22 November 2003 (Vol 327, Issue 7425)

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Editor's Choice

Beyond doing

BMJ 2003;327:0.9 (Published 20 November 2003)

News

Group calls for agency to boost UK bioscience industry

BMJ 2003;327:1183.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Fewer night emergency operations are performed by juniors

BMJ 2003;327:1183.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;327:1184.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Face transplants should not be done without more research

BMJ 2003;327:1184.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

London is more likely to detain people with mental problems

BMJ 2003;327:1184.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

Children are often undertreated for pain

BMJ 2003;327:1185.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Painkillers before knee surgery improve outcomes

BMJ 2003;327:1185.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Treatment for depression improves pain in elderly patients

BMJ 2003;327:1185.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

Israel allows removal of sperm from dead men at wives' request

BMJ 2003;327:1187.4 (Published 20 November 2003)

Malaria researchers say global fund is buying “useless drug”

BMJ 2003;327:1188.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Editorials

Controlling methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

BMJ 2003;327:1177 (Published 20 November 2003)

Trauma life support in conflict

BMJ 2003;327:1178 (Published 20 November 2003)

Monitoring drug treatment

BMJ 2003;327:1179 (Published 20 November 2003)

Diastolic heart failure

BMJ 2003;327:1181 (Published 20 November 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

In vitro fertilisation for all?

BMJ 2003;327:1226.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

In vitro fertilisation for all?

BMJ 2003;327:1226.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

In vitro fertilisation for all?

BMJ 2003;327:1226.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

In vitro fertilisation for all?

BMJ 2003;327:1226.4 (Published 20 November 2003)

In vitro fertilisation for all?

BMJ 2003;327:1226.5 (Published 20 November 2003)

Coeliac disease and subfertility: association is often neglected

BMJ 2003;327:1226.6 (Published 20 November 2003)

High result in prostate specific antigen test

BMJ 2003;327:1227.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

High result in prostate specific antigen test

BMJ 2003;327:1227.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

High result in prostate specific antigen test

BMJ 2003;327:1227.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

High result in prostate specific antigen test

BMJ 2003;327:1227.4 (Published 20 November 2003)

More on preventing skin cancer

BMJ 2003;327:1227.5 (Published 20 November 2003)

More on preventing skin cancer

BMJ 2003;327:1228.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

More on preventing skin cancer

BMJ 2003;327:1228.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Death in heat waves

BMJ 2003;327:1228.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

Letters - continued

Death in heat waves

BMJ 2003;327:1228.4 (Published 20 November 2003)

Treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis

BMJ 2003;327:1229.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis

BMJ 2003;327:1229.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Proactive asthma care does not suit everyone

BMJ 2003;327:1229.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

Target centred medicine: why it is essential to cheat

BMJ 2003;327:1229.4 (Published 20 November 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Adair Stuart Mason

BMJ 2003;327:1230.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Trevor Alfred Ridley Dinning

BMJ 2003;327:1230.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Bertram Binnie

BMJ 2003;327:1231.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Christopher John Richard Elliott

BMJ 2003;327:1231.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Leslie Alfred Gibbons

BMJ 2003;327:1231.4 (Published 20 November 2003)

Ronald David Graham

BMJ 2003;327:1231.5 (Published 20 November 2003)

Declan John O'Brien

BMJ 2003;327:1231.6 (Published 20 November 2003)

Nigel Joseph Walter Royston

BMJ 2003;327:1231.7 (Published 20 November 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;327:1236 (Published 20 November 2003)

Fillers

When DNA test for HPV is negative, patients are unlikely to have cervical cancer

BMJ 2003;327:0.8 (Published 20 November 2003)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2003;327:1200 (Published 20 November 2003)

Driven to distraction

BMJ 2003;327:1203 (Published 20 November 2003)

“I was too well brought up to say it”

BMJ 2003;327:1208 (Published 20 November 2003)

Good medical practice

BMJ 2003;327:1213 (Published 20 November 2003)

Poles apart?

BMJ 2003;327:1215 (Published 20 November 2003)

Edinburgh poverty 1840

BMJ 2003;327:1225.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Cold comfort

BMJ 2003;327:1225.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Advice

BMJ 2003;327:1231.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Recent developments in β lactamases and extended spectrum β lactamases

BMJ 2003;327:1209 (Published 20 November 2003)

Celecoxib, rofecoxib, and acute temporary visual impairment

BMJ 2003;327:1214 (Published 20 November 2003)

The automated external defibrillator

BMJ 2003;327:1216 (Published 20 November 2003)

BMJ USA

Dead issue

BMJ 2003;327:255 (Published 20 November 2003)

Oregon update

BMJ 2003;327:256 (Published 20 November 2003)

Letters

BMJ 2003;327:257 (Published 20 November 2003)

BMJ USA - continued

Minerva

BMJ 2003;327:258 (Published 20 November 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Antiretroviral therapy increases risk of heart attack

BMJ 2003;327:1186.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Uganda to launch door to door anonymous testing for HIV

BMJ 2003;327:1186.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Boxing should be banned unless rules are tightened, advises Dutch body

BMJ 2003;327:1186.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

Parliament to look again at issue of “assisted dying” for terminally ill patients

BMJ 2003;327:1186.4 (Published 20 November 2003)

Manager at baby food company is under investigation for manslaughter

BMJ 2003;327:1186.5 (Published 20 November 2003)

Government fights opposition to foundation hospitals

BMJ 2003;327:1187.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Half of US doctors want national health insurance programme

BMJ 2003;327:1187.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Health authorities cannot force doctors to act against conscience

BMJ 2003;327:1187.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

“Gender blindness” threatens success of government's health strategy

BMJ 2003;327:1188.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Liberia appeals for funds to rebuild health system after peace

BMJ 2003;327:1188.3 (Published 20 November 2003)

Three die in US outbreak of hepatitis A

BMJ 2003;327:1188.4 (Published 20 November 2003)

Papers

Effect of breast feeding in infancy on blood pressure in later life: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2003;327:1189 (Published 20 November 2003)

Mortality and morbidity in gastro-oesophageal cancer surgery: initial results of ASCOT multicentre prospective cohort study

BMJ 2003;327:1192 (Published 20 November 2003)

Operative mortality in colorectal cancer: prospective national study

BMJ 2003;327:1196 (Published 20 November 2003)

The thrifty phenotype hypothesis and hearing problems

BMJ 2003;327:1199 (Published 20 November 2003)

Primary care

Clinical efficacy of three common treatments in acute otitis externa in primary care: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2003;327:1201 (Published 20 November 2003)

Recurrent urinary tract infection in women

BMJ 2003;327:1204 (Published 20 November 2003)

Information in practice

Integrating service development with evaluation in telehealthcare: an ethnographic study

BMJ 2003;327:1205 (Published 20 November 2003)

Education and debate

Continuity of care: a multidisciplinary review

BMJ 2003;327:1219 (Published 20 November 2003)

Joining the DoTS: new approach to classifying adverse drug reactions

BMJ 2003;327:1222 (Published 20 November 2003)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

BMJ 2003;327:1232 (Published 20 November 2003)

Scotland's Health and Health Services

BMJ 2003;327:1233.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Cradle to Grave

BMJ 2003;327:1233.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Getting animated about medicine

BMJ 2003;327:1234.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Hit Parade

BMJ 2003;327:1234.2 (Published 20 November 2003)

Chaos and corruption: an everyday tale of health care in Macedonia

BMJ 2003;327:1235.1 (Published 20 November 2003)

Eternal youth

BMJ 2003;327:1235.2 (Published 20 November 2003)