15 July 2004 (Vol 329, Issue 7464)

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This Week In the BMJ

Environmental factors linked to asthma prevalence disparity

BMJ 2004;329:0.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Corticosteroids reduce mortality in intensive care

BMJ 2004;329:0.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

Enteral feeding practices can be improved

BMJ 2004;329:0.5 (Published 26 August 2004)

Asthma prevalence has not increased in Aberdeen

BMJ 2004;329:0.3 (Published 26 August 2004)

Breast screening works less well in some groups of women

BMJ 2004;329:0.4 (Published 26 August 2004)

Editor's Choice

Reflecting in the swampy lowlands

BMJ 2004;329:0.7 (Published 26 August 2004)

Editorials

To scan or not to scan in headache

BMJ 2004;329:469 (Published 26 August 2004)

Screening research papers by reading abstracts

BMJ 2004;329:470 (Published 26 August 2004)

Is good cholesterol always good?

BMJ 2004;329:471 (Published 26 August 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Getting ethics into practice: Tuskegee was bad enough

BMJ 2004;329:513.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Getting ethics into practice: Comparing Alder Hey with Tuskegee is not helpful

BMJ 2004;329:513.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

Getting ethics into practice: Ethics entails much common sense

BMJ 2004;329:513.3 (Published 26 August 2004)

Getting ethics into practice: Author's reply

BMJ 2004;329:513.4 (Published 26 August 2004)

Future of psychotherapy in the NHS: Control groups play important part

BMJ 2004;329:514.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Future of psychotherapy in the NHS: Psychotherapists require more than evidence based services to be recognised as professionals

BMJ 2004;329:514.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

Arteriolar narrowing as predictor of hypertension: Blood pressure and weight gain are better

BMJ 2004;329:514.3 (Published 26 August 2004)

Arteriolar narrowing as predictor of hypertension: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:514.4 (Published 26 August 2004)

Man wins battle to keep receiving life support: Pro-choice living wills are essential

BMJ 2004;329:515.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Man wins battle to keep receiving life support: Doctors must always give patients best possible care

BMJ 2004;329:515.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

Blood should be treated respectfully

BMJ 2004;329:515.3 (Published 26 August 2004)

News

Extreme weather worsens global hunger

BMJ 2004;329:473.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Medical bodies urge investigation of alleged involvement in torture

BMJ 2004;329:473.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;329:474.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

News - continued

French parliamentary committee advocates passive euthanasia

BMJ 2004;329:474.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

Meet Rudy, the world's first “robodoc”

BMJ 2004;329:474.3 (Published 26 August 2004)

FDA again reviews antidepressants

BMJ 2004;329:475.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

NICE sets out guidelines for hypertension

BMJ 2004;329:475.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

It's only rock‘n’roll

BMJ 2004;329:476.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Spinal immobilisation for unconscious patients with multiple injuries

BMJ 2004;329:495 (Published 26 August 2004)

Abnormal liver function found after an unplanned consultation: case outcome

BMJ 2004;329:500.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Patient's experience

BMJ 2004;329:500.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

Imaging in biliary obstruction

BMJ 2004;329:501.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Itching for a diagnosis

BMJ 2004;329:501.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

The gap between doctors' and patients' perceptions

BMJ 2004;329:502.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

“Double loop” learning

BMJ 2004;329:502.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

When we leave hospital: a patient's perspective of burn injury

BMJ 2004;329:504 (Published 26 August 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:520 (Published 26 August 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Stroke services have improved but remain overstretched

BMJ 2004;329:476.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

High number of tumour cells may affect breast cancer outcomes

BMJ 2004;329:476.3 (Published 26 August 2004)

Dutch doctors warn parents over whooping cough vaccine

BMJ 2004;329:476.4 (Published 26 August 2004)

AIDS patients in Pakistan launch fight for better treatment

BMJ 2004;329:476.5 (Published 26 August 2004)

World Bank report examines India's approach to tackling AIDS

BMJ 2004;329:476.6 (Published 26 August 2004)

Drug company pulls out of Chinese lawsuit over diabetes drug

BMJ 2004;329:476.7 (Published 26 August 2004)

“Conscience” clauses allow US corporate providers to refuse care

BMJ 2004;329:476.8 (Published 26 August 2004)

Women's groups in India call on men to take more active role in contraception

BMJ 2004;329:476.9 (Published 26 August 2004)

Papers

Influence of personal characteristics of individual women on sensitivity and specificity of mammography in the Million Women Study: cohort study

BMJ 2004;329:477 (Published 26 August 2004)

Corticosteroids for severe sepsis and septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2004;329:480 (Published 26 August 2004)

Papers - continued

The long term clinical course of acute deep vein thrombosis of the arm: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2004;329:484 (Published 26 August 2004)

Primary care

Factors associated with difference in prevalence of asthma in children from three cities in China: multicentre epidemiological survey

BMJ 2004;329:486 (Published 26 August 2004)

Respiratory symptoms and atopy in children in Aberdeen: questionnaire studies of a defined school population repeated over 35 years

BMJ 2004;329:489 (Published 26 August 2004)

Quality Improvement Report

Using rapid-cycle quality improvement methodology to reduce feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia: before and after study

BMJ 2004;329:491 (Published 26 August 2004)

Education and debate

Use of decision aids to support informed choices about screening

BMJ 2004;329:507 (Published 26 August 2004)

Experiences of the BMJ ethics committee

BMJ 2004;329:510 (Published 26 August 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

BMJ 2004;329:517 (Published 26 August 2004)

The Motorcycle Diaries

BMJ 2004;329:518 (Published 26 August 2004)

366 500 injections later

BMJ 2004;329:519.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Privacy concerns

BMJ 2004;329:519.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

Fillers

Combinations of antiemetics are better for post-operative nausea and vomiting

BMJ 2004;329:0.6 (Published 26 August 2004)

Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor and me

BMJ 2004;329:485 (Published 26 August 2004)

Physician, heal thyself

BMJ 2004;329:490 (Published 26 August 2004)

Prophets and prophecies

BMJ 2004;329:494 (Published 26 August 2004)

The benefits of a cross channel flight

BMJ 2004;329:503 (Published 26 August 2004)

From head to toe an airborne soldier

BMJ 2004;329:512 (Published 26 August 2004)

Corrections

New treatments for colon cancer

BMJ 2004;329:499.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Health experts warn of disease as worst flooding in years hits Bangladesh

BMJ 2004;329:499.2 (Published 26 August 2004)

Blood pressure control by home monitoring: meta-analysis of randomised trials

BMJ 2004;329:499.3 (Published 26 August 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Dame Rosalinde Hurley

BMJ 2004;329:516.1 (Published 26 August 2004)

Sir Gordon Ethelbert Ward Wolstenholme

BMJ 2004;329:516.2 (Published 26 August 2004)