21 June 2003 (Vol 326, Issue 7403)

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Editor's Choice

Changing the “leadership” of the NHS

BMJ 2003;326:0.8 (Published 19 June 2003)

News

New health secretary vows to continue NHS reform agenda

BMJ 2003;326:1347.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Select committee rejects proposals for high street pharmacies

BMJ 2003;326:1347.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;326:1348.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

EU legislation threatens clinical trials

BMJ 2003;326:1348.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Statins cut cardiovascular events by a quarter in people with diabetes

BMJ 2003;326:1348.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

Some operating theatres are used only eight hours a week

BMJ 2003;326:1349.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Fewer trusts find CHI reviews a positive experience

BMJ 2003;326:1349.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Court upholds murder verdict on doctor who ended woman's life

BMJ 2003;326:1351.4 (Published 19 June 2003)

Wellcome exhibition explores magic, religion, beauty, and eroticism

BMJ 2003;326:1352.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Readers want transparency in link between doctors and drug firms

BMJ 2003;326:1352.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Doctors struggle to define the essence of being a doctor

BMJ 2003;326:1352.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

Editorials

Managing pulmonary embolism

BMJ 2003;326:1341 (Published 19 June 2003)

Preventing HIV

BMJ 2003;326:1342 (Published 19 June 2003)

Electroconvulsive therapy

BMJ 2003;326:1343 (Published 19 June 2003)

Foundation trusts

BMJ 2003;326:1344 (Published 19 June 2003)

Anecdotes as evidence

BMJ 2003;326:1346 (Published 19 June 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Patients were epidemiologically linked

BMJ 2003;326:1393.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Imported cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome to Singapore had impact on national epidemic

BMJ 2003;326:1393.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Clinical outcome after inpatient outbreak of SARS in Singapore

BMJ 2003;326:1394.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Private hospital in Singapore took effective control measures

BMJ 2003;326:1394.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome :Guidelines were drawn up collaboratively to protect healthcare workers in British Columbia

BMJ 2003;326:1394.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Numbers do not tell whole story

BMJ 2003;326:1395 (Published 19 June 2003)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Capture-recapture method should be used to count how many cases of SARS really exist

BMJ 2003;326:1396.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Lessons may be learnt from the outbreak of legionnaires' disease in Barrow in Furness

BMJ 2003;326:1396.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Threat of tuberculosis persists

BMJ 2003;326:1396.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

BMJ was out of touch with grass roots doctors on wellbeing

BMJ 2003;326:1396.4 (Published 19 June 2003)

Mortality control charts: Assessment of outcome is complex

BMJ 2003;326:1397.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Letters - continued

Mortality control charts: Both components of POSSUM ratio require critical analysis

BMJ 2003;326:1397.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

What hospital mortality league tables tell you

BMJ 2003;326:1397.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy: Preparations containing oestrogen should not be given during treatment for breast cancer

BMJ 2003;326:1398.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy: Bisphosphonates should not be recommended for women aged 50

BMJ 2003;326:1398.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy: Authors' reply

BMJ 2003;326:1398.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

Pressure index is important in peripheral arterial disease

BMJ 2003;326:1399.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Setting global health research priorities: Investments for health research for developing countries must be increased

BMJ 2003;326:1399.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Setting global health research priorities: Ethics should also guide global health research

BMJ 2003;326:1399.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

Mental health is improved with teaching therapy

BMJ 2003;326:1399.4 (Published 19 June 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Olikoye Ransome-Kuti

BMJ 2003;326:1400 (Published 19 June 2003)

Lewis Bernard Cannell

BMJ 2003;326:1401.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Mary Alexa Clayton (“Maureen”) Cowell

BMJ 2003;326:1401.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Patrick Murphy

BMJ 2003;326:1401.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

Kunal Raychaudhuri

BMJ 2003;326:1401.4 (Published 19 June 2003)

Vernon Hope Smith

BMJ 2003;326:1401.5 (Published 19 June 2003)

