Editor's choice: Evidence not ideology
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.0-h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Postcards can save lives [Full text] FREE

	Optimal therapy after kidney transplantation varies [Full text] FREE

	"Me-too" drugs drive the rise in drug expenditure [Full text] FREE

	Safer homes may cut falls in elderly people with poor vision [Full text] FREE

	Pioglitazone may not reduce macrovascular events [Full text] FREE

	UK drug regulatory body describes attempts to ensure independence [Full text] FREE

	Adequate dietary folate may reduce alcohol related breast cancer [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians
	Ciaran Simms, Desmond O'Neill
	BMJ  2005;331:787-788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.787 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references] FREE

	Do get in touch
	Simon Hatcher, David Owens
	BMJ  2005;331:788-789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.788 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	An adequate margin of excision in ductal carcinoma in situ
	Malcolm R Kell, Monica Morrow
	BMJ  2005;331:789-790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.789 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ensuring medical students are "fit for purpose"
	Val Wass
	BMJ  2005;331:791-792, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.791 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is the private finance initiative dead?
	Rifat A Atun, Martin McKee
	BMJ  2005;331:792-793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.792 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Staphylococcus aureus, Panton-Valentine leukocidin, and necrotising pneumonia
	Marina Morgan
	BMJ  2005;331:793-794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.793 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: RCGP is not neutral: it opposes a change in legislation
	Mayur K Lakhani
	BMJ  2005;331:841, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.841 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: Response from the Association for Palliative Medicine
	David I Jeffrey
	BMJ  2005;331:841, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.841-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: BMA should take an active role, whatever that may be
	Michael G Peckitt
	BMJ  2005;331:841, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.841-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: What autonomy really means
	Charles A Foster
	BMJ  2005;331:841-842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.841-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: Do we make decisions by our feelings or the truth?
	Anne M H Williams
	BMJ  2005;331:842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.842 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: No, thank you
	Thomas H Emmett
	BMJ  2005;331:842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.842-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: Recruiting more vulnerable doctors may be the answer
	Anne Tynan
	BMJ  2005;331:842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.842-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: Use of Baxter products in figure for physician assisted suicide was inappropriate
	Mark Baxter
	BMJ  2005;331:842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.842-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: Doctors cannot simultaneously be patient centred and reject assisted suicide
	Hazel Smith, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2005;331:842-843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.842-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to legalise assisted dying?: Summary of responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2005;331:843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.843 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	LIFT study to continue as planned
	Diederick E Grobbee
	BMJ  2005;331:843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.843-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of LIFT Committee members] FREE

	Capacity building in collaborative research is essential
	Prem K Mony, Anura Kurpad, Mario Vaz
	BMJ  2005;331:843-844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.843-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Bridging the equity gap in maternal and child health: Health systems research is needed to improve implementation
	Øystein E Olsen
	BMJ  2005;331:844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.844 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Bridging the equity gap in maternal and child health: Lay health workers may help bridge equity gap in maternal and child health
	Simon Lewin
	BMJ  2005;331:844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.844-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sarcomas and specialism
	Peter J Mahaffey
	BMJ  2005;331:844-845, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.844-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Working time directive shift patterns may improve care
	J F Cosgrove, D Saunders, A Terblanche, S Bolton, C Snowden
	BMJ  2005;331:845, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.845 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Which career first?: Women remain caught in dilemma
	Antje Lindenmeyer
	BMJ  2005;331:846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.846 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Which career first?: Skewed argument should be put to bed
	Kathleen Sullivan
	BMJ  2005;331:846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.846-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Which career first?: Women don't want it all, but they may want children
	Ray Noble
	BMJ  2005;331:846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.846-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Which career first?: Financial and social reasons should have been taken into account
	Lindsey C Harris
	BMJ  2005;331:846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.846-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Which career first?: Economic perspective on later pregnancy is positive
	Timothy D Heymann
	BMJ  2005;331:846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.846-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Nobel prize is awarded to doctors who discovered H pylori
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2005;331:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.795 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Alternative therapies could save the NHS money, says report commissioned by Prince Charles
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.795-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.796 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	UN appoints official to combat threat from avian flu
	Paul Ress
	BMJ  2005;331:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.796-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	WHO confirms four human cases of avian flu in Indonesia
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2005;331:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.796-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Labour party will continue use of private contractors in the NHS
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2005;331:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.797 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	NHS trust plans to cut consultant posts to make savings
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.797-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Independent centres threaten training
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.797-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Treatment for colorectal cancer should be based on genetic analysis
	Claire Laurent
	BMJ  2005;331:799, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.799-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Do GPs deserve their recent pay rise?
	Nicholas Timmins
	BMJ  2005;331:800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.800 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Trusts should cut workload of senior physicians to retain them
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2005;331:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.798 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	US lawsuit challenges teaching on evolution
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;331:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.798-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	WHO calls for 2% reduction a year in chronic disease mortality
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2005;331:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.798-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Study of 100 000 children is due to start next year
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2005;331:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.798-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Surgeons perform Germany's first crossover kidney transplantation
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2005;331:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.798-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Service outlines plan to help suspended doctors back to work
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2005;331:799, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.799 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Surgery patients in Northern Ireland are still waiting too long, MPs say
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:799, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.799-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	South African foundation is accused of "compromising" care of people with HIV and AIDS
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2005;331:800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.800-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cholera outbreaks in west Africa kill more than 700
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2005;331:800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.800-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	EU tightens rules on blood safety
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2005;331:800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.800-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Nearly half of patients with migraine with aura are found to have a heart defect, study finds
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.800-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Short cuts

