04 July 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7508)

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This Week In the BMJ

Academic medicine, where are you headed?

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 7 July 2005)

Living with locked-in syndrome

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 7 July 2005)

Nuclear factory workers are at increased risk of cancer

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Patients don't mind students in general practice consultations

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 7 July 2005)

Psychosocial intervention doesn't improve lumbago

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

Routine funduscopy isn't justified in patients with hypertension

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Editor's Choice

Where are the leaders?

BMJ 2005;331:0.8 (Published 7 July 2005)

Editorials

NHS foundation trusts

BMJ 2005;331:59 (Published 7 July 2005)

Epilepsy and driving

BMJ 2005;331:60 (Published 7 July 2005)

Regulating herbal medicines in the UK

BMJ 2005;331:62 (Published 7 July 2005)

The quest for quality in the NHS: still searching?

BMJ 2005;331:63 (Published 7 July 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Calcium and vitamin D in preventing fractures: Vitamin K supplementation has powerful effect

BMJ 2005;331:108.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Calcium and vitamin D in preventing fractures: Dietary intake of calcium needs to be considered

BMJ 2005;331:108.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Calcium and vitamin D in preventing fractures: Data are not sufficient to show inefficacy

BMJ 2005;331:108.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

Calcium and vitamin D in preventing fractures: Author's reply

BMJ 2005;331:109.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Vitamin D deficiency may have role in chronic low back pain

BMJ 2005;331:109.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Participants in research: Routine extrapolation of randomised controlled trials is absurd

BMJ 2005;331:109.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

Participants in research: Patients in clinical trials are protected by consumer regulation

BMJ 2005;331:110.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Participants in research: Contract to run a trial should include patient-researchers in steering groups

BMJ 2005;331:110.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Surveying the literature from animal experiments: Systematic review and meta-analysis are important contributions

BMJ 2005;331:110.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

Surveying the literature from animal experiments: Avoidance of bias is objective of systematic reviews, not meta-analysis

BMJ 2005;331:110.4 (Published 7 July 2005)

Horizon: Does the MMR Jab Cause Autism?: Has the fat lady sung then?

BMJ 2005;331:111.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Horizon: Does the MMR Jab Cause Autism?: We cannot win

BMJ 2005;331:111.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Anger is the weed, hate is the tree

BMJ 2005;331:111.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

News

Lifestyle contributes most to distribution of cancer, report says

BMJ 2005;331:65 (Published 7 July 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:66.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Meadow defends his role in conviction of Sally Clark

BMJ 2005;331:66.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Humanising “an intimidating instrument”

BMJ 2005;331:66.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

Doctors campaign for ban on smoking in enclosed public places

BMJ 2005;331:67.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Study highlights insensitivity of PSA screening

BMJ 2005;331:67.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Home test shows sex of fetus at five weeks of pregnancy

BMJ 2005;331:69.4 (Published 7 July 2005)

News - continued

Shining a light on suffering

BMJ 2005;331:70.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:71 (Published 7 July 2005)

Clinical Reviews

The patient's journey: Living with locked-in syndrome

BMJ 2005;331:94 (Published 7 July 2005)

Displaced populations and long term humanitarian assistance

BMJ 2005;331:98 (Published 7 July 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:118 (Published 7 July 2005)

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:E369 (Published 7 July 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Foundation trusts revel in new powers, report says

BMJ 2005;331:68.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

US doctors and public favour annual check ups

BMJ 2005;331:68.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Medieval guide warns that sex is harmful for people with “dry breathing”

BMJ 2005;331:68.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

WHO puts abortifacients on its essential drug list

BMJ 2005;331:68.4 (Published 7 July 2005)

GPs appear before GMC accused of missing warning signs in deaths of Shipman's patients

BMJ 2005;331:68.5 (Published 7 July 2005)

UK will launch European health insurance card in September

BMJ 2005;331:69.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Government unveils new approach to emergency care

BMJ 2005;331:69.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Aspirin does not prevent cancer, and vitamin E does not prevent heart disease or cancer

BMJ 2005;331:69.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

WHO launches “plan of war” to tackle avian flu

BMJ 2005;331:70.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

FDA warns that antidepressants may increase suicidality in adults

BMJ 2005;331:70.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

Public health scientists accused of soft peddling the dangers of passive smoking after taking grants from tobacco related organisations

