
	Alan P Johnson, Georgia J Duckworth
	BMJ  2008;336:1322, doi:10.1136/bmj.a226 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Epidemic of dental abscesses?: Dental abscesses have increased most among poorer people
	David R Moles
	BMJ  2008;336:1323, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.430243.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epidemic of dental abscesses?: Patients can’t see a dentist at short notice
	Hugh van’t Hoff
	BMJ  2008;336:1323, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.426192.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE on lipid modification: NICE has overestimated cardiovascular risk
	Richard G Richards
	BMJ  2008;336:1323-1324, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.518287.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE on lipid modification: NICE’s simplified approach to lipids will not work
	Stuart J Laurie
	BMJ  2008;336:1324, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.513889.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug resistant tuberculosis: Service for drug resistant tuberculosis exists in the UK
	Peter D O Davies, Damian Cullen
	BMJ  2008;336:1324, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.462338.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paracetamol and hypertension: Time to label sodium in drug treatments?
	David R J Jarrett
	BMJ  2008;336:1324, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.540995.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Law on unjustified health claims: Member states must enforce ban on dubious products
	Jack T Winkler
	BMJ  2008;336:1324-1325, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.527743.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Additives and hyperactivity: Food dyes should be banned
	Michael Jacobson
	BMJ  2008;336:1325, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.531111.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opium production in Afghanistan: Let’s re-examine buying the Afghan poppies that are left
	Ilora G Finlay, Lord Mancroft, Frank Field
	BMJ  2008;336:1325, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.545544.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Retinal detachment: Anaesthesia for retinal detachment
	A Hunningher, R Hacking
	BMJ  2008;336:1325-1326, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.447743.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Campaign for real lectures: Using personal experience
	Oscar M Jolobe
	BMJ  2008;336:1326, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.574317.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Campaign for real lectures: Chalk and blackboard can be brilliant
	Andrew J Heeps
	BMJ  2008;336:1326, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.579039.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Campaign for real lectures: Beyond bullet points
	Paul Davies
	BMJ  2008;336:1326, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.563264.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Campaign for real lectures: Take the zen approach
	Ben Braithwaite
	BMJ  2008;336:1326, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.580718.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The world is round: Salute to the stethoscope
	Michael O’Donnell
	BMJ  2008;336:1326, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.583611.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	NHS reforms have produced "only limited benefits so far"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:1327, doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.486644.DB (published 12 June 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Review launched after Harvard psychiatrist failed to disclose industry funding
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2008;336:1327, doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.364688.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;336:1328, doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.403322.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government pledges extra £34m to tackle health inequalities in England
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2008;336:1328, doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.351493.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK health secretary accuses BMA of distorting government proposals for polyclinics
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2008;336:1328-1329, doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.577639.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ombudsman finds health board guilty of maladministration for not providing free continuing care
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:1329, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.689063.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fewer than one in five joint replacement patients receives anticoagulants after discharge
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2008;336:1330, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.632257.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Coinfection of tuberculosis and HIV poses global threat
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:1330-1331, doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.427338.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fall in hormone replacement therapy associated with fall in breast cancer
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2008;336:1330-1331, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.497431.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mortality rates from malaria in children under 5 fall sharply in 10 countries
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;336:1331, doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.444919.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Agencies denounce Zimbabwe’s ban on aid workers
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:1332-1333, doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.416991.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Obstetricians seek recognition for Chinese pioneers of safe abortion
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2008;336:1332-1333, doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.391030.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Read translated original paper]

	Brazil adopts stronger pictures on cigarette packets in antismoking campaign
	Klaus Morales
	BMJ  2008;336:1333, doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.374340.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Inactive time spent on call could be excluded from 48 hour week
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2008;336:1333, doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.504016.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Outcomes framework needs to be modified to reduce health inequalities
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2008;336:1333, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.585637.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Obesity and climate change could be tackled together
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:1333, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.555081.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	International conference calls for better prevention to contain spread of AIDS
	Henry Wasswa
	BMJ  2008;336:1333, doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.490440.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Reported decline in drug misuse in prison may be illusory
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2008;336:1333, doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.552593.DB [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:1334-1335, doi:10.1136/bmj.a286 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

