Make up your own minds
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	We need more evidence on ultrasound screening for DDH [Full text]

	Giving birth: home can be better than hospital [Full text]

	Perioperative care needs updating [Full text]

	Should everyone over 50 take aspirin prophylaxis? [Full text]

	Existing data could be used to better assess NHS performance [Full text]

	Use 4% dimeticone for head lice [Full text]

Editorials

	Growth charts for babies
	Charlotte M Wright
	BMJ  2005;330:1399-1400, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1399 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Strontium ranelate for the treatment of osteoporosis
	Ignac Fogelman, Glen M Blake
	BMJ  2005;330:1400-1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1400 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Reducing variation in surgical care
	David R Urbach, Nancy N Baxter
	BMJ  2005;330:1401-1402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1401 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Buruli ulcer
	Mark Wansbrough-Jones, Richard Phillips
	BMJ  2005;330:1402-1403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1402 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation
	Alice Murray, Roy Pounder, Hugh Mather, Carol Black
	BMJ  2005;330:1404, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1404 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	The General Medical Council and the future of revalidation: GMC member responds
	Brian D Keighley
	BMJ  2005;330:1446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The General Medical Council and the future of revalidation: Revalidation, discretionary points, clinical excellence awards—steps on the same ladder
	Anton E A Joseph
	BMJ  2005;330:1446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1446-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The General Medical Council and the future of revalidation: GMC prepares to deliver notable improvements
	Amanda Watson
	BMJ  2005;330:1446-1447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1446-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The General Medical Council and the future of revalidation: Regulation, regulation, regulation
	Michael O'Donnell
	BMJ  2005;330:1447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1447 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The General Medical Council and the future of revalidation: Profession needs to debate regulator's role
	Olusola O A Oni
	BMJ  2005;330:1447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1447-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The General Medical Council and the future of revalidation: Revalidation process would not pass appraisal
	Roger A Fisken
	BMJ  2005;330:1447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1447-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Underwater birth and neonatal respiratory distress: Case report does not constitute reliable evidence
	Elizabeth Cluett, Rona McCandlish, Ethel Burns, Cheryl Nikodem
	BMJ  2005;330:1447-1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1447-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Underwater birth and neonatal respiratory distress: Authors' reply
	Zainab Kassim, Anne Greenough, Maria Sellars
	BMJ  2005;330:1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1448 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Was Rodney Ledward a statistical outlier?: Initial investigations of outliers must be chosen carefully
	C Kevin Connolly
	BMJ  2005;330:1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1448-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Was Rodney Ledward a statistical outlier?: Statistical method may be difficult to apply in clinical practice
	Benjamin J Cowling, Anthony J Hedley
	BMJ  2005;330:1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1448-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Was Rodney Ledward a statistical outlier?: Authors' reply
	Mike Harley, John Yates, Mohammed A Mohammed, Shakir Hussain, Abdullah Almasri
	BMJ  2005;330:1448-1449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1448-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Was Rodney Ledward a statistical outlier?: Ledward's managers knew for 10 years that he was a risk
	Nigel Dudley
	BMJ  2005;330:1449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1449 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis: Exercise was not mentioned
	Alan W Fowler
	BMJ  2005;330:1449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1449-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis: Author's reply
	Jean-Yves Reginster
	BMJ  2005;330:1449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1449-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Some patients stop treatment when variables improve
	K Kain, A J Catto
	BMJ  2005;330:1449-1450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1449-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incomprehensible consent forms: Plain English is important
	Robert Dingwall
	BMJ  2005;330:1450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1450 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incomprehensible consent forms: Child friendly consent forms lead the way
	Katherine Curtis, Helen Roberts
	BMJ  2005;330:1450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1450-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SARS changed medical dress code
	Peter K K Au-Yeung
	BMJ  2005;330:1450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1450-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The tide of prescribing for depression is turning
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2005;330:1450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1450-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Italians fail to overturn restrictive reproduction law
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2005;330:1405, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1405 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;330:1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1406 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Article removed after US complains it could help terrorists
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1406-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Red meat increases risk of colorectal cancer
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1406-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	G8 cancels debt of the world's poorest countries
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:1407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1407 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	PFI deals need more scrutiny after shareholders receive big windfalls
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2005;330:1407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1407-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Appeal launched to step up research and development for neglected diseases
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2005;330:1409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1409-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug regulator criticised for error in reporting consultation results
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:1410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1410 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Debt ridden trust has no cash to pay creditors
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2005;330:1410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1410-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Canadian Supreme Court upholds right to take out private health insurance
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;330:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1408 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Mental health should have same priority as physical health
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1408-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US woman gives birth to daughter after transplant of ovarian tissue from her twin
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1408-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US Supreme Court says no to medical marijuana
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1408-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Local control over foundation trusts is "rhetoric"
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2005;330:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1408-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Netherlands approves introduction of competition into health service
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;330:1409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1409 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	HIV infections in the US pass one million
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2005;330:1409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1409-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Living near a nuclear power station doesn't increase a child's cancer risk
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2005;330:1410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1410-b [Extract] [Full text]

	More information needed on risks of over the counter drugs
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2005;330:1410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1410-c [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2005;330:1411-1412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1411 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Treatment of head louse infestation with 4% dimeticone lotion: randomised controlled equivalence trial
	Ian F Burgess, Christine M Brown, Peter N Lee
	BMJ  2005;330:1423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38497.506481.8F, (Published 10 June 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: French translation] FREE

Information in practice

	Creative use of existing clinical and health outcomes data to assess NHS performance in England: Part 1—performance indicators closely linked to clinical care
	Azim Lakhani, James Coles, Daniel Eayres, Craig Spence, Bernard Rachet
	BMJ  2005;330:1426-1431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1426 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra technical details] FREE

