A tough nut to crack
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.0-h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	CMF adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer achieves good long term results [Full text]

	Screening reduced deaths from breast cancer in Denmark [Full text]

	Domestic radon increases the risk of lung cancer [Full text]

	Guidelines for chaperones in primary care are not practical [Full text]

	Implementation of the protocol for sudden unexpected death in infancy is not satisfactory [Full text]

	Inhaled steroids seem safe for pregnant women with asthma [Full text]

	Time to rethink disaster aid [Full text]

Editorials

	Reduction in mortality from breast cancer
	Alison L Jones
	BMJ  2005;330:205-206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.205 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Investigating infant deaths
	M P Ward Platt
	BMJ  2005;330:206-207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.206 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing faecal incontinence
	Robert J C Steele, Kenneth L Campbell
	BMJ  2005;330:207-208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.207 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tetanus in injecting drug users
	Nick J Beeching, Natasha S Crowcroft
	BMJ  2005;330:208-209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.208 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	International recruitment of health professionals
	James Buchan
	BMJ  2005;330:210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.210 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Box]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	The GMC: expediency before principle: BMA chairman responds
	James Johnson
	BMJ  2005;330:252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.252 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The GMC: expediency before principle: GMC reforms may damage the NHS
	John J Turner
	BMJ  2005;330:252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.252-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The GMC: expediency before principle: Self regulation is a contradiction in terms
	Justin A B Robbins
	BMJ  2005;330:252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.252-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The GMC: expediency before principle: A former BMA chairman responds
	Alexander W Macara
	BMJ  2005;330:252-253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.252-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The GMC: expediency before principle: Are doctors failing or is the system?
	Mark I Burgin
	BMJ  2005;330:253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.253 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The GMC: expediency before principle: Doctors and patients have shared interests
	Anita M Houghton
	BMJ  2005;330:253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.253-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The GMC: expediency before principle: Proceed with caution
	Stephen F Hayes
	BMJ  2005;330:253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.253-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The GMC: expediency before principle: Summary of responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2005;330:254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.254 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Disaster mental health": lessons from Aberfan
	Derek A Summerfield
	BMJ  2005;330:254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.254-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes: Response from Israel Medical Association
	Yoram Blachar
	BMJ  2005;330:254-255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.254-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes: Israeli situation is not analogous to apartheid regime
	David Katz
	BMJ  2005;330:255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.255 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Full engagement in health: Shared decision making requires education
	Jill E Thistlethwaite
	BMJ  2005;330:255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.255-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Full engagement in health: Government programmes aim to improve engagement
	Sunjai Gupta
	BMJ  2005;330:255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.255-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sentinel systems are needed for long term adverse drug reactions
	Torbjörn Callréus
	BMJ  2005;330:255-256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.255-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why doctors don't read research papers: Editors' behaviour might have something to do with it
	Christopher W Ide
	BMJ  2005;330:256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.256 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why doctors don't read research papers: Scientific papers are not written to disseminate information
	Michael O'Donnell
	BMJ  2005;330:256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.256-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why doctors don't read research papers: Author's reply
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2005;330:256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.256-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Research confirms human to human transmission of avian flu
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2005;330:211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.211 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;330:212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.212 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rofecoxib caused excess heart disease
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.212-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Campaign to expand access to antiretrovirals faces major obstacles
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2005;330:212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.212-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government committee calls for better cancer services in England
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.213 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New free trade agreement sparks fight over drug pricing
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2005;330:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.213-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	India has some of the highest cancer rates in the world
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2005;330:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.215-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health of people in rural parts of Britain is being neglected
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.216 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Early contact with infant siblings reduces risk of multiple sclerosis
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.216-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Correction and apology

