14 July 2001 (Vol 323, Issue 7304)

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This Week In the BMJ

Remember nephrogenic diabetes insipidus in acute surgical patients taking lithium

BMJ 2001;323:0.5 (Published 14 July 2001)

Disclosure does not improve somatisation in primary care

BMJ 2001;323:0.6 (Published 14 July 2001)

Helicobacter pylori testing is useful only in high risk patients

BMJ 2001;323:0.3 (Published 14 July 2001)

Lower osmolarity oral rehydration solution is better than WHO solution

BMJ 2001;323:0.7 (Published 14 July 2001)

A new scoring system determines risk of cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2001;323:0.4 (Published 14 July 2001)

Editorials

A better oral rehydration solution?

BMJ 2001;323:59 (Published 14 July 2001)

Umbilical cord blood banks in the UK

BMJ 2001;323:60 (Published 14 July 2001)

Bridging the quality chasm

BMJ 2001;323:61 (Published 14 July 2001)

Prevention of type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2001;323:63 (Published 14 July 2001)

Wanted: a social contract for the practice of medicine

BMJ 2001;323:64 (Published 14 July 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

NHS database of reference costs is severely flawed

BMJ 2001;323:106.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Approach to surgery in United Kingdom should be shaken up

BMJ 2001;323:106.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Stakeholder health insurance

BMJ 2001;323:107 (Published 14 July 2001)

Warning to GMC

BMJ 2001;323:108.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Rights involve responsibilities for patients

BMJ 2001;323:108.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Human papillomavirus testing

BMJ 2001;323:109.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

The People's Health Assembly

BMJ 2001;323:109.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Peer led programme for asthma education in adolescents

BMJ 2001;323:110 (Published 14 July 2001)

Alcohol and drug services have been patient centred for years

BMJ 2001;323:111.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Minimal refereeing will lead to global equity of information

BMJ 2001;323:111.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Study should have reported more data about associated diseases

BMJ 2001;323:112.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Epidemiological surveillance of rubella must continue

BMJ 2001;323:112.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

News

Deal allows developing countries free access to journals

BMJ 2001;323:65.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Eli Lilly violates patients' privacy

BMJ 2001;323:65.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

UK considers new compensation plan for NHS

BMJ 2001;323:66.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

US surgeons implant new artificial heart

BMJ 2001;323:66.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

News - continued

In brief

BMJ 2001;323:66.3 (Published 14 July 2001)

Specialists question effectiveness of sex selection technique

BMJ 2001;323:67.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Doctors may be able to detect Down's syndrome during IVF

BMJ 2001;323:67.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

BMA remains concerned about GMC structure

BMJ 2001;323:69.4 (Published 14 July 2001)

Revalidation proposals will waste time

BMJ 2001;323:70.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

BMA president warns doctors not to take public esteem for granted

BMJ 2001;323:70.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

BMA supports GPs' quest for new contract

BMJ 2001;323:70.3 (Published 14 July 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Endometriosis

BMJ 2001;323:93 (Published 14 July 2001)

Unsuspected nephrogenic diabetes insipidus

BMJ 2001;323:96.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2001;323:118 (Published 14 July 2001)

Editor's Choice

Health information for the developing world: from desert to garden

BMJ 2001;323:0.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Health information for the developing world: from desert to garden

BMJ 2001;323:0.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Vaginal delivery after caesarean section triples risk of uterine rupture

BMJ 2001;323:68.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Cancer plan for Scotland will cost £40m

BMJ 2001;323:68.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Canada legalises the medical use of cannabis

BMJ 2001;323:68.3 (Published 14 July 2001)

Tamoxifen may increase the risk of later tumours being more aggressive

BMJ 2001;323:68.4 (Published 14 July 2001)

A third of 18-19 year olds use the emergency pill

BMJ 2001;323:68.5 (Published 14 July 2001)

Funding formula based on health needs planned for Wales

BMJ 2001;323:69.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Doctor testifies to China's reuse of prisoners' organs

BMJ 2001;323:69.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

US researchers guilty of breaking safety rules

BMJ 2001;323:69.3 (Published 14 July 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Germany forced to tackle high death rates from breast cancer

BMJ 2001;323:70.4 (Published 14 July 2001)

Dutch government plans to reform health insurance system

BMJ 2001;323:70.5 (Published 14 July 2001)

Football World Cup is to be tobacco free

BMJ 2001;323:70.6 (Published 14 July 2001)

Visits to the country pose biggest risk of E coli infection

BMJ 2001;323:70.7 (Published 14 July 2001)

Irish ombudsman chides doctors on poor record keeping

BMJ 2001;323:70.8 (Published 14 July 2001)

Doctors want to keep their review body

BMJ 2001;323:70.9 (Published 14 July 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web] - continued

BMA wants action against violence in NHS

BMJ 2001;323:70.10 (Published 14 July 2001)

BMA calls for action on “drug driving”

BMJ 2001;323:70.11 (Published 14 July 2001)

Papers

Testing for Helicobacter pylori in dyspeptic patients suspected of peptic ulcer disease in primary care: cross sectional study

BMJ 2001;323:71 (Published 14 July 2001)

A score for predicting risk of death from cardiovascular disease in adults with raised blood pressure, based on individual patient data from randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2001;323:75 (Published 14 July 2001)

Reduced osmolarity oral rehydration solution for treating dehydration due to diarrhoea in children: systematic review

BMJ 2001;323:81 (Published 14 July 2001)

Neonatal convulsions after withdrawal of baclofen

BMJ 2001;323:85.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Primary care

Randomised controlled trial of disclosure of emotionally important events in somatisation in primary care

BMJ 2001;323:86 (Published 14 July 2001)

Can primary care groups and trusts improve health?

BMJ 2001;323:89 (Published 14 July 2001)

Education and debate

Oxygen treatment for acute severe asthma

BMJ 2001;323:98 (Published 14 July 2001)

Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases in meta-analysis

BMJ 2001;323:101 (Published 14 July 2001)

Books

Suicide: An Unnecessary Death

BMJ 2001;323:114.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Women and Schizophrenia; Women and Mental Health

BMJ 2001;323:114.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America

BMJ 2001;323:115.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug

BMJ 2001;323:115.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

TV

Bringing up baby

BMJ 2001;323:116.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Systematic reviews and the Cochrane Collaboration

BMJ 2001;323:116.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Personal View

Conversations, observations, and exclamation

BMJ 2001;323:117.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Soundings

Learning in boxes

BMJ 2001;323:117.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Fillers

Pleasures

BMJ 2001;323:85.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Summer attire

BMJ 2001;323:96.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Laudanum in Lakeland

BMJ 2001;323:100.1 (Published 14 July 2001)

Trouble with life

BMJ 2001;323:100.2 (Published 14 July 2001)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Robin John AndrewsRowland Nicholas HillErnest Edward SpenceJames StratonAnthony de Toszeghi

BMJ 2001;323:113 (Published 14 July 2001)