28 May 2005 (Vol 330, Issue 7502)

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Editor's Choice

Winning hearts and minds

BMJ 2005;330:0.8 (Published 26 May 2005)

News

UK and Korean teams refine techniques for human cloning

BMJ 2005;330:1225 (Published 26 May 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;330:1226.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Committee calls for more guidance on animal experiments

BMJ 2005;330:1226.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

UK patients can refuse to let their data be shared across networks

BMJ 2005;330:1226.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

Community care has led to loss of staff from psychiatric wards

BMJ 2005;330:1227.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Four in five nurses on mental wards face violence

BMJ 2005;330:1227.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Cancer is diagnosed more quickly in patients who bypass GPs

BMJ 2005;330:1229.4 (Published 26 May 2005)

World Health Assembly votes not to destroy smallpox virus

BMJ 2005;330:1230.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Pathologists' display of plant power wins at Chelsea

BMJ 2005;330:1230.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Pfizer Australia is fined for misleading promotion of celecoxib

BMJ 2005;330:1230.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

Editorials

Clinical leadership in the provision of hospital care

BMJ 2005;330:1219 (Published 26 May 2005)

Surgery versus intensive rehabilitation programmes for chronic low back pain

BMJ 2005;330:1220 (Published 26 May 2005)

Reducing knife crime

BMJ 2005;330:1221 (Published 26 May 2005)

Next steps in trial registration

BMJ 2005;330:1222 (Published 26 May 2005)

Excess coronary heart disease in South Asians in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2005;330:1223 (Published 26 May 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction

BMJ 2005;330:1269.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction

BMJ 2005;330:1269.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction

BMJ 2005;330:1270.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction

BMJ 2005;330:1270.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction

BMJ 2005;330:1270.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

Reducing mortality in myocardial infarction

BMJ 2005;330:1271.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Reducing mortality in myocardial infarction

BMJ 2005;330:1271.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Reducing mortality in myocardial infarction

BMJ 2005;330:1271.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

Illness trajectories are also valuable in critical care

BMJ 2005;330:1272.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Emergency endoscopy service could be provided

BMJ 2005;330:1272.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Nature and doctors can be dangerous

BMJ 2005;330:1272.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Dennis Gath

BMJ 2005;330:1273 (Published 26 May 2005)

Margaret Winifred Anderson

BMJ 2005;330:1274.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Janet Queen (“Jenny”) Ballantine (née Morton)

BMJ 2005;330:1274.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Edward Charles Arden Bott

BMJ 2005;330:1274.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

David Christopher Simmonds Gough

BMJ 2005;330:1274.4 (Published 26 May 2005)

Ian Alexander Porter

BMJ 2005;330:1274.5 (Published 26 May 2005)

Jean Mary Scott (née Lewis)

BMJ 2005;330:1274.6 (Published 26 May 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:1278 (Published 26 May 2005)

Fillers

Steroid injection is as successful as surgery for carpal tunnel at one year

BMJ 2005;330:0.7 (Published 26 May 2005)

A memorable delivery

BMJ 2005;330:1246 (Published 26 May 2005)

The treatment of inebriety

BMJ 2005;330:1250.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Sensible advice for disorders of the imagination

BMJ 2005;330:1264 (Published 26 May 2005)

Ulysses syndrome

BMJ 2005;330:1268 (Published 26 May 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

Some British South Asians don't trust pills for diabetes

BMJ 2005;330:0.4 (Published 26 May 2005)

Chronic low back pain: surgery isn't conclusively better…

BMJ 2005;330:0.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Do tracheostomies sooner rather than later

BMJ 2005;330:0.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

Feedback tool assessed junior doctors reliably

BMJ 2005;330:0.5 (Published 26 May 2005)

… and intensive rehabilitation is cheaper

BMJ 2005;330:0.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

No need to pay if a drug doesn't work?

BMJ 2005;330:0.6 (Published 26 May 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;330:1231 (Published 26 May 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Management of pregnancies with RhD alloimmunisation

BMJ 2005;330:1255 (Published 26 May 2005)

Natural disasters

BMJ 2005;330:1259 (Published 26 May 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

All IVF embryos should be checked for genetic defects, conference is told

BMJ 2005;330:1228.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Israel allows sex selection of embryos for non-medical reasons

BMJ 2005;330:1228.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

New guide ranks success of IVF treatment centres

BMJ 2005;330:1228.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

UK government to set up small claims scheme for medical mishaps

BMJ 2005;330:1228.4 (Published 26 May 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] - continued

Statins may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer

BMJ 2005;330:1228.5 (Published 26 May 2005)

UK agency reports slight increase in radiation exposure

BMJ 2005;330:1229.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Drug chiefs ponder how to improve industry's reputation

BMJ 2005;330:1229.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Revalidation must serve doctors and the public

BMJ 2005;330:1229.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Health assembly adopts new regulations for tackling emergencies

BMJ 2005;330:1230.4 (Published 26 May 2005)

Older patients are at smaller risk of opioid tolerance than younger patients

BMJ 2005;330:1230.5 (Published 26 May 2005)

Papers

Randomised controlled trial to compare surgical stabilisation of the lumbar spine with an intensive rehabilitation programme for patients with chronic low back pain: the MRC spine stabilisation trial

BMJ 2005;330:1233 (Published 26 May 2005)

Surgical stabilisation of the spine compared with a programme of intensive rehabilitation for the management of patients with chronic low back pain: cost utility analysis based on a randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;330:1239 (Published 26 May 2005)

Systematic review and meta-analysis of studies of the timing of tracheostomy in adult patients undergoing artificial ventilation

BMJ 2005;330:1243 (Published 26 May 2005)

Primary care

Perceptions and experiences of taking oral hypoglycaemic agents among people of Pakistani and Indian origin: qualitative study

BMJ 2005;330:1247 (Published 26 May 2005)

Barriers to concordance with antidiabetic drugs—cultural differences or human nature?

BMJ 2005;330:1250.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Learning in practice

Use of SPRAT for peer review of paediatricians in training

BMJ 2005;330:1251 (Published 26 May 2005)

Can poorly performing doctors blame their assessment tools?

BMJ 2005;330:1254 (Published 26 May 2005)

Education and debate

No cure, no pay

BMJ 2005;330:1262 (Published 26 May 2005)

Patients, professionalism, and revalidation

BMJ 2005;330:1265 (Published 26 May 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and his Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness

BMJ 2005;330:1275 (Published 26 May 2005)

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine

BMJ 2005;330:1276.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind

BMJ 2005;330:1276.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Time to act against medical collusion in punitive amputations

BMJ 2005;330:1277.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

The quest for transparency

BMJ 2005;330:1277.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

Corrections

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

BMJ 2005;330:1258.1 (Published 26 May 2005)

Two drug firms advertised to patients

BMJ 2005;330:1258.2 (Published 26 May 2005)

FDA warns about using antipsychotic drugs for dementia

BMJ 2005;330:1258.3 (Published 26 May 2005)

National survey of UK emergency endoscopy units

BMJ 2005;330:1258.4 (Published 26 May 2005)