Time to leave home
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	What predisposes women to chronic pelvic pain? [Full text]

	Psychosocial care in nursing homes reduces drug use [Full text]

	Benefits of omega 3 fats may be in doubt [Full text]

	What are the risks for couples with a balanced structural chromosome abnormality? [Full text]

	Action research helps develop a pre-medicine summer school [Full text]

Editorials

	Reforming mental health law in England and Wales
	Nigel Eastman
	BMJ  2006;332:737-738, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.737 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Oily fish and omega 3 fat supplements
	Eric Brunner
	BMJ  2006;332:739-740, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38798.680185.47, (Published 24 March 2006) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure]

	Increasing the number of medical students from under-represented minorities
	Phyllis L Carr, Kenneth C Edelin
	BMJ  2006;332:740, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.740 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing challenging behaviour in dementia
	Gavin J Andrews
	BMJ  2006;332:741, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.741 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Impending or pending? The national bowel cancer screening programme
	Wendy S Atkin
	BMJ  2006;332:742, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38797.494757.47, (Published 22 March 2006) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

Letters

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	Preventing coronary heart disease: High baseline risk strategy and cost effectiveness of guidelines
	D Graham Mackenzie, John Forbes, Sarah Wild, Philip Rutledge
	BMJ  2006;332:793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.793 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing coronary heart disease: Patients are people, not cases
	Joan McClusky
	BMJ  2006;332:793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.793-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood pressure lowering in elderly patients with stroke
	Elliot Epstein, Anil Kumar
	BMJ  2006;332:793-794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.793-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Estimated glomerular filtration rate needs UK consensus
	Annice Mukherjee, Donal O'Donaghue, Aram Redenski, John New, Patrick Twomey
	BMJ  2006;332:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.794 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grieving the death of a child: Clinicians should ensure that lethal drugs are handed back
	Peter Byrne
	BMJ  2006;332:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.794-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grieving the death of a child: Supporting health professionals who care for grieving patients may benefit all
	Svetlin V Vrabtchev
	BMJ  2006;332:794-795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.794-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gluteal injections in increasingly obese population: Needle length for intramuscular injections
	Brian J Anthony
	BMJ  2006;332:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.795 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gluteal injections in increasingly obese population: Essential considerations for intramuscular injections
	Saurabh Rai, Nidhi Nandan
	BMJ  2006;332:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.795-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time to make paracetamol with methionine available
	John P Heptonstall
	BMJ  2006;332:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.795-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Googling your treatment for analgesia in labour
	James Holding, Michael V Holmes
	BMJ  2006;332:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.795-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neonatal lupus erythematosus is not always benign
	Andrew G Affleck
	BMJ  2006;332:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.796 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Independent sector treatment centres: experience and spin
	Simon P Kelly
	BMJ  2006;332:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.796-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Untreated controls are wrong when proved treatment exists
	J Martin Bland
	BMJ  2006;332:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.796-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Wear your name badge well
	Simon Fountain-Polley
	BMJ  2006;332:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.796-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	NHS faces job cuts as financial crisis deepens
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.743 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;332:744, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.744 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Non-European doctors feel penalised by change in UK policy
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2006;332:744, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.744-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	African doctors abroad need to work together to improve health care at home
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2006;332:744, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.744-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Follow-up shows no adverse outcomes of CNEP in neonates
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.745 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Scientists find new disease: motivational deficiency disorder
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2006;332:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.745-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC finds three doctors guilty of irresponsible prescribing to addicts
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.747-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	UK government scraps mental health bill
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	AIDS robs millions of their childhood
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2006;332:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Assisted conception business should be better regulated
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2006;332:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Care of England’s older people still “unacceptably poor”
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;332:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Critically ill men in drug trial continue to improve
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	People considering laser eye surgery should be warned of risks, says NICE
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Germany may change drug testing rules after debacle in England
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2006;332:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch doctors campaign for smoking ban in hospitality industry
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2006;332:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trust’s refusal to fund trastuzumab was “arbitrary”
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.747 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC finds no case to answer against Ian Craft
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.747-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Faking happiness at work can make you ill
	Katy Duke
	BMJ  2006;332:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.747-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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	ADHD drugs should carry warning, FDA committee recommends
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Migration of health workers from less developed countries needs urgent solution, say experts
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2006;332:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Conference delegates claim NHS posts are “slavery”
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;332:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-e [Extract] [Full text]

