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21 January 2006 (Vol 332, No 7534)
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Singing the body electronic
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2006;332, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.0-f [Full text]1544 [PDF]176  

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text]371 [PDF]423

Bleeding on warfarin influences doctors' prescribing [Full text]1895  
Promotion process for consultants needs examining [Full text]706  
Secondary prevention for CHD increases after framework [Full text]888  
Early treatment for rheumatoid arthritis could virtually cure [Full text]2371  
Oncolytic gene therapy is not innocuous [Full text]566  

Editorials

Personal knowledge
Kieran Sweeney
BMJ  2006;332:129-130, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.129 [Extract]806 [Full text]6228 [PDF]415  

Using personal health information in medical research
Tom Walley
BMJ  2006;332:130-131, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.130 [Extract]470 [Full text]2822 [PDF]391  

Turning around NHS deficits
Chris Ham
BMJ  2006;332:131-132, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.131 [Extract]326 [Full text]1661 [PDF]166  

Naltrexone and problems in pain management
A P Vickers, A Jolly
BMJ  2006;332:132-133, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.132 [Extract]470 [Full text]1850 [PDF]242  

Intrapleural streptokinase for pleural infection
Demosthenes Bouros, Katerina M Antoniou, Richard W Light
BMJ  2006;332:133-134, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.133 [Extract]320 [Full text]1269 [PDF]205  

News

Hospital trust prosecuted for not supervising junior doctors
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2006;332:135, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.135 [Extract]1153 [Full text]3526 [PDF]214 [extra: Longer version]252  

Surgery journal bans authors who hide conflicts of interest
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2006;332:135, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.135-a [Extract]254 [Full text]940 [PDF]96 [extra: Longer version]120  

In brief
BMJ  2006;332:136, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.136 [Extract]156 [Full text]449 [PDF]51  

Turkey reports more cases as Asia prepares for bird flu
Jane Parry
BMJ  2006;332:136, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.136-a [Extract]210 [Full text]918 [PDF]98 [extra: Longer version]91  

Campaigners predict a complete public smoking ban for England
Michael Day
BMJ  2006;332:136, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.136-b [Extract]145 [Full text]713 [PDF]65 [extra: Longer version]66  

Ultra-Orthodox Jews criticised over circumcision practice
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2006;332:137, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.137 [Extract]744 [Full text]2557 [PDF]158  

Regular exercise reduces risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2006;332:137, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.137-a [Extract]612 [Full text]2129 [PDF]328 [extra: Longer version]193  

Prostate cancer patients get worse care than other cancer patients
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2006;332:139, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.139-c [Extract]481 [Full text]2439 [PDF]168  

Hanging doctors out to dry
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140 [Extract]725 [Full text]1904 [PDF]85  

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Religious women in the US are more likely to use health screening
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138 [Extract]153 [Full text]746 [PDF]88  

Cloning pioneer denies intentionally falsifying results
Jane Parry
BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138-a [Extract]137 [Full text]550 [PDF]48  

Poor patients in rich countries have fair access to GPs but not to specialists
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138-b [Extract]141 [Full text]520 [PDF]89  

UK trusts urged to stamp out bullying and harassment at work
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138-c [Extract]156 [Full text]565 [PDF]43  

Roma women were unlawfully sterilised
Katka Krosnar
BMJ  2006;332:138, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.138-d [Extract]350 [Full text]919 [PDF]74  

Independent treatment centres will have to provide training
Mark Gould
BMJ  2006;332:139, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.139 [Extract]124 [Full text]550 [PDF]39  

New campaign to encourage use of national IT programme begins
Michael Cross
BMJ  2006;332:139, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.139-a [Extract]133 [Full text]584 [PDF]58  

NHS trusts are using cash meant for sexual health services to balance their books
Kaye M McIntosh
BMJ  2006;332:139, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.139-b [Extract]139 [Full text]601 [PDF]54  

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Gene tests show that two fifths of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from four women
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140-a [Extract]542 [Full text]1651  

Doctors decry Darfur “genocide”
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140-b [Extract]125 [Full text]358  

Guarantee of anonymity leads to surge in reports of safety incidents
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140-c [Extract]197 [Full text]633  

Better access to personal data is urgently needed to improve health for all
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2006;332:140, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.140-d [Extract]117 [Full text]496  

