Cure or care?
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	What works for obesity [Full text]

	Nurses should lead UK hospital reform [Full text]

	We don't know the effects of paying doctors for trial recruitment [Full text]

	Resistance to HIV drugs is high in the UK [Full text]

	Cannabis increases the risk of car crashes [Full text]

Editorials

	Facial transplantation
	Peter E M Butler, Alex Clarke, Shehan Hettiaratchy
	BMJ  2005;331:1349-1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1349 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Extra scrutiny for industry funded trials
	Kenneth J Rothman, Stephen Evans
	BMJ  2005;331:1350-1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1350 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing the benefits of genetic research
	Doris Schroeder, Miltos Ladikas, Udo Schuklenk, Carolina Lasén Lasén Diáz, Anita Kleinsmidt, Fatima Alvarez-Castillo, Dafna Feinholz
	BMJ  2005;331:1351-1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1351 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is methadone too dangerous for opiate addiction?
	Jason Luty, Colin O'Gara, Mohammed Sessay
	BMJ  2005;331:1352-1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1352 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treating non-competent patients
	Lorraine Corfield, Ingrid Granne
	BMJ  2005;331:1353-1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1353 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Methodological concerns about animal facilitated therapy with dolphins
	Biju Basil, Maju Mathews
	BMJ  2005;331:1407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1407 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Authors' reply to methodological concerns
	Christian Antonioli, Michael Reveley
	BMJ  2005;331:1407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1407-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Politics and economics inhibited control of anthrax last century
	Tim Carter
	BMJ  2005;331:1407-1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1407-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Child and animal abuse are linked
	M E Jan Wise
	BMJ  2005;331:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1408 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Summary of webchat
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2005;331:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1408-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Role of vaccinating poultry against avian flu
	Bob Kahn
	BMJ  2005;331:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1408-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New ABPI code provides more information for patients
	Richard Barker
	BMJ  2005;331:1409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1409 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Committee on Radioactive Waste Management lacks medical input
	Keith Baverstock, David J Ball
	BMJ  2005;331:1409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1409-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inequalities and Christmas Yet to Come
	Danny Dorling, Richard Mitchell, Scott Orford, Mary Shaw, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2005;331:1409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1409-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Patients are at the heart of new medical professionalism
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;331:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1355 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Sally Clark pathologist removed from Home Office list
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1355-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1356 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cuts in NHS waiting lists cannot be attributed to private sector
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2005;331:1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1356-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Doctors in Berlin strike over poor pay
	Clare Chapman
	BMJ  2005;331:1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1356-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	The Netherlands regulates ending the lives of severely ill neonates
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;331:1357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1357 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Israelis turn to timer device to facilitate passive euthanasia
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2005;331:1357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1357-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgeons pleased with patient's progress after face transplant
	Brad Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;331:1359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1359-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Romania's policy of emptying its orphanages raises controversy
	Grainger Laffan
	BMJ  2005;331:1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1360 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Staff at WHO HQ stop work in protest at conditions
	Paul Ress
	BMJ  2005;331:1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1360-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	GMC censures professor for not disclosing conflict of interest
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1358 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	MPs accuse Medical Research Council of panic over bird flu
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2005;331:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1358-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	"Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales," New York Times reports
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1358-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Spending in Scotland goes up while activity goes down
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2005;331:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1358-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Yemen embarks on its seventh round of polio immunisations
	Andrew Moscrop
	BMJ  2005;331:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1358-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Next year's pay rises for doctors should be 2% or less, government says
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:1359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1359 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New funding to make UK "a world class environment for medical research"
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:1359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1359-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Drug companies told that sponsoring patients' groups might help win approval for their products
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2005;331:1359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1359-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Pressure mounts for further action on climate change
	Tony Juniper
	BMJ  2005;331:1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1360-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Older people are wrongly excluded from drug trials
	Christiane Rehwagen
	BMJ  2005;331:1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1360-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Advice to pharmacists on dispensing contraception an "invasion of privacy"
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;331:1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1360-d [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO will not hire smokers
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1360-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Inquiry needed to discover why black people are more likely to be admitted to mental hospitals than white people
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1360-f [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;331:1361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1361 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Dr Foster's case notes

