20 August 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7514)

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This Week In the BMJ

Mobile phones increase risk of having a road crash

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Cognitive behaviour therapy reduces symptom severity of irritable bowel syndrome

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 18 August 2005)

Studies that find publication bias are no more likely to be published than studies that don't

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 18 August 2005)

Telephone education reduces readmission for chronic heart failure

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Black people are more likely to survive a stroke than white people

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 18 August 2005)

Editor's Choice

Let's call it cardiac impairment

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 18 August 2005)

Editorials

H5N1 influenza and the implications for Europe

BMJ 2005;331:413 (Published 18 August 2005)

Survival after stroke in south London

BMJ 2005;331:414 (Published 18 August 2005)

Cardiac impairment or heart failure?

BMJ 2005;331:415 (Published 18 August 2005)

Preventing severe infection after splenectomy

BMJ 2005;331:417 (Published 18 August 2005)

Medical needs of immigrant populations

BMJ 2005;331:418 (Published 18 August 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Prognosis in obesity: Older people should not be misinformed about being overweight

BMJ 2005;331:452.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Prognosis in obesity: Obstacles must be removed to prevent obesity through increased physical activity

BMJ 2005;331:452.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Prognosis in obesity: Obesity in severe mental illness poses particular problems

BMJ 2005;331:452.3 (Published 18 August 2005)

Prognosis in obesity: Author's reply

BMJ 2005;331:453.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

BMJ 2005;331:453.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: Early feeding is crucial target for preventing obesity in children

BMJ 2005;331:453.3 (Published 18 August 2005)

Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: Authors' reply

BMJ 2005;331:454.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Problem is probably greater for women

BMJ 2005;331:454.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Dietary fat and sugar may hold the clue

BMJ 2005;331:454.3 (Published 18 August 2005)

Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Midlife obesity increases risk of future dementia

BMJ 2005;331:455.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Authors' reply

BMJ 2005;331:455.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Include measurement of waist circumference in GP contract

BMJ 2005;331:455.3 (Published 18 August 2005)

Audit is important part of drug safety and regulation

BMJ 2005;331:456.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Dissemination of results needs to be tracked as well as the funding is

BMJ 2005;331:456.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

News

Disparities in health widen between rich and poor in England

BMJ 2005;331:419 (Published 18 August 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:420.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Charity challenges US “anti-prostitution” restriction

BMJ 2005;331:420.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

US drug industry's guidelines on advertising too limited, say critics

BMJ 2005;331:420.3 (Published 18 August 2005)

UK government responds to call for change in reproduction technology

BMJ 2005;331:421.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Reading the bones

BMJ 2005;331:421.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Aid agencies ignored special needs of elderly people after tsunami

BMJ 2005;331:422.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Agencies scale up African relief

BMJ 2005;331:422.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:423 (Published 18 August 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Should a patient with primary intracerebral haemorrhage receive antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy?

BMJ 2005;331:439 (Published 18 August 2005)

Prevalence

BMJ 2005;331:443 (Published 18 August 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:464 (Published 18 August 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

US group lobbies UN to outlaw male circumcision

BMJ 2005;331:422.3 (Published 18 August 2005)

Canada tries once more to set public health goals

BMJ 2005;331:422.4 (Published 18 August 2005)

US groups set standards of outpatient care

BMJ 2005;331:422.5 (Published 18 August 2005)

UK sperm banks fail to meet WHO standards

BMJ 2005;331:422.6 (Published 18 August 2005)

Indian Supreme Court ruling makes arrest of doctors harder

BMJ 2005;331:422.7 (Published 18 August 2005)

WHO conference calls for health promotion to be at centre of development

BMJ 2005;331:422.8 (Published 18 August 2005)

Risk of death from heart attack varies according to when patients arrive at hospital, study finds

BMJ 2005;331:422.9 (Published 18 August 2005)

Papers

Randomised trial of telephone intervention in chronic heart failure: DIAL trial

BMJ 2005;331:425 (Published 18 August 2005)

Role of mobile phones in motor vehicle crashes resulting in hospital attendance: a case-crossover study

BMJ 2005;331:428 (Published 18 August 2005)

Survival differences after stroke in a multiethnic population: follow-up study with the south London stroke register

BMJ 2005;331:431 (Published 18 August 2005)

Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias

BMJ 2005;331:433 (Published 18 August 2005)

Primary care

Cognitive behaviour therapy in addition to antispasmodic treatment for irritable bowel syndrome in primary care: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;331:435 (Published 18 August 2005)

Red eye

BMJ 2005;331:438 (Published 18 August 2005)

Education and debate

Need for differential discounting of costs and health effects in cost effectiveness analyses

BMJ 2005;331:446 (Published 18 August 2005)

Malpractice in Mexico: arbitration not litigation

BMJ 2005;331:448 (Published 18 August 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Hearwear: The Future of Hearing

BMJ 2005;331:459 (Published 18 August 2005)

Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative; Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market

BMJ 2005;331:460 (Published 18 August 2005)

Press red button, donate kidney

BMJ 2005;331:461 (Published 18 August 2005)

The Constant Gardener

BMJ 2005;331:462.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Hit parade

BMJ 2005;331:462.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

The finger, the foot, my bone cancer

BMJ 2005;331:463.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Looking sideways

BMJ 2005;331:463.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Fillers

Antibiotics aren't needed for lower respiratory tract infection

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 18 August 2005)

A case of mouth in foot disease

BMJ 2005;331:427 (Published 18 August 2005)

A memorable doctor

BMJ 2005;331:434 (Published 18 August 2005)

Corrections

Hajj: journey of a lifetime

BMJ 2005;331:442.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Researcher fined for shredding records

BMJ 2005;331:442.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

UK stops short of outright smoking ban in enclosed public places

BMJ 2005;331:442.3 (Published 18 August 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Paddy Donaldson

BMJ 2005;331:457.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

William Guy Daynes

BMJ 2005;331:457.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Anthony Brendan Field

BMJ 2005;331:458.1 (Published 18 August 2005)

Kenneth Edward Gray

BMJ 2005;331:458.2 (Published 18 August 2005)

Michael John Grayson

BMJ 2005;331:458.3 (Published 18 August 2005)

Eric Kurt Ledermann

BMJ 2005;331:458.4 (Published 18 August 2005)

John Leslie

BMJ 2005;331:458.5 (Published 18 August 2005)

Freda Susanne Reed

BMJ 2005;331:458.6 (Published 18 August 2005)