Not for wimps
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Ethnicity can affect risk of adverse drug reactions [Full text]

	Family-style mealtimes are good for nursing home residents [Full text]

	A second prion protein genotype may be susceptible to vCJD [Full text]

	School based HIV education courses should be more successful [Full text]

	HIV positive children were underdosed with antiretrovirals [Full text]

Editorials

	Ethnicity and adverse drug reactions
	Erik Eliasson
	BMJ  2006;332:1163-1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A new human genotype prone to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
	Kumanan Wilson, Maura N Ricketts
	BMJ  2006;332:1164-1165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1164 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improved food intake in frail older people
	Anne C Milne, Alison Avenell, Jan Potter
	BMJ  2006;332:1165-1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1165 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Decent health care for older people
	Jacqueline Morris, David Beaumont, David Oliver
	BMJ  2006;332:1166-1168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38835.669850.47, (Published 5 May 2006) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Peripheral arterial disease: still on the periphery?
	Jill Belch, Gerry Stansby
	BMJ  2006;332:1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1213 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pneumonia: Are we putting the CURB score into practice?
	D Owen, Tamara Shiner, Ramachandran Sivakumar, Richard Dent, Christopher Hilton
	BMJ  2006;332:1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1213-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pneumonia: Macrolides or amoxicillin for community acquired pneumonia?
	Federico Marchetti, Irene Berti
	BMJ  2006;332:1213-1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1213-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pneumonia: Be alert to underlying malignancy in follow up of pneumonia...
	Iain R Crossingham, Rebecca Grue
	BMJ  2006;332:1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1214 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pneumonia: ... and to tuberculosis as differential diagnosis in community acquired pneumonia
	Takeharu Koga, Hisamichi Aizawa
	BMJ  2006;332:1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1214-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pneumonia: Let's avoid confusion of secondary and primary care issues in pneumonia
	Wei Shen Lim, Zara Hoare
	BMJ  2006;332:1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1214-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How should we rate research?: Counting number of publications may be best research performance measure
	Bruce G Charlton, Peter Andras
	BMJ  2006;332:1214-1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1214-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How should we rate research?: Cost of research should be disclosed publicly
	Ludovic Reveiz
	BMJ  2006;332:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1215 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How should we rate research?: Pedigree: paternity and progeny
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  2006;332:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1215-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Self harm in Goth youth subculture: Study merely reinforces popular stereotypes
	Michelle Phillipov
	BMJ  2006;332:1215-1216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1215-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Self harm in Goth youth subculture: Conclusion relates only to small sample
	Mark Taubert, Jothy Kandasamy
	BMJ  2006;332:1216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1216 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rectal quinine for malaria: Risk of hypoglycaemia may be higher by rectal route
	Prasanta Padhan
	BMJ  2006;332:1216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1216-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rectal quinine for malaria: Authors' reply
	H Barennes, E Pussard
	BMJ  2006;332:1216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1216-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New term may be needed for data categorisation
	Charles Normand
	BMJ  2006;332:1216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1216-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time for evidence based rewards?
	Glenn F Cornish
	BMJ  2006;332:1216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1216-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	UK House of Lords rejects physician assisted suicide
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:1169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1169 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	CDC to call for routine AIDS testing for people aged 13-64
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:1169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1169-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;332:1170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1170 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Charity warns of climate impact on poorer nations
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;332:1170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1170-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Gap in contraceptive use between rich and poor is growing in US
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:1170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1170-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Aid withdrawal is bringing health service in Gaza to brink of collapse
	Chris McGreal
	BMJ  2006;332:1171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1171 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Poor checks for bedside blood transfusion put patients at risk
	Robert Short
	BMJ  2006;332:1171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1171-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Can GPs compete with big business?
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2006;332:1172-1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1172 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Roche denies claims it sacked employee for "whistle blowing"
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2006;332:1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1175-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	AIDS in Russia—glasnost arrives at last
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	HFEA widens its criteria for preimplantation genetic diagnosis
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1174 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Electronic archive of 16 journals dating back 200 years is launched
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2006;332:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1174-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Switzerland launches naked poster campaign to stop AIDS
	Katy Duke
	BMJ  2006;332:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1174-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	PLoS launches open access journal for clinical trials
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1174-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Clinical trials funded by profit making organisations tend to find positive results
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1174-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Manufacturer admits increase in suicidal behaviour in patients taking paroxetine
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2006;332:1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1175 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	To expunge politically sensitive topics from medical journals is “folly”
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2006;332:1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1175-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS must reimburse patients treated abroad because of delays at home
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2006;332:1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1175-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Tomsk—a glimpse of one Russian region’s experience with HIV/AIDS
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1176-a [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO ultimatum on artemisinin monotherapy is showing results
	Christiane Rehwagen
	BMJ  2006;332:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1176-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Indian pressure group challenges company’s right to patent AIDS drug
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2006;332:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1176-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Screening newborn babies for hearing defects is effective, pilot finds
	Pat Hagan
	BMJ  2006;332:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1176-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Tobacco company considered funding a film to promote smoking in eastern Europe
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;332:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1176-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Body consults to balance public health against private rights
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1176-f [Extract] [Full text]

