Let's call it cardiac impairment
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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	Telephone education reduces readmission for chronic heart failure [Full text]

	Mobile phones increase risk of having a road crash [Full text]

	Black people are more likely to survive a stroke than white people [Full text]

	Cognitive behaviour therapy reduces symptom severity of irritable bowel syndrome [Full text]

	Studies that find publication bias are no more likely to be published than studies that don't [Full text]

Editorials

	H5N1 influenza and the implications for Europe
	Denis Coulombier, Karl Ekdahl
	BMJ  2005;331:413-414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.413 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Survival after stroke in south London
	Cathie Sudlow
	BMJ  2005;331:414-415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.414 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiac impairment or heart failure?
	Richard Lehman, Jenny Doust, Paul Glasziou
	BMJ  2005;331:415-416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.415 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing severe infection after splenectomy
	Adrian Newland, Drew Provan, Steven Myint
	BMJ  2005;331:417-418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.417 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical needs of immigrant populations
	Shahid Anis Khan, Partha Ghosh
	BMJ  2005;331:418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.418 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Prognosis in obesity: Older people should not be misinformed about being overweight
	Renuka Visvanathan, Ian Chapman
	BMJ  2005;331:452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.452 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prognosis in obesity: Obstacles must be removed to prevent obesity through increased physical activity
	Erik Hemmingsson
	BMJ  2005;331:452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.452-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prognosis in obesity: Obesity in severe mental illness poses particular problems
	Paul Mackin, Allan H Young
	BMJ  2005;331:452-453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.452-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prognosis in obesity: Author's reply
	M E J Lean
	BMJ  2005;331:453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.453 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2005;331:453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.453-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: Early feeding is crucial target for preventing obesity in children
	Iain E Buchan, Richard F Heller, Peter Clayton, Peter E Bundred, Tim J Cole
	BMJ  2005;331:453-454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.453-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: Authors' reply
	John J Reilly, Julie Armstrong, Pauline Emmett, Andy Ness, Andrea Sherriff
	BMJ  2005;331:454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.454 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Problem is probably greater for women
	Alan J Goble
	BMJ  2005;331:454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.454-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Dietary fat and sugar may hold the clue
	Naji Tabet
	BMJ  2005;331:454-455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.454-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Midlife obesity increases risk of future dementia
	George Razay, Anthea Vreugdenhil
	BMJ  2005;331:455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.455 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Authors' reply
	Rachel Whitmer, Charles P Quesenberry, Jr, Kristine Yaffe
	BMJ  2005;331:455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.455-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Include measurement of waist circumference in GP contract
	David Haslam
	BMJ  2005;331:455-456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.455-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Six additional authors]

	Audit is important part of drug safety and regulation
	Michael I Carter, Jane Murkin
	BMJ  2005;331:456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dissemination of results needs to be tracked as well as the funding is
	James McCormack, Peter Loewen, Peter Jewesson
	BMJ  2005;331:456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.456-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Disparities in health widen between rich and poor in England
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.419 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.420 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Charity challenges US "anti-prostitution" restriction
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2005;331:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.420-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US drug industry's guidelines on advertising too limited, say critics
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2005;331:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.420-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	UK government responds to call for change in reproduction technology
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.421 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Reading the bones
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.421-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Aid agencies ignored special needs of elderly people after tsunami
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2005;331:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.422 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Agencies scale up African relief
	Chibuzo Odigwe
	BMJ  2005;331:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.422-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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	US group lobbies UN to outlaw male circumcision
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.422-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada tries once more to set public health goals
	Barbara Kermode-Scott
	BMJ  2005;331:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.422-c [Extract] [Full text]

	US groups set standards of outpatient care
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.422-d [Extract] [Full text]

	UK sperm banks fail to meet WHO standards
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.422-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Indian Supreme Court ruling makes arrest of doctors harder
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2005;331:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.422-f [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO conference calls for health promotion to be at centre of development
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2005;331:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.422-g [Extract] [Full text]

