01 April 2006 (Vol 332, Issue 7544)

This Week In the BMJ

Action research helps develop a pre-medicine summer school

BMJ 2006;332:0.5 (Published 30 March 2006)

Psychosocial care in nursing homes reduces drug use

BMJ 2006;332:0.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

What predisposes women to chronic pelvic pain?

BMJ 2006;332:0.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Benefits of omega 3 fats may be in doubt

BMJ 2006;332:0.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

What are the risks for couples with a balanced structural chromosome abnormality?

BMJ 2006;332:0.4 (Published 30 March 2006)

Editor's Choice

Time to leave home

BMJ 2006;332:0.7 (Published 30 March 2006)

Editorials

Letters

Preventing coronary heart disease: High baseline risk strategy and cost effectiveness of guidelines

BMJ 2006;332:793.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Preventing coronary heart disease: Patients are people, not cases

BMJ 2006;332:793.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Blood pressure lowering in elderly patients with stroke

BMJ 2006;332:793.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

Estimated glomerular filtration rate needs UK consensus

BMJ 2006;332:794.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Grieving the death of a child: Clinicians should ensure that lethal drugs are handed back

BMJ 2006;332:794.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Grieving the death of a child: Supporting health professionals who care for grieving patients may benefit all

BMJ 2006;332:794.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

Gluteal injections in increasingly obese population: Needle length for intramuscular injections

BMJ 2006;332:795.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Gluteal injections in increasingly obese population: Essential considerations for intramuscular injections

BMJ 2006;332:795.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Time to make paracetamol with methionine available

BMJ 2006;332:795.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

Googling your treatment for analgesia in labour

BMJ 2006;332:795.4 (Published 30 March 2006)

Neonatal lupus erythematosus is not always benign

BMJ 2006;332:796.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Independent sector treatment centres: experience and spin

BMJ 2006;332:796.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Untreated controls are wrong when proved treatment exists

BMJ 2006;332:796.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

Wear your name badge well

BMJ 2006;332:796.4 (Published 30 March 2006)

News

NHS faces job cuts as financial crisis deepens

BMJ 2006;332:743 (Published 30 March 2006)

In brief

BMJ 2006;332:744.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Non-European doctors feel penalised by change in UK policy

BMJ 2006;332:744.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

African doctors abroad need to work together to improve health care at home

BMJ 2006;332:744.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

Follow-up shows no adverse outcomes of CNEP in neonates

BMJ 2006;332:745.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Scientists find new disease: motivational deficiency disorder

BMJ 2006;332:745.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

News - continued

GMC finds three doctors guilty of irresponsible prescribing to addicts

BMJ 2006;332:747.4 (Published 30 March 2006)

UK government scraps mental health bill

BMJ 2006;332:748.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

AIDS robs millions of their childhood

BMJ 2006;332:748.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Assisted conception business should be better regulated

BMJ 2006;332:748.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

Research

Clinical Review

Asthma control in adults

BMJ 2006;332:767 (Published 30 March 2006)

Practice

Hip dislocation in cerebral palsy

BMJ 2006;332:772 (Published 30 March 2006)

Secondary drowning in a patient with epilepsy

BMJ 2006;332:775 (Published 30 March 2006)

Wound dressings

BMJ 2006;332:777 (Published 30 March 2006)

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2006;332:781 (Published 30 March 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;332:802 (Published 30 March 2006)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Care of England's older people still “unacceptably poor”

BMJ 2006;332:746.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Critically ill men in drug trial continue to improve

BMJ 2006;332:746.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

People considering laser eye surgery should be warned of risks, says NICE

BMJ 2006;332:746.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

Germany may change drug testing rules after debacle in England

BMJ 2006;332:746.4 (Published 30 March 2006)

Dutch doctors campaign for smoking ban in hospitality industry

BMJ 2006;332:746.5 (Published 30 March 2006)

Trust's refusal to fund trastuzumab was “arbitrary”

BMJ 2006;332:747.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

GMC finds no case to answer against Ian Craft

BMJ 2006;332:747.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Faking happiness at work can make you ill

BMJ 2006;332:747.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Analysis and Comment

Using lessons from the past to plan for pandemic flu

BMJ 2006;332:783.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Preparing for the pandemic

BMJ 2006;332:783.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

UK government response to Hilary Pickles

BMJ 2006;332:784 (Published 30 March 2006)

An iatrogenic pandemic of panic

BMJ 2006;332:786 (Published 30 March 2006)

A slippery disease: a microbiologist's view

BMJ 2006;332:789 (Published 30 March 2006)

Hard decisions will have to be made: view from intensive care

BMJ 2006;332:790 (Published 30 March 2006)

Dealing with uncertainty: perspective from primary care

BMJ 2006;332:791 (Published 30 March 2006)

Reviews

How to Have a Good Death

BMJ 2006;332:799 (Published 30 March 2006)

The Philosophy of Palliative Care: Critique and Reconstruction

BMJ 2006;332:800.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Big thrusters

BMJ 2006;332:800.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Elder abuse, 21st century style

BMJ 2006;332:801.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Is omniscience enough?

BMJ 2006;332:801.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Fillers

Neither paracetamol nor ibuprofen protects children against local reactions to the DTaP vaccine

BMJ 2006;332:0.6 (Published 30 March 2006)

Sticking with tradition

BMJ 2006;332:766 (Published 30 March 2006)

Learning outcomes

BMJ 2006;332:771 (Published 30 March 2006)

What medicine's really about

BMJ 2006;332:776 (Published 30 March 2006)

“Seeing” is believing

BMJ 2006;332:780 (Published 30 March 2006)

Privates

BMJ 2006;332:792 (Published 30 March 2006)

Corrections

ABC of wound healing: Burns

BMJ 2006;332:755.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Call to scrap import tariffs on pharmaceuticals in global WTO talks

BMJ 2006;332:755.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Obituaries: Kenneth Herbert Walter

BMJ 2006;332:755.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

Obituaries

Peter Bernard Allan Kernoff

BMJ 2006;332:797 (Published 30 March 2006)

Peter Alec James Ball

BMJ 2006;332:798.1 (Published 30 March 2006)

Erasmus Darwin Barlow

BMJ 2006;332:798.2 (Published 30 March 2006)

Winifred Cornwell (née Drew)

BMJ 2006;332:798.3 (Published 30 March 2006)

Richard Gardner

BMJ 2006;332:798.4 (Published 30 March 2006)

Haris Dias Jayasundere

BMJ 2006;332:798.5 (Published 30 March 2006)

David Rowland Jones

BMJ 2006;332:798.6 (Published 30 March 2006)

Walter Rostron Price

BMJ 2006;332:798.7 (Published 30 March 2006)