BMJ 2005;331:70.4 (Published 7 July 2005)

Woman gives birth after receiving transplant of her own ovarian tissue

BMJ 2005;331:70.5 (Published 7 July 2005)

Marriage costs women doctors in the US an 11% salary drop

BMJ 2005;331:70.6 (Published 7 July 2005)

Queensland report on deaths recommends sweeping changes

BMJ 2005;331:70.7 (Published 7 July 2005)

Public distrusts government health campaigns, experts say

BMJ 2005;331:70.8 (Published 7 July 2005)

Access to clean water in rural Africa is inadequate

BMJ 2005;331:70.9 (Published 7 July 2005)

Doctor who ran nursing home is cleared of professional misconduct

BMJ 2005;331:70.10 (Published 7 July 2005)

Papers

Value of routine funduscopy in patients with hypertension: systematic review

BMJ 2005;331:73 (Published 7 July 2005)

Risk of cancer after low doses of ionising radiation: retrospective cohort study in 15 countries

BMJ 2005;331:77 (Published 7 July 2005)

Primary care

Effect of introduction of integrated out of hours care in England: observational study

BMJ 2005;331:81 (Published 7 July 2005)

Should treatment of (sub)acute low back pain be aimed at psychosocial prognostic factors? Cluster randomised clinical trial in general practice

BMJ 2005;331:84 (Published 7 July 2005)

Early psychosocial interventions for low back pain in primary care

BMJ 2005;331:88.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Learning in practice

Impact on patients of expanded, general practice based, student teaching: observational and qualitative study

BMJ 2005;331:89 (Published 7 July 2005)

What the educators are saying

BMJ 2005;331:93 (Published 7 July 2005)

Education and debate

Five futures for academic medicine: the ICRAM scenarios

BMJ 2005;331:101 (Published 7 July 2005)

Universities have a vital role

BMJ 2005;331:105.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

The future for medical education

BMJ 2005;331:105.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

How far is the future?

BMJ 2005;331:106 (Published 7 July 2005)

Challenging the patience of patients

BMJ 2005;331:107 (Published 7 July 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Trauma Africa

BMJ 2005;331:114 (Published 7 July 2005)

The Drug Trial: Nancy Olivieri and the Science Scandal that Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children

BMJ 2005;331:115.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Hit parade

BMJ 2005;331:115.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

The gateway to high society

BMJ 2005;331:116 (Published 7 July 2005)

Are public inquiries losing their independence?

BMJ 2005;331:117.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Death and taxes

BMJ 2005;331:117.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

BMJ USA

Diet change vs pills for better health

BMJ 2005;331:E362 (Published 7 July 2005)

Mumps outbreak among young adults in UK

BMJ 2005;331:E363 (Published 7 July 2005)

Describing the road to death

BMJ 2005;331:E364 (Published 7 July 2005)

RAPID RESPONSE FROM BMJ.COM

BMJ 2005;331:E366 (Published 7 July 2005)

rational health care should be offered to all persons: rich or poor, well or sick

BMJ 2005;331:E367 (Published 7 July 2005)

Fillers

Don't use hip spica in kids with femoral fracture

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 7 July 2005)

Randomised controlled trials for the BMJ need to be registered

BMJ 2005;331:76 (Published 7 July 2005)

A gnashing of teeth

BMJ 2005;331:88.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

A little understanding

BMJ 2005;331:97 (Published 7 July 2005)

Europe in transition

BMJ 2005;331:104 (Published 7 July 2005)

Advice

BMJ 2005;331:112.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Rodney Saville Sneath

BMJ 2005;331:112.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Douglas James Arthur Clarke

BMJ 2005;331:113.1 (Published 7 July 2005)

Ruth Elizabeth Crookes (née McMullan)

BMJ 2005;331:113.2 (Published 7 July 2005)

Anthony (“Tony”) Richard Curtis

BMJ 2005;331:113.3 (Published 7 July 2005)

Stuart Richard Foster

BMJ 2005;331:113.4 (Published 7 July 2005)

Denis Parr

BMJ 2005;331:113.5 (Published 7 July 2005)

Stanley Buchanan Sloan

BMJ 2005;331:113.6 (Published 7 July 2005)

David Wise

BMJ 2005;331:113.7 (Published 7 July 2005)