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This week's Editor's choice

Better decisions
Trish Groves
BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.0-f
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This week's Editorials

Cervical cancer, human papillomavirus, and vaccination
Catherine M Lowndes, O Noel Gill
BMJ  2005;331:915-916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.915
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Left behind: the legacy of hurricane Katrina
David Atkins, Ernest M Moy
BMJ  2005;331:916-918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.916
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Mandatory reporting to the police of all sexually active under-13s
Ruth Bastable, Julian Sheather
BMJ  2005;331:918-919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.918
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{beta} blockers for patients at risk of cardiac events during non-cardiac surgery
Stephen Bolsin, Mark Colson
BMJ  2005;331:919-920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.919
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This week's Letters

Evidence not ideology: The BMJ should take a position on the evidence about privatisation
Allyson M Pollock
BMJ  2005;331:964, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.964
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Evidence not ideology: No evidence is without ideology
Julian Tudor Hart
BMJ  2005;331:964, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.964-a
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Evidence not ideology: The NHS is still working
L S Lewis
BMJ  2005;331:964-965, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.964-b
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Time for Ofhealth
Ian H Kunkler
BMJ  2005;331:965, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.965
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Do GPs deserve their pay rise?: Of course successful hard work deserves reward
Graham Wheatley
BMJ  2005;331:965, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.965-a
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Do GPs deserve their pay rise?: What do GPs earn?
Denis Colligan
BMJ  2005;331:965, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.965-b
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Do GPs deserve their pay rise?: Do chief executives deserve their pay rises?
Richard Rosin
BMJ  2005;331:965-966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.965-c
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Do GPs deserve their pay rise?: IBM is replacing EBM
G H Hall
BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966
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Students need education fit for professional and public life
William S James
BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-a
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Epirubicin seems to cause venous sclerosis
Elaine Lennan, Janice M Middleton, Julia Luken
BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-b
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Postcards from the edge: Homelessness poses extra challenge in reducing self harm
Sally L Read
BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-c
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Postcards from the edge: GPs have role in reducing repetition of self harm
Ian Cross
BMJ  2005;331:966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-d
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Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Achieving compatibility in motor vehicle crashes
Ediriweera B R Desapriya, Ian Pike
BMJ  2005;331:966-967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.966-e
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Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Not all SUVs are the same
John S Watts
BMJ  2005;331:967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.967
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Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Attitudes to SUVs and "slam door" rolling stock represent a paradox
Tony H Reinhardt-Rutland
BMJ  2005;331:967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.967-a
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Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: SUV driving and adaptive behaviour
Robert A Davis
BMJ  2005;331:967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.967-b
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Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Solution must consider psychology of SUV use
David R J Jarrett
BMJ  2005;331:967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.967-c
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East Asia is most at risk of human flu epidemic, experts say
Michael Day
BMJ  2005;331:921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.921
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UK avian flu surveillance system is inadequate, Lords inquiry is told
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2005;331:921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.921-a
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In brief
BMJ  2005;331:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.922
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European centre plays down threat from avian influenza
Rory Watson
BMJ  2005;331:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.922-a
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Northern Ireland will introduce a smoking ban
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2005;331:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.922-b
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UK pushes EU to tackle health gap between rich and poor
Sophie Arie
BMJ  2005;331:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.923
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NHS to settle small compensation claims without litigation
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2005;331:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.923-a
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UK should spend more on research into Alzheimer's disease
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2005;331:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.925-c
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Foundation hospitals are not accountable to their communities
Michael Day
BMJ  2005;331:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.926
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Kashmir crisis is worse than the Asian tsunami, says WHO
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2005;331:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.926-a
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UK academics gain free access to database of patients
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924
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Russian doctors sell drugs to misusers to supplement salaries
Andrew Osborn
BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924-a
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Popular herbal remedy for hot flushes is no better than placebo
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924-b
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New GP network will integrate conventional and complementary medicine
Kathryn Godfrey
BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924-c
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High Court overturns GMC's decision to strike off plastic surgeon
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2005;331:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.924-d
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New consultation exercise on health white paper has not been inclusive enough, critics say
Caroline White
BMJ  2005;331:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.925
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Upsurge of violence in Darfur is endangering aid workers
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2005;331:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.925-a
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Doctors should be allowed to offer patients a simplified form of consent, expert says
Jeremy Davies
BMJ  2005;331:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.925-b
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This week's News extra

Stroke patients with "do not resuscitate" orders are treated worse than those without
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2005;331:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.926-b
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Dutch doctor who was jailed for culpable homicide has his sentence cut
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2005;331:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.926-c
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This week's Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals
Alison Tonks
BMJ  2005;331:927-928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.927
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Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity
Janis Baird, David Fisher, Patricia Lucas, Jos Kleijnen, Helen Roberts, Catherine Law
BMJ  2005;331:929, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38586.411273.E0, (Published 14 October 2005)
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{beta} blockers for elective surgery in elderly patients: population based, retrospective cohort study
Donald Redelmeier, Damon Scales, Alexander Kopp
BMJ  2005;331:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38603.746944.3A, (Published 6 October 2005)
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Appropriateness of use of medicines in elderly inpatients: qualitative study
Anne Spinewine, Christian Swine, Soraya Dhillon, Bryony Dean Franklin, Paul M Tulkens, Léon Wilmotte, Vincent Lorant
BMJ  2005;331:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38551.410012.06, (Published 10 August 2005)
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Self reported health and mortality: ecological analysis based on electoral wards across the United Kingdom
Dermot O'Reilly, Michael Rosato, Chris Patterson
BMJ  2005;331:938-939, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38594.490532.AE, (Published 29 September 2005)
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This week's Primary care

