03 July 2003 (Vol 327, Issue 7405)

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Editor's Choice

From publication to change

BMJ 2003;327:0.9 (Published 3 July 2003)

News

NHS staff should inform patients of negligent acts

BMJ 2003;327:7.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Drug helps patients with relapsed myeloma

BMJ 2003;327:7.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;327:8.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

BMA chairman criticises erosion of clinical autonomy

BMJ 2003;327:8.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Doctors postpone decision on industrial action

BMJ 2003;327:8.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

Long term use of combined HRT doubles cancer risk

BMJ 2003;327:9.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Prostate cancer drug may be useful for prevention

BMJ 2003;327:9.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Deadly radiation ignored in Iraq

BMJ 2003;327:11.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

Improving the management of chronic disease

BMJ 2003;327:12.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Editorials

Prehospital thrombolysis

BMJ 2003;327:1 (Published 5 July 2003)

Genetics and the general practitioner

BMJ 2003;327:2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Water, sanitation, and hygiene at Kyoto

BMJ 2003;327:3 (Published 3 July 2003)

Managing agitation and aggression after head injury

BMJ 2003;327:4 (Published 3 July 2003)

INRs and point of care testing

BMJ 2003;327:5 (Published 3 July 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Outcomes of screening to prevent cancer: Think of screening as insurance

BMJ 2003;327:50.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Outcomes of screening to prevent cancer

BMJ 2003;327:50.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Effectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in general practice: Article illustrates major problem

BMJ 2003;327:50.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

Effectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in general practice: Study had two major flaws

BMJ 2003;327:51.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Effectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in general practice

BMJ 2003;327:51.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: Doctors occupy special position

BMJ 2003;327:51.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: Doctors should keep out of it

BMJ 2003;327:52.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: “Comfort care” needs robust moral framework

BMJ 2003;327:52.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: Distinction needs to be made between choice and obligation

BMJ 2003;327:52.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland

BMJ 2003;327:52.4 (Published 3 July 2003)

Telephone consultation requires appropriate training

BMJ 2003;327:53.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Not all authors will gain

BMJ 2003;327:53.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

“Author pays” publishing model: NHS authors now enjoy free open access publication

BMJ 2003;327:53.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

“Author pays” publishing model: Answering to some objections

BMJ 2003;327:54.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

“Author pays” publishing model: Strategy is needed to get from A to B

BMJ 2003;327:54.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Letters - continued

“Author pays” publishing model: Model is concerned with vanity and profit

BMJ 2003;327:54.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

“Author pays” publishing model: Only “bad” authors should pay

BMJ 2003;327:54.4 (Published 3 July 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Margaret Borzyskowski

BMJ 2003;327:55.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Malcolm Sinclair Campbell

BMJ 2003;327:55.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Lawrence Crouch

BMJ 2003;327:55.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

Rachel Joce

BMJ 2003;327:55.4 (Published 3 July 2003)

Alistair Law

BMJ 2003;327:55.5 (Published 3 July 2003)

Robert Allardyce Main

BMJ 2003;327:55.6 (Published 3 July 2003)

Frederick William Millard

BMJ 2003;327:55.7 (Published 3 July 2003)

Charles Warden Orr

BMJ 2003;327:56.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Joseph Pegum

BMJ 2003;327:56.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

William Jeffrey Scott

BMJ 2003;327:56.4 (Published 3 July 2003)

Ian Smith

BMJ 2003;327:56.5 (Published 3 July 2003)

Leader Dominic Stirling

BMJ 2003;327:56.6 (Published 3 July 2003)

Sid Watkins

BMJ 2003;327:56.7 (Published 3 July 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;327:60 (Published 3 July 2003)

Fillers

Lifetime risk of mole transforming to melanoma is very low

BMJ 2003;327:0.8 (Published 3 July 2003)

Smoking cessation dilemmas in prison

BMJ 2003;327:29 (Published 3 July 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;327:42 (Published 3 July 2003)

Grommets, dude?

