13 December 2003 (Vol 327, Issue 7428)

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Editor's Choice

The drugs don't work

BMJ 2003;327:0.9 (Published 11 December 2003)

News

GPs' time to be freed up under plans for increased choice

BMJ 2003;327:1363.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Blakemore asks for the MRC budget to be doubled

BMJ 2003;327:1363.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;327:1364.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

HRT no longer first choice for preventing osteoporosis

BMJ 2003;327:1364.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Lancet calls for tobacco to be made illegal

BMJ 2003;327:1364.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

Children have been neglected in flu prevention strategy

BMJ 2003;327:1365.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Huge numbers must change lifestyle to prevent epidemic of diabetes

BMJ 2003;327:1365.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Adverse events in surgery in Scotland show a steady fall

BMJ 2003;327:1367.4 (Published 11 December 2003)

Better communication is key to recruiting patients to trials

BMJ 2003;327:1368.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Money must be made available for NICE guidance, minister says

BMJ 2003;327:1368.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Editorials

The health consequences of the first Gulf war

BMJ 2003;327:1357 (Published 11 December 2003)

Evening primrose oil for atopic dermatitis

BMJ 2003;327:1358 (Published 11 December 2003)

Treatment options for trigeminal neuralgia

BMJ 2003;327:1360 (Published 11 December 2003)

Delayed prescriptions

BMJ 2003;327:1361 (Published 11 December 2003)

Monitoring the medical education revolution

BMJ 2003;327:1362 (Published 11 December 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Communicating risk

BMJ 2003;327:1403.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Communicating risk

BMJ 2003;327:1403.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Communicating risk

BMJ 2003;327:1403.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

Communicating risk

BMJ 2003;327:1403.4 (Published 11 December 2003)

Communicating risk

BMJ 2003;327:1404.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Communicating risk

BMJ 2003;327:1404.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Communicating risk

BMJ 2003;327:1404.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

Drug sales in four European countries still differ

BMJ 2003;327:1404.4 (Published 11 December 2003)

Real time assay of Aspergillus should be used in SARS patients receiving corticosteroids

BMJ 2003;327:1405.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Prognosis for South Asian and white patients with heart failure in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2003;327:1405.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Prognosis for South Asian and white patients with heart failure in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2003;327:1406.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Prognosis for South Asian and white patients with heart failure in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2003;327:1406.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Adherence to advance directives

BMJ 2003;327:1406.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

Adherence to advance directives

BMJ 2003;327:1406.4 (Published 11 December 2003)

Adherence to advance directives

BMJ 2003;327:1407.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Adherence to advance directives

BMJ 2003;327:1407.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Adherence to advance directives

BMJ 2003;327:1407.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

Letters - continued

Radiographic results are still not routinely reported

BMJ 2003;327:1407.4 (Published 11 December 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Peter Paul Rickham

BMJ 2003;327:1408.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Charles Arthur St Hill

BMJ 2003;327:1408.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

George Peter Baker

BMJ 2003;327:1409.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Peter Daish

BMJ 2003;327:1409.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Sooba Rama Deenadayalu

BMJ 2003;327:1409.4 (Published 11 December 2003)

Frank Edward Stafford Hatfield

BMJ 2003;327:1409.5 (Published 11 December 2003)

George Fraser Purves

BMJ 2003;327:1409.6 (Published 11 December 2003)

Philip Charles (“Charlie”) Smith

BMJ 2003;327:1409.7 (Published 11 December 2003)

Margaret Carroll Watkinson (née Smith)

BMJ 2003;327:1409.8 (Published 11 December 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;327:1414 (Published 11 December 2003)

Fillers

Consider turning breech presentations at 34-36 weeks

BMJ 2003;327:0.8 (Published 11 December 2003)

American College of Gastroenterology 68th Annual Scientific Meeting and Postgraduate Course, Baltimore, Maryland

BMJ 2003;327:1372 (Published 11 December 2003)

Reporters and wolves

BMJ 2003;327:1375 (Published 11 December 2003)

Paws for thought

BMJ 2003;327:1392 (Published 11 December 2003)

Advice

BMJ 2003;327:1409.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Gulf war veterans have poorer health than other soldiers…

BMJ 2003;327:0.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Greater insulin resistance is associated with reduced depression

BMJ 2003;327:0.5 (Published 11 December 2003)

… but their cancer risk is the same

BMJ 2003;327:0.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Preventive programme reduces suicide in US Air Force

BMJ 2003;327:0.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

Pelvic examination can be taught by non-medics

BMJ 2003;327:0.6 (Published 11 December 2003)