Martin John Wood

BMJ 2003;326:1401.6 (Published 19 June 2003)

Arthur Lewis Wyman

BMJ 2003;326:1401.7 (Published 19 June 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;326:1406 (Published 19 June 2003)

Fillers

It's all right to give analgesics to patients with abdominal pain

BMJ 2003;326:0.7 (Published 19 June 2003)

A vaccination compliment

BMJ 2003;326:1366 (Published 19 June 2003)

Twice weekly fluticasone propionate added to emollient maintenance treatment to reduce risk of relapse in atopic dermatitis: randomised, double blind, parallel group study

BMJ 2003;326:1367 (Published 19 June 2003)

Getting back into medicine

BMJ 2003;326:1370 (Published 19 June 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;326:1392 (Published 19 June 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Diagnosis and management of intestinal ischaemic disorders

BMJ 2003;326:1372 (Published 19 June 2003)

Clarithromycin and pulmonary infiltration with eosinophilia

BMJ 2003;326:1377 (Published 19 June 2003)

Acute coronary syndrome: ST segment elevation myocardial infarction

BMJ 2003;326:1379 (Published 19 June 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

WHO praises China's control measures for SARS

BMJ 2003;326:1350.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Court stands by decision on Gulf war syndrome

BMJ 2003;326:1350.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

US doctors investigate more than 50 possible cases of monkeypox

BMJ 2003;326:1350.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

New South Wales cracks down on commercial scanning

BMJ 2003;326:1350.4 (Published 19 June 2003)

Fees waived for university researchers publishing through BioMed Central

BMJ 2003;326:1350.5 (Published 19 June 2003)

Controversy grows over India's genetically modified potato

BMJ 2003;326:1351.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Judge overrules mothers' objections to MMR vaccine

BMJ 2003;326:1351.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Senior citizens to get part of drug costs paid under new plan

BMJ 2003;326:1351.3 (Published 19 June 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Monitoring of assisted reproduction techniques is inadequate, US experts say

BMJ 2003;326:1352.4 (Published 19 June 2003)

BMJ family highlights

What's new this month in BMJ Journals

BMJ 2003;326:1353 (Published 19 June 2003)

Papers

Evaluation of WHO criteria for identifying patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome out of hospital: prospective observational study

BMJ 2003;326:1354 (Published 19 June 2003)

Haematological manifestations in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome: retrospective analysis

BMJ 2003;326:1358 (Published 19 June 2003)

Patients' perspectives on electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review

BMJ 2003;326:1363 (Published 19 June 2003)

Outcome in people with open spina bifida at age 35: prospective community based cohort study

BMJ 2003;326:1365 (Published 19 June 2003)

Primary care

Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus

BMJ 2003;326:1371 (Published 19 June 2003)

Education and debate

Antiretroviral treatment in developing countries: the peril of neglecting private providers

BMJ 2003;326:1382 (Published 19 June 2003)

Back to basics in HIV prevention: focus on exposure

BMJ 2003;326:1384 (Published 19 June 2003)

Public policies and the orphans of AIDS in Africa

BMJ 2003;326:1387 (Published 19 June 2003)

Tackling India's HIV epidemic: lessons from Africa

BMJ 2003;326:1389 (Published 19 June 2003)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

SARS Reference

BMJ 2003;326:1402.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human

BMJ 2003;326:1402.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

How the media left the evidence out in the cold

BMJ 2003;326:1403 (Published 19 June 2003)

SARS art

BMJ 2003;326:1404 (Published 19 June 2003)

Argentina: torture, silence, and medical teaching

BMJ 2003;326:1405.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

PIGPEN therapy for head lice

BMJ 2003;326:1405.2 (Published 19 June 2003)

Corrections

Risk of subsequent thromboembolism for patients with pre-eclampsia

BMJ 2003;326:1362.1 (Published 19 June 2003)

ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Venous thromboembolism: treatment strategies

BMJ 2003;326:1362.2 (Published 19 June 2003)