05 October 2002 (Vol 325, Issue 7367)

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Editor's Choice

British problems with international messages

BMJ 2002;325:0.10 (Published 5 October 2002)

News

WHO report shows public health impact of violence

BMJ 2002;325:731 (Published 5 October 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;325:732.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Unicef sets up programme to prevent sex abuse by aid workers

BMJ 2002;325:732.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Colombian doctors are killed as their neutrality is ignored

BMJ 2002;325:732.3 (Published 5 October 2002)

Safeguards needed now to prevent unethical genetic selection in future

BMJ 2002;325:733.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Cheerful children die younger than gloomy classmates, says study

BMJ 2002;325:733.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Preventive surgery can cut risk of breast cancer by 90%

BMJ 2002;325:735.3 (Published 5 October 2002)

Unmasking the secret of life

BMJ 2002;325:736.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Editorials

Prostate specific antigen testing for prostate cancer

BMJ 2002;325:725 (Published 5 October 2002)

Treating violence as a public health problem

BMJ 2002;325:726 (Published 5 October 2002)

Bioweapons

BMJ 2002;325:727 (Published 5 October 2002)

Population strategies to prevent obesity

BMJ 2002;325:728 (Published 5 October 2002)

Decision time on consultants' contract

BMJ 2002;325:729 (Published 5 October 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Cancer biology may be more important than diagnostic delay

BMJ 2002;325:774.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

What is newsworthy?

BMJ 2002;325:774.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Tough targets are necessary in effective diabetes care

BMJ 2002;325:775.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Don't forget syphilis

BMJ 2002;325:775.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

US Food and Drug Administration gets it right

BMJ 2002;325:776.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Education on prescribing can be improved

BMJ 2002;325:776.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Development of BNF for handheld devices is taking time

BMJ 2002;325:777.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Reducing unintended pregnancy among adolescents

BMJ 2002;325:777.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Wall between neurology and psychiatry

BMJ 2002;325:778 (Published 5 October 2002)

Domestic violence affects women more than men

BMJ 2002;325:779.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Don't presume about experienced adult learners in medicine

BMJ 2002;325:779.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Agnes Helen Neilson Mellanby

BMJ 2002;325:780.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Chief Josiah Onyebuchi Johnson Okezie

BMJ 2002;325:780.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Alan Horace Rowson

BMJ 2002;325:780.3 (Published 5 October 2002)

John Samuel George Peter Stableford

BMJ 2002;325:780.4 (Published 5 October 2002)

Patrick Michael Ellis Youngman

BMJ 2002;325:780.5 (Published 5 October 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;325:784 (Published 5 October 2002)

Fillers

Observation

BMJ 2002;325:743.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2002;325:756.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

“Can I go on holiday, Doc?”

BMJ 2002;325:770 (Published 5 October 2002)

Ernest

BMJ 2002;325:773 (Published 5 October 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

Small babies are more likely to be stressed as adults

BMJ 2002;325:0.5 (Published 5 October 2002)

Prostate cancer patients want screening

BMJ 2002;325:0.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Obesity treatments are failing

BMJ 2002;325:0.9 (Published 5 October 2002)

Knee exercise can reduce knee pain

BMJ 2002;325:0.6 (Published 5 October 2002)

Back pain is increasing in adolescents

BMJ 2002;325:0.4 (Published 5 October 2002)

Deaf lesbians and designer babies

BMJ 2002;325:0.8 (Published 5 October 2002)

Flexible insulin treatment improves diabetic control

BMJ 2002;325:0.3 (Published 5 October 2002)

Prostate cancer screening does not reduce mortality

BMJ 2002;325:0.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Qualitative methods improve trial recruitment

BMJ 2002;325:0.7 (Published 5 October 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Management of overweight and obese adults

BMJ 2002;325:757 (Published 5 October 2002)

An overview of antithrombotic therapy

BMJ 2002;325:762 (Published 5 October 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Dutch neurologist found guilty of fraud after falsifying 438 case records

BMJ 2002;325:734.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Canadian universities' links to tobacco industry shown

BMJ 2002;325:734.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

EU commissioner promises a European centre for disease control by 2005

BMJ 2002;325:734.3 (Published 5 October 2002)

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

NHS lacks the capacity to absorb the government's extra billions

BMJ 2002;325:734.4 (Published 5 October 2002)

Poor quality water is among the WHO's concerns for Palestinians' health

BMJ 2002;325:735.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Blood transfusions may increase the risk of death in critically ill patients

BMJ 2002;325:735.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

NHS to take over responsibility for prison health services next April

BMJ 2002;325:736.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

EU countries disagree over bioterrorism strategy

BMJ 2002;325:736.3 (Published 5 October 2002)

Ecstasy produces parkinsonian effects in monkeys

BMJ 2002;325:736.4 (Published 5 October 2002)

Brain surgeons avoid brain surgery because of insurance costs

BMJ 2002;325:736.5 (Published 5 October 2002)

Interrupting antiretroviral treatment fails to improve chronic HIV

BMJ 2002;325:736.6 (Published 5 October 2002)

Papers

Why men with prostate cancer want wider access to prostate specific antigen testing: qualitative study

BMJ 2002;325:737 (Published 5 October 2002)

Natural experiment examining impact of aggressive screening and treatment on prostate cancer mortality in two fixed cohorts from Seattle area and Connecticut

BMJ 2002;325:740 (Published 5 October 2002)

Back, neck, and shoulder pain in Finnish adolescents: national cross sectional surveys

BMJ 2002;325:743.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Training in flexible, intensive insulin management to enable dietary freedom in people with type 1 diabetes: dose adjustment for normal eating (DAFNE) randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2002;325:746 (Published 5 October 2002)

Association between psychological symptoms in adults and growth in early life: longitudinal follow up study

BMJ 2002;325:749 (Published 5 October 2002)

Primary care

Home based exercise programme for knee pain and knee osteoarthritis: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2002;325:752 (Published 5 October 2002)

The SCOFF questionnaire and clinical interview for eating disorders in general practice: comparative study

BMJ 2002;325:755 (Published 5 October 2002)

Education and debate

Quality improvement reportImproving design and conduct of randomised trials by embedding them in qualitative research: ProtecT (prostate testing for cancer and treatment) studyCommentary: presenting unbiased information to patients can be difficult

BMJ 2002;325:766 (Published 5 October 2002)

Deaf lesbians, “designer disability,” and the future of medicine

BMJ 2002;325:771 (Published 5 October 2002)

Book

Demon Doctors: Physicians as Serial Killers

BMJ 2002;325:781 (Published 5 October 2002)

PRESS

The epidemic that never was

BMJ 2002;325:782.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

An insight into eating disorders

BMJ 2002;325:782.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Personal View

First do no harm: does the Hippocratic Oath extend to developing countries?

BMJ 2002;325:783.1 (Published 5 October 2002)

Soundings

Quite a good camp

BMJ 2002;325:783.2 (Published 5 October 2002)

Correction

Resource implications and health benefits of primary prevention strategies for cardiovascular disease in people aged 30 to 74: mathematical modelling study

BMJ 2002;325:756.1 (Published 5 October 2002)