19 March 2005 (Vol 330, Issue 7492)

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This Week In the BMJ

Specialists should get more involved in the care of chronic patients

BMJ 2005;330:0.5 (Published 17 March 2005)

Living with myalgic encephalomyelitis

BMJ 2005;330:0.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

The NHS is waking to the challenge of chronic conditions

BMJ 2005;330:0.4 (Published 17 March 2005)

Improving the doctor-patient relationship in chronic illness

BMJ 2005;330:0.7 (Published 17 March 2005)

Moving beyond guidelines in treatment of COPD

BMJ 2005;330:0.6 (Published 17 March 2005)

BNP is reliable in predicting prognosis of heart failure

BMJ 2005;330:0.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Sharing stories may improve diabetes education

BMJ 2005;330:0.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Editor's Choice

Charcot would have approved

BMJ 2005;330:0.9 (Published 17 March 2005)

Editorials

High quality care for people with chronic diseases

BMJ 2005;330:609 (Published 17 March 2005)

Drugs for preventing cardiovascular disease in China

BMJ 2005;330:610 (Published 17 March 2005)

Palliative care in chronic illness

BMJ 2005;330:611 (Published 17 March 2005)

Nurses as leaders in chronic care

BMJ 2005;330:612 (Published 17 March 2005)

Mental health in Europe

BMJ 2005;330:613 (Published 17 March 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Developing primary palliative care

BMJ 2005;330:671.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Developing primary palliative care

BMJ 2005;330:671.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Specialist palliative care in dementia

BMJ 2005;330:671.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

Specialist palliative care in dementia

BMJ 2005;330:672.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Specialist palliative care in dementia

BMJ 2005;330:672.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Managing osteoarthritis of the knee

BMJ 2005;330:672.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

Managing osteoarthritis of the knee

BMJ 2005;330:672.4 (Published 17 March 2005)

Managing osteoarthritis of the knee

BMJ 2005;330:673.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Managing osteoarthritis of the knee

BMJ 2005;330:673.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Managing osteoarthritis of the knee

BMJ 2005;330:673.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial

BMJ 2005;330:673.4 (Published 17 March 2005)

United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial

BMJ 2005;330:674.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial

BMJ 2005;330:674.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial

BMJ 2005;330:674.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial

BMJ 2005;330:674.4 (Published 17 March 2005)

News

Stroke patients are not treated quickly enough

BMJ 2005;330:615.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Service framework threatened by shortage of neurologists

BMJ 2005;330:615.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;330:616.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

UK agency to combat research misconduct

BMJ 2005;330:616.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

News - continued

GMC should not consider doctor's record when ruling on misconduct

BMJ 2005;330:616.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

UK insurers postpone using predictive genetic testing until 2011

BMJ 2005;330:617.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Do it yourself cancer gene testing raises concerns

BMJ 2005;330:617.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Deaths in Darfur are grossly underestimated

BMJ 2005;330:619.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

Number of overweight women in developing countries is increasing

BMJ 2005;330:620.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

FDA accepts weakened antidepressant warning

BMJ 2005;330:620.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

US defeated on antiabortion statements at UN women's meeting

BMJ 2005;330:621.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Environmental charity launches a visual wakeup call on climate change

BMJ 2005;330:621.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Hospital admission leads to drug errors

BMJ 2005;330:621.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

Commission demands end to “festering sore” of African poverty

BMJ 2005;330:622.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;330:623 (Published 17 March 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Recent developments in inhaled therapy in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ 2005;330:640 (Published 17 March 2005)

Monitoring in chronic disease: a rational approach

BMJ 2005;330:644 (Published 17 March 2005)

A patient's journey with myalgic encephalomyelitis

BMJ 2005;330:648 (Published 17 March 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:680 (Published 17 March 2005)

BMJ USA

On experts

BMJ 2005;330:E340 (Published 17 March 2005)

RAPID RESPONSE FROM BMJ.COM

BMJ 2005;330:E341 (Published 17 March 2005)

Sued's corner

BMJ 2005;330:E342.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

The doctor, teacher, daughter

BMJ 2005;330:E342.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:E343 (Published 17 March 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Nuffield council calls for ethical framework for developing world research