	Eli Lilly: Correction and apology
	BMJ  2005;330:211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.211-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	All approved US embryonic stem cell lines may be contaminated
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.214 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Detection of breast cancer is better in centres performing a high volume of mammography
	Barbara Kermode-Scott
	BMJ  2005;330:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.214-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Hunterian Museum reopens after a two year closure
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2005;330:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.214-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Select committee angry over absence of drug regulator from session
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;330:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.214-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Shared care helps reduce mortality in patients with heart failure
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;330:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.214-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Assessment system in Britain is failing medical research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.215 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New procedure will speed up approval for embryo screening
	Kunal Khanna
	BMJ  2005;330:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.215-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Food industry is under pressure to drop junk food advertisements
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2005;330:215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.215-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Pathologist in Sally Clark murder case is charged with withholding vital evidence
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.216-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Coroner is asked to review deaths of nursing home residents
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.216-c [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Use of inhaled corticosteroids during pregnancy and risk of pregnancy induced hypertension: nested case-control study
	Marie-Josée Martel, Évelyne Rey, Marie-France Beauchesne, Sylvie Perreault, Geneviève Lefebvre, Amélie Forget, Lucie Blais
	BMJ  2005;330:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38313.624352.8F, (Published 19 January 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Definition if maternal chronic disease] FREE

	Chaperones for intimate examinations: cross sectional survey of attitudes and practices of general practitioners
	Joe Rosenthal, Janice Rymer, Roger Jones, Sarah Haldane, Shoshana Cohen, Jenny Bartholomew
	BMJ  2005;330:234-235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38315.646053.F7, (Published 3 December 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use and offering of chaperones by general practitioners: postal questionnaire survey in Norfolk
	Shaun Conway, Ian Harvey
	BMJ  2005;330:235-236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38320.472986.8F, (Published 16 December 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Tinnitus
	S Alam Hannan, Farhhan Sami, Michael J Wareing
	BMJ  2005;330:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.237 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further information] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent developments in atrial fibrillation
	M Bilal Iqbal, Anil K Taneja, Gregory Y H Lip, Marcus Flather
	BMJ  2005;330:238-243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.238 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references and three tables]

	ABC of sports and exercise medicine: Female athlete triad
	Karen Birch
	BMJ  2005;330:244-246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.244 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Smoke and mirrors: deficiencies in disaster funding
	Peter Walker, Ben Wisner, Jennifer Leaning, Larry Minear
	BMJ  2005;330:247-250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.247 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Change will not happen overnight
	A Griekspoor, D Nabarro, A Loretti, I Smith
	BMJ  2005;330:250-251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.250 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Art: Artist reignites debate over BMA sculptures
	Colin Martin
	BMJ  2005;330:259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.259 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  2005;330:260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.260 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Global Crises, Global Solutions
	Henry Greenberg
	BMJ  2005;330:261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.261 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: The tsunami and the dangers of goodwill
	Andrew C K Lee
	BMJ  2005;330:261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.261-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: How psychiatrists can play their part in the tsunami relief effort
	Bob Adams
	BMJ  2005;330:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.262 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: None so naive as the well meaning
	Penelope Bryant
	BMJ  2005;330:263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.263 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Out of hours cover
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2005;330:263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.263-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.264 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Useful treatments for fibromyalgia syndrome
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The ideal diagnosis
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2005;330:222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The wrong time and place
	Rubeta Matin
	BMJ  2005;330:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.228 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tea and empathy
	Paul McIntyre
	BMJ  2005;330:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.229-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Good enough general practice
	Malcolm Lindsay
	BMJ  2005;330:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.236 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A teacher remembered: Gerald Tresidder
	Kieran J Moriarty
	BMJ  2005;330:251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.251 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	How do I go about pursuing a career in management consultancy? I am disillusioned with the NHS and I am an average medical graduate from a northern university (that is, not Oxford or Cambridge).
	Adam Poole
	BMJ  2005;330:s42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s42, (Published 29 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What sort of specialist doctors work in intensive care units in the United Kingdom?
	Gavin Perkins
	BMJ  2005;330:s42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s42-a, (Published 29 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I passed my MRCPCH clinical exam recently and have worked in paediatrics as an SHO for 2.5 years and as a senior SHO for six months. Is this degree recognised in other countries for further studies such as fellowships?
	Elitham Turya
	BMJ  2005;330:s42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s42-b, (Published 29 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am trying to find an organisation that I can go to the tsunami areas with as a volunteer. I am willing to do anything from working with children to cleaning up. I feel an overwhelming need to help.
	Mark Wilson
	BMJ  2005;330:s42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s42-c, (Published 29 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Your move
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:s43, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s43, (Published 29 January 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The stress of relocation<$DOWNLINK>
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  2005;330:s43-s44, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s43-a, (Published 29 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Why UK doctors need to work abroad
	Lucy Mackillop
	BMJ  2005;330:s45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s45, (Published 29 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surgical training in the developing world
	Steve Payne
	BMJ  2005;330:s46-s48, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s46, (Published 29 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Juggling two jobs
	Jahura Hossain
	BMJ  2005;330:s48-s49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s48, (Published 29 January 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma in Managing Health and Social Care
	Rachel Hooke
	BMJ  2005;330:s49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s49, (Published 29 January 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	An ultra-endurance explorer<$DOWNLINK>
	Saheel Mukhtar
	BMJ  2005;330:s50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.s50, (Published 29 January 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	William Silverman
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2005;330:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.257 [Extract] [Full text]