	New US abstinence programme guidelines criticised
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Primary care staff should work with prison teams on mental health
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2006;332:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-g [Extract] [Full text]

	RAF doctor will face court martial for refusing to return to Iraq
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-h [Extract] [Full text]

	Access to antiretrovirals still too scarce in many countries
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2006;332:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-i [Extract] [Full text]

Research

	Factors predisposing women to chronic pelvic pain: systematic review
	Pallavi Latthe, Luciano Mignini, Richard Gray, Robert Hills, Khalid Khan
	BMJ  2006;332:749-755, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38748.697465.55, (Published 16 February 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risks and benefits of omega 3 fats for mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review
	Lee Hooper, Rachel L Thompson, Roger A Harrison, Carolyn D Summerbell, Andy R Ness, Helen J Moore, Helen V Worthington, Paul N Durrington, Julian P T Higgins, Nigel E Capps, Rudolph A Riemersma, Shah B J Ebrahim, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2006;332:752-760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38755.366331.2F, (Published 24 March 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Set of references] FREE

	Effect of enhanced psychosocial care on antipsychotic use in nursing home residents with severe dementia: cluster randomised trial
	Jane Fossey, Clive Ballard, Edmund Juszczak, Ian James, Nicola Alder, Robin Jacoby, Robert Howard
	BMJ  2006;332:756-761, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38782.575868.7C, (Published 16 March 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reproductive outcome after chromosome analysis in couples with two or more miscarriages: case-control study
	Maureen T M Franssen, Johanna C Korevaar, Fulco van der Veen, Nico J Leschot, Patrick M M Bossuyt, Mariette Goddijn
	BMJ  2006;332:759-763, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38735.459144.2F, (Published 22 February 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	"We were treated like adults"—development of a pre-medicine summer school for 16 year olds from deprived socioeconomic backgrounds: action research study
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Jill Russell, Petra Boynton, Frances Lefford, Nikhil Chopra, Lisa Dunkley
	BMJ  2006;332:762-767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38755.582500.55, (Published 22 February 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

Clinical review

	Asthma control in adults
	John Rees
	BMJ  2006;332:767-771, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.767 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra details]

Practice

	Practice pointer: Hip dislocation in cerebral palsy
	Teresa Pountney, Elizabeth M Green
	BMJ  2006;332:772-775, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.772 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Lesson of the week: Secondary drowning in a patient with epilepsy
	Stephanie Milne, Andrew Cohen
	BMJ  2006;332:775-776, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.775 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of wound healing: Wound dressings
	Vanessa Jones, Joseph E Grey, Keith G Harding
	BMJ  2006;332:777-780, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.777 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;332:781-782, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.781 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Using lessons from the past to plan for pandemic flu
	Hilary Pickles
	BMJ  2006;332:783-786, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.783 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Avian influenza: Preparing for the pandemic
	BMJ  2006;332:783, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.783-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: UK government response to Hilary Pickles
	David Salisbury
	BMJ  2006;332:784, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.784 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An iatrogenic pandemic of panic
	Luc Bonneux, Wim Van Damme
	BMJ  2006;332:786-788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.786 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A slippery disease: a microbiologist's view
	T H Pennington
	BMJ  2006;332:789-790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.789 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hard decisions will have to be made: view from intensive care
	Richard Marsh
	BMJ  2006;332:790-791, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.790 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dealing with uncertainty: perspective from primary care
	Anthony Harnden
	BMJ  2006;332:791-792, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.791 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	TV: How to Have a Good Death
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2006;332:799, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.799 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Philosophy of Palliative Care: Critique and Reconstruction
	Paul Keeley
	BMJ  2006;332:800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.800 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Big thrusters
	Sally Carter
	BMJ  2006;332:800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.800-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal views: Elder abuse, 21st century style
	Roger A Fisken
	BMJ  2006;332:801, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.801 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Personal view by Rod Griffiths]

