29 October 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7523)

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This Week In the BMJ

Misdiagnosing “hysteria” has remained steady since the 1970s

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Salivary nicotine test increases cessation rates

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 27 October 2005)

Targets for trusts' MRSA infection rates need clarifying

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

MRSA infection in a vicious circle with hospitalisation

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Community based learning produces better doctors

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 27 October 2005)

Editor's Choice

Complicated questions—difficult answers

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 27 October 2005)

Editorials

Bird flu and pandemic flu

BMJ 2005;331:975 (Published 27 October 2005)

Improving surveillance of MRSA bacteraemia

BMJ 2005;331:976 (Published 27 October 2005)

The need for outcome measures in medical education

BMJ 2005;331:977 (Published 27 October 2005)

Detecting fabricated or induced illness in children

BMJ 2005;331:978 (Published 27 October 2005)

Near patient tests for smoking cessation

BMJ 2005;331:979 (Published 27 October 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens

BMJ 2005;331:1022.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens

BMJ 2005;331:1022.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens

BMJ 2005;331:1022.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens

BMJ 2005;331:1023.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Trastuzumab for early breast cancer raises important issues

BMJ 2005;331:1023.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Left handedness and breast cancer

BMJ 2005;331:1023.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

Left handedness and breast cancer

BMJ 2005;331:1024.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Left handedness and breast cancer

BMJ 2005;331:1024.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Scientific evidence was ignored in CAM and the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:1024.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

Disappointing article, not disappointing biotech

BMJ 2005;331:1025.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Proposed guidelines for severe imported malaria in children need more evidence

BMJ 2005;331:1025.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Speed networking works for postgraduate research

BMJ 2005;331:1025.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

News

Roche considers licensing companies to make oseltamivir

BMJ 2005;331:981.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Bird flu poses no immediate threat to Europe, leading virologist claims

BMJ 2005;331:981.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:982.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Doctors who write guidelines often have ties to the drug industry

BMJ 2005;331:982.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Stem cell foundation greeted by cautious optimism

BMJ 2005;331:982.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

News - continued

Patients with aortic aneurysm deserve higher priority

BMJ 2005;331:983.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Academic staff frustrated with research assessment exercise

BMJ 2005;331:983.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Judge over-rules earlier decision on Charlotte Wyatt

BMJ 2005;331:985.4 (Published 27 October 2005)

Combating the free movement of micro-organisms

BMJ 2005;331:986.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:987 (Published 27 October 2005)

Clinical Reviews

The patient's journey: the progressive ataxias

BMJ 2005;331:1007 (Published 27 October 2005)

How computers help make efficient use of consultations

BMJ 2005;331:1010 (Published 27 October 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:1032 (Published 27 October 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Fall in mortality from breast cancer is due almost equally to screening and adjuvant therapy

BMJ 2005;331:984.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Guidance on reporting under age sex is confusing

BMJ 2005;331:984.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Scotland sets up its first forensic art unit

BMJ 2005;331:984.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

Assisted suicide organisation opens branch in Germany

BMJ 2005;331:984.4 (Published 27 October 2005)

Australian state and federal governments are attacked on mental health care

BMJ 2005;331:984.5 (Published 27 October 2005)

Foundation trust regulator calls for less government interference

BMJ 2005;331:985.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Total smoking ban best way to narrow health gap between rich and poor, MPs told

BMJ 2005;331:985.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

GP goes on trial for killing three patients

BMJ 2005;331:985.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Experts disagree over who should get avian influenza vaccine

BMJ 2005;331:986.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Ten out of 25 EU countries restrict health care for asylum seekers to emergencies only

BMJ 2005;331:986.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

Charity calls for improved breast awareness in UK ethnic communities

BMJ 2005;331:986.4 (Published 27 October 2005)

Trastuzumab halves risk of recurrence of breast cancer in some women

BMJ 2005;331:986.5 (Published 27 October 2005)

Doctors should be trained in understanding disability, commission is told

BMJ 2005;331:986.6 (Published 27 October 2005)

UK government to appoint occupational health “tsar” to reduce work related illness

BMJ 2005;331:986.7 (Published 27 October 2005)

Health experts gather to step up fight against malaria

BMJ 2005;331:986.8 (Published 27 October 2005)

Papers

Systematic review of misdiagnosis of conversion symptoms and “hysteria”

BMJ 2005;331:989 (Published 27 October 2005)

MRSA bacteraemia in patients on arrival in hospital: a cohort study in Oxfordshire 1997-2003

BMJ 2005;331:992 (Published 27 October 2005)

Age at retirement and long term survival of an industrial population: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2005;331:995 (Published 27 October 2005)

Twenty five years of HIV infection in haemophilic men in Britain: an observational study

BMJ 2005;331:997 (Published 27 October 2005)

Primary care

Effect of incorporating a 10 minute point of care test for salivary nicotine metabolites into a general practice based smoking cessation programme: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;331:999 (Published 27 October 2005)

Learning in practice

Effect of a community oriented problem based learning curriculum on quality of primary care delivered by graduates: historical cohort comparison study

BMJ 2005;331:1002 (Published 27 October 2005)

What the educators are saying

BMJ 2005;331:1006 (Published 27 October 2005)

Education and debate

Problems in assessing rates of infection with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

BMJ 2005;331:1013 (Published 27 October 2005)

Orphan drugs and the NHS: should we value rarity?

BMJ 2005;331:1016 (Published 27 October 2005)

Commissioning for rare diseases: view from the frontline

BMJ 2005;331:1019 (Published 27 October 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Life in Britain: Using Millennial Census Data to Understand Poverty, Inequality and Place

BMJ 2005;331:1028 (Published 27 October 2005)

Human Traces

BMJ 2005;331:1029.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

30 Days: Minimum Wage

BMJ 2005;331:1029.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

How US healthcare cuts could kill me

BMJ 2005;331:1030 (Published 27 October 2005)

Rethinking breast screening—again

BMJ 2005;331:1031.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Specialisation creep

BMJ 2005;331:1031.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Fillers

Fluoxetine reduces symptoms for selected patients with irritable bowel syndrome

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 27 October 2005)

The latest caprice in medicine, 1857

BMJ 2005;331:991 (Published 27 October 2005)

Preservation of the teeth

BMJ 2005;331:998 (Published 27 October 2005)

A lesson from a death

BMJ 2005;331:1005 (Published 27 October 2005)

A medical secretary for war

BMJ 2005;331:1015 (Published 27 October 2005)

Advice

BMJ 2005;331:1026.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

John Cosh

BMJ 2005;331:1026.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

Abraham (“Abs”) Cohen

BMJ 2005;331:1027.1 (Published 27 October 2005)

John Dermot Ainslie Common

BMJ 2005;331:1027.2 (Published 27 October 2005)

James Antony Garrod

BMJ 2005;331:1027.3 (Published 27 October 2005)

Mrinal Kanti Ghosh

BMJ 2005;331:1027.4 (Published 27 October 2005)

John Haydn Martindale

BMJ 2005;331:1027.5 (Published 27 October 2005)

Dipankar (“Dip”) Sengupta

BMJ 2005;331:1027.6 (Published 27 October 2005)

Kenneth Samuel Williamson

BMJ 2005;331:1027.7 (Published 27 October 2005)

Paul Francis Wright

BMJ 2005;331:1027.8 (Published 27 October 2005)