22 October 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7522)

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Editor's Choice

Better decisions

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 20 October 2005)

News

East Asia is most at risk of human flu epidemic, experts say

BMJ 2005;331:921.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

UK avian flu surveillance system is inadequate, Lords inquiry is told

BMJ 2005;331:921.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:922.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

European centre plays down threat from avian influenza

BMJ 2005;331:922.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Northern Ireland will introduce a smoking ban

BMJ 2005;331:922.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

UK pushes EU to tackle health gap between rich and poor

BMJ 2005;331:923.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

NHS to settle small compensation claims without litigation

BMJ 2005;331:923.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

UK should spend more on research into Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2005;331:925.4 (Published 20 October 2005)

Foundation hospitals are not accountable to their communities

BMJ 2005;331:926.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Kashmir crisis is worse than the Asian tsunami, says WHO

BMJ 2005;331:926.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Editorials

Cervical cancer, human papillomavirus, and vaccination

BMJ 2005;331:915 (Published 20 October 2005)

Left behind: the legacy of hurricane Katrina

BMJ 2005;331:916 (Published 20 October 2005)

Mandatory reporting to the police of all sexually active under-13s

BMJ 2005;331:918 (Published 20 October 2005)

β blockers for patients at risk of cardiac events during non-cardiac surgery

BMJ 2005;331:919 (Published 20 October 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Evidence not ideology

BMJ 2005;331:964.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Evidence not ideology

BMJ 2005;331:964.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Evidence not ideology

BMJ 2005;331:964.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

Time for Ofhealth

BMJ 2005;331:965.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Do GPs deserve their pay rise?

BMJ 2005;331:965.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Do GPs deserve their pay rise?

BMJ 2005;331:965.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

Do GPs deserve their pay rise?

BMJ 2005;331:965.4 (Published 20 October 2005)

Do GPs deserve their pay rise?

BMJ 2005;331:966.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Students need education fit for professional and public life

BMJ 2005;331:966.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Epirubicin seems to cause venous sclerosis

BMJ 2005;331:966.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

Postcards from the edge

BMJ 2005;331:966.4 (Published 20 October 2005)

Postcards from the edge

BMJ 2005;331:966.5 (Published 20 October 2005)

Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians

BMJ 2005;331:966.6 (Published 20 October 2005)

Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians

BMJ 2005;331:967.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians

BMJ 2005;331:967.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians

BMJ 2005;331:967.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

Letters - continued

Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians

BMJ 2005;331:967.4 (Published 20 October 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Abdul Ghafoor Baloch

BMJ 2005;331:968.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Joza (“Josephine”) Bruegel

BMJ 2005;331:968.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Thomas John Coady

BMJ 2005;331:968.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

Robert Hayden (“Bob”) Ellis

BMJ 2005;331:968.4 (Published 20 October 2005)

John Alexander Grant Elmslie

BMJ 2005;331:968.5 (Published 20 October 2005)

Frederick Earle Fraser

BMJ 2005;331:969.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Ada Glynn

BMJ 2005;331:969.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

William David Hayley

BMJ 2005;331:969.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

Hugh Cameron Kennedy

BMJ 2005;331:969.4 (Published 20 October 2005)

William Worsley Richardson

BMJ 2005;331:969.5 (Published 20 October 2005)

David Ward Smith

BMJ 2005;331:969.6 (Published 20 October 2005)

John Stanley Wilson

BMJ 2005;331:969.7 (Published 20 October 2005)

John Caspar Winteler

BMJ 2005;331:969.8 (Published 20 October 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:974 (Published 20 October 2005)

Fillers

Oestrogen does not improve quality of life for postmenopausal women after hysterectomy

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 20 October 2005)

What's in November's studentBMJ?

BMJ 2005;331:934 (Published 20 October 2005)

Sanitas sanitatum

BMJ 2005;331:939 (Published 20 October 2005)

If at first you don't succeed… sue

BMJ 2005;331:950 (Published 20 October 2005)

Tea drinking and nervous ailments

BMJ 2005;331:960 (Published 20 October 2005)

Advice

BMJ 2005;331:968.6 (Published 20 October 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

Obesity begins in infancy

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Choose long acting βblockers for elderly surgical patients

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Ethics may lead to bias: consent

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 20 October 2005)

Ethics may lead to bias: recruitment

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

Who is to blame for high prices of US drugs?

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 20 October 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:927 (Published 20 October 2005)

Clinical Reviews

The psychological impact of alopecia

BMJ 2005;331:951 (Published 20 October 2005)

Hypercalcaemia in cancer

BMJ 2005;331:954 (Published 20 October 2005)

How informatics tools help deal with patients' problems

BMJ 2005;331:955 (Published 20 October 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

UK academics gain free access to database of patients

BMJ 2005;331:924.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Russian doctors sell drugs to misusers to supplement salaries

BMJ 2005;331:924.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Popular herbal remedy for hot flushes is no better than placebo

BMJ 2005;331:924.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

New GP network will integrate conventional and complementary medicine

BMJ 2005;331:924.4 (Published 20 October 2005)

High Court overturns GMC's decision to strike off plastic surgeon

BMJ 2005;331:924.5 (Published 20 October 2005)

New consultation exercise on health white paper has not been inclusive enough, critics say

BMJ 2005;331:925.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Upsurge of violence in Darfur is endangering aid workers

BMJ 2005;331:925.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Doctors should be allowed to offer patients a simplified form of consent, expert says

BMJ 2005;331:925.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Stroke patients with “do not resuscitate” orders are treated worse than those without

BMJ 2005;331:926.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

Dutch doctor who was jailed for culpable homicide has his sentence cut

BMJ 2005;331:926.4 (Published 20 October 2005)

Papers

Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity

BMJ 2005;331:929 (Published 20 October 2005)

β blockers for elective surgery in elderly patients: population based, retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2005;331:932 (Published 20 October 2005)

Appropriateness of use of medicines in elderly inpatients: qualitative study

BMJ 2005;331:935 (Published 20 October 2005)

Self reported health and mortality: ecological analysis based on electoral wards across the United Kingdom

BMJ 2005;331:938 (Published 20 October 2005)

Primary care

Recruiting patients to medical research: double blind randomised trial of “opt-in” versus “opt-out” strategies

BMJ 2005;331:940 (Published 20 October 2005)

Bias from requiring explicit consent from all participants in observational research: prospective, population based study

BMJ 2005;331:942 (Published 20 October 2005)

Information in practice

Effect of diverging policy across the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:946 (Published 20 October 2005)

Education and debate

Foreign free riders and the high price of US medicines

BMJ 2005;331:958 (Published 20 October 2005)

Consultations about changing behaviour

BMJ 2005;331:961 (Published 20 October 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Disease and Democracy: The Industrialised World Faces AIDS

BMJ 2005;331:970 (Published 20 October 2005)

Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions

BMJ 2005;331:971.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Panorama: Love Hurts

BMJ 2005;331:971.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

The future of tobacco

BMJ 2005;331:972.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Hit parade

BMJ 2005;331:972.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Informed consent (and a flutter in Vegas)

BMJ 2005;331:973.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Beans

BMJ 2005;331:973.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Corrections

BMA warns against unnecessary screening tests in private sector

BMJ 2005;331:931.1 (Published 20 October 2005)

Taking the final step: changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Time for change

BMJ 2005;331:931.2 (Published 20 October 2005)

Regulating the drugs industry transparently

BMJ 2005;331:931.3 (Published 20 October 2005)

Radiotherapy improves outcome in patients with locally advanced prostate cancer

BMJ 2005;331:931.4 (Published 20 October 2005)