	Soundings: Is omniscience enough?
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2006;332:801, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.801-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;332:802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.802 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Neither paracetamol nor ibuprofen protects children against local reactions to the DTaP vaccine
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Sticking with tradition
	Sarah H Oram
	BMJ  2006;332:766, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.766 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: Learning outcomes
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2006;332:771, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.771 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What medicine's really about
	Khurum Hayat Khan
	BMJ  2006;332:776, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.776 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"Seeing" is believing
	Sumita Verma
	BMJ  2006;332:780, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.780 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Privates
	Elizabeth A Rider
	BMJ  2006;332:792, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.792 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	ABC of wound healing: Burns
	BMJ  2006;332:755, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.755 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Call to scrap import tariffs on pharmaceuticals in global WTO talks
	BMJ  2006;332:755, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.755-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituaries: Kenneth Herbert Walter
	BMJ  2006;332:755, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.755-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	I am interested in specialising in a field which includes embryology. Where can I find more information about this area of medicine?
	Paul M Rea
	BMJ  2006;332:s122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s122, (Published 1 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I qualified in 1999 and went straight into a vocational training scheme after my house officer year. I have worked as a salaried or locum GP since, doing occasional sessions as a clinical assistant in an accident and emergency department. I would like to pursue a career in ophthalmology and am looking for a senior house officer (SHO) post in this field. Based on my years since qualifying, I am equivalent to a year six SHO. What level of the pay scale I will slot into for basic pay? Am I entitled to SHO level six?
	Sarah Burnett
	BMJ  2006;332:s122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s122-a, (Published 1 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I have been off work for two long periods with an autoimmune condition. Through various self help means I have got back to work and have had little sick leave in the past two years. Because of some challenging symptoms I would like to have complementary treatment over two to three weeks. My medical advisers are happy with this. Would I have to take this as annual leave?
	Caron Grainger
	BMJ  2006;332:s122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s122-b, (Published 1 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:gp123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.sgp123, (Published 1 April 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Balint or bust
	Patrick Hutt
	BMJ  2006;332:gp123-gp124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.sgp123-a, (Published 1 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:s123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s123, (Published 1 April 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Troubled times ahead for IMGs
	John Bonner
	BMJ  2006;332:s123-s124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s123-a, (Published 1 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postgraduate diploma in medical ethics and law
	Helen Dyson
	BMJ  2006;332:s125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s125, (Published 1 April 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Career review part 3: the importance of research
	Anita Houghton
	BMJ  2006;332:s126-s127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s126, (Published 1 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality and morbidity meetings
	Wade Gayed, Sidiath Liyanage
	BMJ  2006;332:s127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s127, (Published 1 April 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Demystifying PMETB
	Beryl De Souza, Syed Nawaz, Chloe Critchley
	BMJ  2006;332:s128-s129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s128, (Published 1 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2006;332:s129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s129, (Published 1 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Me and my mentor
	Maire Cooney
	BMJ  2006;332:s130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.s130, (Published 1 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Peter Bernard Allan Kernoff
	Christine Lee, Clifford Welch, Hannah Kernoff
	BMJ  2006;332:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.797 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Alec James Ball
	Jenifer Ball, Chris Hudson
	BMJ  2006;332:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Erasmus Darwin Barlow
	G C Cook
	BMJ  2006;332:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Winifred Cornwell (née Drew)
	Alistair Marshall
	BMJ  2006;332:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Richard Gardner
	Janet Gray, Elizabeth Dobie
	BMJ  2006;332:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Haris Dias Jayasundere
	Remy Perumal
	BMJ  2006;332:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Rowland Jones
	Eira Hooper, John W Thompson
	BMJ  2006;332:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Walter Rostron Price
	Adrian Hamlyn
	BMJ  2006;332:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

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