Intelligent analysis
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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	Prehospital penicillin for meningococcal disease might be harmful... [Full text]

	...but such findings are likely to be confounded by disease severity [Full text]

	COX 2 inhibitors and some NSAIDs increase the risk of vascular events [Full text]

	Cardiologists provide best care for patients with MI [Full text]

	Dieting for six months pays off irrespective of the regimen [Full text]

Editorials

	Parenteral penicillin before admission to hospital for meningitis
	Duncan Keeley
	BMJ  2006;332:1283-1284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1283 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 - w8]

	The BBC diet trials
	David Arterburn
	BMJ  2006;332:1284-1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1284 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	More money for medical research
	Alistair McGuire, Maria Raikou
	BMJ  2006;332:1285-1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1285 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving health care through redesign
	Derek Bell, Nicki McNaney, Mike Jones
	BMJ  2006;332:1286-1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1286 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 - w8]

	Life without COX 2 inhibitors
	Allen F Shaughnessy, Andrea E Gordon
	BMJ  2006;332:1287-1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1287 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 - w7]

Letters

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	Empyema thoracis is still increasing in UK children
	David A Spencer, Shaikh Mohammed Iqbal, Asif Hasan, Leslie Hamilton
	BMJ  2006;332:1333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1333 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on pneumonia: Clinical judgment is also needed with CURB score
	Kirsty Challen, Darren Walter, John Bright, Andrew Bentley
	BMJ  2006;332:1333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1333-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on pneumonia: "Surviving Sepsis" campaign may contradict CURB score
	Thomas M Oates
	BMJ  2006;332:1333-1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1333-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on pneumonia: Treatment of MRSA in community acquired pneumonia
	James Greig, Peter Jenks
	BMJ  2006;332:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1334 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pulmonary tuberculosis: diagnosis and management: Interferon test is new advance in diagnosis...
	Sarah Farrow
	BMJ  2006;332:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1334-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pulmonary tuberculosis: diagnosis and management: ... and barrier nursing is recommended in management
	C V Praveen
	BMJ  2006;332:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1334-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Benefits of family mealtimes for nursing home residents: Study is step in the right direction
	John C Oldroyd
	BMJ  2006;332:1334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1334-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Benefits of family mealtimes for nursing home residents: Protecting mealtimes may similarly benefit elderly inpatients
	Abhay K Das, Tina McDougall, Jacqueline A J Smithson, Robert M West
	BMJ  2006;332:1334-1335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1334-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethnic misclassifications hamper progress in research
	Charles Agyemang
	BMJ  2006;332:1335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1335 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Self harm in Goth youth subculture: authors' reply
	Robert Young, Helen Sweeting, Patrick West
	BMJ  2006;332:1335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1335-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Can general practitioners compete with big business?: Changing drivers in the NHS
	Elizabeth D Barrett
	BMJ  2006;332:1335-1336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1335-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Can general practitioners compete with big business?: NHS privatisation was piloted in prisons
	Andrew J Ashworth
	BMJ  2006;332:1336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1336 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Healthcare crisis in Gaza: the BMA responds
	Vivienne Nathanson
	BMJ  2006;332:1336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1336-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Nearly 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1289 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Indonesia seeks supplies for earthquake survivors
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;332:1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1289-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;332:1290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1290 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Agency criticises drug trial
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:1290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1290-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Avian flu tops WHA agenda
	Tessa Richards, Christiane Rehwagen
	BMJ  2006;332:1290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1290-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	European public health funding is cut back
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2006;332:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1291 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	India will expand number of medical school places after protests
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2006;332:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1291-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Portrait gallery displays a picture of health
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;332:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1291-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	World Bank warns of financial crises in healthcare systems
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2006;332:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1293-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Morals, memes, and gerin oil
	Balaji Ravichandran
	BMJ  2006;332:1294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1294-e [Extract] [Full text]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Patients’ satisfaction with the NHS is growing, survey shows
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2006;332:1292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1292 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Marijuana use in early pregnancy increases child’s risk of cancer
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;332:1292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1292-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Neighbours complain about Dignitas clinic’s bodies in lift
	Clare Chapman
	BMJ  2006;332:1292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1292-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Two thirds of US intensive care patients get suboptimal care
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:1292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1292-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE recommends aromatase inhibitors for early breast cancer
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2006;332:1292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1292-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Uninsured Dutch patients are being denied hospital care, say doctors
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2006;332:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1293 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US experts revise heart treatment guidelines
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;332:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1293-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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	More than 100 000 Europeans die prematurely each year from drinking, report warns
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:1294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1294-a [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO alliance aims to tackle the world’s lack of health workers
	Christiane Rehwagen
	BMJ  2006;332:1294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1294-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Health assembly resolves to support final stages of polio eradication
	Christiane Rehwagen
	BMJ  2006;332:1294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1294-c [Extract] [Full text]

