Keep politics out of it
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.0-h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Use a score to predict risks of stable angina [Full text] FREE

	Angiotensin receptor blockers don't seem to increase risk of MI [Full text] FREE

	Pre-eclampsia recurs across generations [Full text] FREE

	Complementary medicine in the UK seems cost effective [Full text] FREE

	Left handed women are at higher risk of breast cancer [Full text] FREE

	One question improves diagnosing depression in primary care [Full text] FREE

	How to use indirect evidence on multiple treatments [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Tackling health inequalities in the enlarged European Union
	Ilona Koupil
	BMJ  2005;331:855-856, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.855 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Complementary therapies and the NHS
	Trevor Thompson, Gene Feder
	BMJ  2005;331:856-857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.856 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references] FREE

	Keeping healthy on a minimum wage
	Christopher Deeming
	BMJ  2005;331:857-858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.857 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Services for liver disease in the United Kingdom
	Roger Williams
	BMJ  2005;331:858-859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.858 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ASCOT: a tale of two treatment regimens
	Claire McDougall, Adrian J B Brady, John R Petrie
	BMJ  2005;331:859-860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.859 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 - w12] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Health in Africa: Time to wake up to cancer's toll
	Scott A Murray, Elizabeth Grant, Faith Mwangi-Powell
	BMJ  2005;331:904, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.904 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health in Africa: British mental health trust twins with psychiatric service in Sierra Leone
	Shaun Collins
	BMJ  2005;331:904, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.904-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health in Africa: In Taiwan, taking action on road safety made a difference
	Min-Huei Hsu, Yu-Chuan Li, Wen-Ta Chiu
	BMJ  2005;331:904, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.904-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health in Africa: It's time for good guidelines on health financing practice
	Douglas E Ball
	BMJ  2005;331:904-905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.904-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health in Africa: Let's learn from the success stories from other poor countries...
	Saroj Jayasinghe
	BMJ  2005;331:905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.905 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health in Africa: ...and get back to basics
	Albert M E Coleman
	BMJ  2005;331:905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.905-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health in Africa: Medical brain drain is a consequence of bad policy
	Gbola O Sangosanya
	BMJ  2005;331:905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.905-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Insulin pumps: more consultation was needed
	Andrew J Palmer, Daniel M D Tucker, Joshua A Ray, William J Valentine, Craig Currie, Phil McEwan, Michael Brändle
	BMJ  2005;331:905-906, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.905-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Data need to be accurate when screening for depression in teenagers
	Joan McClusky
	BMJ  2005;331:906, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.906 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Europe in transition: Biomedical research from eastern Europe may be under-represented
	Vasiliy Vlassov
	BMJ  2005;331:906, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.906-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Europe in transition: Dietary fat is not the villain
	Uffe Ravnskov
	BMJ  2005;331:906-907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.906-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Europe in transition: HIV risk environment in Hungary is different from that in Russia and west Balkan states
	József Rácz
	BMJ  2005;331:907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.907 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Europe in transition: Summary of webchat
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2005;331:907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.907-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ignore fairy tales when campaigning for NHS reform
	Stephen I Black
	BMJ  2005;331:907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.907-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Battle against poverty hampered by sex discrimination
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.861 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Another FDA expert resigns over emergency contraception delay
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.861-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.862 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	More than half of smokers go on smoking after coronary events
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;331:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.862-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Payment by results could destabilise the NHS
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  2005;331:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.862-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Joffe will amend role for doctors in new bill on assisted dying
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2005;331:863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.863 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	When other faces fade, Berlusconi's lives on
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2005;331:863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.863-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Mr Buckley's exploding trousers and other scientific observations
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;331:865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.865-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Muslim chaplain speaks out over Guantanamo hunger strike
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:866, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.866 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Funding in Africa is concentrating too heavily on the "big three"
	Klaus Morales
	BMJ  2005;331:866, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.866-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Women with early breast cancer to be tested for trastuzumab treatment
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.864 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Cervical cancer jab "in a year"
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.864-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Uncoordinated aid efforts after earthquake could result in duplication, WHO warns
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;331:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.864-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Europe must coordinate its response to common health threats
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2005;331:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.864-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Foundation trusts argue they really do make a difference
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.864-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	UK bodies give £100m for academic medical training
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.865 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Researcher cleared of misconduct charges
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;331:865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.865-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Doctors face GMC over failure to spot overdose in Shipman patient
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.865-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Stress and pressure to blame for doctors' poor performance
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2005;331:866, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.866-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Quarter of consultant psychiatric posts in Wales are vacant
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:866, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.866-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Short cuts

This week's Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;331:867-868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.867 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Risk score for predicting death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in patients with stable angina, based on a large randomised trial cohort of patients
	Tim C Clayton, Jacobus Lubsen, Stuart J Pocock, Zoltán Vokó, Bridget-Anne Kirwan, Keith A A Fox, Philip A Poole-Wilson, on behalf of the ACTION investigators
	BMJ  2005;331:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38603.656076.63, (Published 6 October 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Examples] FREE