Recruiting patients to medical research: double blind randomised trial of "opt-in" versus "opt-out" strategies
Cornelia Junghans, Gene Feder, Harry Hemingway, Adam Timmis, Melvyn Jones
BMJ  2005;331:940, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38583.625613.AE, (Published 12 September 2005)
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Bias from requiring explicit consent from all participants in observational research: prospective, population based study
Rustam Al-Shahi, Céline Vousden, Charles Warlow, for the Scottish Intracranial Vascular Malformation Study (SIVMS) Steering Committee
BMJ  2005;331:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38624.397569.68, (Published 13 October 2005)
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This week's Information in practice

Effect of diverging policy across the NHS
Arturo Alvarez-Rosete, Gwyn Bevan, Nicholas Mays, Jennifer Dixon
BMJ  2005;331:946-950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.946
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This week's Clinical review

The psychological impact of alopecia
Nigel Hunt, Sue McHale
BMJ  2005;331:951-953, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.951
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Lesson of the week: Hypercalcaemia in cancer
Simon Conroy, Brendan O'Malley
BMJ  2005;331:954, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.954
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ABC of health informatics: How informatics tools help deal with patients' problems
Frank Sullivan, Jeremy C Wyatt
BMJ  2005;331:955-957, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.955
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This week's Education and debate

Foreign free riders and the high price of US medicines
Donald W Light, Joel Lexchin
BMJ  2005;331:958-960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.958
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Consultations about changing behaviour
Stephen Rollnick, Christopher C Butler, Jim McCambridge, Paul Kinnersley, Glyn Elwyn, Ken Resnicow
BMJ  2005;331:961-963, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.961
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This week's Obituaries

Abdul Ghafoor Baloch
Khalid Baloch
BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968
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Joza ("Josephine") Bruegel
Christopher Donovan
BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-a
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Thomas John Coady
Douglas Seaton
BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-b
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Robert Hayden ("Bob") Ellis
W R Ellis
BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-c
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John Alexander Grant Elmslie
E J Garden
BMJ  2005;331:968-969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-d
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Frederick Earle Fraser
L P J Wright
BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969
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Ada Glynn
Alan Glynn, Michael Glynn
BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-a
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William David Hayley
Michael D Sanders
BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-b
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Hugh Cameron Kennedy
Ronald N C Douglas
BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-c
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William Worsley Richardson
Richard Gardham, Patsy Meehan
BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-d
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David Ward Smith
Steven Hogg
BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-e
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John Stanley Wilson
Howel Jones
BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-f
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John Caspar Winteler
Esther Watson-Jones
BMJ  2005;331:969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.969-g
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Book: Disease and Democracy: The Industrialised World Faces AIDS
Jennifer Prah Ruger
BMJ  2005;331:970, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.970
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Book: Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions
Ian Roberts
BMJ  2005;331:971, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.971
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TV: Panorama: Love Hurts
Christiane Rehwagen
BMJ  2005;331:971, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.971-a
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PERSONAL VIEWS: The future of tobacco
Nigel Gray
BMJ  2005;331:972, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.972
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Hit parade
BMJ  2005;331:972, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.972-a
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PERSONAL VIEWS: Informed consent (and a flutter in Vegas)
David Rowbotham
BMJ  2005;331:973, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.973
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SOUNDINGS: Beans
George Dunea
BMJ  2005;331:973, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.973-a
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  2005;331:974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.974
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This week's Fillers

bmjupdates+: Oestrogen does not improve quality of life for postmenopausal women after hysterectomy
BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.0-e
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What's in November's studentBMJ?
BMJ  2005;331:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.934
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End Piece: Sanitas sanitatum
Jeremy Hugh Baron
BMJ  2005;331:939, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.939
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bmjlearning.com: If at first you don't succeed... sue
Kieran Walsh
BMJ  2005;331:950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.950
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Endpiece: Tea drinking and nervous ailments
Jeremy Hugh Baron
BMJ  2005;331:960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.960
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Advice
BMJ  2005;331:968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.968-e
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This week's Corrections

BMA warns against unnecessary screening tests in private sector
BMJ  2005;331:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.931
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Taking the final step: changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Time for change
BMJ  2005;331:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.931-a
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Regulating the drugs industry transparently
BMJ  2005;331:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.931-b
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Radiotherapy improves outcome in patients with locally advanced prostate cancer
BMJ  2005;331:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7522.931-c
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