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8 April 2006 (Vol 332, No 7545)
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Trust and demand
Jane Smith
BMJ  2006;332, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.0-f [Full text]1106 [PDF]173 FREE  

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This week in the BMJ [Full text]324 [PDF]187

Assertive mental health service improved engagement [Full text]650 FREE  
Could screening for amblyopia be better targeted? [Full text]270 FREE  
Anxiety and depression in childhood may raise risk of ecstasy use [Full text]444 FREE  
Ethnic groups and differences in hypertension [Full text]691 FREE  
Biomedical research in developing countries needs local regulation [Full text]276 FREE  

Editorials

Ecstasy and the antecedents of illicit drug use
Kari Poikolainen
BMJ  2006;332:803-804, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.803 [Extract]694 [Full text]2662 [PDF]241  

Hepatitis B immunisation in Britain: time to change?
Jangu Banatvala, Pierre Van Damme, Nedret Emiroglu
BMJ  2006;332:804-805, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.804 [Extract]368 [Full text]1426 [PDF]198  

The neglect of trauma surgery
Nigel R M Tai, James M Ryan, Adam J Brooks
BMJ  2006;332:805-806, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.805 [Extract]333 [Full text]1321 [PDF]181  

Gillick or Fraser? A plea for consistency over competence in children
Robert Wheeler
BMJ  2006;332:807, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.807 [Extract]400 [Full text]2576 [PDF]335  

Life expectancy: women now on top everywhere
Anna Barford, Danny Dorling, George Davey Smith, Mary Shaw
BMJ  2006;332:808, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.808 [Extract]513 [Full text]1655 [PDF]295  

News

Another 2.4 million health professionals needed, says WHO
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2006;332:809, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.809 [Extract]234 [Full text]859 [PDF]145 [extra: Longer version]105  

Swiss judge orders HIV positive woman to disclose partners' names
Bojan Pancevski
BMJ  2006;332:809, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.809-a [Extract]252 [Full text]919 [PDF]92 [extra: Longer version]100  

In brief
BMJ  2006;332:810, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.810 [Extract]110 [Full text]350 [PDF]31  

All older people should be guaranteed basic level of care
Michael Day
BMJ  2006;332:810, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.810-a [Extract]163 [Full text]542 [PDF]108 [extra: Longer version]90  

Chinese rules on transplantation do not go far enough
Jane Parry
BMJ  2006;332:810, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.810-b [Extract]120 [Full text]447 [PDF]56 [extra: Longer version]87  

NICE says doctors could help 165 000 more smokers to quit
Balaji Ravichandran
BMJ  2006;332:811, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.811 [Extract]204 [Full text]717 [PDF]82  

Meta-analysis challenges benefits of moderate drinking
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2006;332:811, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.811-a [Extract]508 [Full text]1455 [PDF]317  

UK government gives consultants pay award in stages
Michael Day
BMJ  2006;332:813, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.813-c [Extract]169 [Full text]619 [PDF]45  

Vaccines against cervical cancer provoke US controversy
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2006;332:814, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.814 [Extract]337 [Full text]1093 [PDF]231 [extra: Longer version]106  

Aspirin will loom largein World Cup shindig
Michael Leidig
BMJ  2006;332:814, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.814-a [Extract]280 [Full text]715 [PDF]56 [extra: Longer version]90  

Government favours "creative destruction" of the NHS
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2006;332:814, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.814-b [Extract]591 [Full text]3865 [PDF]132 [extra: Longer version]153  

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Gene therapy cures two men of immune system disorder
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2006;332:812, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.812 [Extract]251 [Full text]916 [PDF]141  

Men who became ill in drug trial improve
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2006;332:812, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.812-a [Extract]314 [Full text]1431 [PDF]143  

Becker promotes condom use in Germany
Michael Leidig
BMJ  2006;332:812, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.812-b [Extract]193 [Full text]681 [PDF]44  

Authors threaten to withhold articles from CMAJ
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2006;332:812, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.812-c [Extract]216 [Full text]653 [PDF]45  

Doctors are failing to tell diabetic people about UK driving rules
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2006;332:812, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.812-d [Extract]388 [Full text]1125 [PDF]148  

Joint public-private initiative aims to boost public health in India
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2006;332:813, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.813 [Extract]96 [Full text]318 [PDF]60  

Reform group calls for shake up in NHS funding
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2006;332:813, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.813-a [Extract]139 [Full text]746 [PDF]64  

Zambia scraps healthcare fees for poor rural people
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2006;332:813, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.813-b [Extract]40 [Full text]242 [PDF]42  

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Lift patent barriers to increase access to medicines, says commission
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2006;332:814, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.814-c [Extract]67 [Full text]261  

Alcohol accounts for high proportion of cancer deaths in central and eastern Europe
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2006;332:814, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.814-d [Extract]270 [Full text]563  

