26 April 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7395)

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Editor's Choice

The screening industry

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 26 April 2003)

News

SARS virus identified, but the disease is still spreading

BMJ 2003;326:897.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Canada reports more than 300 suspected cases of SARS

BMJ 2003;326:897.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:898.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

London GP cleared of serious professional misconduct

BMJ 2003;326:898.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Moving house on medical grounds improves health

BMJ 2003;326:898.3 (Published 26 April 2003)

Iraq's hospitals struggle to provide a service

BMJ 2003;326:899.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Nigerians in drug trial take their case to US court

BMJ 2003;326:899.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Government tries to “out manoeuvre” doctors over pay

BMJ 2003;326:900.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Health takes centre stage in election campaigns in Scotland and Wales

BMJ 2003;326:900.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

GPs take on a dental challenge

BMJ 2003;326:900.3 (Published 26 April 2003)

Editorials

The national service framework for children

BMJ 2003;326:891 (Published 26 April 2003)

Managing Barrett's oesophagus

BMJ 2003;326:892 (Published 26 April 2003)

Screening for cancer with computed tomography

BMJ 2003;326:894 (Published 26 April 2003)

Failures of the therapeutic chain as a cause of drug ineffectiveness

BMJ 2003;326:895 (Published 26 April 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Policies on SARS in UK boarding schools are confused

BMJ 2003;326:929.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

EU working time directive

BMJ 2003;326:929.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Effectiveness of hip protectors

BMJ 2003;326:930 (Published 26 April 2003)

Quality of impact factors of general medical journals

BMJ 2003;326:931 (Published 26 April 2003)

Overseas members of the BMA

BMJ 2003;326:932.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Four futures for scientific and medical publishing

BMJ 2003;326:932.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Applying evidence is problem not just for educational quality

BMJ 2003;326:933.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Seven steps to evidence based general practice

BMJ 2003;326:933.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

David Sutton

BMJ 2003;326:934.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Peter Bakaj

BMJ 2003;326:934.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

David Gatehouse

BMJ 2003;326:934.3 (Published 26 April 2003)

Frederick Thomas Graves

BMJ 2003;326:934.4 (Published 26 April 2003)

John Holland

BMJ 2003;326:934.5 (Published 26 April 2003)

David Livingston MacKinnon

BMJ 2003;326:934.6 (Published 26 April 2003)

Keith Maxwell Morris

BMJ 2003;326:934.7 (Published 26 April 2003)

Alison Sarah Jane Prosser

BMJ 2003;326:934.8 (Published 26 April 2003)

Gerard David Horace Shawe

BMJ 2003;326:934.9 (Published 26 April 2003)

Victor Henry Springett

BMJ 2003;326:934.10 (Published 26 April 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:940 (Published 26 April 2003)

Fillers

Peripheral white cell count can't identify infants who don't have bacterial meningitis

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 26 April 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;326:905.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

I should have known better

BMJ 2003;326:920.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Newspaper medicine

BMJ 2003;326:921.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Descent is mainstay of altitude illness treatment

BMJ 2003;326:0.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Delay in TB diagnosis is more common in white people and women

BMJ 2003;326:0.3 (Published 26 April 2003)

Manual therapy is cost effective for treating neck pain

BMJ 2003;326:0.6 (Published 26 April 2003)

PFI is ineffective

BMJ 2003;326:0.4 (Published 26 April 2003)

Assessment of bed blocking lacks valid tools

BMJ 2003;326:0.5 (Published 26 April 2003)

Screening 1000 women for 35 years prevents one cervical cancer death

BMJ 2003;326:0.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Altitude illness

BMJ 2003;326:915 (Published 26 April 2003)

A 42 year old man with acute chest pain

BMJ 2003;326:920.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Clinical Reviews - continued

Creating teaching materials

BMJ 2003;326:921.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Retinopathy

BMJ 2003;326:924 (Published 26 April 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Explosion of internet advertisements for protection against SARS

BMJ 2003;326:900.4 (Published 26 April 2003)

US patient privacy law comes into effect

BMJ 2003;326:900.5 (Published 26 April 2003)

Drug companies pay out millions after overcharging Medicaid

BMJ 2003;326:900.6 (Published 26 April 2003)

Government fails to meet targets for sexually transmitted infections

BMJ 2003;326:900.7 (Published 26 April 2003)

Papers

Outcomes of screening to prevent cancer: analysis of cumulative incidence of cervical abnormality and modelling of cases and deaths prevented

BMJ 2003;326:901 (Published 26 April 2003)

Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study

BMJ 2003;326:905.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Delay in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, London, 1998-2000: analysis of surveillance data

BMJ 2003;326:909 (Published 26 April 2003)

Erythromelalgia induced by possible calcium channel blockade by ciclosporin

BMJ 2003;326:910.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Primary care

Cost effectiveness of physiotherapy, manual therapy, and general practitioner care for neck pain: economic evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trialCommentary: Bootstrapping simplifies appreciation of statistical inferences

BMJ 2003;326:911 (Published 26 April 2003)

Education and debate

Inappropriately delayed discharge from hospital: What do we know?

BMJ 2003;326:927 (Published 26 April 2003)

RADIO

The Reith lectures 2003: The Emerging Mind

BMJ 2003;326:936.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Book

International Child Health Care: A Practical Manual for Hospitals Worldwide

BMJ 2003;326:936.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Personal Views

The other war

BMJ 2003;326:937.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

Time to show unity against SARS

BMJ 2003;326:938.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

How popular perceptions of risk from SARS are fermenting discrimination

BMJ 2003;326:939.1 (Published 26 April 2003)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Severe acute respiratory syndrome

BMJ 2003;326:937.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

NETLINES

Netlines

BMJ 2003;326:938.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Soundings

Walking the walk

BMJ 2003;326:939.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Corrections

Mark Twain on evidence based practice

BMJ 2003;326:910.2 (Published 26 April 2003)

Filler: He died “peacefully” at home

BMJ 2003;326:910.3 (Published 26 April 2003)