A good death, or a public one?
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Passive smoking may kill 30 people a day in the UK [Full text]

	Test for M component in patients suspected of having osteoporosis [Full text]

	Folic acid may not increase twinning [Full text]

	Learn to allocate by minimisation [Full text]

	Amsterdam improves on AIDS prophylaxis and follow-up [Full text]

	Take part in our interactive case report [Full text]

Editorials

	"Right to die"
	A C Grayling
	BMJ  2005;330:799, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.799 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing depression in primary care
	Andre Tylee, Roger Jones
	BMJ  2005;330:800-801, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.800 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Aortic stenosis
	John Chambers
	BMJ  2005;330:801-802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.801 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Long term sickness absence
	Max Henderson, Nicholas Glozier, Kevin Holland Elliott
	BMJ  2005;330:802-803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.802 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New professional roles in surgery
	Roger Kneebone, Ara Darzi
	BMJ  2005;330:803-804, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.803 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Non-specific effects of vaccination: Vaccines have non-specific (heterologous) effects
	Frank Shann
	BMJ  2005;330:844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.844 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-specific effects of vaccination: Author's reply to Shann
	Paul E M Fine
	BMJ  2005;330:844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.844-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-specific effects of vaccination: Survival bias may explain findings
	Peter Aaby, Henrik Jensen, Christine Stabell Benn, Ida Maria Lisse
	BMJ  2005;330:844-845, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.844-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-specific effects of vaccination: Authors' reply to Aaby et al
	J Vaugelade, F Simondon, E Elguero, S Pinchinat, G Guiella
	BMJ  2005;330:845, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.845 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	DTP in low income countries: improved child survival or survival bias?
	Henrik Jensen, Christine S Benn, Peter Aaby
	BMJ  2005;330:845-846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.845-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of three other authors]

	Phenobarbital for epilepsy: much is still to be learnt
	Edward H Reynolds
	BMJ  2005;330:846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.846 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of chaperones in general practice: GPs try to balance doctors' and patients' needs
	Norma O'Flynn, Nicky Britten
	BMJ  2005;330:846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.846-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of chaperones in general practice: Chaperones protect both parties
	Charlotte Cohen, Ken McLean, Simon Barton
	BMJ  2005;330:846-847, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.846-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics and research governance in a multicentre study: add 150 days to your study protocol
	Glyn Elwyn, Anne Seagrove, Kym Thorne, Wai Yee Cheung
	BMJ  2005;330:847, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.847 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of 4 other authors]

News

	NHS criticised for lax control over drugs industry
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:805, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.805 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Two drug firms advertised to patients
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:805, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.805-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;330:806, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.806 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	23% of babies in England are delivered by caesarean section
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:806, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.806-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government pledges £2.5m for academic medicine
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2005;330:806, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.806-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Assisted dying legislation must wait until after UK election
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  2005;330:807, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.807 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Africans send their messages to G8 leaders
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:807, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.807-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Global ecological disaster predicted in next 50 years
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:809, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.809-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Taking a collaborative approach to research
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2005;330:810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.810 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Sex inequalities in health care need tackling
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2005;330:808, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.808 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	International community has failed Sudan
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;330:808, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.808-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	UK cancer survival rates are no worse than rest of Europe
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;330:808, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.808-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Commission rejects mass genetic screening at birth
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:808, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.808-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US scheme prevents some hospital admissions
	Adrian O�Dowd
	BMJ  2005;330:808, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.808-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Radiation for prostate cancer increases risk of rectal cancer
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:809, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.809 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Young people who binge drink are likely to continue into adulthood
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;330:809, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.809-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Cognitive therapy is as good as drugs for depression
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.810-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Surgeons' ties to device manufacturers under investigation
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2005;330:810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.810-b [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2005;330:811, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.811 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Statin use in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary care: cohort study and comparison of inclusion and outcome with patients in randomised trials
	Li Wei, Shah Ebrahim, Christopher Bartlett, Peter D Davey, Frank M Sullivan, Thomas M MacDonald
	BMJ  2005;330:821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38398.408032.8F, (Published 24 March 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Quality improvement reports

	Prophylaxis and follow-up after possible exposure to HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus outside hospital: evaluation of policy 2000-3
	Gerard J B Sonder, Rosa M Regez, Kees Brinkman, Jan M Prins, Jan-Willem Mulder, Joke Spaargaren, Roel A Coutinho, Anneke van den Hoek
	BMJ  2005;330:825-829, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.825 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Necrotising fasciitis
	Saiidy Hasham, Paolo Matteucci, Paul R W Stanley, Nick B Hart
	BMJ  2005;330:830-833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.830 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: Postoperative hypoxia in a woman with Down's syndrome: case presentation
	A K Siotia, A Chaudhuri, S I Muzulu, D Harling, R Muthusamy
	BMJ  2005;330:834, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.834 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of adolescence: Common mental health problems
	Pierre-André Michaud, Eric Fombonne
	BMJ  2005;330:835-838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.835 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Managing common mental health disorders in primary care: conceptual models and evidence base
	Peter Bower, Simon Gilbody
	BMJ  2005;330:839-842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.839 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Summary of reviews and extra references]