Research identifies the most common cancers in teenagers and young adults
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2006;332:814, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.814-e [Extract]161 [Full text]456  

Research

The REACT study: randomised evaluation of assertive community treatment in north London
Helen Killaspy, Paul Bebbington, Robert Blizard, Sonia Johnson, Fiona Nolan, Stephen Pilling, Michael King
BMJ  2006;332:815-820, doi:10.1136/bmj.38773.518322.7C (published 16 March 2006) [Abstract]327 [Abridged PDF]41 [Full text]687 [PDF]406 FREE  

Readmission after hysterectomy and prophylactic low molecular weight heparin: retrospective case-control study
Gary Cook, John Depares, Maneesh Singh, Patrick McElduff
BMJ  2006;332:819-820, doi:10.1136/bmj.38783.624444.55 (published 15 March 2006) [Abstract]215 [Full text]453 [PDF]249 FREE  

Does amblyopia affect educational, health, and social outcomes? Findings from 1958 British birth cohort
J S Rahi, P M Cumberland, C S Peckham
BMJ  2006;332:820-825, doi:10.1136/bmj.38751.597963.AE (published 6 March 2006) [Abstract]384 [Abridged PDF]29 [Full text]1047 [PDF]232 [extra: Tables A - D]35 FREE  

Commentary: Does amblyopia matter?
Michael Clarke
BMJ  2006;332:824, doi:10.1136/bmj.38772.411146.AE (published 6 March 2006) [Full text]366 [PDF]131 FREE  

Symptoms of anxiety and depression in childhood and use of MDMA: prospective, population based study
Anja C Huizink, Robert F Ferdinand, Jan van der Ende, Frank C Verhulst
BMJ  2006;332:825-828, doi:10.1136/bmj.38743.539398.3A (published 24 February 2006) [Abstract]363 [Abridged PDF]25 [Full text]404 [PDF]381 FREE  

Clinical review

Sleep disorders in children and adolescents
Suresh Kotagal, Paul Pianosi
BMJ  2006;332:828-832, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.828 [Extract]542 [Full text]2095 [PDF]788  

Practice

Hypertension and ethnic group
Morris J Brown
BMJ  2006;332:833-836, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.833 [Full text]1425 [PDF]1060 [extra: Additional details]129 FREE  

Lesson of the week: Testicular tumour presenting as gynaecomastia
Maya Harris, Syed Rizvi, John Hindmarsh, Rob Bryan
BMJ  2006;332:837, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.837 [Full text]746 [PDF]209  

ABC of wound healing: Infections
Brendan Healy, Andrew Freedman
BMJ  2006;332:838-841, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.838 [Full text]1616 [PDF]997  

Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
Alison Tonks
BMJ  2006;332:842-843, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.842 [Full text]810 [PDF]145  

Analysis and Comment

Health policy: Referral management centres: promising innovations or Trojan horses?
Myfanwy Davies, Glyn Elwyn
BMJ  2006;332:844-846, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.844 [Full text]1691 [PDF]381 FREE  

Commentary: Patients are not commodities
Iona Heath
BMJ  2006;332:846-847, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.846 [Full text]541 [PDF]115  

Commentary: Not another innovation
James Owen Drife
BMJ  2006;332:847-848, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.847 [Full text]438 [PDF]103  

Global medicine: Regulation of biomedical research in Africa
Sylvester C Chima
BMJ  2006;332:848-851, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.848 [Full text]552 [PDF]214  

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]129

Do enforced bicycle helmet laws improve public health?: Determining true effectiveness of safety measures
Riley Geary
BMJ  2006;332:852, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.852 [Extract]126 [Full text]467  

Do enforced bicycle helmet laws improve public health?: Evidence is conflicting
Tony Raven
BMJ  2006;332:852, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.852-a [Extract]75 [Full text]269  

Do enforced bicycle helmet laws improve public health?: Start with an assessment of the base problem, rather than assume a solution
Peter J Clinch
BMJ  2006;332:852-853, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.852-b [Extract]79 [Full text]278  

Physical treatments have valuable role in osteoarthritis
Jan M Bjordal, Rodrigo Alvaro Brandao Lopes-Martins, Bård Bogen, Mark Johnson
BMJ  2006;332:853, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.853 [Extract]102 [Full text]366  

Disorders of sodium balance: Iatrogenic hyponatraemia—water overload and not enough potassium
John A W Wildsmith
BMJ  2006;332:853, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.853-a [Extract]116 [Full text]401  

Disorders of sodium balance: Hyponatraemia and drug use (and abuse)
Gerard McDade
BMJ  2006;332:853, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.853-b [Extract]74 [Full text]252  

