08 February 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7384)

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Editor's Choice

Protecting children

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 8 February 2003)

News

Bush criticised for not giving AIDS money to Global Fund

BMJ 2003;326:299.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Researchers launch major initiative to hunt human cancer genes

BMJ 2003;326:299.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:300.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Arkansas bans selling of clean urine to beat drug testing

BMJ 2003;326:300.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

“Weak” safety culture behind errors, says chief medical officer

BMJ 2003;326:300.3 (Published 8 February 2003)

Pharmaceutical industry is main influence in GP prescribing

BMJ 2003;326:301.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Women still have difficulty getting local contraceptive advice

BMJ 2003;326:301.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Doctors told to use positive language in managing pain

BMJ 2003;326:301.3 (Published 8 February 2003)

Trial shows that homoeopathic arnica is no better than placebo

BMJ 2003;326:303.4 (Published 8 February 2003)

Sally Clark freed after appeal court quashes her convictions

BMJ 2003;326:304.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

GP suspended for enrolling patients in drug trials without consent

BMJ 2003;326:304.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Editorials

Child protection—lessons from Victoria Climbié

BMJ 2003;326:293 (Published 8 February 2003)

Medical experts and the criminal courts

BMJ 2003;326:294 (Published 8 February 2003)

Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism

BMJ 2003;326:295 (Published 8 February 2003)

The prevention and treatment of jet lag

BMJ 2003;326:296 (Published 8 February 2003)

Donating books and journals to less developed countries

BMJ 2003;326:298 (Published 8 February 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Systematic review of celecoxib for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

BMJ 2003;326:334 (Published 8 February 2003)

General practitioner screening for excessive alcohol use

BMJ 2003;326:336 (Published 8 February 2003)

Antiretroviral therapy: new solutions bring new problems

BMJ 2003;326:337.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Model for Bangalore helped disseminate information to doctors in India

BMJ 2003;326:337.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Depressed patients need more than drugs and psychiatrists

BMJ 2003;326:338.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Host should also protect students on electives from HIV

BMJ 2003;326:338.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Disposal of remains of fetuses of under 24 weeks' gestation

BMJ 2003;326:338.3 (Published 8 February 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Arthur H Coleman

BMJ 2003;326:339.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Geoffrey Neish Barker

BMJ 2003;326:339.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Obituaries - continued

Kathleen May Corbett

BMJ 2003;326:339.3 (Published 8 February 2003)

Keith Kenneth Eaton

BMJ 2003;326:339.4 (Published 8 February 2003)

Christopher Grahame Fagg

BMJ 2003;326:339.5 (Published 8 February 2003)

Joseph Finer

BMJ 2003;326:339.6 (Published 8 February 2003)

Nathaniel Hockman

BMJ 2003;326:339.7 (Published 8 February 2003)

Evan Osmond Leyshon Hoskins

BMJ 2003;326:339.8 (Published 8 February 2003)

Robert Vernon Holmes Jones

BMJ 2003;326:339.9 (Published 8 February 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:344 (Published 8 February 2003)

Fillers

Uterine rupture is associated with a history of caesarean section, even without labour

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 8 February 2003)

The art of surgery

BMJ 2003;326:308.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Northern Ireland weather

BMJ 2003;326:313 (Published 8 February 2003)

What's a doctor?

BMJ 2003;326:314.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Paper thin

BMJ 2003;326:326.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

TSH is a poor measure of severity of tissue hypothyroidism

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 8 February 2003)

Cardiac troponin T is raised in severe pulmonary embolism

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 8 February 2003)

Competent in evidence based medicine? Take the Fresno test

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 8 February 2003)

Decision support systems disrupt GPs' workflow

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 8 February 2003)

High risk of HIV infection during remand in Thailand

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Communication with seriously ill children is challenging

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy

BMJ 2003;326:322 (Published 8 February 2003)

Misdiagnosis of epilepsy in patients prescribed anticonvulsant drugs for other reasons

BMJ 2003;326:326.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Problem based learning

BMJ 2003;326:328 (Published 8 February 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Patient complaints procedure uncertain as health councils abolished

BMJ 2003;326:302.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Consumers' Association calls for better information for patients

BMJ 2003;326:302.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Chocolate cigarettes “recruit” children to smoking

BMJ 2003;326:302.3 (Published 8 February 2003)

Sleep deprivation increases cardiac risk in women

BMJ 2003;326:302.4 (Published 8 February 2003)

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

Report says 100 Roma women have been forcibly sterilised in Slovakia

BMJ 2003;326:302.5 (Published 8 February 2003)

German doctors “work to rule” in protest at government plans

BMJ 2003;326:303.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Dietary acrylamide may not cause cancer

BMJ 2003;326:303.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Scotland breaks rank to offer compensation to hepatitis C victims

BMJ 2003;326:303.3 (Published 8 February 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Doctors should be more aggressive in treating hypertension in diabetic patients

BMJ 2003;326:304.3 (Published 8 February 2003)

Bush proposes Medicare reform in “state of the union” address

BMJ 2003;326:304.4 (Published 8 February 2003)

Belgium signs agreement to treat NHS patients

BMJ 2003;326:304.5 (Published 8 February 2003)

Israel to move more psychiatric services into the community

BMJ 2003;326:304.6 (Published 8 February 2003)

Papers

Managing communication with young people who have a potentially life threatening chronic illness: qualitative study of patients and parents

BMJ 2003;326:305 (Published 8 February 2003)

Risk of prevalent HIV infection associated with incarceration among injecting drug users in Bangkok, Thailand: case-control study

BMJ 2003;326:308.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Serum thyroid stimulating hormone in assessment of severity of tissue hypothyroidism in patients with overt primary thyroid failure: cross sectional survey

BMJ 2003;326:311 (Published 8 February 2003)

Cardiac troponin T in the severity assessment of patients with pulmonary embolism: cohort study

BMJ 2003;326:312 (Published 8 February 2003)

Primary care

Practice based, longitudinal, qualitative interview study of computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care

BMJ 2003;326:314.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Learning in practice

Validation of the Fresno test of competence in evidence based medicine

BMJ 2003;326:319 (Published 8 February 2003)

Education and debate

Prenatal diagnosis requests for Huntington's disease when the father is at risk and does not want to know his genetic status: clinical, legal, and ethical viewpoints

BMJ 2003;326:331 (Published 8 February 2003)

Books

Handhelds for Doctors

BMJ 2003;326:341.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Science: A History 1543-2001

BMJ 2003;326:341.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

PRESS

Mystery of the imported plagues

BMJ 2003;326:342.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

North American style

BMJ 2003;326:342.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Personal View

The police should take the lead on protecting children from criminal abuse

BMJ 2003;326:343.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Soundings

Mornings

BMJ 2003;326:343.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Corrections

Testing new pharmaceutical products in children

BMJ 2003;326:321.1 (Published 8 February 2003)

Involving patients can work in home blood glucose testing

BMJ 2003;326:321.2 (Published 8 February 2003)

Institutional corruption in medicine

BMJ 2003;326:333 (Published 8 February 2003)