22 January 2005 (Vol 330, Issue 7484)

This Week In the BMJ

Patients with direct access fix fewer outpatient appointments

BMJ 2005;330:0.4 (Published 20 January 2005)

Preventive effect of child safety equipment is debatable

BMJ 2005;330:0.5 (Published 20 January 2005)

Suicide: nationality matters in Estonia

BMJ 2005;330:0.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

Suicide: intelligence matters in Sweden

BMJ 2005;330:0.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Suicide: age and deprivation matter in Scotland

BMJ 2005;330:0.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

When in trouble, doctors flee to medicine-land

BMJ 2005;330:0.6 (Published 20 January 2005)

Editor's Choice

Explaining suicide

BMJ 2005;330:0.8 (Published 20 January 2005)

Editorials

George W Bush's second term

BMJ 2005;330:155 (Published 20 January 2005)

Opioids for persistent non-cancer pain

BMJ 2005;330:156 (Published 20 January 2005)

Reducing the transmission of genital herpes

BMJ 2005;330:157 (Published 20 January 2005)

Schizophrenia: a genetic disorder of the synapse?

BMJ 2005;330:158 (Published 20 January 2005)

Would regional government have been good for your health?

BMJ 2005;330:159 (Published 20 January 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Monitoring global health

BMJ 2005;330:195.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Monitoring global health

BMJ 2005;330:195.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Monitoring global health

BMJ 2005;330:195.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

Monitoring global health

BMJ 2005;330:196.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Limitations and potential of country of birth as proxy for ethnic group

BMJ 2005;330:196.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Specialised care for early psychosis

BMJ 2005;330:196.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

Specialised care for early psychosis

BMJ 2005;330:197.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Specialised care for early psychosis

BMJ 2005;330:197.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Computer assisted knee arthroplasty is here today

BMJ 2005;330:197.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

Preventing and treating hepatitis B infection

BMJ 2005;330:197.4 (Published 20 January 2005)

High risk groups are still not being vaccinated

BMJ 2005;330:198.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

High risk groups are still not being vaccinated

BMJ 2005;330:198.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

A prisoner of conscience in Vietnam

BMJ 2005;330:198.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

News

Rich nations should pay more to developing countries

BMJ 2005;330:161.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Eli Lilly defends itself against assertions in BMJ

BMJ 2005;330:161.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;330:162.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Royalty payments to staff researchers cause new NIH troubles

BMJ 2005;330:162.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Pfizer found guilty of breaching code

BMJ 2005;330:162.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

Drug company chiefs accept the need for more openness

BMJ 2005;330:163.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Children face same social problems as they did 100 years ago

BMJ 2005;330:163.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Generosity after tsunami could threaten neglected crises

BMJ 2005;330:165.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

Complementary medicine must prove its worth

BMJ 2005;330:166.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Delays in implementing e-booking threaten patient choice agenda

BMJ 2005;330:166.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Do we need to treat vulvovaginitis in prepubertal girls?

BMJ 2005;330:186 (Published 20 January 2005)

Activity in later life

BMJ 2005;330:189 (Published 20 January 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:204 (Published 20 January 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Only a few more deaths from vCJD likely in UK

BMJ 2005;330:164.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

New NHS IT system will preserve patient confidentiality

BMJ 2005;330:164.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Bush pushes for limit to medical malpractice awards

BMJ 2005;330:164.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

MPs disappointed by response to report on allergy services

BMJ 2005;330:164.4 (Published 20 January 2005)

FDA rejects sale of over the counter statins

BMJ 2005;330:164.5 (Published 20 January 2005)

US drug industry's claims of other countries “freeloading” are a myth

BMJ 2005;330:165.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

US health agency scales down plans for free, online research results

BMJ 2005;330:165.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Former Czech health minister could be jailed

BMJ 2005;330:166.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

Medical students should watch films that inspire compassion

BMJ 2005;330:166.4 (Published 20 January 2005)

Papers

Primary care

Learning in practice

How doctors discuss major interventions with high risk patients: an observational study

BMJ 2005;330:182 (Published 20 January 2005)

What the educators are saying

BMJ 2005;330:185 (Published 20 January 2005)

Education and debate

The marketing of a disease: female sexual dysfunction

BMJ 2005;330:192 (Published 20 January 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Essential Evidence-Based Medicine

BMJ 2005;330:201.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Caring for the Country: Family Doctors in Small Towns

BMJ 2005;330:201.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

NETLINES

BMJ 2005;330:202.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Hotel Rwanda

BMJ 2005;330:202.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Why January is a testing time for GPs

BMJ 2005;330:203.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Titles

BMJ 2005;330:203.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Fillers

Gastric acid suppression is associated with increased risk of pneumonia

BMJ 2005;330:0.7 (Published 20 January 2005)

Assessing your learning needs

BMJ 2005;330:170 (Published 20 January 2005)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2005;330:177 (Published 20 January 2005)

Complicity

BMJ 2005;330:181 (Published 20 January 2005)

Open your eyes

BMJ 2005;330:184 (Published 20 January 2005)

Corrections

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Dame Rosemary Rue

BMJ 2005;330:199 (Published 20 January 2005)

James Patrick Green

BMJ 2005;330:200.1 (Published 20 January 2005)

Robert Dougan Hill

BMJ 2005;330:200.2 (Published 20 January 2005)

Graham Douglas McLean

BMJ 2005;330:200.3 (Published 20 January 2005)

Jacqueline Muir

BMJ 2005;330:200.4 (Published 20 January 2005)

Paul Anthony Mullins

BMJ 2005;330:200.5 (Published 20 January 2005)

Olujimi Akanbi Soboyejo

BMJ 2005;330:200.6 (Published 20 January 2005)

David Anthony Hilton Yates

BMJ 2005;330:200.7 (Published 20 January 2005)