11 May 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7346)

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Editor's Choice

Toxic complacency

BMJ 2002;324:0.11 (Published 11 May 2002)

News

Doctors warned to be wary of new drugs

BMJ 2002;324:1113.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Doctors accept $50 a time to listen to drug representatives

BMJ 2002;324:1113.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Car makers press Europe for voluntary agreement on safety

BMJ 2002;324:1114.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

WMA protests at claim that it planned to expel Israeli doctors

BMJ 2002;324:1114.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:1114.3 (Published 11 May 2002)

Pill claimants accuse defendants' witness of “cavalier” attitude

BMJ 2002;324:1115 (Published 11 May 2002)

How can road safety be improved? The BMJ asked four experts for their views

BMJ 2002;324:1116.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Poor quality data are major obstacle to improving road safety, says World Bank

BMJ 2002;324:1116.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Cyclists and pedestrians are sacrificed for the greater safety of motorists, says campaigner

BMJ 2002;324:1117.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Motor industry should introduce soft impact car bodies, says MP

BMJ 2002;324:1117.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Editorials

War on the roads

BMJ 2002;324:1107 (Published 11 May 2002)

Ensuring the safety of school age passengers

BMJ 2002;324:1108 (Published 11 May 2002)

Protecting pedestrians

BMJ 2002;324:1109 (Published 11 May 2002)

A new deal for road crash victims

BMJ 2002;324:1110 (Published 11 May 2002)

Flexible training under the new deal

BMJ 2002;324:1111 (Published 11 May 2002)

Discrimination in medicine

BMJ 2002;324:1112 (Published 11 May 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Road traffic injuries are a global public health problem

BMJ 2002;324:1153.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Increasing visibility of speed cameras might increase deaths and injuries on roads

BMJ 2002;324:1153.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

System of renewal of driving licences for elderly people needs overhauling

BMJ 2002;324:1154.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Controlled studies on reducing alcohol-impaired driving are being registered

BMJ 2002;324:1154.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Tired surgical trainees

BMJ 2002;324:1154.3 (Published 11 May 2002)

Breast screening guidelines should be adapted in Down's syndrome

BMJ 2002;324:1155.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Researching outcomes of educational interventions

BMJ 2002;324:1155.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Standards are needed for quality of life clinical trials

BMJ 2002;324:1156 (Published 11 May 2002)

Adherence to peak flow monitoring

BMJ 2002;324:1157.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Immunity conferred by smallpox vaccine

BMJ 2002;324:1157.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Over the counter cough medicines for acute cough

BMJ 2002;324:1158 (Published 11 May 2002)

Playing video games seems to have few serious acute adverse effects on health

BMJ 2002;324:1159.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Compliance is limited by opposing recommendations

BMJ 2002;324:1159.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Letters - continued

Making many small changes can result in quality improvement

BMJ 2002;324:1159.3 (Published 11 May 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Peter Ambrose Gardiner

BMJ 2002;324:1160.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Ruth Bowden

BMJ 2002;324:1160.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Debabrata Dutta

BMJ 2002;324:1160.3 (Published 11 May 2002)

Eileen Fyffe Gibb (née Baird)

BMJ 2002;324:1160.4 (Published 11 May 2002)

Harry Richardson Gray

BMJ 2002;324:1160.5 (Published 11 May 2002)

Alfred Gordon Hooker

BMJ 2002;324:1160.6 (Published 11 May 2002)

Israel (“Issy”) Kolvin

BMJ 2002;324:1160.7 (Published 11 May 2002)

Alasdair Miles Mackay

BMJ 2002;324:1160.8 (Published 11 May 2002)

Donald Angus MacLeod

BMJ 2002;324:1160.9 (Published 11 May 2002)

M G Sahadevan

BMJ 2002;324:1160.10 (Published 11 May 2002)

Theodore Edward Waine

BMJ 2002;324:1160.11 (Published 11 May 2002)

Clinical Review

Prehospital care for road traffic casualties

BMJ 2002;324:1135.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:1166 (Published 11 May 2002)

Fillers

A lie softly spoken

BMJ 2002;324:1122 (Published 11 May 2002)

The problem of the premature infant

BMJ 2002;324:1125.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

To waken an old lady

BMJ 2002;324:1135.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

An old friend returns in disguise

BMJ 2002;324:1141 (Published 11 May 2002)

Severall sorts of physitians

BMJ 2002;324:1145.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Dr John Annear

BMJ 2002;324:1152 (Published 11 May 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Are safer roads promoting risky driving?