	Statistics Notes: Treatment allocation by minimisation
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  2005;330:843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.843 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Reviews

	Press: Illness as media spectacle
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2005;330:850, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.850 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Life before Birth
	Nicholas M Fisk
	BMJ  2005;330:851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.851 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: HIV in Primary Care
	Bryony Kendall, Mike Abbott
	BMJ  2005;330:851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.851-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Why fund smoking cessation programmes in prisons?
	Niyi Awofeso
	BMJ  2005;330:852, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.852 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Drug taking in prisons: the inside story
	David Crosby
	BMJ  2005;330:853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.853 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: No sweet surrender
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2005;330:853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.853-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.854 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Trial of labour carries small but real increase in risk
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: In the bad old days
	Russell Hopkins
	BMJ  2005;330:824, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.824 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: Blended learning
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2005;330:829, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.829 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Not old
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2005;330:833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.833 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2005;330:834, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.834-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	My most informative mistake
	Faiyaz Mohammed
	BMJ  2005;330:838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.838 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An interesting patient
	Stuart Ungar
	BMJ  2005;330:842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.842 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	BMJ  2005;330:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.820 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial
	BMJ  2005;330:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.820-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	There seems to be a shortage of GP equity partnerships being advertised, especially in the south west. Why do you think this is?
	Bill Irish
	BMJ  2005;330:s142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s142, (Published 9 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I will soon be eligible for my CCST in anaesthesia. I would like a consultant job with an orthopaedic or trauma interest. Is it enough to have a CCST in anaesthesia or would it be better to do six months' training in a specialised unit?
	Peter Maguire
	BMJ  2005;330:s142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s142-a, (Published 9 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Guidance, what guidance?
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;330:s143, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s143, (Published 9 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Can you ignore guidelines?
	Paul Colbrook
	BMJ  2005;330:s143-s144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s143-a, (Published 9 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Creating and updating guidelines
	Jenny Stephenson
	BMJ  2005;330:s144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s144, (Published 9 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Consultants sleeping in
	Robert Scott-Jupp
	BMJ  2005;330:s145-s146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s145, (Published 9 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Starting an eye project in Africa
	Daniel Morris
	BMJ  2005;330:s146-s147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s146, (Published 9 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Night visits
	John Burscough
	BMJ  2005;330:s147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s147, (Published 9 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The foundation programme curriculum—Q&As
	Alan Crockard
	BMJ  2005;330:s148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s148, (Published 9 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What's on the web?: Clinical guidelines
	Haitham Alshafey
	BMJ  2005;330:s149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s149, (Published 9 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Your Own Pharmacy: The Guide for GPs
	Robin Fox
	BMJ  2005;330:s149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s149-a, (Published 9 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Some more positives about geriatric medicine
	Alasdair M MacLullich
	BMJ  2005;330:s150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s150, (Published 9 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cross cover—an alternative perspective
	Patrick Tansley
	BMJ  2005;330:s150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s150-a, (Published 9 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	More tips for getting your first job in the United Kingdom
	Jatinder S Shekhawat
	BMJ  2005;330:s150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.s150-b, (Published 9 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Jeremy Neil Anderson
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2005;330:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.848 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Alan Pollock
	Vincent Dawe
	BMJ  2005;330:849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.849 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Philip Harvey
	Peter Harvey
	BMJ  2005;330:849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.849-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Isaac Ovenseri ("Ovens") Iredia
	Ian Clark
	BMJ  2005;330:849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.849-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James McIvor
	David Allison
	BMJ  2005;330:849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.849-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Stuart
	Niki Roberts
	BMJ  2005;330:849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.849-d [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Estimate of deaths attributable to passive smoking among UK adults: database analysis
	Konrad Jamrozik
	BMJ  2005;330:812, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38370.496632.8F, (Published 1 March 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of misclassification of in vitro fertilisation in studies of folic acid and twinning: modelling using population based Swedish vital records
	R J Berry, R Kihlberg, O Devine
	BMJ  2005;330:815, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38369.437789.82, (Published 18 February 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Utility of testing for monoclonal bands in serum of patients with suspected osteoporosis: retrospective, cross sectional study
	Bo Abrahamsen, Ivan Andersen, Susanne S Christensen, Jonna Skov Madsen, Kim Brixen
	BMJ  2005;330:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38376.401701.8F, (Published 14 March 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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