20 July 2002 (Vol 325, Issue 7356)

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Editor's Choice

Big trials and human stories

BMJ 2002;325:0.10 (Published 20 July 2002)

News

GPs vote “yes” for new contract framework

BMJ 2002;325:119.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

UK regulatory authority challenged over embryo screening

BMJ 2002;325:119.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

US issues tablets for potential terrorist attack

BMJ 2002;325:119.3 (Published 20 July 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;325:120.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Experts launch action on acrylamide in staple foods

BMJ 2002;325:120.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Chickenpox vaccine may reduce risk of shingles

BMJ 2002;325:120.3 (Published 20 July 2002)

Global Fund director admits to $8bn shortfall

BMJ 2002;325:121.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

South African government forced to give mothers antiretroviral drug

BMJ 2002;325:121.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Pfizer buys Pharmacia for $60bn

BMJ 2002;325:123.3 (Published 20 July 2002)

Candidate for US surgeon general comes under fire from senators

BMJ 2002;325:123.4 (Published 20 July 2002)

Surgeons must know their limitations, but so must governments

BMJ 2002;325:124.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Editorials

Hormone replacement therapy

BMJ 2002;325:113 (Published 20 July 2002)

An ethically defensible market in organs

BMJ 2002;325:114 (Published 20 July 2002)

Magnetic resonance imaging of the knee

BMJ 2002;325:115 (Published 20 July 2002)

Chest pain units

BMJ 2002;325:116 (Published 20 July 2002)

Health risks in babies born after assisted reproduction

BMJ 2002;325:117 (Published 20 July 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Are selective COX 2 inhibitors superior to traditional NSAIDs?

BMJ 2002;325:161 (Published 20 July 2002)

NHS Direct audited

BMJ 2002;325:164 (Published 20 July 2002)

Nurses as NHS gatekeepers

BMJ 2002;325:165 (Published 20 July 2002)

Can nurse practitioners provide equivalent care to GPs?

BMJ 2002;325:166 (Published 20 July 2002)

Australian GPs are beginning battle faced by other countries

BMJ 2002;325:167.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Oncologist who stood up to US insurance companies lost work

BMJ 2002;325:167.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Joseph Hodgson Briggs

BMJ 2002;325:168.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Andrew Crowcroft

BMJ 2002;325:168.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Obituaries - continued

John Dermot McCaldin

BMJ 2002;325:168.3 (Published 20 July 2002)

Nina Amy Meyer

BMJ 2002;325:168.4 (Published 20 July 2002)

Thomas St Martin Norris

BMJ 2002;325:168.5 (Published 20 July 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Morale of general practitioners is a complex issue

BMJ 2002;325:0.6 (Published 20 July 2002)

Upward social mobility affects population mortality

BMJ 2002;325:0.3 (Published 20 July 2002)

Concern over rising rates of syphilis in England

BMJ 2002;325:0.9 (Published 20 July 2002)

Screening for pregnancy complications

BMJ 2002;325:0.7 (Published 20 July 2002)

Elderly people do not plan for future illness

BMJ 2002;325:0.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Reducing transfusion deaths

BMJ 2002;325:0.8 (Published 20 July 2002)

Lower haemoglobin levels in women are not due to iron deficiency

BMJ 2002;325:0.5 (Published 20 July 2002)

Exercise can prevent falls in older people

BMJ 2002;325:0.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Social trends conceal inequalities in adult height

BMJ 2002;325:0.4 (Published 20 July 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;325:172 (Published 20 July 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Blood transfusion medicine

BMJ 2002;325:143 (Published 20 July 2002)

Interpretation of rubella serology in pregnancy—pitfalls and problems

BMJ 2002;325:147 (Published 20 July 2002)

Depression in medical patients

BMJ 2002;325:149.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

News roundup

Acute care is “suboptimal,” says Royal College of Physicians

BMJ 2002;325:122.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Deaths from volatile substance misuse fall

BMJ 2002;325:122.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Scientists manage to manufacture polio virus

BMJ 2002;325:122.3 (Published 20 July 2002)

Prison doctor should not have worked unsupervised, says inquiry

BMJ 2002;325:122.4 (Published 20 July 2002)

Researchers identify gene associated with airways remodelling in asthma

BMJ 2002;325:123.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Chancellor maps out three year public service spending plans

BMJ 2002;325:123.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

News extra

US may require insurance cover for bowel cancer screening

BMJ 2002;325:124.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

US council calls for four year ban on cloning

BMJ 2002;325:124.3 (Published 20 July 2002)

Botox party at Johns Hopkins comes under fire

BMJ 2002;325:124.4 (Published 20 July 2002)

News extra - continued

Parliamentary committee criticises PFI

BMJ 2002;325:124.5 (Published 20 July 2002)

Papers

Planning for death but not serious future illness: qualitative study of housebound elderly patients

BMJ 2002;325:125.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Randomised factorial trial of falls prevention among older people living in their own homes

BMJ 2002;325:128 (Published 20 July 2002)

Are inequalities in height underestimated by adult social position? Effects of changing social structure and height selection in a cohort study

BMJ 2002;325:131 (Published 20 July 2002)

Impact of upward social mobility on population mortality: analysis with routine data

BMJ 2002;325:134.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Haemoglobin and ferritin concentrations in men and women: cross sectional study

BMJ 2002;325:137 (Published 20 July 2002)

Bicyclist's vulva: observational studyCommentary: Attitudes to women's bicycling have changed

BMJ 2002;325:138 (Published 20 July 2002)

Filler

Congresses and the confusion of tongues

BMJ 2002;325:125.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Leadership

BMJ 2002;325:134.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Swimming the water of life

BMJ 2002;325:139 (Published 20 July 2002)

The census and the birth-rate

BMJ 2002;325:149.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

An Osler aphorism

BMJ 2002;325:153.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Ough ough

BMJ 2002;325:160 (Published 20 July 2002)

Primary care

Morale among general practitioners: qualitative study exploring relations between partnership arrangements, personal style, and workload

BMJ 2002;325:140 (Published 20 July 2002)

Education and debate

Syphilis: old problem, new strategy

BMJ 2002;325:153.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Pregnancy complications and maternal cardiovascular risk: opportunities for intervention and screening?

BMJ 2002;325:157 (Published 20 July 2002)

Reviews

Sense of Belonging: The Tale of Ikpiko

BMJ 2002;325:169.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Evidence-Based Sports Medicine

BMJ 2002;325:169.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs

BMJ 2002;325:170.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Booking time: finding locums and devising rotas

BMJ 2002;325:170.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

“Forward!” The experience of a new guide dog owner

BMJ 2002;325:171.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

Occam's razor

BMJ 2002;325:171.2 (Published 20 July 2002)

Corrections

Private finance and “value for money” in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?

BMJ 2002;325:142.1 (Published 20 July 2002)

This Week in the BMJ

BMJ 2002;325:142.2 (Published 20 July 2002)