04 February 2006 (Vol 332, Issue 7536)

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This Week In the BMJ

Scoring prognosis in stable angina

BMJ 2006;332:0.4 (Published 2 February 2006)

Didgeridoo playing could improve sleep apnoea

BMJ 2006;332:0.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

What's new in diverticulitis?

BMJ 2006;332:0.5 (Published 2 February 2006)

Collaborative care improves late life depression

BMJ 2006;332:0.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

New mothers in UK do use child records booklet

BMJ 2006;332:0.3 (Published 2 February 2006)

Editor's Choice

Learning for life

BMJ 2006;332:0.7 (Published 2 February 2006)

Editorials

Best research

BMJ 2006;332:247 (Published 2 February 2006)

Antibiotics in pandemic flu

BMJ 2006;332:248 (Published 2 February 2006)

Collaborative care for depression

BMJ 2006;332:249 (Published 2 February 2006)

The incidence of gastroschisis

BMJ 2006;332:250 (Published 2 February 2006)

Detention of refugees

BMJ 2006;332:251 (Published 2 February 2006)

Letters

How did UK cigarette makers reduce tar to 10 mg or less?

BMJ 2006;332:302.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

People seem confused about sensible drinking messages

BMJ 2006;332:302.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

Cannabis and psychosis: Let's start from the null hypothesis

BMJ 2006;332:303.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Cannabis and psychosis: Does cannabis really cause psychosis?

BMJ 2006;332:303.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

Barriers to using warfarin in non-valvular atrial fibrillation

BMJ 2006;332:303.3 (Published 2 February 2006)

Pulmonary embolism in hospital practice: Certain crucial procedures were omitted

BMJ 2006;332:304.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Pulmonary embolism in hospital practice: View from primary care is chest pain and breathlessness, but not together

BMJ 2006;332:304.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

Severe hepatic injury and adulterated Chinese medicines

BMJ 2006;332:304.3 (Published 2 February 2006)

NHS Direct did not emerge from an evidence free void

BMJ 2006;332:305.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

JAMA's policy does not go far enough

BMJ 2006;332:305.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

One step forward in engaging clinicians in IT

BMJ 2006;332:305.3 (Published 2 February 2006)

News

UK government to shift NHS power to community health care

BMJ 2006;332:253 (Published 2 February 2006)

In brief

BMJ 2006;332:254.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Babies born after preimplantation genetic diagnosis need follow-up

BMJ 2006;332:254.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

Dutch insurance company will pay doctors to prescribe cheap drugs

BMJ 2006;332:254.3 (Published 2 February 2006)

Doctors told to shun rewards from industry as size of payments becomes clear

BMJ 2006;332:255.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

NEJM editor gives pretrial evidence in Vioxx case

BMJ 2006;332:255.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

News - continued

Doctors in India prosecuted for sex determination, but few convicted

BMJ 2006;332:257.4 (Published 2 February 2006)

Where GPs go, politicians will follow

BMJ 2006;332:258.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Research

Long term outcomes from the IMPACT randomised trial for depressed elderly patients in primary care

BMJ 2006;332:259 (Published 2 February 2006)

Predicting prognosis in stable angina—results from the Euro heart survey of stable angina: prospective observational study

BMJ 2006;332:262 (Published 2 February 2006)

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2006;332:266 (Published 2 February 2006)

Use of personal child health records in the UK: findings from the millennium cohort study

BMJ 2006;332:269 (Published 2 February 2006)

Clinical Review

Management of diverticulitis

BMJ 2006;332:271 (Published 2 February 2006)

Practice

An alcoholic patient who continues to drink: case outcome

BMJ 2006;332:276 (Published 2 February 2006)

Patient's experience

BMJ 2006;332:277.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Challenge for doctors and policy makers

BMJ 2006;332:277.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

Integrated learning

BMJ 2006;332:278 (Published 2 February 2006)

When should patients be held responsible for their lifestyle choices?

