02 March 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7336)

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Editor's Choice

Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 2 March 2002)

News

GPs asked to do more for drug misusers

BMJ 2002;324:501.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

NHS settles claim of patients treated with LSD

BMJ 2002;324:501.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:502.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Blair warns of tax increases to pay for NHS

BMJ 2002;324:502.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

US encourages flu jabs for infants aged under 2

BMJ 2002;324:502.3 (Published 2 March 2002)

Embryo cell research should continue, committee says

BMJ 2002;324:503.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Watchdog approves embryo selection to treat 3 year old child

BMJ 2002;324:503.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Bush moves to tighten security around scientific research

BMJ 2002;324:505.4 (Published 2 March 2002)

US issues new guidelines as mammography debate continues

BMJ 2002;324:506.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

First cases of type 2 diabetes found in white UK teenagers

BMJ 2002;324:506.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Editorials

The misdiagnosis of epilepsy

BMJ 2002;324:495 (Published 2 March 2002)

Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy

BMJ 2002;324:496 (Published 2 March 2002)

The discomfort of patient power

BMJ 2002;324:497 (Published 2 March 2002)

Randomised controlled trials for homoeopathy

BMJ 2002;324:498 (Published 2 March 2002)

Brain drain and health professionals

BMJ 2002;324:499 (Published 2 March 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Performance league tables

BMJ 2002;324:542 (Published 2 March 2002)

Effect of patient centredness and positive approach

BMJ 2002;324:543 (Published 2 March 2002)

Somatisation in primary care

BMJ 2002;324:544 (Published 2 March 2002)

Deputy editor of Clinical Evidence replies to letter

BMJ 2002;324:545.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Quality of Cochrane reviews

BMJ 2002;324:545.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Reye's syndrome revisited

BMJ 2002;324:546 (Published 2 March 2002)

Demand for prostate specific antigen testing in primary care

BMJ 2002;324:547.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Despite author's opinion, radiology guideline was correct

BMJ 2002;324:547.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Dishonest doctors should not continue to practise

BMJ 2002;324:547.3 (Published 2 March 2002)

Letters - continued

Clinical medication review by pharmacists would improve care

BMJ 2002;324:548.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Dementia is being avoided in NHS and social care

BMJ 2002;324:548.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Donald William Gould

BMJ 2002;324:549.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

James Robert Clark

BMJ 2002;324:549.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Edward Beresford Davies

BMJ 2002;324:549.3 (Published 2 March 2002)

Margaret Joan Fingland (née Croall)

BMJ 2002;324:549.4 (Published 2 March 2002)

Ann Annam Herrick (née Ponnudarai)

BMJ 2002;324:549.5 (Published 2 March 2002)

Michael Gerard McEntegart

BMJ 2002;324:549.6 (Published 2 March 2002)

Harry Stafford Morton

BMJ 2002;324:549.7 (Published 2 March 2002)

Rani Rajasekaran

BMJ 2002;324:549.8 (Published 2 March 2002)

John Baynes Searle

BMJ 2002;324:549.9 (Published 2 March 2002)

William Simpson

BMJ 2002;324:549.10 (Published 2 March 2002)

Frances Sorrell

BMJ 2002;324:549.11 (Published 2 March 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:554 (Published 2 March 2002)

Fillers

Cleanliness and godliness

BMJ 2002;324:516.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

What's possible

BMJ 2002;324:520.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Never say, “never” again

BMJ 2002;324:529 (Published 2 March 2002)

My important surgical appliance

BMJ 2002;324:534 (Published 2 March 2002)

A new statue to Pasteur

BMJ 2002;324:539.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Asian patients have lower levels of cardiac revascularisation than white

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Homoeopathy does not reduce allergy to dust mite in people with asthma

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 2 March 2002)

Diagnostic specificity and sensitivity changes in different settings

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 2 March 2002)

One stop breast clinics are costly and reduce only short term anxiety

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Different models of informaticist services serve different functions

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 2 March 2002)

Focus groups are effective in eliciting views in those with head and neck cancer

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 2 March 2002)

This Week In the BMJ - continued

One year survival after renal transplantation is steadily improving

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 2 March 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Renal transplantation

BMJ 2002;324:530 (Published 2 March 2002)

Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block

BMJ 2002;324:535 (Published 2 March 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

“No star” NHS trust slated by CHI report

BMJ 2002;324:504.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Women more likely than men to die after heart surgery

BMJ 2002;324:504.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Private medical services in state hospitals in Israel to be shut down

BMJ 2002;324:504.3 (Published 2 March 2002)

Surgeon criticised for performing kidney operation using living donor

BMJ 2002;324:504.4 (Published 2 March 2002)

Netherlands to run trials of marijuana in patients with multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2002;324:504.5 (Published 2 March 2002)

Judge criticises expert witness for misrepresenting research findings

BMJ 2002;324:505.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

India faces drug resistant leishmaniasis

BMJ 2002;324:505.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

More clinics for younger people needed to reduce sex infections

BMJ 2002;324:505.3 (Published 2 March 2002)

Papers

Costs and benefits of a one stop clinic compared with a dedicated breast clinic: randomised controlled trialCommentary: one stop clinics should not be abandoned

BMJ 2002;324:507 (Published 2 March 2002)

Ethnic differences in invasive management of coronary disease: prospective cohort study of patients undergoing angiography

BMJ 2002;324:511 (Published 2 March 2002)

Eliciting views of patients with head and neck cancer and carers on professionally derived standards for careCommentary: Patients' involvement in their treatment matters

BMJ 2002;324:516.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Primary care

Use of ultramolecular potencies of allergen to treat asthmatic people allergic to house dust mite: double blind randomised controlled clinical trial

BMJ 2002;324:520.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Information in practice

A comparative case study of two models of a clinical informaticist service

BMJ 2002;324:524 (Published 2 March 2002)

Education and debate

The architecture of diagnostic research

BMJ 2002;324:539.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Film

The curious adoption of John Q

BMJ 2002;324:551 (Published 2 March 2002)

PUBLISHING

A doctor's guide to Dr Foster

BMJ 2002;324:552.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Nosing around:

BMJ 2002;324:552.2 (Published 2 March 2002)

Personal View

Prosecution or persecution?

BMJ 2002;324:553.1 (Published 2 March 2002)

Soundings

Bad smells are good

BMJ 2002;324:553.2 (Published 2 March 2002)