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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

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] FREE

	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] FREE

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

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

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] FREE

	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] FREE

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

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

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

	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] FREE

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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

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] FREE

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] FREE

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

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) [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) [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 [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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

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] FREE

	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] 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] FREE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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] FREE

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

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

	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] FREE

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

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

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

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] FREE

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

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

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

	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] FREE

	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] FREE

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

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<