Complicated questions—difficult answers
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Misdiagnosing "hysteria" has remained steady since the 1970s [Full text]

	MRSA infection in a vicious circle with hospitalisation [Full text]

	Targets for trusts' MRSA infection rates need clarifying [Full text]

	Salivary nicotine test increases cessation rates [Full text]

	Community based learning produces better doctors [Full text]

Editorials

	Bird flu and pandemic flu
	John T Macfarlane, Wei Shen Lim
	BMJ  2005;331:975-976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38649.389005.DE, (Published 24 October 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving surveillance of MRSA bacteraemia
	Georgia Duckworth, Andr Charlett
	BMJ  2005;331:976-977, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.976 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The need for outcome measures in medical education
	Lambert Schuwirth, Peter Cantillon
	BMJ  2005;331:977-978, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.977 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Detecting fabricated or induced illness in children
	David M Foreman
	BMJ  2005;331:978-979, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.978 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Near patient tests for smoking cessation
	Tim Coleman
	BMJ  2005;331:979-980, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.979 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens: Don't lose your head over ASCOT
	David G Phizackerley
	BMJ  2005;331:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1022 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens: Is ASCOT-BPLA being hyped-up?
	Peter D Burrill
	BMJ  2005;331:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1022-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens: Odds are that it's hype
	Martin G Duerden
	BMJ  2005;331:1022-1023, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1022-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens: Is ASCOT all it's cracked up to be?
	James A Cave
	BMJ  2005;331:1023, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1023 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trastuzumab for early breast cancer raises important issues
	Edward C F Wilson
	BMJ  2005;331:1023, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1023-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Left handedness and breast cancer: Correlation is spurious
	Adrian J Bloor
	BMJ  2005;331:1023-1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1023-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Left handedness and breast cancer: Should left handed premenopausal women be screened?
	Bettina Lieske
	BMJ  2005;331:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1024 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Left handedness and breast cancer: Authors' reply
	Cuno S P M Uiterwaal, Diederick E Grobbee
	BMJ  2005;331:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1024-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scientific evidence was ignored in CAM and the NHS
	Peter H Canter, Edzard Ernst
	BMJ  2005;331:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1024-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disappointing article, not disappointing biotech
	Fredric J Cohen
	BMJ  2005;331:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1025 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Proposed guidelines for severe imported malaria in children need more evidence
	Shamez Ladhani, Delane Shingadia, F Andrew I Riordan
	BMJ  2005;331:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1025-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Speed networking works for postgraduate research
	Roger H Jones
	BMJ  2005;331:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1025-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Roche considers licensing companies to make oseltamivir
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:981, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.981 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Bird flu poses no immediate threat to Europe, leading virologist claims
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;331:981, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.981-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:982, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.982 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors who write guidelines often have ties to the drug industry
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:982, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.982-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Stem cell foundation greeted by cautious optimism
	Norra MacReady
	BMJ  2005;331:982, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.982-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Patients with aortic aneurysm deserve higher priority
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:983, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.983 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Academic staff frustrated with research assessment exercise
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:983, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.983-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Judge over-rules earlier decision on Charlotte Wyatt
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.985-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Combating the free movement of micro-organisms
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2005;331:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.986 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Fall in mortality from breast cancer is due almost equally to screening and adjuvant therapy
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;331:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.984 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Guidance on reporting under age sex is confusing
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2005;331:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.984-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Scotland sets up its first forensic art unit
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2005;331:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.984-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Assisted suicide organisation opens branch in Germany
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2005;331:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.984-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Australian state and federal governments are attacked on mental health care
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2005;331:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.984-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Foundation trust regulator calls for less government interference
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;331:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.985 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Total smoking ban best way to narrow health gap between rich and poor, MPs told
	Adrian O�Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.985-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GP goes on trial for killing three patients
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.985-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Experts disagree over who should get avian influenza vaccine
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2005;331:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.986-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Ten out of 25 EU countries restrict health care for asylum seekers to emergencies only
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.986-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Charity calls for improved breast awareness in UK ethnic communities
	Christiane Rehwagen
	BMJ  2005;331:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.986-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Trastuzumab halves risk of recurrence of breast cancer in some women
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.986-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors should be trained in understanding disability, commission is told
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2005;331:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.986-e [Extract] [Full text]

	UK government to appoint occupational health "tsar" to reduce work related illness
	Klaus Morales
	BMJ  2005;331:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.986-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Health experts gather to step up fight against malaria
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2005;331:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.986-g [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;331:987-988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.987 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Effect of incorporating a 10 minute point of care test for salivary nicotine metabolites into a general practice based smoking cessation programme: randomised controlled trial
	Kristian D Barnfather, Graham F Cope, Iain L Chapple
	BMJ  2005;331:999, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38621.463900.7C, (Published 6 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

Learning in practice

	Effect of a community oriented problem based learning curriculum on quality of primary care delivered by graduates: historical cohort comparison study
	Robyn Tamblyn, Michal Abrahamowicz, Dale Dauphinee, Nadyne Girard, Gillian Bartlett, Paul Grand'Maison, Carlos Brailovsky
	BMJ  2005;331:1002, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38636.582546.7C, (Published 20 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	What the educators are saying
	Kevin W Eva, Val Wass
	BMJ  2005;331:1006, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1006 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	The patient's journey: the progressive ataxias
	Hillary Box, Harriet Bonney, Julie Greenfield
	BMJ  2005;331:1007-1009, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1007 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of health informatics: How computers help make efficient use of consultations
	Frank Sullivan, Jeremy C Wyatt
	BMJ  2005;331:1010-1012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1010 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Problems in assessing rates of infection with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
	David J Spiegelhalter
	BMJ  2005;331:1013-1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1013 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table]

