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1 April 2006 (Vol 332, No 7544)
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Time to leave home
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2006;332, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.0-f [Full text]1862 [PDF]273 FREE  

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What predisposes women to chronic pelvic pain? [Full text]895 FREE  
Psychosocial care in nursing homes reduces drug use [Full text]370 FREE  
Benefits of omega 3 fats may be in doubt [Full text]1439 FREE  
What are the risks for couples with a balanced structural chromosome abnormality? [Full text]304 FREE  
Action research helps develop a pre-medicine summer school [Full text]301 FREE  

Editorials

Reforming mental health law in England and Wales
Nigel Eastman
BMJ  2006;332:737-738, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.737 [Extract]217 [Full text]1111 [PDF]171 [extra: Additional references]51  

Oily fish and omega 3 fat supplements
Eric Brunner
BMJ  2006;332:739-740, doi:10.1136/bmj.38798.680185.47 (published 24 March 2006) [Extract]426 [Full text]2782 [PDF]1379 [extra: Figure]202 FREE  

Increasing the number of medical students from under-represented minorities
Phyllis L Carr, Kenneth C Edelin
BMJ  2006;332:740, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.740 [Extract]145 [Full text]537 [PDF]114  

Managing challenging behaviour in dementia
Gavin J Andrews
BMJ  2006;332:741, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.741 [Extract]256 [Full text]1107 [PDF]297  

Impending or pending? The national bowel cancer screening programme
Wendy S Atkin
BMJ  2006;332:742, doi:10.1136/bmj.38797.494757.47 (published 22 March 2006) [Extract]232 [Full text]1081 [PDF]185 [extra: Additional references]64  

News

NHS faces job cuts as financial crisis deepens
Michael Day
BMJ  2006;332:743, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.743 [Extract]407 [Full text]1501 [PDF]116  

In brief
BMJ  2006;332:744, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.744 [Extract]95 [Full text]320 [PDF]52  

Non-European doctors feel penalised by change in UK policy
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2006;332:744, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.744-a [Extract]707 [Full text]2693 [PDF]87 [extra: Longer version]194  

African doctors abroad need to work together to improve health care at home
Tessa Richards
BMJ  2006;332:744, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.744-b [Extract]103 [Full text]446 [PDF]53 [extra: Longer version]115  

Follow-up shows no adverse outcomes of CNEP in neonates
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2006;332:745, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.745 [Extract]145 [Full text]541 [PDF]57 [extra: Longer version]62  

Scientists find new disease: motivational deficiency disorder
Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2006;332:745, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.745-a [Extract]3508 [Full text]7550 [PDF]830  

GMC finds three doctors guilty of irresponsible prescribing to addicts
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2006;332:747, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.747-c [Extract]200 [Full text]730 [PDF]60 [extra: Longer version]86  

UK government scraps mental health bill
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748 [Extract]115 [Full text]321 [PDF]70  

AIDS robs millions of their childhood
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-a [Extract]101 [Full text]344 [PDF]43  

Assisted conception business should be better regulated
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-b [Extract]79 [Full text]266 [PDF]46 [extra: Longer version]48  

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Care of England’s older people still “unacceptably poor”
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2006;332:746, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746 [Extract]111 [Full text]500 [PDF]76  

Critically ill men in drug trial continue to improve
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2006;332:746, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746-a [Extract]252 [Full text]1236 [PDF]121  

People considering laser eye surgery should be warned of risks, says NICE
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2006;332:746, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746-b [Extract]477 [Full text]1468 [PDF]113  

Germany may change drug testing rules after debacle in England
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2006;332:746, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746-c [Extract]120 [Full text]540 [PDF]87  

Dutch doctors campaign for smoking ban in hospitality industry
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2006;332:746, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.746-d [Extract]81 [Full text]375 [PDF]42  

Trust’s refusal to fund trastuzumab was “arbitrary”
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2006;332:747, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.747 [Extract]108 [Full text]448 [PDF]41  

GMC finds no case to answer against Ian Craft
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2006;332:747, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.747-a [Extract]173 [Full text]629 [PDF]22  

Faking happiness at work can make you ill
Katy Duke
BMJ  2006;332:747, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.747-b [Extract]551 [Full text]1935 [PDF]238  

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ADHD drugs should carry warning, FDA committee recommends
Janice Tanne
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-c [Extract]188 [Full text]614  

Migration of health workers from less developed countries needs urgent solution, say experts
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-d [Extract]103 [Full text]349  

Conference delegates claim NHS posts are “slavery”
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-e [Extract]161 [Full text]495  

New US abstinence programme guidelines criticised
Janice Tanne
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-f [Extract]89 [Full text]362  

Primary care staff should work with prison teams on mental health
Oona Mashta
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-g [Extract]35 [Full text]188  

RAF doctor will face court martial for refusing to return to Iraq
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-h [Extract]115 [Full text]346  

Access to antiretrovirals still too scarce in many countries
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2006;332:748, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.748-i [Extract]47 [Full text]207  

