04 January 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7379)

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Editor's Choice

Some politics: against academic boycotts and for cheap drugs

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 4 January 2003)

News

Diuretics are as effective as ACE inhibitors and channel blockers

BMJ 2003;326:7 (Published 4 January 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:8.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Family finds hospital willing to give experimental CJD treatment

BMJ 2003;326:8.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

GP contract delayed, but negotiations continue

BMJ 2003;326:8.3 (Published 4 January 2003)

US blocks deal on cheap drugs

BMJ 2003;326:9.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Urologist recommends daily Viagra to prevent impotence

BMJ 2003;326:9.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Fertilisation authority to challenge High Court tissue ruling

BMJ 2003;326:11.4 (Published 4 January 2003)

New designs for familiar objects

BMJ 2003;326:11.5 (Published 4 January 2003)

No shrinking violet

BMJ 2003;326:12.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Editorials

Breast self examination

BMJ 2003;326:1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Using clinical databases in practice

BMJ 2003;326:2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Reporting diagnostic tests

BMJ 2003;326:3 (Published 4 January 2003)

Contraindications to the use of metformin

BMJ 2003;326:4 (Published 4 January 2003)

Evidence based policy making

BMJ 2003;326:5 (Published 4 January 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Trainees' attitudes to shift work depend on grade and specialty

BMJ 2003;326:48.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Delayed discharge and hospital congestion

BMJ 2003;326:48.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Emergency pyramid is inverting already

BMJ 2003;326:49.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Managing acute appendicitis

BMJ 2003;326:49.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Preventing and treating eclamptic seizures

BMJ 2003;326:50.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Alcohol handrubs v soap

BMJ 2003;326:50.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Outdated drugs may be useful

BMJ 2003;326:51.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Sustaining medical education is difficult in poor countries

BMJ 2003;326:51.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Alosetron for irritable bowel syndrome

BMJ 2003;326:51.3 (Published 4 January 2003)

Preventing stroke with ramipril—authors' reply

BMJ 2003;326:52.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

More travel advice and fewer vaccinations are needed

BMJ 2003;326:52.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Screening populations at low risk carries high risks

BMJ 2003;326:53.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Embryo selection for complex traits is impracticable

BMJ 2003;326:53.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Eric John Barton

BMJ 2003;326:54.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Devendra Kumar Gupta

BMJ 2003;326:54.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Obituaries - continued

Richard Douglas Jackson

BMJ 2003;326:54.3 (Published 4 January 2003)

John Henry Gordon Jowett

BMJ 2003;326:54.4 (Published 4 January 2003)

Susan Jean England Kerr

BMJ 2003;326:54.5 (Published 4 January 2003)

Richard Melville Malins

BMJ 2003;326:54.6 (Published 4 January 2003)

Patricia Theresa Moore

BMJ 2003;326:54.7 (Published 4 January 2003)

Thomas Meurig Owen

BMJ 2003;326:54.8 (Published 4 January 2003)

Kenneth George Poyner

BMJ 2003;326:54.9 (Published 4 January 2003)

Jairam Madura Rajgopal

BMJ 2003;326:54.10 (Published 4 January 2003)

John Richardson

BMJ 2003;326:54.11 (Published 4 January 2003)

Henry Peter Scurlock

BMJ 2003;326:54.12 (Published 4 January 2003)

Thomas Alan Wylie

BMJ 2003;326:54.13 (Published 4 January 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:60 (Published 4 January 2003)

Fillers

Acute intervention has no effect on mortality in patients with acute coronary syndromes

BMJ 2003;326:0.9 (Published 4 January 2003)

Fever

BMJ 2003;326:24 (Published 4 January 2003)

A lesson in prescribing

BMJ 2003;326:36 (Published 4 January 2003)

Ether drinking in Russia

BMJ 2003;326:37.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Art and nature

BMJ 2003;326:41.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Breast feeding has analgesic effect in newborn babies

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

More GPs intend to quit

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 4 January 2003)