	John Gordon Uvedale Okeden Alexander
	Rosemary Alexander
	BMJ  2005;330:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.258 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Maxwell Jones
	Doreen Jones
	BMJ  2005;330:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.258-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Harold Stormont Ross
	Kathleen Ross, Robert Drummond
	BMJ  2005;330:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.258-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alexander Bryce Stewart
	Stewart Munday
	BMJ  2005;330:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.258-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Monnica Charlotte Stewart
	Stewart Munday
	BMJ  2005;330:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.258-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Harry Berrington ("Berry") Stoner
	Miles Irving
	BMJ  2005;330:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.258-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Kolappa Sundararajan
	P Sundararajan
	BMJ  2005;330:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.258-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	30 years' follow up of randomised studies of adjuvant CMF in operable breast cancer: cohort study
	Gianni Bonadonna, Angela Moliterni, Milvia Zambetti, Maria Grazia Daidone, Silvana Pilotti, Luca Gianni, Pinuccia Valagussa
	BMJ  2005;330:217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38314.622095.8F, (Published 13 January 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Breast cancer mortality in Copenhagen after introduction of mammography screening: cohort study
	Anne Helene Olsen, Sisse H Njor, Ilse Vejborg, Walter Schwartz, Peter Dalgaard, Maj-Britt Jensen, Ulla Brix Tange, Mogens Blichert-Toft, Fritz Rank, Henning Mouridsen, Elsebeth Lynge
	BMJ  2005;330:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38313.639236.82, (Published 13 January 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Radon in homes and risk of lung cancer: collaborative analysis of individual data from 13 European case-control studies
	S Darby, D Hill, A Auvinen, J M Barros-Dios, H Baysson, F Bochicchio, H Deo, R Falk, F Forastiere, M Hakama, I Heid, L Kreienbrock, M Kreuzer, F Lagarde, I Mäkeläinen, C Muirhead, W Oberaigner, G Pershagen, A Ruano-Ravina, E Ruosteenoja, A Schaffrath Rosario, M Tirmarche, L Tomásek, E Whitley, H-E Wichmann, R Doll
	BMJ  2005;330:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38308.477650.63, (Published 21 December 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Radon blues
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2005;330:226-227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38315.668009.63, (Published 21 December 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A multiagency protocol for responding to sudden unexpected death in infancy: descriptive study
	Anne Livesey
	BMJ  2005;330:227-228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38323.652523.F7, (Published 13 December 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Delayed hypersensitivity due to epidural block with ropivacaine
	Masanori Ban, Masahito Hattori
	BMJ  2005;330:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.229 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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