18 January 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7381)

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Editor's Choice

Why WHO matters

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 18 January 2003)

News

Lack of new drugs is reaching crisis point, says review

BMJ 2003;326:119.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Medicines Control Agency must be more open

BMJ 2003;326:119.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:120.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Company launches campaign to “counter” BMJ claims

BMJ 2003;326:120.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Environmentalist accused of scientific dishonesty

BMJ 2003;326:120.3 (Published 18 January 2003)

Government publishes strategy to improve diabetes care

BMJ 2003;326:121.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Nigerian immunisation programme sees results

BMJ 2003;326:121.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

More resources should go into core funding

BMJ 2003;326:122.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

WHO must help countries deal with non-communicable diseases and mental health

BMJ 2003;326:122.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Partnerships with the drug industry would be constructive

BMJ 2003;326:123.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Resources should be decentralised to countries

BMJ 2003;326:123.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Regions with a high disease burden should be prioritised

BMJ 2003;326:124.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Comparing national health systems should continue

BMJ 2003;326:124.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

WHO must strengthen partnerships at a global level

BMJ 2003;326:125.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

WHO needs a global health alliance, which should be called the Mandela plan

BMJ 2003;326:125.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Editorials

Monitoring the marketing of infant formula feeds

BMJ 2003;326:113 (Published 18 January 2003)

Preventing skin cancer

BMJ 2003;326:114 (Published 18 January 2003)

Levelling the playing field for regulation of nicotine

BMJ 2003;326:115 (Published 18 January 2003)

Doctors and managers

BMJ 2003;326:116 (Published 18 January 2003)

Preventing and treating tetanus

BMJ 2003;326:117 (Published 18 January 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Mobile phone use has not replaced smoking in adolescence

BMJ 2003;326:161.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Medical school applications

BMJ 2003;326:161.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Public access defibrillators

BMJ 2003;326:162 (Published 18 January 2003)

Society of Homeopaths does not advise against vaccination

BMJ 2003;326:164 (Published 18 January 2003)

Consuming alcohol on duty may have adverse consequences

BMJ 2003;326:165.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Risk assessment scales poorly predict pressure ulceration

BMJ 2003;326:165.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Papua New Guinea needs law and order above all

BMJ 2003;326:165.3 (Published 18 January 2003)

Free smoke alarms: a fire officer responds

BMJ 2003;326:165.4 (Published 18 January 2003)

Mastectomy is not always so bad

BMJ 2003;326:166.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Letters - continued

Theme issue for medics and health informed public

BMJ 2003;326:166.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Biddy Davidson Bourhill

BMJ 2003;326:167.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Jack Cherry

BMJ 2003;326:167.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

John Bryan Eagles

BMJ 2003;326:167.3 (Published 18 January 2003)

Vincent Alpe Grantham

BMJ 2003;326:167.4 (Published 18 January 2003)

John Lawson Griffiths

BMJ 2003;326:167.5 (Published 18 January 2003)

Angus Ian Kinnear

BMJ 2003;326:167.6 (Published 18 January 2003)

Mary Lavelle

BMJ 2003;326:167.7 (Published 18 January 2003)

Michael Lee-Jones

BMJ 2003;326:167.8 (Published 18 January 2003)

Daniel Joseph (“Donal”) McWilliams

BMJ 2003;326:167.9 (Published 18 January 2003)

Khushbal Singh Mangat

BMJ 2003;326:167.10 (Published 18 January 2003)

John Richard O'Brien

BMJ 2003;326:167.11 (Published 18 January 2003)

Helen Louise Parsons

BMJ 2003;326:167.12 (Published 18 January 2003)

Andrew Ratchford

BMJ 2003;326:167.13 (Published 18 January 2003)

Lewis Daniel Rutter

BMJ 2003;326:167.14 (Published 18 January 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:172 (Published 18 January 2003)

Fillers

Montelukast helps chronic urticaria

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 18 January 2003)

Online polls: results

BMJ 2003;326:118 (Published 18 January 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;326:127.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Medicine and matrimony

