Making sense of things
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Leukaemia: avoid living near high voltage lines... [Full text]

	... and let your baby acquire infections early in life [Full text]

	Co-prescribed heroin adds value to methadone treatment [Full text]

	HIV infections should be diagnosed earlier [Full text]

	Aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease in elderly people: the jury's still out [Full text]

	Heterosexual HIV is still mostly imported to the UK [Full text]

Editorials

	The causes of childhood leukaemia
	Heather O Dickinson
	BMJ  2005;330:1279-1280, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1279 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	The national service framework for long term conditions
	Niruj Agrawal, Alex J Mitchell
	BMJ  2005;330:1280-1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1280 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	The new pope and medical ethics
	Daniele Maria Scalise, Giulio Bognolo
	BMJ  2005;330:1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1281 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mother to child transmission of HIV in China
	Katherine T Chen, Han-Zhu Qian
	BMJ  2005;330:1282-1283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1282 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details]

	Revitalising rapid responses
	Sharon Davies, Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2005;330:1284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1284 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: Evidence for diet linked longevity is substantial
	Emanuele Cereda, Alexis E Malavazos, Carla Favaro, Anna M Pagani
	BMJ  2005;330:1329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1329 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: Key confounder was missed
	Eddie Vos
	BMJ  2005;330:1329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1329-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: Author's reply
	Antonia Trichopoulou
	BMJ  2005;330:1329-1330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1329-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Licensing diagnostic tests may benefit everyone
	Eric S Kilpatrick
	BMJ  2005;330:1330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1330 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Radiotherapy in breast reconstruction is mostly safe
	Martin J Rolles
	BMJ  2005;330:1330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1330-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Health care is paradox in India
	Susheel Oommen John
	BMJ  2005;330:1330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1330-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who needs health care?: Health care may be an oxymoron
	Christopher M Buttery
	BMJ  2005;330:1330-1331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1330-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who needs health care?: Preventive medicine deserves more respect
	Kelechi E Nnoaham
	BMJ  2005;330:1331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1331 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who needs health care?: Preventive medicine has potentially big role
	Benjamin Dean
	BMJ  2005;330:1331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1331-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who needs health care?: Investment in health promotion is miserably small
	Brian Neeson
	BMJ  2005;330:1331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1331-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who needs health care?: Old people are faced with dilemma as families disintegrate
	Rajesh Chauhan, Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Parul Kushwah
	BMJ  2005;330:1331-1332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1331-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consumer advertising and doctors' prescribing: Doctors may end up treating the effects of scaremongering
	Graham L G McAll
	BMJ  2005;330:1332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1332 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consumer advertising and doctors' prescribing: Doctors and patients alike need to be empowered by information to improve quality of care
	Peter D Singleton
	BMJ  2005;330:1332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1332-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consumer advertising and doctors' prescribing: "Track changes" tracks ghost writers
	Steinar Madsen
	BMJ  2005;330:1332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1332-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consumer advertising and doctors' prescribing: Right patient, right treatment, right time
	Peter Davies
	BMJ  2005;330:1332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1332-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	US president and Congress set to clash over stem cell research
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1285 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Exaggerated claims of cures threaten stem cell research
	Kaye McIntosh
	BMJ  2005;330:1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1285-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;330:1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1286 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Armed conflict is a leading cause of hunger, says FAO
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;330:1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1286-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE guidance to prevent strokes and heart attacks lacks evidence
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1286-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Adverse reaction reports may be vulnerable to manipulation
	Liza Gibson
	BMJ  2005;330:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1287 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch GPs strike over reforms
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;330:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1287-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Group aims to silence claims that vitamins are better than drugs for AIDS
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2005;330:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1288 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Age discrimination denies elderly people a "dignified death"
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;330:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1288-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Suicidal behaviour is not lessened by higher treatment rate, study shows
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;330:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1288-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Report calls for more community based health care in Scotland
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2005;330:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1288-c [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;330:1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1289 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Epidemiological modelling of routine use of low dose aspirin for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease and stroke in those aged 70
	Mark R Nelson, Danny Liew, Melanie Bertram, Theo Vos
	BMJ  2005;330:1306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38456.676806.8F, (Published 20 May 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Quality improvement reports