	More than 200 excess infant deaths a year in England and Wales are associated with multiple births after assisted conception
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;332:1294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1294-d [Extract] [Full text]

Research

	Parenteral penicillin for children with meningococcal disease before hospital admission: case-control study
	Anthony Harnden, Nelly Ninis, Matthew Thompson, Rafael Perera, Michael Levin, David Mant, Richard Mayon-White
	BMJ  2006;332:1295-1298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38789.723611.55, (Published 22 March 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Statistics and death from meningococcal disease in children
	Rafael Perera
	BMJ  2006;332:1297-1298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1297 [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of antibiotics given before admission in reducing mortality from meningococcal disease: systematic review
	Susan J M Hahné, André Charlett, Bernadette Purcell, Susanne Samuelsson, Ivonne Camaroni, Ingrid Ehrhard, Sigrid Heuberger, Maria Santamaria, James M Stuart
	BMJ  2006;332:1299-1303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1299 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Do selective cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors and traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs increase the risk of atherothrombosis? Meta-analysis of randomised trials
	Patricia M Kearney, Colin Baigent, Jon Godwin, Heather Halls, Jonathan R Emberson, Carlo Patrono
	BMJ  2006;332:1302-1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1302 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Impact of specialty of admitting physician and type of hospital on care and outcome for myocardial infarction in England and Wales during 2004-5: observational study
	John S Birkhead, Clive Weston, Derek Lowe, National Audit of Myocardial Infarction Project (MINAP) Steering Group
	BMJ  2006;332:1306-1311, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38849.440914.AE, (Published 16 May 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of four commercial weight loss programmes in the UK: initial findings from the BBC "diet trials"
	Helen Truby, Sue Baic, Anne deLooy, Kenneth R Fox, M Barbara E Livingstone, Catherine M Logan, Ian A Macdonald, Linda M Morgan, Moira A Taylor, D Joe Millward
	BMJ  2006;332:1309-1314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38833.411204.80, (Published 23 May 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Differences in risk factors for partial and no immunisation in the first year of life: prospective cohort study
	Lamiya Samad, A Rosemary Tate, Carol Dezateux, Catherine Peckham, Neville Butler, Helen Bedford
	BMJ  2006;332:1312-1313, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1312 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Socially or materially marginal children are less likely to be fully immunised—a systems response
	Peter Crampton, Julia Carr
	BMJ  2006;332:1314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1314 [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Diagnosis and management of gout
	Martin Underwood
	BMJ  2006;332:1315-1319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1315 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Quality improvement report: Improving surveillance for Barrett's oesophagus
	Peter A Bampton, Anne Schloithe, Jeff Bull, Robert J Fraser, Rob T A Padbury, David I Watson
	BMJ  2006;332:1320-1323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1320 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Smoking cessation
	Prasima Srivastava, Graeme P Currie, John Britton
	BMJ  2006;332:1324-1326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1324 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;332:1327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1327 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis and Comment

