Affairs of the thorax
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Choice of antipsychotics for dementia doesn't affect risk of stroke [Full text]

	Warm-up programme prevents knee and ankle injuries [Full text]

	Implantation of cardioverter defibrillators reflects inequalities [Full text]

	Give lactams for community acquired pneumonia [Full text]

	Should ethics be different in research and audit? [Full text]

	Trying to make sense of the Middle East [Full text]

Editorials

	Treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
	Michael J G Farthing
	BMJ  2005;330:429-430, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.429 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	Primary care for children in the 21st century
	David Hall, David Sowden
	BMJ  2005;330:430-431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.430 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	Ethics review of research and audit
	Kamran Abbasi, Iona Heath
	BMJ  2005;330:431-432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.431 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality from sickle cell disease in Africa
	Graham R Serjeant
	BMJ  2005;330:432-433, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.432 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Varicella vaccination for healthcare workers
	Judy Breuer
	BMJ  2005;330:433-434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.433 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Learning from low income countries: Experience in low income countries should count towards specialist registrar training
	Peter D O Davies
	BMJ  2005;330:478, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.478 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Learning from low income countries: Poor countries still provide reasons to train doctors in diseases of poverty
	Shefaly Yogendra
	BMJ  2005;330:478, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.478-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Learning from low income countries: Thalassaemia screening in Iran provides evidence for programme in Lancashire
	Peter Elton
	BMJ  2005;330:478, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.478-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Learning from low income countries: Investing in traditional birth attendants may help reduce mortality in poor countries
	Salem Banajeh
	BMJ  2005;330:478-479, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.478-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Learning from low income countries: Poor patients deserve more science and less advocacy
	Carol C Adelman, Jeremiah Norris
	BMJ  2005;330:479, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.479 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Learning from low income countries: Summary of webchat
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2005;330:479, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.479-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on compulsory registration of clinical trials: GSK has created useful register
	Ronald Krall, Frank Rockhold
	BMJ  2005;330:479-480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.479-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on compulsory registration of clinical trials: Complete clinical trial register is already reality for paediatrics
	M Bonati, C Pandolfini, DEC-net collaborative group
	BMJ  2005;330:480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.480 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pulmonary rehabilitation and readmissions in COPD: Hospital readmissions did not fall
	Daniel K C Lee
	BMJ  2005;330:480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.480-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pulmonary rehabilitation and readmissions in COPD: Authors' reply
	William D-C Man, John Moxham
	BMJ  2005;330:480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.480-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood deafness poses problems in developing countries
	Bolajoko O Olusanya, Linda M Luxon, Sheila L Wirz
	BMJ  2005;330:480-481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.480-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Branding treatment of children in rural India should be banned
	B Adhisivam, Roy Gowtham
	BMJ  2005;330:481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.481 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	FDA's safety reform is greeted with scepticism
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2005;330:435, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.435 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Waiting times fall, but hospitals are still dirty, survey of patients shows
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:435, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.435-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;330:436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.436 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK regulator to shame companies for misleading advertisements
	Liza Gibson
	BMJ  2005;330:436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.436-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Climate change already costs 150 000 lives a year, experts say
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;330:436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.436-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New suspension procedures aim to cut NHS disciplinary bill
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:437, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Misdiagnosis raises questions about extent of avian flu epidemic
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2005;330:437, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.437-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgeon paints the fire that scarred his patients
	Tim Bullamore
	BMJ  2005;330:437, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.437-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE issues guidance for diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.439-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA advisers warn: COX 2 inhibitors increase risk of heart attack and stroke
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;330:440, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.440 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	NHS safety agency issues guidance on nasogastric tubes
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2005;330:438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.438 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New cholera vaccine is effective among people with HIV
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2005;330:438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.438-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US jury finds that antidepressant did not cause boy to kill his grandparents
	Jason Cato
	BMJ  2005;330:438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.438-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Sharp rise in deaths in South Africa is largely due to AIDS
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2005;330:438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.438-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Restraint should be last resort for violent behaviour
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.438-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Conservatives promise to end waiting lists
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.439 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctor who spoke out on public health issue is sued
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2005;330:439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.439-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Primary care

