Find your voice and use it
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Epilepsy and schizophrenia may share common causes [Full text]

	Prevention of postpartum depression should start after delivery [Full text]

	French ethics committees should tackle publication bias [Full text]

	Open letter to Tony Blair about Africa [Full text]

	CRP should not guide antibiotic prescription in pneumonia [Full text]

	Globalisation is imposing Western views of mental health [Full text]

Editorials

	The future of health care in Africa
	Lola Dare, Eric Buch
	BMJ  2005;331:1-2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.1 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Stopping Africa's medical brain drain
	James Johnson
	BMJ  2005;331:2-3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do white British children and adolescents get enough sunlight?
	Brian Diffey
	BMJ  2005;331:3-4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.3 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug safety and regulation
	Patrick C Waller, Stephen J W Evans, Keith Beard
	BMJ  2005;331:4-5, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.4 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Attempts to prevent postnatal depression
	Judith Lumley
	BMJ  2005;331:5-6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.5 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Two additional references]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	A farewell to alms
	Jeremiah Norris
	BMJ  2005;331:48, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.48 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developed world is robbing Africa of health staff: New ways of delivering health care are needed in developing countries
	Malcolm MacLachlan, Eilish Mc Auliffe
	BMJ  2005;331:48, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.48-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developed world is robbing Africa of health staff: There are no easy answers
	Nuhu Usman
	BMJ  2005;331:48-49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.48-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developed world is robbing Africa of health staff: Health of nations needs more than health professionals
	Ebrahim Hassen
	BMJ  2005;331:49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.49 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Damage v ability to cope shapes need for disaster aid
	Kelechi E Nnoaham
	BMJ  2005;331:49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.49-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aid after disasters: Economic considerations tend to take priority
	Awori J Hayanga
	BMJ  2005;331:49-50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.49-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aid after disasters: Evidence for psychosocial services needs strengthening
	Debarati Guha-Sapir, Wilbert van Panhuis, Joel Lagoutte
	BMJ  2005;331:50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.50 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with the aftermath of trauma: NICE guidelines on post-traumatic stress disorder have fundamental flaw
	Derek A Summerfield
	BMJ  2005;331:50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.50-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with the aftermath of trauma: Authors' reply
	Berthold P R Gersons, Miranda Olff
	BMJ  2005;331:50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.50-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Poorer countries will not meet health targets, warns WHO
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.7 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	American Medical Association rejects proposal to ban consumer adverts for prescription medicines
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;331:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.7-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.8 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Israeli doctors want to stop European patent for genetic test
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2005;331:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.8-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK government consults on primary care
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.8-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA annual representative meeting, Manchester, 27 June to 30 June: NHS doctors can work in independent treatment centres, UK health minister announces
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.9 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	BMA annual representative meeting, Manchester, 27 June to 30 June: Doctors to consider scrubs to reduce infection
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.9-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	BMA annual representative meeting, Manchester, 27 June to 30 June: BMA condemns competition and payment by results in NHS
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2005;331:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.9-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	American Medical Association fights pharmacists who won't dispense contraceptives
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.11-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Prioritising neglected diseases related to poverty
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2005;331:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.12 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Use of antiviral drug in poultry is blamed for drug resistant strains of avian flu
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2005;331:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.10 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Cancer guidelines from NICE aim to reduce variation in referral times
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.10-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Tobacco industry deliberately targets young people in Taiwan
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.10-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	One in three NHS trusts face cash shortfall this financial year
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;331:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.10-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Campaign to deliver AIDS drugs to 3 million will miss end of year target
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2005;331:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.10-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Developing countries may not get benefits of GM food
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2005;331:11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.11 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Complaints handling must improve in UK trusts
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;331:11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.11-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Further action taken on COX 2 inhibitors in Europe
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2005;331:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.12-a [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA Annual representative meeting, Manchester, 27 - 30 June: Tony Blair�s best legacy would be to ban smoking in public places, says BMA chairman
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2005;331:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.12-b [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA Annual representative meeting, Manchester, 27 - 30 June: NHS Direct and NHS 24 condemned as flawed by BMA conference
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2005;331:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.12-c [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA Annual representative meeting, Manchester, 27 - 30 June: UK hospitals must be staffed without "rape" of the developing world, says BMA chairman
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.12-d [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA Annual representative meeting, Manchester, 27 - 30 June: NICE undermines doctors� clinical freedom, say BMA representatives
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.12-e [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA Annual representative meeting, Manchester, 27 - 30 June: BMA conference fails to approve motion to abolish charges for BMJ online
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.12-f [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;331:13-14, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.13 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Diagnostic value of C reactive protein in infections of the lower respiratory tract: systematic review
	Victor van der Meer, Arie Knuistingh Neven, Peterhans J van den Broek, Willem J J Assendelft
	BMJ  2005;331:26, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38483.478183.EB, (Published 24 June 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional tables] FREE