	Should we pay donors to increase the supply of organs for transplantation? Yes
	Arthur J Matas
	BMJ  2008;336:1342, doi:10.1136/bmj.a157 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should we pay donors to increase the supply of organs for transplantation? No
	Jeremy Chapman
	BMJ  2008;336:1343, doi:10.1136/bmj.a179 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Global food crisis: Can we feed the world?
	Karen McColl
	BMJ  2008;336:1336-1338, doi:10.1136/bmj.a270 (published 3 June 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Yankee Doodling: Placebo pills for children
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2008;336:1339, doi:10.1136/bmj.39603.698889.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: BMJ in "smug docs" storm
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2008;336:1340-1341, doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.446701.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	NHS at 60: A comprehensive service
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2008;336:1344-1345, doi:10.1136/bmj.a253 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Best interests and potential organ donors
	John Coggon, Margaret Brazier, Paul Murphy, David Price, Muireann Quigley
	BMJ  2008;336:1346-1347, doi:10.1136/bmj.39575.561898.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Adherence to Mediterranean diet and risk of developing diabetes: prospective cohort study
	M Á Martínez-González, C de la Fuente-Arrillaga, J M Nunez-Cordoba, F J Basterra-Gortari, J J Beunza, Z Vazquez, S Benito, A Tortosa, M Bes-Rastrollo
	BMJ  2008;336:1348-1351, doi:10.1136/bmj.39561.501007.BE (published 29 May 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prolonged conservative care versus early surgery in patients with sciatica from lumbar disc herniation: cost utility analysis alongside a randomised controlled trial
	Wilbert B van den Hout, Wilco C Peul, Bart W Koes, Ronald Brand, Job Kievit, Ralph T W M Thomeer, for the Leiden-The Hague Spine Intervention Prognostic Study Group
	BMJ  2008;336:1351-1354, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.709074.BE (published 23 May 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prolonged conservative care versus early surgery in patients with sciatica caused by lumbar disc herniation: two year results of a randomised controlled trial
	Wilco C Peul, Wilbert B van den Hout, Ronald Brand, Ralph T W M Thomeer, Bart W Koes, for the Leiden-The Hague Spine Intervention Prognostic Study Group
	BMJ  2008;336:1355-1358, doi:10.1136/bmj.a143 (published 23 May 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Parenteral dexamethasone for acute severe migraine headache: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials for preventing recurrence
	Ian Colman, Benjamin W Friedman, Michael D Brown, Grant D Innes, Eric Grafstein, Ted E Roberts, Brian H Rowe
	BMJ  2008;336:1359-1361, doi:10.1136/bmj.39566.806725.BE (published 9 June 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web extra] FREE

Clinical review

	Preventing malaria in travellers
	David G Lalloo, David R Hill
	BMJ  2008;336:1362-1366, doi:10.1136/bmj.a153 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Guidelines: Management of invasive meningococcal disease in children and young people: summary of SIGN guidelines
	U Theilen, L Wilson, G Wilson, J O Beattie, S Qureshi, D Simpson, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2008;336:1367-1370, doi:10.1136/bmj.a129 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Controversies in SIGN guidance on management of invasive meningococcal disease in children and young people
	David Isaacs
	BMJ  2008;336:1370-1371, doi:10.1136/bmj.a240 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Unrecognised severe vitamin D deficiency
	John L Sievenpiper, Elizabeth A McIntyre, Mark Verrill, Richard Quinton, Simon H S Pearce
	BMJ  2008;336:1371-1374, doi:10.1136/bmj.39555.820394.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A patient's journey: Becoming a live kidney donor
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2008;336:1374-1376, doi:10.1136/bmj.a277 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Personal View: Let’s wave goodbye to "transplant tourism"
	Leigh Turner
	BMJ  2008;336:1377, doi:10.1136/bmj.39559.626632.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View: Commercial transplantation in Pakistan and its effects on Western countries
	M A Noorani
	BMJ  2008;336:1378, doi:10.1136/bmj.39559.489051.94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Lest We Forget
	Robert Bud
	BMJ  2008;336:1379, doi:10.1136/bmj.39583.483692.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie . . . "
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:1380, doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.434734.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Starting Out: Pay as you don’t go
	Kinesh Patel
	BMJ  2008;336:1380, doi:10.1136/bmj.39603.463657.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: One of the awkward squad
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:1381, doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.464317.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine
	David Warriner
	BMJ  2008;336:1381, doi:10.1136/bmj.a186 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Wallace William Brigden
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2008;336:1382, doi:10.1136/bmj.a293 [Extract] [Full text]

	Norman Montague Bleehen
	Stanley S Bleehen
	BMJ  2008;336:1383, doi:10.1136/bmj.a275 [Extract] [Full text]

	Martin Douglas Humby
	Rosalind Humby
	BMJ  2008;336:1383, doi:10.1136/bmj.a225 [Extract] [Full text]

	William Burgess Drayson Maile
	Christopher Maile
	BMJ  2008;336:1383, doi:10.1136/bmj.a223 [Extract] [Full text]

	David Keith Masters
	Andrew Fergusson
	BMJ  2008;336:1383, doi:10.1136/bmj.a219 [Extract] [Full text]

	Christopher Gerard Pinder
	Norman Pinder
	BMJ  2008;336:1383, doi:10.1136/bmj.a221 [Extract] [Full text]

	Michael Ward
	Chris Parry
	BMJ  2008;336:1383, doi:10.1136/bmj.a261 [Extract] [Full text]

	George Geoffrey Worsp
	Alan Giles, Jim Young, David Cousins
	BMJ  2008;336:1383, doi:10.1136/bmj.a217 [Extract] [Full text]

Minerva

	Sriparna Basu, Ashok Kumar
	BMJ  2008;336:1384, doi:10.1136/bmj.39604.564063.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2008;336:1384, doi:10.1136/bmj.39605.488021.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	I need my medicine to help me get worse
	David Agombar
	BMJ  2008;336:1366, doi:10.1136/bmj.39451.674803.DE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug point: Topical choline salicylates implicated in Reye’s syndrome
	T K Oman, M C Stewart, A Burns, T F Lang
	BMJ  2008;336:1376, doi:10.1136/bmj.39462.656736.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Italian police arrest drug agency officials over alleged falsification of data
	BMJ  2008;336, doi:10.1136/bmj.a302 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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