Better decisions
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Obesity begins in infancy [Full text]

	Choose long acting blockers for elderly surgical patients [Full text]

	Ethics may lead to bias: recruitment [Full text]

	Ethics may lead to bias: consent [Full text]

	Who is to blame for high prices of US drugs? [Full text]

Editorials

	Cervical cancer, human papillomavirus, and vaccination
	Catherine M Lowndes, O Noel Gill
	BMJ  2005;331:915-916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.915 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Left behind: the legacy of hurricane Katrina
	David Atkins, Ernest M Moy
	BMJ  2005;331:916-918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.916 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mandatory reporting to the police of all sexually active under-13s
	Ruth Bastable, Julian Sheather
	BMJ  2005;331:918-919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.918 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	blockers for patients at risk of cardiac events during non-cardiac surgery
	Stephen Bolsin, Mark Colson
	BMJ  2005;331:919-920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.919 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

Letters

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	Evidence not ideology: The BMJ should take a position on the evidence about privatisation
	Allyson M Pollock
	BMJ  2005;331:964, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.964 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence not ideology: No evidence is without ideology
	Julian Tudor Hart
	BMJ  2005;331:964, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.964-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence not ideology: The NHS is still working
	L S Lewis
	BMJ  2005;331:964-965, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.964-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time for Ofhealth
	Ian H Kunkler
	BMJ  2005;331:965, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.965 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do GPs deserve their pay rise?: Of course successful hard work deserves reward
	Graham Wheatley
	BMJ  2005;331:965, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.965-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do GPs deserve their pay rise?: What do GPs earn?
	Denis Colligan
	BMJ  2005;331:965, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.965-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do GPs deserve their pay rise?: Do chief executives deserve their pay rises?
	Richard Rosin
	BMJ  2005;331:965-966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.965-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do GPs deserve their pay rise?: IBM is replacing EBM
	G H Hall
	BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Students need education fit for professional and public life
	William S James
	BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epirubicin seems to cause venous sclerosis
	Elaine Lennan, Janice M Middleton, Julia Luken
	BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postcards from the edge: Homelessness poses extra challenge in reducing self harm
	Sally L Read
	BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postcards from the edge: GPs have role in reducing repetition of self harm
	Ian Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Achieving compatibility in motor vehicle crashes
	Ediriweera B R Desapriya, Ian Pike
	BMJ  2005;331:966-967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-e [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Not all SUVs are the same
	John S Watts
	BMJ  2005;331:967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.967 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Attitudes to SUVs and "slam door" rolling stock represent a paradox
	Tony H Reinhardt-Rutland
	BMJ  2005;331:967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.967-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: SUV driving and adaptive behaviour
	Robert A Davis
	BMJ  2005;331:967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.967-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Solution must consider psychology of SUV use
	David R J Jarrett
	BMJ  2005;331:967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.967-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	East Asia is most at risk of human flu epidemic, experts say
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2005;331:921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.921 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	UK avian flu surveillance system is inadequate, Lords inquiry is told
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.921-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.922 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	European centre plays down threat from avian influenza
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2005;331:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.922-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Northern Ireland will introduce a smoking ban
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.922-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK pushes EU to tackle health gap between rich and poor
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2005;331:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.923 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	NHS to settle small compensation claims without litigation
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.923-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK should spend more on research into Alzheimer's disease
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;331:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.925-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Foundation hospitals are not accountable to their communities
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2005;331:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.926 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Kashmir crisis is worse than the Asian tsunami, says WHO
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;331:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.926-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	UK academics gain free access to database of patients
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Russian doctors sell drugs to misusers to supplement salaries
	Andrew Osborn
	BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Popular herbal remedy for hot flushes is no better than placebo
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New GP network will integrate conventional and complementary medicine
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	High Court overturns GMC's decision to strike off plastic surgeon
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New consultation exercise on health white paper has not been inclusive enough, critics say
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2005;331:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.925 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Upsurge of violence in Darfur is endangering aid workers
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;331:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.925-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctors should be allowed to offer patients a simplified form of consent, expert says
	Jeremy Davies
	BMJ  2005;331:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.925-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Stroke patients with "do not resuscitate" orders are treated worse than those without
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.926-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch doctor who was jailed for culpable homicide has his sentence cut
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;331:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.926-c [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;331:927-928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.927 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Recruiting patients to medical research: double blind randomised trial of "opt-in" versus "opt-out" strategies
	Cornelia Junghans, Gene Feder, Harry Hemingway, Adam Timmis, Melvyn Jones
	BMJ  2005;331:940, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38583.625613.AE, (Published 12 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Bias from requiring explicit consent from all participants in observational research: prospective, population based study
	Rustam Al-Shahi, Céline Vousden, Charles Warlow, for the Scottish Intracranial Vascular Malformation Study (SIVMS) Steering Committee
	BMJ  2005;331:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38624.397569.68, (Published 13 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

	Effect of diverging policy across the NHS
	Arturo Alvarez-Rosete, Gwyn Bevan, Nicholas Mays, Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  2005;331:946-950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.946 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	The psychological impact of alopecia
	Nigel Hunt, Sue McHale
	BMJ  2005;331:951-953, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.951 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Hypercalcaemia in cancer
	Simon Conroy, Brendan O'Malley
	BMJ  2005;331:954, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.954 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of health informatics: How informatics tools help deal with patients' problems
	Frank Sullivan, Jeremy C Wyatt
	BMJ  2005;331:955-957, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.955 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Foreign free riders and the high price of US medicines
	Donald W Light, Joel Lexchin
	BMJ  2005;331:958-960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.958 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consultations about changing behaviour
	Stephen Rollnick, Christopher C Butler, Jim McCambridge, Paul Kinnersley, Glyn Elwyn, Ken Resnicow
	BMJ  2005;331:961-963, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.961 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Sample questions]

