03 September 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7515)

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Editor's Choice

Uncomfortable findings

BMJ 2005;331:0.8 (Published 1 September 2005)

News

Merck faces ongoing claims after Texan ruling on rofecoxib

BMJ 2005;331:471 (Published 1 September 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:472.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

Parents of disabled baby lose appeal against court order

BMJ 2005;331:472.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

US National Institutes of Health issue new ethics guidelines

BMJ 2005;331:472.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

South African doctors arrested in kidney sale scandal

BMJ 2005;331:473.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

Dutch murder case leads to talks with attorney general

BMJ 2005;331:473.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

BMA warns against unnecessary screening tests in private sector

BMJ 2005;331:475.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

Half a million Americans use methamphetamine every week

BMJ 2005;331:476.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

Chronic pain is poorly managed

BMJ 2005;331:476.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Editorials

Foundation programme for newly qualified doctors

BMJ 2005;331:465 (Published 1 September 2005)

Self monitoring of high blood pressure

BMJ 2005;331:466 (Published 1 September 2005)

Coronary heart disease in women

BMJ 2005;331:467 (Published 1 September 2005)

Clean drinking water for homes in Africa and other less developed countries

BMJ 2005;331:468 (Published 1 September 2005)

Avoiding rabies

BMJ 2005;331:469 (Published 1 September 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: New on-call rotas do not work

BMJ 2005;331:514.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: No easy solution exists

BMJ 2005;331:514.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: European directive seems not to apply to doctors' hours in rest of European Union

BMJ 2005;331:514.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: Pendulum is still swinging

BMJ 2005;331:514.4 (Published 1 September 2005)

Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: “Weeks of nights” give the illusion of working fewer hours

BMJ 2005;331:515.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: Please make on-call rooms available to doctors at night

BMJ 2005;331:515.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Hospital formularies restrict evidence based practice

BMJ 2005;331:515.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

Withdrawal of co-proxamol: Drug was useful in gastroenterology as well as rheumatology…

BMJ 2005;331:515.4 (Published 1 September 2005)

Withdrawal of co-proxamol: … and its withdrawal is illogical

BMJ 2005;331:515.5 (Published 1 September 2005)

Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Nothing counts except what is in front of the clinician to use

BMJ 2005;331:516.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Clinicians are becoming increasingly more influential

BMJ 2005;331:516.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Problems are inevitable but goal is worth while

BMJ 2005;331:516.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

Letters - continued

Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Computerised medical history is key to connecting health

BMJ 2005;331:516.4 (Published 1 September 2005)

Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Obituary was historically inaccurate

BMJ 2005;331:517.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Author's reply

BMJ 2005;331:517.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Clarification is certainly needed

BMJ 2005;331:517.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

Richard Doll's socialism did not please everyone

BMJ 2005;331:517.4 (Published 1 September 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Alan Gilston

BMJ 2005;331:518 (Published 1 September 2005)

Walter Graham Harris

BMJ 2005;331:519.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

David Sells Hurwood

BMJ 2005;331:519.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Abubakar Ibrahim Kiwanuka

BMJ 2005;331:519.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

Elamin Elnour (“Amin”) Osman

BMJ 2005;331:519.4 (Published 1 September 2005)

Bernard Schlecht

BMJ 2005;331:519.5 (Published 1 September 2005)

Dorothy Terry (née Halstead)

BMJ 2005;331:519.6 (Published 1 September 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:524 (Published 1 September 2005)

Fillers

Vitamin E, donepezil don't slow progression of mild cognitive impairment

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 1 September 2005)

Crying wolf

BMJ 2005;331:484 (Published 1 September 2005)

Speak clearly to the bogey man

BMJ 2005;331:492 (Published 1 September 2005)

Gluttonous friends

BMJ 2005;331:503 (Published 1 September 2005)

What a stroke

BMJ 2005;331:513 (Published 1 September 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:477 (Published 1 September 2005)

Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;331:478 (Published 1 September 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea: diagnosis and treatment

BMJ 2005;331:498 (Published 1 September 2005)

Paralytic rabies after a two week holiday in India

BMJ 2005;331:501 (Published 1 September 2005)

Methods of delivering drugs

BMJ 2005;331:504 (Published 1 September 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Prison officers had no sign of Shipman's suicidal tendencies

BMJ 2005;331:474.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

UN millennium health goals will not be achieved, report warns

BMJ 2005;331:474.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

“Catastrophic” violence continues unchecked in Somalia

BMJ 2005;331:474.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

Canadian antismoking law is watered down

BMJ 2005;331:474.4 (Published 1 September 2005)

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

GPs' diagnoses of type II diabetes rose by 50% in 10 years, study shows

BMJ 2005;331:474.5 (Published 1 September 2005)

Global Fund pulls grants to Myanmar and Uganda

BMJ 2005;331:475.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

Plans for genetic testing of German civil servants stirs controversy

BMJ 2005;331:475.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Floods in Darfur prompt precautions against epidemic

BMJ 2005;331:476.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

Results of publicly funded research should be available to all, says web creator

BMJ 2005;331:476.4 (Published 1 September 2005)

Papers

Skin biopsy rates and incidence of melanoma: population based ecological study

BMJ 2005;331:481 (Published 1 September 2005)

Effectiveness of innovations in nurse led chronic disease management for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review of evidence

BMJ 2005;331:485 (Published 1 September 2005)

The partial smoking ban in licensed establishments and health inequalities in England: modelling study

BMJ 2005;331:488 (Published 1 September 2005)

Could a randomised trial answer the controversy relating to elective caesarean section? National survey of consultant obstetricians and heads of midwifery

BMJ 2005;331:490 (Published 1 September 2005)

Ten year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial of care in a stroke rehabilitation unit

BMJ 2005;331:491 (Published 1 September 2005)

Primary care

Targets and self monitoring in hypertension: randomised controlled trial and cost effectiveness analysis

BMJ 2005;331:493 (Published 1 September 2005)

Childhood eczema

BMJ 2005;331:497 (Published 1 September 2005)

Education and debate

Analysis of quality of interventions in systematic reviews

BMJ 2005;331:507 (Published 1 September 2005)

International maternal health indicators and middle-income countries: Russia

BMJ 2005;331:510 (Published 1 September 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Paternity: A Story of Assisted Conception; Double Trouble: A Story of Assisted Reproduction; Vacant Possession: A Story of Proxy Decision Making

BMJ 2005;331:520 (Published 1 September 2005)

The Island

BMJ 2005;331:521.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

League tables for health journalists

BMJ 2005;331:521.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Netlines

BMJ 2005;331:522.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

Do we really know the law about students and patient consent?

BMJ 2005;331:522.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Calling a spade a spade

BMJ 2005;331:523.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

My pelvis and I

BMJ 2005;331:523.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Corrections

Short Cuts

BMJ 2005;331:496.1 (Published 1 September 2005)

The future of health care in Africa

BMJ 2005;331:496.2 (Published 1 September 2005)

Editor's Choice

BMJ 2005;331:496.3 (Published 1 September 2005)

Hamilton Naki

BMJ 2005;331:519.7 (Published 1 September 2005)