In praise of trade offs
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Calcium and vitamin D don't seem to prevent fractures [Full text]

	Mediterranean diet does prolong life [Full text]

	Depressed Britons could swap pills for talk [Full text]

	Clinical syndromes seem adequate for targeting drug prescribing [Full text]

	Inequalities are consistently widening [Full text]

	Emergency endoscopy in the UK seems inadequate [Full text]

Editorials

	Measuring NHS productivity
	Donald M Berwick
	BMJ  2005;330:975-976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.975 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of staphylococcal infection
	Sebastian G B Amyes
	BMJ  2005;330:976-977, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.976 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surveying the literature from animal experiments
	Roger Lemon, Stephen B Dunnett
	BMJ  2005;330:977-978, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.977 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood obstructive sleep apnoea
	Suresh Kotagal
	BMJ  2005;330:978-979, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.978 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Radiotherapy for the future
	Bleddyn Jones, Neil Burnet
	BMJ  2005;330:979-980, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.979 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

Letters

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	Reduction in mortality from breast cancer: Decrease with screening was marked in younger age group
	Per-Henrik Zahl, Jan Mæhlen
	BMJ  2005;330:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1024 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reduction in mortality from breast cancer: Fall in use of hormones could have reduced breast cancer mortality
	Ellen C G Grant
	BMJ  2005;330:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1024-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reduction in mortality from breast cancer: Presentation of benefits and harms needs to be balanced
	Peter C Gøtzsche, Hazel Thornton, Karsten J Jørgensen
	BMJ  2005;330:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1024-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reduction in mortality from breast cancer: Authors' reply
	Elsebeth Lynge, Anne Helene Olsen
	BMJ  2005;330:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1025 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reduction in mortality from breast cancer: Reasons for improved survival are more complex than suggested
	Graeme W Morgan
	BMJ  2005;330:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1025-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changes to India's patent law: Integrated approach is needed
	Richard Barker
	BMJ  2005;330:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1025-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changes to India's patent law: Unaffordable drugs may discourage diagnosing HIV and increase transmission
	Subodh B Joshi
	BMJ  2005;330:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1025-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Partnerships with African hospitals may improve health
	Caris Grimes
	BMJ  2005;330:1025-1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1025-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Self harm was misrepresented (again)
	Naveen Kapur, Jayne Cooper
	BMJ  2005;330:1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1026 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Negligence of medical experts: Expert witnesses should adhere to Civil Procedure Rules 1998 and be impartial
	Raymund Carroll, Richard G Notley
	BMJ  2005;330:1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1026-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Negligence of medical experts: Quality control of medical experts is being considered
	M E Jan Wise
	BMJ  2005;330:1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1026-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Negligence of medical experts: UK register may offer solution
	Alan R C Kershaw
	BMJ  2005;330:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1027 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Negligence of medical experts: Expert witness training should be compulsory for all experts
	John Vinen
	BMJ  2005;330:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1027-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Negligence of medical experts: Issues in writing medicolegal reports must be considered
	Frank Frizelle
	BMJ  2005;330:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1027-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Negligence of medical experts: US legal system is not conducive
	Elliott Foucar
	BMJ  2005;330:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1027-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Parents wrongfully accused of child abuse cannot sue doctors
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:981, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.981 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug for heart failure increases mortality
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;330:981, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.981-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;330:982, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.982 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US academy calls for new bodies to oversee stem cell research
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2005;330:982, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.982-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Institute recommends a global health corps for AIDS
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2005;330:982, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.982-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Consumer advertising influences doctors' prescribing, study finds
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2005;330:983, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.983 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Emergency contraception is under attack by US pharmacists
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:983, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.983-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Parents fail to overturn ruling not to resuscitate baby
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.985-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	2005 UK election special: Avoiding the issues
	David G Green
	BMJ  2005;330:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.986 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	2005 UK election special: Nowhere to go
	Kieran Walshe
	BMJ  2005;330:986-987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.986-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	2005 UK election special: The view from abroad
	Ross McL Wilson
	BMJ  2005;330:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.987 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	2005 UK election special: Reducing the time from soup to nuts
	Nicholas Timmins
	BMJ  2005;330:988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.988 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Pathologists shed new light on Sally Clark case
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.984 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Regulator restricts use of SSRIs in children
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;330:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.984-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	EU starts campaign on noise before it introduces lower workplace limits
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2005;330:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.984-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Drug company is censured for offering perks to prescribing nurses
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.984-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Data for evaluating drugs is often poor, say experts
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2005;330:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.984-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Queensland considers how to improve checks on foreign doctors
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2005;330:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.985 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	It's official: family doctors are good for your health
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;330:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.985-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Medical editors issue guidance on ghost writing
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;330:988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.988-a [Extract] [Full text]

