08 October 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7520)

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Editor's Choice

Evidence not ideology

BMJ 2005;331:0.9 (Published 6 October 2005)

News

Nobel prize is awarded to doctors who discovered H pylori

BMJ 2005;331:795.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Alternative therapies could save the NHS money, says report commissioned by Prince Charles

BMJ 2005;331:795.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:796.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

UN appoints official to combat threat from avian flu

BMJ 2005;331:796.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

WHO confirms four human cases of avian flu in Indonesia

BMJ 2005;331:796.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Labour party will continue use of private contractors in the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:797.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

NHS trust plans to cut consultant posts to make savings

BMJ 2005;331:797.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Independent centres threaten training

BMJ 2005;331:797.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Treatment for colorectal cancer should be based on genetic analysis

BMJ 2005;331:799.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Do GPs deserve their recent pay rise?

BMJ 2005;331:800.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Editorials

Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians

BMJ 2005;331:787 (Published 6 October 2005)

Do get in touch

BMJ 2005;331:788 (Published 6 October 2005)

An adequate margin of excision in ductal carcinoma in situ

BMJ 2005;331:789 (Published 6 October 2005)

Ensuring medical students are “fit for purpose”

BMJ 2005;331:791 (Published 6 October 2005)

Is the private finance initiative dead?

BMJ 2005;331:792 (Published 6 October 2005)

Staphylococcus aureus, Panton-Valentine leukocidin, and necrotising pneumonia

BMJ 2005;331:793 (Published 6 October 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Time to legalise assisted dying?: RCGP is not neutral: it opposes a change in legislation

BMJ 2005;331:841.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Time to legalise assisted dying?: Response from the Association for Palliative Medicine

BMJ 2005;331:841.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Time to legalise assisted dying?: BMA should take an active role, whatever that may be

BMJ 2005;331:841.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Time to legalise assisted dying?: What autonomy really means

BMJ 2005;331:841.4 (Published 6 October 2005)

Time to legalise assisted dying?: Do we make decisions by our feelings or the truth?

BMJ 2005;331:842.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Time to legalise assisted dying?: No, thank you

BMJ 2005;331:842.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Time to legalise assisted dying?: Recruiting more vulnerable doctors may be the answer

BMJ 2005;331:842.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Time to legalise assisted dying?: Use of Baxter products in figure for physician assisted suicide was inappropriate

BMJ 2005;331:842.4 (Published 6 October 2005)

Time to legalise assisted dying?: Doctors cannot simultaneously be patient centred and reject assisted suicide

BMJ 2005;331:842.5 (Published 6 October 2005)

Time to legalise assisted dying? : Summary of responses

BMJ 2005;331:843.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

LIFT study to continue as planned

BMJ 2005;331:843.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Capacity building in collaborative research is essential

BMJ 2005;331:843.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Bridging the equity gap in maternal and child health: Health systems research is needed to improve implementation

BMJ 2005;331:844.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Bridging the equity gap in maternal and child health: Lay health workers may help bridge equity gap in maternal and child health

BMJ 2005;331:844.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Sarcomas and specialism

BMJ 2005;331:844.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Letters - continued

Working time directive shift patterns may improve care

BMJ 2005;331:845 (Published 6 October 2005)

Which career first?: Women remain caught in dilemma

BMJ 2005;331:846.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Which career first? Skewed argument should be put to bed

BMJ 2005;331:846.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Which career first?: Women don't want it all, but they may want children

BMJ 2005;331:846.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Which career first?: Financial and social reasons should have been taken into account

BMJ 2005;331:846.4 (Published 6 October 2005)

Which career first?: Economic perspective on later pregnancy is positive

BMJ 2005;331:846.5 (Published 6 October 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Colin McEvedy

BMJ 2005;331:847 (Published 6 October 2005)

Hugh Bannerman

BMJ 2005;331:848.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Tina Chan

BMJ 2005;331:848.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Richard Farrow

BMJ 2005;331:848.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Arthur Oliver Nixon Morris

BMJ 2005;331:848.4 (Published 6 October 2005)

Andrew Douglas Scott

BMJ 2005;331:848.5 (Published 6 October 2005)

John David Williams

BMJ 2005;331:848.6 (Published 6 October 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:854 (Published 6 October 2005)

Fillers

Dietary supplements for erectile dysfunction may contain sildenafil or tadalafil

BMJ 2005;331:0.8 (Published 6 October 2005)

