15 December 2001 (Vol 323, Issue 7326)

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Editor's Choice

The edges of doctoring: the law's view

BMJ 2001;323:0.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

News

Review of cancer services shows poor coordination in NHS

BMJ 2001;323:1383 (Published 15 December 2001)

“Existential” suffering not a justification for euthanasia

BMJ 2001;323:1384.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Highest French court awards compensation for “being born”

BMJ 2001;323:1384.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;323:1384.3 (Published 15 December 2001)

Head of the Medical Council of India removed for corruption

BMJ 2001;323:1385.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Doctors sceptical that new policy will greatly increase choice

BMJ 2001;323:1385.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Blinding trachoma almost eliminated from Morocco

BMJ 2001;323:1387.3 (Published 15 December 2001)

Rates of liver cirrhosis rise in England, fall in Europe

BMJ 2001;323:1388.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Doctor wins battle against GMC's decision to strike him off

BMJ 2001;323:1388.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Editorials

Iron deficiency and impaired child development

BMJ 2001;323:1377 (Published 15 December 2001)

Smoking in teenagers and watching films showing smoking

BMJ 2001;323:1378 (Published 15 December 2001)

Funding medicines for people with multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2001;323:1379 (Published 15 December 2001)

Updating guidelines on asthma in adults

BMJ 2001;323:1380 (Published 15 December 2001)

Hormone replacement therapy and the breast

BMJ 2001;323:1381 (Published 15 December 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Monitoring clinical trials

BMJ 2001;323:1424 (Published 15 December 2001)

Getting consent for necropsies

BMJ 2001;323:1426.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Genetics mediate relation of birth weight to childhood IQ

BMJ 2001;323:1426.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Quality of care for people with dementia

BMJ 2001;323:1427 (Published 15 December 2001)

Teenage pregnancy is not a public health problem

BMJ 2001;323:1428 (Published 15 December 2001)

National service frameworks

BMJ 2001;323:1429.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Don't GPs have to be good clinicians any more?

BMJ 2001;323:1429.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Charles A Crenshaw

BMJ 2001;323:1430.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Thomas Snowdon Blaiklock

BMJ 2001;323:1430.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Walter Vincent Cuschieri

BMJ 2001;323:1430.3 (Published 15 December 2001)

Obituaries - continued

Paul Francis Heffron

BMJ 2001;323:1430.4 (Published 15 December 2001)

Colin Hindson

BMJ 2001;323:1430.5 (Published 15 December 2001)

George Hamilton Hughes

BMJ 2001;323:1430.6 (Published 15 December 2001)

Esther Kerr

BMJ 2001;323:1430.7 (Published 15 December 2001)

Kalyanasundaram Subra Mani

BMJ 2001;323:1430.8 (Published 15 December 2001)

William (“Bill”) McKellar

BMJ 2001;323:1430.9 (Published 15 December 2001)

George William Senter

BMJ 2001;323:1430.10 (Published 15 December 2001)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2001;323:1436 (Published 15 December 2001)

Fillers

Asking the right questions

BMJ 2001;323:1393 (Published 15 December 2001)

Good Lord, deliver us

BMJ 2001;323:1401.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Some memorable advice

BMJ 2001;323:1407 (Published 15 December 2001)

The importance of keeping contemporaneous records

BMJ 2001;323:1423 (Published 15 December 2001)

This Week In the BMJ

New glaucoma drugs have dramatically decreased the need for operation

BMJ 2001;323:0.5 (Published 15 December 2001)

Social class at birth may affect outcome in schizophrenia

BMJ 2001;323:0.4 (Published 15 December 2001)

Oral iron can improve motor and language development in preschool children

BMJ 2001;323:0.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Seeing people smoking in films influences adolescents to try smoking

BMJ 2001;323:0.3 (Published 15 December 2001)

Elderly people respond well to assessment by postal questionnaire

BMJ 2001;323:0.6 (Published 15 December 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Genetics and cardiovascular risk

BMJ 2001;323:1409 (Published 15 December 2001)

Cancer of the stomach and pancreas

BMJ 2001;323:1413 (Published 15 December 2001)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Government insists NHS pays for drugs approved by NICE

BMJ 2001;323:1386.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Scientists “grow” monkey stem cell lines from cloned embryos

BMJ 2001;323:1386.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Boost to NHS information systems as NHS signs Microsoft deal

BMJ 2001;323:1386.3 (Published 15 December 2001)

Health service ranked as most violent work environment in Australia

BMJ 2001;323:1386.4 (Published 15 December 2001)

Scots think healthy food is “boring and tasteless”

BMJ 2001;323:1386.5 (Published 15 December 2001)

Teenager died after surgeon “lost his temper”

BMJ 2001;323:1387.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Breast cancer drug “surpasses” tamoxifen

BMJ 2001;323:1387.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

NHS faces critical shortfall in number of consultant surgeons

BMJ 2001;323:1388.3 (Published 15 December 2001)

New childhood leukaemia identified by gene chip technology

BMJ 2001;323:1388.4 (Published 15 December 2001)

Additional drug treatment approved for heart patients

BMJ 2001;323:1388.5 (Published 15 December 2001)

European countries face similar problems of demographic ageing and higher patient expectations

BMJ 2001;323:1388.6 (Published 15 December 2001)

Parents lose compensation battle for care of disabled child

BMJ 2001;323:1388.7 (Published 15 December 2001)

GMC clears surgeon of 22 charges

BMJ 2001;323:1388.8 (Published 15 December 2001)

Review of cancer services in England and Wales reveals poor coordination

BMJ 2001;323:1388.9 (Published 15 December 2001)

GP who falsified research data found guilty of professional misconduct

BMJ 2001;323:1388.10 (Published 15 December 2001)

Papers

Effects of iron supplementation and anthelmintic treatment on motor and language development of preschool children in Zanzibar: double blind, placebo controlled study

BMJ 2001;323:1389 (Published 15 December 2001)

Effect of seeing tobacco use in films on trying smoking among adolescents: cross sectional study

BMJ 2001;323:1394 (Published 15 December 2001)

Effect of social class at birth on risk and presentation of schizophrenia: case-control study

BMJ 2001;323:1398 (Published 15 December 2001)

The impact of new drugs on management of glaucoma in Scotland: observational study

BMJ 2001;323:1401.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Primary care

Randomised comparison of three methods of administering a screening questionnaire to elderly people: findings from the MRC trial of the assessment and management of older people in the community

BMJ 2001;323:1403 (Published 15 December 2001)

First episode psychosis

BMJ 2001;323:1408 (Published 15 December 2001)

Education and debate

What are the effects of the fifth revision of the Declaration of Helsinki?Fair partnerships support ethical researchGains and losses for rights of consumer and research participantsResearch will be impededSome clauses will hinder development of new drugs…

BMJ 2001;323:1417.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Journal

Men's Health Journal

BMJ 2001;323:1432.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Books

Integrated Cancer Care: Holistic, Complementary and Creative Approaches

BMJ 2001;323:1432.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Holding Health Care Accountable: Law and the New Medical Marketplace

BMJ 2001;323:1433.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

RADIO

Signs of Life

BMJ 2001;323:1433.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Ad

Vincent's bandage

BMJ 2001;323:1434.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

The information gap

BMJ 2001;323:1434.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Personal View

In praise of books

BMJ 2001;323:1435.1 (Published 15 December 2001)

Soundings

Clients on diets

BMJ 2001;323:1435.2 (Published 15 December 2001)

Correction

Understanding the toll of premature death among men in eastern Europe

BMJ 2001;323:1417.2 (Published 15 December 2001)