An important debate on the GMC
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	Risk of psychosis is linked to frequency of cannabis use [Full text]

	Cognitive behaviour therapy tackles fatigue in adolescents [Full text]

	Miniature telescopes may be the future for restoring vision [Full text]

	Hiding drugs in food is not rare in nursing homes [Full text]

	National surveillance of congenital anomalies is deficient [Full text]

	Prescribers are increasingly circumvented [Full text]

Editorials

	The GMC: expediency before principle
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2005;330:1-2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.1 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The changing face of familial colorectal cancer
	Ayan Banerjea, Sue Clark, Sina Dorudi
	BMJ  2005;330:2-3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Management of medically unexplained symptoms
	Marianne Rosendal, Frede Olesen, Per Fink
	BMJ  2005;330:4-5, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.4, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Direct to consumer advertising
	Peter R Mansfield, Barbara Mintzes, Dee Richards, Les Toop
	BMJ  2005;330:5-6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.5, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additonal references]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Developing primary palliative care: Completion of community palliative care management form should be mandatory
	Julia Riley
	BMJ  2005;330:42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.42, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developing primary palliative care: Changed role of general practitioners has been taken into account
	Colin I Guthrie
	BMJ  2005;330:42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.42-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developing primary palliative care: Community palliative care services are not sufficiently funded
	Pam Levack, Helen Dryden, Fiona Paterson
	BMJ  2005;330:42-43, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.42-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of palliative performance scale]

	Screening may not reduce suicide in later life
	Steve Iliffe, Jill Manthorpe
	BMJ  2005;330:43, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.43, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Side effects deserve greater emphasis at end of life
	Adam Harper, Jan Ritchie, Jeremy Rowland, Vladimir Malykh
	BMJ  2005;330:43, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.43-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality after Bristol: Details of risk adjustment tools were not given
	Gareth Parry, Elizabeth S Draper, Patricia McKinney
	BMJ  2005;330:43, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.43-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality after Bristol: Paediatric cardiac hospital episode statistics are unreliable
	John L Gibbs, David Cunningham, Marc de Leval, James Monro, Bruce Keogh
	BMJ  2005;330:43-44, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.43-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality after Bristol: Authors' reply
	Paul Aylin, Brian Jarman, Paul Elliott
	BMJ  2005;330:44, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.44, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' interests: paramount in randomised trials
	Tony Stevens, Roger Wilson
	BMJ  2005;330:44-45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.44-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Placebos in medicine: Placebo use is well known, placebo effect is not
	Toke S Barfod
	BMJ  2005;330:45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.45, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of eight studies of placebos]

	Placebos in medicine: Medical paradoxes need disentangling
	Zelda Di Blasi, David Reilly
	BMJ  2005;330:45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.45-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Placebos in medicine: Is placebo analgesia always in the mind?
	Peter K K Au-Yeung
	BMJ  2005;330:45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.45-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Placebos in medicine: Pain that is relieved by placebo is not therefore unreal
	Nicholas D Moore
	BMJ  2005;330:45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.45-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	FDA to review "missing" drug company documents
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;330:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.7, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Warnings issued over COX 2 inhibitors in US and UK
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2005;330:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.9-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shipman inquiry finds GMC has "fundamental flaws"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.10 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC drops charges against two GPs who signed Shipman's forms
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.10-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Take forward the polypill idea, concludes expert committee
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2005;330:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.8-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Seventeenth century Dutch doctor's anatomy specimens go on show
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;330:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.8-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Commission finds that trust failed to look into high death rates
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;330:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.8-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Poorer health among disabled people to be investigated
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.8-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New US "abortion non-discrimination act" faces legal challenges
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.9-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Government to review doctors' revalidation system
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.9-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Commission reviews six cases of parents convicted of killing their children
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.10-b [Extract] [Full text]

	National criteria needed to overcome current "hit and miss" process of applying for funded long term care
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.10-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Health journal is launched jointly by Israelis and Palestinians
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2005;330:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.10-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Murder charge for abortion doctor divides medical profession in Kenya
	Fred Mbugua
	BMJ  2005;330:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.10-e [Extract] [Full text]

	The loneliness of the left handed surgeon
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;330:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.10-f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Concealment of drugs in food and beverages in nursing homes: cross sectional study
	Øyvind Kirkevold, Knut Engedal
	BMJ  2005;330:20, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38268.579097.55, (Published 23 November 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Parents' awareness of overweight in themselves and their children: cross sectional study within a cohort (EarlyBird 21)
	A N Jeffery, L D Voss, B S Metcalf, S Alba, T J Wilkin
	BMJ  2005;330:23-24, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38315.451539.F7, (Published 26 November 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Incidence of hepatitis C virus and HIV among new injecting drug users in London: prospective cohort study
	Ali Judd, Matthew Hickman, Steve Jones, Tamara McDonald, John V Parry, Gerry V Stimson, Andrew J Hall
	BMJ  2005;330:24-25, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38286.841227.7C, (Published 12 November 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Family history of breast cancer
	Anneke Lucassen, Eila Watson
	BMJ  2005;330:26, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.26 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

	Congenital anomaly surveillance in England—ascertainment deficiencies in the national system
	P A Boyd, B Armstrong, H Dolk, B Botting, S Pattenden, L Abramsky, J Rankin, M Vrijheid, D Wellesley
	BMJ  2005;330:27, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38300.665301.3A, (Published 23 November 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Artificial means for restoring vision
	Parwez Hossain, Ian W Seetho, Andrew C Browning, Winfried M Amoaku
	BMJ  2005;330:30-33, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.30 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Perinatal asphyxia and inadvertent neonatal intoxication from local anaesthetics given to the mother during labour
	Maria Serenella Pignotti, Giuseppe Indolfi, Riccardo Ciuti, Gianpaolo Donzelli
	BMJ  2005;330:34-35, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.34, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: More information about toxicology screening]

