11 June 2005 (Vol 330, Issue 7504)

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Editor's Choice

More miles, fewer biscuits

BMJ 2005;330:0.8 (Published 9 June 2005)

News

Clinicians need better access to ethics advice, report says

BMJ 2005;330:1345.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

Vaccines protect monkeys against Marburg and Ebola viruses

BMJ 2005;330:1345.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;330:1346.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

Too many heart patients discharged without follow-up care

BMJ 2005;330:1346.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Support grows for retaining the opt-out to the 48 hour week

BMJ 2005;330:1346.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

Pathologist in Sally Clark case suspended from court work

BMJ 2005;330:1347.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

Drug companies monitor web chat for adverse reaction reports

BMJ 2005;330:1347.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Loss of tobacco suit means 120 other cases will be dropped

BMJ 2005;330:1349.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

Sudan arrests aid worker for “crimes against the state”

BMJ 2005;330:1350.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

“Lost boys of Sudan” have emotional problems

BMJ 2005;330:1350.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Editorials

Prognosis in obesity

BMJ 2005;330:1339 (Published 9 June 2005)

A middle way for rationing healthcare resources

BMJ 2005;330:1340 (Published 9 June 2005)

Highly active antiretroviral therapy

BMJ 2005;330:1341 (Published 9 June 2005)

COX 2 inhibitors, traditional NSAIDs, and the heart

BMJ 2005;330:1342 (Published 9 June 2005)

Alcohol misuse, public health, and public policy

BMJ 2005;330:1343 (Published 9 June 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

“Right to die”: Legal view of right to life and death could threaten philosophy of palliative care

BMJ 2005;330:1388.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

“Right to die”: Sensitivity and humility are needed when dealing with dying people

BMJ 2005;330:1388.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

“Right to die”: Changing “right” to “duty” may focus debate

BMJ 2005;330:1388.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

“Right to die”: No man (or woman) is an island

BMJ 2005;330:1388.4 (Published 9 June 2005)

“Right to die”: Situation is different in developing countries…

BMJ 2005;330:1389.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

“Right to die”: …but context of limited resources can be encountered in developed countries too

BMJ 2005;330:1389.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

“Right to die”: Summary of responses

BMJ 2005;330:1389.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

Scottish model for surgical mortality used in Australasia

BMJ 2005;330:1389.4 (Published 9 June 2005)

Clarification: doctors did not accuse Indian authorities of massaging leprosy data

BMJ 2005;330:1390.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

Why clinicians are natural bayesians: Bayesian confusion

BMJ 2005;330:1390.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Why clinicians are natural bayesians: Is there a bayesian doctor in the house?

BMJ 2005;330:1390.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

Why clinicians are natural bayesians: Clinicians have to be bayesians

BMJ 2005;330:1390.4 (Published 9 June 2005)

Why clinicians are natural bayesians: Authors' reply

BMJ 2005;330:1390.5 (Published 9 June 2005)

Online music model could work for journals

BMJ 2005;330:1391.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

English surgeons may at last be about to become doctors: What about nurses with PhDs?

BMJ 2005;330:1391.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

English surgeons may at last be about to become doctors: Anyone for bolting on the German system?

BMJ 2005;330:1391.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Lady Jean Medawar

BMJ 2005;330:1392 (Published 9 June 2005)

John Deryk Pollitt

BMJ 2005;330:1393.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

George Edmund Hyson

BMJ 2005;330:1393.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Pran Kishan Kapur

BMJ 2005;330:1393.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

Hans Gerhart Kohler

BMJ 2005;330:1393.4 (Published 9 June 2005)

Frank Alfred Schiess

BMJ 2005;330:1393.5 (Published 9 June 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:E361 (Published 9 June 2005)

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:1398 (Published 9 June 2005)

Fillers

HRT increases risk of stress and urge urinary incontinence

BMJ 2005;330:0.7 (Published 9 June 2005)

Too much or too little

BMJ 2005;330:1362 (Published 9 June 2005)

In praise of half doing a job

BMJ 2005;330:1365 (Published 9 June 2005)

Discredit into which physic was brought

BMJ 2005;330:1373.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

The first and last days of medical school

BMJ 2005;330:1373.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Compulsory Greek

BMJ 2005;330:1378 (Published 9 June 2005)

Everyone's right

BMJ 2005;330:1384 (Published 9 June 2005)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2005;330:1387 (Published 9 June 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

NSAIDs may be cardiotoxic

BMJ 2005;330:0.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

Targets for preventing childhood obesity are clearer

BMJ 2005;330:0.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Obesity holds back women, but not men