	New era of public access to federally funded trials begins
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;330:988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.988-b [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs should take a bigger role in care of long term mentally ill patients
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2005;330:988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.988-c [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;330:989-990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.989 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Randomised controlled trial of calcium and supplementation with cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) for prevention of fractures in primary care
	Jill Porthouse, Sarah Cockayne, Christine King, Lucy Saxon, Elizabeth Steele, Terry Aspray, Mike Baverstock, Yvonne Birks, Jo Dumville, Roger Francis, Cynthia Iglesias, Suezann Puffer, Anne Sutcliffe, Ian Watt, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  2005;330:1003, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1003 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of previous trials] FREE

Clinical review

	Illness trajectories and palliative care
	Scott A Murray, Marilyn Kendall, Kirsty Boyd, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2005;330:1007-1011, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1007 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of adolescence: Fatigue and somatic symptoms
	Russell Viner, Deborah Christie
	BMJ  2005;330:1012-1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1012 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with real progress
	Mary Shaw, George Davey Smith, Danny Dorling
	BMJ  2005;330:1016-1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1016 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of revisions]

	Readers guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 3. Analytical strategies to reduce confounding
	Sharon-Lise T Normand, Kathy Sykora, Ping Li, Muhammad Mamdani, Paula A Rochon, Geoffrey M Anderson
	BMJ  2005;330:1021-1023, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1021 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Results of propensity score analysis]