	Effectiveness of lactam antibiotics compared with antibiotics active against atypical pathogens in non-severe community acquired pneumonia: meta-analysis
	Graham D Mills, Michael R Oehley, Bruce Arrol
	BMJ  2005;330:456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38334.591586.82, (Published 31 January 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Commentary: A step forward in the everyday management of adults with community acquired pneumonia
	Mark Woodhead, Theo J M Verheij
	BMJ  2005;330:460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38378.607130.55, (Published 31 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent developments in pain in dementia
	Erik Scherder, Joukje Oosterman, Dick Swaab, Keela Herr, Marcel Ooms, Miel Ribbe, Joseph Sergeant, Gisele Pickering, Fabrizio Benedetti
	BMJ  2005;330:461-464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.461 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	ABC of adolescence: Adolescents in primary care
	Ann McPherson
	BMJ  2005;330:465-467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.465 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Ethics, audit, and research: all shades of grey
	Derick T Wade
	BMJ  2005;330:468-471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: patients may be less risk averse than committees
	Shirley Nurock
	BMJ  2005;330:471-472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.471 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Research ethics committees deserve support
	John Alexander
	BMJ  2005;330:472-473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.472 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: ethical review and ethical behaviour
	John McMillan, Mark Sheehan
	BMJ  2005;330:473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.473 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	My six day experience in the Middle East
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2005;330:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.474 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	TV: Cherished
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.484 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Journalists accused of wrecking doctors' lives
	Joanna Lyall
	BMJ  2005;330:485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.485 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hit parade
	BMJ  2005;330:485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.485-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Theatre: Whose Life is it Anyway?
	Sum Yee Chan
	BMJ  2005;330:486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.486 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Why I support the Mental Capacity Bill
	Sylvia Glass
	BMJ  2005;330:486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.486-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Hell is the paediatric fracture clinic
	Virginia Davies
	BMJ  2005;330:487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.487 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Doctors in poll position
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2005;330:487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.487-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.488 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Levonorgestrel IUD reduces dysfunctional bleeding
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Two consultations
	Sharan Prakash Sharma
	BMJ  2005;330:453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.453 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: God, surgeon, medicine, patient
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;330:455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.455-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The ideal diagnosis
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2005;330:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.464 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Perinatal asphyxia and inadvertent neonatal intoxication from local anaesthetics given to the mother during labour
	BMJ  2005;330:473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.473-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Developing primary palliative care
	BMJ  2005;330:473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.473-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clash over public access rights and patient confidentiality sparks trial
	BMJ  2005;330:473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.473-c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	A 35 year old laboratory biomedil scientist with an MSc in applied haematology would like to train as a doctor. Is there a fast track to getting the degree? Will she be accepted?
	Paul O'Neill
	BMJ  2005;330:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s82, (Published 12 February 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am thinking of working as a cruise doctor. Could this adversely affect my chances of specialist training and career progression?
	Alon Duby
	BMJ  2005;330:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s82-a, (Published 12 February 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I would like to get experience in the field of blood transfusion and blood cross matching. Are there any courses that may help me?
	Adrian Newland
	BMJ  2005;330:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s82-b, (Published 12 February 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Over to you
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:s83, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s83, (Published 12 February 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medicine for the elderly (geriatric medicine)<$DOWNLINK>
	Sanjay Suman
	BMJ  2005;330:s83-s85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s83-a, (Published 12 February 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Communicating with elderly patients with sensory impairment
	Sanjay Suman
	BMJ  2005;330:s85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s85, (Published 12 February 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Post-traumatic stress disorder in doctors
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  2005;330:s86-s87, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s86, (Published 12 February 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Support for people with early stage dementia: a forgotten need?
	Jennifer White
	BMJ  2005;330:s88, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s88, (Published 12 February 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma in geriatric medicine (DGM)
	Andrea Nies
	BMJ  2005;330:s89, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s89, (Published 12 February 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas doctors warning: ... too little, too late
	Vishen Ramkisson
	BMJ  2005;330:s90, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s90, (Published 12 February 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas doctors warning: ... GMC should take responsibility
	Narendra B Koyyalamudi
	BMJ  2005;330:s90, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s90-a, (Published 12 February 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas doctors warning: ... a welcome initiative
	Madhukar Kumar
	BMJ  2005;330:s90, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s90-b, (Published 12 February 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas doctors warning: ... the medical diaspora
	Jayaprakash A Gosalakkal
	BMJ  2005;330:s90, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s90-c, (Published 12 February 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Overseas doctors warning: ... will a written warning actually stem the brain drain from overseas?
	Rinku Sengupta
	BMJ  2005;330:s90, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.s90-d, (Published 12 February 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Robert Blowers
	Gerard Slavin, Brian Duerden
	BMJ  2005;330:482, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.482 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Nikolai Vereshchagin
	Boleslav Lichterman
	BMJ  2005;330:482, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.482-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Keith Alexander Adair Campbell
	Victor Twyman
	BMJ  2005;330:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.483 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Eve Hammer (Moskovic)
	Eleanor Moskovic
	BMJ  2005;330:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.483-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Kenneth Jones
	Hugh Jones
	BMJ  2005;330:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.483-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Paul Laking
	Rob Poole
	BMJ  2005;330:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.483-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Lionel Edward Tyler
	Susan Collier
	BMJ  2005;330:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.483-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Paul Wellings
	Anna Haylett
	BMJ  2005;330:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.483-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Francis Tasker Wheeldon
	P T Wheeldon
	BMJ  2005;330:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.483-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Access to catheterisation facilities in patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome: multinational registry study
	Frans Van de Werf, Joel M Gore, Álvaro Avezum, Dietrich C Gulba, Shaun G Goodman, Andrzej Budaj, David Brieger, Kami White, Keith A A Fox, Kim A Eagle, Brian M Kennelly, for the GRACE Investigators
	BMJ  2005;330:441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38335.390718.82, (Published 21 January 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Three tables of additional data] FREE

	Atypical antipsychotic drugs and risk of ischaemic stroke: population based retrospective cohort study
	Sudeep S Gill, Paula A Rochon, Nathan Herrmann, Philip E Lee, Kathy Sykora, Nadia Gunraj, Sharon-Lise T Normand, Jerry H Gurwitz, Connie Marras, Walter P Wodchis, Muhammad Mamdani
	BMJ  2005;330:445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38330.470486.8F, (Published 24 January 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Exercises to prevent lower limb injuries in youth sports: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Odd-Egil Olsen, Grethe Myklebust, Lars Engebretsen, Ingar Holme, Roald Bahr
	BMJ  2005;330:449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38330.632801.8F, (Published 7 February 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reproduction of chest pain by palpation: diagnostic accuracy in suspected pulmonary embolism
	Grégoire Le Gal, Ariane Testuz, Marc Righini, Henri Bounameaux, Arnaud Perrier
	BMJ  2005;330:452-453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38331.602384.8F, (Published 31 January 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Inequity of use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in England: retrospective analysis
	Julie Parkes, Deborah L Chase, Andrew Grace, David Cunningham, Paul J Roderick
	BMJ  2005;330:454-455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38337.635648.82, (Published 4 February 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	DRUG POINTS: Nausea and vomiting due to insulin glargine in patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus
	Anthony N Dixon, Stephen C Bain
	BMJ  2005;330:455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.455 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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