Of measles and flu
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Self care knowledge reduces anxiety in patients with arthritis [Full text] FREE

	Telephone therapy works for obsessive compulsive disorder [Full text] FREE

	Advance care planning instils hope in patients with end stage renal failure [Full text] FREE

	Reappearance of measles in the UK raises questions [Full text] FREE

	Monitor renal function and electrolytes in hypertension [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Osteoarthritis in primary care
	Peter Croft, Elaine Hay
	BMJ  2006;333:867-868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39013.359282.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Advance care planning in primary care
	Scott A Murray, Aziz Sheikh, Keri Thomas
	BMJ  2006;333:868-869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39009.569861.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Age related macular degeneration
	Usha Chakravarthy
	BMJ  2006;333:869-870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39009.366736.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Spirometry in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	Patrick J P Poels, Tjard R J Schermer, Chris van Weel, Peter M A Calverley
	BMJ  2006;333:870-871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38987.478727.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A European alcohol strategy
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  2006;333:871-872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39003.629606.BE, (Published 17 October 2006) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Cochrane reviews v industry supported meta-analyses: We should read all reviews with caution
	James C Coyne
	BMJ  2006;333:916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.916 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cochrane reviews v industry supported meta-analyses: Has Cochrane really achieved its goals?
	Marko Tostad
	BMJ  2006;333:916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.916-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cochrane reviews v industry supported meta-analyses: Ten questions to assess bias in medical research
	Manfred Gogol
	BMJ  2006;333:916-917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.916-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to formulate research recommendations: Format is not enough
	Vasiliy Vlassov
	BMJ  2006;333:917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.917 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to formulate research recommendations: The pie or the slice?
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2006;333:917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.917-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Acute renal failure: Estimated glomerular filtration rate should be entered on drug charts
	Gavin Dreyer
	BMJ  2006;333:917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.917-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Acute renal failure: Beware development of abdominal compartment syndrome
	Jeremy S Bewley
	BMJ  2006;333:917-918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.917-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to measure renal function in clinical practice: Age affects estimated glomerular filtration rate
	Sunil Bhandari
	BMJ  2006;333:918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.918 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to measure renal function in clinical practice: Estimated glomerular filtration rate in general practice
	Jo Richardson
	BMJ  2006;333:918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.918-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	GMC to convene meeting for prescribing debate
	Peter Rubin
	BMJ  2006;333:918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.918-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevention of diabetes: Ethical consideration
	Philipp Andreas Conradi
	BMJ  2006;333:918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.918-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevention of diabetes: Lifestyle and metformin are the way forward
	John S Ashcroft
	BMJ  2006;333:918-919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.918-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Living organ donation needs debate on harm to donors
	David W Evans
	BMJ  2006;333:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.919 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commercial cord blood banking: Immediate cord clamping is not safe
	David J R Hutchon
	BMJ  2006;333:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.919-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commercial cord blood banking: Public cord blood banking should be more widely adopted
	Robert James Carpenter, Jr
	BMJ  2006;333:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.919-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Good financial management does not lead to better services
	James H MacCabe
	BMJ  2006;333:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.920 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Belittlement and harassment of medical students: Seems to achieve focus
	Jonathan D Belsey
	BMJ  2006;333:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.920-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Belittlement and harassment of medical students: The roots of education are bitter but the fruits are sweet
	Deepak Parasuraman
	BMJ  2006;333:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.920-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical education must be more patient centred: Si jeunesse savait, si villesse pouvait
	Peter G Davies
	BMJ  2006;333:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.920-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical education must be more patient centred: Good in theory but not in practice
	Alex Stockdale
	BMJ  2006;333:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.920-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	NHS is told to save £2.2bn by being more efficient
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2006;333:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.873 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	European Medicines Agency gives favourable ruling on NSAIDs
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2006;333:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.873-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2006;333:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.874 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Former FDA commissioner pleads guilty to two charges
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.874-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Cancer group denies company funding will influence its agenda
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2006;333:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.874-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Are the Scots getting a better deal on prescribed drugs than the English?
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2006;333:875, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.875 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Germany will penalise cancer patients who do not undergo regular screening
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2006;333:877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.877-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Is Liam Donaldson the new José Mourinho?
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2006;333:878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.878 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Doctors are warned against sex with former patients
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2006;333:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.876 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Incidence of breast cancer is rising in Australia, while death rate falls
	Stephen Pincock
	BMJ  2006;333:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.876-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Screening with computed tomography detects early lung cancer
	Janice Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.876-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	NICE issues new guidance on urinary incontinence in women
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2006;333:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.876-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	NHS launches electronic resource for research into ethnicity and health
	Robert Short
	BMJ  2006;333:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.876-d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Sharing emergency department data with police could reduce violence
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2006;333:877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.877 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	UK hospital infection rates are down from 1993-4 rates
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2006;333:877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.877-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	People with chronic mental illness will be worse off under new NHS, doctors say
	Lisa Hitchen
	BMJ  2006;333:877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.877-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