Research

Factors predisposing women to chronic pelvic pain: systematic review
Pallavi Latthe, Luciano Mignini, Richard Gray, Robert Hills, Khalid Khan
BMJ  2006;332:749-755, doi:10.1136/bmj.38748.697465.55 (published 16 February 2006) [Abstract]437 [Abridged PDF]88 [Full text]1083 [PDF]803 FREE  

Risks and benefits of omega 3 fats for mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review
Lee Hooper, Rachel L Thompson, Roger A Harrison, Carolyn D Summerbell, Andy R Ness, Helen J Moore, Helen V Worthington, Paul N Durrington, Julian P T Higgins, Nigel E Capps, Rudolph A Riemersma, Shah B J Ebrahim, George Davey Smith
BMJ  2006;332:752-760, doi:10.1136/bmj.38755.366331.2F (published 24 March 2006) [Abstract]1168 [Abridged PDF]326 [Full text]5198 [PDF]2853 [extra: Set of references]140 FREE  

Effect of enhanced psychosocial care on antipsychotic use in nursing home residents with severe dementia: cluster randomised trial
Jane Fossey, Clive Ballard, Edmund Juszczak, Ian James, Nicola Alder, Robin Jacoby, Robert Howard
BMJ  2006;332:756-761, doi:10.1136/bmj.38782.575868.7C (published 16 March 2006) [Abstract]250 [Abridged PDF]51 [Full text]675 [PDF]557 FREE  

Reproductive outcome after chromosome analysis in couples with two or more miscarriages: case-control study
Maureen T M Franssen, Johanna C Korevaar, Fulco van der Veen, Nico J Leschot, Patrick M M Bossuyt, Mariette Goddijn
BMJ  2006;332:759-763, doi:10.1136/bmj.38735.459144.2F (published 22 February 2006) [Abstract]192 [Abridged PDF]20 [Full text]439 [PDF]301 FREE  

"We were treated like adults"—development of a pre-medicine summer school for 16 year olds from deprived socioeconomic backgrounds: action research study
Trisha Greenhalgh, Jill Russell, Petra Boynton, Frances Lefford, Nikhil Chopra, Lisa Dunkley
BMJ  2006;332:762-767, doi:10.1136/bmj.38755.582500.55 (published 22 February 2006) [Abstract]188 [Abridged PDF]28 [Full text]434 [PDF]234 [extra: Additional details]50 FREE  

Clinical review

Asthma control in adults
John Rees
BMJ  2006;332:767-771, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.767 [Extract]566 [Full text]2515 [PDF]1480 [extra: Extra details]141  

Practice

Practice pointer: Hip dislocation in cerebral palsy
Teresa Pountney, Elizabeth M Green
BMJ  2006;332:772-775, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.772 [Full text]383 [PDF]168 [extra: Additional references]49  

Lesson of the week: Secondary drowning in a patient with epilepsy
Stephanie Milne, Andrew Cohen
BMJ  2006;332:775-776, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.775 [Full text]990 [PDF]135  

ABC of wound healing: Wound dressings
Vanessa Jones, Joseph E Grey, Keith G Harding
BMJ  2006;332:777-780, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.777 [Full text]1187 [PDF]779  

Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
Alison Tonks
BMJ  2006;332:781-782, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.781 [Full text]783 [PDF]144  

Analysis and Comment

Using lessons from the past to plan for pandemic flu
Hilary Pickles
BMJ  2006;332:783-786, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.783 [Full text]2790 [PDF]422  

Avian influenza: Preparing for the pandemic
BMJ  2006;332:783, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.783-a [Full text]504  

Commentary: UK government response to Hilary Pickles
David Salisbury
BMJ  2006;332:784, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.784 [Full text]375 [PDF]125  

An iatrogenic pandemic of panic
Luc Bonneux, Wim Van Damme
BMJ  2006;332:786-788, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.786 [Full text]1769 [PDF]758 FREE  

A slippery disease: a microbiologist's view
T H Pennington
BMJ  2006;332:789-790, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.789 [Full text]1203 [PDF]247  

Hard decisions will have to be made: view from intensive care
Richard Marsh
BMJ  2006;332:790-791, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.790 [Full text]996 [PDF]244  

Dealing with uncertainty: perspective from primary care
Anthony Harnden
BMJ  2006;332:791-792, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.791 [Full text]1190 [PDF]291  

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]140

Preventing coronary heart disease: High baseline risk strategy and cost effectiveness of guidelines
D Graham Mackenzie, John Forbes, Sarah Wild, Philip Rutledge
BMJ  2006;332:793, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.793 [Extract]124 [Full text]372  

Preventing coronary heart disease: Patients are people, not cases
Joan McClusky
BMJ  2006;332:793, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.793-a [Extract]111 [Full text]279  

Blood pressure lowering in elderly patients with stroke
Elliot Epstein, Anil Kumar
BMJ  2006;332:793-794, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.793-b [Extract]106 [Full text]291  

Estimated glomerular filtration rate needs UK consensus
Annice Mukherjee, Donal O'Donaghue, Aram Redenski, John New, Patrick Twomey
BMJ  2006;332:794, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.794 [Extract]78 [Full text]306  

