07 September 2002 (Vol 325, Issue 7363)

This Week In the BMJ

Nitrous oxide may be a hazard after retinal surgery

BMJ 2002;325:0.5 (Published 7 September 2002)

Adolescents like health promotion consultations—but they have little effect

BMJ 2002;325:0.4 (Published 7 September 2002)

Public defibrillators are not the best way to improve survival

BMJ 2002;325:0.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

NHS nursing shortages: retention is the biggest problem

BMJ 2002;325:0.6 (Published 7 September 2002)

Link between polymorphism and coronary restenosis may be due to bias

BMJ 2002;325:0.3 (Published 7 September 2002)

Children from ethnic minorities use GPs more and secondary care less

BMJ 2002;325:0.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

Public information on US clinical trials is inadequate

BMJ 2002;325:0.7 (Published 7 September 2002)

Editorials

Outcome after cardiac arrest outside hospital

BMJ 2002;325:503 (Published 7 September 2002)

Oral contraceptives, venous thromboembolism, and the courts

BMJ 2002;325:504 (Published 7 September 2002)

Managing acute appendicitis

BMJ 2002;325:505 (Published 7 September 2002)

NHS foundation trusts

BMJ 2002;325:506 (Published 7 September 2002)

Violence in society

BMJ 2002;325:507 (Published 7 September 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

More on the consultant contract

BMJ 2002;325:545 (Published 7 September 2002)

Telephone use in primary care

BMJ 2002;325:547 (Published 7 September 2002)

Discussion of risk pervades doctor-patient communication

BMJ 2002;325:548.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Stress and breast cancer

BMJ 2002;325:548.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

Genetic testing for familial Alzheimer's must be debated

BMJ 2002;325:549.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Postmortem radiology is useful but no substitute for necropsy

BMJ 2002;325:549.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

News

AIDS debate fails to hit target at development summit

BMJ 2002;325:509.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Medical council to investigate alleged research fraud

BMJ 2002;325:509.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;325:510.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

GP struck off after offering to “fix” kidney sale

BMJ 2002;325:510.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

Medical insurance crisis hits Australia's surgeons

BMJ 2002;325:510.3 (Published 7 September 2002)

News - continued

Royal college issues new guidelines on gifts from drugs companies

BMJ 2002;325:511 (Published 7 September 2002)

Psychiatric Association to investigate abuse in China

BMJ 2002;325:513.3 (Published 7 September 2002)

Old smallpox vaccination may still protect

BMJ 2002;325:513.4 (Published 7 September 2002)

French emergency services reach crisis point

BMJ 2002;325:514.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Family complains that “love drug'”will smear their name

BMJ 2002;325:514.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Nitrous oxide anaesthesia in the presence of intraocular gas can cause irreversible blindness

BMJ 2002;325:532.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Musculoskeletal pain

BMJ 2002;325:534 (Published 7 September 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;325:554 (Published 7 September 2002)

Editor's Choice

Ethical conundrums: they just keep on coming

BMJ 2002;325:0.8 (Published 7 September 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

GPs in deprived areas do more out of hours work

BMJ 2002;325:512.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Venezuela launches new campaign against dengue fever

BMJ 2002;325:512.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

US students face national examination on simulated patients

BMJ 2002;325:512.3 (Published 7 September 2002)

Depo-Provera contraceptive may increase risk of cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2002;325:513.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Indian government denies health impact of brown cloud

BMJ 2002;325:513.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Papers

Primary care

Information in practice

Education and debate

Mind the gap: the extent of the NHS nursing shortage

BMJ 2002;325:538 (Published 7 September 2002)

Mind the gap: the policy response to the NHS nursing shortage

BMJ 2002;325:541 (Published 7 September 2002)

Books

Making the Modern Medical School: The Wisconsin Stories

BMJ 2002;325:551.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Dr Simon Forman, a most notorious physician

BMJ 2002;325:551.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

Five Past Midnight in Bhopal

BMJ 2002;325:552.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Calculating risks

BMJ 2002;325:552.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

Personal View

Can miracles happen?

BMJ 2002;325:553.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Soundings

Too many to count

BMJ 2002;325:553.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

Fillers

Two views on walking

BMJ 2002;325:520.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

A memorable teacher

BMJ 2002;325:527.4 (Published 7 September 2002)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2002;325:528.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

The physiology of the holiday

BMJ 2002;325:532.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

A thousand leagues under the sea

BMJ 2002;325:537 (Published 7 September 2002)

Holidays in Framingham?

BMJ 2002;325:544 (Published 7 September 2002)

Corrections

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Margaret Angus Patterson (née Ingram)

BMJ 2002;325:550.1 (Published 7 September 2002)

Harold Buckley

BMJ 2002;325:550.2 (Published 7 September 2002)

John Beadle Eades

BMJ 2002;325:550.3 (Published 7 September 2002)

Max Roslyn Ernst

BMJ 2002;325:550.4 (Published 7 September 2002)