	The ageing population of the United Kingdom and cardiovascular disease
	Azeem Majeed, Paul Aylin
	BMJ  2005;331:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1362 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

BMJ family highlights

	What's new this month in BMJ Journals
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2005;331:1363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1363 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Recognising heart failure in elderly patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: cross sectional diagnostic study
	Frans H Rutten, Karel G M Moons, Maarten-Jan M Cramer, Diederick E Grobbee, Nicolaas P A Zuithoff, Jan-Willem J Lammers, Arno W Hoes
	BMJ  2005;331:1379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38664.661181.55, (Published 1 December 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Functional limitation in long standing illness and quality of life: evidence from a national survey
	Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Richard D Wiggins, Zoe Hildon, Scott M Montgomery, David Blane
	BMJ  2005;331:1382-1383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1382 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

	Developing guidelines for medical students about the examination of patients under 18 years old
	Tony Hope, Peggy Frith, Janet Craze, Francis Mussai, Ambika Chadha, Douglas Noble
	BMJ  2005;331:1384-1386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1384 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

Clinical review

	Treating obesity in individuals and populations
	Anjali Jain
	BMJ  2005;331:1387-1390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1387 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of health informatics: eHealth and the future: promise or peril?
	Jeremy C Wyatt, Frank Sullivan
	BMJ  2005;331:1391-1393, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1391 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Rise and demise of the hospital: a reappraisal of nursing
	Nick Black
	BMJ  2005;331:1394-1396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1394 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS revolution: health care in the market place: Practice based commissioning: applying the research evidence
	Judith Smith, Jennifer Dixon, Nicholas Mays, Hugh McLeod, Nick Goodwin, Siobhan McClelland, Richard Lewis, Sally Wyke
	BMJ  2005;331:1397-1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1397 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care in the United States: problems and possibilities
	Robert L Phillips
	BMJ  2005;331:1400-1402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1400 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Designing research in vulnerable populations: lessons from HIV prevention trials that stopped early
	Edward J Mills, Sonal Singh, Jerome A Singh, James J Orbinski, Mitchell Warren, Ross E Upshur
	BMJ  2005;331:1403-1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1403 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of trials]

