Where next for the research assessment exercise?
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Hamstring autografts may be better than patellar tendon autografts [Full text]

	Don't forget the children of newly diagnosed cancer patients [Full text]

	Early social factors may affect adolescents' physical activity [Full text]

	Do English medical schools need a single admissions process? [Full text]

	Predicting the "strugglers" in medical school [Full text]

Editorials

	How should we rate research?
	F D Richard Hobbs, Paul M Stewart
	BMJ  2006;332:983-984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.983 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Creative destruction in the NHS
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2006;332:984-985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.984 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Depression should be managed like a chronic disease
	Jan Scott
	BMJ  2006;332:985-986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.985 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cure of cutaneous melanoma
	J Meirion Thomas, Victoria Giblin
	BMJ  2006;332:987-988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.987 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	New UK policy on overseas doctors: What future for international medical graduates in the NHS?
	Nigel G Richardson, Omatseye Edema
	BMJ  2006;332:1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1033 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New UK policy on overseas doctors: International medical graduates invest £7500 in getting first job
	Sasi Attili
	BMJ  2006;332:1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1033-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New UK policy on overseas doctors: Also affects international medical graduates graduating from UK institutions
	Jin-Liang James Tee
	BMJ  2006;332:1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1033-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New UK policy on overseas doctors: Has far reaching effects
	Laxmikanth Bangaru
	BMJ  2006;332:1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1033-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New UK policy on overseas doctors: Thank God for the American Dream
	Naren Gupta
	BMJ  2006;332:1033-1034, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1033-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New ethical framework for pharmaceutical physicians
	Rubin Minhas
	BMJ  2006;332:1034, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1034 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Role of MRI in diagnosing multiple sclerosis: Magnetic resonance imaging is valuable
	David H Miller
	BMJ  2006;332:1034, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1034-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Role of MRI in diagnosing multiple sclerosis: Early diagnosis using MRI and early treatment delays disease conversion
	Bharani Padmanabhan
	BMJ  2006;332:1034-1035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1034-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Textbook of Pharmaceutical Medicine warns of trial risks
	Chek C Chan
	BMJ  2006;332:1035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1035 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: Results are difficult to interpret because of limitations
	Lennart Hardell, Kjell Hansson Mild
	BMJ  2006;332:1035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1035-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: Study has many flaws
	L Lloyd Morgan
	BMJ  2006;332:1035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1035-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: Conclusions are questionable
	Michael Kundi
	BMJ  2006;332:1035-1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1035-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fetuses can feel pain
	Mark Tighe
	BMJ  2006;332:1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1036 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Predictive value of metabolic syndrome is not clear
	Richard J Jarrett
	BMJ  2006;332:1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1036-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical research in primary care needs urgent boost
	Roger Jones
	BMJ  2006;332:1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1036-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Paired kidney transplants to start in the United Kingdom
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.989 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	International medical graduates protest at UK visa changes
	Balaji Ravichandran
	BMJ  2006;332:989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.989-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;332:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.990 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	The public needs better understanding of drug regulation
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.990-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Payment offered to injured trial participants has strings attached
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.990-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US scientists urge overhaul of clinical trials to restore confidence
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:991, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.991 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Conflicts of interest are common at FDA
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2006;332:991, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.991-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors charged with ensuring dignity for older patients
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2006;332:993, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.993-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	All change for funding of medical research in the United Kingdom
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.994 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	France urged to close high risk operating theatres
	Brad Spurgeon
	BMJ  2006;332:992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.992 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bush administration promotes health savings accounts
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.992-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Screen Camelford residents, researchers say, after woman’s death linked to poisoned water supply
	Kaye McIntosh
	BMJ  2006;332:992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.992-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	A few health insurers monopolise US market
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.992-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Generic medicines could rescue EU governments’ spending
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2006;332:992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.992-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Legalising assisted dying does not affect palliative care, says US expert
	Balaji Ravichandran
	BMJ  2006;332:993, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.993 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bird flu adds to Sudan�s woes as UN warns of risk to aid operations
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2006;332:993, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.993-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK has inadequate services for victims of sexual assault
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;332:993, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.993-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Research

	Bone-patellar tendon-bone autografts versus hamstring autografts for reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligament: meta-analysis
	David J Biau, Caroline Tournoux, Sandrine Katsahian, Peter J Schranz, Rémy S Nizard
	BMJ  2006;332:995-1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38784.384109.2F, (Published 7 April 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

	Breast cancer in the family—children's perceptions of their mother's cancer and its initial treatment: qualitative study
	Gillian Forrest, Caroline Plumb, Sue Ziebland, Alan Stein
	BMJ  2006;332:998-1003, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38793.567801.AE, (Published 13 April 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Early determinants of physical activity in adolescence: prospective birth cohort study
	Pedro C Hallal, Jonathan C K Wells, Felipe F Reichert, Luciana Anselmi, Cesar G Victora
	BMJ  2006;332:1002-1007, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38776.434560.7C, (Published 6 April 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Admissions processes for five year medical courses at English schools: review
	Jayne Parry, Jonathan Mathers, Andrew Stevens, Amanda Parsons, Richard Lilford, Peter Spurgeon, Hywel Thomas
	BMJ  2006;332:1005-1009, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38768.590174.55, (Published 16 March 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Standardising the process versus improving the methods
	Geoffrey R Norman
	BMJ  2006;332:1008-1009, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38776.497627.55, (Published 16 March 2006) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Predicting the "strugglers": a case-control study of students at Nottingham University Medical School
	Janet Yates, David James
	BMJ  2006;332:1009-1013, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38730.678310.63, (Published 16 March 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Sub-analysis of strugglers] FREE

