24 May 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7399)

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Editor's Choice

After the cameras are gone

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 22 May 2003)

News

US and Germany give late support to WHO tobacco accord

BMJ 2003;326:1103.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

United Kingdom has its first confirmed case of SARS

BMJ 2003;326:1103.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:1104.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

US guidelines say blood pressure of 120/80 mm Hg is not “normal”

BMJ 2003;326:1104.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Exhibition aims to bring home reality of smoking

BMJ 2003;326:1104.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

GPs vote for “contractus interruptus”

BMJ 2003;326:1105.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Hospital consultants are to get 3% pay rise

BMJ 2003;326:1105.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Patients prefer “medical labels” to lay language, study finds

BMJ 2003;326:1105.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

Poor security is biggest impediment to health care in Iraq

BMJ 2003;326:1107.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

Law against asylum seekers may have public health impact

BMJ 2003;326:1108 (Published 22 May 2003)

Chinese scientists must test wild animals to find the host of SARS

BMJ 2003;326:1109 (Published 22 May 2003)

Identifying the fallen

BMJ 2003;326:1110.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Editorials

The failures of two contracts

BMJ 2003;326:1097 (Published 22 May 2003)

Patients and the new contracts

BMJ 2003;326:1099 (Published 22 May 2003)

New leader, new hope for WHO

BMJ 2003;326:1100 (Published 22 May 2003)

Why clinical information standards matter

BMJ 2003;326:1101 (Published 22 May 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

NICE guidance on laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernias: Guidelines are less clinical excellence than hindrance

BMJ 2003;326:1144.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

NICE guidance on laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernias: Late adapters may never change

BMJ 2003;326:1144.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

NICE guidance on laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernias: NICE evaluation has data shortage and short analysis period

BMJ 2003;326:1144.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

Beyond single and dual diagnosis in general practice: Editorial's multiple authorship poses difficulties

BMJ 2003;326:1145.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Beyond single and dual diagnosis in general practice: Patients who do not comply with polypharmacy may be safer

BMJ 2003;326:1145.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Methotrexate and bone marrow suppression: Drug errors may be implicated in death

BMJ 2003;326:1145.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

Methotrexate and bone marrow suppression: Standard collaborative care will be made more difficult

BMJ 2003;326:1145.4 (Published 22 May 2003)

Methotrexate and bone marrow suppression: Authors' reply

BMJ 2003;326:1145.5 (Published 22 May 2003)

Medical community may be partly responsible for cancer misery

BMJ 2003;326:1146.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Obesity may confound relation of early pregnancy loss to risk of heart disease

BMJ 2003;326:1146.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Letters - continued

Fatal dysnatraemia caused by elective colonoscopy: Lesson was unnecessarily alarmist

BMJ 2003;326:1146.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

Fatal dysnatraemia caused by elective colonoscopy: Additional cost for colonoscopy providers may be unnecessary

BMJ 2003;326:1147.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Ottawa ankle rules: Sign may not be objective

BMJ 2003;326:1147.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Ottawa ankle rules: Patients with ligamentous injury need better treatment in Britain

BMJ 2003;326:1147.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

Ottawa ankle rules: Authors' reply

BMJ 2003;326:1147.4 (Published 22 May 2003)

Investigating and managing chronic dysphagia: Dysphagia should prompt urgent gastroenterological referral

BMJ 2003;326:1147.5 (Published 22 May 2003)

Investigating and managing chronic dysphagia: Gastroenterological input should have been included

BMJ 2003;326:1148.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Cover up and stay out of sun to prevent skin cancer

BMJ 2003;326:1148.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Text messaging raises medicolegal issues

BMJ 2003;326:1148.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Alexander Russell

BMJ 2003;326:1149.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Richard Michael (“Mike”) Burton

BMJ 2003;326:1149.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Kenneth John Gurling

BMJ 2003;326:1149.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:1154 (Published 22 May 2003)

