Survival of the richest
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Prepare for flu pandemic [Full text] FREE

	Role of folate in preventing CHD may be in doubt [Full text] FREE

	Oral anticoagulation can safely be self managed [Full text] FREE

	Chimneys reduced COPD in China [Full text] FREE

	Paternalism can stand in the way of best treatment [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Patients at risk of familial colorectal cancer
	Hanns-Peter Knaebel, Peter Kienle
	BMJ  2005;331:1033-1034, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1033 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Information for patients on medicines
	Joanne M Shaw, Geraldine Mynors, Caroline Kelham
	BMJ  2005;331:1034-1035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1034 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Adjuvant trastuzumab for breast cancer
	Rebecca Dent, Mark Clemons
	BMJ  2005;331:1035-1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1035 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Including older people in clinical research
	Marion E T McMurdo, Miles D Witham, Neil D Gillespie
	BMJ  2005;331:1036-1037, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1036 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table]

	Human resources for health in Africa
	Adetokunbo O Lucas
	BMJ  2005;331:1037-1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1037 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Endovascular repair is not worse than open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
	Jeremy Crane, Meryl Davies, Nick Cheshire
	BMJ  2005;331:1081, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1081 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Details of HPV immunisation need not delay decision
	Adam Finn
	BMJ  2005;331:1081, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1081-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Omitted evidence?
	Stephen I Black
	BMJ  2005;331:1081, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1081-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informed consent: Talking with patients, not at them
	Peter D Singleton
	BMJ  2005;331:1082, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1082 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informed consent: Is frightening patients really in their best interests?
	Christopher P J Wood, Simon C Blackburn
	BMJ  2005;331:1082, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1082-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informed consent: Danger is ahead when staff don't know what they don't know
	Donna O'Boyle
	BMJ  2005;331:1082, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1082-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are consenters representative of a target population?
	David S Millson
	BMJ  2005;331:1082-1083, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1082-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mandatory reporting of all sexually active under-13s: Confidential sexual health services to young people: part of the solution or part of the problem?
	Hans-Christian Raabe
	BMJ  2005;331:1083, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1083 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mandatory reporting of all sexually active under-13s: Reporting is a public health imperative
	Somasundari Gopalakrishnan, R Nicholas Pugh
	BMJ  2005;331:1083, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1083-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author rectifies omission: health behaviour change in the developing world
	Stephen Rollnick
	BMJ  2005;331:1083, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1083-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are medical schools fit for graduates?
	Christopher S Hourigan
	BMJ  2005;331:1084, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1084 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychological impact of alopecia: Alopecia may lead to social anxiety
	Antonio E Nardi
	BMJ  2005;331:1084, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1084-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychological impact of alopecia: Don't forget syphilis
	Martin F Brewster
	BMJ  2005;331:1084, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1084-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychological impact of alopecia: Speaking from personal experience
	Diana M Amor
	BMJ  2005;331:1084, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1084-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	UK government is condemned for compromise on smoking ban
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1039 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	UK will review partial smoking ban in 2010, MPs' committee told
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1039-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1040 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Lawyers gain access to Guantanamo medical records
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1040-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Professors speak out against advertising directly to consumers
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;331:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1040-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Experts question wisdom of stockpiling oseltamivir
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;331:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1041 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Doctors warn of potentially catastrophic flu pandemic in UK
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1041-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Roche Canada stops distributing oseltamivir
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2005;331:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1041-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	UK must tackle road crashes, skin cancer, and asthma
	Klaus Morales
	BMJ  2005;331:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1044 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	New children's hospital for London
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1044-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	India plans to audit clinical trials
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2005;331:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1044-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Fertility clinics no longer need to consult patients' GPs
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:1042, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1042 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Private sector is losing interest in PFI projects
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:1042, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1042-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Exhibition aims to encourage people to donate a kidney
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  2005;331:1042, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1042-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Obesity increases risk of several cancers in men and women, study finds
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:1042, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1042-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Consultants who misled Shipman inquiry are found guilty of misconduct
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:1042, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1042-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Prostate cancer charity wants better information for patients
	Klaus Morales
	BMJ  2005;331:1043, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1043 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Romania still faces high abortion rate 16 years after fall of Ceauşescu
	Michael Leidig
	BMJ  2005;331:1043, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1043-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	NHS must increase capacity to deliver cancer treatment, experts say
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:1043, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1043-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Distribution anomalies hinder access to flu vaccine in the US
	Norra MacReady
	BMJ  2005;331:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1044-c [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

