12 November 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7525)

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Editor's Choice

Nervous laughter

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 10 November 2005)

News

International conference “mildly optimistic” about bird flu

BMJ 2005;331:1099.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Political lead essential to avoid panic when flu strikes

BMJ 2005;331:1099.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:1100.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

US has most reports of medical errors

BMJ 2005;331:1100.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

UK patient safety is improving

BMJ 2005;331:1100.3 (Published 10 November 2005)

NICE to issue faster guidance on use of drugs by NHS

BMJ 2005;331:1101.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Merck cleared in personal injury case against Vioxx

BMJ 2005;331:1101.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

Secret book deal to counter Canadian drugs exposed

BMJ 2005;331:1103.4 (Published 4 May 2006)

The long road to the top

BMJ 2005;331:1104.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Editorials

Are cost effective interventions enough to achieve the millennium development goals?

BMJ 2005;331:1093 (Published 10 November 2005)

Trauma care research and the war on uncertainty

BMJ 2005;331:1094 (Published 10 November 2005)

Persistent high stroke mortality in Bangladeshi populations

BMJ 2005;331:1096 (Published 10 November 2005)

Diabetes and the quality and outcomes framework

BMJ 2005;331:1097 (Published 10 November 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Improving surveillance of MRSA bacteraemia

BMJ 2005;331:1143.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Improving surveillance of MRSA bacteraemia

BMJ 2005;331:1143.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

Improving surveillance of MRSA bacteraemia

BMJ 2005;331:1143.3 (Published 10 November 2005)

Detecting fabricated or induced illness in children

BMJ 2005;331:1144.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Detecting fabricated or induced illness in children

BMJ 2005;331:1144.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

Orphan drugs and the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:1144.3 (Published 10 November 2005)

Orphan drugs and the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:1144.4 (Published 10 November 2005)

Asymptomatic spread of flu is not proved

BMJ 2005;331:1145.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Total smoking ban is accepted in New Zealand

BMJ 2005;331:1145.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

Misdiagnosis of conversion symptoms

BMJ 2005;331:1145.3 (Published 10 November 2005)

Misdiagnosis of conversion symptoms

BMJ 2005;331:1145.4 (Published 10 November 2005)

Letters - continued

Obesity, like atherosclerosis, starts early in life

BMJ 2005;331:1145.5 (Published 10 November 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Feroz Shah

BMJ 2005;331:1146.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Henry William Bunje

BMJ 2005;331:1147.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Thomas Anderson Cockburn

BMJ 2005;331:1147.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

Sajal Kumar Ghosh

BMJ 2005;331:1147.3 (Published 10 November 2005)

Mary (“Molly”) Jack Ironside (née Gove)

BMJ 2005;331:1147.4 (Published 10 November 2005)

Christopher Douglas Rennie

BMJ 2005;331:1147.5 (Published 10 November 2005)

Dermot James Rowe

BMJ 2005;331:1147.6 (Published 10 November 2005)

Geoffrey Hugh Smerdon

BMJ 2005;331:1147.7 (Published 10 November 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:1152 (Published 10 November 2005)

Fillers

Cholesterol lowering diet for pregnant women may help prevent preterm birth

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 10 November 2005)

Dukes's patient

BMJ 2005;331:1128 (Published 10 November 2005)

Symbolism in imagery and linguistics—perception and misperception

BMJ 2005;331:1132 (Published 10 November 2005)

Medicine's need

BMJ 2005;331:1142 (Published 10 November 2005)

Advice

BMJ 2005;331:1146.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:1105 (Published 10 November 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Shoulder pain: diagnosis and management in primary care

BMJ 2005;331:1124 (Published 10 November 2005)

Keeping up: learning in the workplace

BMJ 2005;331:1129 (Published 10 November 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

FDA investigates direct to consumer adverts

BMJ 2005;331:1102.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Surgeon suspended for “pushy Americans” comment

BMJ 2005;331:1102.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

Sweet foods increase breast cancer risk

BMJ 2005;331:1102.3 (Published 10 November 2005)

US panel recommends young children receive hepatitis A vaccination

BMJ 2005;331:1102.4 (Published 10 November 2005)

First NHS funded live liver transplant programme to go ahead

BMJ 2005;331:1102.5 (Published 10 November 2005)

Tribunal declares Gulf war syndrome an “umbrella term“

BMJ 2005;331:1103.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

More drug trials end early hiding potential problems

BMJ 2005;331:1103.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

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

Bush announces US plan for flu pandemic

BMJ 2005;331:1103.3 (Published 10 November 2005)

High Court judge criticises Andrew Wakefield for trying to silence his critics

BMJ 2005;331:1104.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

WHO official warns of crisis in supply of low cost AIDS drugs

BMJ 2005;331:1104.3 (Published 10 November 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Researchers investigate potential use of plant as a pain killer

BMJ 2005;331:1104.4 (Published 10 November 2005)

Health service managers play down fears over primary care trust reorganisation

BMJ 2005;331:1104.5 (Published 10 November 2005)

British American Tobacco is drawn into Israeli damages claim

BMJ 2005;331:1104.6 (Published 10 November 2005)

Total workplace injuries up despite reduction within construction industry

BMJ 2005;331:1104.7 (Published 10 November 2005)

Papers

Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for maternal and neonatal health in developing countries

BMJ 2005;331:1107 (Published 10 November 2005)

Transitional care facility for elderly people in hospital awaiting a long term care bed: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;331:1110 (Published 10 November 2005)

Classification of stillbirth by relevant condition at death (ReCoDe): population based cohort study

BMJ 2005;331:1113 (Published 10 November 2005)

Legislation for smoke-free workplaces and health of bar workers in Ireland: before and after study

BMJ 2005;331:1117 (Published 10 November 2005)

Primary care

Improvements in quality of clinical care in English general practice 1998-2003: longitudinal observational study

BMJ 2005;331:1121 (Published 10 November 2005)

Education and debate

Time to reassess strategies for improving health in developing countries

BMJ 2005;331:1133 (Published 10 November 2005)

Methods to assess the costs and health effects of interventions for improving health in developing countries

BMJ 2005;331:1137 (Published 10 November 2005)

Use of private health care in the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:1141 (Published 10 November 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Why can't the Daily Mail eat humble pie over MMR?

BMJ 2005;331:1148 (Published 10 November 2005)

The US Public Broadcasting System and Time Magazine take on global health

BMJ 2005;331:1149 (Published 10 November 2005)

Nelson's Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar

BMJ 2005;331:1150.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

3 Needles

BMJ 2005;331:1150.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

In Pakistan's earthquake zone global relief has so far failed its test

BMJ 2005;331:1151.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Just listening

BMJ 2005;331:1151.2 (Published 10 November 2005)

Corrections

Effect of educational outreach to nurses on tuberculosis case detection and primary care of respiratory illness: pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;331:1120.1 (Published 10 November 2005)

Cervical cancer, human papillomavirus, and vaccination

BMJ 2005;331:1120.2 (Published 10 November 2005)