Bottled lightning

BMJ 2005;331:824 (Published 6 October 2005)

Salutary lesson

BMJ 2005;331:840 (Published 6 October 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

Pioglitazone may not reduce macrovascular events

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 6 October 2005)

Postcards can save lives

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Safer homes may cut falls in elderly people with poor vision

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 6 October 2005)

UK drug regulatory body describes attempts to ensure independence

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 6 October 2005)

“Me-too” drugs drive the rise in drug expenditure

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

Optimal therapy after kidney transplantation varies

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Adequate dietary folate may reduce alcohol related breast cancer

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 6 October 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:801 (Published 6 October 2005)

Clinical Reviews

The role of opioids in cancer pain

BMJ 2005;331:825 (Published 6 October 2005)

Osmotic demyelination syndrome

BMJ 2005;331:829 (Published 6 October 2005)

How decision support tools help define clinical problems

BMJ 2005;331:831 (Published 6 October 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Trusts should cut workload of senior physicians to retain them

BMJ 2005;331:798.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

US lawsuit challenges teaching on evolution

BMJ 2005;331:798.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

WHO calls for 2% reduction a year in chronic disease mortality

BMJ 2005;331:798.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] - continued

Study of 100 000 children is due to start next year

BMJ 2005;331:798.4 (Published 6 October 2005)

Surgeons perform Germany's first crossover kidney transplantation

BMJ 2005;331:798.5 (Published 6 October 2005)

Service outlines plan to help suspended doctors back to work

BMJ 2005;331:799.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Surgery patients in Northern Ireland are still waiting too long, MPs say

BMJ 2005;331:799.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

South African foundation is accused of “compromising” care of people with HIV and AIDS

BMJ 2005;331:800.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Cholera outbreaks in west Africa kill more than 700

BMJ 2005;331:800.3 (Published 6 October 2005)

EU tightens rules on blood safety

BMJ 2005;331:800.4 (Published 6 October 2005)

Nearly half of patients with migraine with aura are found to have a heart defect, study finds

BMJ 2005;331:800.5 (Published 6 October 2005)

Dr Foster's case notes

Trends in day surgery rates

BMJ 2005;331:803 (Published 6 October 2005)

BMJ family highlights

What's new this month in BMJ Journals

BMJ 2005;331:804 (Published 6 October 2005)

Papers

Postcards from the EDge project: randomised controlled trial of an intervention using postcards to reduce repetition of hospital treated deliberate self poisoning

BMJ 2005;331:805 (Published 6 October 2005)

Does dietary folate intake modify effect of alcohol consumption on breast cancer risk? Prospective cohort study

BMJ 2005;331:807 (Published 6 October 2005)

Tacrolimus versus ciclosporin as primary immunosuppression for kidney transplant recipients: meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomised trial data

BMJ 2005;331:810 (Published 6 October 2005)

“Breakthrough” drugs and growth in expenditure on prescription drugs in Canada

BMJ 2005;331:815 (Published 6 October 2005)

Epirubicin for breast cancer may cause considerable venous sclerosis

BMJ 2005;331:816 (Published 6 October 2005)

Primary care

Randomised controlled trial of prevention of falls in people aged ≥75 with severe visual impairment: the VIP trial

BMJ 2005;331:817 (Published 6 October 2005)

Information in practice

How do elderly patients decide where to go for major surgery? Telephone interview survey

BMJ 2005;331:821 (Published 6 October 2005)

Education and debate

Medicines regulation and the pharmaceutical industry

BMJ 2005;331:834 (Published 6 October 2005)

How well does the evidence on pioglitazone back up researchers' claims for a reduction in macrovascular events?

BMJ 2005;331:836 (Published 6 October 2005)

At the frontier of biomedical publication: Chicago 2005

BMJ 2005;331:838 (Published 6 October 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Disabled woman wins battle of Trafalgar

BMJ 2005;331:849 (Published 6 October 2005)

Coffins to die for

BMJ 2005;331:850.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

BMJ 2005;331:850.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine. Volume 22

BMJ 2005;331:851.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

BMJ 2005;331:851.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

NETLINES

BMJ 2005;331:852.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Reforming the NHS in England

BMJ 2005;331:852.2 (Published 6 October 2005)

Bevan betrayed: the demise of the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:853.1 (Published 6 October 2005)

Give reorganisation a chance

BMJ 2005;331:853.2 (Published 6 October 2005)