03 November 2001 (Vol 323, Issue 7320)

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Editor's Choice

Types of resistance

BMJ 2001;323:0.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

News

UK insurers agree five year ban on using genetic tests

BMJ 2001;323:1021.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

French presidential elections can kill

BMJ 2001;323:1021.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;323:1022.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

How anthrax gets a grip on cells

BMJ 2001;323:1022.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Toll of anthrax cases reaches 15

BMJ 2001;323:1022.3 (Published 3 November 2001)

Bayer cuts price of ciprofloxacin after Bush threatens to buy generics

BMJ 2001;323:1023.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Mass hysteria is seen as main threat from bioweapons

BMJ 2001;323:1023.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Drug effects blamed for fifth of hospital deaths among elderly

BMJ 2001;323:1025.3 (Published 3 November 2001)

General Medical Council to elect a new president to succeed Irvine

BMJ 2001;323:1026.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Editorials

The future of men and their health

BMJ 2001;323:1013 (Published 3 November 2001)

The international men's health movement

BMJ 2001;323:1014 (Published 3 November 2001)

Body dysmorphic disorder in men

BMJ 2001;323:1015 (Published 3 November 2001)

Tackling coronary heart disease

BMJ 2001;323:1016 (Published 3 November 2001)

Prophylactic treatment of anthrax with antibiotics

BMJ 2001;323:1017 (Published 3 November 2001)

School based programmes on obesity

BMJ 2001;323:1018 (Published 3 November 2001)

Peace through health

BMJ 2001;323:1020 (Published 3 November 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Consultants at Alder Hey look to the future

BMJ 2001;323:1064.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

One Bristol

BMJ 2001;323:1064.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Doctors' positioning of defibrillation paddles

BMJ 2001;323:1065 (Published 3 November 2001)

Testing for Helicobacter pylori in dyspeptic patients

BMJ 2001;323:1066 (Published 3 November 2001)

Ireland lacks consensus on neonatal vitamin K prophylaxis

BMJ 2001;323:1068.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Oral rehydration solution

BMJ 2001;323:1068.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Oxygen treatment for acute severe asthma

BMJ 2001;323:1069.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Authors should make their data available

BMJ 2001;323:1069.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Prehospital care of trauma must be improved in UK

BMJ 2001;323:1070.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Letters - continued

Story on smoking and poor people is incomplete

BMJ 2001;323:1070.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Health of socially excluded groups: lessons must be applied

BMJ 2001;323:1071.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Bias in alternative medicine is still rife but is diminishing

BMJ 2001;323:1071.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Is it denial or wisdom to accept life threatening illness?

BMJ 2001;323:1071.3 (Published 3 November 2001)

Surgeon with worst performance figures might be best option

BMJ 2001;323:1071.4 (Published 3 November 2001)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2001;323:1078 (Published 3 November 2001)

Fillers

Time out

BMJ 2001;323:1036.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

An obstacle course

BMJ 2001;323:1036.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Foolish idea

BMJ 2001;323:1042.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Infections travellers

BMJ 2001;323:1047.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Is a tattoo the answer?

BMJ 2001;323:1063 (Published 3 November 2001)

This Week In the BMJ

Use of antibacterials in community is weakly linked to resistance

BMJ 2001;323:0.3 (Published 3 November 2001)

Obesity prevention programme produces changes at school level

BMJ 2001;323:0.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Incidence of Duchenne muscular dystrophy is associated with social deprivation

BMJ 2001;323:0.5 (Published 3 November 2001)

Impaired fetal growth is strongly associated with haemorrhagic stroke

BMJ 2001;323:0.6 (Published 3 November 2001)

Minor injuries cause significant and unnecessary school absence among children

BMJ 2001;323:0.4 (Published 3 November 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Benign prostatic hyperplasia

BMJ 2001;323:1042.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Management of Helicobacter pylori infection

BMJ 2001;323:1047.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Trust faces sex discrimination claim

BMJ 2001;323:1024.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Belgium gives terminally ill people the right to die

BMJ 2001;323:1024.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Councils must start work on new NHS scrutiny role

BMJ 2001;323:1024.3 (Published 3 November 2001)

India relies too heavily on screening for safe blood supply, conference told

BMJ 2001;323:1024.4 (Published 3 November 2001)

Condom most popular method of contraception in girls under 16

BMJ 2001;323:1024.5 (Published 3 November 2001)

Milburn defends use of private sector in the NHS

BMJ 2001;323:1025.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Paediatricians criticise college over Southall debacle

BMJ 2001;323:1025.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Ireland seeks injunction to prevent opening of new fuel plant at Sellafield

BMJ 2001;323:1026.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

BMA reassured over revalidation

BMJ 2001;323:1026.3 (Published 3 November 2001)

Canadian government almost swamped by ciprofloxacin

BMJ 2001;323:1026.4 (Published 3 November 2001)

Papers

Evaluation of implementation and effect of primary school based intervention to reduce risk factors for obesity

BMJ 2001;323:1027 (Published 3 November 2001)

Randomised controlled trial of primary school based intervention to reduce risk factors for obesity

BMJ 2001;323:1029 (Published 3 November 2001)

Prenatal growth and risk of occlusive and haemorrhagic stroke in Swedish men and women born 1915-29: historical cohort study

BMJ 2001;323:1033 (Published 3 November 2001)

Unnecessary school absence after minor injury: case-control study

BMJ 2001;323:1034 (Published 3 November 2001)

Social deprivation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: population based study

BMJ 2001;323:1035 (Published 3 November 2001)

Primary care

Antibacterial prescribing and antibacterial resistance in English general practice: cross sectional studyCommentary: antibiotic resistance is a dynamic process

BMJ 2001;323:1037 (Published 3 November 2001)

Education and debate

Understanding the toll of premature death among men in eastern Europe

BMJ 2001;323:1051 (Published 3 November 2001)

Effect of sex and gender on psychosocial aspects of prostate and breast cancer

BMJ 2001;323:1055 (Published 3 November 2001)

No man's land: men, illness, and the NHS

BMJ 2001;323:1058 (Published 3 November 2001)

Sex, gender, and health: the need for a new approach

BMJ 2001;323:1061 (Published 3 November 2001)

Books

Seasonal Affective Disorder: Practice and Research

BMJ 2001;323:1074.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Diseases of Globalization: Socioeconomic Transitions and Health

BMJ 2001;323:1074.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

THEATRE

Mother Clap's Molly House

BMJ 2001;323:1075.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

NETLINES

Netlines

BMJ 2001;323:1075.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Personal Views

A medical memoir

BMJ 2001;323:1076.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Everyman's view of doctors

BMJ 2001;323:1077.1 (Published 3 November 2001)

Girl power

BMJ 2001;323:1077.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Men's health

BMJ 2001;323:1076.2 (Published 3 November 2001)

Soundings

Escape to Eden

BMJ 2001;323:1077.3 (Published 3 November 2001)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

John (Iain) Wylie CookIan Macdonald DingwallClara Jean FraserWilliam IngmanFrancis Stephen PerryZoë Christine RandallJoseph RobinsonJames Gordon SearleJohn Elphinstone UnderwoodWilliam Van EssenJames Meighan WallaceJohn Logan Wilson

BMJ 2001;323:1072 (Published 3 November 2001)