This week's Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;331:801-802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.801 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Postcards from the EDge project: randomised controlled trial of an intervention using postcards to reduce repetition of hospital treated deliberate self poisoning
	Gregory L Carter, Kerrie Clover, Ian M Whyte, Andrew H Dawson, Catherine D'Este
	BMJ  2005;331:805, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38579.455266.E0, (Published 23 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Post card] FREE

	Does dietary folate intake modify effect of alcohol consumption on breast cancer risk? Prospective cohort study
	Laura Baglietto, Dallas R English, Dorota M Gertig, John L Hopper, Graham G Giles
	BMJ  2005;331:807, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38551.446470.06, (Published 8 August 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Tacrolimus versus ciclosporin as primary immunosuppression for kidney transplant recipients: meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomised trial data
	Angela C Webster, Rebecca C Woodroffe, Rod S Taylor, Jeremy R Chapman, Jonathan C Craig
	BMJ  2005;331:810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38569.471007.AE, (Published 12 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	"Breakthrough" drugs and growth in expenditure on prescription drugs in Canada
	Steven G Morgan, Kenneth L Bassett, James M Wright, Robert G Evans, Morris L Barer, Patricia A Caetano, Charlyn D Black
	BMJ  2005;331:815-816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38582.703866.AE, (Published 2 September 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	DRUG POINTS: Epirubicin for breast cancer may cause considerable venous sclerosis
	Paula Bolton-Maggs, Aileen Flavin
	BMJ  2005;331:816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38574.659225.79, (Published 9 September 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Dr Foster's case notes

This week's Dr Foster's case notes

	Trends in day surgery rates
	Paul Aylin, Susan Williams, Brian Jarman, Alex Bottle
	BMJ  2005;331:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.803 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

BMJ family highlights

This week's BMJ family highlights

	What's new this month in BMJ Journals
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2005;331:804, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.804 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Randomised controlled trial of prevention of falls in people aged 75 with severe visual impairment: the VIP trial
	A John Campbell, M Clare Robertson, Steven J La Grow, Ngaire M Kerse, Gordon F Sanderson, Robert J Jacobs, Dianne M Sharp, Leigh A Hale
	BMJ  2005;331:817, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38601.447731.55, (Published 23 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	How do elderly patients decide where to go for major surgery? Telephone interview survey
	Lisa M Schwartz, Steven Woloshin, John D Birkmeyer
	BMJ  2005;331:821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38614.449016.DE, (Published 28 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	The role of opioids in cancer pain
	Columba Quigley
	BMJ  2005;331:825-829, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.825 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lesson of the week: Osmotic demyelination syndrome
	Rachel Abbott, Eli Silber, Joerg Felber, Enefiok Ekpo
	BMJ  2005;331:829-830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.829 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of health informatics: How decision support tools help define clinical problems
	Frank Sullivan, Jeremy C Wyatt
	BMJ  2005;331:831-833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.831 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Medicines regulation and the pharmaceutical industry
	Alasdair Breckenridge, Kent Woods
	BMJ  2005;331:834-836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.834 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How well does the evidence on pioglitazone back up researchers' claims for a reduction in macrovascular events?
	Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  2005;331:836-838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.836 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	At the frontier of biomedical publication: Chicago 2005
	Kristina Fister
	BMJ  2005;331:838-840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.838 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Colin McEvedy
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;331:847, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.847 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Hugh Bannerman
	Vincent J Marmion
	BMJ  2005;331:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.848 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Tina Chan
	Philippa Groves
	BMJ  2005;331:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.848-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Richard Farrow
	Giles Maskell, Alan Freeman
	BMJ  2005;331:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.848-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Arthur Oliver Nixon Morris
	Geoffrey Morris
	BMJ  2005;331:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.848-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Andrew Douglas Scott
	Martin Schuster-Bruce, Colin Berry
	BMJ  2005;331:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.848-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	John David Williams
	Alasdair Geddes, Norman Simmons
	BMJ  2005;331:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.848-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Art: Disabled woman wins battle of Trafalgar
	John Quin
	BMJ  2005;331:849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.849 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Art: Coffins to die for
	Colin Martin
	BMJ  2005;331:850, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.850 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
	Raja A S Mukherjee
	BMJ  2005;331:850, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.850-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine. Volume 22
	Ian M Franklin
	BMJ  2005;331:851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.851 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
	John Alcolado
	BMJ  2005;331:851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.851-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2005;331:852, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.852 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Reforming the NHS in England
	Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  2005;331:852, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.852-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Bevan betrayed: the demise of the NHS
	Robert Lane, Alex Paton
	BMJ  2005;331:853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.853 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: Give reorganisation a chance
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2005;331:853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.853-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.854 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Dietary supplements for erectile dysfunction may contain sildenafil or tadalafil
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	When I use a word: Bottled lightning
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2005;331:824, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7520.824 [Extract]