01 March 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7387)

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Editor's Choice

AIDS in Africa

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 1 March 2003)

News

AIDS vaccine may offer hope only for some ethnic groups

BMJ 2003;326:463.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Industry group created bogus websites to hijack browsers

BMJ 2003;326:463.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:464.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Combined aspirin and clopidogrel treatment improves outcomes, study finds

BMJ 2003;326:464.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Ephedra supplement may have contributed to sportsman's death

BMJ 2003;326:464.3 (Published 1 March 2003)

GPs to get rises of 10-50% over three years

BMJ 2003;326:465.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

No deal in sight on cheap drugs for poor countries

BMJ 2003;326:465.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Surgeon who alleged constructive dismissal over bullying loses case

BMJ 2003;326:467.4 (Published 1 March 2003)

Scientist or showman?

BMJ 2003;326:468.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Editorials

New contract for general practitioners

BMJ 2003;326:457 (Published 1 March 2003)

Management of people who have been raped

BMJ 2003;326:458 (Published 1 March 2003)

Arms sales, health, and security

BMJ 2003;326:459 (Published 1 March 2003)

Mobile phones in hospitals

BMJ 2003;326:460 (Published 1 March 2003)

Fetal surgery

BMJ 2003;326:461 (Published 1 March 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Media influence on suicide

BMJ 2003;326:498 (Published 1 March 2003)

Death risk other than from suicide is raised in self harm

BMJ 2003;326:499.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Low dosage tricyclic antidepressants in depression

BMJ 2003;326:499.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Regulatory bodies can root out corruption

BMJ 2003;326:501.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Mortality from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

BMJ 2003;326:501.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Managing acute renal colic

BMJ 2003;326:502.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Establish reason why purulent rhinitis is persistent first

BMJ 2003;326:502.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

G7 countries are not to blame for Africa's brain drain

BMJ 2003;326:502.3 (Published 1 March 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Emanuel M Papper

BMJ 2003;326:503.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Alfred Finlay Brown

BMJ 2003;326:503.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Obituaries - continued

Edmund Henry Hemsted

BMJ 2003;326:503.3 (Published 1 March 2003)

Donald Longson

BMJ 2003;326:503.4 (Published 1 March 2003)

Evelyn Morag MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326:503.5 (Published 1 March 2003)

John Niall Meredydd Parry

BMJ 2003;326:503.6 (Published 1 March 2003)

Robert Heywood Seville

BMJ 2003;326:503.7 (Published 1 March 2003)

Patricia Mary Tate (née Tomlins)

BMJ 2003;326:503.8 (Published 1 March 2003)

Sir Douglas Black

BMJ 2003;326:503.9 (Published 1 March 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:508 (Published 1 March 2003)

Fillers

Physical therapy is probably effective for patellofemoral pain

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 1 March 2003)

Doctors in British fiction

BMJ 2003;326:481.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Dropsy

BMJ 2003;326:491 (Published 1 March 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;326:492.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Integrated cardiac rehabilitation service meets NSF targets

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 1 March 2003)

Vitamin D three times a year can prevent fractures

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Telephone consultations for review of asthma improve access

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 1 March 2003)

Changing partners reduces risk of prolonged pregnancy

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 1 March 2003)

Is adjusted indirect comparison valid?

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

AIDS in South Africa is more than polemics

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 1 March 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Age related macular degeneration

BMJ 2003;326:485 (Published 1 March 2003)

Bilateral renovascular disease causing cardiorenal failure

BMJ 2003;326:489 (Published 1 March 2003)

Teaching small groups

BMJ 2003;326:492.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Health authorities face big payouts after ombudsman's ruling

BMJ 2003;326:466.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Spread of AIDS in Africa driven by poor medical practice, report says

BMJ 2003;326:466.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Children with Tourette's syndrome given special showing of Harry Potter film

BMJ 2003;326:466.3 (Published 1 March 2003)

UK government's epilepsy action plan “fundamentally flawed”

BMJ 2003;326:466.4 (Published 1 March 2003)

Millions more at risk of arsenic poisoning than previously thought

BMJ 2003;326:466.5 (Published 1 March 2003)

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

Women too busy to exercise

BMJ 2003;326:467.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Ban direct to consumer advertising, report recommends

BMJ 2003;326:467.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Streamlined training for junior doctors is set for 2004

BMJ 2003;326:467.3 (Published 1 March 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Rich countries pledge to help poor nations fight tobacco

BMJ 2003;326:468.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

United States limits resident physicians to 80 hour working week

BMJ 2003;326:468.3 (Published 1 March 2003)

Commissions start review of service framework for coronary heart disease

BMJ 2003;326:468.4 (Published 1 March 2003)

Long term study shows no increase in mortality or cancer in UK nuclear weapon test veterans

BMJ 2003;326:468.5 (Published 1 March 2003)

Digoxin levels should be kept to a minimum in men with heart failure

BMJ 2003;326:468.6 (Published 1 March 2003)

Effect of four monthly oral vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) supplementation on fractures and mortality in men and women living in the community: randomised double blind controlled trial

BMJ 2003;326:469 (Published 1 March 2003)

Papers

Validity of indirect comparison for estimating efficacy of competing interventions: empirical evidence from published meta-analyses

BMJ 2003;326:472 (Published 1 March 2003)

Survey of claims of no effect in abstracts of Cochrane reviews

BMJ 2003;326:475 (Published 1 March 2003)

Risk of recurrence of prolonged pregnancy

BMJ 2003;326:476 (Published 1 March 2003)

Primary care

Accessibility, acceptability, and effectiveness in primary care of routine telephone review of asthma: pragmatic, randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2003;326:477 (Published 1 March 2003)

Near patient testing for influenza in children in primary care: comparison with laboratory test

BMJ 2003;326:480 (Published 1 March 2003)

Quality Improvement Report

Achieving national service framework standards for cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention

BMJ 2003;326:481.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Education and debate

The politics of AIDS in South Africa: beyond the controversies

BMJ 2003;326:495 (Published 1 March 2003)

ART

Unknown Quantity

BMJ 2003;326:505 (Published 1 March 2003)

TV

Horizon: Trial and Error

BMJ 2003;326:506.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Gene therapy

BMJ 2003;326:506.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Personal View

The population trap

BMJ 2003;326:507.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Soundings

Speech that irritates

BMJ 2003;326:507.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Corrections

Socioeconomic position in childhood and adulthood and insulin resistance: cross sectional survey using data from British women's heart and health study

BMJ 2003;326:488.1 (Published 1 March 2003)

Doctors' use of electronic medical records systems in hospitals: cross sectional survey

BMJ 2003;326:488.2 (Published 1 March 2003)

Distinguishing between salt poisoning and hypernatraemic dehydration in children

BMJ 2003;326:497 (Published 1 March 2003)