Reviews

	Book: After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  2005;330:1030, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1030 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
	John Lynch
	BMJ  2005;330:1031, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1031 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Journal of Men's Health and Gender
	Tom O'Dowd
	BMJ  2005;330:1031, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1031-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Axioms for governing health systems
	Jeffrey Braithwaite
	BMJ  2005;330:1032, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1032 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: The search for the gay gene
	Timothy F Murphy
	BMJ  2005;330:1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1033 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Au naturelle
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2005;330:1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1033-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:1034, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1034 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Low cholesterol predicts death in elderly
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Overtreatment?
	S L Baldeweg
	BMJ  2005;330:1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1001 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Life
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2005;330:1002, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1002-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: Faux amis
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2005;330:1006, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1006 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: Postoperative hypoxia in a woman with Down's syndrome
	BMJ  2005;330:1011, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1011 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Self treatment, African style
	N Charavanapavan
	BMJ  2005;330:1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1015 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	How does one become a ship's doctor? What are the minimum requirements and what would be recommended?
	Alon Duby
	BMJ  2005;330:s174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s174, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	This is a general question: is there much demand for experienced general practitioners in the English health system?
	Anne Hastie
	BMJ  2005;330:s174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s174-a, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am applying for a salaried GP post. However, I have found out that I am nine weeks' pregnant with my first baby. Should I tell my new employer before signing any contracts (I know that legally I am not obliged to tell them yet), or can I wait until I have had the first dating scan?
	Kay Mohanna
	BMJ  2005;330:s174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s174-b, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:gp175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.sgp175, (Published 30 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:s175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s175, (Published 30 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Chaperones: who needs them?
	Catriona Richardson
	BMJ  2005;330:s175-s176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s175-a, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Chaperones—the reality of an Interim Order
	BMJ  2005;330:s177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s177, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on-the-ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;330:s177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s177-a, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The question mark hanging over general practice
	Roger Neighbour
	BMJ  2005;330:gp178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.sgp178, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to evaluate your website
	Michelle Heys
	BMJ  2005;330:s178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s178, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Making an impact at meetings where you don't know anyone
	Mark Griffiths
	BMJ  2005;330:s179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s179, (Published 30 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What's happening to public health medicine?
	Ray Lowry
	BMJ  2005;330:s179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s179-a, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A basic guide to tax planning for doctors
	James Ward
	BMJ  2005;330:s180-s181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s180, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General practice in the United Kingdom
	Roopa Venktesh
	BMJ  2005;330:gp182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.sgp182, (Published 30 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The Help Directory
	Rita Pal
	BMJ  2005;330:gp182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.sgp182-a, (Published 30 April 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The outstanding young person of the world 2004
	Julie Sladden
	BMJ  2005;330:s182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.s182, (Published 30 April 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Maurice Hilleman
	Laura Newman
	BMJ  2005;330:1028, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1028 [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert Harold Champion
	Richard J Pye, Stephen Roberts
	BMJ  2005;330:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1029 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Roger William Edmonds
	Peter Burrows
	BMJ  2005;330:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1029-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John William Fasham
	Katrina Cathie
	BMJ  2005;330:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1029-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Somerled Cameron Fergusson
	James McLardy
	BMJ  2005;330:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1029-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Leo Wollner
	G K Wilcock
	BMJ  2005;330:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1029-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Wolman
	Sonia Goldrein, Harris Wolman
	BMJ  2005;330:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1029-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study
	Antonia Trichopoulou, Philippos Orfanos, Teresa Norat, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Marga C Ocké, Petra HM Peeters, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Heiner Boeing, Kurt Hoffmann, Paolo Boffetta, Gabriele Nagel, Giovanna Masala, Vittorio Krogh, Salvatore Panico, Rosario Tumino, Paolo Vineis, Christina Bamia, Androniki Naska, Vassiliki Benetou, Pietro Ferrari, Nadia Slimani, Guillem Pera, Carmen Martinez-Garcia, Carmen Navarro, Miguel Rodriguez-Barranco, Miren Dorronsoro, Elizabeth A Spencer, Timothy J Key, Sheila Bingham, Kay-Tee Khaw, Emmanuelle Kesse, Francoise Clavel-Chapelon, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Goran Berglund, Elisabet Wirfalt, Goran Hallmans, Ingegerd Johansson, Anne Tjonneland, Anja Olsen, Kim Overvad, Heidi H Hundborg, Elio Riboli, Dimitrios Trichopoulos
	BMJ  2005;330:991, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38415.644155.8F, (Published 8 April 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of clinical syndromes to target antibiotic prescribing in seriously ill children in malaria endemic area: observational study
	James A Berkley, Kathryn Maitland, Isaiah Mwangi, Caroline Ngetsa, Saleem Mwarumba, Brett S Lowe, Charles RJC Newton, Kevin Marsh, J Anthony G Scott, Mike English
	BMJ  2005;330:995, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38408.471991.8F, (Published 29 March 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Opportunity cost of antidepressant prescribing in England: analysis of routine data
	Sandra Hollinghurst, David Kessler, Tim J Peters, David Gunnell
	BMJ  2005;330:999-1000, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38377.715799.F7, (Published 18 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	National survey of UK emergency endoscopy units
	Andrew Douglass, Michael G Bramble, Ian Barrison
	BMJ  2005;330:1000-1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38379.662616.F7, (Published 11 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	DRUG POINTS: Ciprofloxacin interacts with thyroid replacement therapy
	John G Cooper, Knut Harboe, Sofia K Frost, Øyvind Skadberg
	BMJ  2005;330:1002, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1002 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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