Uncomfortable findings
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	More melanomas are caught early in the US [Full text] FREE

	Flocculant-disinfection gives best results in Kenya [Full text] FREE

	Smoking ban proposed in the UK may worsen health inequalities [Full text] FREE

	Nurse led programmes don't improve COPD [Full text] FREE

	Hypertension can be monitored by patients [Full text] FREE

	Systematic reviews should assess quality of RCT interventions [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Foundation programme for newly qualified doctors
	Richard Hays
	BMJ  2005;331:465-466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.465 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Self monitoring of high blood pressure
	J Carel Bakx, Mark C van der Wel, Chris van Weel
	BMJ  2005;331:466-467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.466 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Coronary heart disease in women
	Ghada W Mikhail
	BMJ  2005;331:467-468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.467 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clean drinking water for homes in Africa and other less developed countries
	James K Tumwine
	BMJ  2005;331:468-469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Avoiding rabies
	Derrick Pounder
	BMJ  2005;331:469-470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.469 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: New on-call rotas do not work
	Nicholas Akerman
	BMJ  2005;331:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.514 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: No easy solution exists
	Sashidhar Yeluri, Guneesh Dadayal
	BMJ  2005;331:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.514-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: European directive seems not to apply to doctors' hours in rest of European Union
	John J Atkinson
	BMJ  2005;331:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.514-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: Pendulum is still swinging
	Andrew Short
	BMJ  2005;331:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.514-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: "Weeks of nights" give the illusion of working fewer hours
	Arvindan Veiraiah
	BMJ  2005;331:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: Please make on-call rooms available to doctors at night
	George I Varughese
	BMJ  2005;331:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hospital formularies restrict evidence based practice
	Joseph Kwan
	BMJ  2005;331:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Withdrawal of co-proxamol: Drug was useful in gastroenterology as well as rheumatology...
	Peter J Whorwell
	BMJ  2005;331:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Withdrawal of co-proxamol: ... and its withdrawal is illogical
	Matthew L Grove
	BMJ  2005;331:515-516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.515-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Nothing counts except what is in front of the clinician to use
	Steven Ford
	BMJ  2005;331:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.516 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Clinicians are becoming increasingly more influential
	Tony M Penney
	BMJ  2005;331:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.516-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Problems are inevitable but goal is worth while
	Robert J Young
	BMJ  2005;331:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.516-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Computerised medical history is key to connecting health
	Huw Llewelyn
	BMJ  2005;331:516-517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.516-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Obituary was historically inaccurate
	David M Dent
	BMJ  2005;331:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.517 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Author's reply
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;331:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.517-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Clarification is certainly needed
	Mike Ebdy
	BMJ  2005;331:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.517-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Richard Doll's socialism did not please everyone
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;331:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.517-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Merck faces ongoing claims after Texan ruling on rofecoxib
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.471 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.472 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Parents of disabled baby lose appeal against court order
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.472-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US National Institutes of Health issue new ethics guidelines
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.472-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	South African doctors arrested in kidney sale scandal
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2005;331:473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.473 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Dutch murder case leads to talks with attorney general
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;331:473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.473-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	BMA warns against unnecessary screening tests in private sector
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.475-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Half a million Americans use methamphetamine every week
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2005;331:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.476 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Chronic pain is poorly managed
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.476-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Prison officers had no sign of Shipman's suicidal tendencies
	Kaye McIntosh
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	UN millennium health goals will not be achieved, report warns
	Paul Ress
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	"Catastrophic" violence continues unchecked in Somalia
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Canadian antismoking law is watered down
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	GPs' diagnoses of type II diabetes rose by 50% in 10 years, study shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Global Fund pulls grants to Myanmar and Uganda
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.475 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Plans for genetic testing of German civil servants stirs controversy
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2005;331:475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.475-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Floods in Darfur prompt precautions against epidemic
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;331:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.476-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Results of publicly funded research should be available to all, says web creator
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.476-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Short cuts

This week's Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2005;331:477, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.477 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trial
	John A Crump, Peter O Otieno, Laurence Slutsker, Bruce H Keswick, Daniel H Rosen, R Michael Hoekstra, John M Vulule, Stephen P Luby
	BMJ  2005;331:478, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38512.618681.E0, (Published 26 July 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Skin biopsy rates and incidence of melanoma: population based ecological study
	H Gilbert Welch, Steven Woloshin, Lisa M Schwartz
	BMJ  2005;331:481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38516.649537.E0, (Published 4 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Detailed model outputs] FREE