	Orphan drugs and the NHS: should we value rarity?
	Christopher McCabe, Karl Claxton, Aki Tsuchiya
	BMJ  2005;331:1016-1019, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1016 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure]

	Commissioning for rare diseases: view from the frontline
	Amanda Burls, Daphne Austin, David Moore
	BMJ  2005;331:1019-1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1019 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: Life in Britain: Using Millennial Census Data to Understand Poverty, Inequality and Place
	Helen Roberts
	BMJ  2005;331:1028, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1028 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Human Traces
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2005;331:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1029 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: 30 Days: Minimum Wage
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2005;331:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1029-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: How US healthcare cuts could kill me
	Lori Smith
	BMJ  2005;331:1030, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1030 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Rethinking breast screening—again
	Cornelia J Baines
	BMJ  2005;331:1031, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1031 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Specialisation creep
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2005;331:1031, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1031-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:1032, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1032 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Fluoxetine reduces symptoms for selected patients with irritable bowel syndrome
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The latest caprice in medicine, 1857
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;331:991, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.991 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Preservation of the teeth
	Don Sarll
	BMJ  2005;331:998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.998 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	My biggest mistake: A lesson from a death
	R N Das
	BMJ  2005;331:1005, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1005 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A medical secretary for war
	BMJ  2005;331:1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1015 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2005;331:1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1026-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	I have a career gap of over two years, spent doing the PLAB exam after I relocated. How do I put this on my curriculum vitae?
	Eric Chemla
	BMJ  2005;331:s186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s186, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am about to apply for general practice training. Are there any deaneries not using assessment centres for recruitment— the sheer concept frightens me!
	Anne Hastie
	BMJ  2005;331:s186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s186-a, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A career in the City is becoming tempting with all the changes causing havoc with medical training. I have been advised that an MBA at a good school is a good start. Is this the best way?
	Adam Poole
	BMJ  2005;331:s186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s186-b, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	As a newly qualified GP I do not wish to turn immediately to partnership. A full time out of hours job is available. What are the pros and cons of such a career move?
	Judith Harvey
	BMJ  2005;331:s186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s186-c, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;331:gp187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.sgp187, (Published 29 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;331:s187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s187, (Published 29 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changes to postgraduate medical training for overseas doctors
	Shaaz Mahboob
	BMJ  2005;331:s187-s188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s187-a, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to be an IMG mentor
	Linda Hoyle
	BMJ  2005;331:s189-s190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s189, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;331:s190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s190, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ten practical tips to make the PLAB 2 exam easier
	Abdul Rashid Sheikh
	BMJ  2005;331:s191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s191, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Personal digital assistants (PDAs)—improving patients' safety
	BMJ  2005;331:s191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s191-a, (Published 29 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The patient friendly pay off
	Judith Harvey
	BMJ  2005;331:gp192-gp193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.sgp192, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC for a year one registrar in the labour ward
	T Freeman-Wang
	BMJ  2005;331:s192-s193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s192, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Working with midwives (a doctor's view)
	Sivanesan K Kanapathippillai
	BMJ  2005;331:s192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s192-a, (Published 29 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Working with midwives (a midwife's view)
	Nicola Miller
	BMJ  2005;331:s193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s193, (Published 29 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A green GP
	John Bonner
	BMJ  2005;331:gp194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.sgp194, (Published 29 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Genetics on the web
	Philip Zack
	BMJ  2005;331:s194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.s194, (Published 29 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	John Cosh
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;331:1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1026 [Extract] [Full text]

	Abraham ("Abs") Cohen
	Bernard Cohen, Howard Cohen
	BMJ  2005;331:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1027 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Dermot Ainslie Common
	J T Gillow
	BMJ  2005;331:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1027-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Antony Garrod
	Tim Garrod
	BMJ  2005;331:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1027-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mrinal Kanti Ghosh
	Titus Fernando
	BMJ  2005;331:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1027-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Haydn Martindale
	E A Martindale
	BMJ  2005;331:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1027-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Dipankar ("Dip") Sengupta
	Philip Hughes
	BMJ  2005;331:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1027-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Kenneth Samuel Williamson
	W R Lee
	BMJ  2005;331:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1027-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Paul Francis Wright
	Charles Campion-Smith, Nick Panton, David Morgan
	BMJ  2005;331:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7523.1027-g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Systematic review of misdiagnosis of conversion symptoms and "hysteria"
	Jon Stone, Roger Smyth, Alan Carson, Steff Lewis, Robin Prescott, Charles Warlow, Michael Sharpe
	BMJ  2005;331:989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38628.466898.55, (Published 13 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	MRSA bacteraemia in patients on arrival in hospital: a cohort study in Oxfordshire 1997-2003
	David H Wyllie, Tim E A Peto, Derrick Crook
	BMJ  2005;331:992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38558.453310.8F, (Published 9 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Age at retirement and long term survival of an industrial population: prospective cohort study
	Shan P Tsai, Judy K Wendt, Robin P Donnelly, Geert de Jong, Farah S Ahmed
	BMJ  2005;331:995, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38586.448704.E0, (Published 21 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Twenty five years of HIV infection in haemophilic men in Britain: an observational study
	Caroline A Sabin, Andrew N Phillips, Thynn Thynn Yee, Anja Griffioen, Christine A Lee
	BMJ  2005;331:997-998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38604.468785.DE, (Published 16 September 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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