08 June 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7350)

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Editor's Choice

Deep fears

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 8 June 2002)

News

Mortality higher at for-profit hospitals

BMJ 2002;324:1351.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Magnesium could save hundreds of women's lives worldwide

BMJ 2002;324:1351.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:1352.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Doctors condemn NICE's guidance on leukaemia drug

BMJ 2002;324:1352.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

More women in the workforce reduces mortality

BMJ 2002;324:1352.3 (Published 8 June 2002)

High level of resources for neonatal intensive care does not give US better outcomes

BMJ 2002;324:1353.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Researchers claim clinical trials are reported with misleading statistics

BMJ 2002;324:1353.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

US and UK are top in teenage pregnancy rates

BMJ 2002;324:1354.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

PFI critic rebuts criticism from select committee

BMJ 2002;324:1354.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Editorials

Managing antibiotic associated diarrhoea

BMJ 2002;324:1345 (Published 8 June 2002)

The power of the press in smokers' attempts to quit

BMJ 2002;324:1346 (Published 8 June 2002)

Intermediate care

BMJ 2002;324:1347 (Published 8 June 2002)

Delaying folic acid fortification of flour

BMJ 2002;324:1348 (Published 8 June 2002)

Physicians' and patients' choices in evidence based practice

BMJ 2002;324:1350 (Published 8 June 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Storm over screening for prostate specific antigen

BMJ 2002;324:1392 (Published 8 June 2002)

MMR uptake data are unlikely to be subject to manipulation

BMJ 2002;324:1394.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Fusidic acid cream for impetigo

BMJ 2002;324:1394.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Eye drops and patches both in fact work for amblyopia

BMJ 2002;324:1397.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

The power of shame

BMJ 2002;324:1397.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Clinical quality should be put at the centre of care

BMJ 2002;324:1398.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Declining altruism in medicine

BMJ 2002;324:1398.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Max Meier Glatt

BMJ 2002;324:1399.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Philip Douglas Bowen

BMJ 2002;324:1399.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Nelson Fuller Coghill

BMJ 2002;324:1399.3 (Published 8 June 2002)

Thomas Fenwick

BMJ 2002;324:1399.4 (Published 8 June 2002)

Obituaries - continued

John Murray Harper

BMJ 2002;324:1399.5 (Published 8 June 2002)

Ian Wilson Kemp

BMJ 2002;324:1399.6 (Published 8 June 2002)

Mary Armour Millar

BMJ 2002;324:1399.7 (Published 8 June 2002)

Arthur Gourdin Smith

BMJ 2002;324:1399.8 (Published 8 June 2002)

Frederick (Derick) Griffiths St Clair Strange

BMJ 2002;324:1399.9 (Published 8 June 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Delay in licensing drugs costs lives

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 8 June 2002)

Probiotics can prevent diarrhoea

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 8 June 2002)

Zinc reduces the incidence of pneumonia

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 8 June 2002)

How to manage childhood eczema

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 8 June 2002)

Genital herpes infections increase in Scotland

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 8 June 2002)

Illness is a risk factor for suicide

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Case finding identifies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Accurate sedation reduces ventilation time

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 8 June 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:1404 (Published 8 June 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Childhood atopic eczema

BMJ 2002;324:1376.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Osteomyelitis in the well looking afebrile child

BMJ 2002;324:1380 (Published 8 June 2002)

Paediatric electrocardiography

BMJ 2002;324:1382 (Published 8 June 2002)

News extra

Reported euthanasia cases in Holland fall for second year

BMJ 2002;324:1354.3 (Published 8 June 2002)

New test for bowel cancer could aid screening programme

BMJ 2002;324:1354.4 (Published 8 June 2002)

Two victims of diethylstilbestrol win lawsuit

BMJ 2002;324:1354.5 (Published 8 June 2002)

Number of people with diabetes will increase by 40% by 2023, says report

BMJ 2002;324:1354.6 (Published 8 June 2002)

GMC reprimands consultant for terminating pregnancy without consent

BMJ 2002;324:1354.7 (Published 8 June 2002)

New York doctor charged with fraud in surgery on mentally ill patients

BMJ 2002;324:1354.8 (Published 8 June 2002)

Papers

Burden of illness and suicide in elderly people: case-control study

BMJ 2002;324:1355.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Effect of routine zinc supplementation on pneumonia in children aged 6 months to 3 years: randomised controlled trial in an urban slum

BMJ 2002;324:1358 (Published 8 June 2002)

Probiotics in prevention of antibiotic associated diarrhoea: meta-analysis

BMJ 2002;324:1361 (Published 8 June 2002)

Probiotics

BMJ 2002;324:1364.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Papers - continued

Nottingham Staphylococcus aureus population study: prevalence of MRSA among elderly people in the community

BMJ 2002;324:1365 (Published 8 June 2002)

Longitudinal study of genital infection by herpes simplex virus type 1 in western Scotland over 15 years

BMJ 2002;324:1366 (Published 8 June 2002)

Follow up after a family based genetic screening programme for familial hypercholesterolaemia: is screening alone enough?

BMJ 2002;324:1367.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Association of common genetic variant with susceptibility to invasive pneumococcal disease

BMJ 2002;324:1369 (Published 8 June 2002)

Filler

Naughty thoughts

BMJ 2002;324:1355.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Can you hear me?

BMJ 2002;324:1364.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

The hygienic spittoon question in France

BMJ 2002;324:1367.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 2002;324:1370.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Suicide in Chicago

BMJ 2002;324:1376.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Blind in more ways than one

BMJ 2002;324:1381 (Published 8 June 2002)

A memorable locum job

BMJ 2002;324:1391.4 (Published 8 June 2002)

Primary care

Detecting patients at a high risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in general practice: cross sectional case finding study

BMJ 2002;324:1370.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Burden of corticosteroids in children with asthma in primary care: retrospective observational study

BMJ 2002;324:1374 (Published 8 June 2002)

Newly diagnosed hypertension

BMJ 2002;324:1375 (Published 8 June 2002)

Education and debate

Effect of a scoring system and protocol for sedation on duration of patients' need for ventilator support in a surgical intensive care unit

BMJ 2002;324:1386 (Published 8 June 2002)

Clinical endpoints in trials of drugs for cancer: time for a rethink?

BMJ 2002;324:1389 (Published 8 June 2002)

Reviews

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

BMJ 2002;324:1401.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

They Don't Know What's Wrong

BMJ 2002;324:1401.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Television icons join fight over stem cell research

BMJ 2002;324:1402 (Published 8 June 2002)

Animal magic

BMJ 2002;324:1403.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Profound and vacuous ambiguity

BMJ 2002;324:1403.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Corrections

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;324:1357 (Published 8 June 2002)

Evaluation of diagnostic procedures

BMJ 2002;324:1391.1 (Published 8 June 2002)

Communicating accuracy of tests to general practitioners: a controlled study

BMJ 2002;324:1391.2 (Published 8 June 2002)

Between hope and acceptance: the medicalisation of dying

BMJ 2002;324:1391.3 (Published 8 June 2002)

Recombinant human parathyroid hormone

BMJ 2002;324:1398.3 (Published 8 June 2002)