15 October 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7521)

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Editor's Choice

Keep politics out of it

BMJ 2005;331:0.9 (Published 13 October 2005)

News

Battle against poverty hampered by sex discrimination

BMJ 2005;331:861.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Another FDA expert resigns over emergency contraception delay

BMJ 2005;331:861.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:862.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

More than half of smokers go on smoking after coronary events

BMJ 2005;331:862.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Payment by results could destabilise the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:862.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

Joffe will amend role for doctors in new bill on assisted dying

BMJ 2005;331:863.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

When other faces fade, Berlusconi's lives on

BMJ 2005;331:863.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Mr Buckley's exploding trousers and other scientific observations

BMJ 2005;331:865.4 (Published 13 October 2005)

Muslim chaplain speaks out over Guantanamo hunger strike

BMJ 2005;331:866.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Funding in Africa is concentrating too heavily on the “big three”

BMJ 2005;331:866.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Editorials

Tackling health inequalities in the enlarged European Union

BMJ 2005;331:855 (Published 13 October 2005)

Complementary therapies and the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:856 (Published 13 October 2005)

Keeping healthy on a minimum wage

BMJ 2005;331:857 (Published 13 October 2005)

Services for liver disease in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2005;331:858 (Published 13 October 2005)

ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens

BMJ 2005;331:859 (Published 13 October 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Health in Africa: Time to wake up to cancer's toll

BMJ 2005;331:904.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Health in Africa: British mental health trust twins with psychiatric service in Sierra Leone

BMJ 2005;331:904.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Health in Africa: In Taiwan, taking action on road safety made a difference

BMJ 2005;331:904.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

Health in Africa: It's time for good guidelines on health financing practice

BMJ 2005;331:904.4 (Published 13 October 2005)

Health in Africa: Let's learn from the success stories from other poor countries…

BMJ 2005;331:905.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Health in Africa: …and get back to basics

BMJ 2005;331:905.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Health in Africa: Medical brain drain is a consequence of bad policy

BMJ 2005;331:905.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

Insulin pumps: more consultation was needed

BMJ 2005;331:905.4 (Published 13 October 2005)

Data need to be accurate when screening for depression in teenagers

BMJ 2005;331:906.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Europe in transition: Biomedical research from eastern Europe may be under-represented

BMJ 2005;331:906.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Europe in transition: Dietary fat is not the villain

BMJ 2005;331:906.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

Europe in transition: HIV risk environment in Hungary is different from that in Russia and west Balkan states

BMJ 2005;331:907.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Europe in transition: Summary of webchat

BMJ 2005;331:907.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Ignore fairy tales when campaigning for NHS reform

BMJ 2005;331:907.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Li Shu Pui

BMJ 2005;331:908 (Published 13 October 2005)

Obituaries - continued

Brian Creamer

BMJ 2005;331:909.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Allan Cameron Maclachlan

BMJ 2005;331:909.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

David Martin

BMJ 2005;331:909.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

Lyn Thomas Rees

BMJ 2005;331:909.4 (Published 13 October 2005)

Hector Maconochie Urquhart

BMJ 2005;331:909.5 (Published 13 October 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:914 (Published 13 October 2005)

Fillers

Low dose aspirin doesn't lower women's cancer risk

BMJ 2005;331:0.8 (Published 13 October 2005)

What colour-mari are your stools?

BMJ 2005;331:881 (Published 13 October 2005)

The “sum” of my fears

BMJ 2005;331:883 (Published 13 October 2005)

We are mad

BMJ 2005;331:886 (Published 13 October 2005)

Centenary of first successful human transplant

BMJ 2005;331:891 (Published 13 October 2005)

Bedside books

BMJ 2005;331:894 (Published 13 October 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

Use a score to predict risks of stable angina

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

One question improves diagnosing depression in primary care

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 13 October 2005)

Pre-eclampsia recurs across generations

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

Left handed women are at higher risk of breast cancer

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 13 October 2005)

How to use indirect evidence on multiple treatments

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 13 October 2005)

Complementary medicine in the UK seems cost effective

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 13 October 2005)

Angiotensin receptor blockers don't seem to increase risk of MI

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:867 (Published 13 October 2005)