Clinical review

	Diagnosis and treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection
	Keyur Patel, Andrew J Muir, John G McHutchison
	BMJ  2006;332:1013-1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1013 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional information]

Practice

	The patient's journey: living with diabetes
	Sali Davis
	BMJ  2006;332:1018-1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1018 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Normal skull suture variant mimicking intentional injury
	P Weir, N J Suttner, P Flynn, D McAuley
	BMJ  2006;332:1020-1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1020 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: Principles of control of cancer pain
	Marie Fallon, Geoffrey Hanks, Nathan Cherny
	BMJ  2006;332:1022-1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1022 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;332:1025-1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1025 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Health policy: Should we screen for depression?
	Simon Gilbody, Trevor Sheldon, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2006;332:1027-1030, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1027 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	Health policy: The case for psychological treatment centres
	Richard Layard
	BMJ  2006;332:1030-1032, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1030 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	TV: Drug Trials—the Dark Side: This World
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2006;332:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1039 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: Indian film-maker tackles hypochondriasis
	Sanjit Bagchi
	BMJ  2006;332:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1040 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Helping Patients Understand Risks: 7 Simple Strategies for Successful Communication
	Domhnall MacAuley
	BMJ  2006;332:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1040-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal view: A way out for the conscientious objector: "become" a mental patient
	Daniel Moldavsky
	BMJ  2006;332:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1041 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings: Glimpses of the past
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2006;332:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1041-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;332:1042, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1042 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Giving up smoking is easier for patients with access to telephone counselling
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A funny kind of flu
	Hyman Davies
	BMJ  2006;332:1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1001 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consciousness: a surprising encounter
	John Spencer
	BMJ  2006;332:1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1017 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: 70 year old man with scrotal swelling, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and renal lesions
	BMJ  2006;332:1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1021 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The cultivation of liquorice in Mesopotamia
	BMJ  2006;332:1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1021-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Factors influencing death at home in terminally ill patients with cancer: systematic review
	BMJ  2006;332:1012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1012 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reproductive outcome after chromosome analysis in couples with two or more miscarriages: case-control study
	BMJ  2006;332:1012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1012-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	I have recently joined as a staff grade in obstetrics and gynaecology for 12 sessions a week. I want to know how many sessions for administration, study, teaching, CPD, special interest, non-clinical commitments that staff grades are entitled to. What are the rules regarding prospective cover, and should I be paid for an extra session if I am working for 12 sessions? Is there any compensation for the prospective cover?
	Romeh Gupta
	BMJ  2006;332:s164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s164, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What should I ask a GP practice before becoming a partner?
	Judith Harvey
	BMJ  2006;332:s164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s164-a, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am a first year resident in radiology at the Moscow medical academy in Sechenov, currently posted at the Russian cardiac research centre. I want to work as a radiologist in the United Kingdom. What are the requirements to gain training there?
	Alan Denison
	BMJ  2006;332:s164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s164-b, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:gp165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.sgp165, (Published 29 April 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The Kiwi experience
	Ellen Welch
	BMJ  2006;332:gp165-gp166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.sgp165-a, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:s165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s165, (Published 29 April 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The Kiwi experience
	Ellen Welch
	BMJ  2006;332:s165-s166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s165-a, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Australia needs you
	V Garbharran
	BMJ  2006;332:s167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s167, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Productive science across the pond
	Andrew Solomon
	BMJ  2006;332:s168-s169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s168, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Organising a research visit to a laboratory abroad with biological research samples
	Andrew Solomon
	BMJ  2006;332:s169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s169, (Published 29 April 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Across the Atlantic
	Faiuna Haseeb
	BMJ  2006;332:s170-s171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s170, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surgery—the Bajan experience
	Edward Howard
	BMJ  2006;332:s172-s173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s172, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A year in South Africa—a home for the lost tribe?
	Steve Reid
	BMJ  2006;332:s174-s175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s174, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
	Leyla Sanai
	BMJ  2006;332:s176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.s176, (Published 29 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Sir Henry Yellowlees
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2006;332:1037, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	Rupert Bennett
	Clyde Mitchell, Mark Taylor
	BMJ  2006;332:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1038 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Harry Howard Glyn
	K W Symons
	BMJ  2006;332:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1038-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alastair Macaulay
	Henry H Gebbie
	BMJ  2006;332:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1038-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Brendan Francis MacCarthy
	Marcus Johns, Philip MacCarthy
	BMJ  2006;332:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1038-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Mein Main
	M G Roberts
	BMJ  2006;332:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1038-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Barbara Jean Roberts (née Simpson)
	Jean Graves
	BMJ  2006;332:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1038-e [Extract] [Full text]

	George Battersby Shuttleworth Roberts
	Walter G S Spilg
	BMJ  2006;332:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1038-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Roderick
	J A J Roderick
	BMJ  2006;332:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.1038-g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Career focus

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Jenny Kowalczuk on the 11th European Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare [Full text]

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