	Commentary: Can risk score models help in reducing serious outcome events in patients with stable angina?
	Christian Juhl Terkelsen, Werner Vach
	BMJ  2005;331:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38607.495405.55, (Published 6 October 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Angiotensin receptor blockers and risk of myocardial infarction: systematic review
	Michael A McDonald, Scot H Simpson, Justin A Ezekowitz, Gabor Gyenes, Ross T Tsuyuki
	BMJ  2005;331:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38595.518542.3A, (Published 23 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Recurrence of pre-eclampsia across generations: exploring fetal and maternal genetic components in a population based cohort
	Rolv Skjærven, Lars J Vatten, Allen J Wilcox, Thorbjørn Rønning, Lorentz M Irgens, Rolv Terje Lie
	BMJ  2005;331:877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38555.462685.8F, (Published 16 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness of complementary treatments in the United Kingdom: systematic review
	Peter H Canter, Joanna Thompson Coon, Edzard Ernst
	BMJ  2005;331:880-881, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38625.575903.79 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Methodological details] FREE

	Innate left handedness and risk of breast cancer: case-cohort study
	Made K Ramadhani, Sjoerd G Elias, Paulus A H van Noord, Diederick E Grobbee, Petra H M Peeters, Cuno S P M Uiterwaal
	BMJ  2005;331:882-883, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38572.440359.AE, (Published 26 September 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Effect of the addition of a "help" question to two screening questions on specificity for diagnosis of depression in general practice: diagnostic validity study
	B Arroll, F Goodyear-Smith, N Kerse, T Fishman, J Gunn
	BMJ  2005;331:884, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38607.464537.7C, (Published 15 September 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	The patient's journey: rheumatoid arthritis
	Carol Simpson, Chloe Franks, Catherine Morrison, Heidi Lempp
	BMJ  2005;331:887-889, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.887 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Contact details] FREE

	Lesson of the week: Hyperamylasaemia: not the usual suspects
	Rajeev Srivastava, Callum Fraser, Douglas Gentleman, Lynne A Jamieson, Michael J Murphy
	BMJ  2005;331:890-891, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.890 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of health informatics: How computers can help to share understanding with patients
	Frank Sullivan, Jeremy C Wyatt
	BMJ  2005;331:892-894, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.892 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Disappointing biotech
	Roberta Joppi, Vittorio Bertele', Silvio Garattini
	BMJ  2005;331:895-897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.895 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Simultaneous comparison of multiple treatments: combining direct and indirect evidence
	Deborah M Caldwell, A E Ades, J P T Higgins
	BMJ  2005;331:897-900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.897 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Towards evidence based bioethics
	Scott D Halpern
	BMJ  2005;331:901-903, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.901 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Statistics Notes: Standard deviations and standard errors
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  2005;331:903, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.903 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Li Shu Pui
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2005;331:908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.908 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Brian Creamer
	Richard Thompson
	BMJ  2005;331:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.909 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Allan Cameron Maclachlan
	David Maclachlan
	BMJ  2005;331:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.909-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	David Martin
	W F G Fiddes
	BMJ  2005;331:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.909-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Lyn Thomas Rees
	Judy Rees
	BMJ  2005;331:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.909-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Hector Maconochie Urquhart
	David Urquhart
	BMJ  2005;331:909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.909-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Book: A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London, volume four (1948-1983)
	Roger Cooter
	BMJ  2005;331:910, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.910 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed
	Lesley Morrison
	BMJ  2005;331:911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.911 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Art: LimeLight
	Bruno Rushforth
	BMJ  2005;331:911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.911-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Why Kenneth Clarke is unfit to be Tory leader
	Mike Daube
	BMJ  2005;331:912, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.912 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Hunger striking prisoners: the doctors' dilemma
	Bernadette Gregory
	BMJ  2005;331:913, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.913 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: The flagon... with the dragon
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2005;331:913, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.913-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:914, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.914 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Low dose aspirin doesn't lower women's cancer risk
	BMJ  2005;331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What colour-mari are your stools?
	Erle C H Lim, Raymond C S Seet, Benjamin K C Ong, Vernon M S Oh
	BMJ  2005;331:881, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.881 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: The "sum" of my fears
	Ajit Singh Kashyap, Kuldip Parkash Anand
	BMJ  2005;331:883, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.883 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: We are mad
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2005;331:886, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.886 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Centenary of first successful human transplant
	Martin Terplan
	BMJ  2005;331:891, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.891 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One hundred years ago: Bedside books
	BMJ  2005;331:894, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.894 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms: single centre randomised controlled trial
	BMJ  2005;331:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.876 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Midlife obesity increases risk of future dementia
	BMJ  2005;331:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.876-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of amount of biomedical research originating from the European Union and the United States
	BMJ  2005;331:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.876-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BMJ USA

This week's BMJ USA

	Editor's choice: Beyond clinical evidence
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2005;331:E383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.E383 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editorial: Left behind
	David Atkins, Ernest M Moy
	BMJ  2005;331:E384-E385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.E384 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: A memorable patient
	M. Gerard Baggot
	BMJ  2005;331:E386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.E386 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: Colin
	Peter S Greene
	BMJ  2005;331:E387, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.E387 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction:
	BMJ  2005;331:E387, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.E387-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION
	BMJ  2005;331:E388, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.E388 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	For and against: Which drugs cause cancer? • Cancer bioassays
	Andrew Knight, Jarrod Bailey, Jonathan Balcombe, William H Farland, Bruce Rodan, Peter Preuss
	BMJ  2005;331:E389-E391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.E389 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A patient who changed my practice: A gnashing of teeth
	Jonathan Stacey
	BMJ  2005;331:E391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.E391