15 February 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7385)

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Editor's Choice

In praise of dissent

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 15 February 2003)

News

US seniors group attacks pharmaceutical industry “fronts”

BMJ 2003;326:351.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

United Kingdom finally bans tobacco advertising

BMJ 2003;326:351.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:352.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Lack of care homes blamed for delays in discharge of old people

BMJ 2003;326:352.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

GMC suspends doctor for research fraud

BMJ 2003;326:352.3 (Published 15 February 2003)

US given more time to consider cheap drugs deal for poor nations

BMJ 2003;326:353.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Structure of the NHS mirrors feudal society

BMJ 2003;326:353.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Rate of misdiagnosis of childhood epilepsy “may not be unusual”

BMJ 2003;326:355.4 (Published 15 February 2003)

Plans for foundation trusts could spark pay spiral

BMJ 2003;326:356.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Wellcome Trust announces new award scheme

BMJ 2003;326:356.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Threat of war is affecting mental health of Iraqi children, says report

BMJ 2003;326:356.3 (Published 15 February 2003)

Editorials

Congestion charging and the walking classes

BMJ 2003;326:345 (Published 15 February 2003)

New guidelines on the management of asthma

BMJ 2003;326:346 (Published 15 February 2003)

Safety and efficacy of interventional procedures

BMJ 2003;326:347 (Published 15 February 2003)

Not to be taken as directed

BMJ 2003;326:348 (Published 15 February 2003)

Sudden death in the shadows of epilepsy

BMJ 2003;326:349 (Published 15 February 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Indiscriminate investigations have adverse effects

BMJ 2003;326:393.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Simple presentation of test accuracy may lead to inflated disease probabilities

BMJ 2003;326:393.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Effect of computerised evidence based guidelines

BMJ 2003;326:394 (Published 15 February 2003)

Novartis was not in breach of code for “inventing” disease

BMJ 2003;326:396.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Assortative mating may explain spouses' risk of same disease

BMJ 2003;326:396.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Drug misuse should always be considered in young people with impaired consciousness

BMJ 2003;326:396.3 (Published 15 February 2003)

Unit of analysis errors should be clarified in meta-analyses

BMJ 2003;326:397.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

GPs can separate oncological wheat from chaff

BMJ 2003;326:397.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Look before you flush

BMJ 2003;326:397.3 (Published 15 February 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Ronald Black

BMJ 2003;326:398.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Basil George Bagot Christie

BMJ 2003;326:398.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Obituaries - continued

Phyllis Mary Edwards

BMJ 2003;326:398.3 (Published 15 February 2003)

Arthur Swindale (“Stubbs”) Hughes

BMJ 2003;326:398.4 (Published 15 February 2003)

Lynne Jacob

BMJ 2003;326:398.5 (Published 15 February 2003)

Alexander Mavor Knox

BMJ 2003;326:398.6 (Published 15 February 2003)

Peter Lomax

BMJ 2003;326:398.7 (Published 15 February 2003)

Ronald Crum MacLeod

BMJ 2003;326:398.8 (Published 15 February 2003)

Archibald Mckenzie McGregor

BMJ 2003;326:398.9 (Published 15 February 2003)

Byomkes (“Sona”) Mitra

BMJ 2003;326:398.10 (Published 15 February 2003)

Joan Gladys Harcourt Norris

BMJ 2003;326:398.11 (Published 15 February 2003)

Bernard Joseph Peck

BMJ 2003;326:398.12 (Published 15 February 2003)

David Graham Sargant

BMJ 2003;326:398.13 (Published 15 February 2003)

Sam Pullar Smith

BMJ 2003;326:398.14 (Published 15 February 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:404 (Published 15 February 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Patients want their consent sought for use of personal information

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 15 February 2003)

Stomach bugs kill more than estimated

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Large general practices may not deliver better care

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 15 February 2003)

Simple signs predict children's deaths in African hospitals

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 15 February 2003)

People die differently in different settings

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Leishmaniasis: new approaches to disease control

BMJ 2003;326:377 (Published 15 February 2003)