	Effectiveness of innovations in nurse led chronic disease management for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review of evidence
	Stephanie J C Taylor, Bridget Candy, Rosamund M Bryar, Jean Ramsay, Hubertus J M Vrijhoef, Glenda Esmond, Jadwiga A Wedzicha, Chris J Griffiths
	BMJ  2005;331:485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38512.664167.8F, (Published 10 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	The partial smoking ban in licensed establishments and health inequalities in England: modelling study
	Alan A Woodall, Emma J Sandbach, Catherine M Woodward, Paul Aveyard, Graham Merrington
	BMJ  2005;331:488-489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38576.467292.EB, (Published 19 August 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Statistical appendix] FREE

	Could a randomised trial answer the controversy relating to elective caesarean section? National survey of consultant obstetricians and heads of midwifery
	Tina Lavender, Carol Kingdon, Anna Hart, Gill Gyte, Mark Gabbay, James P Neilson
	BMJ  2005;331:490-491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38560.572639.3A, (Published 22 August 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ten year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial of care in a stroke rehabilitation unit
	Avril E R Drummond, Ben Pearson, Nadina B Lincoln, Peter Berman
	BMJ  2005;331:491-492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38537.679479.E0, (Published 10 August 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Targets and self monitoring in hypertension: randomised controlled trial and cost effectiveness analysis
	R J McManus, J Mant, A Roalfe, R A Oakes, S Bryan, H M Pattison, F D R Hobbs
	BMJ  2005;331:493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38558.393669.E0, (Published 22 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10 minute consultation: Childhood eczema
	Miriam Santer, Sue Lewis-Jones, Tom Fahey
	BMJ  2005;331:497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.497 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea: diagnosis and treatment
	John Starr
	BMJ  2005;331:498-501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.498 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lesson of the week: Paralytic rabies after a two week holiday in India
	Tom Solomon, Denise Marston, Macpherson Mallewa, Tim Felton, Steve Shaw, Lorraine M McElhinney, Kumar Das, Karen Mansfield, Jane Wainwright, Georges Ng Man Kwong, Anthony R Fooks
	BMJ  2005;331:501-503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.501 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	ABC of asthma: Methods of delivering drugs
	John Rees
	BMJ  2005;331:504-506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.504 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Analysis of quality of interventions in systematic reviews
	Robert D Herbert, Kari Bø
	BMJ  2005;331:507-509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.507 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	International maternal health indicators and middle-income countries: Russia
	Justin O Parkhurst, Kirill Danischevski, Dina Balabanova
	BMJ  2005;331:510-513, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.510 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Alan Gilston
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;331:518, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.518 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Walter Graham Harris
	N Garrick Graham
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	David Sells Hurwood
	Richard S Hurwood
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Abubakar Ibrahim Kiwanuka
	Brian Hancock
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Elamin Elnour ("Amin") Osman
	Kamil Sidahmed
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Bernard Schlecht
	Sam Ghebrehewet, Ana Lucia Cuevas
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Dorothy Terry (née Halstead)
	Alison Vaux
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Book: Paternity: A Story of Assisted Conception; Double Trouble: A Story of Assisted Reproduction; Vacant Possession: A Story of Proxy Decision Making
	John Gillies
	BMJ  2005;331:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.520 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Film: The Island
	Jason O'Neale Roach
	BMJ  2005;331:521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.521 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Press: League tables for health journalists
	Naomi Marks
	BMJ  2005;331:521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.521-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2005;331:522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.522 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Do we really know the law about students and patient consent?
	Alexander S J Shaw
	BMJ  2005;331:522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.522-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Calling a spade a spade
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2005;331:523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.523 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: My pelvis and I
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2005;331:523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.523-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.524 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Vitamin E, donepezil don't slow progression of mild cognitive impairment
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Crying wolf
	Arunachalam Kumar
	BMJ  2005;331:484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.484 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A patient who changed my practice: Speak clearly to the bogey man
	Erle CH Lim
	BMJ  2005;331:492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.492 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Gluttonous friends
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;331:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.503 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: What a stroke
	Umair Ansari, James Crampton
	BMJ  2005;331:513, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.513 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Short Cuts
	BMJ  2005;331:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.496 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The future of health care in Africa
	BMJ  2005;331:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.496-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editor's Choice
	BMJ  2005;331:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.496-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hamilton Naki
	BMJ  2005;331:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-f [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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