18 May 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7347)

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Editor's Choice

Myopia and the private finance initiative

BMJ 2002;324:0.10 (Published 18 May 2002)

News

MPs call for more publicly funded capital projects in the NHS

BMJ 2002;324:1173.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Life expectancy is consistently underestimated, say researchers

BMJ 2002;324:1173.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:1174.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Muslim patients suffer as Hindu doctors fear for their safety

BMJ 2002;324:1174.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Trusts cancel 10% of operating theatre sessions

BMJ 2002;324:1174.3 (Published 18 May 2002)

Patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms should “wait and see”

BMJ 2002;324:1175.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Trial shows azithromycin is no better than vitamin C for bronchitis

BMJ 2002;324:1175.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Trust chiefs cause flood of serious cases to GMC

BMJ 2002;324:1177.3 (Published 18 May 2002)

PFI is here to stay

BMJ 2002;324:1178.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Editorials

Emergency vascular surgery

BMJ 2002;324:1167 (Published 18 May 2002)

Improving the response rates to questionnaires

BMJ 2002;324:1168 (Published 18 May 2002)

Implications of the EU directive on clinical trials for emergency medicine

BMJ 2002;324:1169 (Published 18 May 2002)

Selection of medical students

BMJ 2002;324:1170 (Published 18 May 2002)

Twenty thousand conversations

BMJ 2002;324:1171 (Published 18 May 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Discomfort of patient power

BMJ 2002;324:1214 (Published 18 May 2002)

Questions for Dr Foster

BMJ 2002;324:1215.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Medical emergency teams and cardiac arrests in hospital

BMJ 2002;324:1215.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Was it a heart attack?

BMJ 2002;324:1216 (Published 18 May 2002)

New score is needed to predict risk of coronary heart disease

BMJ 2002;324:1217.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Using real patients in professional medical exams

BMJ 2002;324:1217.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Recombinant human parathyroid hormone

BMJ 2002;324:1218 (Published 18 May 2002)

Misdiagnosis of epilepsy

BMJ 2002;324:1219.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

10-minute consultation: Rhinitis

BMJ 2002;324:1219.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Experience based treatment of head lice

BMJ 2002;324:1220 (Published 18 May 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

John Montague Graham

BMJ 2002;324:1221.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Obituaries - continued

Nigel Holmes

BMJ 2002;324:1221.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Keith Willerby Lovel

BMJ 2002;324:1221.3 (Published 18 May 2002)

Geoffrey Cheadle Myddelton

BMJ 2002;324:1221.4 (Published 18 May 2002)

John Hubert Shelswell

BMJ 2002;324:1221.5 (Published 18 May 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:1226 (Published 18 May 2002)

Fillers

Saving time?

BMJ 2002;324:1189.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Aphorisms for old age

BMJ 2002;324:1190.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Edward Jenner

BMJ 2002;324:1199.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

A Tudor husband's instruction to his pregnant wife

BMJ 2002;324:1210.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

One lesson improves knowledge of emergency contraception

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Patients say they use diaries, but they don't

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 18 May 2002)

Visual experience and genes cause myopia

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Offering money increases questionnaire response rates

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 18 May 2002)

Beware of your neighbour's cat

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 18 May 2002)

PFI hospitals are not value for money

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 18 May 2002)

GPs reluctant to screen for impaired glucose tolerance

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 18 May 2002)

New consent rules threaten public health

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 18 May 2002)

Aluminium sulphate spill did not affect health

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 18 May 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Myopia

BMJ 2002;324:1195 (Published 18 May 2002)

Cat scratch disease

BMJ 2002;324:1199.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Conditions affecting the right side of the heart

BMJ 2002;324:1201 (Published 18 May 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

US reviews smallpox vaccination policy

BMJ 2002;324:1176.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

Campaign to eliminate disfiguring disease is stepped up

BMJ 2002;324:1176.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

US Senate considers proposal to tighten drug patent law

BMJ 2002;324:1176.3 (Published 11 May 2002)

Journals are inconsistent in their choice of articles to be fast-tracked

BMJ 2002;324:1176.4 (Published 11 May 2002)

Decoding of soil bacterium genome points way to new antibiotics

BMJ 2002;324:1176.5 (Published 11 May 2002)

Australia's detention policy puts refugees' health at risk, says report

BMJ 2002;324:1177.1 (Published 11 May 2002)

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

Psychiatrist settles dispute with Toronto University

BMJ 2002;324:1177.2 (Published 11 May 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Spain sets up inquiry after use of frozen eggs for in vitro fertilisation

BMJ 2002;324:1178.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

NHS could help boost local communities, says King's Fund

BMJ 2002;324:1178.3 (Published 18 May 2002)

HIV positive girl made ward of court after father refuses to allow her treatment

BMJ 2002;324:1178.4 (Published 18 May 2002)

Papers

Improving teenagers' knowledge of emergency contraception: cluster randomised controlled trial of a teacher led intervention

BMJ 2002;324:1179 (Published 18 May 2002)

Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: systematic review

BMJ 2002;324:1183 (Published 18 May 2002)

Increasing use of the emergency department in a Swiss hospital: observational study based on measures of the severity of cases

BMJ 2002;324:1186 (Published 18 May 2002)

Prescribing incentive schemes in two NHS regions: cross sectional surveyCommentary: Prescribing incentive schemes—more evidence is needed of how they work

BMJ 2002;324:1187 (Published 18 May 2002)

Retrospective study of mortality after a water pollution incident at Lowermoor in north Cornwall

BMJ 2002;324:1189.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Primary care

Impaired glucose tolerance: qualitative and quantitative study of general practitioners' knowledge and perceptions

BMJ 2002;324:1190.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Information in practice

Patient non-compliance with paper diaries

BMJ 2002;324:1193 (Published 18 May 2002)

Improving the use of clinical databases

BMJ 2002;324:1194 (Published 18 May 2002)

Education and debate

Private finance and “value for money” in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?

BMJ 2002;324:1205 (Published 18 May 2002)

Consent, confidentiality, and the threat to public health surveillanceCommentary: Don't waive consent lightly—involve the public

BMJ 2002;324:1210.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

ART

Outsider Art

BMJ 2002;324:1222 (Published 18 May 2002)

Film

I Am Sam

BMJ 2002;324:1223.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Book

Health Care in Central Asia

BMJ 2002;324:1223.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

PRESS

Private Eye Special Report on MMR

BMJ 2002;324:1224.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Eye sites

BMJ 2002;324:1224.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Personal View

Occupied Territories: entry denied

BMJ 2002;324:1225.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Soundings

The test

BMJ 2002;324:1225.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Corrections

This Week in the BMJ

BMJ 2002;324:1185.1 (Published 18 May 2002)

Canada sees a bigger role for private companies in health care

BMJ 2002;324:1185.2 (Published 18 May 2002)

Ellis Baker

BMJ 2002;324:1221.6 (Published 18 May 2002)