28 February 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7438)

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Editor's Choice

Nothingness: the role of journals

BMJ 2004;328:0.8 (Published 26 February 2004)

News

National reporting system for medical errors is launched

BMJ 2004;328:481.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Emergency team phone numbers should be standardised

BMJ 2004;328:481.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:482.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Infertile couples to be given three shots at IVF

BMJ 2004;328:482.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Fewer care cases to be reopened than originally thought

BMJ 2004;328:482.3 (Published 26 February 2004)

Seven doctors accused of over-prescribing heroin

BMJ 2004;328:483.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Pressure mounts for inquiry into MMR furore

BMJ 2004;328:483.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Netherlands to crack down on complementary medicine

BMJ 2004;328:485.4 (Published 26 February 2004)

Australia's contribution to global health fund provokes dismay

BMJ 2004;328:486.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Framework shows countries' contributions

BMJ 2004;328:486.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

World Bank conference debates how to reach the poor

BMJ 2004;328:486.3 (Published 26 February 2004)

Editorials

What doesn't work and how to show it

BMJ 2004;328:473 (Published 26 February 2004)

Why do doctors use treatments that do not work?

BMJ 2004;328:474 (Published 26 February 2004)

Well informed uncertainties about the effects of treatments

BMJ 2004;328:475 (Published 26 February 2004)

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

BMJ 2004;328:476 (Published 26 February 2004)

Aspirin resistance

BMJ 2004;328:477 (Published 26 February 2004)

Management of anorexia nervosa revisited

BMJ 2004;328:479 (Published 26 February 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Screening without evidence of efficacy

BMJ 2004;328:521.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Screening without evidence of efficacy

BMJ 2004;328:521.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Screening without evidence of efficacy

BMJ 2004;328:521.3 (Published 26 February 2004)

New European clinical trials directive

BMJ 2004;328:522.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

New European clinical trials directive

BMJ 2004;328:522.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Reconfiguration of surgical, emergency, and trauma services

BMJ 2004;328:522.3 (Published 26 February 2004)

Reconfiguration of surgical, emergency, and trauma services

BMJ 2004;328:522.4 (Published 26 February 2004)

Reconfiguration of surgical, emergency, and trauma services

BMJ 2004;328:523.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Data on neuraminidase inhibitors were made available

BMJ 2004;328:523.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Decline in mortality in children with HIV in the UK and Ireland

BMJ 2004;328:523.3 (Published 26 February 2004)

Decline in mortality in children with HIV in the UK and Ireland

BMJ 2004;328:524.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Decline in mortality in children with HIV in the UK and Ireland

BMJ 2004;328:524.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Treating major depression in children and adolescents

BMJ 2004;328:524.3 (Published 26 February 2004)

Treating major depression in children and adolescents

BMJ 2004;328:525.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Treating major depression in children and adolescents

BMJ 2004;328:525.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Children and parents need better information on medicines

BMJ 2004;328:525.3 (Published 26 February 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Tom Waller

BMJ 2004;328:526.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Derek Herbert Clarke

BMJ 2004;328:526.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Anthony William Inglis Hall

BMJ 2004;328:527.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

John Duncan Hay

BMJ 2004;328:527.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Malcolm Mcllroy

BMJ 2004;328:527.3 (Published 26 February 2004)

David Leslie Palmer

BMJ 2004;328:527.4 (Published 26 February 2004)

Barbora Richardson

BMJ 2004;328:527.5 (Published 26 February 2004)

Llewellyn Charles Rutter

BMJ 2004;328:527.6 (Published 26 February 2004)

Philip Snaith

BMJ 2004;328:527.7 (Published 26 February 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:532 (Published 26 February 2004)

Fillers

Sildenafil is not effective in postmenopausal women with acquired genital sexual arousal disorder

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 26 February 2004)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2004;328:502 (Published 26 February 2004)

69th Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians

BMJ 2004;328:503.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Paris and London consultants 1815

BMJ 2004;328:506.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Understanding statistics—“Is there a significant difference?”

BMJ 2004;328:508 (Published 26 February 2004)

General practice 2035

BMJ 2004;328:511 (Published 26 February 2004)

Jaw droppers

BMJ 2004;328:520 (Published 26 February 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Treating nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: case outcome

BMJ 2004;328:503.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Patient's perspective

BMJ 2004;328:504.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Obstetrician's perspective—therapeutic trial and error?