Reviews

	Book: Disease and Democracy: The Industrialised World Faces AIDS
	Jennifer Prah Ruger
	BMJ  2005;331:970, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.970 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  2005;331:971, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.971 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Panorama: Love Hurts
	Christiane Rehwagen
	BMJ  2005;331:971, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.971-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: The future of tobacco
	Nigel Gray
	BMJ  2005;331:972, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.972 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hit parade
	BMJ  2005;331:972, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.972-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Informed consent (and a flutter in Vegas)
	David Rowbotham
	BMJ  2005;331:973, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.973 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Beans
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2005;331:973, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.973-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.974 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Oestrogen does not improve quality of life for postmenopausal women after hysterectomy
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What's in November's studentBMJ?
	BMJ  2005;331:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.934 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	End Piece: Sanitas sanitatum
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;331:939, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.939 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: If at first you don't succeed... sue
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2005;331:950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.950 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Tea drinking and nervous ailments
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;331:960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.960 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-e [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	BMA warns against unnecessary screening tests in private sector
	BMJ  2005;331:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.931 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Taking the final step: changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Time for change
	BMJ  2005;331:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.931-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Regulating the drugs industry transparently
	BMJ  2005;331:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.931-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Radiotherapy improves outcome in patients with locally advanced prostate cancer
	BMJ  2005;331:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.931-c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	Will a criminal background keep me from being a doctor?
	Rebecca Viney
	BMJ  2005;331:s176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s176, (Published 22 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I have just started my AS subjects (in biology, chemistry, and maths) and would like to know if three subjects at AS and A2 next year are sufficient to apply for a medical degree at university? How can I increase my chances of getting into medical school?
	Paul O'Neill
	BMJ  2005;331:s176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s176-a, (Published 22 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I work as a part time general practitioner and staff grade in genitourinary medicine. I have a background in microbiology (BSc and PhD) as well as membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP). I am considering the possibility of a specialist registrar position in medical microbiology but wonder about salary retention. Any advice?
	Andrew Wilson
	BMJ  2005;331:s176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s176-b, (Published 22 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;331:gp177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.sgp177, (Published 22 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;331:s177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s177, (Published 22 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Modernising Medical Careers and the lost tribe
	Kaji Sritharan
	BMJ  2005;331:s177-s179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s177-a, (Published 22 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Working as a locum
	Polly Weston
	BMJ  2005;331:s179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s179, (Published 22 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctor No job
	Purnima Jayabalan
	BMJ  2005;331:s180-s181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s180, (Published 22 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;331:s181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s181, (Published 22 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Personal support—the ins and outs of small self-directed learning groups for doctors
	Induja Bandara
	BMJ  2005;331:gp182-gp183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.sgp182, (Published 22 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Preparing to consult
	John Bonner
	BMJ  2005;331:s182-s183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s182, (Published 22 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postgraduate diploma in science of sports injuries
	Kuntal J Patel
	BMJ  2005;331:gp183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.sgp183, (Published 22 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postgraduate diploma in science of sports injuries
	Kuntal J Patel
	BMJ  2005;331:s183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s183, (Published 22 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A famous nurse and agony aunt
	Leyla Sanai
	BMJ  2005;331:s184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.s184, (Published 22 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Abdul Ghafoor Baloch
	Khalid Baloch
	BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Joza ("Josephine") Bruegel
	Christopher Donovan
	BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thomas John Coady
	Douglas Seaton
	BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Hayden ("Bob") Ellis
	W R Ellis
	BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Alexander Grant Elmslie
	E J Garden
	BMJ  2005;331:968-969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Frederick Earle Fraser
	L P J Wright
	BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ada Glynn
	Alan Glynn, Michael Glynn
	BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William David Hayley
	Michael D Sanders
	BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Hugh Cameron Kennedy
	Ronald N C Douglas
	BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Worsley Richardson
	Richard Gardham, Patsy Meehan
	BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Ward Smith
	Steven Hogg
	BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Stanley Wilson
	Howel Jones
	BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Caspar Winteler
	Esther Watson-Jones
	BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity
	Janis Baird, David Fisher, Patricia Lucas, Jos Kleijnen, Helen Roberts, Catherine Law
	BMJ  2005;331:929, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38586.411273.E0, (Published 14 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	blockers for elective surgery in elderly patients: population based, retrospective cohort study
	Donald Redelmeier, Damon Scales, Alexander Kopp
	BMJ  2005;331:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38603.746944.3A, (Published 6 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Characteristics of patients] FREE

	Appropriateness of use of medicines in elderly inpatients: qualitative study
	Anne Spinewine, Christian Swine, Soraya Dhillon, Bryony Dean Franklin, Paul M Tulkens, Léon Wilmotte, Vincent Lorant
	BMJ  2005;331:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38551.410012.06, (Published 10 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Self reported health and mortality: ecological analysis based on electoral wards across the United Kingdom
	Dermot O'Reilly, Michael Rosato, Chris Patterson
	BMJ  2005;331:938-939, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38594.490532.AE, (Published 29 September 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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