Borage oil doesn't help atopic dermatitis

BMJ 2003;327:0.7 (Published 11 December 2003)

Prophylactic physiotherapy provides no benefit after cardiac surgery

BMJ 2003;327:0.4 (Published 11 December 2003)

Clinical Reviews

Treating nicotine addiction

BMJ 2003;327:1394 (Published 11 December 2003)

Putting the research into practice

BMJ 2003;327:1395 (Published 11 December 2003)

Information for patients: Getting professional help

BMJ 2003;327:1396 (Published 11 December 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

City reacts negatively as GlaxoSmithKline announces plans for new drugs

BMJ 2003;327:1366.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Adolescents are building up health problems for the future

BMJ 2003;327:1366.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Bill Gates boosts fight against virus that threatens three billion

BMJ 2003;327:1366.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

New plan launched to tackle Britain's high rate of hospital infection

BMJ 2003;327:1366.4 (Published 11 December 2003)

New health research centre launched in Wales

BMJ 2003;327:1366.5 (Published 11 December 2003)

NHS launches English recruitment website

BMJ 2003;327:1367.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Test case may threaten abortion rights

BMJ 2003;327:1367.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] - continued

Shift to outpatient procedures has cut inpatient waiting times in England and Wales

BMJ 2003;327:1367.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Patients often choose simpler treatments over latest technology, survey finds

BMJ 2003;327:1368.3 (Published 11 December 2003)

Seven international companies join global fund

BMJ 2003;327:1368.4 (Published 11 December 2003)

Medicines agency introduces greater transparency

BMJ 2003;327:1368.5 (Published 11 December 2003)

Experts predict big rise in dengue fever in South East Asia

BMJ 2003;327:1368.6 (Published 11 December 2003)

A third of UK households have at least one adult in pain

BMJ 2003;327:1368.7 (Published 11 December 2003)

Australian government tries to stop independent advice on diabetes drugs

BMJ 2003;327:1368.8 (Published 11 December 2003)

BMJ family highlights

What's new this month in BMJ Journals

BMJ 2003;327:1369 (Published 11 December 2003)

Papers

Gulf war illness—better, worse, or just the same? A cohort study

BMJ 2003;327:1370 (Published 11 December 2003)

Incidence of cancer among UK Gulf war veterans: cohort study

BMJ 2003;327:1373 (Published 11 December 2003)

Risk of suicide and related adverse outcomes after exposure to a suicide prevention programme in the US Air Force: cohort study

BMJ 2003;327:1376 (Published 11 December 2003)

Prophylactic respiratory physiotherapy after cardiac surgery: systematic review

BMJ 2003;327:1379 (Published 11 December 2003)

Security duties in Northern Ireland and the mental health of soldiers: prospective study

BMJ 2003;327:1382 (Published 11 December 2003)

Association of insulin resistance with depression: cross sectional findings from the British women's heart and health study

BMJ 2003;327:1383 (Published 11 December 2003)

Predictions of hypoxaemia at high altitude in children with cystic fibrosis

BMJ 2003;327:1384 (Published 11 December 2003)

Primary care

Efficacy and tolerability of borage oil in adults and children with atopic eczema: randomised, double blind, placebo controlled, parallel group trial

BMJ 2003;327:1385 (Published 11 December 2003)

Health of young and elderly informal carers: analysis of UK census data

BMJ 2003;327:1388 (Published 11 December 2003)

Learning in practice

Comparative study

BMJ 2003;327:1389 (Published 11 December 2003)

What the educators are saying

BMJ 2003;327:1393 (Published 11 December 2003)

Education and debate

Rethinking prescribing in the United States

BMJ 2003;327:1397 (Published 11 December 2003)

Research with unaccompanied children seeking asylum

BMJ 2003;327:1400 (Published 11 December 2003)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA

BMJ 2003;327:1410.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Stories from the Wards

BMJ 2003;327:1410.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Hear the Silence

BMJ 2003;327:1411.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Hear the Silence

BMJ 2003;327:1411.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Angels in America

BMJ 2003;327:1412 (Published 11 December 2003)

Who should take care of children with epilepsy?

BMJ 2003;327:1413.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

A gift for Thanksgiving

BMJ 2003;327:1413.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Corrections

Mortality in young offenders: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2003;327:1381.1 (Published 11 December 2003)

Minerva

BMJ 2003;327:1381.2 (Published 11 December 2003)

Pre-existing risk factor profiles in users and non-users of hormone replacement therapy: prospective cohort study in Gothenburg, Sweden

BMJ 2003;327:1381.3 (Published 11 December 2003)