19 April 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7394)

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Editor's Choice

After war, plague

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 19 April 2003)

News

Doctors forced to guard Baghdad hospitals after looting

BMJ 2003;326:837.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Afghanistan struggles to build post-conflict health care

BMJ 2003;326:837.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:838.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Euro MPs threaten UK stem cell research

BMJ 2003;326:838.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Human genome project completed

BMJ 2003;326:838.3 (Published 19 April 2003)

Human cloning may be impossible

BMJ 2003;326:838.4 (Published 19 April 2003)

SARS shows no sign of coming under control

BMJ 2003;326:839.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Specialist ousted in research row

BMJ 2003;326:839.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Hospitals must be child friendly, says report

BMJ 2003;326:840.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Libraries face higher costs for academic journals

BMJ 2003;326:840.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Editorials

Severe acute respiratory syndrome revisited

BMJ 2003;326:831 (Published 19 April 2003)

The surgeon as a risk factor

BMJ 2003;326:832 (Published 19 April 2003)

Research in nursing, midwifery, and the allied health professions

BMJ 2003;326:833 (Published 19 April 2003)

The impact of antisocial lifestyle on health

BMJ 2003;326:834 (Published 19 April 2003)

Treatment of pulmonary hypertension

BMJ 2003;326:835 (Published 19 April 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Racism and health

BMJ 2003;326:880 (Published 19 April 2003)

Spirituality and clinical care

BMJ 2003;326:881.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

National service framework for diabetes leaves questions open

BMJ 2003;326:881.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Cardiovascular risk scores and prescribing in diabetes

BMJ 2003;326:882.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Failing to bark and barking

BMJ 2003;326:882.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Competing interests

BMJ 2003;326:883.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Barriers to managing heart failure in primary care

BMJ 2003;326:883.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Congestion charging

BMJ 2003;326:884 (Published 19 April 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

David Horrobin

BMJ 2003;326:885.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Amal Kumar Chatterjee

BMJ 2003;326:885.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

David James Darby

BMJ 2003;326:885.3 (Published 19 April 2003)

James George Duncan

BMJ 2003;326:885.4 (Published 19 April 2003)

Hugh Hughes

BMJ 2003;326:885.5 (Published 19 April 2003)

David Graham Leaver

BMJ 2003;326:885.6 (Published 19 April 2003)

Frank Robert Geoffrey Mellor

BMJ 2003;326:885.7 (Published 19 April 2003)

Sheila Wallace

BMJ 2003;326:885.8 (Published 19 April 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:890 (Published 19 April 2003)

Fillers

Asymptomatic meniscal tears are as common as symptomatic ones

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 19 April 2003)

Two of the same

BMJ 2003;326:841.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;326:863.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Confide in your doctor

BMJ 2003;326:865.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

How a refugee community deals with adoption

BMJ 2003;326:873 (Published 19 April 2003)

Every old man's complaint

BMJ 2003;326:877.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Patients are key players in healthcare debates

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Delayed immunisation increases risk of whooping cough

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 19 April 2003)

Anticholinergics have unclear benefits in overactive bladder syndrome

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 19 April 2003)

Brief counselling leads to healthier diet

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 19 April 2003)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome demands strict control

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Hypertension in pregnancy may persist

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 19 April 2003)

Clinical Reviews

West Nile encephalitis

BMJ 2003;326:865.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Web based learning

BMJ 2003;326:870 (Published 19 April 2003)

Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and lipids

BMJ 2003;326:874 (Published 19 April 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

GMC launches new quality standard for UK doctors

BMJ 2003;326:840.3 (Published 19 April 2003)

Nine UK doctors are suspended after accusations of viewing child pornography

BMJ 2003;326:840.4 (Published 19 April 2003)

Government cleared of favouring Labour party donor for smallpox vaccine supply

BMJ 2003;326:840.5 (Published 19 April 2003)

EU working time directive will include the time doctors spend on call

BMJ 2003;326:840.6 (Published 19 April 2003)

Doctors walk free after manslaughter conviction

BMJ 2003;326:840.7 (Published 19 April 2003)

Papers

Effectiveness of anticholinergic drugs compared with placebo in the treatment of overactive bladder: systematic review

BMJ 2003;326:841.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Hypertensive diseases of pregnancy and risk of hypertension and stroke in later life: results from cohort study

BMJ 2003;326:845 (Published 19 April 2003)

Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: case report

BMJ 2003;326:850 (Published 19 April 2003)

Delayed immunisation and risk of pertussis in infants: unmatched case-control study

BMJ 2003;326:852 (Published 19 April 2003)

Pertussis immunisation

BMJ 2003;326:853 (Published 19 April 2003)

Comparison of social distribution of immunisation with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, England, 1991-2001

BMJ 2003;326:854 (Published 19 April 2003)

Primary care

Behavioural counselling to increase consumption of fruit and vegetables in low income adults: randomised trial

BMJ 2003;326:855 (Published 19 April 2003)

Polyarthralgia

BMJ 2003;326:859 (Published 19 April 2003)

Information in practice

Evaluating computerised health information systems: hard lessons still to be learnt

BMJ 2003;326:860 (Published 19 April 2003)

Limits to patient choice: example from anaesthesia

BMJ 2003;326:863.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Education and debate

Methods for incorporating patients' views in health care

BMJ 2003;326:877.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Books

A Life Course Approach to Women's Health

BMJ 2003;326:887.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Life Means Nothing Behind the Green Wall

BMJ 2003;326:887.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia

BMJ 2003;326:888.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Eating fruit and vegetables

BMJ 2003;326:888.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Personal View

“There's none so blind as the double blind.” Discuss

BMJ 2003;326:889.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Soundings

Educating the consumer

BMJ 2003;326:889.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

Corrections

Brain haemorrhage in babies may not indicate violent abuse

BMJ 2003;326:849.1 (Published 19 April 2003)

Diagnosis and management of scalp ringworm

BMJ 2003;326:849.2 (Published 19 April 2003)

German surgeon is investigated about trading of organs

BMJ 2003;326:849.3 (Published 19 April 2003)