31 January 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7434)

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Editor's Choice

Economics first; health third, fourth, or nowhere

BMJ 2004;328:0.8 (Published 29 January 2004)

News

Judge may report drug company executive to attorney general

BMJ 2004;328:243.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Death toll mounts in avian flu outbreak

BMJ 2004;328:243.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:244.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Shortage of sperm donors predicted when anonymity goes

BMJ 2004;328:244.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Journal rejects article after objections from marketing department

BMJ 2004;328:244.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

Psychological therapies recommended for eating disorders

BMJ 2004;328:245.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

United States wins more time to lobby against WHO diet plan

BMJ 2004;328:245.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

More evidence that folic acid reduces risk of ischaemic stroke

BMJ 2004;328:247.4 (Published 29 January 2004)

Changing practice

BMJ 2004;328:248.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Editorials

Radical surgery for mesothelioma

BMJ 2004;328:237 (Published 29 January 2004)

Pandemic risks from bird flu

BMJ 2004;328:238 (Published 29 January 2004)

Exchanging health lessons globally

BMJ 2004;328:239 (Published 29 January 2004)

Implementing the European clinical trials directive

BMJ 2004;328:240 (Published 29 January 2004)

Access to antiretroviral treatment in Africa

BMJ 2004;328:241 (Published 29 January 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Save European research campaign

BMJ 2004;328:286.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Quality of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2004;328:286.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Quality of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2004;328:286.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

Quality of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2004;328:286.4 (Published 29 January 2004)

Stress and exacerbations in multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2004;328:287.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Stress and exacerbations in multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2004;328:287.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

WHO's world health report 2003

BMJ 2004;328:287.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

WHO's world health report 2003

BMJ 2004;328:288.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Special issue on South Asia

BMJ 2004;328:288.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Special issue on South Asia

BMJ 2004;328:288.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

Colchicine in acute gout

BMJ 2004;328:288.4 (Published 29 January 2004)

Colchicine in acute gout

BMJ 2004;328:288.5 (Published 29 January 2004)

Letters - continued

Colchicine in acute gout

BMJ 2004;328:289.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Polypill debate continues

BMJ 2004;328:289.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Polypill debate continues

BMJ 2004;328:289.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

Polypill debate continues

BMJ 2004;328:289.4 (Published 29 January 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Melvin Yahr

BMJ 2004;328:290.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Thelma Rowett Asfour (née Gaunt)

BMJ 2004;328:290.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Robert George Dalton

BMJ 2004;328:290.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

Daksha Emson

BMJ 2004;328:291.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

William Alexander Gillespie

BMJ 2004;328:291.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Ernest George Gustav Jonas

BMJ 2004;328:291.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

Selahattin Kologlu

BMJ 2004;328:291.4 (Published 29 January 2004)

John Clive Baird Nesfield

BMJ 2004;328:291.5 (Published 29 January 2004)

William Stephen

BMJ 2004;328:291.6 (Published 29 January 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:296 (Published 29 January 2004)

Fillers

Many taking twice daily proton pump inhibitors can step down

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 29 January 2004)

Apple crumble or a selection from the sweet trolley?

BMJ 2004;328:268 (Published 29 January 2004)

No health foods

BMJ 2004;328:271 (Published 29 January 2004)

Two nil

BMJ 2004;328:285 (Published 29 January 2004)

Clinical Reviews

How to investigate and manage the child who is slow to speak

BMJ 2004;328:272 (Published 29 January 2004)

Treatment of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: presentation

BMJ 2004;328:276 (Published 29 January 2004)

Why people smoke

BMJ 2004;328:277 (Published 29 January 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Metapneumovirus is a leading cause of respiratory tract infection in infants

BMJ 2004;328:246.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Doctors suspended for removing wrong kidney

BMJ 2004;328:246.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

BMJ ethics committee elects new chairperson

BMJ 2004;328:246.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

Kidney trade arrest exposes loopholes in India's transplant laws

BMJ 2004;328:246.4 (Published 29 January 2004)

Payments announced for patients infected with hepatitis C

BMJ 2004;328:246.5 (Published 29 January 2004)

Australian drug pricing scheme under pressure in free trade talks

BMJ 2004;328:247.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

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

GPs reluctant to cover out of hours work, survey shows

BMJ 2004;328:247.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Controversy surrounds proposed Italian alternative to female genital mutilation

BMJ 2004;328:247.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Hospital's charitable donations diverted to pay running costs

BMJ 2004;328:248.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Report calls for strategies to reduce medication errors

BMJ 2004;328:248.3 (Published 29 January 2004)

Parents discover their stillborn babies are alive four months after birth

BMJ 2004;328:248.4 (Published 29 January 2004)

UK global antipoverty strategy criticised by Royal Society

BMJ 2004;328:248.5 (Published 29 January 2004)

London doctors' do not put patients among the top five factors for job satisfaction

BMJ 2004;328:248.6 (Published 29 January 2004)

Papers

Clinical efficacy of antiretroviral combination therapy based on protease inhibitors or non-nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors: indirect comparison of controlled trials

BMJ 2004;328:249 (Published 29 January 2004)

Indirect comparisons: a novel approach to assessing the effect of anti-HIV drugs

BMJ 2004;328:253 (Published 29 January 2004)

Randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of a chest pain observation unit compared with routine care

BMJ 2004;328:254 (Published 29 January 2004)

Comparability of self rated health: cross sectional multi-country survey using anchoring vignettes

BMJ 2004;328:258 (Published 29 January 2004)

Perinatal outcome of singletons and twins after assisted conception: a systematic review of controlled studies

BMJ 2004;328:261 (Published 29 January 2004)

Primary care

Delivering interventions for depression by using the internet: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2004;328:265 (Published 29 January 2004)

Quality Improvement Report

Clinical risk management in obstetrics: eclampsia drills

BMJ 2004;328:269 (Published 29 January 2004)

Education and debate

Antiretroviral therapy in Africa

BMJ 2004;328:280 (Published 29 January 2004)

Evaluating the health effects of social interventions

BMJ 2004;328:282 (Published 29 January 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution

BMJ 2004;328:292.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

American Virgins: This World

BMJ 2004;328:292.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Public health gets a makeover

BMJ 2004;328:293.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

NETLINES

BMJ 2004;328:293.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Why newspapers cannot ignore maverick claims

BMJ 2004;328:294 (Published 29 January 2004)

Healing in the valley of Jezreel

BMJ 2004;328:295.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

The quest

BMJ 2004;328:295.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Corrections

Three journals raise doubts on validity of Canadian studies

BMJ 2004;328:257.1 (Published 29 January 2004)

Clinical arithmetic

BMJ 2004;328:257.2 (Published 29 January 2004)

Of Struldbruggs, sugar, and gatekeepers: a tale of our times

BMJ 2004;328:257.3 (Published 29 January 2004)