04 May 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7345)

Prev issue
Next issue

Editor's Choice

Systems in crisis

BMJ 2002;324:0.10 (Published 4 May 2002)

News

Poor countries could lose out on benefits of genomic research

BMJ 2002;324:1053.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

FDA advisory panels recommend Lotronex be put back on market

BMJ 2002;324:1053.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:1054.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Australia acts to restrict IVF treatment to heterosexual couples

BMJ 2002;324:1054.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

Drug companies maintain “astounding” profits

BMJ 2002;324:1054.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

GMC to send out new guidelines on end of life decisions

BMJ 2002;324:1055.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Dying woman loses her battle for assisted suicide

BMJ 2002;324:1055.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

Woman who won right to refuse treatment dies

BMJ 2002;324:1055.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

Torture continues in post-election Zimbabwe

BMJ 2002;324:1057.4 (Published 4 May 2002)

High Court rules that delays breach the rights of detained psychiatric patients

BMJ 2002;324:1058.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Every psychiatric ward should have a lead consultant, DoH says

BMJ 2002;324:1058.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

Editorials

Treatment options for benign prostatic hyperplasia

BMJ 2002;324:1047 (Published 4 May 2002)

A fresh new contract for general practitioners

BMJ 2002;324:1048 (Published 4 May 2002)

Childhood drowning is a global concern

BMJ 2002;324:1049 (Published 4 May 2002)

Genomics and global health

BMJ 2002;324:1051 (Published 4 May 2002)

Paediatric Asthma—a new virtual journal

BMJ 2002;324:1052 (Published 4 May 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

New Medical Education Standards Board will lower standards

BMJ 2002;324:1095.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Mortality and volume of cases in paediatric cardiac surgery

BMJ 2002;324:1095.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

A case of murder and the BMJ

BMJ 2002;324:1096 (Published 4 May 2002)

Depression and unintended pregnancy in young women

BMJ 2002;324:1097 (Published 4 May 2002)

Hound of the Baskervilles effect

BMJ 2002;324:1098 (Published 4 May 2002)

New act regulating human organ transplantation could facilitate organ donation

BMJ 2002;324:1099.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Friends and family are good (and cheap) life coaches

BMJ 2002;324:1099.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

GPs should reduce antibiotic use with alternative treatments

BMJ 2002;324:1099.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

Topical negative pressure may help chronic wound healing

BMJ 2002;324:1100.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Study of effect of delays on ovarian cancer was weak

BMJ 2002;324:1100.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

Letters - continued

Using twin studies to label disease as genetic or environmental is inappropriate

BMJ 2002;324:1100.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

Removing barriers for disabled people would be giant leap

BMJ 2002;324:1101.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Brain denies being forbidding and insensitive to change

BMJ 2002;324:1101.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

David Beynon

BMJ 2002;324:1102.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Bernard Dudley

BMJ 2002;324:1102.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

David Hugh Gilmore

BMJ 2002;324:1102.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

Miles Richard Castelhow Heffernan

BMJ 2002;324:1102.4 (Published 4 May 2002)

Ronald Edward McCune

BMJ 2002;324:1102.5 (Published 4 May 2002)

Denys Knight Sambrook

BMJ 2002;324:1102.6 (Published 4 May 2002)

Paul Arthur Noel Wainwright

BMJ 2002;324:1102.7 (Published 4 May 2002)

Alfred Francon Williams

BMJ 2002;324:1102.8 (Published 4 May 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:1106 (Published 4 May 2002)

Fillers

A wish

BMJ 2002;324:1059.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

Father of all bias?

BMJ 2002;324:1071 (Published 4 May 2002)

The hardest worker?

BMJ 2002;324:1081.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

De Sapientia Veterum (The wisdom of the ancients)

BMJ 2002;324:1094 (Published 4 May 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Standard surgery for urinary symptoms leaves men with less sexual dysfunction

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Behavioural sleep intervention improves infants' sleep and mothers' mood

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

In-hospital mortality data are misleading

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 4 May 2002)

Nurse specialists in Parkinson's disease preserve patients' wellbeing

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 4 May 2002)

“Conventional” CT scanning superseded by spiral scanning

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 4 May 2002)

Bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer is not effective

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 4 May 2002)

NICE is wrong not to recommend laparoscopic hernia repair

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 4 May 2002)

General public fails to recognise early symptoms of stroke

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

The number of children drowning in garden ponds is increasing

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 4 May 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Computed tomography in clinical practice

BMJ 2002;324:1077 (Published 4 May 2002)

Symptomatic adrenal insufficiency presenting with hypoglycaemia in asthmatic children with asthma receiving high dose inhaled fluticasone propionateCommentary: Exogenous glucocorticoids influence adrenal function, but assessment can be difficult

BMJ 2002;324:1081.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Clinical Reviews - continued

Exercise tolerance testing

BMJ 2002;324:1084 (Published 4 May 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Intravenous immunoglobulin increases risk of thrombotic events

BMJ 2002;324:1056.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

One in 12 children dies before age 5 from preventable disease

BMJ 2002;324:1056.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

India's health levels a mix of success and embarrassment, says report

BMJ 2002;324:1056.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

Nigeria recommends jail terms to eradicate female genital mutilation

BMJ 2002;324:1056.4 (Published 4 May 2002)

Children's hospital in Cardiff could drain resources from rest of Wales

BMJ 2002;324:1056.5 (Published 4 May 2002)

Germany finally revamps its medical training

BMJ 2002;324:1057.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Canada considers maximum waiting times for patients

BMJ 2002;324:1057.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

Surgeons postpone work as insurer goes broke

BMJ 2002;324:1057.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Psychiatric effects of terrorist attacks are underestimated

BMJ 2002;324:1058.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

Papers

Sexual dysfunction in men after treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms: evidence from randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2002;324:1059.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Randomised controlled trial of behavioural infant sleep intervention to improve infant sleep and maternal mood

BMJ 2002;324:1062 (Published 4 May 2002)

Perceptions of stroke in the general public and patients with stroke: a qualitative study

BMJ 2002;324:1065 (Published 4 May 2002)

In-hospital deaths as fraction of all deaths within 30 days of hospital admission for surgery: analysis of routine statistics

BMJ 2002;324:1069 (Published 4 May 2002)

Preventing deaths by drowning in children in the United Kingdom: have we made progress in 10 years? Population based incidence study

BMJ 2002;324:1070 (Published 4 May 2002)

Primary care

Effects of community based nurses specialising in Parkinson's disease on health outcome and costs: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2002;324:1072 (Published 4 May 2002)

Genital herpes

BMJ 2002;324:1076 (Published 4 May 2002)

Education and debate

Presumed benefit: lessons from the American experience with marrow transplantation for breast cancer

BMJ 2002;324:1088 (Published 4 May 2002)

Why does NICE not recommend laparoscopic herniorraphy?

BMJ 2002;324:1092 (Published 4 May 2002)

Books

The Art of Suicide

BMJ 2002;324:1103 (Published 4 May 2002)

Essentials of Telemedicine and Telecare

BMJ 2002;324:1104.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Infant sleep

BMJ 2002;324:1104.2 (Published 4 May 2002)

Review

Hit parade

BMJ 2002;324:1104.3 (Published 4 May 2002)

Personal View

One pilot son, one medical son

BMJ 2002;324:1105.1 (Published 4 May 2002)

Soundings

Holes in the heart

BMJ 2002;324:1105.2 (Published 4 May 2002)