This week's Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;331:1045-1046, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1045 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Self management of oral anticoagulation: randomised trial
	D A Fitzmaurice, E T Murray, D McCahon, R Holder, J P Raftery, S Hussain, H Sandhar, F D R Hobbs
	BMJ  2005;331:1057, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38618.580903.AE, (Published 10 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	School dinners and markers of cardiovascular health and type 2 diabetes in 13-16 year olds: cross sectional study
	P H Whincup, C G Owen, N Sattar, D G Cook
	BMJ  2005;331:1060-1061, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38618.540729.AE, (Published 6 October 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The broader impact of walking to school among adolescents: seven day accelerometry based study
	Leslie M Alexander, Jo Inchley, Joanna Todd, Dorothy Currie, Ashley R Cooper, Candace Currie
	BMJ  2005;331:1061-1062, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38567.382731.AE, (Published 17 August 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Snoring
	Robert J Parker, Maxine Hardinge, Clare Jeffries
	BMJ  2005;331:1063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1063 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Epworth sleepiness scale] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Effectiveness and efficiency of search methods in systematic reviews of complex evidence: audit of primary sources
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Richard Peacock
	BMJ  2005;331:1064-1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38636.593461.68, (Published 17 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Influenza pandemics and avian flu
	Douglas Fleming
	BMJ  2005;331:1066-1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1066 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Amendment]

	Lesson of the week: Postpartum eclampsia of late onset
	Nalini Munjuluri, Marc Lipman, Alan Valentine, Paul Hardiman, Allan B Maclean
	BMJ  2005;331:1070-1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1070 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of health informatics: Referral or follow-up?
	Frank Sullivan, Jeremy C Wyatt
	BMJ  2005;331:1072-1074, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1072 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Medical paternalism and expensive unsubsidised drugs
	Michael Jefford, Julian Savulescu, Jacqui Thomson, Penelope Schofield, Linda Mileshkin, Emilia Agalianos, John Zalcberg
	BMJ  2005;331:1075-1077, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1075 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Withholding policies from patients restricts their autonomy
	Charlotte Williamson
	BMJ  2005;331:1078-1080, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1078 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Art: SAFE: Design Takes on Risk
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:1087, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1087 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: Thumbsucker
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2005;331:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1088 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Radio: Building a Healthier Britain
	Christiane Rehwagen
	BMJ  2005;331:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1088-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Revealed: the stories that broadcasters did not want to cover
	Gary Schwitzer
	BMJ  2005;331:1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1089 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2005;331:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1090 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Meningococcus and medical finals
	Deborah White
	BMJ  2005;331:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1090-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Guy Fawkes's influence on medicine after 400 years
	Peter McCann
	BMJ  2005;331:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1091 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Handing on the gong
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2005;331:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1091-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:1092, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1092 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Cognitive therapy protects against relapse in patients with recurrent depression
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The least part of the work
	Vikram Dhar
	BMJ  2005;331:1049, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1049 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The pleasure of existence
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;331:1052, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1052 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: The hidden curriculum
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2005;331:1056, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1056 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hide the title
	Jon Durnian
	BMJ  2005;331:1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1069 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ALIAS (a landing in an alphabet soup)
	Kishore Shah
	BMJ  2005;331:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1071 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Superstitions about pregnancy and parturition
	BMJ  2005;331:1074, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1074 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sword swallowing uncertainties
	Brian Witcombe
	BMJ  2005;331:1080, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1080 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Survival differences after stroke in a multiethnic population: follow-up study with the south London stroke register
	BMJ  2005;331:1062, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1062 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Tackling health inequalities in the enlarged European Union
	BMJ  2005;331:1062, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1062-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A randomised multicentre trial of integrated versus standard treatment for patients with a first episode of psychotic illness
	BMJ  2005;331:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1065 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Dutch experience of monitoring euthanasia
	BMJ  2005;331:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1065-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Delays in publication of cost utility analyses conducted alongside clinical trials: registry analysis
	BMJ  2005;331:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1065-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Penicillin should remain the standard treatment for early syphilis—for now
	BMJ  2005;331:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1065-c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Arthur Williams
	M J Williams
	BMJ  2005;331:1085, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1085 [Extract] [Full text]

	Samuel Hillman
	Jonathan Hillman
	BMJ  2005;331:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1086 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Archibald Stewart McCallum Lamont
	Rosanne Lamont
	BMJ  2005;331:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1086-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Desmond Martin
	Iona Martin
	BMJ  2005;331:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1086-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Donald Forbes Mungall
	Ian Mungall
	BMJ  2005;331:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1086-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Jane Munks (née Sweatman)
	Bill Munks
	BMJ  2005;331:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1086-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Raymond Ernest Willis Oliver
	Stephen Oliver
	BMJ  2005;331:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1086-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Eric William ("Bill") John Townsend
	David Townsend
	BMJ  2005;331:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1086-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Donald Easton Wright
	Peter Wright
	BMJ  2005;331:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1086-g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Prevention of colorectal cancer by colonoscopic surveillance in individuals with a family history of colorectal cancer: 16 year, prospective, follow-up study
	Isis Dove-Edwin, Peter Sasieni, Joanna Adams, Huw J W Thomas
	BMJ  2005;331:1047, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38606.794560.EB, (Published 21 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Improvement in household stoves and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Xuanwei, China: retrospective cohort study
	Robert S Chapman, Xingzhou He, Aaron E Blair, Qing Lan
	BMJ  2005;331:1050, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38628.676088.55, (Published 18 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meta-analysis of MTHFR 677CT polymorphism and coronary heart disease: does totality of evidence support causal role for homocysteine and preventive potential of folate?
	Sarah J Lewis, Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2005;331:1053, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38611.658947.55, (Published 10 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

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