08 April 2006 (Vol 332, Issue 7545)

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Editor's Choice

Trust and demand

BMJ 2006;332:0.7 (Published 6 April 2006)

News

Another 2.4 million health professionals needed, says WHO

BMJ 2006;332:809.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Swiss judge orders HIV positive woman to disclose partners' names

BMJ 2006;332:809.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

In brief

BMJ 2006;332:810.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

All older people should be guaranteed basic level of care

BMJ 2006;332:810.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Chinese rules on transplantation do not go far enough

BMJ 2006;332:810.3 (Published 6 April 2006)

NICE says doctors could help 165 000 more smokers to quit

BMJ 2006;332:811.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Meta-analysis challenges benefits of moderate drinking

BMJ 2006;332:811.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

UK government gives consultants pay award in stages

BMJ 2006;332:813.4 (Published 6 April 2006)

Vaccines against cervical cancer provoke US controversy

BMJ 2006;332:814.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Aspirin will loom largein World Cup shindig

BMJ 2006;332:814.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Government favours “creative destruction” of the NHS

BMJ 2006;332:814.3 (Published 6 April 2006)

Editorials

Ecstasy and the antecedents of illicit drug use

BMJ 2006;332:803 (Published 6 April 2006)

Hepatitis B immunisation in Britain: time to change?

BMJ 2006;332:804 (Published 6 April 2006)

The neglect of trauma surgery

BMJ 2006;332:805 (Published 6 April 2006)

Gillick or Fraser? A plea for consistency over competence in children

BMJ 2006;332:807 (Published 6 April 2006)

Life expectancy: women now on top everywhere

BMJ 2006;332:808 (Published 6 April 2006)

Research

The REACT study: randomised evaluation of assertive community treatment in north London

BMJ 2006;332:815 (Published 6 April 2006)

Readmission after hysterectomy and prophylactic low molecular weight heparin: retrospective case-control study

BMJ 2006;332:819 (Published 6 April 2006)

Does amblyopia affect educational, health, and social outcomes? Findings from 1958 British birth cohort

BMJ 2006;332:820 (Published 6 April 2006)

Does amblyopia matter?

BMJ 2006;332:824 (Published 6 April 2006)

Symptoms of anxiety and depression in childhood and use of MDMA: prospective, population based study

BMJ 2006;332:825 (Published 6 April 2006)

Letters

Do enforced bicycle helmet laws improve public health?: Determining true effectiveness of safety measures

BMJ 2006;332:852.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Do enforced bicycle helmet laws improve public health?: Evidence is conflicting

BMJ 2006;332:852.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Do enforced bicycle helmet laws improve public health?: Start with an assessment of the base problem, rather than assume a solution

BMJ 2006;332:852.3 (Published 6 April 2006)

Physical treatments have valuable role in osteoarthritis

BMJ 2006;332:853.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Disorders of sodium balance: Iatrogenic hyponatraemia—water overload and not enough potassium

BMJ 2006;332:853.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Letters - continued

Disorders of sodium balance: Hyponatraemia and drug use (and abuse)

BMJ 2006;332:853.3 (Published 6 April 2006)

Disorders of sodium balance: Hyponatraemia can occur during transurethral resection of prostate

BMJ 2006;332:853.4 (Published 6 April 2006)

Disorders of sodium balance: Hypothyroidism and hyponatraemia: an old wives' tale?

BMJ 2006;332:854.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Disorders of sodium balance: Management of hypernatraemic dehydration differs in children

BMJ 2006;332:854.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

The CMA's legitimation crisis

BMJ 2006;332:854.3 (Published 6 April 2006)

Guantanamo: a call for action: Good men need to do something

BMJ 2006;332:854.4 (Published 6 April 2006)

Guantanamo: a call for action: Author's reply

BMJ 2006;332:855.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Guantanamo: a call for action: Doctors should not treat detainees only to render them fit for further abuse

BMJ 2006;332:855.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Guantanamo: a call for action: Would GMC dismiss a complaint against Guantanamo doctor?