	ABC of preterm birth: Evidence based care
	Peter Brocklehurst, William McGuire
	BMJ  2005;330:36-38, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.36, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Switching prescription drugs to over the counter
	Joshua P Cohen, Cherie Paquette, Catherine P Cairns
	BMJ  2005;330:39-41, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.39, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: In the Eye of the Needle: Diary of a Medically Supervised Injecting Centre
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2005;330:48, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.48, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Cannabis Use and Dependence: Public Health and Public Policy, Young People and Substance Abuse
	Yvonne Bonomo
	BMJ  2005;330:49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.49, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Woman Manual: The Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Women's Health for Men
	Paul Grant, Clare Ilsley
	BMJ  2005;330:49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.49-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2005;330:50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.50, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2005;330:50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.50-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: The ballad of the poor, young male
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2005;330:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.51, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Sued's corner
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2005;330:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.51-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.52, (Published 1 January 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: HRT is most beneficial for women under 60
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What's the point
	Melvyn Jones
	BMJ  2005;330:22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.22 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Averting a change to the date of the royal succession
	Margaret Hope Robinson
	BMJ  2005;330:25, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.25 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Q&A: Corticosteroids and snake bite
	Swaminathan P Rathinam, Omer Surchi Surchi, Gopi Nath Sivasubramaniam, Peter M Garrett
	BMJ  2005;330:33, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.33 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: Learning as a team
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2005;330:41, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.41-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Supporting surgery for obstetric fistula
	BMJ  2005;330:41, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.41, (Published 1 January 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	MMR: What they didn't tell you
	BMJ  2005;330:41, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.41-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	Do I need a homeland medical registration number to get a job in Australia or New Zealand?
	Miriam Martin
	BMJ  2005;330:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s2, (Published 1 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How do I pursue a career in paediatric cardiology, and what are the prospects in the United Kingdom?
	Shakeel Ahmed Qureshi
	BMJ  2005;330:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s2-a, (Published 1 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am a vocationally trained general practitioner with MRCGP and I have been working in Africa since 1997. How can I return to general practice in the United Kingdom?
	Roger Charlton
	BMJ  2005;330:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s2-b, (Published 1 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I'm finishing at medical school in Greece and I'm interested in studying psychiatry in the United Kingdom. What's the procedure, and is there a hospital or university that is highly recommended?
	Kallur Suresh
	BMJ  2005;330:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s2-c, (Published 1 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Looking ahead
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:s3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s3, (Published 1 January 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Laying the foundations<$DOWNLINK>
	Michael Clapham
	BMJ  2005;330:s3-s5, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s3-a, (Published 1 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Being a successful foundation SHO
	Michael Clapham
	BMJ  2005;330:s6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s6, (Published 1 January 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Recruitment and retention crisis in Scotland
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;330:s6-s7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s6-a, (Published 1 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Using Microsoft Excel
	Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
	BMJ  2005;330:s7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s7, (Published 1 January 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What do type dynamics tell us about life stages and stress reactions?
	Anita Houghton
	BMJ  2005;330:s8-s9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s8, (Published 1 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Leading an on-call team
	Faiyaz Mohammed
	BMJ  2005;330:s9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s9, (Published 1 January 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The Medic's Guide to Work and Electives around the World
	Nick Banatvala
	BMJ  2005;330:s10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s10, (Published 1 January 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (DO-HNS)
	Simon Gane
	BMJ  2005;330:s10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7481.s10-a, (Published 1 January 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Fathi Arafat
	BMJ  2005;330:46, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.46, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text]

	Henry Greenfield "Bingy" Barnes
	BMJ  2005;330:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.47, (Published 1 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Archibald Easton
	Graham Easton, Eric Brown
	BMJ  2005;330:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.47-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mervyn Goodman
	Ian Bogle
	BMJ  2005;330:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.47-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	George Brian Mackinlay
	Hamish Polson
	BMJ  2005;330:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.47-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Roy Murray Melville
	A H Duncan
	BMJ  2005;330:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.47-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Hamilton Cassells ("Tony") Milligan
	Gavin Milligan
	BMJ  2005;330:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.47-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Shirley Avril Nicol (née Mackintosh)
	John Nicol
	BMJ  2005;330:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.47-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Katharina ("Kittie") Dalton
	BMJ  2005;330:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.47-g [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Prospective cohort study of cannabis use, predisposition for psychosis, and psychotic symptoms in young people
	Cécile Henquet, Lydia Krabbendam, Janneke Spauwen, Charles Kaplan, Roselind Lieb, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Jim van Os
	BMJ  2005;330:11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38267.664086.63, (Published 1 December 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial
	Maja Stulemeijer, Lieke W A M de Jong, Theo J W Fiselier, Sigrid W B Hoogveld, Gijs Bleijenberg
	BMJ  2005;330:14, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38301.587106.63, (Published 7 December 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Insulin resistance and depression: cross sectional study
	Markku Timonen, Mauri Laakso, Jari Jokelainen, Ulla Rajala, V Benno Meyer-Rochow, Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi
	BMJ  2005;330:17-18, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38313.513310.F71, (Published 16 December 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure] FREE

	Incidence of Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis during 18 years of vaccine use: observational study using routine hospital data
	Heikki Peltola, Eeva Salo, Harri Saxén
	BMJ  2005;330:18-19, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38301.657014.79, (Published 25 November 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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