24 August 2002 (Vol 325, Issue 7361)

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Editor's Choice

How to avoid criticism

BMJ 2002;325:0.10 (Published 24 August 2002)

News

Health, poverty, and sanitation to feature highly in world summit

BMJ 2002;325:405.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Health authorities on alert after extensive flooding in Europe

BMJ 2002;325:405.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Medical agency suspends aid in Dagestan after kidnapping

BMJ 2002;325:406.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

NICE proposals for citizens council condemned by patients

BMJ 2002;325:406.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;325:406.3 (Published 24 August 2002)

Junior consultants will leave BMA “hand over fist,” warns chairman

BMJ 2002;325:407.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Clinical negligence lawyers told to improve their performance

BMJ 2002;325:407.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Getting it straight

BMJ 2002;325:407.3 (Published 24 August 2002)

Women doctors are better communicators

BMJ 2002;325:408.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Drug resistant HIV increasing in North America

BMJ 2002;325:408.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Editorials

World summit on sustainable development

BMJ 2002;325:399 (Published 24 August 2002)

Making blood safer

BMJ 2002;325:400 (Published 24 August 2002)

Child labour

BMJ 2002;325:401 (Published 24 August 2002)

Targeting people with pre-diabetes

BMJ 2002;325:403 (Published 24 August 2002)

The BMJ through American eyes

BMJ 2002;325:404 (Published 24 August 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Preventing stroke with ramipril

BMJ 2002;325:439 (Published 24 August 2002)

New trial should clarify lithium use in bipolar disorder

BMJ 2002;325:441.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Burden of illness and suicide in elderly people

BMJ 2002;325:441.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Negotiators explain flexible training under the new deal

BMJ 2002;325:442 (Published 24 August 2002)

Interpreting exercise treadmill tests needs scoring system

BMJ 2002;325:443.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Authors respond to criticisms of booked inpatient admissions and hospital capacity study

BMJ 2002;325:443.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Lesbian parenting may make a difference

BMJ 2002;325:443.3 (Published 24 August 2002)

Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires

BMJ 2002;325:444.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Slang in clinical practice

BMJ 2002;325:444.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Desmond Joseph Atherton

BMJ 2002;325:445.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Mark Jensen Ballantyne

BMJ 2002;325:445.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Joseph Chayen

BMJ 2002;325:445.3 (Published 24 August 2002)

John James Callender Cormack

BMJ 2002;325:445.4 (Published 24 August 2002)

Kathleen Mary Laing (née Sumner)

BMJ 2002;325:445.5 (Published 24 August 2002)

Richard Worthington Smithells

BMJ 2002;325:445.6 (Published 24 August 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;325:450 (Published 24 August 2002)

Fillers

A stout heart

BMJ 2002;325:409.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Research samples are hard to obtain these days

BMJ 2002;325:429 (Published 24 August 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Working with the private sector needs guidelines

BMJ 2002;325:0.8 (Published 24 August 2002)

Gastrointestinal symptoms are not linked to later autism

BMJ 2002;325:0.6 (Published 24 August 2002)

Screening has reduced mastectomy rates

BMJ 2002;325:0.5 (Published 24 August 2002)

Managing chronic heart failure

BMJ 2002;325:0.7 (Published 24 August 2002)

Cannulation is easier in warm hands

BMJ 2002;325:0.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

What forms the basis of health policy?

BMJ 2002;325:0.9 (Published 24 August 2002)

Consumers can improve stroke trial design

BMJ 2002;325:0.4 (Published 24 August 2002)

Association of moulds with severe asthma

BMJ 2002;325:0.3 (Published 24 August 2002)

Anti-vaccinationists past and present

BMJ 2002;325:0.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Management of chronic heart failure

BMJ 2002;325:422 (Published 24 August 2002)

Trauma

BMJ 2002;325:426 (Published 24 August 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Surgeons cleared of serious professional misconduct by GMC

BMJ 2002;325:408.3 (Published 24 August 2002)

New rules announced on confidentiality of US patient records

BMJ 2002;325:408.4 (Published 24 August 2002)

High protein diet brings risk of kidney stones

BMJ 2002;325:408.5 (Published 24 August 2002)

Infertility websites fail to meet quality standards

BMJ 2002;325:408.6 (Published 24 August 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web] - continued

TV dramas may raise false hope of surviving heart attack

BMJ 2002;325:408.7 (Published 24 August 2002)

Papers

Local warming and insertion of peripheral venous cannulas: single blinded prospective randomised controlled trial and single blinded randomised crossover trial

BMJ 2002;325:409.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Sensitisation to airborne moulds and severity of asthma: cross sectional study from European Community respiratory health survey

BMJ 2002;325:411 (Published 24 August 2002)

Skin prick testing

BMJ 2002;325:414 (Published 24 August 2002)

Thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke: consumer involvement in design of new randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2002;325:415 (Published 24 August 2002)

Are breast cancer screening programmes increasing rates of mastectomy? Observational study

BMJ 2002;325:418 (Published 24 August 2002)

Primary care

Relation of childhood gastrointestinal disorders to autism: nested case-control study using data from the UK General Practice Research Database

BMJ 2002;325:419 (Published 24 August 2002)

Education and debate

Anti-vaccinationists past and present

BMJ 2002;325:430 (Published 24 August 2002)

Working with the private sector: the need for institutional guidelines

BMJ 2002;325:432 (Published 24 August 2002)

“Food deserts”—evidence and assumption in health policy making

BMJ 2002;325:436 (Published 24 August 2002)

Books

A Long Walk Home

BMJ 2002;325:446.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Bacchic Medicine: Wine and Alcohol Therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox

BMJ 2002;325:446.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children

BMJ 2002;325:447.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Hypernotes

BMJ 2002;325:447.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

HIT PARADE

Hit parade

BMJ 2002;325:447.3 (Published 24 August 2002)

TV

AIDS: censoring the prevention message

BMJ 2002;325:448 (Published 24 August 2002)

Personal View

Why can't I admit that I am unwell?

BMJ 2002;325:449.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Soundings

On with the new

BMJ 2002;325:449.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

Corrections

Consultant cleared after writing misleading reference

BMJ 2002;325:406.4 (Published 24 August 2002)

Cat scratch disease

BMJ 2002;325:435.1 (Published 24 August 2002)

Hormone replacement therapy

BMJ 2002;325:435.2 (Published 24 August 2002)

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

BMJ 2002;325:435.3 (Published 24 August 2002)