10 December 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7529)

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Editor's Choice

Cure or care?

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 8 December 2005)

News

Patients are at the heart of new medical professionalism

BMJ 2005;331:1355.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Sally Clark pathologist removed from Home Office list

BMJ 2005;331:1355.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:1356.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Cuts in NHS waiting lists cannot be attributed to private sector

BMJ 2005;331:1356.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Doctors in Berlin strike over poor pay

BMJ 2005;331:1356.3 (Published 8 December 2005)

The Netherlands regulates ending the lives of severely ill neonates

BMJ 2005;331:1357.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Israelis turn to timer device to facilitate passive euthanasia

BMJ 2005;331:1357.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Surgeons pleased with patient's progress after face transplant

BMJ 2005;331:1359.4 (Published 9 December 2005)

Romania's policy of emptying its orphanages raises controversy

BMJ 2005;331:1360.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Staff at WHO HQ stop work in protest at conditions

BMJ 2005;331:1360.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Editorials

Facial transplantation

BMJ 2005;331:1349 (Published 8 December 2005)

Extra scrutiny for industry funded trials

BMJ 2005;331:1350 (Published 8 December 2005)

Sharing the benefits of genetic research

BMJ 2005;331:1351 (Published 8 December 2005)

Is methadone too dangerous for opiate addiction?

BMJ 2005;331:1352 (Published 8 December 2005)

Treating non-competent patients

BMJ 2005;331:1353 (Published 8 December 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Methodological concerns about animal facilitated therapy with dolphins

BMJ 2005;331:1407.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Authors' reply to methodological concerns

BMJ 2005;331:1407.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Politics and economics inhibited control of anthrax last century

BMJ 2005;331:1407.3 (Published 8 December 2005)

Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Child and animal abuse are linked

BMJ 2005;331:1408.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Human and animal health: strengthening the link: Summary of webchat

BMJ 2005;331:1408.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Role of vaccinating poultry against avian flu

BMJ 2005;331:1408.3 (Published 8 December 2005)

New ABPI code provides more information for patients

BMJ 2005;331:1409.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Committee on Radioactive Waste Management lacks medical input

BMJ 2005;331:1409.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Inequalities and Christmas Yet to Come

BMJ 2005;331:1409.3 (Published 8 December 2005)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Janet Elizabeth Macgregor

BMJ 2005;331:1410.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Jane Marushka Critchley

BMJ 2005;331:1411.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Frank Daly

BMJ 2005;331:1411.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Obituaries - continued

Roger Charles Hickman

BMJ 2005;331:1411.3 (Published 8 December 2005)

James Dermott Grene

BMJ 2005;331:1411.4 (Published 8 December 2005)

James Spowart McCracken

BMJ 2005;331:1411.5 (Published 8 December 2005)

Aziz Mahmood Shukri

BMJ 2005;331:1411.6 (Published 8 December 2005)

Robert Clive Williams

BMJ 2005;331:1411.7 (Published 8 December 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:1416 (Published 8 December 2005)

Fillers

Antihypertensive drugs help prevent headaches

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 8 December 2005)

Incestuous sheets

BMJ 2005;331:1378 (Published 8 December 2005)

My favourite surgical instrument

BMJ 2005;331:1383 (Published 8 December 2005)

The most lucrative branch of medicine

BMJ 2005;331:1386 (Published 8 December 2005)

All change

BMJ 2005;331:1402 (Published 8 December 2005)

Honesty is the best policy

BMJ 2005;331:1406 (Published 8 December 2005)

Advice

BMJ 2005;331:1410.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

What works for obesity

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

We don't know the effects of paying doctors for trial recruitment

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 8 December 2005)

Cannabis increases the risk of car crashes

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 8 December 2005)

Nurses should lead UK hospital reform

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Resistance to HIV drugs is high in the UK

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 8 December 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:1361 (Published 8 December 2005)

Clinical Reviews

Treating obesity in individuals and populations

BMJ 2005;331:1387 (Published 8 December 2005)

eHealth and the future: promise or peril?

