20 April 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7343)

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Editor's Choice

Least worst solutions

BMJ 2002;324:0.10 (Published 20 April 2002)

News

“Unacceptable” errors found in breast screening service

BMJ 2002;324:933.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

The metatarsal finds stardom at last

BMJ 2002;324:933.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:934.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Single flexible sigmoidoscopy screening could help prevent colorectal cancer

BMJ 2002;324:934.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Smoker wins £250000 from BAT

BMJ 2002;324:934.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

Labour and Conservatives draw up battle lines on NHS

BMJ 2002;324:935.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Serious Fraud Office swoops on drug companies

BMJ 2002;324:935.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

World Medical Association condemns harassment of health workers in West Bank and Gaza

BMJ 2002;324:937.4 (Published 20 April 2002)

UK government must stop making heroic promises, report says

BMJ 2002;324:938.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Editorials

Driving and arrhythmias

BMJ 2002;324:927 (Published 20 April 2002)

Promoting evidence based practice in maternal care

BMJ 2002;324:928 (Published 20 April 2002)

Doctors' knowledge about evidence based medicine terminology

BMJ 2002;324:929 (Published 20 April 2002)

Using drugs safely

BMJ 2002;324:930 (Published 20 April 2002)

Left and right sided large bowel cancer

BMJ 2002;324:931 (Published 20 April 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Patients' denial of disease may pose difficulty for achieving informed consent

BMJ 2002;324:974.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunizations

BMJ 2002;324:974.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Fifth revision of Declaration of Helsinki

BMJ 2002;324:975 (Published 20 April 2002)

Bipolar affective disorder

BMJ 2002;324:976.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

First episode psychosis

BMJ 2002;324:976.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for donor babies carries some harm

BMJ 2002;324:976.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

Rehabilitation services remain important in multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2002;324:977.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Postoperative chemoradiotherapy helps in gastric adenocarcinoma

BMJ 2002;324:977.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Endoscopy is useful during percutaneous tracheostomy

BMJ 2002;324:977.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

Income inequality and population health

BMJ 2002;324:978 (Published 20 April 2002)

If only lottery winnings were randomly assigned

BMJ 2002;324:979.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Surgeons should beware of plans to print individual performance

BMJ 2002;324:979.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Open letter to the National Blood Service

BMJ 2002;324:979.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

David Ernest Bolt

BMJ 2002;324:980.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

David Bainton

BMJ 2002;324:980.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Ellis Baker

BMJ 2002;324:980.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

Alastair Batchelor

BMJ 2002;324:980.4 (Published 20 April 2002)

William Donald McNaul

BMJ 2002;324:980.5 (Published 20 April 2002)

Jim McSherry

BMJ 2002;324:980.6 (Published 20 April 2002)

Thomas James Kitson Merritt

BMJ 2002;324:980.7 (Published 20 April 2002)

Alexander James Mutch

BMJ 2002;324:980.8 (Published 20 April 2002)

Geoffrey Robert Peberdy

BMJ 2002;324:980.9 (Published 20 April 2002)

Peter David Phelps

BMJ 2002;324:980.10 (Published 20 April 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:986 (Published 20 April 2002)

Fillers

Advertising

BMJ 2002;324:945.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Round the back

BMJ 2002;324:957 (Published 20 April 2002)

A case of mistaken muscles

BMJ 2002;324:962 (Published 20 April 2002)

As in a mirror

BMJ 2002;324:966 (Published 20 April 2002)

New manuscript submission system: fast track papers only

BMJ 2002;324:971.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Endpiece: Seeing properly

BMJ 2002;324:971.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Academic record predicts success at medical school

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 20 April 2002)

Regulation in the NHS: is it good news?

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 20 April 2002)

Diabetes is not as fatal as coronary heart disease

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

When should transplants not be performed?

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 20 April 2002)

Basic training in cognitive behaviour therapy is not effective

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 20 April 2002)

Australian GPs overestimate their knowledge of evidence based concepts

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 20 April 2002)

In Latin America 90% of women have an episiotomy

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

Richer women have caesarean sections

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Lack of acute beds overcrowds emergency departments

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 20 April 2002)

Caesarean sections

BMJ 2002;324:983.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Emergency medicine

BMJ 2002;324:958 (Published 20 April 2002)

Acute myocardial infarction—Part II

BMJ 2002;324:963 (Published 20 April 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Study adds to evidence that statins reduce risk of Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2002;324:936.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Consultants need flexibility in their careers

BMJ 2002;324:936.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Eradication of polio threatened by $300m funding shortfall

BMJ 2002;324:936.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

GMC decides not to proceed with case against Craft

BMJ 2002;324:936.4 (Published 20 April 2002)

FDA halts sales of nicotine lollipops

BMJ 2002;324:936.5 (Published 20 April 2002)

Australia's plan to reduce drug spending attacked by doctors

BMJ 2002;324:937.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

NHS must provide bupropion for smokers wanting to quit, NICE says

BMJ 2002;324:937.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

International trade rules “rigged in favour of the rich,” Oxfam says

BMJ 2002;324:937.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Dr Wouter Basson cleared of murder of apartheid opponents

BMJ 2002;324:938.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Drugs agency reminds companies of duty to report side effects

BMJ 2002;324:938.3 (Published 20 April 2002)

Delay in diagnosis of breast cancer after screening is associated with bigger tumours

BMJ 2002;324:938.4 (Published 20 April 2002)

Papers

Comparison of cardiovascular risk between patients with type 2 diabetes and those who had had a myocardial infarction: cross sectional and cohort studies

BMJ 2002;324:939 (Published 20 April 2002)

Consumer demand for caesarean sections in Brazil: informed decision making, patient choice, or social inequality? A population based birth cohort study linking ethnographic and epidemiological methods

BMJ 2002;324:942 (Published 20 April 2002)

Episiotomy rates in primiparous women in Latin America: hospital based descriptive study

BMJ 2002;324:945.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Primary care

Effectiveness of teaching general practitioners skills in brief cognitive behaviour therapy to treat patients with depression: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2002;324:947 (Published 20 April 2002)

General practitioners' self ratings of skills in evidence based medicine: validation study

BMJ 2002;324:950 (Published 20 April 2002)

Learning in practice

Factors associated with success in medical school: systematic review of the literature

BMJ 2002;324:952 (Published 20 April 2002)

Education and debate

The rise of regulation in the NHS

BMJ 2002;324:967 (Published 20 April 2002)

A tale of two novel transplants not done: the ethics of limb allografts

BMJ 2002;324:971.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Books

Thinking about Patients

BMJ 2002;324:982.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Oxymorons: The Myth of a US Health Care System

BMJ 2002;324:982.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930

BMJ 2002;324:983.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

PRESS

Why scare stories are good for the NHS

BMJ 2002;324:984 (Published 20 April 2002)

Personal View

It can happen to anyone

BMJ 2002;324:985.1 (Published 20 April 2002)

Soundings

Roots

BMJ 2002;324:985.2 (Published 20 April 2002)

Correction

Dorothy Wright (née Senior)

BMJ 2002;324:981 (Published 20 April 2002)