BMJ 2003;327:46 (Published 3 July 2003)

Advice

BMJ 2003;327:56.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Viral lower respiratory tract infection in infants and young children

BMJ 2003;327:36 (Published 3 July 2003)

Life threatening complications after partially treated mastoiditis

BMJ 2003;327:41 (Published 3 July 2003)

Interventional pharmacotherapy

BMJ 2003;327:43 (Published 3 July 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Medicines Control Agency slated by Commons committee

BMJ 2003;327:10.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Group to review babies' deaths

BMJ 2003;327:10.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

UN report predicts shortfall in AIDS funding in developing countries

BMJ 2003;327:10.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

Doctors fear that rise in infection rates points to a return to unsafe sex

BMJ 2003;327:10.4 (Published 3 July 2003)

Unsafe sexual practices are common, say US studies

BMJ 2003;327:10.5 (Published 3 July 2003)

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

Health effects of chemicals need closer scrutiny

BMJ 2003;327:10.6 (Published 3 July 2003)

Aid agency launches latest initiative to tackle diseases in the developing world

BMJ 2003;327:11.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Report calls for better evaluation of pharmcogenetic tests

BMJ 2003;327:11.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Very preterm babies at greater risk of slow development

BMJ 2003;327:12.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Oxford professor faces investigation over rejection of Israeli student

BMJ 2003;327:12.3 (Published 3 July 2003)

US scientists back bill for free access to publicly funded science research

BMJ 2003;327:12.4 (Published 3 July 2003)

Australian public hospitals face only a residual role in elective surgery

BMJ 2003;327:12.5 (Published 3 July 2003)

Women with dense breast tissue need both mammography and ultrasonography to detect tumours

BMJ 2003;327:12.6 (Published 3 July 2003)

Karaoke can damage singers' voices and hearing

BMJ 2003;327:12.7 (Published 3 July 2003)

Papers

Surgeon specific mortality in adult cardiac surgery: comparison between crude and risk stratified data

BMJ 2003;327:13 (Published 3 July 2003)

Cohort study of hepatotoxicity associated with nimesulide and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

BMJ 2003;327:18 (Published 3 July 2003)

Prospective observational cohort study of time saved by prehospital thrombolysis for ST elevation myocardial infarction delivered by paramedics

BMJ 2003;327:22 (Published 3 July 2003)

Safety and feasibility of prehospital thrombolysis carried out by paramedics

BMJ 2003;327:27 (Published 3 July 2003)

Abstinence from smoking eight years after participation in randomised controlled trial of nicotine patch

BMJ 2003;327:28 (Published 3 July 2003)

Primary care

Reliability of international normalised ratios from two point of care test systems: comparison with conventional methods

BMJ 2003;327:30 (Published 3 July 2003)

Learning in practice

The case for knowledge translation: shortening the journey from evidence to effect

BMJ 2003;327:33 (Published 3 July 2003)

Education and debate

Strategy for randomised clinical trials in rare cancers

BMJ 2003;327:47 (Published 3 July 2003)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain

BMJ 2003;327:57.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

The Discovery of the Germ

BMJ 2003;327:57.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Now let's have evidence based politics

BMJ 2003;327:58.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Rare cancers

BMJ 2003;327:58.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

What it's really like at the coalface

BMJ 2003;327:59.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

A secret revealed

BMJ 2003;327:59.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Corrections

ABC of diabetes: cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and lipids

BMJ 2003;327:17.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Accuracy of Ottawa ankle rules to exclude fractures of the ankle and mid-foot: systematic review

BMJ 2003;327:17.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Patients' accounts of being removed from their general practitioner's list: qualitative study

BMJ 2003;327:26.1 (Published 3 July 2003)

Doctors' diagnosis

BMJ 2003;327:26.2 (Published 3 July 2003)

Perspectives

BMJ 2003;327:26.3 (Published 3 July 2003)