19 January 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7330)

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Editor's Choice

Health systems: where doctors and patients meet

BMJ 2002;324:0.10 (Published 19 January 2002)

News

Children's charity criticises global immunisation initiative

BMJ 2002;324:129.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

France outlaws the right to sue for being born

BMJ 2002;324:129.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:130.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Doctors worried about threat to supplies of animal insulin

BMJ 2002;324:130.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Bayer faces Swiss criminal probe over cerivastatin

BMJ 2002;324:130.3 (Published 19 January 2002)

Recognising chronic fatigue is key to improving outcomes

BMJ 2002;324:131.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

New agency created to fight infectious diseases

BMJ 2002;324:131.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Americans swap the couch for pills

BMJ 2002;324:133.3 (Published 19 January 2002)

Government sued for 11 week delay in warning about aspirin

BMJ 2002;324:134.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

General Medical Council rejects complaint brought by a member

BMJ 2002;324:134.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Exhibition challenges view of developing world

BMJ 2002;324:134.3 (Published 19 January 2002)

Editorials

Obstetric cholestasis

BMJ 2002;324:123 (Published 19 January 2002)

Caring for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome

BMJ 2002;324:124 (Published 19 January 2002)

Learning in practice: a new section in the BMJ

BMJ 2002;324:125 (Published 19 January 2002)

Researching the outcomes of educational interventions: a matter of design

BMJ 2002;324:126 (Published 19 January 2002)

Oh NHS, thou art sick

BMJ 2002;324:127 (Published 19 January 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Article makes simple errors and could cause unnecessary deaths

BMJ 2002;324:167.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

GMC must recognise and deal with vexatious complaints fast

BMJ 2002;324:167.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

GMC member forced to stand down from disciplinary panel

BMJ 2002;324:168 (Published 19 January 2002)

Maintaining the integrity of the scientific record

BMJ 2002;324:169.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Anaesthetic machines and anti-hypoxia devices

BMJ 2002;324:169.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Doctors must read drug labels, not whinge about them

BMJ 2002;324:170.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Safety of acupuncture

BMJ 2002;324:170.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Complexity science

BMJ 2002;324:171 (Published 19 January 2002)

Prevalence of permanent childhood hearing impairment

BMJ 2002;324:172.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Doctors' management should not make things worse for patients

BMJ 2002;324:172.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Letters - continued

Medical students are demoralised by some teachers

BMJ 2002;324:173.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Tired surgical trainees: unfit to drive but fit to operate?

BMJ 2002;324:173.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Dame Sheila Sherlock

BMJ 2002;324:174.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Regine Hildebrandt

BMJ 2002;324:174.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Mohamed Suleiman Hamza

BMJ 2002;324:174.3 (Published 19 January 2002)

James Keane

BMJ 2002;324:174.4 (Published 19 January 2002)

Thomas Stephen Low-Beer

BMJ 2002;324:174.5 (Published 19 January 2002)

James Edgar Struthers

BMJ 2002;324:174.6 (Published 19 January 2002)

James Colquhoun Petrie

BMJ 2002;324:174.7 (Published 19 January 2002)

Clinical Review

Healing chronic wounds

BMJ 2002;324:160 (Published 19 January 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:180 (Published 19 January 2002)

Fillers

A chance for a prince-physician

BMJ 2002;324:146.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Beware ill relatives who request second opinions

BMJ 2002;324:152 (Published 19 January 2002)

A nameless medical hero of the Franco-Prussian war

BMJ 2002;324:164.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Problem based learning improves undergraduate outcomes

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 19 January 2002)

Electronic monitoring improves control in asthma

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 19 January 2002)

Women who continue with unintended pregnancies are less depressed than those who abort

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 19 January 2002)

Delay in referral does not affect survival in ovarian cancer

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 19 January 2002)

Redesigning cancer care improves patients' experiences

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 19 January 2002)

Kaiser outperforms the NHS

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Butterbur is as effective as cetirizine for hay fever

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Learning needs assessment should not be restrictive

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 19 January 2002)

Better basic care is needed to promote chronic wound healing

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 19 January 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Milburn announces setting up of “foundation” hospitals

BMJ 2002;324:132.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Modernisation Board identifies progress on NHS Plan

BMJ 2002;324:132.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Medicine attracts most allegations of scientific dishonesty in Denmark

BMJ 2002;324:132.3 (Published 19 January 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] - continued

Doctors are called on to renew their professionalism

BMJ 2002;324:132.4 (Published 19 January 2002)

Report calls for end to age discrimination in NHS

BMJ 2002;324:132.5 (Published 19 January 2002)

Corridor scenes capture hospital life

BMJ 2002;324:132.6 (Published 19 January 2002)

Doctors found guilty of substandard care

BMJ 2002;324:133.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Greater exposure to viruses increases risk of heart disease

BMJ 2002;324:133.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Operations in Ireland cancelled because of blood shortages

BMJ 2002;324:134.4 (Published 19 January 2002)

Relations between NHS and private sector are “not a one night stand,” says Milburn

BMJ 2002;324:134.5 (Published 19 January 2002)

Half as many animals used in medical research as 20 years ago

BMJ 2002;324:134.6 (Published 19 January 2002)

Papers

Getting more for their dollar: a comparison of the NHS with California's Kaiser PermanenteCommentary: Funding is not the only factorCommentary: Same price, better careCommentary: Competition made them do it

BMJ 2002;324:135 (Published 19 January 2002)

Randomised controlled trial of butterbur and cetirizine for treating seasonal allergic rhinitis

BMJ 2002;324:144 (Published 19 January 2002)

Analysis of adherence to peak flow monitoring when recording of data is electronic

BMJ 2002;324:146.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Primary care

Effect of delays in primary care referral on survival of women with epithelial ovarian cancer: retrospective audit

BMJ 2002;324:148 (Published 19 January 2002)

Depression and unintended pregnancy in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: a cohort study

BMJ 2002;324:151 (Published 19 January 2002)

Learning in practice

Problem based learning in continuing medical education: a review of controlled evaluation studies

BMJ 2002;324:153 (Published 19 January 2002)

Learning needs assessment: assessing the need

BMJ 2002;324:156 (Published 19 January 2002)

Education and debate

Redesigning cancer care

BMJ 2002;324:164.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Books

Magic Bullets, Lost Horizons: The Rise and Fall of Antibiotics

BMJ 2002;324:176.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Stress and the Heart: Psychosocial Pathways to Coronary Heart Disease

BMJ 2002;324:176.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Film

Iris

BMJ 2002;324:177.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

RADIO

Beyond the Genome

BMJ 2002;324:177.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

PRESS

Generalists versus specialists

BMJ 2002;324:178.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Fighting infectious diseases

BMJ 2002;324:178.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Personal View

Actually, making a diagnosis is quite important

BMJ 2002;324:179.1 (Published 19 January 2002)

Soundings

Relationships

BMJ 2002;324:179.2 (Published 19 January 2002)

Correction

Collaborative meta-analysis of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy for prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in high risk patients

BMJ 2002;324:141 (Published 19 January 2002)