BMJ 2003;326:134.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

A case of mistaken identity

BMJ 2003;326:145 (Published 18 January 2003)

A good physician versus no physician

BMJ 2003;326:151.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Forthcoming BMJ theme issues (provisional dates and titles)

BMJ 2003;326:160 (Published 18 January 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

GPs believe their use of antibiotics for sore throat is appropriate

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 18 January 2003)

Manufacturers violate breast milk substitutes code in west Africa

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Folate and vitamin B-12 do not reduce cardiovascular mortality

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Boys' births are more complicated than girls'

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 18 January 2003)

Evidence based education can't rely solely on RCTs

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 18 January 2003)

Salt poisoning and dehydration must be distinguished

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 18 January 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Management of the severely malnourished child: perspective from developing countries

BMJ 2003;326:146 (Published 18 January 2003)

Unsuspected haemophilia in children with a single swollen joint

BMJ 2003;326:151.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Anticoagulation in hospitals and general practice

BMJ 2003;326:153 (Published 18 January 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

UK doctors warned after ricin poison found in police raid

BMJ 2003;326:126.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

FDA insists that oestrogen products for menopause carry a warning

BMJ 2003;326:126.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Painting is earliest example of portrayal of Down's syndrome

BMJ 2003;326:126.3 (Published 18 January 2003)

Israel considers paying people for donating a kidney

BMJ 2003;326:126.4 (Published 18 January 2003)

India sets up a commission on macroeconomics and health

BMJ 2003;326:126.5 (Published 18 January 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Canadian aboriginals in Vancouver face AIDS epidemic

BMJ 2003;326:126.6 (Published 18 January 2003)

Community treatment is effective for drug resistant tuberculosis

BMJ 2003;326:126.7 (Published 18 January 2003)

US medical liability crisis spurs doctors' walkouts and rallies

BMJ 2003;326:126.8 (Published 18 January 2003)

Task force proposes changing body mass risk indicators for diabetes

BMJ 2003;326:126.9 (Published 18 January 2003)

Obesity in young blacks is linked to a 20 year reduction in life span

BMJ 2003;326:126.10 (Published 18 January 2003)

Papers

Monitoring compliance with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes in west Africa: multisite cross sectional survey in Togo and Burkina Faso

BMJ 2003;326:127.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Folate and vitamin B-12 and risk of fatal cardiovascular disease: cohort study from Busselton, Western Australia

BMJ 2003;326:131 (Published 18 January 2003)

Impact of changing diagnostic criteria on incidence, management, and outcome of acute myocardial infarction: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2003;326:134.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Demographic and Health Surveys: caesarean section rates in sub-Saharan Africa

BMJ 2003;326:136 (Published 18 January 2003)

Effect of fetal sex on labour and delivery: retrospective review

BMJ 2003;326:137 (Published 18 January 2003)

Primary care

Why do general practitioners prescribe antibiotics for sore throat? Grounded theory interview study

BMJ 2003;326:138 (Published 18 January 2003)

Learning in practice

Transferability of principles of evidence based medicine to improve educational quality: systematic review and case study of an online course in primary health care

BMJ 2003;326:142 (Published 18 January 2003)

Education and debate

Distinguishing between salt poisoning and hypernatraemic dehydration in children

BMJ 2003;326:157 (Published 18 January 2003)

Books

Poor Health: Social Inequality before and after the Black Report

BMJ 2003;326:169.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Medicine's Strangest Cases

BMJ 2003;326:169.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

MARKETING

Spin doctors soft pedal data on antihypertensives

BMJ 2003;326:170.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Childcare for working parents

BMJ 2003;326:170.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Personal View

The second gasoline war and how we can prevent the third

BMJ 2003;326:171.1 (Published 18 January 2003)

Soundings

Challenge and change

BMJ 2003;326:171.2 (Published 18 January 2003)

Correction

ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Venous thromboembolism: treatment strategies

BMJ 2003;326:156 (Published 18 January 2003)