15 June 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7351)

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This Week In the BMJ

Food has a future

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 15 June 2002)

Telemedicine is not cost effective

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 15 June 2002)

Teenage pregnancy prevention strategies are ineffective

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Stress is not linked to breast cancer relapse

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 15 June 2002)

Child health improves in the developing world

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 15 June 2002)

Surgical studies have problems

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 15 June 2002)

Quality of life measures soar

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Bavarian hairdressers get less skin disease

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 15 June 2002)

Sex education does not change behaviour

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 15 June 2002)

Editorials

Thinking the unthinkable!

BMJ 2002;324:1405 (Published 15 June 2002)

Oxygen therapy in acute medical care

BMJ 2002;324:1406 (Published 15 June 2002)

Adoption by lesbian couples

BMJ 2002;324:1407 (Published 15 June 2002)

Forensic pathology services

BMJ 2002;324:1408 (Published 15 June 2002)

Our favourite drug

BMJ 2002;324:1410 (Published 15 June 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Unhappy doctors

BMJ 2002;324:1452 (Published 15 June 2002)

Nurses need more resources to do their job

BMJ 2002;324:1453.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

BMA negotiator calls for more male medical students

BMJ 2002;324:1453.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Access to invasive procedures can be audited by ethnic group

BMJ 2002;324:1454.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Hip protectors

BMJ 2002;324:1454.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Cardiothoracic surgeons do a good job

BMJ 2002;324:1455 (Published 15 June 2002)

Informaticist services for policymakers will differ from those studied

BMJ 2002;324:1456.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Attitudes towards general practice are changing

BMJ 2002;324:1456.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Animal models can assist medicine in humans

BMJ 2002;324:1457.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Staphylococci are unlikely to cause acute dental infections

BMJ 2002;324:1457.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Expert shows how pens should be held

BMJ 2002;324:1457.3 (Published 15 June 2002)

News

Lack of progress at summit spells disaster for poor countries

BMJ 2002;324:1411.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Negligence settlements in England increase sevenfold in five years

BMJ 2002;324:1411.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:1412.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Gene responsible for most malignant melanomas is discovered

BMJ 2002;324:1412.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

News - continued

Doctors in India and Pakistan campaign against nuclear war

BMJ 2002;324:1412.3 (Published 15 June 2002)

Oncologists protest about NICE's decision on cancer drugs

BMJ 2002;324:1413.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

NICE guidance “a real victory” for people with schizophrenia

BMJ 2002;324:1413.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

UK pill compensation claim collapses

BMJ 2002;324:1415.3 (Published 15 June 2002)

Changing hearts and minds

BMJ 2002;324:1416.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Nutritional genomics

BMJ 2002;324:1438 (Published 15 June 2002)

Death from tetanus after a pretibial laceration

BMJ 2002;324:1442 (Published 15 June 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:1464 (Published 15 June 2002)

Editor's Choice

Big issues

BMJ 2002;324:0.10 (Published 15 June 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Lawyers poised to sue US junk food manufacturers

BMJ 2002;324:1414.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Polio cases rise in Nigeria as vaccine is shunned for fear of AIDS

BMJ 2002;324:1414.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Surgeon found liable for injuries because did not inform patient of risks

BMJ 2002;324:1414.3 (Published 15 June 2002)

Welsh whistleblower is reinstated

BMJ 2002;324:1414.4 (Published 15 June 2002)

Cancer charity highlights risks of testicular cancer

BMJ 2002;324:1414.5 (Published 15 June 2002)

One in 50 Europeans are living with cancer or are in remission

BMJ 2002;324:1415.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

R J Reynolds fined $20m for advertising to young people

BMJ 2002;324:1415.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

US government supports Maine law to curb drug prices

BMJ 2002;324:1416.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Europe agrees plan for chemical terrorism alert system

BMJ 2002;324:1416.3 (Published 15 June 2002)

UK consumers reject direct advertising to patients by drug industry

BMJ 2002;324:1416.4 (Published 15 June 2002)

Organic meat products contaminated with carcinogenic herbicide

BMJ 2002;324:1416.5 (Published 15 June 2002)

New ethical standards set for health service managers

BMJ 2002;324:1416.6 (Published 15 June 2002)

Childhood obesity in Canada has tripled in past 20 years

BMJ 2002;324:1416.7 (Published 15 June 2002)

Specialists attack government for not prioritising HIV

BMJ 2002;324:1416.8 (Published 15 June 2002)

Public health doctors must press for health targets

BMJ 2002;324:1416.9 (Published 15 June 2002)

Papers

Quality of life measurement: bibliographic study of patient assessed health outcome measures

BMJ 2002;324:1417.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Stressful life experiences and risk of relapse of breast cancer: observational cohort study

BMJ 2002;324:1420 (Published 15 June 2002)

Impact of preventive strategies on trend of occupational skin disease in hairdressers: population based register study

BMJ 2002;324:1422 (Published 15 June 2002)

Postmortem examinations using magnetic resonance imaging: four year review of a working service

BMJ 2002;324:1423 (Published 15 June 2002)

Rising incidence of Kawasaki disease in England: analysis of hospital admission data

BMJ 2002;324:1424 (Published 15 June 2002)

Primary care

Interventions to reduce unintended pregnancies among adolescents: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2002;324:1426 (Published 15 June 2002)

Limits of teacher delivered sex education: interim behavioural outcomes from randomised trial

BMJ 2002;324:1430 (Published 15 June 2002)

Information in practice

Systematic review of cost effectiveness studies of telemedicine interventions

BMJ 2002;324:1434 (Published 15 June 2002)

Education and debate

Improving child health: the role of research

BMJ 2002;324:1444 (Published 15 June 2002)

Randomised trials in surgery: problems and possible solutions

BMJ 2002;324:1448.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Books

The Science of the Placebo: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda

BMJ 2002;324:1460.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

In the Land of Pain

BMJ 2002;324:1460.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World

BMJ 2002;324:1461.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

PRESS

Press releases on trial

BMJ 2002;324:1461.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Interview

Future imperfect

BMJ 2002;324:1462.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Breast cancer and stress

BMJ 2002;324:1462.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Personal View

Why the Hippocratic ideals are dead

BMJ 2002;324:1463.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Soundings

Surfing the web

BMJ 2002;324:1463.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Fillers

How to be happy though a doctor

BMJ 2002;324:1417.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Useless again

BMJ 2002;324:1425 (Published 15 June 2002)

Long ago, at another hospital

BMJ 2002;324:1437 (Published 15 June 2002)

Rating waiting

BMJ 2002;324:1443.4 (Published 15 June 2002)

The physician's objectives

BMJ 2002;324:1448.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Corrections

Personal view

BMJ 2002;324:1443.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

US report calls for tighter controls on complementary medicine

BMJ 2002;324:1443.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Paediatricians meet to tackle child abuse in former Soviet bloc

BMJ 2002;324:1443.3 (Published 15 June 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Richard Dyer Mudd

BMJ 2002;324:1458.1 (Published 15 June 2002)

Thomas Freeman

BMJ 2002;324:1458.2 (Published 15 June 2002)

Alan Bailey Bevan

BMJ 2002;324:1458.3 (Published 15 June 2002)

William Gordon Cheyne

BMJ 2002;324:1458.4 (Published 15 June 2002)

Lionel Evan Jones

BMJ 2002;324:1458.5 (Published 15 June 2002)