09 April 2005(vol 330, issue 7495)

This Week In the BMJ

• Amsterdam improves on AIDS prophylaxis and follow-up

  BMJ 2005; 330 :0-d (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Folic acid may not increase twinning

  BMJ 2005; 330 :0-b (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Test for M component in patients suspected of having osteoporosis

  BMJ 2005; 330 :0-a (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Take part in our interactive case report

  BMJ 2005; 330 :0-e (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Learn to allocate by minimisation

  BMJ 2005; 330 :0-c (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Passive smoking may kill 30 people a day in the UK

  BMJ 2005; 330 :0 (Published 07 April 2005)

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Editor's Choice

• A good death, or a public one?

  BMJ 2005; 330 :0-g (Published 07 April 2005)

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Editorials

• “Right to die”

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• Managing depression in primary care

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• Aortic stenosis

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• Long term sickness absence

  BMJ 2005; 330 :802 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• New professional roles in surgery

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Letters

• Non-specific effects of vaccination

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• Non-specific effects of vaccination

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• Non-specific effects of vaccination

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• Non-specific effects of vaccination

  BMJ 2005; 330 :845 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• DTP in low income countries: improved child survival or survival bias?

  BMJ 2005; 330 :845 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Phenobarbital for epilepsy: much is still to be learnt

  BMJ 2005; 330 :846 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Use of chaperones in general practice

  BMJ 2005; 330 :846 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Use of chaperones in general practice

  BMJ 2005; 330 :846 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Ethics and research governance in a multicentre study: add 150 days to your study protocol

  BMJ 2005; 330 :847 (Published 07 April 2005)

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News

• NHS criticised for lax control over drugs industry

  BMJ 2005; 330 :805 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Two drug firms advertised to patients

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• In brief

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• 23% of babies in England are delivered by caesarean section

  BMJ 2005; 330 :806 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Government pledges £2.5m for academic medicine

  BMJ 2005; 330 :806 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Assisted dying legislation must wait until after UK election

  BMJ 2005; 330 :807 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Africans send their messages to G8 leaders

  BMJ 2005; 330 :807 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Global ecological disaster predicted in next 50 years

  BMJ 2005; 330 :809 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Taking a collaborative approach to research

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Short cuts

• What's new in the other general journals

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Clinical Reviews

• Necrotising fasciitis

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• Postoperative hypoxia in a woman with Down's syndrome: case presentation

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• Common mental health problems

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Minerva

• Minerva

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Sex inequalities in health care need tackling

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• International community has failed Sudan

  BMJ 2005; 330 :808 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• UK cancer survival rates are no worse than rest of Europe

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• Commission rejects mass genetic screening at birth

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• US scheme prevents some hospital admissions

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• Radiation for prostate cancer increases risk of rectal cancer

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• Young people who binge drink are likely to continue into adulthood

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Cognitive therapy is as good as drugs for depression

  BMJ 2005; 330 :810 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Surgeons' ties to device manufacturers under investigation

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Papers

• Estimate of deaths attributable to passive smoking among UK adults: database analysis

  BMJ 2005; 330 :812 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Impact of misclassification of in vitro fertilisation in studies of folic acid and twinning: modelling using population based Swedish vital records

  BMJ 2005; 330 :815 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Utility of testing for monoclonal bands in serum of patients with suspected osteoporosis: retrospective, cross sectional study

  BMJ 2005; 330 :818 (Published 07 April 2005)

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Primary care

• Statin use in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary care: cohort study and comparison of inclusion and outcome with patients in randomised trials

  BMJ 2005; 330 :821 (Published 07 April 2005)

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Quality Improvement Report

• Prophylaxis and follow-up after possible exposure to HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus outside hospital: evaluation of policy 2000-3

  BMJ 2005; 330 :825 (Published 07 April 2005)

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Education and debate

• Managing common mental health disorders in primary care: conceptual models and evidence base

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• Treatment allocation by minimisation

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Reviews

• Illness as media spectacle

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• Life before Birth

  BMJ 2005; 330 :851 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• HIV in Primary Care

  BMJ 2005; 330 :851 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Why fund smoking cessation programmes in prisons?

  BMJ 2005; 330 :852 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Drug taking in prisons: the inside story

  BMJ 2005; 330 :853 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• No sweet surrender

  BMJ 2005; 330 :853 (Published 07 April 2005)

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Fillers

• Trial of labour carries small but real increase in risk

  BMJ 2005; 330 :0-f (Published 07 April 2005)

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• In the bad old days

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• Blended learning

  BMJ 2005; 330 :829 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Not old

  BMJ 2005; 330 :833 (Published 07 April 2005)

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• Submitting articles to the BMJ

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• My most informative mistake

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• An interesting patient

  BMJ 2005; 330 :842 (Published 07 April 2005)

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Corrections

• Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals

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• Cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial

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Obituaries

• Jeremy Neil Anderson

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• John Alan Pollock

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• Philip Harvey

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• Isaac Ovenseri (“Ovens”) Iredia

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• James McIvor

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• Peter Stuart

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