Reviews

	Press: Are US flu death figures more PR than science?
	Peter Doshi
	BMJ  2005;331:1412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: The UK flu vaccine shortage—who is at fault?
	John Watkins
	BMJ  2005;331:1413, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Business sector shuns tobacco companies
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  2005;331:1414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: The nursing profession's coming of age
	Ghislaine Young
	BMJ  2005;331:1415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Dentures and deep time
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2005;331:1415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1415-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:1416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1416 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Antihypertensive drugs help prevent headaches
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: Incestuous sheets
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2005;331:1378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1378 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	My favourite surgical instrument
	Bisalahalli Muddu
	BMJ  2005;331:1383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1383 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The most lucrative branch of medicine
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;331:1386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1386 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: All change
	Sandeep Kumar Goyal
	BMJ  2005;331:1402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1402 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: Honesty is the best policy
	Faiyaz Mohammed
	BMJ  2005;331:1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1406 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2005;331:1410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1410-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	More drug trials end early hiding potential problems
	BMJ  2005;331:1390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1390 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Croatia's brain drain
	BMJ  2005;331:1390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1390-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lords back bill to legalise assisted suicide
	BMJ  2005;331:1390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1390-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	Although I have not yet decided on a career specialty, I am very interested in medical education. Are there any resources detailing distance courses that I could potentially enrol in at this early stage?
	Paul O'Neill
	BMJ  2005;331:s246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s246, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I want to spend six months to one year working in Canada after F2. Are short term jobs available? Will I have to do the exams?
	Deana Midmer
	BMJ  2005;331:s246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s246-a, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I would like to find out about doing general practice in California as I have family there. I'm finding it difficult to get any information—can you help?
	James Sherifi
	BMJ  2005;331:s246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s246-b, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I wish to become a hepatologist. Is there training in the United Kingdom for this alone or must I also study luminal gastroenterology and internal medicine?
	Alan R Watson
	BMJ  2005;331:s246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s246-c, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;331:s247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s247, (Published 10 December 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to plan research
	R Venkatraman
	BMJ  2005;331:s247-s248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s247-a, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Academic general practice
	Peter Aquino
	BMJ  2005;331:s249-s250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s249, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Literature searches
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2005;331:s250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s250, (Published 10 December 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Research posters—the way to display
	Ellen McIntyre
	BMJ  2005;331:s251-s252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s251, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Choosing an interesting paper for a journal club
	Peter Hallas
	BMJ  2005;331:s252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s252, (Published 10 December 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Publication: from rejection to rejoicing
	Anthony Papagiannis
	BMJ  2005;331:s253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s253, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Adjusting to research
	Andrew J Diver
	BMJ  2005;331:s253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s253-a, (Published 10 December 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How not to get published
	Tim Albert
	BMJ  2005;331:s254-s255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s254, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Declaring a competing interest
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2005;331:s255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s255, (Published 10 December 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The path to academic medicine: leaving and coming back
	Gretchen P Purcell
	BMJ  2005;331:s256-s257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s256, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Conducting an audit
	Shipra Rao
	BMJ  2005;331:s257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s257, (Published 10 December 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Setting up a research project as an SHO, and getting it published: Part 1
	Amar Alwitry
	BMJ  2005;331:s258-s259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s258, (Published 10 December 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clinical audit
	Naseem Naqvi
	BMJ  2005;331:s259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s259, (Published 10 December 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Getting Research Published: an A to Z of publication strategy
	Zain Khalpey
	BMJ  2005;331:s260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s260, (Published 10 December 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Get Through The Foundation Years: A Handbook for Junior Doctors
	Shahida Parveen Azeez
	BMJ  2005;331:s260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.s260-a, (Published 10 December 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Janet Elizabeth Macgregor
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;331:1410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1410 [Extract] [Full text]

	Jane Marushka Critchley
	Mair Critchley, Edmund Critchley
	BMJ  2005;331:1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1411 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Frank Daly
	R F Daly
	BMJ  2005;331:1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1411-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Roger Charles Hickman
	Alison Hickman, Sarah Keegan
	BMJ  2005;331:1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1411-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Dermott Grene
	Charles Grene
	BMJ  2005;331:1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1411-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Spowart McCracken
	Tom O'Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1411-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Aziz Mahmood Shukri
	M I Aldoori, Salwa Shukri
	BMJ  2005;331:1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1411-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Clive Williams
	Douglas Ackroyd
	BMJ  2005;331:1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1411-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Achieving the millennium development goals for health: Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for tuberculosis control in developing countries
	Rob Baltussen, Katherine Floyd, Christopher Dye
	BMJ  2005;331:1364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38645.660093.68, (Published 10 November 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details of the methods used] FREE

	Time trends in primary resistance to HIV drugs in the United Kingdom: multicentre observational study
	UK Group on Transmitted HIV Drug Resistance
	BMJ  2005;331:1368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38665.534595.55, (Published 18 November 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Members of the steering committees] FREE

	Cannabis intoxication and fatal road crashes in France: population based case-control study
	Bernard Laumon, Blandine Gadegbeku, Jean-Louis Martin, Marie-Berthe Biecheler, the SAM Group
	BMJ  2005;331:1371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38648.617986.1F, (Published 1 December 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of comorbidities and postoperative complications on mortality after hip fracture in elderly people: prospective observational cohort study
	J J W Roche, R T Wenn, O Sahota, C G Moran
	BMJ  2005;331:1374, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38643.663843.55, (Published 18 November 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Payment to healthcare professionals for patient recruitment to trials: a systematic review
	J Bryant, J Powell
	BMJ  2005;331:1377-1378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1377 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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