14 May 2005 (Vol 330, Issue 7500)

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Editor's Choice

Think mumps

BMJ 2005;330:0.7 (Published 12 May 2005)

News

Half of patients in intensive care receive suboptimal care

BMJ 2005;330:1101.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Merck chief quits as further material on Vioxx emerges

BMJ 2005;330:1101.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;330:1102.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

NICE says that patients' age should affect treatment

BMJ 2005;330:1102.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Cervical cancer is still missed, despite the availability of screening

BMJ 2005;330:1102.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

English surgeons may at last be about to become doctors

BMJ 2005;330:1103.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Doctors object to a wider role for surgical care practitioners

BMJ 2005;330:1103.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

More pubs will escape smoking ban than UK government has claimed

BMJ 2005;330:1105.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

WHO's attempts to eradicate polio are thwarted in Africa and Asia

BMJ 2005;330:1106.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

New law aims to distance the FDA from the drug industry

BMJ 2005;330:1106.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Editorials

Antioxidants for children with kwashiorkor

BMJ 2005;330:1095 (Published 12 May 2005)

The fetal origins hypothesis—10 years on

BMJ 2005;330:1096 (Published 12 May 2005)

Open access, impact, and demand

BMJ 2005;330:1097 (Published 12 May 2005)

Monitoring surgical mortality

BMJ 2005;330:1098 (Published 12 May 2005)

Global functions at the World Health Organization

BMJ 2005;330:1099 (Published 12 May 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?: Risk of suicide should be assessed for whole class of antidepressants

BMJ 2005;330:1148.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?: Figures look doubtful

BMJ 2005;330:1148.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?: Authors' reply to Curtin and Schulz, and Healy

BMJ 2005;330:1148.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?: Discrediting old drugs may be useful in marketing new ones

BMJ 2005;330:1149.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?: Let's keep it in perspective

BMJ 2005;330:1149.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?: Data seem to be incorrect

BMJ 2005;330:1149.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?: Authors' reply to Jones, Sakinofsky and Streiner, and Mitchell

BMJ 2005;330:1150.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?: Suicide rate of 15% in editorial is misleading

BMJ 2005;330:1150.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?: Authors' reply to Raven

BMJ 2005;330:1150.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

Do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cause suicide?:Antidepressant prescribing to children and adolescents by GPs has fallen since CSM advice

BMJ 2005;330:1151.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Attributable lung cancer risk from radon in homes may be low

BMJ 2005;330:1151.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Many patients may not understand consent forms

BMJ 2005;330:1151.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Alvin Novick

BMJ 2005;330:1152 (Published 12 May 2005)

Obituaries - continued

Dion Ralph Bell

BMJ 2005;330:1153.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Gerson Katz

BMJ 2005;330:1153.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Elsie May Lewis

BMJ 2005;330:1153.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

Kenneth Hart Pickworth

BMJ 2005;330:1153.4 (Published 12 May 2005)

Adam Neil Smith

BMJ 2005;330:1153.5 (Published 12 May 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:1158 (Published 12 May 2005)

Fillers

Test and eradicate is best for dyspepsia after six years

BMJ 2005;330:0.6 (Published 12 May 2005)

Our task

BMJ 2005;330:1111 (Published 12 May 2005)

Ignorance is bliss

BMJ 2005;330:1118 (Published 12 May 2005)

The gold standard: not a golden standard

BMJ 2005;330:1121 (Published 12 May 2005)

Edutainment?

BMJ 2005;330:1126 (Published 12 May 2005)

At Talbott-Marsh

BMJ 2005;330:1127.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Breaking bad news

BMJ 2005;330:1131 (Published 12 May 2005)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2005;330:1142 (Published 12 May 2005)

Japanese students

BMJ 2005;330:1147 (Published 12 May 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

Antioxidant supplementation doesn't prevent kwashiorkor in children

BMJ 2005;330:0.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Weight gain is more dangerous for women who were born light

BMJ 2005;330:0.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

Scientists bypass journal subscriptions

BMJ 2005;330:0.5 (Published 12 May 2005)