BMJ 2005;330:618.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Authorities want clearer guidelines about funding long term care

BMJ 2005;330:618.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

UK government puts children at centre of plans to improve the country's health

BMJ 2005;330:618.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

Exhibition encapsulates the pills that keep us alive

BMJ 2005;330:618.4 (Published 17 March 2005)

NHS complaints system is letting patients down

BMJ 2005;330:618.5 (Published 17 March 2005)

Australia backs tougher regulation for complementary health products

BMJ 2005;330:619.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Surgeon is accused of carrying out unnecessary surgery

BMJ 2005;330:619.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Activating stem cells may treat Alzheimer's

BMJ 2005;330:622.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Paper

How well does B-type natriuretic peptide predict death and cardiac events in patients with heart failure: systematic review

BMJ 2005;330:625 (Published 17 March 2005)

Primary care

Sharing stories: complex intervention for diabetes education in minority ethnic groups who do not speak English

BMJ 2005;330:628 (Published 17 March 2005)

Commentary: Using patients' narratives in complex research

BMJ 2005;330:631 (Published 17 March 2005)

Irritable bowel syndrome

BMJ 2005;330:632 (Published 17 March 2005)

Learning in practice

What should undergraduate medical students know about psoriasis? Involving patients in curriculum development: modified Delphi technique

BMJ 2005;330:633 (Published 17 March 2005)

Preparing the 21st century global healthcare workforce

BMJ 2005;330:637 (Published 17 March 2005)

Education and debate

Role of specialists in common chronic diseases

BMJ 2005;330:651 (Published 17 March 2005)

Condition based payment: improving care of chronic illness

BMJ 2005;330:654 (Published 17 March 2005)

Rising to the challenge: will the NHS support people with long term conditions?

BMJ 2005;330:657 (Published 17 March 2005)

Health reform through coordinated care: SA HealthPlus

BMJ 2005;330:662 (Published 17 March 2005)

Trials should inform structures and processes needed for tailoring interventions

BMJ 2005;330:665 (Published 17 March 2005)

Doctor-patient relationships in chronic illness: insights from forensic psychiatry

BMJ 2005;330:667 (Published 17 March 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Progress Against Heart Disease

BMJ 2005;330:677 (Published 17 March 2005)

Jamie's School Dinners

BMJ 2005;330:678.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

The Optimist: Meditations on Medicine. Collected Essays 1994-2003

BMJ 2005;330:678.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Tanzania and diabetes—a model for developing countries?

BMJ 2005;330:679.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Year of delivery

BMJ 2005;330:679.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Fillers

Two-drug hypertension regimen increases CVD mortality

BMJ 2005;330:0.8 (Published 17 March 2005)

The difference

BMJ 2005;330:627 (Published 17 March 2005)

American College of Gastroenterology—69th Annual Scientific Meeting Orlando, Florida

BMJ 2005;330:636 (Published 17 March 2005)

Trouble at sea

BMJ 2005;330:666 (Published 17 March 2005)

A good pizza joint

BMJ 2005;330:670 (Published 17 March 2005)

Advice

BMJ 2005;330:676.7 (Published 17 March 2005)

Corrections

Abstinence only programmes do not change sexual behaviour, Texas study shows

BMJ 2005;330:653.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

Association between suicide attempts and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2005;330:653.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Obituary: Alfred Ian Douglas Prentice

BMJ 2005;330:653.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Jeremy Swan

BMJ 2005;330:675.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

John Andrews Byrne

BMJ 2005;330:675.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

Teng Chia-Tung

BMJ 2005;330:676.1 (Published 17 March 2005)

David John Gould

BMJ 2005;330:676.2 (Published 17 March 2005)

John Douglas Macdonald

BMJ 2005;330:676.3 (Published 17 March 2005)

Ivan Myer Sievers

BMJ 2005;330:676.4 (Published 17 March 2005)

Thomas Eldon Scott Stowell

BMJ 2005;330:676.5 (Published 17 March 2005)

Walter Hewitt Toms

BMJ 2005;330:676.6 (Published 17 March 2005)