05 April 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7392)

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Editor's Choice

Turning a blind eye to the war

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 5 April 2003)

News

Hong Kong and US scientists believe illness is a coronavirus

BMJ 2003;326:727 (Published 5 April 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:728.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

World cancer rates set to double by 2020

BMJ 2003;326:728.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Sharp decline in UK deaths from bowel cancer predicted

BMJ 2003;326:728.3 (Published 5 April 2003)

Questions remain over lack of UN role in humanitarian aid in Iraq

BMJ 2003;326:729.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Charity calls for the release of its kidnapped worker

BMJ 2003;326:729.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Epstein-Barr virus may increase risk of multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2003;326:731.3 (Published 5 April 2003)

Genes, genes, genes

BMJ 2003;326:732 (Published 5 April 2003)

Editorials

Maintaining perioperative normothermia

BMJ 2003;326:721 (Published 5 April 2003)

Setting global health research priorities

BMJ 2003;326:722 (Published 5 April 2003)

Treatment of raised intraocular pressure and prevention of glaucoma

BMJ 2003;326:723 (Published 5 April 2003)

Patient privacy and confidentiality

BMJ 2003;326:725 (Published 5 April 2003)

Bat rabies

BMJ 2003;326:726 (Published 5 April 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Medical staff need to be aware of major incident planning

BMJ 2003;326:762.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Contraindications to use of metformin

BMJ 2003;326:762.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Increase in resources should lead to reduced waiting times

BMJ 2003;326:763 (Published 5 April 2003)

New structures of governance are needed

BMJ 2003;326:764.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Drug treatment of hypertension

BMJ 2003;326:764.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Identifying malnourished children may not be easy

BMJ 2003;326:765.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Skin scarring: new insights may make adjustment easier

BMJ 2003;326:765.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

“Author pays” as new science publishing model

BMJ 2003;326:765.3 (Published 5 April 2003)

“Free” medical publishing venture gets under way

BMJ 2003;326:766.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Sore throats, why the dilemma?

BMJ 2003;326:766.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

John Leigh Collis

BMJ 2003;326:767.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Marjorie Mary Brearley

BMJ 2003;326:767.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Thomas Albert Brown

BMJ 2003;326:767.3 (Published 5 April 2003)

James Leuchars Crighton

BMJ 2003;326:767.4 (Published 5 April 2003)

John Ronald Forbes

BMJ 2003;326:767.5 (Published 5 April 2003)

Walter Gordon

BMJ 2003;326:767.6 (Published 5 April 2003)

Nicholas Radvanyi

BMJ 2003;326:767.7 (Published 5 April 2003)

Leslie Frederick William Salmon

BMJ 2003;326:767.8 (Published 5 April 2003)

William Frederick de Coverly Veale

BMJ 2003;326:767.9 (Published 5 April 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:772 (Published 5 April 2003)

Fillers

Systolic blood pressure predicts heart failure best

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 5 April 2003)

Good advice

BMJ 2003;326:733.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Evidence based practice

BMJ 2003;326:737.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

A tribute

BMJ 2003;326:740.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

The instrument that determined my practice

BMJ 2003;326:747 (Published 5 April 2003)

On writing prescriptions

BMJ 2003;326:750 (Published 5 April 2003)

A 66 year old woman with a rash

BMJ 2003;326:752 (Published 5 April 2003)

How many days have you lost?

BMJ 2003;326:756.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

The Nestor of medicine

BMJ 2003;326:759.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Healthcare quality programmes lack evidence

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 5 April 2003)

Prevalence of H pylori is lower in patients with reflux disease

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Participation in teaching is good therapy for patients with mental disorders

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 5 April 2003)

New cervical smear tests should not replace conventional ones

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

How to treat herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 5 April 2003)

Work based assessment is best for appraisal of doctors

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 5 April 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Treatment of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia

BMJ 2003;326:748 (Published 5 April 2003)

Treating hepatic hydrothorax

BMJ 2003;326:751 (Published 5 April 2003)

Work based assessment

BMJ 2003;326:753 (Published 5 April 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Unprotected oral sex can transmit HIV

BMJ 2003;326:730.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

GMC reprimands doctor for research fraud

BMJ 2003;326:730.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Exhibition celebrates 50th anniversary of discovery of DNA

BMJ 2003;326:730.3 (Published 5 April 2003)

No practice will lose out under new GP contract, agreement says

BMJ 2003;326:730.4 (Published 5 April 2003)

Drug company executives sacked after allegations of illegal surveillance

BMJ 2003;326:730.5 (Published 5 April 2003)

Charity Commission says claim against GMC cannot proceed

BMJ 2003;326:730.6 (Published 5 April 2003)

Women facing prophylactic mastectomy need more advice and support

BMJ 2003;326:731.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

CHI finds poor working relationships hamper hospital's care

BMJ 2003;326:731.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Papers

Cross sectional study of conventional cervical smear, monolayer cytology, and human papillomavirus DNA testing for cervical cancer screening

BMJ 2003;326:733.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: systematic review

BMJ 2003;326:737.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Primary care

Teaching as therapy: cross sectional and qualitative evaluation of patients' experiences of undergraduate psychiatry teaching in the community

BMJ 2003;326:740.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Profiling performance in primary care in the United States

BMJ 2003;326:744 (Published 5 April 2003)

Education and debate

Why certain systematic reviews reach uncertain conclusions

BMJ 2003;326:756.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Using research to inform quality programmes

BMJ 2003;326:759.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

ART

Ron Mueck: Making Sculpture at the National Gallery

BMJ 2003;326:769.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Book

On The Natural History of Destruction

BMJ 2003;326:769.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

TV

Keeping up appearances

BMJ 2003;326:770.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Cervical cancer screening

BMJ 2003;326:770.2 (Published 5 April 2003)

Personal View

The reification of numbers: statistics and the distance between self, work, and others

BMJ 2003;326:771.1 (Published 5 April 2003)

Soundings

Working together

BMJ 2003;326:771.2 (Published 5 April 2003)