BMJ 2004;328:504.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

n of 1 learning

BMJ 2004;328:505.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

General practitioners are wary of treating sickness in pregnancy

BMJ 2004;328:505.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Statistical aspects

BMJ 2004;328:506.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Useless and dangerous—fine needle aspiration of hepatic colorectal metastases

BMJ 2004;328:507 (Published 26 February 2004)

Bupropion and other non-nicotine pharmacotherapies

BMJ 2004;328:509 (Published 26 February 2004)

BMJ USA

A shocking issue

BMJ 2004;328:E269 (Published 26 February 2004)

Automated defibrillators

BMJ 2004;328:E270 (Published 26 February 2004)

Public access defibrillation: good or great?

BMJ 2004;328:E271 (Published 26 February 2004)

Obesity trial: knowledge without systems

BMJ 2004;328:E272 (Published 26 February 2004)

Sudden death

BMJ 2004;328:E275.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

A tyrant

BMJ 2004;328:E275.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:E276 (Published 26 February 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Bill will set up court of protection for those lacking mental capacity

BMJ 2004;328:484.1 (Published 27 February 2004)

Human cloning is justified in preventing genetic disease

BMJ 2004;328:484.2 (Published 27 February 2004)

Cat on a hot tiled wall

BMJ 2004;328:484.3 (Published 27 February 2004)

Sweden bans privatisation of hospitals

BMJ 2004;328:484.4 (Published 27 February 2004)

Trusts are ill prepared for 58 hour week for junior doctors

BMJ 2004;328:484.5 (Published 27 February 2004)

West Africa polio campaign boycotted by Nigerian states

BMJ 2004;328:485.1 (Published 27 February 2004)

Only 6% of drug advertising material is supported by evidence

BMJ 2004;328:485.2 (Published 27 February 2004)

Americans are told to reduce sodium and increase potassium intake

BMJ 2004;328:485.3 (Published 27 February 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Drug regulators study global treaty to tackle counterfeit drugs

BMJ 2004;328:486.4 (Published 26 February 2004)

Mucolytics useful for COPD, guidelines say

BMJ 2004;328:486.5 (Published 26 February 2004)

Eastern Europe and Russia face world's fastest growing HIV epidemic

BMJ 2004;328:486.6 (Published 26 February 2004)

Private insurance subsidy has increased stress on public health system, report says

BMJ 2004;328:486.7 (Published 26 February 2004)

Inappropriate physical restraint harms patients with learning difficulties

BMJ 2004;328:486.8 (Published 26 February 2004)

Papers

Adenoidectomy versus chemoprophylaxis and placebo for recurrent acute otitis media in children aged under 2 years: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2004;328:487 (Published 26 February 2004)

Randomised controlled trial of effect of hands and knees posturing on incidence of occiput posterior position at birth

BMJ 2004;328:490 (Published 26 February 2004)

Clinicians' roles in management of arsenicosis in Bangladesh: interview study

BMJ 2004;328:493 (Published 26 February 2004)

Primary care

Effects of low dose ramipril on cardiovascular and renal outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and raised excretion of urinary albumin: randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial (the DIABHYCAR study)

BMJ 2004;328:495 (Published 26 February 2004)

“Drink plenty of fluids”: a systematic review of evidence for this recommendation in acute respiratory infections

BMJ 2004;328:499 (Published 26 February 2004)

Effect of statin treatment for familial hypercholesterolaemia on life assurance: results of consecutive surveys in 1990 and 2002

BMJ 2004;328:500 (Published 26 February 2004)

Length of patient's monologue, rate of completion, and relation to other components of the clinical encounter: observational intervention study in primary care

BMJ 2004;328:501 (Published 26 February 2004)

Education and debate

Mentoring to reduce antisocial behaviour in childhood

BMJ 2004;328:512 (Published 26 February 2004)

Where is the evidence that animal research benefits humans?

BMJ 2004;328:514 (Published 26 February 2004)

Synthesising licensing data to assess drug safety

BMJ 2004;328:518 (Published 26 February 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Editor in the eye of a storm

BMJ 2004;328:528 (Published 26 February 2004)

Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services

BMJ 2004;328:529.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

NETLINES

BMJ 2004;328:529.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Battle Hospital: Medics at War

BMJ 2004;328:530.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

How PR firms use research to sell products

BMJ 2004;328:530.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

An unfinished trip through uncertainties

BMJ 2004;328:531.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

Weapons of mass destruction

BMJ 2004;328:531.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Corrections

British cancer death rates fell by 12% between 1972 and 2002

BMJ 2004;328:494.1 (Published 26 February 2004)

The eVALuate study: two parallel randomised trials, one comparing laparoscopic with abdominal hysterectomy, the other comparing laparoscopic with vaginal hysterectomy

BMJ 2004;328:494.2 (Published 26 February 2004)

Measuring the health of nations: analysis of mortality amenable to health care

BMJ 2004;328:494.3 (Published 26 February 2004)