BMJ 2006;332:279.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Irritable bowel syndrome: diagnosis and management

BMJ 2006;332:280 (Published 2 February 2006)

Proteinuria

BMJ 2006;332:284 (Published 2 February 2006)

Wound assessment

BMJ 2006;332:285 (Published 2 February 2006)

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2006;332:289 (Published 2 February 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;332:312 (Published 2 February 2006)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Strategy launched to boost research in the NHS in England

BMJ 2006;332:256.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Three quarters of NHS trusts in deficit are cutting staff

BMJ 2006;332:256.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

Serious birth defects kill at least three million children a year

BMJ 2006;332:256.3 (Published 2 February 2006)

Police question former GP about assisted suicide

BMJ 2006;332:256.4 (Published 2 February 2006)

NICE calls for wider use of statins

BMJ 2006;332:256.5 (Published 2 February 2006)

Corruption in health care “kills en masse”

BMJ 2006;332:257.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Heart disease tests increase, but attack rate is unchanged

BMJ 2006;332:257.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

EU health budget may be almost halved

BMJ 2006;332:257.3 (Published 2 February 2006)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

English pilots to include older people's views in shaping health care

BMJ 2006;332:258.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

No evidence found that homoeopathy is effective against cancer

BMJ 2006;332:258.3 (Published 2 February 2006)

Rheumatologists feel devalued by NHS changes

BMJ 2006;332:258.4 (Published 2 February 2006)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web] - continued

China's HIV/AIDS epidemic is sharply on the rise

BMJ 2006;332:258.5 (Published 2 February 2006)

Reporter who accused surgeon of experimentation told to reveal sources

BMJ 2006;332:258.6 (Published 2 February 2006)

Analysis and Comment

Influence of Islam on smoking among Muslims

BMJ 2006;332:291 (Published 2 February 2006)

Conscientious objection in medicine

BMJ 2006;332:294 (Published 2 February 2006)

Just a family medical history?

BMJ 2006;332:297 (Published 2 February 2006)

Implications of data protection legislation for family history

BMJ 2006;332:299 (Published 2 February 2006)

Reviews

Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse

BMJ 2006;332:308 (Published 2 February 2006)

Using Terri: The Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights

BMJ 2006;332:309.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Gladiator Games

BMJ 2006;332:309.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

How can we improve the rate of autopsies among Muslims?

BMJ 2006;332:310 (Published 2 February 2006)

Lessons for doctors from Jewish philosophy

BMJ 2006;332:311.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Failure to die

BMJ 2006;332:311.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

Fillers

Intensive treatment and support helps patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2006;332:0.6 (Published 2 February 2006)

Fashionable successions and popular rages

BMJ 2006;332:265 (Published 2 February 2006)

Exciting lessons

BMJ 2006;332:268 (Published 2 February 2006)

Modern prescriptions

BMJ 2006;332:270 (Published 2 February 2006)

Keep me in the loop

BMJ 2006;332:279.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

PPUD syndrome (post PLAB unemployed doctor's syndrome)

BMJ 2006;332:283 (Published 2 February 2006)

Advice

BMJ 2006;332:307.3 (Published 2 February 2006)

Obituaries

Anne Turner

BMJ 2006;332:306 (Published 2 February 2006)

Alan Hamilton Cruickshank

BMJ 2006;332:307.1 (Published 2 February 2006)

Peter Dally

BMJ 2006;332:307.2 (Published 2 February 2006)

David Shaw Dick

BMJ 2006;332:307.4 (Published 2 February 2006)

Douglas Francis Freebody

BMJ 2006;332:307.5 (Published 2 February 2006)

Patrick Huck

BMJ 2006;332:307.6 (Published 2 February 2006)

Ian Macalister

BMJ 2006;332:307.7 (Published 2 February 2006)

Jacob Mackinnon

BMJ 2006;332:307.8 (Published 2 February 2006)