Grieving the death of a child: Clinicians should ensure that lethal drugs are handed back
Peter Byrne
BMJ  2006;332:794, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.794-a [Extract]77 [Full text]205  

Grieving the death of a child: Supporting health professionals who care for grieving patients may benefit all
Svetlin V Vrabtchev
BMJ  2006;332:794-795, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.794-b [Extract]38 [Full text]114  

Gluteal injections in increasingly obese population: Needle length for intramuscular injections
Brian J Anthony
BMJ  2006;332:795, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.795 [Extract]69 [Full text]198  

Gluteal injections in increasingly obese population: Essential considerations for intramuscular injections
Saurabh Rai, Nidhi Nandan
BMJ  2006;332:795, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.795-a [Extract]57 [Full text]192  

Time to make paracetamol with methionine available
John P Heptonstall
BMJ  2006;332:795, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.795-b [Extract]92 [Full text]337  

Googling your treatment for analgesia in labour
James Holding, Michael V Holmes
BMJ  2006;332:795, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.795-c [Extract]119 [Full text]400  

Neonatal lupus erythematosus is not always benign
Andrew G Affleck
BMJ  2006;332:796, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.796 [Extract]59 [Full text]171  

Independent sector treatment centres: experience and spin
Simon P Kelly
BMJ  2006;332:796, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.796-a [Extract]63 [Full text]400  

Untreated controls are wrong when proved treatment exists
J Martin Bland
BMJ  2006;332:796, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.796-b [Extract]49 [Full text]236  

Wear your name badge well
Simon Fountain-Polley
BMJ  2006;332:796, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.796-c [Extract]171 [Full text]470  

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]143

Peter Bernard Allan Kernoff
Christine Lee, Clifford Welch, Hannah Kernoff
BMJ  2006;332:797, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.797 [Full text]235 [extra: Longer version]223  

Peter Alec James Ball
Jenifer Ball, Chris Hudson
BMJ  2006;332:798, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798 [Full text]217 [extra: Longer version]222  

Erasmus Darwin Barlow
G C Cook
BMJ  2006;332:798, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-a [Full text]198 [extra: Longer version]208  

Winifred Cornwell (née Drew)
Alistair Marshall
BMJ  2006;332:798, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-b [Full text]150 [extra: Longer version]191  

Richard Gardner
Janet Gray, Elizabeth Dobie
BMJ  2006;332:798, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-c [Full text]192 [extra: Longer version]202  

Haris Dias Jayasundere
Remy Perumal
BMJ  2006;332:798, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-d [Full text]171 [extra: Longer version]191  

David Rowland Jones
Eira Hooper, John W Thompson
BMJ  2006;332:798, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-e [Full text]187 [extra: Longer version]213  

Walter Rostron Price
Adrian Hamlyn
BMJ  2006;332:798, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.798-f [Full text]168 [extra: Longer version]204  

reviews

This week's reviews [PDF]99

TV: How to Have a Good Death
Abi Berger
BMJ  2006;332:799, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.799 [Extract]285 [Full text]1190  

Book: The Philosophy of Palliative Care: Critique and Reconstruction
Paul Keeley
BMJ  2006;332:800, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.800 [Extract]84 [Full text]397  

Press: Big thrusters
Sally Carter
BMJ  2006;332:800, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.800-a [Extract]82 [Full text]231  

Personal views: Elder abuse, 21st century style
Roger A Fisken
BMJ  2006;332:801, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.801 [Extract]141 [Full text]765 [extra: Personal view by Rod Griffiths]850  

Soundings: Is omniscience enough?
Colin Douglas
BMJ  2006;332:801, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.801-a [Extract]75 [Full text]382  

Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  2006;332:802, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.802 [Full text]618 [PDF]82  

Fillers

bmjupdates+: Neither paracetamol nor ibuprofen protects children against local reactions to the DTaP vaccine
BMJ  2006;332, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.0-e [Full text]160 [PDF]32  

A memorable patient: Sticking with tradition
Sarah H Oram
BMJ  2006;332:766, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.766 [Full text]534 [PDF]41  

bmjlearning.com: Learning outcomes
Kieran Walsh
BMJ  2006;332:771, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.771 [Full text]244 [PDF]39  

What medicine's really about
Khurum Hayat Khan
BMJ  2006;332:776, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.776 [Full text]530 [PDF]47  

"Seeing" is believing
Sumita Verma
BMJ  2006;332:780, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.780 [Full text]454 [PDF]37  

Privates
Elizabeth A Rider
BMJ  2006;332:792, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.792 [Full text]476 [PDF]28  

Corrections

ABC of wound healing: Burns
BMJ  2006;332:755, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.755 [Full text]209 [PDF]185 FREE  

Call to scrap import tariffs on pharmaceuticals in global WTO talks
BMJ  2006;332:755, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.755-a [Full text]47 [PDF]21 FREE  

Obituaries: Kenneth Herbert Walter
BMJ  2006;332:755, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.755-b [Full text]104 [PDF]11 FREE  

Career focus

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