Research

Impact of adverse events on prescribing warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation: matched pair analysis
Niteesh K Choudhry, Geoffrey M Anderson, Andreas Laupacis, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Sharon-Lise T Normand, Stephen B Soumerai
BMJ  2006;332:141-145, doi:10.1136/bmj.38698.709572.55 (published 10 January 2006) [Abstract]782 [Abridged PDF]140 [Full text]2486 [PDF]1229  

Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in older patients after the national service framework: population based study
Sheena E Ramsay, Peter H Whincup, Debbie A Lawlor, Olia Papacosta, Lucy T Lennon, Mary C Thomas, Shah Ebrahim, Richard W Morris
BMJ  2006;332:144-145, doi:10.1136/bmj.38704.770127.BE (published 9 January 2006) [Abstract]519 [Full text]1327 [PDF]782  

Effects of a web based decision aid on parental attitudes to MMR vaccination: a before and after study
Cate Wallace, Julie Leask, Lyndal J Trevena
BMJ  2006;332:146-149, doi:10.1136/bmj.38678.681840.68 (published 13 December 2005) [Abstract]244 [Abridged PDF]52 [Full text]842 [PDF]390  

Promotion to hospital consultant: regression analysis using NHS administrative data
Kostas Mavromaras, Anthony Scott
BMJ  2006;332:148-151, doi:10.1136/bmj.38628.738935.3A (published 31 October 2005) [Abstract]329 [Abridged PDF]50 [Full text]773 [PDF]222  

Clinical review

Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
Paul Emery
BMJ  2006;332:152-155, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.152 [Extract]1412 [Full text]5362 [PDF]1968  

Practice

Pulmonary embolism in hospital practice
Grace V Robinson
BMJ  2006;332:156-160, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.156 [Full text]3608 [PDF]1055 [extra: Further details]211  

ABC of breast diseases: Medical treatment of early breast cancer. III: chemotherapy
Ian Smith, Susan Chua
BMJ  2006;332:161-162, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.161 [Full text]2545 [PDF]720  

Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
Alison Tonks
BMJ  2006;332:163-164, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.163 [Full text]1545 [PDF]203  

Analysis and Comment

Epidemiology: Consent, confidentiality, and the Data Protection Act
Amy Iversen, Kathleen Liddell, Nicola Fear, Matthew Hotopf, Simon Wessely
BMJ  2006;332:165-169, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.165 [Full text]1954 [PDF]604  

Commentary: Evidence will help achieve consensus
Peter Goldblatt
BMJ  2006;332:169, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.169 [Full text]580 [PDF]141  

Endpiece: Not lucrative
BMJ  2006;332:169, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.169-a [Full text]390 [PDF]38  

Controversy: Fighting cancer with oncolytic viruses
Yuti Chernajovsky, Lorna Layward, Nicholas Lemoine
BMJ  2006;332:170-172, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.170 [Full text]1118 [PDF]254 [extra: Additional references]76  

Drugs: Cannabis and psychosis
David M Fergusson, Richie Poulton, Paul F Smith, Joseph M Boden
BMJ  2006;332:172-175, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.172 [Full text]2563 [PDF]503  

Science commentary: Cannabis confusions
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2006;332:175-176, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.175 [Full text]1019 [PDF]200  

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]122

JAMA's policy on industry sponsored studies
Phil B Fontanarosa, Catherine D DeAngelis
BMJ  2006;332:177, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.177 [Extract]153 [Full text]559  

US flu mortality estimates are based on solid science
Lone Simonsen, Robert Taylor, Cecile Viboud, Jonathan Dushoff, Mark Miller
BMJ  2006;332:177-178, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.177-a [Extract]72 [Full text]242  

Stockpiling of raw material for oseltamivir is not justified
Alberto A E Bertelli
BMJ  2006;332:178, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.178 [Extract]76 [Full text]208  

Dummies and SIDS: Causality has not been established
Peter S Blair, Peter J Fleming
BMJ  2006;332:178, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.178-a [Extract]142 [Full text]431  

Dummies and SIDS: Low response rates generate considerable uncertainty
Christopher J Cates
BMJ  2006;332:178, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.178-b [Extract]62 [Full text]225  

Funduscopy: to dilate or not?: Precipitation of angle closure may not be a disservice
Kanchan J Bhan, Andrew Bastawrous, Keith G Davey
BMJ  2006;332:179, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.179 [Extract]78 [Full text]181  

Funduscopy: to dilate or not?: Other drugs can cause partial pupil dilatation
Peter D Cackett
BMJ  2006;332:179, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.179-a [Extract]62 [Full text]142  

