23 April 2005 (Vol 330, Issue 7497)

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Editor's Choice

Preventive medicine makes us miserable

BMJ 2005;330:0.7 (Published 21 April 2005)

News

NHS care in England is still not centred on patients

BMJ 2005;330:919.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

FDA panel approves one make of silicone breast implant in the US

BMJ 2005;330:919.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;330:920.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

India launches national rural health mission

BMJ 2005;330:920.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

High Court tightens conditions under which Southall may practise

BMJ 2005;330:920.3 (Published 21 April 2005)

Deaths associated with obesity may be declining in the United States

BMJ 2005;330:921.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Bariatric surgery recommended for morbidly obese people

BMJ 2005;330:921.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Developed world is robbing African countries of health staff

BMJ 2005;330:923.3 (Published 21 April 2005)

Building a healthier Scotland

BMJ 2005;330:924.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Expanding the Welsh NHS

BMJ 2005;330:924.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Patients' passports pop up again

BMJ 2005;330:925 (Published 21 April 2005)

Crusading for change

BMJ 2005;330:926.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Editorials

Making decisions about mammography

BMJ 2005;330:915 (Published 21 April 2005)

Using pictures in the BMJ

BMJ 2005;330:916 (Published 21 April 2005)

New arrangements for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

BMJ 2005;330:917 (Published 21 April 2005)

New arrangements for prison health care

BMJ 2005;330:918 (Published 21 April 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Managing chronic diseases

BMJ 2005;330:963.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Managing chronic diseases

BMJ 2005;330:963.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Managing chronic diseases

BMJ 2005;330:963.3 (Published 21 April 2005)

Managing chronic diseases

BMJ 2005;330:964.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Managing chronic diseases

BMJ 2005;330:964.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Managing chronic diseases

BMJ 2005;330:964.3 (Published 21 April 2005)

Managing chronic diseases

BMJ 2005;330:964.4 (Published 21 April 2005)

Time to consider employment conditions for carers

BMJ 2005;330:965.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Letters - continued

Insulin resistance and depression

BMJ 2005;330:965.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Insulin resistance and depression

BMJ 2005;330:965.3 (Published 21 April 2005)

Delayed hypersensitivity due to epidural block with ropivacaine

BMJ 2005;330:966.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Delayed hypersensitivity due to epidural block with ropivacaine

BMJ 2005;330:966.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Will the lead clinician please stand up?

BMJ 2005;330:966.3 (Published 21 April 2005)

Will the lead clinician please stand up?

BMJ 2005;330:966.4 (Published 21 April 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Wilfred G Bigelow

BMJ 2005;330:967 (Published 21 April 2005)

Wilhelmina Mary Harcourt Behan (née Hughes)

BMJ 2005;330:968.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Wa'el Seifeddin Boustany

BMJ 2005;330:968.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Barry Winston Lewis

BMJ 2005;330:968.3 (Published 21 April 2005)

Saraswathi Mahalingam

BMJ 2005;330:968.4 (Published 21 April 2005)

Archibald John Ogg

BMJ 2005;330:968.5 (Published 21 April 2005)

James Douglas Sleigh

BMJ 2005;330:968.6 (Published 21 April 2005)

John Kenneth Walker

BMJ 2005;330:968.7 (Published 21 April 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:974 (Published 21 April 2005)

Fillers

High dose statins lower C reactive protein

BMJ 2005;330:0.6 (Published 21 April 2005)

Medicine: science or art?

BMJ 2005;330:942 (Published 21 April 2005)

Postoperative hypoxia in a woman with Down's syndrome

BMJ 2005;330:948.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

The magic word

BMJ 2005;330:948.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

The fully established physician

BMJ 2005;330:959.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2005;330:962 (Published 21 April 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;330:927 (Published 21 April 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Breast reconstruction

BMJ 2005;330:943 (Published 21 April 2005)

In vitro and in vivo haemolysis and potassium measurement

BMJ 2005;330:949 (Published 21 April 2005)

Eating disorders and weight problems

BMJ 2005;330:950 (Published 21 April 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Germany sets up a system for reporting medical mistakes

BMJ 2005;330:922.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Dutch doctors should tackle female genital mutilation

BMJ 2005;330:922.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Hand washing is more important than cleaner wards in controlling MRSA

BMJ 2005;330:922.3 (Published 21 April 2005)

FDA warns about using antipsychotic drugs for dementia

BMJ 2005;330:922.4 (Published 21 April 2005)

Ruling allows EU patients to be reimbursed for treatment outside the union

BMJ 2005;330:922.5 (Published 21 April 2005)

Vitamin E doesn't slow progression to Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2005;330:923.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Research councils' requirements could bankrupt academic journals

BMJ 2005;330:923.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Evidence based research for coping in emergencies goes online

BMJ 2005;330:926.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Papers

Was Rodney Ledward a statistical outlier? Retrospective analysis using routine hospital data to identify gynaecologists' performance

BMJ 2005;330:929 (Published 21 April 2005)

Incidence and risk factors for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: prospective study of 5408 women enrolled in Italian tamoxifen chemoprevention trial

BMJ 2005;330:932 (Published 21 April 2005)

Model of outcomes of screening mammography: information to support informed choices

BMJ 2005;330:936 (Published 21 April 2005)

Trends in number of hysterectomies performed in England for menorrhagia: examination of health episode statistics, 1989 to 2002-3

BMJ 2005;330:938 (Published 21 April 2005)

Primary care

Coverage and uptake of systematic postal screening for genital Chlamydia trachomatis and prevalence of infection in the United Kingdom general population: cross sectional study

BMJ 2005;330:940 (Published 21 April 2005)

Education and debate

Who needs health care—the well or the sick?

BMJ 2005;330:954 (Published 21 April 2005)

Principles for international registration of protocol information and results from human trials of health related interventions: Ottawa statement (part 1)

BMJ 2005;330:956 (Published 21 April 2005)

Why industry should register and disclose results of clinical studies—perspective of a recovering academic

BMJ 2005;330:959.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 2. Assessing potential for confounding

BMJ 2005;330:960 (Published 21 April 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Born with Two Mothers

BMJ 2005;330:969 (Published 21 April 2005)

Origin of the World: Science and the Fiction of the Vagina

BMJ 2005;330:970.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Tobacco: Science, Policy and Public Health

BMJ 2005;330:970.2 (Published 21 April 2005)

Will the next Lord Winston please stand up

BMJ 2005;330:971 (Published 21 April 2005)

Death on the road to international development

BMJ 2005;330:972 (Published 21 April 2005)

Lessons from a pregnancy and childbirth

BMJ 2005;330:973.1 (Published 21 April 2005)

Don's diary

BMJ 2005;330:973.2 (Published 21 April 2005)