Research

This week's Research

	Self management of arthritis in primary care: randomised controlled trial
	Marta Buszewicz, Greta Rait, Mark Griffin, Irwin Nazareth, Anita Patel, Angela Atkinson, Julie Barlow, Andy Haines
	BMJ  2006;333:879, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38965.375718.80, (Published 13 October 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

	Telephone administered cognitive behaviour therapy for treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder: randomised controlled non-inferiority trial
	Karina Lovell, Debbie Cox, Gillian Haddock, Christopher Jones, David Raines, Rachel Garvey, Chris Roberts, Sarah Hadley
	BMJ  2006;333:883, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38940.355602.80, (Published 25 August 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hope and advance care planning in patients with end stage renal disease: qualitative interview study
	Sara N Davison, Christy Simpson
	BMJ  2006;333:886, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38965.626250.55, (Published 21 September 2006) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Measles in the United Kingdom: can we eradicate it by 2010?
	Perviz Asaria, Eithne MacMahon
	BMJ  2006;333:890-895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38989.445845.7C [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

Practice

This week's Practice

	Cases in primary care laboratory medicine: Monitoring renal function in hypertension
	Una Martin, Jamie J Coleman
	BMJ  2006;333:896-899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38987.502512.DE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of obesity: Management: Part III—Surgery
	John G Kral
	BMJ  2006;333:900-903, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.900 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2006;333:904-905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.904 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Analysis and Comment

This week's Analysis and Comment

	Professional regulation: The path to safer patients
	Jonathan Gornall
	BMJ  2006;333:906-911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39008.535162.94 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Public health: Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence
	Tom Jefferson
	BMJ  2006;333:912-915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38995.531701.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Search strategy] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	James Scott
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2006;333:921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.921 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Maurice Aloysius Carroll
	Diane Robinson
	BMJ  2006;333:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.922 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Muthyala Chinna Pulliah Chetty
	Santhi Chetty
	BMJ  2006;333:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.922-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	George Felix Macdonald Hall
	Wendy Gray
	BMJ  2006;333:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.922-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Towy Owen Watkin Myrddin-Evans
	Gail Murray
	BMJ  2006;333:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.922-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Francis ("Frank") Joseph O'Kelly
	Frank O'Kelly
	BMJ  2006;333:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.922-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Peter John Verrill
	Nigel Dacre, John Verrill
	BMJ  2006;333:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.922-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Art: A steady eye
	Richard Hurley
	BMJ  2006;333:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.923 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	TV: Can stories of personal tragedy spark a healthcare revolution?
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2006;333:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.924 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Personal view: Why this abortion ban is a threat to women's health
	Marvin Buehner
	BMJ  2006;333:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.925 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Soundings: The Full English
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2006;333:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.925-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2006;333:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.926 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	bmjupdates+: Medical treatment helps the passage of ureteric stones
	BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A bloody day at the accident and emergency department
	Laith K Qassim AlRubaiy
	BMJ  2006;333:882, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.882 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One hundred years ago: An American medical poet
	BMJ  2006;333:895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.895 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	bmjlearning.com: BMJ Learning Foundation Programme
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2006;333:899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.899-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Never mind the gym, do medicine
	Nicholas David Clement
	BMJ  2006;333:911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.911 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Eating twice as much as is necessary
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2006;333:915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38924.463947.F7 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
	BMJ  2006;333:899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.899 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Totally transforming Auchendreich
	BMJ  2006;333:899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.899-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sudanese health minister's advocacy of condoms sparks protest
	BMJ  2006;333:899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.899-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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