03 September 2005(vol 331, issue 7515)

This Week In the BMJ

• Smoking ban proposed in the UK may worsen health inequalities

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-b (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Nurse led programmes don't improve COPD

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-c (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Hypertension can be monitored by patients

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-d (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Flocculant-disinfection gives best results in Kenya

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-a (Published 01 September 2005)

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• More melanomas are caught early in the US

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Systematic reviews should assess quality of RCT interventions

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-e (Published 01 September 2005)

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Editor's Choice

• Uncomfortable findings

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-g (Published 01 September 2005)

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Editorials

• Foundation programme for newly qualified doctors

  BMJ 2005; 331 :465 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Self monitoring of high blood pressure

  BMJ 2005; 331 :466 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Coronary heart disease in women

  BMJ 2005; 331 :467 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Clean drinking water for homes in Africa and other less developed countries

  BMJ 2005; 331 :468 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Avoiding rabies

  BMJ 2005; 331 :469 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Letters

• Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: New on-call rotas do not work

  BMJ 2005; 331 :514 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: No easy solution exists

  BMJ 2005; 331 :514 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: European directive seems not to apply to doctors' hours in rest of European Union

  BMJ 2005; 331 :514 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: Pendulum is still swinging

  BMJ 2005; 331 :514 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: “Weeks of nights” give the illusion of working fewer hours

  BMJ 2005; 331 :515 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation: Please make on-call rooms available to doctors at night

  BMJ 2005; 331 :515 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Hospital formularies restrict evidence based practice

  BMJ 2005; 331 :515 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Withdrawal of co-proxamol: Drug was useful in gastroenterology as well as rheumatology…

  BMJ 2005; 331 :515 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Withdrawal of co-proxamol: … and its withdrawal is illogical

  BMJ 2005; 331 :515 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Nothing counts except what is in front of the clinician to use

  BMJ 2005; 331 :516 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Clinicians are becoming increasingly more influential

  BMJ 2005; 331 :516 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Problems are inevitable but goal is worth while

  BMJ 2005; 331 :516 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Computerised medical history is key to connecting health

  BMJ 2005; 331 :516 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Obituary was historically inaccurate

  BMJ 2005; 331 :517 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Author's reply

  BMJ 2005; 331 :517 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Obituary of Hamilton Naki: Clarification is certainly needed

  BMJ 2005; 331 :517 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Richard Doll's socialism did not please everyone

  BMJ 2005; 331 :517 (Published 01 September 2005)

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News

• Merck faces ongoing claims after Texan ruling on rofecoxib

  BMJ 2005; 331 :471 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2005; 331 :472 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Parents of disabled baby lose appeal against court order

  BMJ 2005; 331 :472 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• US National Institutes of Health issue new ethics guidelines

  BMJ 2005; 331 :472 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• South African doctors arrested in kidney sale scandal

  BMJ 2005; 331 :473 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Dutch murder case leads to talks with attorney general

  BMJ 2005; 331 :473 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• BMA warns against unnecessary screening tests in private sector

  BMJ 2005; 331 :475 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Half a million Americans use methamphetamine every week

  BMJ 2005; 331 :476 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Chronic pain is poorly managed

  BMJ 2005; 331 :476 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Short cuts

• What's new in the other general journals

  BMJ 2005; 331 :477 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2005; 331 :478 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Clinical Reviews

• Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea: diagnosis and treatment

  BMJ 2005; 331 :498 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Paralytic rabies after a two week holiday in India

  BMJ 2005; 331 :501 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Methods of delivering drugs

  BMJ 2005; 331 :504 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Minerva

• Minerva

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Prison officers had no sign of Shipman's suicidal tendencies

  BMJ 2005; 331 :474 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• UN millennium health goals will not be achieved, report warns

  BMJ 2005; 331 :474 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• “Catastrophic” violence continues unchecked in Somalia

  BMJ 2005; 331 :474 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Canadian antismoking law is watered down

  BMJ 2005; 331 :474 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• GPs' diagnoses of type II diabetes rose by 50% in 10 years, study shows

  BMJ 2005; 331 :474 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Global Fund pulls grants to Myanmar and Uganda

  BMJ 2005; 331 :475 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Plans for genetic testing of German civil servants stirs controversy

  BMJ 2005; 331 :475 (Published 01 September 2005)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Floods in Darfur prompt precautions against epidemic

  BMJ 2005; 331 :476 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Results of publicly funded research should be available to all, says web creator

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Papers

• Skin biopsy rates and incidence of melanoma: population based ecological study

  BMJ 2005; 331 :481 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Effectiveness of innovations in nurse led chronic disease management for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review of evidence

  BMJ 2005; 331 :485 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• The partial smoking ban in licensed establishments and health inequalities in England: modelling study

  BMJ 2005; 331 :488 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Could a randomised trial answer the controversy relating to elective caesarean section? National survey of consultant obstetricians and heads of midwifery

  BMJ 2005; 331 :490 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Ten year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial of care in a stroke rehabilitation unit

  BMJ 2005; 331 :491 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Primary care

• Targets and self monitoring in hypertension: randomised controlled trial and cost effectiveness analysis

  BMJ 2005; 331 :493 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Childhood eczema

  BMJ 2005; 331 :497 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Education and debate

• Analysis of quality of interventions in systematic reviews

  BMJ 2005; 331 :507 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• International maternal health indicators and middle-income countries: Russia

  BMJ 2005; 331 :510 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Reviews

• Paternity: A Story of Assisted Conception; Double Trouble: A Story of Assisted Reproduction; Vacant Possession: A Story of Proxy Decision Making

  BMJ 2005; 331 :520 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• The Island

  BMJ 2005; 331 :521 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• League tables for health journalists

  BMJ 2005; 331 :521 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Netlines

  BMJ 2005; 331 :522 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Do we really know the law about students and patient consent?

  BMJ 2005; 331 :522 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Calling a spade a spade

  BMJ 2005; 331 :523 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• My pelvis and I

  BMJ 2005; 331 :523 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Fillers

• Vitamin E, donepezil don't slow progression of mild cognitive impairment

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-f (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Crying wolf

  BMJ 2005; 331 :484 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Speak clearly to the bogey man

  BMJ 2005; 331 :492 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Gluttonous friends

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• What a stroke

  BMJ 2005; 331 :513 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Corrections

• Short Cuts

  BMJ 2005; 331 :496 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• The future of health care in Africa

  BMJ 2005; 331 :496 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Editor's Choice

  BMJ 2005; 331 :496 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Hamilton Naki

  BMJ 2005; 331 :519 (Published 01 September 2005)

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Obituaries

• Alan Gilston

  BMJ 2005; 331 :518 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Walter Graham Harris

  BMJ 2005; 331 :519 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• David Sells Hurwood

  BMJ 2005; 331 :519 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Abubakar Ibrahim Kiwanuka

  BMJ 2005; 331 :519 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Elamin Elnour (“Amin”) Osman

  BMJ 2005; 331 :519 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Bernard Schlecht

  BMJ 2005; 331 :519 (Published 01 September 2005)

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• Dorothy Terry (née Halstead)

  BMJ 2005; 331 :519 (Published 01 September 2005)

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