Disorders of sodium balance: Hyponatraemia can occur during transurethral resection of prostate
William H Konarzewski
BMJ  2006;332:853-854, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.853-c [Extract]31 [Full text]153  

Disorders of sodium balance: Hypothyroidism and hyponatraemia: an old wives' tale?
Eric S Kilpatrick
BMJ  2006;332:854, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.854 [Extract]74 [Full text]267  

Disorders of sodium balance: Management of hypernatraemic dehydration differs in children
Jarlath McAloon
BMJ  2006;332:854, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.854-a [Extract]37 [Full text]163  

The CMA's legitimation crisis
Mark H Wilson
BMJ  2006;332:854, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.854-b [Extract]74 [Full text]209  

Guantanamo: a call for action: Good men need to do something
David J Nicholl
BMJ  2006;332:854-855, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.854-c [Extract]74 [Full text]252  

Guantanamo: a call for action: Author's reply
Michael Wilks
BMJ  2006;332:855, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.855 [Extract]36 [Full text]180  

Guantanamo: a call for action: Doctors should not treat detainees only to render them fit for further abuse
Sabahat A Wasti, Sajid Z Bhatti
BMJ  2006;332:855, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.855-a [Extract]38 [Full text]198  

Guantanamo: a call for action: Would GMC dismiss a complaint against Guantanamo doctor?
Christopher J Burns-Cox, Andrew Rouse, David Halpin, Vidhu Mayor, Tom Marshall
BMJ  2006;332:855, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.855-b [Extract]45 [Full text]227  

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]143

Abdullah Nakas
Mary E Black
BMJ  2006;332:856, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.856 [Full text]417  

Ewen Crighton Bramwell
David J D Farrow
BMJ  2006;332:857, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.857 [Full text]219 [extra: Longer version]240  

David Alexander ("Sandy") Mann
Christopher Booth, Susan Turner
BMJ  2006;332:857, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.857-a [Full text]224 [extra: Longer version]224  

Gwyn Meirion Mason
R W Galloway
BMJ  2006;332:857, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.857-b [Full text]287  

Christopher Moran
Ed Moran, Neil Hopkinson
BMJ  2006;332:857, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.857-c [Full text]254 [extra: Longer version]241  

Robert Thomas Paul
John Quarrie
BMJ  2006;332:857, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.857-d [Full text]276  

Eric Sarraff
Peter Holmes, Paul Goulden
BMJ  2006;332:857, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.857-e [Full text]150 [extra: Longer version]210  

Ronald F Welch
P Clark, D Shove
BMJ  2006;332:857, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.857-f [Full text]158 [extra: Longer version]208  

Edgar Ralph ("Mike") Wide
Gordon Cooper
BMJ  2006;332:857, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.857-g [Full text]169 [extra: Longer version]219  

reviews

This week's reviews [PDF]54

TV: Panorama. The Hospital That Failed Women
Nigel Bundred
BMJ  2006;332:858, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.858 [Extract]319 [Full text]1129  

Film: Unknown White Male
Piyal Sen
BMJ  2006;332:859, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.859 [Extract]103 [Full text]341  

Book: Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises
Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2006;332:859, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.859-a [Extract]82 [Full text]411  

Personal views: Poverty, health, and the role of doctors
Bassem Saab, Jumana Antoun
BMJ  2006;332:860, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.860 [Extract]152 [Full text]615  

Personal views: Reconciling 21st century temptations with 20th century resources and problems
Marcos Bosi Ferraz
BMJ  2006;332:861, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.861 [Extract]65 [Full text]337  

Soundings: Medicine is not a club
Liam Farrell
BMJ  2006;332:861, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.861-a [Extract]145 [Full text]649  

Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  2006;332:862, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.862 [Full text]649 [PDF]101  

Fillers

bmjupdates+: Weight of evidence favours ketamine for children having fracture reduction
BMJ  2006;332, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.0-e [Full text]186 [PDF]41  

Middle East perspectives: Call for papers
Christiane Rehwagen, Tessa Richards
BMJ  2006;332:818, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.818 [Full text]468 [PDF]45 [extra: Questions]42 FREE  

A memorable patient: When a medical qualification is not good enough
Guy Houghton
BMJ  2006;332:827, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.827 [Full text]777 [PDF]53  

Concealment is power
Walter Loebl
BMJ  2006;332:832, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.832 [Full text]432 [PDF]36  

Do it yourself thermotherapy
Jacqueline Buijs, Rinske Boersma
BMJ  2006;332:841, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.841 [Full text]420 [PDF]34  

A memorable patient: A rank offence
G Narayan
BMJ  2006;332:851, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.851 [Full text]587 [PDF]43  

Advice
BMJ  2006;332:856, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.856-a [Full text]153  

Corrections

No clear evidence for countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets
BMJ  2006;332:837, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.837-a [Full text]220 [PDF]92 FREE  

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