Mobile medical teams rethink
Darren Walter
BMJ  2006;332:179, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.179-b [Extract]74 [Full text]215  

Resistance to HIV drugs in UK may be lower in some areas
Julie M Fox, Sarah Fidler, Jonathan Weber
BMJ  2006;332:179-180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.179-c [Extract]50 [Full text]163  

Patients get four choices for NHS treatments: Choose and book has not left the station
David M Lewis
BMJ  2006;332:180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.180 [Extract]95 [Full text]262  

Patients get four choices for NHS treatments: Choose and book will hinder development of good outpatient services
Jeremy Wood
BMJ  2006;332:180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.180-a [Extract]56 [Full text]176  

Wishful thinking about primary care in 2015
Robert D Walker
BMJ  2006;332:180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.180-b [Extract]107 [Full text]295  

Don't discount magnet therapy
James T H Teo
BMJ  2006;332:180, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.180-c [Extract]243 [Full text]551  

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]111

John Beale
Michael Day
BMJ  2006;332:181, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.181 [Full text]633  

Naresh Gandhi
Peter Tyrer
BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182 [Full text]405 [extra: Longer version]293  

Alan Higgitt
David Spalton
BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-a [Full text]181 [extra: Longer version]203  

Hans O Lithell
Ilona Koupil, David Leon
BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-b [Full text]196 [extra: Longer version]204  

Maurice Gerald Nelson
J M Bridges, E E Mayne
BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-c [Full text]203 [extra: Longer version]215  

Alan Hewett Phillips
Martin Phillips, Eric Sturdy
BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-d [Full text]216 [extra: Longer version]219  

Richard William Porter
Daniel Porter
BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-e [Full text]320 [extra: Longer version]242  

John Gibson (Ian) Taylor
Alan Green, Neil Cardoe
BMJ  2006;332:182, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.182-f [Full text]287 [extra: Longer version]239  

reviews

This week's reviews [PDF]62

Book: A Surgical Temptation: The Demonisation of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain
Stefan Bailis, Daniel Halperin
BMJ  2006;332:183, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.183 [Extract]364 [Full text]983  

Book: Medical Mysteries: The Testament of a Clinical Scientist
Ayan Panja
BMJ  2006;332:184, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.184 [Extract]201 [Full text]613  

TV: Medical Investigation
Birte Twisselmann
BMJ  2006;332:184, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.184-a [Extract]106 [Full text]517  

Personal view: Diagnosing Pinochet syndrome
Mary E Black
BMJ  2006;332:185, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.185 [Extract]340 [Full text]1111  

Soundings: Rocky in suburbia
Des Spence
BMJ  2006;332:185, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.185-a [Extract]88 [Full text]358  

Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  2006;332:186, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.186 [Full text]1109 [PDF]82  

Fillers

bmjupdates+: Cardiac rehabilitation can be cost effective after a heart attack or an episode of unstable angina
BMJ  2006;332, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.0-e [Full text]197 [PDF]41  

bmjlearning.com: How to put NICE guidelines into practice
Kieran Walsh
BMJ  2006;332:143, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.143 [Full text]534 [PDF]78  

Endpiece: Bonds of the profession
Brendan Judge
BMJ  2006;332:145, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.145 [Full text]355 [PDF]21  

Interactive case report: An alcoholic patient who continues to drink
BMJ  2006;332:160, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.160 [Full text]563 [PDF]52  

Blind obedience
Satheesha Nayak
BMJ  2006;332:160, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.160-a [Full text]528 [PDF]26  

A memorable accident
Charlotte Wright
BMJ  2006;332:176, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.176 [Full text]870 [PDF]48  

Corrections

Achieving the millennium development goals for health: Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies to combat malaria in developing countries
BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151 [Full text]109 [PDF]45  

ABC of health informatics: Improving services with informatics tools
BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-a [Full text]152 [PDF]53  

Legislation for smoke-free workplaces and health of bar workers in Ireland: before and after study
BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-b [Full text]112 [PDF]33  

Primary care in the United States: problems and possibilities
BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-c [Full text]64 [PDF]14  

Extra scrutiny for industry funded trials
BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-d [Full text]59 [PDF]15  

Treatment of bites by adders and exotic venomous snakes
BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-e [Full text]126 [PDF]32  

Randomised placebo controlled multicentre trial to assess short term clarithromycin for patients with stable coronary heart disease: CLARICOR trial
BMJ  2006;332:151, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.151-f [Full text]102 [PDF]42  

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