12 April 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7393)

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Editor's Choice

The moral questions of war

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 12 April 2003)

News

Baghdad's hospitals struggle to cope with war wounded

BMJ 2003;326:779 (Published 12 April 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:780.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Amnesty condemns allies' use of cluster bombs

BMJ 2003;326:780.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

Advice on withholding food and water breaks the law, group claims

BMJ 2003;326:780.3 (Published 12 April 2003)

China joins global effort over pneumonia virus

BMJ 2003;326:781.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Commission warns against selling genetic tests direct to the public

BMJ 2003;326:781.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

Privy Council says GMC procedure on restoration to register is flawed

BMJ 2003;326:783.3 (Published 12 April 2003)

Treatment slows moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2003;326:784.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Portrait of Isaac Marks unveiled

BMJ 2003;326:784.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

Court awards damages to disabled child for having been born

BMJ 2003;326:784.3 (Published 12 April 2003)

Editorials

Fighting “terrorism” with torture

BMJ 2003;326:773 (Published 12 April 2003)

Images of war and medical ethics

BMJ 2003;326:774 (Published 12 April 2003)

Emergency contraception

BMJ 2003;326:775 (Published 12 April 2003)

Workplace bullying

BMJ 2003;326:776 (Published 12 April 2003)

Hospital mortality league tables

BMJ 2003;326:777 (Published 12 April 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

How political should a general medical journal be?

BMJ 2003;326:820 (Published 12 April 2003)

Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ 2003;326:821 (Published 12 April 2003)

Parametric survival models may be more accurate than Kaplan-Meier estimates

BMJ 2003;326:822.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Opiate withdrawal and botulism: stigma delayed treatment

BMJ 2003;326:822.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

Shapely centrefolds

BMJ 2003;326:823.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

A curriculum can be latent and informal

BMJ 2003;326:823.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

Dataset on deaths related to taking ecstasy looks incomplete

BMJ 2003;326:823.3 (Published 12 April 2003)

Prisons, too, are institutions for psychiatric care

BMJ 2003;326:824.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Faxing helps deaf people access health services in Spain

BMJ 2003;326:824.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

Peer review should not be anonymous

BMJ 2003;326:824.3 (Published 12 April 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Carlo Urbani

BMJ 2003;326:825.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Walter Martin Browne

BMJ 2003;326:825.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

Hilary Barbara Joy Cooke (née Rose)

BMJ 2003;326:825.3 (Published 12 April 2003)

Elizabeth Stuart Gronbach (née Ross)

BMJ 2003;326:825.4 (Published 12 April 2003)

Colin Francis Herridge

BMJ 2003;326:825.5 (Published 12 April 2003)

Ian Alexander McClure

BMJ 2003;326:825.6 (Published 12 April 2003)

Margaret Wylie Martin (née Thomas)

BMJ 2003;326:825.7 (Published 12 April 2003)

Gerald Bernard Winter

BMJ 2003;326:825.8 (Published 12 April 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:830 (Published 12 April 2003)

Fillers

No reliable test or exam finding for acute cholecystitis

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 12 April 2003)

He died “peacefully” at home

BMJ 2003;326:792 (Published 12 April 2003)

A medical president

BMJ 2003;326:796.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

The heights of folly

BMJ 2003;326:803 (Published 12 April 2003)

Where worlds meet

BMJ 2003;326:809 (Published 12 April 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;326:813.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

The Physician

BMJ 2003;326:819 (Published 12 April 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Ethnicity needs to be considered when planning clinical exams

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 12 April 2003)

Malaria can worsen after initial good presentation

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 12 April 2003)

IL-2 receptor antibodies halve risk of renal transplantation rejection

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 12 April 2003)

Counselling on exercise in general practice increases quality of life

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 12 April 2003)

Mortality control charts improve monitoring of surgical performance

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Interactive case report elicits varied perspectives

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

Clinical Reviews

A 66 year old woman with a rash: case outcomeCommentary: Patient's perspectiveCommentary: Vascular surgeonCommentary: DermatologyCommentary: View from primary careCommentary: Learning from interactive case reports

BMJ 2003;326:804 (Published 12 April 2003)

Assessing the severity of malaria

BMJ 2003;326:808 (Published 12 April 2003)

Educational environment

BMJ 2003;326:810 (Published 12 April 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Environmental hazards kill five million children a year

BMJ 2003;326:782.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Genetic factors may underlie link between breast density and cancer risk

BMJ 2003;326:782.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

Couple wins right to select embryo

BMJ 2003;326:782.3 (Published 12 April 2003)

Welsh Labour party promises free prescriptions and free school breakfasts

BMJ 2003;326:782.4 (Published 12 April 2003)

US government issues guidelines on conflicts of interest in research

BMJ 2003;326:782.5 (Published 12 April 2003)

BMA says non-therapeutic circumcision needs consent of both parents

BMJ 2003;326:782.6 (Published 12 April 2003)

Heavy drinking among US students correlates with density of alcohol outlets

BMJ 2003;326:783.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

CDC reports first case of vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

BMJ 2003;326:783.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Fear of SARS thwarts medical education in Toronto

BMJ 2003;326:784.4 (Published 12 April 2003)

More information needed about experience of dying, report says

BMJ 2003;326:784.5 (Published 12 April 2003)

BMJ family highlights

BMJ family highlights

BMJ 2003;326:785 (Published 12 April 2003)

Papers

Mortality control charts for comparing performance of surgical units: validation study using hospital mortality data

BMJ 2003;326:786 (Published 12 April 2003)

Interleukin-2 receptor monoclonal antibodies in renal transplantation: meta-analysis of randomised trials

BMJ 2003;326:789 (Published 12 April 2003)

Risk of subsequent thromboembolism for patients with pre-eclampsia

BMJ 2003;326:791 (Published 12 April 2003)

Primary care

Effectiveness of counselling patients on physical activity in general practice: cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2003;326:793 (Published 12 April 2003)

Innovations in primary care in the United StatesCommentary: What can primary care in the United States learn from the United Kingdom?

BMJ 2003;326:796.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Learning in practice

Effect of ethnicity on performance in a final objective structured clinical examination: qualitative and quantitative study

BMJ 2003;326:800 (Published 12 April 2003)

Education and debate

Time to abandon testing for microscopic haematuria in adults?

BMJ 2003;326:813.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Research methods used in developing and applying quality indicators in primary care

BMJ 2003;326:816 (Published 12 April 2003)

ART

DNA 50 Four Plus: Writing DNA

BMJ 2003;326:827.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Film

In this World

BMJ 2003;326:827.2 (Published 12 April 2003)

PRESS

Journalists debate the limits of horror

BMJ 2003;326:828 (Published 12 April 2003)

Personal View

How 9/11 thinking can impair doctors' clinical judgment

BMJ 2003;326:829.1 (Published 12 April 2003)

Soundings

Orthopaedic surgeons and flaccid liberals

BMJ 2003;326:829.2 (Published 12 April 2003)