Learning for life
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Collaborative care improves late life depression [Full text]

	Didgeridoo playing could improve sleep apnoea [Full text]

	New mothers in UK do use child records booklet [Full text]

	Scoring prognosis in stable angina [Full text]

	What's new in diverticulitis? [Full text]

Editorials

	Best research
	Allyson M Pollock, Nick McNally, Sue Kerrison
	BMJ  2006;332:247-248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.247 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Acknowledgement]

	Antibiotics in pandemic flu
	Marc J M Bonten, Jan M Prins
	BMJ  2006;332:248-249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.248 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Collaborative care for depression
	Gregory Simon
	BMJ  2006;332:249-250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.249 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The incidence of gastroschisis
	Mark D Kilby
	BMJ  2006;332:250-251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.250 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Detention of refugees
	Mina Fazel, Derrick Silove
	BMJ  2006;332:251-252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.251 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	How did UK cigarette makers reduce tar to 10 mg or less?
	Richard J O'Connor, K Michael Cummings, Gary A Giovino, Ann McNeill, Lynn T Kozlowski
	BMJ  2006;332:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	People seem confused about sensible drinking messages
	Jan S Gill, Fiona O'May
	BMJ  2006;332:302-303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.302-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cannabis and psychosis: Let's start from the null hypothesis
	D B Double
	BMJ  2006;332:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.303 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cannabis and psychosis: Does cannabis really cause psychosis?
	Alasdair J Macdonald
	BMJ  2006;332:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.303-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Barriers to using warfarin in non-valvular atrial fibrillation
	Melina Gattellari, Nicholas A Zwar, John M Worthington, Sandy Middleton
	BMJ  2006;332:303-304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.303-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pulmonary embolism in hospital practice: Certain crucial procedures were omitted
	Adrian J B Brady
	BMJ  2006;332:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.304 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pulmonary embolism in hospital practice: View from primary care is chest pain and breathlessness, but not together
	John Sharvill
	BMJ  2006;332:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.304-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe hepatic injury and adulterated Chinese medicines
	Vincent Lai, Amanda Smith, Douglas Thorburn, V S Raman
	BMJ  2006;332:304-305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.304-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS Direct did not emerge from an evidence free void
	Geoff H Royston
	BMJ  2006;332:305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.305 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	JAMA's policy does not go far enough
	Stephen J Senn
	BMJ  2006;332:305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.305-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One step forward in engaging clinicians in IT
	Mark E Lloyd, Paul A Reilly
	BMJ  2006;332:305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.305-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	UK government to shift NHS power to community health care
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.253 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;332:254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.254 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Babies born after preimplantation genetic diagnosis need follow-up
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.254-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Dutch insurance company will pay doctors to prescribe cheap drugs
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2006;332:254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.254-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Doctors told to shun rewards from industry as size of payments becomes clear
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2006;332:255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.255 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	NEJM editor gives pretrial evidence in Vioxx case
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.255-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Doctors in India prosecuted for sex determination, but few convicted
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2006;332:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.257-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Where GPs go, politicians will follow
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.258 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Strategy launched to boost research in the NHS in England
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.256 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Three quarters of NHS trusts in deficit are cutting staff
	Adrian O�Dowd
	BMJ  2006;332:256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.256-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Serious birth defects kill at least three million children a year
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2006;332:256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.256-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Police question former GP about assisted suicide
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.256-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE calls for wider use of statins
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.256-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Corruption in health care "kills en masse"
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2006;332:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.257 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Heart disease tests increase, but attack rate is unchanged
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.257-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	EU health budget may be almost halved
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2006;332:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.257-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	English pilots to include older people’s views in shaping health care
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2006;332:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.258-a [Extract] [Full text]

	No evidence found that homoeopathy is effective against cancer
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;332:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.258-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Rheumatologists feel devalued by NHS changes
	Lisa Hitchen
	BMJ  2006;332:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.258-c [Extract] [Full text]

	China’s HIV/AIDS epidemic is sharply on the rise
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2006;332:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.258-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Reporter who accused surgeon of experimentation told to reveal sources
	Michael Leidig
	BMJ  2006;332:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.258-e [Extract] [Full text]

Research

	Long term outcomes from the IMPACT randomised trial for depressed elderly patients in primary care
	Enid M Hunkeler, Wayne Katon, Lingqi Tang, John W Williams, Jr, Kurt Kroenke, Elizabeth H B Lin, Linda H Harpole, Patricia Arean, Stuart Levine, Lydia M Grypma, William A Hargreaves, Jürgen Unützer
	BMJ  2006;332:259-263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38683.710255.BE, (Published 20 January 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Predicting prognosis in stable angina—results from the Euro heart survey of stable angina: prospective observational study
	Caroline A Daly, Bianca De Stavola, Jose L Lopez Sendon, Luigi Tavazzi, Eric Boersma, Felicity Clemens, Nicholas Danchin, Francois Delahaye, Anselm Gitt, Desmond Julian, David Mulcahy, Witold Ruzyllo, Kristian Thygesen, Freek Verheugt, Kim M Fox, on behalf of the Euro Heart Survey Investigators
	BMJ  2006;332:262-267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38695.605440.AE, (Published 13 January 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Appendices A and B] FREE

	Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial
	Milo A Puhan, Alex Suarez, Christian Lo Cascio, Alfred Zahn, Markus Heitz, Otto Braendli
	BMJ  2006;332:266-270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38705.470590.55, (Published 23 December 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of personal child health records in the UK: findings from the millennium cohort study
	Suzanne Walton, Helen Bedford, Carol Dezateux, the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group
	BMJ  2006;332:269-270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.269 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Management of diverticulitis
	Simon E J Janes, Allan Meagher, Frank A Frizelle
	BMJ  2006;332:271-275, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.271 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Interactive case report: An alcoholic patient who continues to drink: case outcome
	Stuart McPherson, Colin John Rees
	BMJ  2006;332:276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.276 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Commentary]

	Commentary: Patient's experience
	Colin John Rees
	BMJ  2006;332:277, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.277 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Challenge for doctors and policy makers
	Paul Haber
	BMJ  2006;332:277-278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.277-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Integrated learning
	Ed Peile
	BMJ  2006;332:278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.278 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: When should patients be held responsible for their lifestyle choices?
	John Gillies, Mark Sheehan
	BMJ  2006;332:279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.279 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Learning: Irritable bowel syndrome: diagnosis and management
	A Agrawal, P J Whorwell
	BMJ  2006;332:280-283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.280 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	10-minute consultation: Proteinuria
	Jayne Haynes, Richard Haynes
	BMJ  2006;332:284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.284 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of wound healing: Wound assessment
	Joseph E Grey, Stuart Enoch, Keith G Harding
	BMJ  2006;332:285-288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.285 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;332:289-290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.289 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Public health: Influence of Islam on smoking among Muslims
	Nazim Ghouri, Mohammed Atcha, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2006;332:291-294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.291 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	Ethics: Conscientious objection in medicine
	Julian Savulescu
	BMJ  2006;332:294-297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.294 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics: Just a family medical history?
	Dagmar Schmitz, Urban Wiesing
	BMJ  2006;332:297-299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.297 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics: Implications of data protection legislation for family history
	Anneke Lucassen, Michael Parker, Robert Wheeler
	BMJ  2006;332:299-301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.299 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse
	Boleslav L Lichterman
	BMJ  2006;332:308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.308 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Using Terri: The Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2006;332:309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.309 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Theatre: Gladiator Games
	Piyal Sen
	BMJ  2006;332:309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.309-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal views: How can we improve the rate of autopsies among Muslims?
	Mudher Al-Adnani, Irene Scheimberg
	BMJ  2006;332:310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.310 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lessons for doctors from Jewish philosophy
	Naomi Lear
	BMJ  2006;332:311, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.311 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings: Failure to die
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2006;332:311, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.311-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;332:312, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.312 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Intensive treatment and support helps patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Fashionable successions and popular rages
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2006;332:265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.265 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Exciting lessons
	M J Leong
	BMJ  2006;332:268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.268 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Modern prescriptions
	BMJ  2006;332:270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.270 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Keep me in the loop
	Venkita Suresh
	BMJ  2006;332:279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.279-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	PPUD syndrome (post PLAB unemployed doctor's syndrome)
	Surinder Sareen
	BMJ  2006;332:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.283 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2006;332:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.307-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	In England and Wales, GP assessment centres are the order of the day, but in Scotland it would appear that recruitment remains relatively traditional. Is that correct? I struggle with assessment centres and would welcome the opportunity not to have to go through them.
	Brian Keighley
	BMJ  2006;332:s42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s42, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am looking for information on post-graduate courses in traditional Chinese medicine that are suitable for UK medical practitioners as part of a VTS scheme, or alongside it. A variety of courses can be identified via the internet; does anyone have experience or knowledge of accredited training in this area?
	Colin Lewis
	BMJ  2006;332:s42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s42-a, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Will joining one of the reservist organisations (such as the Territorial Army) as a junior doctor have any negative impact on my future career?
	Ian Palmer
	BMJ  2006;332:s42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s42-b, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;332:gp43, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.sgp43, (Published 4 February 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	On and off the wagon
	Joshua P Hill
	BMJ  2006;332:gp43-gp44, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.sgp43-a, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;332:s43, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s43, (Published 4 February 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cancer therapeutics: medical oncology with clinical pharmacology
	Duncan Jodrell
	BMJ  2006;332:s43-s45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s43-a, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma in palliative medicine
	Simon Auty
	BMJ  2006;332:gp45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.sgp45, (Published 4 February 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Conducting multidisciplinary meetings on rehabilitation wards or stroke units
	Abdul Salam
	BMJ  2006;332:s45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s45, (Published 4 February 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Competences for the foundation programme—part 5: leadership and teamwork
	Nicola Cooper, Kirsty Forrest
	BMJ  2006;332:s46-s47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s46, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Simulating work
	John Bonner
	BMJ  2006;332:s48-s49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s48, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2006;332:s49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s49, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A medic and TV presenter
	Salma Naheed
	BMJ  2006;332:gp50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.sgp50, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Professor Sir John Lilleyman
	Leyla Sanai
	BMJ  2006;332:s50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.s50, (Published 4 February 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Anne Turner
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.306 [Extract] [Full text]

	Alan Hamilton Cruickshank
	Robert Cruickshank
	BMJ  2006;332:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.307 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Dally
	Ann Dally
	BMJ  2006;332:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.307-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Shaw Dick
	Margaret Newton
	BMJ  2006;332:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.307-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Douglas Francis Freebody
	Barrie Parker
	BMJ  2006;332:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.307-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Patrick Huck
	Gerald Sandler
	BMJ  2006;332:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.307-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ian Macalister
	P N Paterson-Brown, D A Buchanan
	BMJ  2006;332:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.307-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Jacob Mackinnon
	Peter Hill
	BMJ  2006;332:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.307-g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

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