Clinical review

	Basic transthoracic echocardiography
	Graham S Hillis, Peter Bloomfield
	BMJ  2005;330:1432-1436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1432 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details]

	ABC of conflict and disaster: Military approach to medical planning in humanitarian operations
	Martin C M Bricknell, Tracey MacCormack
	BMJ  2005;330:1437-1439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	For and against: Aspirin for everyone older than 50?: FOR
	Peter Elwood, Gareth Morgan, Ginevra Brown, Janet Pickering
	BMJ  2005;330:1440-1441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1440 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	For and against: Aspirin for everyone older than 50?: AGAINST
	Colin Baigent
	BMJ  2005;330:1442-1443, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1442 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC and the future of revalidation: Obstacles to maintaining licensure in the United States
	Frances E Cain, Regina M Benjamin, James N Thompson
	BMJ  2005;330:1443-1445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1443 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: Don't Fence Me In. From Curse to Cure: Leprosy in Modern Times
	Bhushan Kumar
	BMJ  2005;330:1453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1453 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Surgeon's Rhyme: A Memoir; Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctor's Practice in the Smoky Mountains
	Domhnall MacAuley
	BMJ  2005;330:1454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1454 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Doctors as Patients
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2005;330:1454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1454-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Disabled as a medical student, enabled as a doctor
	Daniel Maughan
	BMJ  2005;330:1455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1455 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Knight duty
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2005;330:1455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1455-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1456 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Milk intake correlates with increased risk of acne in women
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A foretaste
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2005;330:1415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1415 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Taking histories—theft by clinicians
	Susan M Wearne
	BMJ  2005;330:1421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1421 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"Design a Polymeal" competition winner
	BMJ  2005;330:1422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1422 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: An egotistical and dictatorial style
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;330:1425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1425 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The last Decalogue
	J A Hicklin
	BMJ  2005;330:1431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1431 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: ...or two
	David A Churchill
	BMJ  2005;330:1436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1436 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2005;330:1445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1445 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Paying for bmj.com
	BMJ  2005;330:1419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1419 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	I have just come back from work after a day of being bullied. I cannot carry on like this any longer and I feel I need help. Could you suggest anything?
	Rebecca Viney
	BMJ  2005;330:s244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s244, (Published 18 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I have just come back from work after a day of being bullied. I cannot carry on like this any longer and I feel I need help. Could you suggest anything?
	Dan Saunders
	BMJ  2005;330:s244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s244-a, (Published 18 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:gp245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.sgp245, (Published 18 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What do your staff really think of you?
	Judith Harvey
	BMJ  2005;330:gp245-gp246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.sgp245-a, (Published 18 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;330:s245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s245, (Published 18 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A career in ophthalmology
	Rakesh Jayasawal
	BMJ  2005;330:s245-s246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s245-a, (Published 18 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commuting by bike
	Maire Cooney
	BMJ  2005;330:gp246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.sgp246, (Published 18 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors and the art of time wasting
	Susan E Kersley
	BMJ  2005;330:s247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s247, (Published 18 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Personal support 1: Why is it important and how do you find it?
	Anita Houghton
	BMJ  2005;330:s248-s249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s248, (Published 18 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;330:s249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s249, (Published 18 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	International family medicine
	Huw Morgan
	BMJ  2005;330:gp250-gp251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.sgp250, (Published 18 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to teach and learn under the European Working Time Directive
	Bharati Sinha, Sanjay Kumar
	BMJ  2005;330:s250-s251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s250, (Published 18 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Educational feedback for trainers and trainees
	Helen C Richardson
	BMJ  2005;330:s250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s250-a, (Published 18 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	OSCEs in Psychiatry
	Maire Cooney
	BMJ  2005;330:s251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s251, (Published 18 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Public health still has power to influence
	Rod Griffiths
	BMJ  2005;330:s252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s252, (Published 18 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	"Lost boys" to clean up the leadership mess
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  2005;330:s252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s252-a, (Published 18 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Refreshingly non-pc—but honest
	Alan A Woodall
	BMJ  2005;330:s252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.s252-b, (Published 18 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	David Tyrrell
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;330:1451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1451 [Extract] [Full text]

	Jack Stanley Gibson
	S C Kohli, Andrew Gibb
	BMJ  2005;330:1452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1452 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Stanley Cant
	Wallace S Foulds
	BMJ  2005;330:1452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1452-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Cedric Jones
	Adrian Jones
	BMJ  2005;330:1452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1452-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Norman Travers Pollitt
	A Holmes Pickering
	BMJ  2005;330:1452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1452-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Arthur Philip Booth Waind
	Malcolm Palmer
	BMJ  2005;330:1452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1452-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Ultrasonography in screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in newborns: systematic review
	Nerys F Woolacott, Milo A Puhan, Johann Steurer, Jos Kleijnen
	BMJ  2005;330:1413, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38450.646088.E0, (Published 1 June 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Two further tables] FREE

	Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America
	Kenneth C Johnson, Betty-Anne Daviss
	BMJ  2005;330:1416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1416 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Spanish translation][extra: French translation][extra: German translation][extra: English large print version] FREE

	Patterns in current perioperative practice: survey of colorectal surgeons in five northern European countries
	Kristoffer Lassen, Pascal Hannemann, Olle Ljungqvist, Ken Fearon, Cornelis H C Dejong, Maarten F von Meyenfeldt, Jonatan Hausel, Jonas Nygren, Jens Andersen, Arthur Revhaug, on behalf of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Group
	BMJ  2005;330:1420-1421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38478.568067.AE, (Published 23 May 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Fuller version of the table] FREE

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