BMJ 2006;332:855.3 (Published 6 April 2006)

Obituaries

Abdullah Nakas

BMJ 2006;332:856.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Ewen Crighton Bramwell

BMJ 2006;332:857.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

David Alexander (“Sandy”) Mann

BMJ 2006;332:857.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Gwyn Meirion Mason

BMJ 2006;332:857.3 (Published 6 April 2006)

Christopher Moran

BMJ 2006;332:857.4 (Published 6 April 2006)

Robert Thomas Paul

BMJ 2006;332:857.5 (Published 6 April 2006)

Eric Sarraff

BMJ 2006;332:857.6 (Published 6 April 2006)

Ronald F Welch

BMJ 2006;332:857.7 (Published 6 April 2006)

Edgar Ralph (“Mike”) Wide

BMJ 2006;332:857.8 (Published 6 April 2006)

Clinical Review

Sleep disorders in children and adolescents

BMJ 2006;332:828 (Published 6 April 2006)

Practice

Hypertension and ethnic group

BMJ 2006;332:833 (Published 6 April 2006)

Testicular tumour presenting as gynaecomastia

BMJ 2006;332:837.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Infections

BMJ 2006;332:838 (Published 6 April 2006)

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2006;332:842 (Published 6 April 2006)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2006;332:862 (Published 6 April 2006)

Fillers

Weight of evidence favours ketamine for children having fracture reduction

BMJ 2006;332:0.6 (Published 6 April 2006)

Call for papers

BMJ 2006;332:818 (Published 6 April 2006)

When a medical qualification is not good enough

BMJ 2006;332:827 (Published 6 April 2006)

Fillers - continued

Concealment is power

BMJ 2006;332:832 (Published 6 April 2006)

Do it yourself thermotherapy

BMJ 2006;332:841 (Published 6 April 2006)

A rank offence

BMJ 2006;332:851 (Published 6 April 2006)

Advice

BMJ 2006;332:856.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Gene therapy cures two men of immune system disorder

BMJ 2006;332:812.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Men who became ill in drug trial improve

BMJ 2006;332:812.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Becker promotes condom use in Germany

BMJ 2006;332:812.3 (Published 6 April 2006)

Authors threaten to withhold articles from CMAJ

BMJ 2006;332:812.4 (Published 6 April 2006)

Doctors are failing to tell diabetic people about UK driving rules

BMJ 2006;332:812.5 (Published 6 April 2006)

Joint public-private initiative aims to boost public health in India

BMJ 2006;332:813.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Reform group calls for shake up in NHS funding

BMJ 2006;332:813.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Zambia scraps healthcare fees for poor rural people

BMJ 2006;332:813.3 (Published 6 April 2006)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Lift patent barriers to increase access to medicines, says commission

BMJ 2006;332:814.4 (Published 6 April 2006)

Alcohol accounts for high proportion of cancer deaths in central and eastern Europe

BMJ 2006;332:814.5 (Published 6 April 2006)

Research identifies the most common cancers in teenagers and young adults

BMJ 2006;332:814.6 (Published 6 April 2006)

Analysis and Comment

Referral management centres: promising innovations or Trojan horses?

BMJ 2006;332:844 (Published 6 April 2006)

Patients are not commodities

BMJ 2006;332:846 (Published 6 April 2006)

Not another innovation

BMJ 2006;332:847 (Published 6 April 2006)

Regulation of biomedical research in Africa

BMJ 2006;332:848 (Published 6 April 2006)

Reviews

Panorama. The Hospital That Failed Women

BMJ 2006;332:858 (Published 6 April 2006)

Unknown White Male

BMJ 2006;332:859.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises

BMJ 2006;332:859.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Poverty, health, and the role of doctors

BMJ 2006;332:860 (Published 6 April 2006)

Reconciling 21st century temptations with 20th century resources and problems

BMJ 2006;332:861.1 (Published 6 April 2006)

Medicine is not a club

BMJ 2006;332:861.2 (Published 6 April 2006)

Correction

No clear evidence for countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets

BMJ 2006;332:837.2 (Published 6 April 2006)