06 March 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7439)

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Editor's Choice

“Doctor, come quickly. There's been a nuclear incident”

BMJ 2004;328:0.8 (Published 4 March 2004)

News

NIH promotes use of lower cost drugs for hypertension

BMJ 2004;328:539.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

US researchers produce 17 new embryonic stem cell lines

BMJ 2004;328:539.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:540.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Prognosis for teenagers and young people with cancer fails to improve

BMJ 2004;328:540.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

New council takes GMC to High Court for undue leniency

BMJ 2004;328:541.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Patient challenges GMC guidance on withdrawing treatment

BMJ 2004;328:541.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

US societies to defy ban on editing articles from embargoed countries

BMJ 2004;328:543.3 (Published 4 March 2004)

Reports show management of CHD has improved

BMJ 2004;328:544.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Documenting life at a renal centre

BMJ 2004;328:544.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Palliative care at home to get further funds if it saves money

BMJ 2004;328:544.3 (Published 4 March 2004)

Editorials

The human tissue bill

BMJ 2004;328:533 (Published 4 March 2004)

Treating malaria in Africa

BMJ 2004;328:534 (Published 4 March 2004)

What's the E for EBM?

BMJ 2004;328:535 (Published 4 March 2004)

Efficiency, equity, and NICE clinical guidelines

BMJ 2004;328:536 (Published 4 March 2004)

Smoking and blindness

BMJ 2004;328:537 (Published 4 March 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Tobacco should be excluded from free trade agreement

BMJ 2004;328:581.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function

BMJ 2004;328:581.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function

BMJ 2004;328:581.3 (Published 4 March 2004)

Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function

BMJ 2004;328:582.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function

BMJ 2004;328:582.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function

BMJ 2004;328:582.3 (Published 4 March 2004)

Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente

BMJ 2004;328:582.4 (Published 4 March 2004)

Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente

BMJ 2004;328:583.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente

BMJ 2004;328:583.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente

BMJ 2004;328:583.3 (Published 4 March 2004)

Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente

BMJ 2004;328:584.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Letters - continued

Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente

BMJ 2004;328:584.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente

BMJ 2004;328:584.3 (Published 4 March 2004)

Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente

BMJ 2004;328:584.4 (Published 4 March 2004)

Systematic reviews of public health in developing countries are in train

BMJ 2004;328:585.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

School exam results matter in medical job applications

BMJ 2004;328:585.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Gertie Marx

BMJ 2004;328:586 (Published 4 March 2004)

Steven Dominic Feenan

BMJ 2004;328:587.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Gilbert Vincent Griffin

BMJ 2004;328:587.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Charles Brian McShane

BMJ 2004;328:587.3 (Published 4 March 2004)

Henry Rex Marrett

BMJ 2004;328:587.4 (Published 4 March 2004)

Musaad Ali Musaad

BMJ 2004;328:587.5 (Published 4 March 2004)

Rosemary Stephens

BMJ 2004;328:587.6 (Published 4 March 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:592 (Published 4 March 2004)

Fillers

Fondaparinux is as effective and safe as unfractionated heparin for pulmonary embolism

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 4 March 2004)

A memorable consultation

BMJ 2004;328:551 (Published 4 March 2004)

Aggie

BMJ 2004;328:559 (Published 4 March 2004)

A lesson on sustainable living

BMJ 2004;328:567 (Published 4 March 2004)

Fluffy thinking

BMJ 2004;328:574 (Published 4 March 2004)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2004;328:580 (Published 4 March 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Medical response to radiation incidents and radionuclear threats

BMJ 2004;328:568 (Published 4 March 2004)

Severe cholestatic hepatitis induced by pyritinol

BMJ 2004;328:572 (Published 4 March 2004)

Special groups of smokers

BMJ 2004;328:575 (Published 4 March 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Pfizer will not apply for a licence for sildenafil for women

BMJ 2004;328:542.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

New cases of acute childhood asthma decline

BMJ 2004;328:542.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Government must take unpopular decisions to reduce alcohol consumption

BMJ 2004;328:542.3 (Published 4 March 2004)

Second Wanless report welcomed by public health experts

BMJ 2004;328:542.4 (Published 4 March 2004)

CHI's methods for inspecting trusts are flawed, says King's Fund

BMJ 2004;328:542.5 (Published 4 March 2004)

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

US universities threaten to cancel subscriptions to Elsevier journals

BMJ 2004;328:543.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

People with sickle cell disease should be screened for pulmonary hypertension

BMJ 2004;328:543.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Combination therapy reduces symptoms and joint erosion in rheumatoid arthritis

BMJ 2004;328:544.4 (Published 4 March 2004)

GMC invited to counter claims made in Shipman inquiry

BMJ 2004;328:544.5 (Published 4 March 2004)

Nigerian president holds key to global polio eradication

BMJ 2004;328:544.6 (Published 4 March 2004)

Commissioner denies plans for a Europe-wide smoking ban

BMJ 2004;328:544.7 (Published 4 March 2004)

Doctors' group calls for new ways to fund health care

BMJ 2004;328:544.8 (Published 4 March 2004)

Supreme Court holds airline liable for doctor's death

BMJ 2004;328:544.9 (Published 4 March 2004)

German cancer specialist cleared of fraud allegations

BMJ 2004;328:544.10 (Published 4 March 2004)

Papers

Sustained clinical efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Malawi after 10 years as first line treatment: five year prospective study

BMJ 2004;328:545 (Published 4 March 2004)

Prospective study of type 2 diabetes and cognitive decline in women aged 70-81 years

BMJ 2004;328:548 (Published 4 March 2004)

Cognitive ability in childhood and cognitive decline in mid-life: longitudinal birth cohort study

BMJ 2004;328:552 (Published 4 March 2004)

Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort study

BMJ 2004;328:555 (Published 4 March 2004)

Use of lithium and the risk of injurious motor vehicle crash in elderly adults: case-control study nested within a cohort

BMJ 2004;328:558 (Published 4 March 2004)

Primary care

Clinical and economic consequences of a reimbursement restriction of nebulised respiratory therapy in adults: direct comparison of randomised and observational evaluations

BMJ 2004;328:560 (Published 4 March 2004)

Information in practice

How the internet affects patients' experience of cancer: a qualitative study

BMJ 2004;328:564 (Published 4 March 2004)

Education and debate

Sustainability of medical imaging

BMJ 2004;328:578 (Published 4 March 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Are ribbon campaigns making us loopy?

BMJ 2004;328:588 (Published 4 March 2004)

Ribbon development

BMJ 2004;328:589 (Published 4 March 2004)

Plastic surgery reality show angers doctors

BMJ 2004;328:590.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Downsizing

BMJ 2004;328:590.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

The role of a general medical journal

BMJ 2004;328:591.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Cotswold churches

BMJ 2004;328:591.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Corrections

Training for patients in a randomised controlled trial of self management of warfarin treatment and Coeliac disease and schizophrenia: population based case control study with linkage of Danish national registers

BMJ 2004;328:563.1 (Published 4 March 2004)

Review of prevalence data in, and evaluation of methods for cross cultural adaptation of, UK surveys on tobacco and alcohol in ethnic minority groups

BMJ 2004;328:563.2 (Published 4 March 2004)

Reid refuses to accept all recommendations of Blofeld report

BMJ 2004;328:563.3 (Published 4 March 2004)