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09 August 2003 (Vol 327, Issue 7410)

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Editor's Choice

What's your price?

BMJ 2003;327:0.8 (Published 7 August 2003)

News

Judges rule that children can sue for wrongful diagnosis of abuse

BMJ 2003;327:305.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Report shows health disparities in American Indians and Alaska Natives

BMJ 2003;327:305.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;327:306.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

South African government to withdraw antiretrovirals for pregnant mothers

BMJ 2003;327:306.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

NIH needs to change, says report

BMJ 2003;327:306.3 (Published 7 August 2003)

Baby milk company fined for advertising direct to consumers

BMJ 2003;327:307.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Drug company employee who queried trial wins appeal

BMJ 2003;327:307.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Hong Kong under WHO spotlight after flu outbreak

BMJ 2003;327:308.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

“Yellow card” announcement used to head off concerns, experts claim

BMJ 2003;327:308.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Editorials

Suspected child abuse: the potential for justice to miscarry

BMJ 2003;327:299 (Published 7 August 2003)

From electronic gadgets to better health: where is the knowledge?

BMJ 2003;327:300 (Published 7 August 2003)

Endocrine treatment of physiological gynaecomastia

BMJ 2003;327:301 (Published 7 August 2003)

General practitioners and occupational health professionals

BMJ 2003;327:302 (Published 7 August 2003)

Speak up!

BMJ 2003;327:303 (Published 7 August 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

No more free lunches

BMJ 2003;327:341.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

No more free lunches: How to dance with porcupines

BMJ 2003;327:341.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

No more free lunches: Doctors and journals in the South cut off drug companies at their peril

BMJ 2003;327:341.3 (Published 7 August 2003)

No more free lunches: The market has us all in its grip

BMJ 2003;327:342.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

No more free lunches: Relationship between industry and research does not bear scrutiny

BMJ 2003;327:342.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

No more free lunches: It is time to own up

BMJ 2003;327:342.3 (Published 7 August 2003)

No more free lunches: Summary of rapid responses

BMJ 2003;327:342.4 (Published 7 August 2003)

Prognosis of entanglement could be serious

BMJ 2003;327:343.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Dying for drugs: Drug companies should not have to subsidise incompetent governments

BMJ 2003;327:343.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Dying for drugs: Drug companies should swear “Hippocratic” oath

BMJ 2003;327:343.3 (Published 7 August 2003)

Industry funding of patients' support groups: Objectives of patients, clinicians, and industry are similar

BMJ 2003;327:343.4 (Published 7 August 2003)

Letters - continued

Industry funding of patients' support groups: Declaration of competing interests is rare in Italian breast cancer associations

BMJ 2003;327:344.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Interests of charities: Arthritis care sets facts straight

BMJ 2003;327:344.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Interests of charities: Diabetes UK has long recognised importance of transparency in funding

BMJ 2003;327:344.3 (Published 7 August 2003)

Telephone consultations are routinely used

BMJ 2003;327:345.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

On abandoning ties and avoiding nose rings: Medical humour has implications for evidence based medicine…

BMJ 2003;327:345.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

On abandoning ties and avoiding nose rings: … but ties may in truth pose danger to clinicians…

BMJ 2003;327:345.3 (Published 7 August 2003)

On abandoning ties and avoiding nose rings: … and economic analysis of tie wearing might be interesting

BMJ 2003;327:345.4 (Published 7 August 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Ewart Geoffrey Walsh

BMJ 2003;327:346.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Elizabeth Anne Alexander (née Gillberry)

BMJ 2003;327:346.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Baij Nath Bhandari

BMJ 2003;327:346.3 (Published 7 August 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;327:350 (Published 7 August 2003)

Fillers

Soy-derived isoflavones don't help hot flushes

BMJ 2003;327:0.7 (Published 7 August 2003)

Ethnic mix

BMJ 2003;327:322 (Published 7 August 2003)

Whisky

BMJ 2003;327:325.4 (Published 7 August 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;327:328 (Published 7 August 2003)

Call for papers

BMJ 2003;327:330.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Opening training schemes to change

BMJ 2003;327:336.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

A choice

BMJ 2003;327:339 (Published 7 August 2003)

Images of the good doctor in Western medicine: the doctor-patient relationship (part 2)

BMJ 2003;327:340.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Advice

BMJ 2003;327:346.4 (Published 7 August 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Tennis elbow

BMJ 2003;327:329 (Published 7 August 2003)

Treatment of tennis elbow: the evidence

BMJ 2003;327:330.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia

BMJ 2003;327:331 (Published 7 August 2003)

Implantable devices for treating tachyarrhythmias

BMJ 2003;327:333 (Published 7 August 2003)

BMJ family highlights

BMJ family highlights

BMJ 2003;327:309 (Published 7 August 2003)

Papers

Medical prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: two randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2003;327:310 (Published 7 August 2003)

Papers - continued

Interpregnancy interval and risk of preterm birth and neonatal death: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2003;327:313 (Published 7 August 2003)

Past exposure to sun, skin phenotype, and risk of multiple sclerosis: case-control study

BMJ 2003;327:316 (Published 7 August 2003)

Rate limiting factors in recruitment of patients to clinical trials in cancer research: descriptive study

BMJ 2003;327:320 (Published 7 August 2003)

Effect of national guidelines on prescription of methadone: analysis of NHS prescription data, England 1990-2001

BMJ 2003;327:321 (Published 7 August 2003)

Primary care

Acute low back pain: systematic review of its prognosis

BMJ 2003;327:323 (Published 7 August 2003)

Learning in practice

Involving patients in medical education

BMJ 2003;327:326 (Published 7 August 2003)

Education and debate

Establishing ethical trials for treatment and prevention of AIDS in developing countries

BMJ 2003;327:337 (Published 7 August 2003)

Ethics guidance for HIV prevention trials

BMJ 2003;327:340.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Telepsychiatry and e-Mental Health

BMJ 2003;327:347.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

How viewers get facts from fiction

BMJ 2003;327:347.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Publish and be pampered

BMJ 2003;327:348.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Missing and unidentified persons

BMJ 2003;327:348.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

How we should deal with John Doe

BMJ 2003;327:349.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Carnival

BMJ 2003;327:349.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Next stage of NHS reforms come under fire

BMJ 2003;327:380.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Polio vaccine plans may run into problems in Nigeria

BMJ 2003;327:380.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Australian ministers threaten restrictions on junk food advertising

BMJ 2003;327:380.3 (Published 7 August 2003)

New public health agency sets out its stall

BMJ 2003;327:380.4 (Published 7 August 2003)

Corrections

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

BMJ 2003;327:325.1 (Published 7 August 2003)

Age related macular degeneration: Smoking entails major risk of blindness

BMJ 2003;327:325.2 (Published 7 August 2003)

Socioeconomic and ethnic group differences in self reported health status and use of health services by children and young people in England: cross sectional study

BMJ 2003;327:325.3 (Published 7 August 2003)

ABC of interventional cardiology: Percutaneous coronary intervention: cardiogenic shock

BMJ 2003;327:336.1 (Published 7 August 2003)