Research

	Systematic review and meta-analysis of ethnic differences in risks of adverse reactions to drugs used in cardiovascular medicine
	Sarah E McDowell, Jamie J Coleman, R E Ferner
	BMJ  2006;332:1177-1181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38803.528113.55, (Published 5 May 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

	Effect of family style mealtimes on quality of life, physical performance, and body weight of nursing home residents: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Kristel A N D Nijs, Cees de Graaf, Frans J Kok, Wija A van Staveren
	BMJ  2006;332:1180-1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38825.401181.7C, (Published 5 May 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Underdosing of antiretrovirals in UK and Irish children with HIV as an example of problems in prescribing medicines to children, 1997-2005: cohort study
	Esse N Menson, A Sarah Walker, Mike Sharland, Carole Wells, Gareth Tudor-Williams, F Andrew I Riordan, E G Hermione Lyall, Diana M Gibb, collaborative HIV paediatric study steering committee
	BMJ  2006;332:1183-1187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1183 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: prion protein genotype analysis of positive appendix tissue samples from a retrospective prevalence study
	James W Ironside, Matthew T Bishop, Kelly Connolly, Doha Hegazy, Suzanne Lowrie, Margaret Le Grice, Diane L Ritchie, Linda M McCardle, David A Hilton
	BMJ  2006;332:1186-1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38804.511644.55, (Published 10 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	HIV prevention in Mexican schools: prospective randomised evaluation of intervention
	Dilys Walker, Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Pilar Torres, Stefano M Bertozzi
	BMJ  2006;332:1189-1194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38796.457407.80, (Published 8 May 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables] FREE

	Drug points: Gabapentin may cause reversible visual field constriction
	Svein Ivar Bekkelund, Hallvard Lilleng, Stig Tønseth
	BMJ  2006;332:1193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1193 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Perimetry] FREE

Clinical review

	Pulmonary tuberculosis: diagnosis and treatment
	Ian A Campbell, Oumou Bah-Sow
	BMJ  2006;332:1194-1197, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1194 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Interactive case report: 70 year old man with scrotal swelling, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and renal lesions: case outcome
	Saroj Kumar Das, Devdatta Sarwate, J K Mordani, K J Ng, Mark Nel
	BMJ  2006;332:1198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1198 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Patient's view
	William Mahon, Saroj Kumar Das
	BMJ  2006;332:1199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1199 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Team perspective
	Saroj Kumar Das, Devdatta Sarwate, J K Mordani, K J Ng, Mark Nel
	BMJ  2006;332:1199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1199-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Vascular lessons
	Roger N Baird
	BMJ  2006;332:1200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1200 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: A difficult diagnosis
	Sanjiv Agarwal
	BMJ  2006;332:1200-1201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1200-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Interactivity and case learning
	Ed Peile
	BMJ  2006;332:1201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1201 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Pathology, pathogenesis, and pathophysiology
	William MacNee
	BMJ  2006;332:1202-1204, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1202 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks, Balaji Ravichandran
	BMJ  2006;332:1205-1206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1205 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Health education: What social marketing can do for you
	BMJ  2006;332:1207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1207 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How social marketing works in health care
	W Douglas Evans
	BMJ  2006;332:1207-1210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1207-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Putting social marketing into practice
	Gerard Hastings, Laura McDermott
	BMJ  2006;332:1210-1212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1210 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Summary]