Clinical Reviews

The patient's journey: rheumatoid arthritis

BMJ 2005;331:887 (Published 13 October 2005)

Hyperamylasaemia: not the usual suspects

BMJ 2005;331:890 (Published 13 October 2005)

How computers can help to share understanding with patients

BMJ 2005;331:892 (Published 13 October 2005)

BMJ USA

Beyond clinical evidence

BMJ 2005;331:E383 (Published 13 October 2005)

Left behind

BMJ 2005;331:E384 (Published 13 October 2005)

A memorable patient

BMJ 2005;331:E386 (Published 13 October 2005)

Colin

BMJ 2005;331:E387.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

BMJ USA: Correction

BMJ 2005;331:E387.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION

BMJ 2005;331:E388 (Published 13 October 2005)

Which drugs cause cancer?For and against: Cancer bioassays

BMJ 2005;331:E389 (Published 13 October 2005)

A gnashing of teeth

BMJ 2005;331:E391 (Published 13 October 2005)

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:E392 (Published 13 October 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Women with early breast cancer to be tested for trastuzumab treatment

BMJ 2005;331:864.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Cervical cancer jab “in a year”

BMJ 2005;331:864.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Uncoordinated aid efforts after earthquake could result in duplication, WHO warns

BMJ 2005;331:864.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

Europe must coordinate its response to common health threats

BMJ 2005;331:864.4 (Published 13 October 2005)

Foundation trusts argue they really do make a difference

BMJ 2005;331:864.5 (Published 13 October 2005)

UK bodies give £100m for academic medical training

BMJ 2005;331:865.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Researcher cleared of misconduct charges

BMJ 2005;331:865.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Doctors face GMC over failure to spot overdose in Shipman patient

BMJ 2005;331:865.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Stress and pressure to blame for doctors' poor performance

BMJ 2005;331:866.3 (Published 13 October 2005)

Quarter of consultant psychiatric posts in Wales are vacant

BMJ 2005;331:866.4 (Published 13 October 2005)

Papers

Risk score for predicting death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in patients with stable angina, based on a large randomised trial cohort of patients

BMJ 2005;331:869 (Published 13 October 2005)

Can risk score models help in reducing serious outcome events in patients with stable angina?

BMJ 2005;331:872 (Published 13 October 2005)

Angiotensin receptor blockers and risk of myocardial infarction: systematic review

BMJ 2005;331:873 (Published 13 October 2005)

Recurrence of pre-eclampsia across generations: exploring fetal and maternal genetic components in a population based cohort

BMJ 2005;331:877 (Published 13 October 2005)

Cost effectiveness of complementary treatments in the United Kingdom: systematic review

BMJ 2005;331:880 (Published 13 October 2005)

Innate left handedness and risk of breast cancer: case-cohort study

BMJ 2005;331:882 (Published 13 October 2005)

Primary care

Effect of the addition of a “help” question to two screening questions on specificity for diagnosis of depression in general practice: diagnostic validity study

BMJ 2005;331:884 (Published 13 October 2005)

Education and debate

Disappointing biotech

BMJ 2005;331:895 (Published 13 October 2005)

Simultaneous comparison of multiple treatments: combining direct and indirect evidence

BMJ 2005;331:897 (Published 13 October 2005)

Towards evidence based bioethics

BMJ 2005;331:901 (Published 13 October 2005)

Standard deviations and standard errors

BMJ 2005;331:903 (Published 13 October 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London, volume four (1948-1983)

BMJ 2005;331:910 (Published 13 October 2005)

Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed

BMJ 2005;331:911.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

LimeLight

BMJ 2005;331:911.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Why Kenneth Clarke is unfit to be Tory leader

BMJ 2005;331:912 (Published 13 October 2005)

Hunger striking prisoners: the doctors' dilemma

BMJ 2005;331:913.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

The flagon… with the dragon

BMJ 2005;331:913.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Corrections

Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms: single centre randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;331:876.1 (Published 13 October 2005)

Midlife obesity increases risk of future dementia

BMJ 2005;331:876.2 (Published 13 October 2005)

Comparison of amount of biomedical research originating from the European Union and the United States

BMJ 2005;331:876.3 (Published 13 October 2005)