BMJ 2005;330:0.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

Obesity increases the risk of dementia

BMJ 2005;330:0.5 (Published 9 June 2005)

Celecoxib seems to be the choice for congestive heart failure

BMJ 2005;330:0.4 (Published 9 June 2005)

Mentally ill prisoners don't take advantage of new policy

BMJ 2005;330:0.6 (Published 9 June 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;330:1351 (Published 9 June 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Pregnancy and breast cancer

BMJ 2005;330:1375 (Published 9 June 2005)

Public health in the aftermath of disasters

BMJ 2005;330:1379 (Published 9 June 2005)

BMJ USA

Reinventing office practice

BMJ 2005;330:E356 (Published 9 June 2005)

Cost-effective roles for nurse practitioners in secondary prevention

BMJ 2005;330:E357 (Published 9 June 2005)

Primary care needs a new model of office practice

BMJ 2005;330:E358 (Published 9 June 2005)

BMJ USA: Letter

BMJ 2005;330:E360 (Published 9 June 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Meningitis vaccine recommended for three groups of young people

BMJ 2005;330:1348.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

European GPs don't know how to deal with obesity epidemic

BMJ 2005;330:1348.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Russia's youth faces worst crisis of homelessness and substance misuse since second world war

BMJ 2005;330:1348.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

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

EU supports testing for children's drugs

BMJ 2005;330:1348.4 (Published 9 June 2005)

UK proposes reforms for research ethics committees

BMJ 2005;330:1348.5 (Published 9 June 2005)

GMC hearing opens into doctor at centre of organ retention scandal

BMJ 2005;330:1349.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

Canadian Red Cross apologises for distributing HIV infected blood

BMJ 2005;330:1349.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

UN predicts that millennium development goals will be missed by a wide margin in Africa

BMJ 2005;330:1350.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

Treatment centres are undermining patient choice, warns BMA

BMJ 2005;330:1350.4 (Published 9 June 2005)

Looking for new compounds in sea is endangering ecosystem

BMJ 2005;330:1350.5 (Published 9 June 2005)

Dr Foster's case notes

Hospital waiting lists and pressures on the NHS

BMJ 2005;330:1352 (Published 9 June 2005)

BMJ family highlights

What's new this month in BMJ Journals

BMJ 2005;330:1353 (Published 9 June 2005)

Papers

Adult socioeconomic, educational, social, and psychological outcomes of childhood obesity: a national birth cohort study

BMJ 2005;330:1354 (Published 9 June 2005)

Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: cohort study

BMJ 2005;330:1357 (Published 9 June 2005)

Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: a 27 year longitudinal population based study

BMJ 2005;330:1360 (Published 9 June 2005)

Use of waist circumference to predict insulin resistance: retrospective study

BMJ 2005;330:1363 (Published 9 June 2005)

Mental disorders in prison populations aged 15-21: national register study of two cohorts in Finland

BMJ 2005;330:1364 (Published 9 June 2005)

Primary care

Risk of myocardial infarction in patients taking cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors or conventional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: population based nested case-control analysis

BMJ 2005;330:1366 (Published 9 June 2005)

Differences in outcomes of patients with congestive heart failure prescribed celecoxib, rofecoxib, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: population based study

BMJ 2005;330:1370 (Published 9 June 2005)

Bell's palsy

BMJ 2005;330:1374 (Published 9 June 2005)

Education and debate

Prognosis without treatment as a modifier in health economic assessments

BMJ 2005;330:1382 (Published 9 June 2005)

Self regulation must be made to work

BMJ 2005;330:1385 (Published 9 June 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?

BMJ 2005;330:1394 (Published 9 June 2005)

Bollywood horror film spooks eye specialists

BMJ 2005;330:1395 (Published 9 June 2005)

Matching scheme madness

BMJ 2005;330:1396.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

Hit parade

BMJ 2005;330:1396.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Hospital doctors need a new career structure

BMJ 2005;330:1397.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

Getting the hump

BMJ 2005;330:1397.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Corrections

Self harm was misrepresented (again)

BMJ 2005;330:1369.1 (Published 9 June 2005)

Global functions at the World Health Organization

BMJ 2005;330:1369.2 (Published 9 June 2005)

Obituary: Archibald John Ogg

BMJ 2005;330:1369.3 (Published 9 June 2005)

The hazards of good memory

BMJ 2005;330:1369.4 (Published 9 June 2005)

Why clinicians are natural bayesians

BMJ 2005;330:1369.5 (Published 9 June 2005)

Minerva

BMJ 2005;330:1369.6 (Published 9 June 2005)

Excess coronary heart disease in South Asians in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2005;330:1369.7 (Published 9 June 2005)