Uncomfortable findings
	Fiona Godlee
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This week in the BMJ

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

	More melanomas are caught early in the US [Full text]

	Flocculant-disinfection gives best results in Kenya [Full text]

	Smoking ban proposed in the UK may worsen health inequalities [Full text]

	Nurse led programmes don't improve COPD [Full text]

	Hypertension can be monitored by patients [Full text]

	Systematic reviews should assess quality of RCT interventions [Full text]

Editorials

	Foundation programme for newly qualified doctors
	Richard Hays
	BMJ  2005;331:465-466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.465 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Self monitoring of high blood pressure
	J Carel Bakx, Mark C van der Wel, Chris van Weel
	BMJ  2005;331:466-467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.466 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Coronary heart disease in women
	Ghada W Mikhail
	BMJ  2005;331:467-468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.467 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clean drinking water for homes in Africa and other less developed countries
	James K Tumwine
	BMJ  2005;331:468-469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Avoiding rabies
	Derrick Pounder
	BMJ  2005;331:469-470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.469 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: New on-call rotas do not work
	Nicholas Akerman
	BMJ  2005;331:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.514 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: No easy solution exists
	Sashidhar Yeluri, Guneesh Dadayal
	BMJ  2005;331:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.514-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: European directive seems not to apply to doctors' hours in rest of European Union
	John J Atkinson
	BMJ  2005;331:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.514-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: Pendulum is still swinging
	Andrew Short
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	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: "Weeks of nights" give the illusion of working fewer hours
	Arvindan Veiraiah
	BMJ  2005;331:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: Please make on-call rooms available to doctors at night
	George I Varughese
	BMJ  2005;331:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital formularies restrict evidence based practice
	Joseph Kwan
	BMJ  2005;331:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Withdrawal of co-proxamol: Drug was useful in gastroenterology as well as rheumatology...
	Peter J Whorwell
	BMJ  2005;331:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Withdrawal of co-proxamol: ... and its withdrawal is illogical
	Matthew L Grove
	BMJ  2005;331:515-516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Nothing counts except what is in front of the clinician to use
	Steven Ford
	BMJ  2005;331:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.516 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Clinicians are becoming increasingly more influential
	Tony M Penney
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	Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Problems are inevitable but goal is worth while
	Robert J Young
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	Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Computerised medical history is key to connecting health
	Huw Llewelyn
	BMJ  2005;331:516-517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.516-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Obituary was historically inaccurate
	David M Dent
	BMJ  2005;331:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.517 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Author's reply
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;331:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.517-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Clarification is certainly needed
	Mike Ebdy
	BMJ  2005;331:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.517-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Richard Doll's socialism did not please everyone
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;331:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.517-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Merck faces ongoing claims after Texan ruling on rofecoxib
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.471 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.472 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Parents of disabled baby lose appeal against court order
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.472-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US National Institutes of Health issue new ethics guidelines
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.472-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	South African doctors arrested in kidney sale scandal
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2005;331:473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.473 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch murder case leads to talks with attorney general
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;331:473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.473-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA warns against unnecessary screening tests in private sector
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.475-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Half a million Americans use methamphetamine every week
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2005;331:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.476 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Chronic pain is poorly managed
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.476-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Prison officers had no sign of Shipman's suicidal tendencies
	Kaye McIntosh
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	UN millennium health goals will not be achieved, report warns
	Paul Ress
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	"Catastrophic" violence continues unchecked in Somalia
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Canadian antismoking law is watered down
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GPs' diagnoses of type II diabetes rose by 50% in 10 years, study shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Global Fund pulls grants to Myanmar and Uganda
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.475 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Plans for genetic testing of German civil servants stirs controversy
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2005;331:475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.475-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Floods in Darfur prompt precautions against epidemic
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;331:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.476-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Results of publicly funded research should be available to all, says web creator
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.476-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2005;331:477, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.477 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Targets and self monitoring in hypertension: randomised controlled trial and cost effectiveness analysis
	R J McManus, J Mant, A Roalfe, R A Oakes, S Bryan, H M Pattison, F D R Hobbs
	BMJ  2005;331:493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38558.393669.E0, (Published 22 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10 minute consultation: Childhood eczema
	Miriam Santer, Sue Lewis-Jones, Tom Fahey
	BMJ  2005;331:497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.497 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea: diagnosis and treatment
	John Starr
	BMJ  2005;331:498-501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.498 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Paralytic rabies after a two week holiday in India
	Tom Solomon, Denise Marston, Macpherson Mallewa, Tim Felton, Steve Shaw, Lorraine M McElhinney, Kumar Das, Karen Mansfield, Jane Wainwright, Georges Ng Man Kwong, Anthony R Fooks
	BMJ  2005;331:501-503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.501 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	ABC of asthma: Methods of delivering drugs
	John Rees
	BMJ  2005;331:504-506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.504 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Analysis of quality of interventions in systematic reviews
	Robert D Herbert, Kari Bø
	BMJ  2005;331:507-509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.507 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	International maternal health indicators and middle-income countries: Russia
	Justin O Parkhurst, Kirill Danischevski, Dina Balabanova
	BMJ  2005;331:510-513, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.510 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: Paternity: A Story of Assisted Conception; Double Trouble: A Story of Assisted Reproduction; Vacant Possession: A Story of Proxy Decision Making
	John Gillies
	BMJ  2005;331:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.520 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: The Island
	Jason O'Neale Roach
	BMJ  2005;331:521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.521 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: League tables for health journalists
	Naomi Marks
	BMJ  2005;331:521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.521-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2005;331:522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.522 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Do we really know the law about students and patient consent?
	Alexander S J Shaw
	BMJ  2005;331:522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.522-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Calling a spade a spade
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2005;331:523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.523 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: My pelvis and I
	James Owen Drife
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Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.524 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Vitamin E, donepezil don't slow progression of mild cognitive impairment
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	Crying wolf
	Arunachalam Kumar
	BMJ  2005;331:484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.484 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: Speak clearly to the bogey man
	Erle CH Lim
	BMJ  2005;331:492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.492 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Gluttonous friends
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;331:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.503 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: What a stroke
	Umair Ansari, James Crampton
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Corrections

