05 November 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7524)

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Editor's Choice

Survival of the richest

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 3 November 2005)

News

UK government is condemned for compromise on smoking ban

BMJ 2005;331:1039.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

UK will review partial smoking ban in 2010, MPs' committee told

BMJ 2005;331:1039.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:1040.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Lawyers gain access to Guantanamo medical records

BMJ 2005;331:1040.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Professors speak out against advertising directly to consumers

BMJ 2005;331:1040.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Experts question wisdom of stockpiling oseltamivir

BMJ 2005;331:1041.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Doctors warn of potentially catastrophic flu pandemic in UK

BMJ 2005;331:1041.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Roche Canada stops distributing oseltamivir

BMJ 2005;331:1041.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

UK must tackle road crashes, skin cancer, and asthma

BMJ 2005;331:1044.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

New children's hospital for London

BMJ 2005;331:1044.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

India plans to audit clinical trials

BMJ 2005;331:1044.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Editorials

Patients at risk of familial colorectal cancer

BMJ 2005;331:1033 (Published 3 November 2005)

Information for patients on medicines

BMJ 2005;331:1034 (Published 3 November 2005)

Adjuvant trastuzumab for breast cancer

BMJ 2005;331:1035 (Published 3 November 2005)

Including older people in clinical research

BMJ 2005;331:1036 (Published 3 November 2005)

Human resources for health in Africa

BMJ 2005;331:1037 (Published 3 November 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Endovascular repair is not worse than open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms

BMJ 2005;331:1081.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Details of HPV immunisation need not delay decision

BMJ 2005;331:1081.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Omitted evidence?

BMJ 2005;331:1081.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Informed consent

BMJ 2005;331:1082.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Informed consent

BMJ 2005;331:1082.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Informed consent

BMJ 2005;331:1082.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Are consenters representative of a target population?

BMJ 2005;331:1082.4 (Published 3 November 2005)

Mandatory reporting of all sexually active under-13s

BMJ 2005;331:1083.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Mandatory reporting of all sexually active under-13s

BMJ 2005;331:1083.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Author rectifies omission: health behaviour change in the developing world

BMJ 2005;331:1083.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Are medical schools fit for graduates?

BMJ 2005;331:1084.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Psychological impact of alopecia

BMJ 2005;331:1084.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Psychological impact of alopecia

BMJ 2005;331:1084.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Psychological impact of alopecia

BMJ 2005;331:1084.4 (Published 3 November 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Arthur Williams

BMJ 2005;331:1085 (Published 3 November 2005)

Samuel Hillman

BMJ 2005;331:1086.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Archibald Stewart McCallum Lamont

BMJ 2005;331:1086.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Desmond Martin

BMJ 2005;331:1086.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Donald Forbes Mungall

BMJ 2005;331:1086.4 (Published 3 November 2005)

Jane Munks (née Sweatman)

BMJ 2005;331:1086.5 (Published 3 November 2005)

Raymond Ernest Willis Oliver

BMJ 2005;331:1086.6 (Published 3 November 2005)

Eric William (“Bill”) John Townsend

BMJ 2005;331:1086.7 (Published 3 November 2005)

Donald Easton Wright

BMJ 2005;331:1086.8 (Published 3 November 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:1092 (Published 3 November 2005)

Fillers

Cognitive therapy protects against relapse in patients with recurrent depression

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 3 November 2005)

The least part of the work

BMJ 2005;331:1049 (Published 3 November 2005)

The pleasure of existence

BMJ 2005;331:1052 (Published 3 November 2005)

The hidden curriculum

BMJ 2005;331:1056 (Published 3 November 2005)

Hide the title

BMJ 2005;331:1069 (Published 3 November 2005)

ALIAS (a landing in an alphabet soup)

BMJ 2005;331:1071 (Published 3 November 2005)

Superstitions about pregnancy and parturition

BMJ 2005;331:1074 (Published 3 November 2005)

Sword swallowing uncertainties

BMJ 2005;331:1080 (Published 3 November 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

Chimneys reduced COPD in China

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 3 November 2005)

Prepare for flu pandemic

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Role of folate in preventing CHD may be in doubt

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Oral anticoagulation can safely be self managed

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Paternalism can stand in the way of best treatment

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 3 November 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:1045 (Published 3 November 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Influenza pandemics and avian flu

BMJ 2005;331:1066 (Published 3 November 2005)

Postpartum eclampsia of late onset

BMJ 2005;331:1070 (Published 3 November 2005)

Referral or follow-up?

