16 February 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7334)

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Editor's Choice

A modest proposal

BMJ 2002;324:0.10 (Published 16 February 2002)

News

Contraception endangered by legal challenge to emergency pill

BMJ 2002;324:381.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Drug therapy reduces birth rate of HIV infected babies from 19% to 3%

BMJ 2002;324:381.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:382.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Campaigners fear that Russia's new tobacco law won't work

BMJ 2002;324:382.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Europe moving at the speed of its slowest member in controlling tobacco

BMJ 2002;324:382.3 (Published 16 February 2002)

Government launches intensive media campaign on MMR

BMJ 2002;324:383.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Authors of guidelines have strong links with drugs industry

BMJ 2002;324:383.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Netherlands considers prescribing heroin to addicts

BMJ 2002;324:385.4 (Published 16 February 2002)

Parents' champion or loose cannon?

BMJ 2002;324:386.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Editorials

Hip protectors

BMJ 2002;324:375 (Published 16 February 2002)

Thoracic surgery in a crisis

BMJ 2002;324:376 (Published 16 February 2002)

Was it a heart attack?

BMJ 2002;324:377 (Published 16 February 2002)

Regulating the regulators

BMJ 2002;324:378 (Published 16 February 2002)

BMJ journals free to the developing world

BMJ 2002;324:380 (Published 16 February 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Rapid assessment of chest pain

BMJ 2002;324:422.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Wrong biochemistry results

BMJ 2002;324:422.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Monitoring safety of over the counter drugs

BMJ 2002;324:424 (Published 16 February 2002)

Daily regimen and compliance with treatment

BMJ 2002;324:425.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Screening for diabetes in general practice

BMJ 2002;324:425.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Don't strangle health promotion, redefine it

BMJ 2002;324:427.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

School based intervention has reduced obesity in Singapore

BMJ 2002;324:427.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

National guidance and allocation of resources

BMJ 2002;324:427.3 (Published 16 February 2002)

Article from Clinical Evidence

BMJ 2002;324:428.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

GPs' undocumented work has increased substantially

BMJ 2002;324:428.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Children are at risk from parked cars

BMJ 2002;324:428.3 (Published 16 February 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

John Richard Farndon

BMJ 2002;324:429.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Julian Arthur John Hall Critchley

BMJ 2002;324:429.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Abhayakumar Gulabchand Gandhi (“Arun”)

BMJ 2002;324:429.3 (Published 16 February 2002)

John Hammond Gibson

BMJ 2002;324:429.4 (Published 16 February 2002)

Ann Mary Herrick (née Coggins)

BMJ 2002;324:429.5 (Published 16 February 2002)

Lakhichand Dhondiram Munot

BMJ 2002;324:429.6 (Published 16 February 2002)

John William Bryan Palmer

BMJ 2002;324:429.7 (Published 16 February 2002)

Norman Douglas Wayne

BMJ 2002;324:429.8 (Published 16 February 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:434 (Published 16 February 2002)

Fillers

Public health and the parish constable

BMJ 2002;324:402 (Published 16 February 2002)

A compassionate end

BMJ 2002;324:407 (Published 16 February 2002)

Teaching myself lessons

BMJ 2002;324:414 (Published 16 February 2002)

The emperor's pointer

BMJ 2002;324:418 (Published 16 February 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Emergency hospital team cuts cardiac deaths by half

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Social security data predict use of inpatient services

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Link of restricted prenatal growth with marriage and mortality is unclear

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 16 February 2002)

Walk-in centres get more visits than general practice from young adults

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 16 February 2002)

Patients involved in medical student assessment should be adequately cared for

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 16 February 2002)

Trial management team should be responsible for patient welfare

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 16 February 2002)

Poorer children are more likely to have traffic related injuries

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 16 February 2002)

Prophylactic mastectomy is of great benefit to high risk women

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 16 February 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Breast cancer

BMJ 2002;324:410 (Published 16 February 2002)

Introduction. I—Leads, rate, rhythm, and cardiac axis

BMJ 2002;324:415 (Published 16 February 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

GMC issues new guidance on clinical research

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 16 February 2002)

Plan to put outside managers in NHS is criticised

BMJ 2002;324:384.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Hepataitis C compensation case could open floodgate to claims

BMJ 2002;324:384.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

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

GMC issues new guidance on clinical research

BMJ 2002;324:384.3 (Published 16 February 2002)

Editorial board charged with wrongly accusing author

BMJ 2002;324:384.4 (Published 16 February 2002)

Practice in remote areas could disintegrate, report says

BMJ 2002;324:384.5 (Published 16 February 2002)

Ontario's family doctors may opt for a capitation payment system

BMJ 2002;324:385.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

France's birth rate matches high Irish levels

BMJ 2002;324:385.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

India plans new legislation to prevent sex selection

BMJ 2002;324:385.3 (Published 16 February 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Mandela emphasises importance of preventing vertical transmission of HIV

BMJ 2002;324:386.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Early periods and late childbearing increase risk of breast cancer, study confirms

BMJ 2002;324:386.3 (Published 16 February 2002)

Papers

Effects of a medical emergency team on reduction of incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrests in hospital: preliminary study

BMJ 2002;324:387 (Published 16 February 2002)

Risk adjustment for hospital use using social security data: cross sectional small area analysis

BMJ 2002;324:390 (Published 16 February 2002)

Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and bowel problems or developmental regression in children with autism: population study

BMJ 2002;324:393 (Published 16 February 2002)

Socioeconomic differences in Swedish children and adolescents injured in road traffic incidents: cross sectional study

BMJ 2002;324:396 (Published 16 February 2002)

Prenatal growth, subsequent marital status, and mortality: longitudinal study

BMJ 2002;324:398 (Published 16 February 2002)

Primary care

What is the role of walk-in centres in the NHS?

BMJ 2002;324:399 (Published 16 February 2002)

Rhinitis

BMJ 2002;324:403 (Published 16 February 2002)

Learning in practice

Use of patients in professional medical examinations: current UK practice and the ethicolegal implications for medical education

BMJ 2002;324:404 (Published 16 February 2002)

The death of the long case?

BMJ 2002;324:408 (Published 16 February 2002)

Education and debate

What to do about poor clinical performance in clinical trialsCommentary: Of course patients should be toldCommentary: The surgeon is only one factor

BMJ 2002;324:419 (Published 16 February 2002)

PRESS

The PSA storm

BMJ 2002;324:431 (Published 16 February 2002)

The great American mammography debate

BMJ 2002;324:432.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Cancer screening

BMJ 2002;324:432.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Personal View

How should doctors decorate their consulting rooms?

BMJ 2002;324:433.1 (Published 16 February 2002)

Soundings

Fire down below

BMJ 2002;324:433.2 (Published 16 February 2002)

Correction

Post-combat syndromes from the Boer war to the Gulf war: a cluster analysis of their nature and attribution

BMJ 2002;324:397 (Published 16 February 2002)