Clinical review

	Management and referral for trigger finger/thumb
	Sohail Akhtar, Mary J Bradley, David N Quinton, Frank D Burke
	BMJ  2005;331:30-33, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.30 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	ABC of conflict and disaster: The special needs of children and women
	John Seaman, Sarah Maguire
	BMJ  2005;331:34-36, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.34 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Effect of globalisation on children's mental health
	Sami Timimi
	BMJ  2005;331:37-39, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.37 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Global consumption and the challenge to pharmaceutical governance in the United Kingdom
	Nick Fox, Katie Ward
	BMJ  2005;331:40-42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.40 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing medical migration from poor countries
	Omar B Ahmad
	BMJ  2005;331:43-45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.43 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Open letter to Tony Blair on publication of the report of the Commission for Africa
	Chris Lavy
	BMJ  2005;331:46-47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.46 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Journal: A right royal spat
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2005;331:53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2005;331:54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Art: Hospital at the Venice Biennale
	Colin Martin
	BMJ  2005;331:54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.54-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Radio: The Real Frasiers
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2005;331:55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Panorama: Dead Mums Don't Cry
	Jim Neilson
	BMJ  2005;331:55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.55-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Dispatches: Living with AIDS
	Joanna Busza
	BMJ  2005;331:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: Filmmaker focuses on female infanticide
	Sanjit Bagchi
	BMJ  2005;331:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.56-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: India: no homosexuals here
	Balaji Ravichandran
	BMJ  2005;331:57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Who measures the Holy Dread?
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2005;331:57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.57-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.58 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Anaemia doesn't predict iron deficiency among toddlers
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Modern improvements in medicine
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;331:22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.22 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	People who influenced my practice
	John Lunn
	BMJ  2005;331:33, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.33 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The latest panacea
	BMJ  2005;331:39, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.39 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Just lucky
	Henry Alexander
	BMJ  2005;331:42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.42 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Randomised controlled trials for the BMJ need to be registered
	BMJ  2005;331:45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.45 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Our greatest skill
	Ivor Hughes
	BMJ  2005;331:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2005;331:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.52-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	The euthanasia debate has meant that I have become increasingly interested in ethics. Could you tell me what distance learning courses on medical ethics are available please?
	Justine McCulloch
	BMJ  2005;331:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s2, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Are student electives equivalent to clinical attachments? Which is better on a CV, and which helps more in finding UK SHO posts?
	Faisal Hanif
	BMJ  2005;331:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s2-a, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am currently half way through an SHO medical rotation, but am finding the demands of hospital hours and motherhood increasingly difficult. I am considering taking a 2-3 year career break, but, as a single mother, will need to work part time to support my baby and myself. I would be grateful if you could please offer some advice on any medically related jobs (or jobs I can do with a medical degree) that might be appropriate.
	Ruth Chambers
	BMJ  2005;331:s2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s2-b, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:gp3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.sgp3, (Published 2 July 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Intermediate care—how to reduce hospital admissions
	Simon Auty
	BMJ  2005;331:gp3-gp4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.sgp3-a, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:s3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s3, (Published 2 July 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A career in paediatrics
	Ramya Venkatraman
	BMJ  2005;331:s3-s4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s3-a, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Keeping a balance
	Michael Barber
	BMJ  2005;331:s5-s6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s5, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;331:s6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s6, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Personal support 3: How to help someone achieve balance in their working and personal lives
	Anita Houghton
	BMJ  2005;331:s7-s8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s7, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma in the medical care of catastrophes (DMCC)
	Peter Shirley
	BMJ  2005;331:s9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s9, (Published 2 July 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Making poverty history
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2005;331:s10-s11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s10, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A cult pop doc
	John Bonner
	BMJ  2005;331:s12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.s12, (Published 2 July 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Alan Williams
	Alan Maynard
	BMJ  2005;331:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.51 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Paper on the economics of ...]

	Ian Campbell Coombs
	John Young, Paul Davis, A T B Moir
	BMJ  2005;331:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.52 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Denis Edward Fletcher
	Anne Hobbs, Charles Fletcher
	BMJ  2005;331:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.52-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Muriel Mallalieu Hughes
	Helen Mair
	BMJ  2005;331:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.52-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Stefano Olivieri
	Christine Platz
	BMJ  2005;331:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.52-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alexander Mitchell Stalker
	Henry B Goodall
	BMJ  2005;331:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.52-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thomas Scott Wilson
	Struan Robertson, George Forwell, Daniel Reid
	BMJ  2005;331:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.52-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Psychosocial and psychological interventions for prevention of postnatal depression: systematic review
	Cindy-Lee Dennis
	BMJ  2005;331:15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7507.15 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fate of biomedical research protocols and publication bias in France: retrospective cohort study
	Evelyne Decullier, Véronique Lhéritier, François Chapuis
	BMJ  2005;331:19, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38488.385995.8F, (Published 20 June 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk for schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like psychosis among patients with epilepsy: population based cohort study
	Ping Qin, Huilan Xu, Thomas Munk Laursen, Mogens Vestergaard, Preben Bo Mortensen
	BMJ  2005;331:23, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38488.462037.8F, (Published 17 June 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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BMA debates euthanasia, abortion, electronic records and torture [Full text]

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