BMJ 2005;331:1391 (Published 8 December 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

GMC censures professor for not disclosing conflict of interest

BMJ 2005;331:1358.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

MPs accuse Medical Research Council of panic over bird flu

BMJ 2005;331:1358.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

“Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales,” New York Times reports

BMJ 2005;331:1358.3 (Published 8 December 2005)

Spending in Scotland goes up while activity goes down

BMJ 2005;331:1358.4 (Published 8 December 2005)

Yemen embarks on its seventh round of polio immunisations

BMJ 2005;331:1358.5 (Published 8 December 2005)

Next year's pay rises for doctors should be 2% or less, government says

BMJ 2005;331:1359.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

New funding to make UK “a world class environment for medical research”

BMJ 2005;331:1359.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Drug companies told that sponsoring patients' groups might help win approval for their products

BMJ 2005;331:1359.3 (Published 8 December 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Pressure mounts for further action on climate change

BMJ 2005;331:1360.3 (Published 8 December 2005)

Older people are wrongly excluded from drug trials

BMJ 2005;331:1360.4 (Published 8 December 2005)

Advice to pharmacists on dispensing contraception an “invasion of privacy”

BMJ 2005;331:1360.5 (Published 8 December 2005)

WHO will not hire smokers

BMJ 2005;331:1360.6 (Published 8 December 2005)

Inquiry needed to discover why black people are more likely to be admitted to mental hospitals than white people

BMJ 2005;331:1360.7 (Published 8 December 2005)

Dr Foster's case notes

The ageing population of the United Kingdom and cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2005;331:1362 (Published 8 December 2005)

BMJ family highlights

What's new this month in BMJ Journals

BMJ 2005;331:1363 (Published 8 December 2005)

Papers

Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for tuberculosis control in developing countries

BMJ 2005;331:1364 (Published 8 December 2005)

Time trends in primary resistance to HIV drugs in the United Kingdom: multicentre observational study

BMJ 2005;331:1368 (Published 8 December 2005)

Cannabis intoxication and fatal road crashes in France: population based case-control study

BMJ 2005;331:1371 (Published 8 December 2005)

Effect of comorbidities and postoperative complications on mortality after hip fracture in elderly people: prospective observational cohort study

BMJ 2005;331:1374 (Published 8 December 2005)

Payment to healthcare professionals for patient recruitment to trials: a systematic review

BMJ 2005;331:1377 (Published 8 December 2005)

Primary care

Recognising heart failure in elderly patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: cross sectional diagnostic study

BMJ 2005;331:1379 (Published 8 December 2005)

Functional limitation in long standing illness and quality of life: evidence from a national survey

BMJ 2005;331:1382 (Published 8 December 2005)

Learning in practice

Developing guidelines for medical students about the examination of patients under 18 years old

BMJ 2005;331:1384 (Published 8 December 2005)

Education and debate

Rise and demise of the hospital: a reappraisal of nursing

BMJ 2005;331:1394 (Published 8 December 2005)

Practice based commissioning: applying the research evidence

BMJ 2005;331:1397 (Published 8 December 2005)

Primary care in the United States: problems and possibilities

BMJ 2005;331:1400 (Published 8 December 2005)

Designing research in vulnerable populations: lessons from HIV prevention trials that stopped early

BMJ 2005;331:1403 (Published 8 December 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Are US flu death figures more PR than science?

BMJ 2005;331:1412 (Published 8 December 2005)

The UK flu vaccine shortage—who is at fault?

BMJ 2005;331:1413 (Published 8 December 2005)

Business sector shuns tobacco companies

BMJ 2005;331:1414 (Published 8 December 2005)

The nursing profession's coming of age

BMJ 2005;331:1415.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Dentures and deep time

BMJ 2005;331:1415.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Corrections

More drug trials end early hiding potential problems

BMJ 2005;331:1390.1 (Published 8 December 2005)

Croatia's brain drain

BMJ 2005;331:1390.2 (Published 8 December 2005)

Lords back bill to legalise assisted suicide

BMJ 2005;331:1390.3 (Published 8 December 2005)