24 September 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7518)

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This Week In the BMJ

Antenatal steroids may have no long term side effects

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

Treat status epilepticus with benzodiazepine followed by phenytoin

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 22 September 2005)

Assisted dying: the debate goes on

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 22 September 2005)

Algorithm reduces antimicrobial prescriptions in urinary infections

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 22 September 2005)

Antenatal steroids reduce respiratory distress in babies

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Stuttering can be treated by early intervention

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Editor's Choice

A time to die

BMJ 2005;331:0.8 (Published 22 September 2005)

Editorials

Giving steroids before elective caesarean section

BMJ 2005;331:645 (Published 22 September 2005)

Safer prescribing for children

BMJ 2005;331:646 (Published 22 September 2005)

Stopping routine vaccination for tuberculosis in schools

BMJ 2005;331:647 (Published 22 September 2005)

The Japanese healthcare system

BMJ 2005;331:648 (Published 22 September 2005)

Series, PowerPoint slides, and folders now available on bmj.com

BMJ 2005;331:650 (Published 22 September 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Five futures for academic medicine

BMJ 2005;331:694.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Five futures for academic medicine

BMJ 2005;331:694.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Five futures for academic medicine

BMJ 2005;331:694.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

Five futures for academic medicine

BMJ 2005;331:695.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Five futures for academic medicine

BMJ 2005;331:695.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Five futures for academic medicine

BMJ 2005;331:695.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

Neonates must sometimes be allowed to die, but err in favour of life

BMJ 2005;331:695.4 (Published 22 September 2005)

Women doctors and their careers: what now?

BMJ 2005;331:696.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Women doctors and their careers: what now?

BMJ 2005;331:696.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Foundation year for newly qualified doctors

BMJ 2005;331:697.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Foundation year for newly qualified doctors

BMJ 2005;331:697.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Foundation year for newly qualified doctors

BMJ 2005;331:697.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

Foundation year for newly qualified doctors

BMJ 2005;331:697.4 (Published 22 September 2005)

Melanoma incidence has risen in Europe

BMJ 2005;331:698.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Government did not suppress health inequalities report

BMJ 2005;331:698.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Short term outcomes lead to long term questions

BMJ 2005;331:698.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

Israeli army's shoot to kill policy

BMJ 2005;331:699.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Letters - continued

Israeli army's shoot to kill policy

BMJ 2005;331:699.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

News

Inequality is barrier to global development, says World Bank

BMJ 2005;331:651.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

UN global summit disappoints aid groups

BMJ 2005;331:651.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:652.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Charity says NICE takes too long to assess cancer drugs

BMJ 2005;331:652.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

England lags behind Scotland in assessing cancer drug

BMJ 2005;331:652.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

Digital mammography is more accurate only for certain groups of women

BMJ 2005;331:653.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Doctors refuse space to group fighting drug company influence

BMJ 2005;331:653.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Students should spend part of training in rural hospitals

BMJ 2005;331:655.4 (Published 22 September 2005)

Men's life expectancy is catching up with women's

BMJ 2005;331:656.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Quarter of people with diabetes in England are undiagnosed

BMJ 2005;331:656.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:657 (Published 22 September 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Status epilepticus: an evidence based guide

BMJ 2005;331:673 (Published 22 September 2005)

Why is this patient here today?

BMJ 2005;331:678 (Published 22 September 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:704 (Published 22 September 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Surgeon wins £1.6m in race discrimination case

BMJ 2005;331:654.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Dutch researchers call for sex education in primary schools

BMJ 2005;331:654.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

International Committee of the Red Cross set to accept new symbol

BMJ 2005;331:654.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

GMC introduces tighter regulation for some and a lighter touch for others

BMJ 2005;331:654.4 (Published 22 September 2005)

Women and girls are still victims of violence in Darfur

BMJ 2005;331:654.5 (Published 22 September 2005)

Typhoid outbreak prompts protests over inadequate water system

BMJ 2005;331:655.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Thousands face compulsory treatment in the community under new UK act

BMJ 2005;331:655.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Older people's care needs a major overhaul

BMJ 2005;331:655.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Royal Society predicts that personalised medicines are still decades away

BMJ 2005;331:656.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

Extra NHS money spent on reviving previously neglected services

BMJ 2005;331:656.4 (Published 22 September 2005)

Health problems due to pesticides may be underestimated

BMJ 2005;331:656.5 (Published 22 September 2005)

Germany starts publishing hospital reports on internet

BMJ 2005;331:656.6 (Published 22 September 2005)

International Labour Organisation tackles work related injuries

BMJ 2005;331:656.7 (Published 22 September 2005)

Papers

Randomised controlled trial of the Lidcombe programme of early stuttering intervention

BMJ 2005;331:659 (Published 22 September 2005)

Antenatal betamethasone and incidence of neonatal respiratory distress after elective caesarean section: pragmatic randomised trial

BMJ 2005;331:662 (Published 22 September 2005)

Antenatal exposure to betamethasone: psychological functioning and health related quality of life 31 years after inclusion in randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;331:665 (Published 22 September 2005)

Primary care

Effect of a multifaceted intervention on number of antimicrobial prescriptions for suspected urinary tract infections in residents of nursing homes: cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;331:669 (Published 22 September 2005)

Education and debate

Time for change

BMJ 2005;331:681 (Published 22 September 2005)

Legalised euthanasia will violate the rights of vulnerable patients

BMJ 2005;331:684 (Published 22 September 2005)

Changes in BMA policy on assisted dying

BMJ 2005;331:686 (Published 22 September 2005)

Moral dimensions

BMJ 2005;331:689 (Published 22 September 2005)

Dutch experience of monitoring euthanasia

BMJ 2005;331:691 (Published 22 September 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Selling Sickness: How Drug Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients

BMJ 2005;331:701 (Published 22 September 2005)

Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History

BMJ 2005;331:702.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

EXIT—le droit de mourir

BMJ 2005;331:702.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Unlearning

BMJ 2005;331:703.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Risk management for academics

BMJ 2005;331:703.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Fillers

Endovascular repair is worse than open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 22 September 2005)

What's in October's studentBMJ?

BMJ 2005;331:661 (Published 22 September 2005)

Unexpected feedback

BMJ 2005;331:664 (Published 22 September 2005)

The holocaust and medicine—a learning moment

BMJ 2005;331:668 (Published 22 September 2005)

Academic medicine scenarios: final votes

BMJ 2005;331:672 (Published 22 September 2005)

Teaching the teacher a lesson

BMJ 2005;331:677 (Published 22 September 2005)

Health in Africa

BMJ 2005;331:683 (Published 22 September 2005)

Advantage of excess

BMJ 2005;331:685 (Published 22 September 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Alan Bremner

BMJ 2005;331:700.1 (Published 22 September 2005)

Bettina Jane (“Bee”) Eppel

BMJ 2005;331:700.2 (Published 22 September 2005)

Paul Goodson

BMJ 2005;331:700.3 (Published 22 September 2005)

Julius Kimerling

BMJ 2005;331:700.4 (Published 22 September 2005)

Brian Thomas Williams

BMJ 2005;331:700.5 (Published 22 September 2005)