Polygamy and early sexual activity in adolescents are linked

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Driving recommendations are given but not heard

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 4 January 2003)

Surgical outcomes database is incomplete and unreliable

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 4 January 2003)

A good death is possible

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 4 January 2003)

“Female sexual dysfunction” may be an invention

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 4 January 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Care of the dying patient: the last hours or days of lifeCommentary: a “good death” is possible in the NHS

BMJ 2003;326:30 (Published 4 January 2003)

Danger of salt substitutes that contain potassium in patients with renal failure

BMJ 2003;326:35 (Published 4 January 2003)

Antithrombotic therapy in special circumstances. I—pregnancy and cancer

BMJ 2003;326:37.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Half the cases of bacteraemia in hospitals in England are linked to devices

BMJ 2003;326:10.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Parkinson's in men may be linked to high dairy diet

BMJ 2003;326:10.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Limited edition DNA print published

BMJ 2003;326:10.3 (Published 4 January 2003)

Health care is among the most corrupt services in India

BMJ 2003;326:10.4 (Published 4 January 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] - continued

Foundation trusts could be divisive, MPs claim

BMJ 2003;326:10.5 (Published 4 January 2003)

EU sets standards for safe blood products

BMJ 2003;326:11.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

German hospital curtails services because of deficit

BMJ 2003;326:11.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

“Free” medical publishing venture gets under way

BMJ 2003;326:11.3 (Published 4 January 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Obstetrician issues writ after embryo mix-up

BMJ 2003;326:12.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Indian endocrinologists warn of vitamin D deficiency

BMJ 2003;326:12.3 (Published 4 January 2003)

Tel Aviv hospital destroys frozen embryos by mistake

BMJ 2003;326:12.4 (Published 4 January 2003)

Inadequate research facilities fail to tackle mystery disease

BMJ 2003;326:12.5 (Published 4 January 2003)

Scottish postoperative care is improving

BMJ 2003;326:12.6 (Published 4 January 2003)

Papers

Analgesic effect of breast feeding in term neonates: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2003;326:13 (Published 4 January 2003)

Sexual behaviour of adolescents in Nigeria: cross sectional survey of secondary school students

BMJ 2003;326:15 (Published 4 January 2003)

Parental diabetes and birth weight of offspring: intergenerational cohort study

BMJ 2003;326:19 (Published 4 January 2003)

Incidence of coronary heart disease in a health authority in London: review of a community register

BMJ 2003;326:20 (Published 4 January 2003)

Syncope, driving recommendations, and clinical reality: survey of patients

BMJ 2003;326:21 (Published 4 January 2003)

Primary care

National survey of job satisfaction and retirement intentions among general practitioners in England

BMJ 2003;326:22 (Published 4 January 2003)

Information in practice

How to evaluate and improve the quality and credibility of an outcomes database: validation and feedback study on the UK Cardiac Surgery Experience

BMJ 2003;326:25 (Published 4 January 2003)

A web-based system for individualised survival estimation in breast cancer

BMJ 2003;326:29 (Published 4 January 2003)

Education and debate

Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiative

BMJ 2003;326:41.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction

BMJ 2003;326:45 (Published 4 January 2003)

Books

Narrative-based Primary Care: A Practical Guide

BMJ 2003;326:56.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Oxford Handbook of General Practice

BMJ 2003;326:56.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Medicine and Art

BMJ 2003;326:57.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Cold Wars: The Fight against the Common Cold

BMJ 2003;326:57.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

PRESS

Lessons from the HRT story

BMJ 2003;326:58.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

NETLINES

Netlines

BMJ 2003;326:58.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Personal View

The inside story on prison health care

BMJ 2003;326:59.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Soundings

Count your blessings

BMJ 2003;326:59.2 (Published 4 January 2003)

Corrections

Managing acute renal colic across the primary-secondary care interface: a pathway of care based on evidence and consensus

BMJ 2003;326:18.1 (Published 4 January 2003)

Letters: summary of responses

BMJ 2003;326:18.2 (Published 4 January 2003)