14 April 2001 (Vol 322, Issue 7291)

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Editor's Choice

Lateral thinking

BMJ 2001;322:0.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Lateral thinking

BMJ 2001;322:0.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

News

Public health concerns grow over foot and mouth outbreak

BMJ 2001;322:881.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

Antibiotics database launched

BMJ 2001;322:881.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;322:882.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

Screensaver harnesses computer power for cancer research

BMJ 2001;322:882.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Welsh assembly scraps prescription charges for under 25s

BMJ 2001;322:882.3 (Published 14 April 2001)

FDA targets snack foods industry over allergens

BMJ 2001;322:883.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

MPs demand action to prevent “genetic underclass”

BMJ 2001;322:883.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

GMC publishes register of members' interests

BMJ 2001;322:883.3 (Published 14 April 2001)

Tuberculosis outbreak hits the UK

BMJ 2001;322:884.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

Atopic dermatitis in children costs £47m each year

BMJ 2001;322:884.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Dutch GP convicted after concealing rape sentence

BMJ 2001;322:884.3 (Published 14 April 2001)

Editorials

Resources, Down's syndrome, and cardiac surgery

BMJ 2001;322:875 (Published 14 April 2001)

Synchronous chemoradiation for squamous carcinomas

BMJ 2001;322:876 (Published 14 April 2001)

HPV testing for clarifying borderline cervical smear results

BMJ 2001;322:878 (Published 14 April 2001)

Any casualties in the clash of randomised and observational evidence?

BMJ 2001;322:879 (Published 14 April 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

International funding for AIDS care in poor countries should be increased

BMJ 2001;322:924.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

Atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia

BMJ 2001;322:924.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Psychological debriefing

BMJ 2001;322:928 (Published 14 April 2001)

Hands off technique has many benefits for breastfeeding mothers

BMJ 2001;322:929 (Published 14 April 2001)

Partnership between NHS and pharmaceutical sector is needed

BMJ 2001;322:930.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

Letters - continued

Medical journals are socially responsible about war

BMJ 2001;322:930.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Is general practice losing its way?

BMJ 2001;322:930.3 (Published 14 April 2001)

Study of walk-in centres was flawed

BMJ 2001;322:931.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

Apples and oranges have previously been shown to be remarkably similar

BMJ 2001;322:931.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2001;322:938 (Published 14 April 2001)

Fillers

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 2001;322:897.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Just another chronic chest

BMJ 2001;322:901 (Published 14 April 2001)

A temperance experiment

BMJ 2001;322:908.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Reform in medical dinners

BMJ 2001;322:908.3 (Published 14 April 2001)

A barber's licence to shave

BMJ 2001;322:912.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

This Week In the BMJ

H pylori testing in primary care increases endoscopy rates

BMJ 2001;322:0.8 (Published 14 April 2001)

Blood pressure fell in young adults in Glasgow between 1948 and 1968

BMJ 2001;322:0.3 (Published 14 April 2001)

Heavier babies are more likely to develop childhood onset type 1 diabetes

BMJ 2001;322:0.4 (Published 14 April 2001)

Take home naloxone saves lives

BMJ 2001;322:0.7 (Published 14 April 2001)

Older women have more caesarean sections irrespective of obstetric complications

BMJ 2001;322:0.6 (Published 14 April 2001)

Human papillomavirus is not an accurate marker for high grade disease

BMJ 2001;322:0.5 (Published 14 April 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Orthopaedics

BMJ 2001;322:902 (Published 14 April 2001)

“High” ear piercing and the rising incidence of perichondritis of the pinna

BMJ 2001;322:906 (Published 14 April 2001)

Measurement of blood presssure: an evidence based review

BMJ 2001;322:908.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

The pathophysiology of hypertension

BMJ 2001;322:912.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Ireland plans huge boost in consultant numbers

BMJ 2001;322:884.4 (Published 14 April 2001)

Head injury patients “need personal advocates”

BMJ 2001;322:884.5 (Published 14 April 2001)

Plastic surgeon settles discrimination case against NHS

BMJ 2001;322:884.6 (Published 14 April 2001)

Papers

Changes in blood pressure among students attending Glasgow University between 1948 and 1968: analyses of cross sectional surveys

BMJ 2001;322:885 (Published 14 April 2001)

Birth weight and childhood onset type 1 diabetes: population based cohort study

BMJ 2001;322:889 (Published 14 April 2001)

Human papillomavirus testing and the management of women with mildly abnormal cervical smears: an observational study

BMJ 2001;322:893 (Published 14 April 2001)

Do obstetric complications explain high caesarean section rates among women over 30? A retrospective analysis

BMJ 2001;322:894 (Published 14 April 2001)

Take home naloxone and the prevention of deaths from opiate overdose: two pilot schemes

BMJ 2001;322:895 (Published 14 April 2001)

Surgeons' attitudes to intraoperative death: questionnaire survey

BMJ 2001;322:896 (Published 14 April 2001)

Benign intracranial hypertension secondary to nasal fluticasone propionate

BMJ 2001;322:897.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

Primary care

Randomised controlled trial of Helicobacter pylori testing and endoscopy for dyspepsia in primary care

BMJ 2001;322:898 (Published 14 April 2001)

Education and debate

Reducing maternal mortality in the developing world: sector-wide approaches may be the key

BMJ 2001;322:917 (Published 14 April 2001)

Call for a new approach to the process of clinical trials and drug registration

BMJ 2001;322:920 (Published 14 April 2001)

Books

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME): The Facts

BMJ 2001;322:934.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

Quacks: Fakers and Charlatans in English Medicine

BMJ 2001;322:934.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Ice Bound: One Woman's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

BMJ 2001;322:935.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

The Private Life of the Brain

BMJ 2001;322:935.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

HIT PARADE

FEBRUARY

BMJ 2001;322:935.3 (Published 14 April 2001)

PRESS

New Labour, new matrons

BMJ 2001;322:936.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Body piercing

BMJ 2001;322:936.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Personal View

Time to abandon the term mental illness

BMJ 2001;322:937.1 (Published 14 April 2001)

Soundings

The European Leisure Time Directive

BMJ 2001;322:937.2 (Published 14 April 2001)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Islay Cecil Chambers (Bunty Barne)Charles Denley ClarkEmil Mendel HolzerAlison Kennard MittingMary Patricia Stella PhelanAileen Campbell RocheSuhas Kumar RoyJames Brian ShawArthur Harold Colyear WalkerWilliam (Bill) Eric Watson

BMJ 2001;322:932 (Published 14 April 2001)