Fatal dysnatraemia caused by elective colonoscopy

BMJ 2003;326:382 (Published 15 February 2003)

Evaluation

BMJ 2003;326:385 (Published 15 February 2003)

Filler

HRT and antioxidant vitamins increase the risk of cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 15 February 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;326:357.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

The war against quackery in Germany

BMJ 2003;326:365.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Courtesy towards NHS staff is a must

BMJ 2003;326:372 (Published 15 February 2003)

Forthcoming BMJ theme issues (provisional dates and titles)

BMJ 2003;326:373.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Sociable medicine

BMJ 2003;326:384 (Published 15 February 2003)

Wholly, holy, holey

BMJ 2003;326:392 (Published 15 February 2003)

News roundup

Creationists accuse biology professor of discrimination

BMJ 2003;326:354.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Commission plans new controls on supply of genetic tests to the public

BMJ 2003;326:354.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Medical Research Council and BMJ sponsor new photographic awards

BMJ 2003;326:354.3 (Published 15 February 2003)

Task force says US academic health centres need major changes

BMJ 2003;326:354.4 (Published 15 February 2003)

India launches massive polio vaccine programme

BMJ 2003;326:354.5 (Published 15 February 2003)

Initiative will fast-track vaccine for childhood diarrhoea in developing world

BMJ 2003;326:354.6 (Published 15 February 2003)

Women fail to recognise risk of heart disease

BMJ 2003;326:355.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Being a caring doctor may be bad for you

BMJ 2003;326:355.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Age discrimination difficult to identify, says King's Fund guide

BMJ 2003;326:355.3 (Published 15 February 2003)

News extra

Consultants call for extra money to be spent on discretionary salary points

BMJ 2003;326:356.4 (Published 15 February 2003)

Report advocates moving NHS to insurance based system

BMJ 2003;326:356.5 (Published 15 February 2003)

Canadian Medical Association tightens control over its journal

BMJ 2003;326:356.6 (Published 15 February 2003)

Papers

Short and long term mortality associated with foodborne bacterial gastrointestinal infections: registry based studyCommentary: matched cohorts can be useful

BMJ 2003;326:357.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Prognostic indicators of early and late death in children admitted to district hospital in Kenya: cohort study

BMJ 2003;326:361 (Published 15 February 2003)

Cross sectional survey of meningococcal C immunisation in children looked after by local authorities and those living at home

BMJ 2003;326:364 (Published 15 February 2003)

Herd immunity from meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccination in England: database analysis

BMJ 2003;326:365.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Effect of public education aimed at early diagnosis of malignant melanoma: cohort comparison study

BMJ 2003;326:367 (Published 15 February 2003)

Primary care

Dying from cancer in developed and developing countries: lessons from two qualitative interview studies of patients and their carers

BMJ 2003;326:368 (Published 15 February 2003)

Association between practice size and quality of care of patients with ischaemic heart disease: cross sectional study

BMJ 2003;326:371 (Published 15 February 2003)

Information in practice

Patients' consent preferences for research uses of information in electronic medical records: interview and survey data

BMJ 2003;326:373.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Education and debate

Problems with UK government's risk sharing scheme for assessing drugs for multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2003;326:388 (Published 15 February 2003)

Reviews

Heroin Century; Heroin Addiction Care and Control: The British System 1916-1984

BMJ 2003;326:400 (Published 15 February 2003)

A History of Scottish Medicine

BMJ 2003;326:401.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Enterprising Women: The Garretts and their Circle

BMJ 2003;326:401.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Cot Death Mothers: The Witch Hunt

BMJ 2003;326:402.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Traffic congestion

BMJ 2003;326:402.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Life as a medical secretary—a new learning experience for the aspiring consultant

BMJ 2003;326:403.1 (Published 15 February 2003)

Busted

BMJ 2003;326:403.2 (Published 15 February 2003)

Correction

Open letter to Tony Blair: Call to prevent escalating violence

BMJ 2003;326:397.4 (Published 15 February 2003)