The clear vision of outsiders
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Laparascopic donor nephrectomy minimises donor discomfort [Full text] FREE

	How effective are antipsychotic treatments in the community? [Full text] FREE

	Community hospitals are cost effective for post-acute care of elderly patients [Full text] FREE

	Consider subarachnoid haemorrhage [Full text] FREE

	Don't believe the relative risks and odds ratios in abstracts [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Quality of life after donor nephrectomy
	Nick Townell
	BMJ  2006;333:209-210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.209 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Europe's mental health strategy
	Kristian Wahlbeck, Vappu Taipale
	BMJ  2006;333:210-211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.210 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reforms to NHS commissioning in England
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2006;333:211-212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38917.441944.80, (Published 19 July 2006) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Psychological and social interventions for schizophrenia
	David Kingdon
	BMJ  2006;333:212-213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.212 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Trans fatty acids and coronary heart disease
	Robert Clarke, Sarah Lewington
	BMJ  2006;333:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.214 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	No health safety net for failed asylum seekers and others in UK
	Karen A McColl
	BMJ  2006;333:259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.259 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New immigration rules and future of maxillofacial surgery
	Sean Laverick, Patrick Magennis
	BMJ  2006;333:259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.259-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Female genital mutilation: whose problem, whose solution?: Mutilation or modification?
	Lois S Bibbings
	BMJ  2006;333:259-260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.259-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Female genital mutilation: whose problem, whose solution?: Psychological damage is immense
	Janet Menage
	BMJ  2006;333:260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.260 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	East and West: worlds apart in cataract surgery
	Mohammad T Masoud
	BMJ  2006;333:260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.260-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Test for quinolone resistance in typhoid fever
	Christopher M Parry, Lilani Karunanayake, J Brian S Coulter, Nicholas J Beeching
	BMJ  2006;333:260-261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.260-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Local ethics committees and specialised research
	Dania Qatarneh, Shahram Kashani
	BMJ  2006;333:261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.261 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Opting in or out of electronic patient records: National clinical leads of Connecting for Health respond
	Gillian Braunold, Mike Pringle, Simon Eccles, Ian Scott, Susan Osborne, Barbara Stuttle
	BMJ  2006;333:261-262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.261-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Opting in or out of electronic patient records: Debate has missed the boat
	Thomas F Pezier
	BMJ  2006;333:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.262 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Proposal: two part payment scheme for live kidney donors
	Stephen Jan, Mardi Thompson
	BMJ  2006;333:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.262-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Royal college denies rewriting child protection history
	Patricia Hamilton, Jacqueline Mok
	BMJ  2006;333:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.262-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	MPs give independent treatment centres a poor report
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2006;333:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.215 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Number of C difficile cases rises
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2006;333:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.215-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;333:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.216 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Chief medical officer calls for rewards to improve clinical practice
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2006;333:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.216-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Bush vetoes bill to expand stem cell research
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.216-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Middle East crisis: Humanitarian corridors are critical for aid
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2006;333:217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.217 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Middle East crisis: Israel attacks Red Cross ambulances
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;333:217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.217-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Middle East crisis: Hizbollah rocket hits hospital
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2006;333:217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.217-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	NICE advises a more personalised approach to postnatal care
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2006;333:219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.219-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	NICE issues new guidance to improve the treatment of bipolar disorder
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2006;333:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.220 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Senior doctors criticise government report on allergy treatment
	Paul Dinsdale
	BMJ  2006;333:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.220-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Court acts on Israel’s poorly enforced ban on workplace smoking
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2006;333:218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Cancer is more likely in children from rich, rural British families
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2006;333:218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.218-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Circulatory diseases are Europe’s biggest killer
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2006;333:218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.218-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	New Orleans doctor is charged with giving lethal injections during floods
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2006;333:218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.218-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Drug for leukaemia can lead to heart failure
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2006;333:218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.218-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US women doctors lag behind men in publishing papers in top journals
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.219 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US national academies’ panellists are accused of financial conflicts
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2006;333:219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.219-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Officials cast doubts on UN report on HIV in India
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2006;333:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.220-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Men are more likely than women to die early
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;333:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.220-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	EU agrees to continue funding stem cell research
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2006;333:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.220-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	NHS has still not learnt the lessons of Bristol
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;333:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.220-e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Institute of Medicine report strives to reduce medication errors
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2006;333:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.220-f [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Research