	Risk of death from heart attack varies according to when patients arrive at hospital, study finds
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;331:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.422-h [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2005;331:423-424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.423 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Cognitive behaviour therapy in addition to antispasmodic treatment for irritable bowel syndrome in primary care: randomised controlled trial
	Tom Kennedy, Roger Jones, Simon Darnley, Paul Seed, Simon Wessely, Trudie Chalder
	BMJ  2005;331:435, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38545.505764.06, (Published 10 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Red eye
	Sharon K Bal, Gary R Hollingworth
	BMJ  2005;331:438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.438 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Evidence based case report: Should a patient with primary intracerebral haemorrhage receive antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy?
	Mushtaq Wani, Emma Nga, Ranjini Navaratnasingham
	BMJ  2005;331:439-442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.439 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	ABC of asthma: Prevalence
	John Rees
	BMJ  2005;331:443-445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.443 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Need for differential discounting of costs and health effects in cost effectiveness analyses
	Werner B F Brouwer, Louis W Niessen, Maarten J Postma, Frans F H Rutten
	BMJ  2005;331:446-448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.446 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Malpractice in Mexico: arbitration not litigation
	Carlos Tena-Tamayo, Julio Sotelo
	BMJ  2005;331:448-451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.448 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Art: Hearwear: The Future of Hearing
	Colin Martin
	BMJ  2005;331:459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.459 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative; Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market
	Ewen Harrison, Steve McNally, John Forsythe
	BMJ  2005;331:460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.460 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Press red button, donate kidney
	Joanna Lyall
	BMJ  2005;331:461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.461 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: The Constant Gardener
	Jeanner Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;331:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.462 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hit parade
	BMJ  2005;331:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.462-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: The finger, the foot, my bone cancer
	Nick Taffinder
	BMJ  2005;331:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.463 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Looking sideways
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2005;331:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.463-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.464 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Antibiotics aren't needed for lower respiratory tract infection
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A case of mouth in foot disease
	Jason Raw, Naseer Naqvi
	BMJ  2005;331:427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.427 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable doctor
	David Haldane
	BMJ  2005;331:434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.434 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Hajj: journey of a lifetime
	BMJ  2005;331:442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.442 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Researcher fined for shredding records
	BMJ  2005;331:442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.442-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	UK stops short of outright smoking ban in enclosed public places
	BMJ  2005;331:442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.442-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	What is the best way to respond to this interview question: why do you want to work in this hospital?
	Shaaz Mahboob
	BMJ  2005;331:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s82, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is it mandatory to complete the three parts of the MRCP exam in order to be able to apply for an SHO post in dermatology or would MRCP part 1 be enough?
	John Lear
	BMJ  2005;331:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s82-a, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What is the difference between neuropathology and histopathology?
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  2005;331:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s82-b, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How can I apply for clinical attachments in the United Kingdom to prepare for the PLAB test part 2?
	Jo Constable
	BMJ  2005;331:s82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s82-c, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;331:gp83, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.sgp83, (Published 20 August 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General practice in prisons
	Cliff Howells
	BMJ  2005;331:gp83-gp84, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.sgp83-a, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;331:s83, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s83, (Published 20 August 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Anaesthesia
	Griselda Cooper
	BMJ  2005;331:s83-s85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s83-a, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Should doctors charge patients for missed appointments?
	Sue Minns
	BMJ  2005;331:gp85-gp86, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.sgp85, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma in Anaesthesia, Trauma, and Critical Care (Dip ATACC)
	David Southern
	BMJ  2005;331:s85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s85, (Published 20 August 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;331:gp86, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.sgp86, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to pass the FRCA
	Barry McGuire
	BMJ  2005;331:s86-s87, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s86, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Grumpy old doctors: Appointments
	Brian Keighley
	BMJ  2005;331:gp87, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.sgp87, (Published 20 August 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Work based assessment
	Helena Davies
	BMJ  2005;331:s88-s89, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s88, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SHOs: the lost tribe?
	Kaji Sritharan
	BMJ  2005;331:s90-s91, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s90, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is there a problem with NHS workforce planning?
	Simon Eccles
	BMJ  2005;331:s92, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s92, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is there a problem with NHS workforce planning?
	Shelley Heard
	BMJ  2005;331:s92, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.s92-a, (Published 20 August 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Paddy Donaldson
	Sammy Lee
	BMJ  2005;331:457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.457 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Guy Daynes
	Robin Finlay
	BMJ  2005;331:457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.457-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Anthony Brendan Field
	Clive Kelly
	BMJ  2005;331:458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.458 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Kenneth Edward Gray
	Adrian Barnes
	BMJ  2005;331:458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.458-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Michael John Grayson
	Ian Stewart
	BMJ  2005;331:458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.458-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Eric Kurt Ledermann
	David Sturgeon, Elizabeth Sturgeon
	BMJ  2005;331:458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.458-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Leslie
	Philip Roberts, Alec Black
	BMJ  2005;331:458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.458-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Freda Susanne Reed
	Tom Reed, Jacquie Reed
	BMJ  2005;331:458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7514.458-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Randomised trial of telephone intervention in chronic heart failure: DIAL trial
	GESICA Investigators
	BMJ  2005;331:425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38516.398067.E0, (Published 1 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: A list of investigators] FREE

	Role of mobile phones in motor vehicle crashes resulting in hospital attendance: a case-crossover study
	Suzanne P McEvoy, Mark R Stevenson, Anne T McCartt, Mark Woodward, Claire Haworth, Peter Palamara, Rina Cercarelli
	BMJ  2005;331:428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38537.397512.55, (Published 12 July 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Survival differences after stroke in a multiethnic population: follow-up study with the south London stroke register
	Charles D A Wolfe, Nigel C Smeeton, Catherine Coshall, Kate Tilling, Anthony G Rudd
	BMJ  2005;331:431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38510.458218.8F, (Published 29 July 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Kaplan-Meier curves] FREE

	Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias
	Hans-Hermann Dubben, Hans-Peter Beck-Bornholdt
	BMJ  2005;331:433-434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38478.497164.F7, (Published 3 June 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References for the 26 studies] FREE

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