Fillers

Topical NSAIDs offer poor pain relief for corneal abrasions

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 22 May 2003)

The prevention of juvenile smoking

BMJ 2003;326:1126 (Published 22 May 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;326:1132 (Published 22 May 2003)

Advice

BMJ 2003;326:1149.4 (Published 22 May 2003)

Clinical Reviews

A 42 year old man with acute chest pain: case outcome

BMJ 2003;326:1133.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Patient's view

BMJ 2003;326:1133.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Challenge for emergency physicians

BMJ 2003;326:1134.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Questions for general practice

BMJ 2003;326:1134.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Cardiovascular management

BMJ 2003;326:1135 (Published 22 May 2003)

More to be learnt from the discussion than the diagnosis

BMJ 2003;326:1136 (Published 22 May 2003)

Percutaneous coronary intervention. II: The procedure

BMJ 2003;326:1137 (Published 22 May 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

EU patients are entitled to primary care in any member country

BMJ 2003;326:1106.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Couple at centre of IVF controversy begin treatment

BMJ 2003;326:1106.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Drug company accused of breaking advertising regulations

BMJ 2003;326:1106.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

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

Support from G8 countries boosts funds for global fund

BMJ 2003;326:1106.4 (Published 22 May 2003)

Blair says whole of NHS should be opened up to competition

BMJ 2003;326:1106.5 (Published 22 May 2003)

First wave of foundation hospitals unveiled

BMJ 2003;326:1106.6 (Published 22 May 2003)

Patient confidentiality challenged over HIV test results

BMJ 2003;326:1107.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Media misled the public over the MMR vaccine, study says

BMJ 2003;326:1107.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

WHO is worried that China is under-reporting SARS

BMJ 2003;326:1110.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Quality improvement forum sets sights on developing countries and on patients

BMJ 2003;326:1110.3 (Published 22 May 2003)

Papers

β lactam monotherapy versus β lactam-aminoglycoside combination therapy for fever with neutropenia: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2003;326:1111 (Published 22 May 2003)

Stepping down inhaled corticosteroids in asthma: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2003;326:1115 (Published 22 May 2003)

Empirical prescribing for dyspepsia: randomised controlled trial of test and treat versus omeprazole treatment

BMJ 2003;326:1118 (Published 22 May 2003)

Evaluation of suicide rates in rural India using verbal autopsies, 1994-9

BMJ 2003;326:1121 (Published 22 May 2003)

Participation in screening for cardiovascular risk by people with schizophrenia or similar mental illnesses: cross sectional study in general practice

BMJ 2003;326:1122 (Published 22 May 2003)

Primary care

Iron supplementation for unexplained fatigue in non-anaemic women: double blind randomised placebo controlled trial

BMJ 2003;326:1124 (Published 22 May 2003)

Information in practice

Randomised crossover trial comparing the performance of Clinical Terms Version 3 and Read Codes 5 byte set coding schemes in general practice

BMJ 2003;326:1127 (Published 22 May 2003)

Use of Read codes in diabetes management in a south London primary care group: implications for establishing disease registers

BMJ 2003;326:1130 (Published 22 May 2003)

Education and debate

Health and development in the Arab world: which way forward?

BMJ 2003;326:1141 (Published 22 May 2003)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Presumed Curable: An Illustrated Casebook of Victorian Psychiatric Patients in Bethlem Hospital

BMJ 2003;326:1150.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Evidence-Based Public Health

BMJ 2003;326:1150.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Cancer Tales

BMJ 2003;326:1151.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

NETLINES

BMJ 2003;326:1151.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Promoting blood donation among British Muslims

BMJ 2003;326:1152.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

SARS revisited

BMJ 2003;326:1152.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Foundation hospitals: we've been here before

BMJ 2003;326:1153.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Reader's consent

BMJ 2003;326:1153.2 (Published 22 May 2003)

Corrections

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

BMJ 2003;326:1123.1 (Published 22 May 2003)

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:1123.2 (Published 22 May 2003)