This week's Research

	Comparison of laparoscopic and mini incision open donor nephrectomy: single blind, randomised controlled clinical trial
	Niels F M Kok, May Y Lind, Birgitta M E Hansson, Desiree Pilzecker, Ingrid R A M Mertens zur Borg, Ben C Knipscheer, Eric J Hazebroek, Ine M Dooper, Willem Weimar, Wim C J Hop, Eddy M M Adang, Gert Jan van der Wilt, Hendrik J Bonjer, Jordanus A van der Vliet, Jan N M IJzermans
	BMJ  2006;333:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38886.618947.7C, (Published 17 July 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Effectiveness of antipsychotic treatments in a nationwide cohort of patients in community care after first hospitalisation due to schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: observational follow-up study
	Jari Tiihonen, Kristian Walhbeck, Jouko Lönnqvist, Timo Klaukka, John P A Ioannidis, Jan Volavka, Jari Haukka
	BMJ  2006;333:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38881.382755.2F, (Published 6 July 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A cost effectiveness analysis within a randomised controlled trial of post-acute care of older people in a community hospital
	Jacqueline O'Reilly, Karin Lowson, John Young, Anne Forster, John Green, Neil Small
	BMJ  2006;333:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38887.558576.7C, (Published 21 July 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Believability of relative risks and odds ratios in abstracts: cross sectional study
	Peter C Gøtzsche
	BMJ  2006;333:231-234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38895.410451.79, (Published 19 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Subarachnoid haemorrhage
	Rustam Al-Shahi, Philip M White, Richard J Davenport, Kenneth W Lindsay
	BMJ  2006;333:235-240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.235 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra details] FREE

Practice

This week's Practice

	BMJ Learning: Malaria: an update on treatment of adults in non-endemic countries
	Christopher J M Whitty, David Lalloo, Andrew Ustianowski
	BMJ  2006;333:241-245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.241 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Future treatments
	Peter J Barnes
	BMJ  2006;333:246-248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.246 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;333:249-250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.249 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Analysis and Comment

This week's Analysis and Comment

	Health policy: An independent NHS?
	BMJ  2006;333:251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.251 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Democratic control is essential
	Stephen Thornton
	BMJ  2006;333:251-252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.251-a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A third way
	Gwyn Bevan
	BMJ  2006;333:252-253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.252 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	NHS authority may not fix what isn't really broken
	Stephen Gillam
	BMJ  2006;333:253-254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.253 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Steadying the NHS
	Donald M Berwick, Sheila Leatherman
	BMJ  2006;333:254-255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.254 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Confidentiality and consent in medical research: Consent for the use of personal medical data in research
	Peter Singleton, Michael Wadsworth
	BMJ  2006;333:255-258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.255 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra details] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Fred Epstein
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.263 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	John Frederick Arthur Fenton
	S E Lunn
	BMJ  2006;333:264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.264 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Peter Wynne Harvey
	Margaret Harvey
	BMJ  2006;333:264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.264-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cecil Wilfred Dickens Lewis
	Wilma F Grant
	BMJ  2006;333:264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.264-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Daphne Mary Pearson (née Yates)
	I C Pearson, T C Pearson
	BMJ  2006;333:264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.264-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Henry Maurice ("Harry") Rapport
	Marjorie Davies, Née Rapport
	BMJ  2006;333:264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.264-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Eric Stefanuti
	Ian Bronks
	BMJ  2006;333:264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.264-e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Hubert John ("Paddy") Warrick
	Mary Martin
	BMJ  2006;333:264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.264-f [Extract] [Full text] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Press: Nurses get a tongue lashing
	Jane Salvage
	BMJ  2006;333:265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.265 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Plundering the Public Sector: How New Labour are Letting Consultants Run Off with £70 Billion of our Money
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  2006;333:266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.266 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine and Science, 1500-2000
	David Hughes
	BMJ  2006;333:266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.266-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Personal view: Learning from the Russians
	Belinda Hirsh
	BMJ  2006;333:267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.267 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Soundings: Beauty and the obese
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2006;333:267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.267-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;333:268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.268 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Topical steroids are better than leukotriene receptor antagonists at relieving nasal symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: Diphtheria
	Caleb Tucker
	BMJ  2006;333:234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.234 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Who decides?
	Jasveer Singh Mangat, Priya Kumar
	BMJ  2006;333:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.240 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A bipolar story
	Raquel Duarte
	BMJ  2006;333:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.245 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A proper doctor knows everything
	Livia Puljak
	BMJ  2006;333:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7561.248 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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