10 January 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7431)

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Editor's Choice

Medicine's complexity: exhausting or inspiring?

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 8 January 2004)

News

WHO confirms SARS in Chinese journalist

BMJ 2004;328:65.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

UK authority sets limit on number of embryos transferred

BMJ 2004;328:65.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:66.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Cold is the main health threat after the Bam earthquake

BMJ 2004;328:66.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Immunologist accused of misconduct is allowed to relocate

BMJ 2004;328:66.3 (Published 8 January 2004)

Three journals raise doubts on validity of Canadian studies

BMJ 2004;328:67 (Published 8 January 2004)

Cognitive behaviour therapy affects brain activity differently from antidepressants

BMJ 2004;328:69.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Tough at the top

BMJ 2004;328:70.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Editorials

Treating inguinal hernias

BMJ 2004;328:59 (Published 8 January 2004)

Health tourism

BMJ 2004;328:60 (Published 8 January 2004)

Preserving today's scientific record for tomorrow

BMJ 2004;328:61 (Published 8 January 2004)

Who should look after people with Parkinson's disease?

BMJ 2004;328:62 (Published 8 January 2004)

Surgery in asymptomatic aortic stenosis

BMJ 2004;328:63 (Published 8 January 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

BMJ 2004;328:106.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

BMJ 2004;328:106.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

BMJ 2004;328:106.3 (Published 8 January 2004)

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

BMJ 2004;328:107.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

BMJ 2004;328:107.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Hysterectomy and sexual wellbeing

BMJ 2004;328:107.3 (Published 8 January 2004)

Hysterectomy and sexual wellbeing

BMJ 2004;328:107.4 (Published 8 January 2004)

Hysterectomy and sexual wellbeing

BMJ 2004;328:108.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

NSAIDs during pregnancy and risk of miscarriage

BMJ 2004;328:108.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

NSAIDs during pregnancy and risk of miscarriage

BMJ 2004;328:108.3 (Published 8 January 2004)

Danish group reanalyses miscarriage in NSAID users

BMJ 2004;328:109.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Different versions of Glasgow coma scale in British hospitals

BMJ 2004;328:109.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Letters - continued

Different versions of Glasgow coma scale in British hospitals

BMJ 2004;328:110.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Different versions of Glasgow coma scale in British hospitals

BMJ 2004;328:110.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Five Ps in mix of public health advocacy

BMJ 2004;328:110.3 (Published 8 January 2004)

Anecdotage may be associated with age

BMJ 2004;328:110.4 (Published 8 January 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Richard Bonar McConnell

BMJ 2004;328:111.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Michael Dunne

BMJ 2004;328:112.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Alan James Franklin

BMJ 2004;328:112.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Kathryn Jane Hosker

BMJ 2004;328:112.3 (Published 8 January 2004)

Oscar Magidson

BMJ 2004;328:112.4 (Published 8 January 2004)

Pauline Edna Molony (née Buckeridge)

BMJ 2004;328:112.5 (Published 8 January 2004)

Thomas Millar Pollock

BMJ 2004;328:112.6 (Published 8 January 2004)

Andrew William Prior

BMJ 2004;328:112.7 (Published 8 January 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:116 (Published 8 January 2004)

Fillers

Donepezil is somewhat effective for Alzheimer's, probably better than galantamine

BMJ 2004;328:0.8 (Published 8 January 2004)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2004;328:87 (Published 8 January 2004)

Automobiles for medical men

BMJ 2004;328:91 (Published 8 January 2004)

Advice

BMJ 2004;328:111.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Recent advances in customising cataract surgery

BMJ 2004;328:92 (Published 8 January 2004)

Glaucoma—1: Diagnosis

BMJ 2004;328:97 (Published 8 January 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

US universities review subscriptions to journal “package deals” as costs rise

BMJ 2004;328:68.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

GMC faces challenge over withdrawing treatment

BMJ 2004;328:68.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Half of UK patients taking drugs for epilepsy continue to have seizures

BMJ 2004;328:68.3 (Published 8 January 2004)

New Zealand moves to ban direct advertising of drugs

BMJ 2004;328:68.4 (Published 8 January 2004)

Scottish doctors will have to register financial links to drug companies

BMJ 2004;328:69.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Hopes that Novartis deal on tuberculosis will spur donations for HIV and malaria

BMJ 2004;328:70.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

German health reform likely to raise costs for patients

BMJ 2004;328:70.3 (Published 8 January 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web] - continued

Exposure to spouse's smoking increases risk of lung cancer by over 20%

BMJ 2004;328:70.4 (Published 8 January 2004)

Coroner to investigate deaths at Sydney hospitals, as two doctors are suspended

BMJ 2004;328:70.5 (Published 8 January 2004)

Sleeping sickness re-emerges in Uganda

BMJ 2004;328:70.6 (Published 8 January 2004)

India's treatment programme for AIDS is premature

BMJ 2004;328:70.7 (Published 8 January 2004)

UK consultants' fees for private work are amongst highest in world

BMJ 2004;328:70.8 (Published 8 January 2004)

Pancreatic cancer is associated with long term use of aspirin

BMJ 2004;328:70.9 (Published 8 January 2004)

Report highlights shortcomings in private medical schools in India

BMJ 2004;328:70.10 (Published 8 January 2004)

BMJ family highlights

What's new this month in BMJ Journals

BMJ 2004;328:71 (Published 8 January 2004)

Papers

Cigarette tar yields in relation to mortality from lung cancer in the cancer prevention study II prospective cohort, 1982-8

BMJ 2004;328:72 (Published 8 January 2004)

Review of prevalence data in, and evaluation of methods for cross cultural adaptation of, UK surveys on tobacco and alcohol in ethnic minority groups

BMJ 2004;328:76 (Published 8 January 2004)

Cost effectiveness analysis of intensive versus conventional follow up after curative resection for colorectal cancer

BMJ 2004;328:81 (Published 8 January 2004)

Is there a familial link between Down's syndrome and neural tube defects? Population and familial survey

BMJ 2004;328:84 (Published 8 January 2004)

Primary care

Sickness certification system in the United Kingdom: qualitative study of views of general practitioners in Scotland

BMJ 2004;328:88 (Published 8 January 2004)

Education and debate

Supervised injecting centres

BMJ 2004;328:100 (Published 8 January 2004)

Supervised fixing rooms, supervised injectable maintenance clinics—understanding the difference

BMJ 2004;328:102 (Published 8 January 2004)

Learning from Thailand's health reforms

BMJ 2004;328:103 (Published 8 January 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Nature and Narrative: An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry

BMJ 2004;328:113.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Problem-Based Learning for Health Improvement: Practical Public Health forEvery Professional

BMJ 2004;328:113.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Experiment: Conversations in Art and Science

BMJ 2004;328:114.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Doctors and Nurses

BMJ 2004;328:114.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Fall of a dictator, failure of ethics

BMJ 2004;328:115.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

Prevention is better than cure

BMJ 2004;328:115.2 (Published 8 January 2004)

Corrections

Lassa fever: epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences

BMJ 2004;328:96.1 (Published 8 January 2004)

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

BMJ 2004;328:96.2 (Published 8 January 2004)