25 March 2006 (Vol 332, Issue 7543)

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Editor's Choice

Count the harms

BMJ 2006;332:0.7 (Published 23 March 2006)

News

Severe adverse reactions prompt call for trial design changes

BMJ 2006;332:683 (Published 23 March 2006)

In brief

BMJ 2006;332:684.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Court delays takeover of Derbyshire practice

BMJ 2006;332:684.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Researchers funded by NIH are failing to make data available

BMJ 2006;332:684.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

Judge rules that baby boy should not be allowed to die

BMJ 2006;332:685.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Project retrains prostitutes as care workers for elderly people

BMJ 2006;332:685.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

US cigarette consumption falls to lowest point since 1951

BMJ 2006;332:687.4 (Published 23 March 2006)

Health secretary urges better management of chronic disease

BMJ 2006;332:688.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Doctors will test whether Mozart can reduce stress in babies

BMJ 2006;332:688.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Surgeons may need to work from “chambers” to meet local demand

BMJ 2006;332:688.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

Editorials

Learning from the TGN1412 trial

BMJ 2006;332:677 (Published 23 March 2006)

Evaluating new screening tests for breast cancer

BMJ 2006;332:678 (Published 23 March 2006)

Acupressure for low back pain

BMJ 2006;332:680 (Published 23 March 2006)

Improving the management of dementia

BMJ 2006;332:681 (Published 23 March 2006)

Alcohol misuse and ethnicity

BMJ 2006;332:682 (Published 23 March 2006)

Research

Rate of over-diagnosis of breast cancer 15 years after end of Malmö mammographic screening trial: follow-up study

BMJ 2006;332:689 (Published 23 March 2006)

Over-diagnosis in breast cancer screening

BMJ 2006;332:691 (Published 23 March 2006)

Effectiveness of educational interventions in improving detection and management of dementia in primary care: cluster randomised controlled study

BMJ 2006;332:692 (Published 23 March 2006)

Treatment of low back pain by acupressure and physical therapy: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2006;332:696 (Published 23 March 2006)

Bias in published cost effectiveness studies: systematic review

BMJ 2006;332:699 (Published 23 March 2006)

Letters

Ramifications of screening for breast cancer: 1 in 4 cancers detected by mammography are pseudocancers

BMJ 2006;332:727.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Ramifications of screening for breast cancer: Overdiagnosis in the Malmö trial was considerably underestimated

BMJ 2006;332:727.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Ramifications of screening for breast cancer: Definition of overdiagnosis is confusing in follow-up of Malmö trial

BMJ 2006;332:727.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

Ramifications of screening for breast cancer: Consent for screening

BMJ 2006;332:728.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Ramifications of screening for breast cancer: More debate and better information still needed

BMJ 2006;332:728.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Letters - continued

Prophylactic heparin in palliative care: A cautious welcome…

BMJ 2006;332:728.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

Prophylactic heparin in palliative care: …to a challenging idea

BMJ 2006;332:729.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Effectiveness of hip protectors: Wider picture is important

BMJ 2006;332:729.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Effectiveness of hip protectors: It's more the effectiveness of compliance strategies

BMJ 2006;332:729.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

Ethics committees: Current research ethics forms are an over-reaction that will stifle research

BMJ 2006;332:730.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Ethics committees: We all need research ethics committees

BMJ 2006;332:730.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Approval of inhaled insulin in Europe and United States

BMJ 2006;332:730.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

Obituaries

Leonard Glynn

BMJ 2006;332:731.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Henry Hemsted

BMJ 2006;332:732.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Elizabeth Weir Hopkins (née Hall)

BMJ 2006;332:732.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Anne Cecilia Metten

BMJ 2006;332:732.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

Timothy Roper Peskett

BMJ 2006;332:732.4 (Published 23 March 2006)

Alfred William Raffan

BMJ 2006;332:732.5 (Published 23 March 2006)

Vincent England Sherburn

BMJ 2006;332:732.6 (Published 23 March 2006)

David Alexander Thomson

BMJ 2006;332:732.7 (Published 23 March 2006)

Clinical Review

Disorders of sodium balance

BMJ 2006;332:702 (Published 23 March 2006)

Practice

Accidental hypothermia

BMJ 2006;332:706 (Published 23 March 2006)

Reconstructive surgery

BMJ 2006;332:710 (Published 23 March 2006)

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2006;332:713 (Published 23 March 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;332:736 (Published 23 March 2006)

Fillers

Cone biopsy shortens the cervix and is associated with preterm birth in later pregnancies

BMJ 2006;332:0.6 (Published 23 March 2006)

Blade Runner

BMJ 2006;332:695 (Published 23 March 2006)

Einstein on truth

BMJ 2006;332:698 (Published 23 March 2006)

Advice

BMJ 2006;332:731.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Senators block Bush nominee to head FDA

BMJ 2006;332:686.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Foundation trusts turn in strong financial performance

BMJ 2006;332:686.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

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

German hospital doctors strike over pay

BMJ 2006;332:686.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

MEPs fight to reinstate EU health funding

BMJ 2006;332:686.4 (Published 23 March 2006)

European group targets overuse of antibiotics

BMJ 2006;332:686.5 (Published 23 March 2006)

Israelis won't get cover for transplantations unless they can show organ is legal

BMJ 2006;332:687.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Most of CMAJ editorial board resigns

BMJ 2006;332:687.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Department of Health issues new tariffs for NHS trusts

BMJ 2006;332:687.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Tuberculosis guidance aims to improve case detection and reduce drug resistance

BMJ 2006;332:688.4 (Published 23 March 2006)

Cancer mortality in England and Wales varies with country of birth

BMJ 2006;332:688.5 (Published 23 March 2006)

GP tests feasibility of putting patients' records on internet

BMJ 2006;332:688.6 (Published 23 March 2006)

Extending life brings conceptual as well as technological challenges

BMJ 2006;332:688.7 (Published 23 March 2006)

Gastroenterologists outline plan for care of their patients

BMJ 2006;332:688.8 (Published 23 March 2006)

Civil rights group urges Czech government to act on report on sterilisation of Gypsies

BMJ 2006;332:688.9 (Published 23 March 2006)

Analysis and Comment

Contracting out health services in fragile states

BMJ 2006;332:718 (Published 23 March 2006)

Do enforced bicycle helmet laws improve public health?

BMJ 2006;332:722.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

No clear evidence from countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets

BMJ 2006;332:722.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Arguments against helmet legislation are flawed

BMJ 2006;332:725 (Published 23 March 2006)

Reviews

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

BMJ 2006;332:733 (Published 23 March 2006)

1 of 48

BMJ 2006;332:734.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

The Family Man

BMJ 2006;332:734.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

My life as a guinea pig

BMJ 2006;332:735.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Let's be fair about equity and equality

BMJ 2006;332:735.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Corrections

Hanging in the balance

BMJ 2006;332:701.1 (Published 23 March 2006)

Obituary: Sir John Peel

BMJ 2006;332:701.2 (Published 23 March 2006)

Optimising prenatal diagnosis of Down's syndrome

BMJ 2006;332:701.3 (Published 23 March 2006)

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

BMJ 2006;332:701.4 (Published 23 March 2006)