BMJ 2005;331:1072 (Published 3 November 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Fertility clinics no longer need to consult patients' GPs

BMJ 2005;331:1042.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Private sector is losing interest in PFI projects

BMJ 2005;331:1042.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Exhibition aims to encourage people to donate a kidney

BMJ 2005;331:1042.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Obesity increases risk of several cancers in men and women, study finds

BMJ 2005;331:1042.4 (Published 3 November 2005)

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

Consultants who misled Shipman inquiry are found guilty of misconduct

BMJ 2005;331:1042.5 (Published 3 November 2005)

Prostate cancer charity wants better information for patients

BMJ 2005;331:1043.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Romania still faces high abortion rate 16 years after fall of Ceausescu

BMJ 2005;331:1043.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

NHS must increase capacity to deliver cancer treatment, experts say

BMJ 2005;331:1043.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Distribution anomalies hinder access to flu vaccine in the US

BMJ 2005;331:1044.4 (Published 3 November 2005)

Papers

Prevention of colorectal cancer by colonoscopic surveillance in individuals with a family history of colorectal cancer: 16 year, prospective, follow-up study

BMJ 2005;331:1047 (Published 3 November 2005)

Improvement in household stoves and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Xuanwei, China: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2005;331:1050 (Published 3 November 2005)

Meta-analysis of MTHFR 677C→ T polymorphism and coronary heart disease: does totality of evidence support causal role for homocysteine and preventive potential of folate?

BMJ 2005;331:1053 (Published 3 November 2005)

Primary care

Self management of oral anticoagulation: randomised trial

BMJ 2005;331:1057 (Published 3 November 2005)

School dinners and markers of cardiovascular health and type 2 diabetes in 13-16 year olds: cross sectional study

BMJ 2005;331:1060 (Published 3 November 2005)

The broader impact of walking to school among adolescents: seven day accelerometry based study

BMJ 2005;331:1061 (Published 3 November 2005)

Snoring

BMJ 2005;331:1063 (Published 3 November 2005)

Information in practice

Effectiveness and efficiency of search methods in systematic reviews of complex evidence: audit of primary sources

BMJ 2005;331:1064 (Published 3 November 2005)

Education and debate

Medical paternalism and expensive unsubsidised drugs

BMJ 2005;331:1075 (Published 3 November 2005)

Withholding policies from patients restricts their autonomy

BMJ 2005;331:1078 (Published 3 November 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

SAFE: Design Takes on Risk

BMJ 2005;331:1087 (Published 3 November 2005)

Thumbsucker

BMJ 2005;331:1088.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Building a Healthier Britain

BMJ 2005;331:1088.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Revealed: the stories that broadcasters did not want to cover

BMJ 2005;331:1089 (Published 3 November 2005)

NETLINES

BMJ 2005;331:1090.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Meningococcus and medical finals

BMJ 2005;331:1090.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Guy Fawkes's influence on medicine after 400 years

BMJ 2005;331:1091.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Handing on the gong

BMJ 2005;331:1091.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Corrections

Survival differences after stroke in a multiethnic population: follow-up study with the south London stroke register

BMJ 2005;331:1062.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Tackling health inequalities in the enlarged European Union

BMJ 2005;331:1062.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

A randomised multicentre trial of integrated versus standard treatment for patients with a first episode of psychotic illness

BMJ 2005;331:1065.1 (Published 3 November 2005)

Dutch experience of monitoring euthanasia

BMJ 2005;331:1065.2 (Published 3 November 2005)

Delays in publication of cost utility analyses conducted alongside clinical trials: registry analysis

BMJ 2005;331:1065.3 (Published 3 November 2005)

Penicillin should remain the standard treatment for early syphilis—for now

BMJ 2005;331:1065.4 (Published 3 November 2005)