People with mental illness prefer to be treated by their GP

BMJ 2005;330:0.4 (Published 12 May 2005)

Overcoming lack of control over life may avoid self harm

BMJ 2005;330:0.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;330:1107 (Published 12 May 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Mumps and the UK epidemic 2005

BMJ 2005;330:1132 (Published 12 May 2005)

Major trauma

BMJ 2005;330:1136 (Published 12 May 2005)

BMJ USA

Trans-Atlantic learning

BMJ 2005;330:E349 (Published 12 May 2005)

St John's for depression, worts and all

BMJ 2005;330:E350 (Published 12 May 2005)

Benefits of early invasive treatment for acute coronary syndromes: lost in translation?

BMJ 2005;330:E351 (Published 12 May 2005)

RAPID RESPONSE FROM BMJ.COM

BMJ 2005;330:E353 (Published 12 May 2005)

RAPID RESPONSE FROM BMJ.COM

BMJ 2005;330:E354 (Published 12 May 2005)

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:E355 (Published 12 May 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Medical students should be added to GMC register, says judge

BMJ 2005;330:1104.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Infection rate after some surgery types in England is triple that in US

BMJ 2005;330:1104.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Doctors accuse India of massaging leprosy figures

BMJ 2005;330:1104.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

UK and US groups announce new initiatives on open access publishing

BMJ 2005;330:1104.4 (Published 12 May 2005)

Medical societies react against public access to findings

BMJ 2005;330:1104.5 (Published 12 May 2005)

Doctor was “near to breaking point” when she exaggerated abuse

BMJ 2005;330:1105.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Heart rate is a good predictor of sudden cardiac death, study shows

BMJ 2005;330:1105.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Papers

Antioxidant supplementation for the prevention of kwashiorkor in Malawian children: randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial

BMJ 2005;330:1109 (Published 12 May 2005)

Understanding resolution of deliberate self harm: qualitative interview study of patients' experiences

BMJ 2005;330:1112 (Published 12 May 2005)

Longitudinal study of birth weight and adult body mass index in predicting risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in women

BMJ 2005;330:1115 (Published 12 May 2005)

Mumps outbreaks across England and Wales in 2004: observational study

BMJ 2005;330:1119 (Published 12 May 2005)

MMR vaccine and Crohn's disease: ecological study of hospital admissions in England, 1991 to 2002

BMJ 2005;330:1120 (Published 12 May 2005)

Primary care

Patients' and health professionals' views on primary care for people with serious mental illness: focus group study

BMJ 2005;330:1122 (Published 12 May 2005)

Hyperhidrosis

BMJ 2005;330:1127.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Information in practice

Open access and openly accessible: a study of scientific publications shared via the internet

BMJ 2005;330:1128 (Published 12 May 2005)

Education and debate

Building a framework for trust: critical event analysis of deaths in surgical care

BMJ 2005;330:1139 (Published 12 May 2005)

Excellent review scheme for critical incidents but insufficient for revalidation

BMJ 2005;330:1143.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Failure to act on good intentions

BMJ 2005;330:1144 (Published 12 May 2005)

Revalidation in the UK

BMJ 2005;330:1145 (Published 12 May 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Evidence of Harm. Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: Medical Controversy

BMJ 2005;330:1154 (Published 12 May 2005)

Patient Adherence to Medical Treatment Regimens: Bridging the Gap Between Behavioral Science and Biomedicine

BMJ 2005;330:1155.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Hit parade

BMJ 2005;330:1155.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

End celebrity endorsement of screening, say researchers

BMJ 2005;330:1156 (Published 12 May 2005)

A conduit to imbecility

BMJ 2005;330:1157.1 (Published 12 May 2005)

Aristotle, the NHS, and Davie's henhouse

BMJ 2005;330:1157.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Corrections

Necrotising fasciitis

BMJ 2005;330:1143.2 (Published 12 May 2005)

Regulator restricts use of SSRIs in children

BMJ 2005;330:1143.3 (Published 12 May 2005)

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

BMJ 2005;330:1143.4 (Published 12 May 2005)

Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 1. Role and design

BMJ 2005;330:1143.5 (Published 12 May 2005)