	Improving the quality of palliative care for ambulatory patients with lung cancer
	Christian von Plessen, Aslak Aslaksen
	BMJ  2005;330:1309-1313, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1309 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Poliomyelitis and the postpolio syndrome
	Robin S Howard
	BMJ  2005;330:1314-1318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1314 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	Commentary: Postpolio syndrome—"We aren't dead yet"
	Ruth Bridgens
	BMJ  2005;330:1318-1319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1318 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of conflict and disaster: Needs assessment of humanitarian crises
	Anthony D Redmond
	BMJ  2005;330:1320-1322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1320 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Ethics in practice: Sterilisation of young, competent, and childless adults
	Piers Benn, Martin Lupton
	BMJ  2005;330:1323-1325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1323 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	GMC and the future of revalidation: A way forward
	Mayur Lakhani
	BMJ  2005;330:1326-1328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1326 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	TV: Horizon: Does the MMR Jab Cause Autism?
	Domhnall MacAuley
	BMJ  2005;330:1335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1335 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Narrative Research in Health and Illness
	Christopher F C Jordens
	BMJ  2005;330:1336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1336 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Improve Health Care: Opportunities and Barriers
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2005;330:1336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1336-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Exercise or relaxation after stroke?
	Gillian Mead
	BMJ  2005;330:1337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1337 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Dangerous places
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2005;330:1337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1337-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1338 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Progestins prevent recurrence of preterm birth
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The road to fame
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;330:1300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1300 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2005;330:1302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The spitting nuisance
	BMJ  2005;330:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1305 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Satisfaction
	John Ruskin
	BMJ  2005;330:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1308 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The giggly girl
	Sundaram V Ramanan
	BMJ  2005;330:1313, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1313 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: Simulators
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2005;330:1319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1319 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A helpful patient
	John Mckenna, Kevin Mckenna
	BMJ  2005;330:1325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1325 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Importance of freedom in science
	G T Watts
	BMJ  2005;330:1328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1328 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2005;330:1333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1333-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Half of patients in intensive care receive suboptimal care
	BMJ  2005;330:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1293-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short Cuts: A single computed tomogram can rule out pulmonary embolus
	BMJ  2005;330:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1293-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	President Bush and Congress intervene in "right to die" case
	BMJ  2005;330:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1293-c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	GMC and the future of revalidation: building on the GMC's achievements
	BMJ  2005;330:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1293-d [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	I have been out of medicine for 13 years, busy having four children. How do I get back to work? So far my search has hit brick walls and much discouragement. I am 41 and feel I still have a lot to offer.
	Rebecca Viney
	BMJ  2005;330:s224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s224, (Published 4 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I have not worked in medicine for eight years and want to come back in a part time job—preferably term time. I don't have any postgraduate qualifications. Any advice?
	Anne Hastie
	BMJ  2005;330:s224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s224-a, (Published 4 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am a psychology student applying for a graduate course in medicine this September. What type of work experience would be appropriate before I start a medical course?
	Howard Clark
	BMJ  2005;330:s224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s224-b, (Published 4 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:gp225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.sgp225, (Published 4 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Training for GPs in sexual and reproductive health
	Richard Ma
	BMJ  2005;330:gp225-gp226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.sgp225-a, (Published 4 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:s225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s225, (Published 4 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A career in epidemiology
	Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  2005;330:s225-s226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s225-a, (Published 4 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning (DFFP)
	Ruth Smith
	BMJ  2005;330:gp226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.sgp226, (Published 4 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Educational opportunities for sessional GPs—a well kept secret
	Rebecca Viney
	BMJ  2005;330:gp227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.sgp227, (Published 4 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postgraduate Diploma in Epidemiology: Principles and Practice (PGDipEpid)
	Alia Rafey Faruqui
	BMJ  2005;330:s227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s227, (Published 4 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Answering multiple choice questions
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2005;330:s228-s229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s228, (Published 4 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;330:s229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s229, (Published 4 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Making the most of your transferable skills
	Adam J Poole
	BMJ  2005;330:s230-s231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s230, (Published 4 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Publishing a medical book
	Una Coales
	BMJ  2005;330:s231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s231, (Published 4 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Interactive surgery
	Stephen J Southern
	BMJ  2005;330:s232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s232, (Published 4 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cinemeducation: a comprehensive guide to using film in medical education
	Deana Midmer
	BMJ  2005;330:s232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.s232-a, (Published 4 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	David Somerset Short
	Robin Taylor, Mike Jones
	BMJ  2005;330:1333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1333 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Elizabeth Gladstone Archer
	Michael Archer
	BMJ  2005;330:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1334 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Crocker
	Kate Crocker
	BMJ  2005;330:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1334-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ali Abdel Razek Abd El-Hadi
	Paul Caviston
	BMJ  2005;330:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1334-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Brenda Grace King
	Robert Billings
	BMJ  2005;330:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1334-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Kai Lau
	Patricia Hamilton
	BMJ  2005;330:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1334-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Dennis Parker
	Philip Batman, Duncan Newton
	BMJ  2005;330:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1334-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Childhood cancer in relation to distance from high voltage power lines in England and Wales: a case-control study
	Gerald Draper, Tim Vincent, Mary E Kroll, John Swanson
	BMJ  2005;330:1290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1290 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Science commentary: Power to confuse
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2005;330:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1293 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Day care in infancy and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: findings from UK case-control study
	C Gilham, J Peto, J Simpson, E Roman, T O B Eden, M F Greaves, F E Alexander, for the UKCCS Investigators
	BMJ  2005;330:1294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38428.521042.8F, (Published 22 April 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost utility analysis of co-prescribed heroin compared with methadone maintenance treatment in heroin addicts in two randomised trials
	Marcel G W Dijkgraaf, Bart P van der Zanden, Corianne A J M de Borgie, Peter Blanken, Jan M van Ree, Wim van den Brink
	BMJ  2005;330:1297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1297 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Newly diagnosed HIV infections: review in UK and Ireland
	Ann K Sullivan, Hilary Curtis, Caroline A Sabin, Margaret A Johnson
	BMJ  2005;330:1301-1302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38398.590602.E0, (Published 13 May 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	HIV infections acquired through heterosexual intercourse in the United Kingdom: findings from national surveillance
	Sarah Dougan, Victoria L Gilbart, Katy Sinka, Barry G Evans
	BMJ  2005;330:1303-1304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38393.572188.EB, (Published 11 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	RESEARCH POINTERS: Metformin and reduced risk of cancer in diabetic patients
	Josie M M Evans, Louise A Donnelly, Alistair M Emslie-Smith, Dario R Alessi, Andrew D Morris
	BMJ  2005;330:1304-1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38415.708634.F7, (Published 22 April 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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