Reviews

	Film: Ways of seeing
	Richard Hurley
	BMJ  2006;332:1219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1219 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Hollywood fights bird flu
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2006;332:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1220 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
	Alfredo Morabia
	BMJ  2006;332:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1220-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal view: Which patients with which needs are leading the patient-led NHS?
	Diana M Jelley
	BMJ  2006;332:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1221 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings: Souls in cages
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2006;332:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1221-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;332:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1222 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors are associated with increased risk of suicide in older people
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prescribing for RITA
	Giridhar P Kalamangalam
	BMJ  2006;332:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1188 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Computers and compassion
	Rajesh K Choudhary
	BMJ  2006;332:1192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1192 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: Reusable learning objects
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2006;332:1193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1193-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Knives rather than swords
	Michelle J Thompson
	BMJ  2006;332:1201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1201-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Optimistic lies
	J G Fairer
	BMJ  2006;332:1212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1212 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	I stupidly acquired a conviction for being drunk in charge of (walking with) a moped early on in medical school, and was told at the time by (inexperienced) solicitors that it might not matter, so have tried to forget about it entirely. Applications for the F1/F2 years are due in October. What does this mean realistically for getting jobs in the next few years, and does it make me substantially less competitive from thereon?
	Graeme Cunningham
	BMJ  2006;332:s198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s198, (Published 20 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am a staff grade doctor in accident and emergency, and a member of the Royal College of Physicians. How will the advent of MMC affect any future decisions to enter specialist training in accident and emergency, or do vocational training, or train in another specialty (from SHO level?)
	Bill Irish
	BMJ  2006;332:s198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s198-a, (Published 20 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am currently approaching my third year of specialist training in endocrinology/diabetes. I now feel that I have made the wrong choice and would like to change specialty to gastroenterology. How easy or feasible would this be? Would the year of high intensity medicine at SpR level be counted at all for another number?
	Rebecca Fitzgerald
	BMJ  2006;332:s198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s198-b, (Published 20 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am a Malaysian citizen, contemplating going to either the UK or the Republic of Ireland to study medicine. Is a UK degree recognised in the Republic of Ireland, and vice versa? By that I mean, would one have to sit for any special exams before seeking a job in the other country?
	Jim Sherifi
	BMJ  2006;332:s198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s198-c, (Published 20 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;332:gp199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.sgp199, (Published 20 May 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The new MRCGP exam
	Patrick Hutt
	BMJ  2006;332:gp199-gp200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.sgp199-a, (Published 20 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;332:s199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s199, (Published 20 May 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I'm only on the end of the phone
	Mona Freeman
	BMJ  2006;332:s199-s200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s199-a, (Published 20 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Being on call from home
	Mona Freeman
	BMJ  2006;332:s200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s200, (Published 20 May 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors should undergo manual handling training
	Rachel Hooke
	BMJ  2006;332:s201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s201, (Published 20 May 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Midlife crisis or life begins?
	Sheila Dawson
	BMJ  2006;332:s202-s203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s202, (Published 20 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Combining specialist registrar training with pregnancy
	Fiona McDonald
	BMJ  2006;332:s203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s203, (Published 20 May 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 4626 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron
	Nancy Sharman
	BMJ  2006;332:s204-s205, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s204, (Published 20 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Me and my mentor—Mike Shooter on David Clark
	Maire Cooney
	BMJ  2006;332:s206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.s206, (Published 20 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Watson Buchanan
	George Nuki
	BMJ  2006;332:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1217 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Graham Herbert Anderson
	John H Chippendale
	BMJ  2006;332:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1218 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Michael Charles Connell
	Michael Gallant
	BMJ  2006;332:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1218-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John ("Ian") Gowan Gray
	John Buchanan
	BMJ  2006;332:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1218-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Sam Porter Millar
	John Millar
	BMJ  2006;332:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1218-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Donagh Declan O'Brien
	Donogh O'Brien, Norman Kirby
	BMJ  2006;332:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1218-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Stanley Andrew Thomson
	Robin S Thomson
	BMJ  2006;332:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1218-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Anthony John ("Tony") Whitaker
	P T Bull, M J Mowbray
	BMJ  2006;332:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1218-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

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