	Short Cuts
	BMJ  2005;331:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.496 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The future of health care in Africa
	BMJ  2005;331:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.496-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editor's Choice
	BMJ  2005;331:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.496-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hamilton Naki
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-f [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	I have been a part time GP for five years and no longer wish to continue. I would like to cross over into psychology, but I am clueless how to do this as I would have to continue working while training and I have three young children. Any advice would be appreciated.
	Ruth Chambers
	BMJ  2005;331:s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s94, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What are the criteria for being awarded discretionary pay awards for staff grades and associate specialists?
	Romeh Gupta
	BMJ  2005;331:s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s94-a, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is there any chance for an overseas doctor to get the speciality in nuclear medicine in UK? Indeed, is there any SHO post in this field there?
	John Frank
	BMJ  2005;331:s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s94-b, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am an Italian doctor. Could you explain what positions such as trust doctor, staff grade, and so on actually mean?
	Simon Eccles
	BMJ  2005;331:s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s94-c, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:gp95, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.sgp95, (Published 3 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Becoming a police surgeon
	Peter Crouch
	BMJ  2005;331:gp95-gp96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.sgp95-a, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:s95, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s95, (Published 3 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Choosing a career in acute medicine
	Mike Jones
	BMJ  2005;331:s95-s96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s95-a, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Conducting your own house officer ward round
	Arif Aslam
	BMJ  2005;331:s96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s96, (Published 3 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	To serve or not to serve?
	Alan Campion
	BMJ  2005;331:s97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s97, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
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	Golden age or false dawn for GPs?
	Allison Barrett
	BMJ  2005;331:gp98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.sgp98, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I'm a consultant—get me out of here
	Stephanie Young
	BMJ  2005;331:s98-s99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s98, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Taking a sabbatical from a consultant job
	Claire Hilton
	BMJ  2005;331:s98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s98-a, (Published 3 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cognitive behavioural therapy in general practice
	Satwant Singh
	BMJ  2005;331:gp99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.sgp99, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Thriving as a new consultant
	Stephanie Young
	BMJ  2005;331:s99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s99, (Published 3 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diary of a new doctor
	Sarah Rushworth
	BMJ  2005;331:s100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s100, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Competition - Win a copy of the Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:s100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s100-a, (Published 3 September 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Software solutions (1)
	Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
	BMJ  2005;331:s101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s101, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The new president of the Medical Women's Federation
	Karen Hebert
	BMJ  2005;331:s102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.s102, (Published 3 September 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Alan Gilston
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;331:518, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.518 [Extract] [Full text]

	Walter Graham Harris
	N Garrick Graham
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Sells Hurwood
	Richard S Hurwood
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Abubakar Ibrahim Kiwanuka
	Brian Hancock
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Elamin Elnour ("Amin") Osman
	Kamil Sidahmed
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Bernard Schlecht
	Sam Ghebrehewet, Ana Lucia Cuevas
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Dorothy Terry (née Halstead)
	Alison Vaux
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trial
	John A Crump, Peter O Otieno, Laurence Slutsker, Bruce H Keswick, Daniel H Rosen, R Michael Hoekstra, John M Vulule, Stephen P Luby
	BMJ  2005;331:478, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38512.618681.E0, (Published 26 July 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Skin biopsy rates and incidence of melanoma: population based ecological study
	H Gilbert Welch, Steven Woloshin, Lisa M Schwartz
	BMJ  2005;331:481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38516.649537.E0, (Published 4 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Detailed model outputs] FREE

	Effectiveness of innovations in nurse led chronic disease management for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review of evidence
	Stephanie J C Taylor, Bridget Candy, Rosamund M Bryar, Jean Ramsay, Hubertus J M Vrijhoef, Glenda Esmond, Jadwiga A Wedzicha, Chris J Griffiths
	BMJ  2005;331:485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38512.664167.8F, (Published 10 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	The partial smoking ban in licensed establishments and health inequalities in England: modelling study
	Alan A Woodall, Emma J Sandbach, Catherine M Woodward, Paul Aveyard, Graham Merrington
	BMJ  2005;331:488-489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38576.467292.EB, (Published 19 August 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Statistical appendix] FREE

	Could a randomised trial answer the controversy relating to elective caesarean section? National survey of consultant obstetricians and heads of midwifery
	Tina Lavender, Carol Kingdon, Anna Hart, Gill Gyte, Mark Gabbay, James P Neilson
	BMJ  2005;331:490-491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38560.572639.3A, (Published 22 August 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ten year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial of care in a stroke rehabilitation unit
	Avril E R Drummond, Ben Pearson, Nadina B Lincoln, Peter Berman
	BMJ  2005;331:491-492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38537.679479.E0, (Published 10 August 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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