27 November 2004 (Vol 329, Issue 7477)

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This Week In the BMJ

Screening for aneurysm fails to reduce mortality

BMJ 2004;329:0.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Doctors leave UK for better lifestyles

BMJ 2004;329:0.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Implementing WHO's “3 by 5” initiative

BMJ 2004;329:0.4 (Published 25 November 2004)

Suppressing uterine natural killer cells is not justified

BMJ 2004;329:0.5 (Published 25 November 2004)

Quality of diabetes records varies with social mix

BMJ 2004;329:0.6 (Published 25 November 2004)

Infections kill preterm infants

BMJ 2004;329:0.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

Editor's Choice

Is drug regulation failing?

BMJ 2004;329:0.8 (Published 25 November 2004)

Editorials

The white paper on public health

BMJ 2004;329:1247 (Published 25 November 2004)

Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction

BMJ 2004;329:1248 (Published 25 November 2004)

The Mexico Summit on Health Research 2004

BMJ 2004;329:1249 (Published 25 November 2004)

Standards for Better Health: fit for purpose?

BMJ 2004;329:1250 (Published 25 November 2004)

Case management and community matrons for long term conditions

BMJ 2004;329:1251 (Published 25 November 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: Cause or association?

BMJ 2004;329:1286.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:1286.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: Another cancer detected by “pet scan”

BMJ 2004;329:1286.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

Epidemiology of preterm birth: Delayed cord clamping used to be taught and practised

BMJ 2004;329:1287.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Epidemiology of preterm birth: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:1287.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Colonoscopy completion rates: Technologies have evolved

BMJ 2004;329:1287.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

Colonoscopy completion rates: Should less successful endoscopists be removed or retrained?

BMJ 2004;329:1287.4 (Published 25 November 2004)

Colonoscopy completion rates: Author's reply

BMJ 2004;329:1288.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Life span and disability in Sweden and Russia: Paper highlights poor health among Russian women

BMJ 2004;329:1288.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Life span and disability in Sweden and Russia: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:1288.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

Completion lymphadenectomy may not increase in-transit disease in malignant melanoma

BMJ 2004;329:1288.4 (Published 25 November 2004)

Infectious diseases in Iraq have international implications

BMJ 2004;329:1289.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

NICE and BHS guidelines on hypertension differ importantly

BMJ 2004;329:1289.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

News

FDA is incapable of protecting US “against another Vioxx”

BMJ 2004;329:1253 (Published 25 November 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;329:1254.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

TV programme raises fresh allegations about MMR doctor

BMJ 2004;329:1254.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

News - continued

US pro-choice groups prepare for fight over Supreme Court nominee

BMJ 2004;329:1254.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

Drug maker urges group to lobby FDA on testosterone for women

BMJ 2004;329:1255.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Public interest group accuses FDA of trying to discredit whistleblower

BMJ 2004;329:1255.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Women are increasingly affected by AIDS epidemic, report shows

BMJ 2004;329:1257.4 (Published 25 November 2004)

Mexico summit calls for greater commitment to health research

BMJ 2004;329:1258.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Surgical management of metastatic inguinal lymphadenopathy

BMJ 2004;329:1272 (Published 25 November 2004)

Infection in the preterm infant

BMJ 2004;329:1277 (Published 25 November 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:1270.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:1296 (Published 25 November 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Six GPs who signed cremation forms for Shipman face GMC

BMJ 2004;329:1256.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Drug industry is not tackling threats to public health, says WHO

BMJ 2004;329:1256.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Landmine casualties are falling, but the wounded need more help

BMJ 2004;329:1256.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

Government programmes driven by politics not evidence, report says

BMJ 2004;329:1256.4 (Published 25 November 2004)

Review of child care cases finds few instances that raise “serious doubt”

BMJ 2004;329:1256.5 (Published 25 November 2004)

Patients with head or neck cancer should be treated at specialist centres

BMJ 2004;329:1257.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Inquiry finds that Gulf war veterans face extra burden of disease

