09 April 2005 (Vol 330, Issue 7495)

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Editor's Choice

A good death, or a public one?

BMJ 2005;330:0.8 (Published 7 April 2005)

News

NHS criticised for lax control over drugs industry

BMJ 2005;330:805.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Two drug firms advertised to patients

BMJ 2005;330:805.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;330:806.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

23% of babies in England are delivered by caesarean section

BMJ 2005;330:806.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Government pledges £2.5m for academic medicine

BMJ 2005;330:806.3 (Published 7 April 2005)

Assisted dying legislation must wait until after UK election

BMJ 2005;330:807.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Africans send their messages to G8 leaders

BMJ 2005;330:807.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Global ecological disaster predicted in next 50 years

BMJ 2005;330:809.3 (Published 7 April 2005)

Taking a collaborative approach to research

BMJ 2005;330:810.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Editorials

“Right to die”

BMJ 2005;330:799 (Published 7 April 2005)

Managing depression in primary care

BMJ 2005;330:800 (Published 7 April 2005)

Aortic stenosis

BMJ 2005;330:801 (Published 7 April 2005)

Long term sickness absence

BMJ 2005;330:802 (Published 7 April 2005)

New professional roles in surgery

BMJ 2005;330:803 (Published 7 April 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Non-specific effects of vaccination

BMJ 2005;330:844.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Non-specific effects of vaccination

BMJ 2005;330:844.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Non-specific effects of vaccination

BMJ 2005;330:844.3 (Published 7 April 2005)

Non-specific effects of vaccination

BMJ 2005;330:845.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

DTP in low income countries: improved child survival or survival bias?

BMJ 2005;330:845.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Phenobarbital for epilepsy: much is still to be learnt

BMJ 2005;330:846.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Use of chaperones in general practice

BMJ 2005;330:846.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Use of chaperones in general practice

BMJ 2005;330:846.3 (Published 7 April 2005)

Ethics and research governance in a multicentre study: add 150 days to your study protocol

BMJ 2005;330:847 (Published 7 April 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Jeremy Neil Anderson

BMJ 2005;330:848 (Published 7 April 2005)

John Alan Pollock

BMJ 2005;330:849.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Philip Harvey

BMJ 2005;330:849.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Isaac Ovenseri (“Ovens”) Iredia

BMJ 2005;330:849.3 (Published 7 April 2005)

James McIvor

BMJ 2005;330:849.4 (Published 7 April 2005)

Peter Stuart

BMJ 2005;330:849.5 (Published 7 April 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:854 (Published 7 April 2005)

Fillers

Trial of labour carries small but real increase in risk

BMJ 2005;330:0.7 (Published 7 April 2005)

In the bad old days

BMJ 2005;330:824 (Published 7 April 2005)

Blended learning

BMJ 2005;330:829 (Published 7 April 2005)

Not old

BMJ 2005;330:833 (Published 7 April 2005)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2005;330:834.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

My most informative mistake

BMJ 2005;330:838 (Published 7 April 2005)

An interesting patient

BMJ 2005;330:842 (Published 7 April 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

Amsterdam improves on AIDS prophylaxis and follow-up

BMJ 2005;330:0.5 (Published 7 April 2005)

Folic acid may not increase twinning

BMJ 2005;330:0.3 (Published 7 April 2005)

Test for M component in patients suspected of having osteoporosis

BMJ 2005;330:0.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Take part in our interactive case report

BMJ 2005;330:0.6 (Published 7 April 2005)

Learn to allocate by minimisation

BMJ 2005;330:0.4 (Published 7 April 2005)

Passive smoking may kill 30 people a day in the UK

BMJ 2005;330:0.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;330:811 (Published 7 April 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Necrotising fasciitis

BMJ 2005;330:830 (Published 7 April 2005)

Postoperative hypoxia in a woman with Down's syndrome: case presentation

BMJ 2005;330:834.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Common mental health problems

BMJ 2005;330:835 (Published 7 April 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Sex inequalities in health care need tackling

BMJ 2005;330:808.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

International community has failed Sudan

BMJ 2005;330:808.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

UK cancer survival rates are no worse than rest of Europe

BMJ 2005;330:808.3 (Published 7 April 2005)

Commission rejects mass genetic screening at birth

BMJ 2005;330:808.4 (Published 7 April 2005)

US scheme prevents some hospital admissions

BMJ 2005;330:808.5 (Published 7 April 2005)

Radiation for prostate cancer increases risk of rectal cancer

BMJ 2005;330:809.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Young people who binge drink are likely to continue into adulthood

BMJ 2005;330:809.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Cognitive therapy is as good as drugs for depression

BMJ 2005;330:810.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Surgeons' ties to device manufacturers under investigation

BMJ 2005;330:810.3 (Published 7 April 2005)

Papers

Estimate of deaths attributable to passive smoking among UK adults: database analysis

BMJ 2005;330:812 (Published 7 April 2005)

Impact of misclassification of in vitro fertilisation in studies of folic acid and twinning: modelling using population based Swedish vital records

BMJ 2005;330:815 (Published 7 April 2005)

Utility of testing for monoclonal bands in serum of patients with suspected osteoporosis: retrospective, cross sectional study

BMJ 2005;330:818 (Published 7 April 2005)

Primary care

Statin use in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary care: cohort study and comparison of inclusion and outcome with patients in randomised trials

BMJ 2005;330:821 (Published 7 April 2005)

Quality Improvement Report

Prophylaxis and follow-up after possible exposure to HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus outside hospital: evaluation of policy 2000-3

BMJ 2005;330:825 (Published 7 April 2005)

Education and debate

Managing common mental health disorders in primary care: conceptual models and evidence base

BMJ 2005;330:839 (Published 7 April 2005)

Treatment allocation by minimisation

BMJ 2005;330:843 (Published 7 April 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Illness as media spectacle

BMJ 2005;330:850 (Published 7 April 2005)

Life before Birth

BMJ 2005;330:851.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

HIV in Primary Care

BMJ 2005;330:851.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Why fund smoking cessation programmes in prisons?

BMJ 2005;330:852 (Published 7 April 2005)

Drug taking in prisons: the inside story

BMJ 2005;330:853.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

No sweet surrender

BMJ 2005;330:853.2 (Published 7 April 2005)

Corrections

Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;330:820.1 (Published 7 April 2005)

Cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;330:820.2 (Published 7 April 2005)