Sharing evidence on humanitarian relief
	Edward J Mills
	BMJ  2005;331:1485-1486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1485 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How Islam changed medicine
	Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  2005;331:1486-1487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1486 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How Google is changing medicine
	Dean Giustini
	BMJ  2005;331:1487-1488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1487 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Choice
	Paul Bate, Glenn Robert
	BMJ  2005;331:1488-1489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1488 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Happiness
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2005;331:1489-1490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1489 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

On the case

This week's On the case

	White coats and fingerprints: diagnostic reasoning in medicine and investigative methods of fictional detectives
	Claudio Rapezzi, Roberto Ferrari, Angelo Branzi
	BMJ  2005;331:1491-1494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1491 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra figures] FREE

	Doctors, detectives, and common sense
	Alexander McCall Smith
	BMJ  2005;331:1495-1497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1495 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
	Megan S C Lim, Margaret E Hellard, Campbell K Aitken
	BMJ  2005;331:1498-1500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1498 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further information] FREE

	Stains on the carpet
	Julia Handysides, Stuart Handysides
	BMJ  2005;331:1501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1501 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The emergence of ringing vertigo
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2005;331:1502-1503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1502 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Barbering in mice: a model for trichotillomania
	Biji T Kurien, Tim Gross, R Hal Scofield
	BMJ  2005;331:1503-1505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1503 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Harry Potter casts a spell on accident prone children
	Stephen Gwilym, Dominic P J Howard, Nev Davies, Keith Willett
	BMJ  2005;331:1505-1506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1505 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll

This week's Sex, drugs, and rock and roll

	Revisiting the lot of the first incestuous family: the biblical origins of shifting the blame on to female family members
	Ilan Kutz
	BMJ  2005;331:1507-1508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1507 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sex symbols ancient and modern: their origins and iconography on the pedigree
	G D Schott
	BMJ  2005;331:1509-1510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1509 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Seen from the other side: visual experiences during cataract surgery under topical anaesthesia
	Kuang Hu, Stephen Scotcher
	BMJ  2005;331:1511, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1511 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Shape of glass and amount of alcohol poured: comparative study of effect of practice and concentration
	Brian Wansink, Koert van Ittersum
	BMJ  2005;331:1512-1514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1512 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Interventions for preventing or treating alcohol hangover: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
	Max H Pittler, Joris C Verster, Edzard Ernst
	BMJ  2005;331:1515-1518, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1515 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Depictions of substance use in reality television: a content analysis of The Osbournes
	Nicole A Blair, So Kuen Yue, Ranbir Singh, Jay M Bernhardt
	BMJ  2005;331:1517-1519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1517 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table (pdf)] FREE

Professional matters

This week's Professional matters

	The wealth of distinguished doctors: retrospective survey
	I C McManus
	BMJ  2005;331:1520-1523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1520 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra information and figures] FREE

	Judging a book by its cover: descriptive survey of patients' preferences for doctors' appearance and mode of address
	Marianne M Lill, Tim J Wilkinson
	BMJ  2005;331:1524-1527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1524 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further information] FREE

	Patients bearing gifts: are there strings attached?
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2005;331:1527-1529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1527 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical faculty members at different professorial levels
	Student
	BMJ  2005;331:1530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1530 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Medical history

This week's Medical history

	Beatty's box
	M K H Crumplin, R Pearce
	BMJ  2005;331:1531-1532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1531 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Painting the history of cardiology
	David Lomas
	BMJ  2005;331:1533-1535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1533 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Influenza, 1918
	Iain H Wilson
	BMJ  2005;331:1536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1536 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

What's in a name?

This week's What's in a name?

	Epidemiology and prognosis of coma in daytime television dramas
	David Casarett, Jessica M Fishman, Holly Jo MacMoran, Amy Pickard, David A Asch
	BMJ  2005;331:1537-1539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1537 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	From Shakespeare to Star Trek and beyond: a Medline search for literary and other allusions in biomedical titles
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  2005;331:1540-1542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1540 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra information (pdf)] FREE

	Cinderella revisited
	Stewart M Cameron
	BMJ  2005;331:1543-1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1543 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

Thoughts for today

This week's Thoughts for today

	Obesity: the elephant in the corner
	David Ogilvie, Neil Hamlet
	BMJ  2005;331:1545-1548, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1545 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What is successful ageing and who should define it?
	Ann Bowling, Paul Dieppe
	BMJ  2005;331:1548-1551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1548 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Slow tracking for BMJ papers
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2005;331:1551-1552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1551 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	The 10 commandments of the diabetic foot
	Nikolaos Papanas, Efstratios Maltezos, Audrey Edmonds, Michael Edmonds
	BMJ  2005;331:1497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1497 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Just say "No"
	James Craggs
	BMJ  2005;331:1514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1514 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physician, know thyself
	Boris Veysman
	BMJ  2005;331:1529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1529 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Second thoughts
	M W H Behan, R Veasey, M Higson, A N Sulke
	BMJ  2005;331:1552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1552 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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