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11 August 2001 (Vol 323, Issue 7308)

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Editor's Choice

Aspiring to be global

BMJ 2001;323:0.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

Aspiring to be global

BMJ 2001;323:0.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

News

Indian doctors defend “unethical” anticancer drug trial

BMJ 2001;323:299.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

Second US institute investigates use of drug in asthma trial

BMJ 2001;323:299.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

UK civil rights groups question safety of stun guns

BMJ 2001;323:300.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

MMR vaccine row raises questions of clinical freedom

BMJ 2001;323:300.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;323:300.3 (Published 11 August 2001)

Researchers deny any attempt to mislead the public over JAMA article on arthritis drug

BMJ 2001;323:301.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

AIDS campaigners to take South Africa's health ministry to court

BMJ 2001;323:301.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

Asthma “crisis” for black Americans

BMJ 2001;323:302.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

New child health tsar promises shake-up of services

BMJ 2001;323:302.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

US tries to ban human cloning

BMJ 2001;323:302.3 (Published 11 August 2001)

Editorials

Management of nodular thyroid disease

BMJ 2001;323:293 (Published 11 August 2001)

The Campbell Collaboration

BMJ 2001;323:294 (Published 11 August 2001)

Measuring the efficiency of health systems

BMJ 2001;323:295 (Published 11 August 2001)

Fabricated or induced illness in children

BMJ 2001;323:296 (Published 11 August 2001)

Improving patients' safety by gathering information

BMJ 2001;323:298 (Published 11 August 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Is the NHS guilty of ageism by not giving free personal care for some older people in England?

BMJ 2001;323:337.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

New beginning for care for elderly people?

BMJ 2001;323:337.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

Maintaining older people's dignity and autonomy in healthcare settings

BMJ 2001;323:340.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

Chemotherapy could be given at patients' workplace

BMJ 2001;323:340.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

New approach to clinical trials and drug registration

BMJ 2001;323:341.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

Letters - continued

Surgeons' attitudes to intraoperative death

BMJ 2001;323:341.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

H pylori testing and endoscopy for dyspepsia in primary care

BMJ 2001;323:342 (Published 11 August 2001)

Some patients seem not to have been included in census

BMJ 2001;323:343.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

Sudden death may not be best

BMJ 2001;323:343.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

Fillers

Physicians

BMJ 2001;323:318.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

Another Englishman

BMJ 2001;323:318.3 (Published 11 August 2001)

Life hangs on chance and the generosity of others

BMJ 2001;323:327 (Published 11 August 2001)

Magisterial

BMJ 2001;323:332.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

Reserve thy judgment

BMJ 2001;323:333 (Published 11 August 2001)

Be on your guard

BMJ 2001;323:334.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

This Week In the BMJ

Efficiency of health systems could be improved

BMJ 2001;323:0.5 (Published 11 August 2001)

Higher rates of breast feeding would reduce infant mortality

BMJ 2001;323:0.3 (Published 11 August 2001)

Combined zinc and vitamin A supplementation reduces diarrhoea and dysentery

BMJ 2001;323:0.6 (Published 11 August 2001)

Heavier babies have higher IQs

BMJ 2001;323:0.4 (Published 11 August 2001)

Singlehanded general practitioners are not underperforming

BMJ 2001;323:0.7 (Published 11 August 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Sports medicine

BMJ 2001;323:328 (Published 11 August 2001)

Deterioration of symptoms after start of thyroid hormone replacement

BMJ 2001;323:332.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Most NHS Direct callers are offered self care advice, study shows

BMJ 2001;323:302.4 (Published 11 August 2001)

Genetically inherited heart disease may not show until mid-life

BMJ 2001;323:302.5 (Published 11 August 2001)

Government simplifies warnings on air pollution

BMJ 2001;323:302.6 (Published 11 August 2001)

Canadian doctors brace themselves as cannabis becomes legal

BMJ 2001;323:302.7 (Published 11 August 2001)

Papers

Ecological study of effect of breast feeding on infant mortality in Latin America

BMJ 2001;323:303 (Published 11 August 2001)

Papers - continued

Comparative efficiency of national health systems: cross national econometric analysis

BMJ 2001;323:307 (Published 11 August 2001)

Influence of variation in birth weight within normal range and within sibships on IQ at age 7 years: cohort study

BMJ 2001;323:310 (Published 11 August 2001)

Simultaneous zinc and vitamin A supplementation in Bangladeshi children: randomised double blind controlled trial

BMJ 2001;323:314 (Published 11 August 2001)

Failure to report ethical approval in child health research: review of published papers

BMJ 2001;323:318.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

Primary care

Do single handed practices offer poorer care? Cross sectional survey of processes and outcomes

BMJ 2001;323:320 (Published 11 August 2001)

Information in practice

Use of cumulative mortality data in patients with acute myocardial infarction for early detection of variation in clinical practice: observational study

BMJ 2001;323:324 (Published 11 August 2001)

Education and debate

A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines

BMJ 2001;323:334.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

EXHIBITION

Reviews

BMJ 2001;323:346 (Published 11 August 2001)

PRESS

Cot death confusion: explaining the unexplainable

BMJ 2001;323:347 (Published 11 August 2001)

Book

“To Improve the Evidence of Medicine”: The 18th Century British Origins of a Critical Approach; Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine 1550-1680

BMJ 2001;323:348.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Testing intelligence

BMJ 2001;323:348.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

BESTSELLERS

Bestsellers

BMJ 2001;323:348.3 (Published 11 August 2001)

Personal View

The burden of evidence

BMJ 2001;323:349.1 (Published 11 August 2001)

Soundings

Paging Dr Parris

BMJ 2001;323:349.2 (Published 11 August 2001)

Review

Minerva

BMJ 2001;323:350 (Published 11 August 2001)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Bertram John BickfordThurstan BrewinNeil Geddes Clarkson HendryBarclay Renfrew HillisMargaret Brown Keeble (née Morton)James Corson LeesShibtosh RoyAnna Violet Seager (née Thompson)Kenneth SouthgateDerek Wilson

BMJ 2001;323:344 (Published 11 August 2001)