31 July 2003 (Vol 327, Issue 7409)

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Editor's Choice

The positive in negatives

BMJ 2003;327:0.8 (Published 31 July 2003)

News

Liberia faces a humanitarian catastrophe, warn aid agencies

BMJ 2003;327:245.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

HIV cases rising sharply in India

BMJ 2003;327:245.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;327:246.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

US agrees to cheap drug imports—as Florida officials break fake drugs ring

BMJ 2003;327:246.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Proposed US stroke centres under fire for planned use of alteplase

BMJ 2003;327:247.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Company plans to sell snuff as “smokeless tobacco”

BMJ 2003;327:247.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Study shows poor reliability of prostate cancer test

BMJ 2003;327:249.3 (Published 31 July 2003)

Ice hockey can lead to brain injury, experts warn

BMJ 2003;327:249.4 (Published 31 July 2003)

Fertilisation authority to review “egg giving”

BMJ 2003;327:250.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Germany reaches controversial deal on healthcare reform

BMJ 2003;327:250.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Editorials

Breast cancer in men

BMJ 2003;327:239 (Published 31 July 2003)

Clinical trials for tomorrow funded by the MRC

BMJ 2003;327:240 (Published 31 July 2003)

Paying for bmj.com

BMJ 2003;327:241 (Published 31 July 2003)

The impact of parental psychiatric disorder on children

BMJ 2003;327:242 (Published 31 July 2003)

Tuberculin testing before BCG vaccination

BMJ 2003;327:243 (Published 31 July 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Co-proxamol and suicide

BMJ 2003;327:287.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Co-proxamol and suicide

BMJ 2003;327:287.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Co-proxamol and suicide

BMJ 2003;327:287.3 (Published 31 July 2003)

Antidepressant prescribing and suicide

BMJ 2003;327:288.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Antidepressant prescribing and suicide

BMJ 2003;327:288.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Antidepressant prescribing and suicide

BMJ 2003;327:288.3 (Published 31 July 2003)

Antidepressant prescribing and suicide

BMJ 2003;327:288.4 (Published 31 July 2003)

Antidepressant prescribing and suicide

BMJ 2003;327:289.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Pharmacological heterogeneity limits antidepressant study

BMJ 2003;327:289.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

European Commission's proposal for a council recommendation on cancer screening

BMJ 2003;327:289.3 (Published 31 July 2003)

Opportunistic screening for Chlamydia

BMJ 2003;327:290.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Letters - continued

Opportunistic screening for Chlamydia

BMJ 2003;327:290.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Guidelines for anecdotes might include more information

BMJ 2003;327:290.3 (Published 31 July 2003)

Two groups were different in cardiovascular risk study

BMJ 2003;327:290.4 (Published 31 July 2003)

Behavioural approaches are helpful in overactive bladder

BMJ 2003;327:291.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Randomise foundation trusts

BMJ 2003;327:291.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Time has come for a medical minister of health

BMJ 2003;327:291.3 (Published 31 July 2003)

“Hitting the Headlines” is useful resource

BMJ 2003;327:291.4 (Published 31 July 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Paul Wilson Brand

BMJ 2003;327:292.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

James Mellis Dunbar

BMJ 2003;327:292.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Euan Horniman

BMJ 2003;327:293.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Dhanamjaya Rao Kandula

BMJ 2003;327:293.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Khondker (“Salim”) Mosleh-Uddin

BMJ 2003;327:293.3 (Published 31 July 2003)

Sydney Charles Sandifer

BMJ 2003;327:293.4 (Published 31 July 2003)

Alastair Douglas Short

BMJ 2003;327:293.5 (Published 31 July 2003)

Beatrice Elizabeth Sleigh

BMJ 2003;327:293.6 (Published 31 July 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;327:298 (Published 31 July 2003)

Fillers

Hip protectors are ineffective for preventing hip and pelvic fractures

BMJ 2003;327:0.7 (Published 31 July 2003)

British biological warfare

BMJ 2003;327:261 (Published 31 July 2003)

Penalised

BMJ 2003;327:262.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Call for papers

BMJ 2003;327:265 (Published 31 July 2003)

A case of “Alpine armailli's apple hands syndrome”

BMJ 2003;327:273 (Published 31 July 2003)

Shy and retiring

BMJ 2003;327:279 (Published 31 July 2003)

Compartment syndrome

BMJ 2003;327:286.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Advice

BMJ 2003;327:293.7 (Published 31 July 2003)

Clinical Reviews

New approaches to preventing restenosis

BMJ 2003;327:274 (Published 31 July 2003)

Percutaneous interventional electrophysiology

BMJ 2003;327:280 (Published 31 July 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Apparent increase in autism in children has stopped, study shows

BMJ 2003;327:248.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Presidential commission urges revamp of US mental health system

BMJ 2003;327:248.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Fishy diet could help prevent Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2003;327:248.3 (Published 31 July 2003)

Asbestos poisoning was covered up by doctors, claims health team

BMJ 2003;327:248.4 (Published 31 July 2003)

Commons committee calls for more choice over home births

BMJ 2003;327:249.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Kidney trafficking is “big business,” says Council of Europe

BMJ 2003;327:249.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Prize winner to donate funds from Israeli university to Arab researchers

BMJ 2003;327:250.3 (Published 31 July 2003)

Female hospital doctors find it harder than GPs to balance career and family

BMJ 2003;327:250.4 (Published 31 July 2003)

EU health minister renews calls for specialist disease control centre

BMJ 2003;327:250.5 (Published 31 July 2003)

Papers

Enzyme potentiated desensitisation in treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis: double blind randomised controlled study

BMJ 2003;327:251 (Published 31 July 2003)

Impact of supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A on early infant mortality: community based randomised trial in southern India

BMJ 2003;327:254 (Published 31 July 2003)

Effect of strategies to reduce exposure of infants to environmental tobacco smoke in the home: cross sectional survey

BMJ 2003;327:257 (Published 31 July 2003)

Retrospective review of care and outcomes in young adults with type 1 diabetes

BMJ 2003;327:260 (Published 31 July 2003)

Why surgical patients do not donate tissue for commercial research: review of records

BMJ 2003;327:262.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Primary care

Identifying and managing patients at low risk of bowel cancer in general practice

BMJ 2003;327:263 (Published 31 July 2003)

Information in practice

What happened to the valid POEMs? A survey of review articles on the treatment of type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2003;327:266 (Published 31 July 2003)

The faults of expert reviews are already well known

BMJ 2003;327:269 (Published 31 July 2003)

Quality Improvement Report

Improving compliance with requirements on junior doctors' hours

BMJ 2003;327:270 (Published 31 July 2003)

Education and debate

Modified informed consent procedure: consent to postponed information

BMJ 2003;327:284 (Published 31 July 2003)

an imperfect compromise

BMJ 2003;327:286.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

My First MRCP Book

BMJ 2003;327:294.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Tony Copperfield's Primary Care Scream

BMJ 2003;327:294.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

New US drama outrages plastic surgeons

BMJ 2003;327:295.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Hit Parade

BMJ 2003;327:295.2 (Published 31 July 2003)

Gay tobacco ads come out of the closet

BMJ 2003;327:296 (Published 31 July 2003)

Poppies in Kosovo, gerbera daisies in Basra

BMJ 2003;327:297.1 (Published 31 July 2003)

Honorary woman

BMJ 2003;327:297.2 (Published 31 July 2003)