20 August 2005(vol 331, issue 7514)

This Week In the BMJ

• Mobile phones increase risk of having a road crash

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-a (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Cognitive behaviour therapy reduces symptom severity of irritable bowel syndrome

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-c (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Studies that find publication bias are no more likely to be published than studies that don't

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-d (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Telephone education reduces readmission for chronic heart failure

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Black people are more likely to survive a stroke than white people

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-b (Published 18 August 2005)

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Editor's Choice

• Let's call it cardiac impairment

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-f (Published 18 August 2005)

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Editorials

• H5N1 influenza and the implications for Europe

  BMJ 2005; 331 :413 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Survival after stroke in south London

  BMJ 2005; 331 :414 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Cardiac impairment or heart failure?

  BMJ 2005; 331 :415 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Preventing severe infection after splenectomy

  BMJ 2005; 331 :417 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Medical needs of immigrant populations

  BMJ 2005; 331 :418 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Letters

• Prognosis in obesity: Older people should not be misinformed about being overweight

  BMJ 2005; 331 :452 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Prognosis in obesity: Obstacles must be removed to prevent obesity through increased physical activity

  BMJ 2005; 331 :452 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Prognosis in obesity: Obesity in severe mental illness poses particular problems

  BMJ 2005; 331 :452 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Prognosis in obesity: Author's reply

  BMJ 2005; 331 :453 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

  BMJ 2005; 331 :453 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: Early feeding is crucial target for preventing obesity in children

  BMJ 2005; 331 :453 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: Authors' reply

  BMJ 2005; 331 :454 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Problem is probably greater for women

  BMJ 2005; 331 :454 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Dietary fat and sugar may hold the clue

  BMJ 2005; 331 :454 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Midlife obesity increases risk of future dementia

  BMJ 2005; 331 :455 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: Authors' reply

  BMJ 2005; 331 :455 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Include measurement of waist circumference in GP contract

  BMJ 2005; 331 :455 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Audit is important part of drug safety and regulation

  BMJ 2005; 331 :456 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Dissemination of results needs to be tracked as well as the funding is

  BMJ 2005; 331 :456 (Published 18 August 2005)

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News

• Disparities in health widen between rich and poor in England

  BMJ 2005; 331 :419 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2005; 331 :420 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Charity challenges US “anti-prostitution” restriction

  BMJ 2005; 331 :420 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• US drug industry's guidelines on advertising too limited, say critics

  BMJ 2005; 331 :420 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• UK government responds to call for change in reproduction technology

  BMJ 2005; 331 :421 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Reading the bones

  BMJ 2005; 331 :421 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Aid agencies ignored special needs of elderly people after tsunami

  BMJ 2005; 331 :422 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Agencies scale up African relief

  BMJ 2005; 331 :422 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Short cuts

• What's new in the other general journals

  BMJ 2005; 331 :423 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Clinical Reviews

• Should a patient with primary intracerebral haemorrhage receive antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy?

  BMJ 2005; 331 :439 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Prevalence

  BMJ 2005; 331 :443 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Minerva

• Minerva

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• US group lobbies UN to outlaw male circumcision

  BMJ 2005; 331 :422 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Canada tries once more to set public health goals

  BMJ 2005; 331 :422 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• US groups set standards of outpatient care

  BMJ 2005; 331 :422 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• UK sperm banks fail to meet WHO standards

  BMJ 2005; 331 :422 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Indian Supreme Court ruling makes arrest of doctors harder

  BMJ 2005; 331 :422 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• WHO conference calls for health promotion to be at centre of development

  BMJ 2005; 331 :422 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Risk of death from heart attack varies according to when patients arrive at hospital, study finds

  BMJ 2005; 331 :422 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Papers

• Randomised trial of telephone intervention in chronic heart failure: DIAL trial

  BMJ 2005; 331 :425 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Role of mobile phones in motor vehicle crashes resulting in hospital attendance: a case-crossover study

  BMJ 2005; 331 :428 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Survival differences after stroke in a multiethnic population: follow-up study with the south London stroke register

  BMJ 2005; 331 :431 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias

  BMJ 2005; 331 :433 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Primary care

• Cognitive behaviour therapy in addition to antispasmodic treatment for irritable bowel syndrome in primary care: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2005; 331 :435 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Red eye

  BMJ 2005; 331 :438 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Education and debate

• Need for differential discounting of costs and health effects in cost effectiveness analyses

  BMJ 2005; 331 :446 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Malpractice in Mexico: arbitration not litigation

  BMJ 2005; 331 :448 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Reviews

• Hearwear: The Future of Hearing

  BMJ 2005; 331 :459 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative; Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market

  BMJ 2005; 331 :460 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Press red button, donate kidney

  BMJ 2005; 331 :461 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• The Constant Gardener

  BMJ 2005; 331 :462 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Hit parade

  BMJ 2005; 331 :462 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• The finger, the foot, my bone cancer

  BMJ 2005; 331 :463 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Looking sideways

  BMJ 2005; 331 :463 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Fillers

• Antibiotics aren't needed for lower respiratory tract infection

  BMJ 2005; 331 :0-e (Published 18 August 2005)

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• A case of mouth in foot disease

  BMJ 2005; 331 :427 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• A memorable doctor

  BMJ 2005; 331 :434 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Corrections

• Hajj: journey of a lifetime

  BMJ 2005; 331 :442 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Researcher fined for shredding records

  BMJ 2005; 331 :442 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• UK stops short of outright smoking ban in enclosed public places

  BMJ 2005; 331 :442 (Published 18 August 2005)

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Obituaries

• Paddy Donaldson

  BMJ 2005; 331 :457 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• William Guy Daynes

  BMJ 2005; 331 :457 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Anthony Brendan Field

  BMJ 2005; 331 :458 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Kenneth Edward Gray

  BMJ 2005; 331 :458 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Michael John Grayson

  BMJ 2005; 331 :458 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Eric Kurt Ledermann

  BMJ 2005; 331 :458 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• John Leslie

  BMJ 2005; 331 :458 (Published 18 August 2005)

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• Freda Susanne Reed

  BMJ 2005; 331 :458 (Published 18 August 2005)

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