BMJ 2004;329:1257.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Moving 15% of procedures to private sector will wreck NHS

BMJ 2004;329:1257.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

UK report warns of continued increase in HIV infection

BMJ 2004;329:1258.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Antibiotic halves number of AIDS related deaths in children in Zambian study

BMJ 2004;329:1258.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

UN delays decision on human cloning

BMJ 2004;329:1258.4 (Published 25 November 2004)

Users of SSRIs face risk of abnormal bleeding

BMJ 2004;329:1258.5 (Published 25 November 2004)

NICE issues guideline to prevent falls in elderly people

BMJ 2004;329:1258.6 (Published 25 November 2004)

Advisory group to review NHS research ethics committees

BMJ 2004;329:1258.7 (Published 25 November 2004)

Journal calls for new system to monitor post-marketing drug safety

BMJ 2004;329:1258.8 (Published 25 November 2004)

Papers

Population based randomised controlled trial on impact of screening on mortality from abdominal aortic aneurysm

BMJ 2004;329:1259 (Published 25 November 2004)

Reasons for considering leaving UK medicine: questionnaire study of junior doctors' comments

BMJ 2004;329:1263 (Published 25 November 2004)

Fatal exacerbation of rheumatoid arthritis associated fibrosing alveolitis in patients given infliximab

BMJ 2004;329:1266 (Published 25 November 2004)

Primary care

Association of deprivation, ethnicity, and sex with quality indicators for diabetes: population based survey of 53 000 patients in primary care

BMJ 2004;329:1267 (Published 25 November 2004)

Socioeconomic inequalities in indicator scores for diabetes: poor quality or poor measures?

BMJ 2004;329:1269 (Published 25 November 2004)

Newly diagnosed hypothyroidism

BMJ 2004;329:1271 (Published 25 November 2004)

Education and debate

Barriers to better care for people with AIDS in developing countries

BMJ 2004;329:1281 (Published 25 November 2004)

Natural killer cells, miscarriage, and infertility

BMJ 2004;329:1283 (Published 25 November 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

BMJ 2004;329:1292 (Published 25 November 2004)

Dispatches. MMR: What They Didn't Tell You

BMJ 2004;329:1293.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

NETLINES

BMJ 2004;329:1293.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Fix for low sex drive puts reporters in a bad patch

BMJ 2004;329:1294 (Published 25 November 2004)

Grand rounds

BMJ 2004;329:1295.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Remedial nursing

BMJ 2004;329:1295.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Fillers

Steroid is effective for vestibular neuritis, valacyclovir is not

BMJ 2004;329:0.7 (Published 25 November 2004)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2004;329:1265 (Published 25 November 2004)

Multimedia learning

BMJ 2004;329:1270.4 (Published 25 November 2004)

The future of London medical education

BMJ 2004;329:1276 (Published 25 November 2004)

“Bonjour, je m'appelle Oshadi”

BMJ 2004;329:1280 (Published 25 November 2004)

Not enough

BMJ 2004;329:1285 (Published 25 November 2004)

Corrections

Hepatitis B infections

BMJ 2004;329:1270.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

ABC of sexual health: Gender related disorders

BMJ 2004;329:1270.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Jacques Benveniste

BMJ 2004;329:1290 (Published 25 November 2004)

Matthew Macmaster Garrey

BMJ 2004;329:1291.1 (Published 25 November 2004)

Philip Glazer

BMJ 2004;329:1291.2 (Published 25 November 2004)

Margaret Marian Horne (née Robertson)

BMJ 2004;329:1291.3 (Published 25 November 2004)

Margaret Jean Parbrook

BMJ 2004;329:1291.4 (Published 25 November 2004)

Bruce Thomas

BMJ 2004;329:1291.5 (Published 25 November 2004)

David William Phillip Thomas

BMJ 2004;329:1291.6 (Published 25 November 2004)

Peter Holmes Watkins

BMJ 2004;329:1291.7 (Published 25 November 2004)

John Donald (“Paddy”) Whiteside

BMJ 2004;329:1291.8 (Published 25 November 2004)