31 August 2002 (Vol 325, Issue 7362)

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Editor's Choice

The way we work now

BMJ 2002;325:0.8 (Published 31 August 2002)

News

World summit hits hurdles on opening day

BMJ 2002;325:457.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Head of WHO to stand down

BMJ 2002;325:457.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Senior house officer grade needs reform, says report

BMJ 2002;325:458.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Medical staffing: Report says anomalies will undermine move towards high quality NHS

BMJ 2002;325:458.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Medical staffing: Smaller trusts face huge problems with the “new deal”

BMJ 2002;325:458.3 (Published 31 August 2002)

Medical staffing: Juniors take on specialist duties

BMJ 2002;325:459.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Medical staffing: Hospitals in London employ twice as many doctors

BMJ 2002;325:459.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Medical staffing: “We are very experienced”

BMJ 2002;325:459.3 (Published 31 August 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;325:460.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Health can take precedence over trade issues, says report

BMJ 2002;325:460.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

West Nile virus spreads in United States

BMJ 2002;325:460.3 (Published 31 August 2002)

Editorials

Reducing risk of injury due to exercise

BMJ 2002;325:451 (Published 31 August 2002)

Treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer

BMJ 2002;325:452 (Published 31 August 2002)

Staffing by numbers in the NHS

BMJ 2002;325:453 (Published 31 August 2002)

Treating head injuries

BMJ 2002;325:454 (Published 31 August 2002)

Making research papers in the BMJ more accessible

BMJ 2002;325:456 (Published 31 August 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Are trust doctors the new lost tribe?

BMJ 2002;325:491.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Peer review of statistics in medical research

BMJ 2002;325:491.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Cases of polio in Nigeria are dropping

BMJ 2002;325:493.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Editorial on epidemiology of HIV in China was misleading

BMJ 2002;325:493.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Trends in HIV, gonorrhoea, and syphilis

BMJ 2002;325:494 (Published 31 August 2002)

Intermediate care is ageist

BMJ 2002;325:495.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Selection of medical students

BMJ 2002;325:495.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Letters - continued

Acid, burns, and feeding tubes

BMJ 2002;325:496.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

On Hippocrates

BMJ 2002;325:496.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Brian McArdle

BMJ 2002;325:497.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Richard Brian Johanson

BMJ 2002;325:497.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Malcolm Arthur Holmes Graham

BMJ 2002;325:497.3 (Published 31 August 2002)

Edward Charles Hutchinson

BMJ 2002;325:497.4 (Published 31 August 2002)

Misheck Garikai Nyabadza

BMJ 2002;325:497.5 (Published 31 August 2002)

Arthur James O'Friel

BMJ 2002;325:497.6 (Published 31 August 2002)

Christopher Royston Pennington

BMJ 2002;325:497.7 (Published 31 August 2002)

John Bryce Stafford

BMJ 2002;325:497.8 (Published 31 August 2002)

Judith Ann Stewart (née Emmerson)

BMJ 2002;325:497.9 (Published 31 August 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;325:502 (Published 31 August 2002)

Fillers

Increase in the morphine habit

BMJ 2002;325:461.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

A note on the teaching of the history of medicine by William Osler, M.D., F.R.S

BMJ 2002;325:471.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

The fast way out

BMJ 2002;325:472.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2002;325:475.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

My first patient

BMJ 2002;325:483 (Published 31 August 2002)

The importance of hospital identity

BMJ 2002;325:490 (Published 31 August 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

How best to fund the NHS

BMJ 2002;325:0.7 (Published 31 August 2002)

Stretching does not reduce muscle soreness

BMJ 2002;325:0.3 (Published 31 August 2002)

Physician assistants in the United States

BMJ 2002;325:0.6 (Published 31 August 2002)

How best to treat acne

BMJ 2002;325:0.4 (Published 31 August 2002)

Evidence for warts treatments is limited

BMJ 2002;325:0.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Palliative thoracic radiotherapy can be delayed

BMJ 2002;325:0.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

This Week In the BMJ - continued

Patients' characteristics determine consultation length

BMJ 2002;325:0.5 (Published 31 August 2002)

Physician assistants in the United States

BMJ 2002;325:485 (Published 31 August 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Clinical reviewAcne vulgarisCommentary: A UK primary care perspective on treating acne

BMJ 2002;325:475.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Fatigue

BMJ 2002;325:480 (Published 31 August 2002)

Bone mineral density scans

BMJ 2002;325:484 (Published 31 August 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

St John's wort interferes with chemotherapy, study shows

BMJ 2002;325:460.4 (Published 31 August 2002)

Antibiotics can improve outcomes in heart patients

BMJ 2002;325:460.5 (Published 31 August 2002)

Data on IVF clinics show wide variation in success rate

BMJ 2002;325:460.6 (Published 31 August 2002)

Papers

PapersLocal treatments for cutaneous warts: systematic reviewCommentary: Systematic reviewers face challenges from varied study designs

BMJ 2002;325:461.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Immediate versus delayed palliative thoracic radiotherapy in patients with unresectable locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer and minimal thoracic symptoms: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2002;325:465 (Published 31 August 2002)

Effects of stretching before and after exercising on muscle soreness and risk of injury: systematic review

BMJ 2002;325:468 (Published 31 August 2002)

Follow up of people fitted with hearing aids after adult hearing screening: the need for support after fitting

BMJ 2002;325:471.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Primary care

Consultation length in general practice: cross sectional study in six European countries

BMJ 2002;325:472.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Education and debate

Education and debateSocial insurancethe right way forward for health care in the United Kingdom?ForAgainst

BMJ 2002;325:488 (Published 31 August 2002)

Books

Consciousness

BMJ 2002;325:499.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas

BMJ 2002;325:499.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

TV

Help, I'm a Doctor

BMJ 2002;325:500.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

NETLINES

Netlines

BMJ 2002;325:500.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Personal View

Flying the flag

BMJ 2002;325:501.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

Soundings

The big difference

BMJ 2002;325:501.2 (Published 31 August 2002)

Corrections

Randomised trial of endoscopy with testing for Helicobacter pylori compared with non-invasive H pylori testing alone in the management of dyspepsia

BMJ 2002;325:479.1 (Published 31 August 2002)

A time for global health

BMJ 2002;325:479.2 (Published 31 August 2002)