11 March 2006 (Vol 332, Issue 7541)

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This Week In the BMJ

Low molecular weight heparin preferred in palliative care

BMJ 2006;332:0.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

Public-private collaboration improves tuberculosis control in India

BMJ 2006;332:0.5 (Published 9 March 2006)

Hip protectors may not be effective

BMJ 2006;332:0.4 (Published 9 March 2006)

Managing atopic eczema

BMJ 2006;332:0.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

Does IQ explain socioeconomic inequalities in health?

BMJ 2006;332:0.3 (Published 9 March 2006)

Editor's Choice

Living dangerously

BMJ 2006;332:0.7 (Published 9 March 2006)

Editorials

Hip protectors to prevent femoral fracture

BMJ 2006;332:559 (Published 9 March 2006)

Guantanamo: a call for action

BMJ 2006;332:560 (Published 9 March 2006)

Inverse association between appendicectomy and ulcerative colitis

BMJ 2006;332:561 (Published 9 March 2006)

Treating refractory epilepsy in adults

BMJ 2006;332:562 (Published 9 March 2006)

The burden of chronic kidney disease

BMJ 2006;332:563 (Published 9 March 2006)

Letters

Please do not resuscitate: Solution is flawed

BMJ 2006;332:608.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

Please do not resuscitate: Do we perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on living or dead people?

BMJ 2006;332:608.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

Please do not resuscitate: Automatic refusal is as harmful as offering resuscitation to all

BMJ 2006;332:608.3 (Published 9 March 2006)

Please do not resuscitate: Communication is key

BMJ 2006;332:609.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

Obesity, polycystic ovary syndrome, infertility treatment: Lifestyle modification is paramount

BMJ 2006;332:609.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

Obesity, polycystic ovary syndrome, infertility treatment: Asking obese women to lose weight before treatment increases stigmatisation

BMJ 2006;332:609.3 (Published 9 March 2006)

Paying for research related injuries in the US

BMJ 2006;332:610.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

“That's all I got handed over”: Missed opportunities and opportunity for near misses in Wales

BMJ 2006;332:610.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

“That's all I got handed over”: Views from a teaching hospital

BMJ 2006;332:610.3 (Published 9 March 2006)

Diagnosis at all costs won't make Bentham turn in his grave

BMJ 2006;332:610.4 (Published 9 March 2006)

News

Nigel Crisp steps down from NHS amid financial pressures

BMJ 2006;332:565.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

CMAJ owner fails to guarantee editorial independence

BMJ 2006;332:565.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

In brief

BMJ 2006;332:566.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

Indian study sparks debate on the use of placebo in psychiatry trials

BMJ 2006;332:566.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

News - continued

Breast cancer incidence rises in contaminated areas 10 years after explosion at Chernobyl reactor

BMJ 2006;332:567.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

GMC hears complaints about UK fertility specialist

BMJ 2006;332:567.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

Force feeding at Guantanamo breaches ethics, doctors say

BMJ 2006;332:569.4 (Published 9 March 2006)

Sickle cell screening makes genetic counselling everybody's business

BMJ 2006;332:570.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

Research

Effectiveness of hip protectors for preventing hip fractures in elderly people: systematic review

BMJ 2006;332:571 (Published 9 March 2006)

Improving tuberculosis control through public-private collaboration in India: literature review

BMJ 2006;332:574 (Published 9 March 2006)

Acceptability of low molecular weight heparin thromboprophylaxis for inpatients receiving palliative care: qualitative study

BMJ 2006;332:577 (Published 9 March 2006)

Does IQ explain socioeconomic inequalities in health? Evidence from a population based cohort study in the west of Scotland

BMJ 2006;332:580 (Published 9 March 2006)

Clinical Review

Atopic and non-atopic eczema

BMJ 2006;332:584 (Published 9 March 2006)

Practice

Treating erectile dysfunction when PDE5 inhibitors fail

BMJ 2006;332:589 (Published 9 March 2006)

Erectile dysfunction

BMJ 2006;332:593 (Published 9 March 2006)

Uncommon causes of ulceration

BMJ 2006;332:594 (Published 9 March 2006)

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2006;332:597 (Published 9 March 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;332:616 (Published 9 March 2006)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

New consultants' contract sees pay bill rise by 38% in Scotland

BMJ 2006;332:568.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

GMC appeals against extending immunity for expert witnesses

BMJ 2006;332:568.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

Exhibition explores diversity of medical traditions

BMJ 2006;332:568.3 (Published 9 March 2006)

US study finds data changes in drug companies' brochures

BMJ 2006;332:568.4 (Published 9 March 2006)

Germany says people in areas with bird flu should keep cats indoors

BMJ 2006;332:568.5 (Published 9 March 2006)

Subsidies for malaria treatment could save 25,000 lives a month

BMJ 2006;332:569.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

Malnutrition programmes are most effective before age of 2

BMJ 2006;332:569.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

Radical reforms may end Canada's public health service monopoly

BMJ 2006;332:569.3 (Published 9 March 2006)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Number of African children dying from malaria approaches a million a year

BMJ 2006;332:570.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

People travelling abroad issued advice on bird flu

BMJ 2006;332:570.3 (Published 9 March 2006)

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

Cholera outbreak highlights poor health services in southern Sudan

BMJ 2006;332:570.4 (Published 9 March 2006)

Goal of eradicating tuberculosis is under threat from rise in HIV infection in Africa and eastern Europe

BMJ 2006;332:570.5 (Published 9 March 2006)

Analysis and Comment

Will Connecting for Health deliver its promises?

BMJ 2006;332:599 (Published 9 March 2006)

Monitoring HIV treatment in developing countries

BMJ 2006;332:602 (Published 9 March 2006)

Risk compensation: the Achilles' heel of innovations in HIV prevention?

BMJ 2006;332:605 (Published 9 March 2006)

Reviews

Freud's Sculpture

BMJ 2006;332:613 (Published 9 March 2006)

Independent sector treatment centres: how the NHS is left to pick up the pieces

BMJ 2006;332:614 (Published 9 March 2006)

Two decades on an ethics committee

BMJ 2006;332:615.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

Privates on parade

BMJ 2006;332:615.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

Fillers

Pale sulphonated shale oil reduces the size of venous ulcers

BMJ 2006;332:0.6 (Published 9 March 2006)

Doctor who?

BMJ 2006;332:583 (Published 9 March 2006)

A 28 year old postpartum woman with right sided chest discomfort

BMJ 2006;332:592 (Published 9 March 2006)

The force of truth

BMJ 2006;332:604 (Published 9 March 2006)

Tinnitus, listening, and learning why telephone consultations can be useful

BMJ 2006;332:607 (Published 9 March 2006)

Advice

BMJ 2006;332:611.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

Obituaries

Bradford Cannon

BMJ 2006;332:611.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

Michael James Boyle

BMJ 2006;332:612.1 (Published 9 March 2006)

Marie Carrie (née Renwick)

BMJ 2006;332:612.2 (Published 9 March 2006)

John Raisley Coope

BMJ 2006;332:612.3 (Published 9 March 2006)

Gerard (“Gerry”) Patrick Crean

BMJ 2006;332:612.4 (Published 9 March 2006)

John Horn France

BMJ 2006;332:612.5 (Published 9 March 2006)

Sholem Glaser

BMJ 2006;332:612.6 (Published 9 March 2006)

Iain Douglas Stewart

BMJ 2006;332:612.7 (Published 9 March 2006)

Stanley Douglas Victor (“Sam”) Weller

BMJ 2006;332:612.8 (Published 9 March 2006)