BMJ 2002;324:0.10 (Published 11 May 2002)

Unintentional injury increases with deprivation

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 11 May 2002)

What to do at a crash scene

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 11 May 2002)

Sleepiness is associated with serious car crash injury

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 11 May 2002)

85% of crash deaths occur in the developing world

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 11 May 2002)

Seat belts are effective for children

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 11 May 2002)

Pop-up car bonnets can reduce pedestrian deaths

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 11 May 2002)

Children can learn to cross roads safely

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Traffic laws reduce crash deaths

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 11 May 2002)

Seat belts prevent more deaths than airbags

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

β blockers improve bypass surgery survival rates

BMJ 2002;324:1118.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Doctor who helped introduce MMR advises giving parents the choice of single vaccines

BMJ 2002;324:1118.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Medicare is likely to pay for anticancer drugs

BMJ 2002;324:1118.3 (Published 11 May 2002)

Broadcast of star's colonoscopy puts up screening by 20%

BMJ 2002;324:1118.4 (Published 11 May 2002)

Caesarean section rate in England reaches 22%

BMJ 2002;324:1118.5 (Published 11 May 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Scottish expert group finds no link between MMR and autism

BMJ 2002;324:1118.6 (Published 11 May 2002)

Drug misuse causes major problems for women in India

BMJ 2002;324:1118.7 (Published 11 May 2002)

Australia's public hospitals are under pressure as doctors transfer patients because of insurance crisis

BMJ 2002;324:1118.8 (Published 11 May 2002)

Papers

Association of driver air bags with driver fatality: a matched cohort study

BMJ 2002;324:1119 (Published 11 May 2002)

Are seat belt restraints as effective in school age children as in adults? A prospective crash study

BMJ 2002;324:1123 (Published 11 May 2002)

Driver sleepiness and risk of serious injury to car occupants: population based case control study

BMJ 2002;324:1125.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Safety education of pedestrians for injury prevention: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2002;324:1129 (Published 11 May 2002)

Primary care

Cross sectional survey of socioeconomic variations in severity and mechanism of childhood injuries in Trent 1992-7

BMJ 2002;324:1132 (Published 11 May 2002)

Education and debate

The neglected epidemic: road traffic injuries in developing countries

BMJ 2002;324:1139 (Published 11 May 2002)

Reducing motor vehicle crash deaths and injuries in newly motorising countries

BMJ 2002;324:1142 (Published 11 May 2002)

Designing road vehicles for pedestrian protection

BMJ 2002;324:1145.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

For and againstDoes risk homoeostasis theory have implications for road safetyForAgainst

BMJ 2002;324:1149 (Published 11 May 2002)

ART

Finding a visual language for pain

BMJ 2002;324:1162 (Published 11 May 2002)

Book

Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation

BMJ 2002;324:1163.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Road traffic injuries

BMJ 2002;324:1163.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Personal Views

Returning streets to the people

BMJ 2002;324:1164.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Where are the protests?

BMJ 2002;324:1165.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Review

Netlines

BMJ 2002;324:1164.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Soundings

Postmenopausal doctors

BMJ 2002;324:1165.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Corrections

Synergism between allergens and viruses and risk of hospital admission with asthma: case-control study

BMJ 2002;324:1131.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Was it a heart attack?

BMJ 2002;324:1131.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

Influence of direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising and patients' requests on prescribing decisions: two site cross sectional survey

BMJ 2002;324:1131.3 (Published 11 May 2002)

France's birth rate matches high Irish levels

BMJ 2002;324:1131.4 (Published 11 May 2002)