29 March 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7391)

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Editor's Choice

Stress and renewal

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 29 March 2003)

News

Playing the waiting game as bombs drop on Iraq

BMJ 2003;326:675 (Published 29 March 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:676.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

GPs to get more information about earnings under the new contract

BMJ 2003;326:676.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

TB epidemic is still growing in Africa and in eastern Europe

BMJ 2003;326:676.3 (Published 29 March 2003)

Increased drug spending is creating funding crisis, report says

BMJ 2003;326:677.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Hong Kong virus spreads worldwide

BMJ 2003;326:677.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

NICE guidelines address social aspect of schizophrenia

BMJ 2003;326:679.3 (Published 29 March 2003)

Lay campaigners for prostate screening are funded by industry

BMJ 2003;326:680.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Report calls for clinical networks to improve babies' survival

BMJ 2003;326:680.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Editorials

Sudden acute respiratory syndrome

BMJ 2003;326:669 (Published 29 March 2003)

Doctors, their wellbeing, and their stress

BMJ 2003;326:670 (Published 29 March 2003)

Ethnic and sex bias in discretionary awards

BMJ 2003;326:671 (Published 29 March 2003)

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

BMJ 2003;326:673 (Published 29 March 2003)

Connecting doctors, patients, and the evidence

BMJ 2003;326:674 (Published 29 March 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Empowerment of patients—fact or fiction?

BMJ 2003;326:710.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Men and older people are less likely to use NHS Direct

BMJ 2003;326:710.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Breast self examination

BMJ 2003;326:710.3 (Published 29 March 2003)

Readability of British and American medical prose

BMJ 2003;326:711 (Published 29 March 2003)

Ultrasound guided central venous access

BMJ 2003;326:712.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Post-marketing surveillance is needed for off licence use of drugs in children

BMJ 2003;326:712.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Use of nimesulide in Indian children must be stopped

BMJ 2003;326:713.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Artificially giving nutrition and fluids is not one action

BMJ 2003;326:713.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Intensivists are becoming gatekeepers to intensive care

BMJ 2003;326:713.3 (Published 29 March 2003)

Academic boycott of Israel

BMJ 2003;326:713.4 (Published 29 March 2003)

Bureaucracy hinders prompt care

BMJ 2003;326:714 (Published 29 March 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Juan Luis Londoño

BMJ 2003;326:715.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Gordon Bell Birnie

BMJ 2003;326:715.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Fiona Bradley

BMJ 2003;326:715.3 (Published 29 March 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:720 (Published 29 March 2003)

Fillers

Intravenous β agonists are not indicated in severe acute asthma

BMJ 2003;326:0.9 (Published 29 March 2003)

Leaving mercy to heaven

BMJ 2003;326:688 (Published 29 March 2003)

Bakker van Eeklo

BMJ 2003;326:692.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

“I'm sorry for your trouble”

BMJ 2003;326:699.5 (Published 29 March 2003)

A 66 year old woman with a rash

BMJ 2003;326:706 (Published 29 March 2003)

I would accept even worse

BMJ 2003;326:707.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Increase in blood glucose predicts myocardial infarction

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 29 March 2003)

Statins reduce lipid levels better than fibrates

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 29 March 2003)

NHS awards scheme may be discriminatory

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 29 March 2003)

Online consultations improve knowledge transfer

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 29 March 2003)

Doctors deliver care, but who cares for doctors?

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Errors found in half of intravenous drug doses

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Cognitive therapy works best for anxiety disorders

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 29 March 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Treating generalised anxiety disorderCommentary: Putting research into practiceCommentary: A patient's story of living with anxietyCommentary: Information for patients receiving cognitive therapy

BMJ 2003;326:700 (Published 29 March 2003)

Skill based assessment

BMJ 2003;326:703 (Published 29 March 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Reported incidence of violence against NHS staff up by 13%

BMJ 2003;326:678.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

“Safe havens” for unwanted babies could reduce infanticide

BMJ 2003;326:678.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Artists weave a tapestry of life

BMJ 2003;326:678.3 (Published 29 March 2003)

Anti-abortionist is convicted of murder of obstetrician

BMJ 2003;326:678.4 (Published 29 March 2003)

Rates of lobular carcinoma increased markedly in the 1990s

BMJ 2003;326:678.5 (Published 29 March 2003)

High Court again quashes GMC judgment

BMJ 2003;326:678.6 (Published 29 March 2003)

Doctor who bungled abortion is allowed to continue working

BMJ 2003;326:679.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

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

Heart disease is costliest condition to treat

BMJ 2003;326:679.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Nurse sentenced to life for murdering four patients

BMJ 2003;326:680.3 (Published 29 March 2003)

US wants Australia to modify its cheap drugs scheme as part of trade deal

BMJ 2003;326:680.4 (Published 29 March 2003)

US public health service needs strengthening to fight infectious disease

BMJ 2003;326:680.5 (Published 29 March 2003)

Better coordination is needed in services for older people

BMJ 2003;326:680.6 (Published 29 March 2003)

One in seven NHS trusts facing “significant” financial difficulties

BMJ 2003;326:680.7 (Published 29 March 2003)

Euro MPs vote on research fund for neglected diseases

BMJ 2003;326:680.8 (Published 29 March 2003)

Papers

Increase in blood glucose concentration during antihypertensive treatment as a predictor of myocardial infarction: population based cohort study

BMJ 2003;326:681 (Published 29 March 2003)

Ethnographic study of incidence and severity of intravenous drug errors

BMJ 2003;326:684 (Published 29 March 2003)

Discrimination in the discretionary points award scheme: comparison of white with non-white consultants and men with women

BMJ 2003;326:687 (Published 29 March 2003)

Primary care

Cross sectional survey of effectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in reducing serum cholesterol concentration in patients in 17 general practices

BMJ 2003;326:689 (Published 29 March 2003)

Primary care gatekeeping and referrals: effective filter or failed experiment?

BMJ 2003;326:692.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Information in practice

Internet based consultations to transfer knowledge for patients requiring specialised care: retrospective case review

BMJ 2003;326:696 (Published 29 March 2003)

Education and debate

Setting up an outcomes guarantee for pharmaceuticals: new approach to risk sharing in primary care

BMJ 2003;326:707.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

ART

Exodus

BMJ 2003;326:716 (Published 29 March 2003)

Book

Beating Stress in the NHS

BMJ 2003;326:717.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

PRESS

When Jesica died

BMJ 2003;326:717.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

MMR: the onslaught continues

BMJ 2003;326:718.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Doctors' wellbeing

BMJ 2003;326:718.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Personal View

Never say die

BMJ 2003;326:719.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Soundings

Bag of bones

BMJ 2003;326:719.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Corrections

Multifactorial intervention after a fall in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia presenting to the accident and emergency department: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2003;326:699.1 (Published 29 March 2003)

Aspirin could be used to prevent cancer

BMJ 2003;326:699.2 (Published 29 March 2003)

Combined aspirin and clopidogrel treatment improves outcomes, study finds

BMJ 2003;326:699.3 (Published 29 March 2003)

Visible signs of illness from the 14th to the 20th century: systematic review of portraits

BMJ 2003;326:699.4 (Published 29 March 2003)