06 September 2003 (Vol 327, Issue 7414)

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Editor's Choice

Be bold and be sensible

BMJ 2003;327:0.8 (Published 4 September 2003)

News

World Trade Organization finally agrees cheap drugs deal

BMJ 2003;327:517.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Psychiatrist faces GMC hearing

BMJ 2003;327:517.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;327:518.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

US paediatricians call for checks for childhood obesity

BMJ 2003;327:518.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

European society issues guidelines on cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2003;327:518.3 (Published 4 September 2003)

Results of inquiry into allegations of research fraud remain secret

BMJ 2003;327:519.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Fire eating is bad for your health

BMJ 2003;327:519.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Traces of Agent Orange are found in food in Vietnam

BMJ 2003;327:521.3 (Published 4 September 2003)

Ireland leads the way for Europe in banning smoking in the workplace

BMJ 2003;327:522.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Editorials

In vitro fertilisation for all?

BMJ 2003;327:511 (Published 4 September 2003)

Death in heat waves

BMJ 2003;327:512 (Published 4 September 2003)

Polypharmacy and comorbidity in heart failure

BMJ 2003;327:513 (Published 4 September 2003)

Voice pathology in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2003;327:514 (Published 4 September 2003)

Social anxiety disorder

BMJ 2003;327:515 (Published 4 September 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Medical ethics, the Israeli Medical Association, and the state of the World Medical Association

BMJ 2003;327:561.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Medical ethics, the Israeli Medical Association, and the state of the World Medical Association

BMJ 2003;327:561.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Images of war: patients' best interests are paramount

BMJ 2003;327:562.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Tackling India's HIV epidemic: HIV drugs support HIV prevention work

BMJ 2003;327:562.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Tackling India's HIV epidemic:India should disregard advice

BMJ 2003;327:563.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Is testing everyone for HIV logical?

BMJ 2003;327:563.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Surgeon specific mortality in adult cardiac surgery: Quality of data is important

BMJ 2003;327:563.3 (Published 4 September 2003)

Surgeon specific mortality in adult cardiac surgery: Higher risk cases need also to be assessed

BMJ 2003;327:563.4 (Published 4 September 2003)

Surgeon is only one influence on outcome

BMJ 2003;327:564.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Do patients need to read research?: Cochrane consumer network can help patients

BMJ 2003;327:564.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Do patients need to read research?: Knowledge is power

BMJ 2003;327:564.3 (Published 4 September 2003)

Reminding patients by text message:Try reverse billing

BMJ 2003;327:564.4 (Published 4 September 2003)

Letters - continued

Reminding patients by text message: Why do texts need sponsorship?

BMJ 2003;327:564.5 (Published 4 September 2003)

Reminding patients by text message: Text reminders could lead to increased health inequalties

BMJ 2003;327:564.6 (Published 4 September 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Louis Lasagna

BMJ 2003;327:565 (Published 4 September 2003)

Roderick Macrae Campbell

BMJ 2003;327:566.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

David John Chapman

BMJ 2003;327:566.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Harold Logan Courtenay

BMJ 2003;327:566.3 (Published 4 September 2003)

Cecil Herbert Cousins

BMJ 2003;327:566.4 (Published 4 September 2003)

John Alexander Forbes

BMJ 2003;327:566.5 (Published 4 September 2003)

Richard Lindley Norris

BMJ 2003;327:566.6 (Published 4 September 2003)

Osmond Nicholas Roussel

BMJ 2003;327:566.7 (Published 4 September 2003)

Terence Willifer Young

BMJ 2003;327:566.8 (Published 4 September 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;327:570 (Published 4 September 2003)

Fillers

Warming diptheria-tetanus vaccines doesn't reduce pain

BMJ 2003;327:0.7 (Published 4 September 2003)

Wage-earning school children

BMJ 2003;327:535 (Published 4 September 2003)

A history lesson

BMJ 2003;327:545 (Published 4 September 2003)

A mixture of medication

BMJ 2003;327:549 (Published 4 September 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;327:556.4 (Published 4 September 2003)

The open-air treatment of surgical tuberculosis

BMJ 2003;327:560 (Published 4 September 2003)

Clinical Reviews

The importance of patient preferences in treatment decisions—challenges for doctors

BMJ 2003;327:542 (Published 4 September 2003)

Anovulation

BMJ 2003;327:546 (Published 4 September 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Cardioprotective effects of aspirin compromised by other NSAIDs

BMJ 2003;327:520.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Chinese city outlaws sale of human organs

BMJ 2003;327:520.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Chemotherapy before surgery improves survival from bladder cancer

BMJ 2003;327:520.3 (Published 4 September 2003)

Breaks from antiretroviral treatment are not the answer for HIV patients

BMJ 2003;327:520.4 (Published 4 September 2003)

NICE issues guidance on diabetes treatments

BMJ 2003;327:520.5 (Published 4 September 2003)

Wakefield Council is ordered to pay for residential care after 11 year delay

BMJ 2003;327:521.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Thiazides could achieve major cost savings in uncomplicated hypertension

BMJ 2003;327:521.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Giving patients choice puts more pressure on GPs, survey shows

BMJ 2003;327:522.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Access to maternity services is key to preventing deaths

BMJ 2003;327:522.3 (Published 4 September 2003)

FDA imposes tougher rules on imported foods

BMJ 2003;327:522.4 (Published 4 September 2003)

Public health at risk as aid agencies pull out of Iraq

BMJ 2003;327:522.5 (Published 4 September 2003)

Wounds heal more quickly if patients are relieved of stress

BMJ 2003;327:522.6 (Published 4 September 2003)

Childhood cancer survivors experience long term side effects

BMJ 2003;327:522.7 (Published 4 September 2003)

Papers

Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled crossover trial of sustained release morphine for the management of refractory dyspnoea

BMJ 2003;327:523 (Published 4 September 2003)

Prognosis for South Asian and white patients newly admitted to hospital with heart failure in the United Kingdom: historical cohort study

BMJ 2003;327:526 (Published 4 September 2003)

Cohort study on effects of parathyroid surgery on multiple outcomes in primary hyperparathyroidism

BMJ 2003;327:530 (Published 4 September 2003)

Prehospital tracheal intubation in severely injured patients: a Danish observational study

BMJ 2003;327:533 (Published 4 September 2003)

Risk of adenocarcinoma in Barrett's oesophagus: population based study

BMJ 2003;327:534 (Published 4 September 2003)

Primary care

Screening in brief intervention trials targeting excessive drinkers in general practice: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2003;327:536 (Published 4 September 2003)

Acute low back pain

BMJ 2003;327:541 (Published 4 September 2003)

Education and debate

Reforming clinical research and development in England

BMJ 2003;327:550 (Published 4 September 2003)

United Kingdom research governance strategy

BMJ 2003;327:553 (Published 4 September 2003)

Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

BMJ 2003;327:557 (Published 4 September 2003)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream

BMJ 2003;327:567.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism

BMJ 2003;327:567.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies

BMJ 2003;327:568.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Silent Scourge: Children, Pollution, and Why Scientists Disagree

BMJ 2003;327:568.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Failure

BMJ 2003;327:569.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

Paradigm shift

BMJ 2003;327:569.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Corrections

Patients' voices are needed in debates on euthanasia

BMJ 2003;327:556.1 (Published 4 September 2003)

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

BMJ 2003;327:556.2 (Published 4 September 2003)

Cultural safety and the health of adolescents

BMJ 2003;327:556.3 (Published 4 September 2003)