	Quality improvement: Saving 100 000 lives in US hospitals
	C Joseph McCannon, Marie W Schall, David R Calkins, Alexander G Nazem
	BMJ  2006;332:1328-1330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1328 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Controversy: Should we lower cholesterol as much as possible?
	Uffe Ravnskov, Paul J Rosch, Morley C Sutter, Mark C Houston
	BMJ  2006;332:1330-1332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1330 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Press: Woolly views on alternative treatments
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2006;332:1339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1339 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2006;332:1340, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1340 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Web: Dr Pod's Healthcast
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2006;332:1340, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1340-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal view: Letter to God
	Paul Brown
	BMJ  2006;332:1341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1341 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings: Clinical myths
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2006;332:1341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1341-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;332:1342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1342 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Light therapy and fluoxetine both work in seasonal affective disorder
	BMJ  2006;332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Parent power
	James Leonard
	BMJ  2006;332:1301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1301 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A warning to scholars
	Elizabeth Wager
	BMJ  2006;332:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1305 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: What's in a name
	Helen Mary Worthington
	BMJ  2006;332:1311, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1311 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A shaky moment
	Debjit Chatterjee
	BMJ  2006;332:1314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1314-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Physician, treat thyself
	Erle C H Lim, Raymond C S Seet
	BMJ  2006;332:1323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1323 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Cannabis intoxication and fatal road crashes in France: population based case-control study
	BMJ  2006;332:1298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1298 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editor's choice: Improving on improvement
	BMJ  2006;332:1298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1298-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Active and passive smoking and development of glucose intolerance among young adults in a prospective cohort: CARDIA study
	BMJ  2006;332:1298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1298-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	On the go
	BMJ  2006;332:s218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s218, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	International medical graduates
	BMJ  2006;332:s218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s218-a, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Your shout
	BMJ  2006;332:s218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s218-b, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Eastern promise
	BMJ  2006;332:s218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s218-c, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	No news is good news
	BMJ  2006;332:s218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s218-d, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Once a doctor always a doctor
	BMJ  2006;332:s218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s218-e, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Money, money, money
	BMJ  2006;332:s218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s218-f, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;332:gp219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.sgp219, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	this week
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2006;332:s219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s219, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New visa regulations—the IMG perspective
	Koshy Eapen, Jajini Varghese
	BMJ  2006;332:s219-s220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s219-a, (Published 3 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diploma in Cognitive Analytic Therapy (PGDipCAT)
	Obianuju Ugochukwu
	BMJ  2006;332:gp221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.sgp221, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Writing a transfer letter
	Vivian A Elwell
	BMJ  2006;332:gp221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.sgp221-a, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Choosing your hospital specialty
	Shelley Heard
	BMJ  2006;332:s221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s221, (Published 3 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Making an educational video
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2006;332:s222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s222, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Intensive time
	Katy Miller
	BMJ  2006;332:s222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s222-a, (Published 3 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors working in prison: human rights and ethical dilemmas
	Muriel Volpellier
	BMJ  2006;332:s223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s223, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to be the nurses' favourite doctor
	Elina Kiverniti
	BMJ  2006;332:s223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s223-a, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The long and winding roads
	Tania Fisher
	BMJ  2006;332:s224-s225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s224, (Published 3 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Free online content for doctors and patients
	Umar Sadat
	BMJ  2006;332:s226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s226, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Dressing for success
	Anjum Doshani
	BMJ  2006;332:s226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.s226-a, (Published 3 June 2006) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Lee Jong-wook
	Michael Day
	BMJ  2006;332:1337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1337 [Extract] [Full text]

	John Hilary Ebbetts
	Christine Barlow
	BMJ  2006;332:1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1338 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Leszek Stanislaw Galazka
	Dermot Lynch
	BMJ  2006;332:1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1338-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Frederick Brian Gibberd
	Ronald Zeegen
	BMJ  2006;332:1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1338-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	George Bryan Gillett
	David Wilkinson
	BMJ  2006;332:1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1338-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Guillaume Lam Shang ("Bill") Leen
	Alex E Clason
	BMJ  2006;332:1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1338-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thomas ("Tom") John Parkinson
	Charlotte J S Duff
	BMJ  2006;332:1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1338-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Clement John ("Jack") White
	D Davies
	BMJ  2006;332:1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1338-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

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