11 November 2006 (Vol 333, Issue 7576)

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This Week In the BMJ

Evidence based interventions reduce knee pain in older people

BMJ 2006;333:0.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Statin use does not reduce severity of pneumonia

BMJ 2006;333:0.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

WHO needs a major refocus

BMJ 2006;333:0.5 (Published 9 November 2006)

Probiotics are relatively safe and beneficial

BMJ 2006;333:0.4 (Published 9 November 2006)

Psychological screening of soldiers does not predict mental illness

BMJ 2006;333:0.1 (Published 2 August 2011)

Editor's Choice

Trust me

BMJ 2006;333:0.7 (Published 9 November 2006)

Editorials

Mental health screening before troop deployment

BMJ 2006;333:979 (Published 9 November 2006)

The lesser known effects of statins

BMJ 2006;333:980 (Published 9 November 2006)

Treatment of knee pain in primary care

BMJ 2006;333:981 (Published 9 November 2006)

Osteonecrosis of the jaw after treatment with bisphosphonates

BMJ 2006;333:982 (Published 9 November 2006)

What should we do about climate change?

BMJ 2006;333:983 (Published 9 November 2006)

Letters

Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence

BMJ 2006;333:1020.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence

BMJ 2006;333:1020.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence

BMJ 2006;333:1020.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence

BMJ 2006;333:1021.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Word limits best explain failings of industry supported meta-analyses

BMJ 2006;333:1021.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Measles outbreak in Surrey

BMJ 2006;333:1021.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

Community acceptance is needed to eradicate polio in India

BMJ 2006;333:1022.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Reconstructive surgery is often needed after obesity surgery

BMJ 2006;333:1022.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Humanitarian aid starts at home

BMJ 2006;333:1022.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

The Full English: the full picture

BMJ 2006;333:1022.4 (Published 9 November 2006)

News

UK fares well in survey of primary care, but US doesn't

BMJ 2006;333:985.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Controversy has led to small fall in sales of drug eluting stents

BMJ 2006;333:985.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

In brief

BMJ 2006;333:986.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Worldwide water crisis is a “silent emergency,” UN agency says

BMJ 2006;333:986.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Government needs better scientific advice, MPs say

BMJ 2006;333:986.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

News - continued

GMC denies that changes will mean more doctors being struck off

BMJ 2006;333:987.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

BMA rejects chief medical officer's proposals on medical regulation

BMJ 2006;333:987.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Guidelines on treating risk factors turn healthy people into patients, doctors say

BMJ 2006;333:988.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

New agreement aims to streamline sponsored clinical trials in NHS

BMJ 2006;333:988.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Black Africans have highest prevalence of tuberculosis in UK

BMJ 2006;333:988.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

Israeli Arabs undergo less preventive screening than Jews

BMJ 2006;333:988.4 (Published 9 November 2006)

NHS is failing refused asylum seekers, says Refugee Council

BMJ 2006;333:988.5 (Published 9 November 2006)

Professional teams who deal with young offenders lack healthcare expertise

BMJ 2006;333:989.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Care of mentally ill prisoners is “clearly dysfunctional”

BMJ 2006;333:989.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Brazil celebrates 10 years of universal access to antiretrovirals

BMJ 2006;333:989.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

Doctors demonstrate against “incoherent” reforms of NHS

BMJ 2006;333:989.4 (Published 9 November 2006)

Gynaecology sans Frontières

BMJ 2006;333:990.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

WHO suppressed evidence on effects of depleted uranium, expert says

BMJ 2006;333:990.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Standard procedures are needed to improve patients' safety, says England's chief medical officer

BMJ 2006;333:990.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

Research

Mental health screening in armed forces before the Iraq war and prevention of subsequent psychological morbidity: follow-up study

BMJ 2006;333:991 (Published 9 November 2006)

Effectiveness of community physiotherapy and enhanced pharmacy review for knee pain in people aged over 55 presenting to primary care: pragmatic randomised trial

BMJ 2006;333:995 (Published 9 November 2006)

Statins and outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with community acquired pneumonia: population based prospective cohort study

BMJ 2006;333:999 (Published 9 November 2006)

Clinical Review

Intermittent claudication

BMJ 2006;333:1002 (Published 9 November 2006)

Practice

Safety of probiotics: comparison of two popular strains

BMJ 2006;333:1006 (Published 9 November 2006)

Risk factors for diabetes and coronary heart disease

BMJ 2006;333:1009 (Published 9 November 2006)

Hypnotherapy relieves non-cardiac chest pain

BMJ 2006;333:1012.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Weighing babies to assess milk intake is unreliable

BMJ 2006;333:1012.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Dental bacteraemia is short lasting

BMJ 2006;333:1012.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

Skin necrosis from amiodarone

BMJ 2006;333:1012.4 (Published 9 November 2006)

Walking and cycling mitigates COPD

BMJ 2006;333:1012.5 (Published 9 November 2006)

Improved oral hygiene doesn't prevent preterm birth

BMJ 2006;333:1013.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Doctors must wait for decent evidence on treatments for renal artery stenosis

BMJ 2006;333:1013.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Practice - continued

“Forced use” helps patients with stroke regain function in their weak arm

BMJ 2006;333:1013.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

Central serotonin pathways implicated in sudden infant deaths

BMJ 2006;333:1013.4 (Published 9 November 2006)

End stage heart failure may be reversible

BMJ 2006;333:1014.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Social influences conspire against safe sex

BMJ 2006;333:1014.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Statins are associated with a lower risk of death in people with heart failure

BMJ 2006;333:1014.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

Epirubicin improves classic chemotherapy for early breast cancer

BMJ 2006;333:1014.4 (Published 9 November 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;333:1028.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Minerva

BMJ 2006;333:1028.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Filler

Doubt remains over the equivalence of two treatments for carotid artery stenosis

BMJ 2006;333:0.6 (Published 9 November 2006)

A trouble shared is a trouble halved

BMJ 2006;333:998 (Published 9 November 2006)

Doctors and duellists

BMJ 2006;333:1005 (Published 9 November 2006)

Einstein on research

BMJ 2006;333:1008 (Published 9 November 2006)

A complication of becoming a centenarian

BMJ 2006;333:1019 (Published 9 November 2006)

Analysis and Comment

Open letter to the incoming director general of the World Health Organization: time to refocus

BMJ 2006;333:1015 (Published 9 November 2006)

Investment in health could be good for Europe's economies

BMJ 2006;333:1017 (Published 9 November 2006)

How doctors' anonymity in family courts is under threat

BMJ 2006;333:1024 (Published 9 November 2006)

Living with AIDS

BMJ 2006;333:1026.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World

BMJ 2006;333:1026.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Doctors must not be lapdogs to drug firms

BMJ 2006;333:1027.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

An Auchendreich farewell

BMJ 2006;333:1027.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Obituaries

Donald Duck

BMJ 2006;333:1023.1 (Published 9 November 2006)

Brian Oliver Lyndhurst Duke

BMJ 2006;333:1023.2 (Published 9 November 2006)

Joan Frances Godfrey

BMJ 2006;333:1023.3 (Published 9 November 2006)

Michael Edward Hincks

BMJ 2006;333:1023.4 (Published 9 November 2006)

Lawrence John Page

BMJ 2006;333:1023.5 (Published 9 November 2006)