20 March 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7441)

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Editor's Choice

Why are we complacent about alcohol?

BMJ 2004;328:0.8 (Published 18 March 2004)

News

UK government announces plan to tackle alcohol

BMJ 2004;328:659.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

GPs need help in spotting cancer symptoms, report says

BMJ 2004;328:659.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:660.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Women sue over delays in treatment for breast cancer

BMJ 2004;328:660.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

Dutch might introduce no-claim bonus for health insurance

BMJ 2004;328:660.3 (Published 18 March 2004)

Hospital breached boy's human rights by treating him against his mother's wishes

BMJ 2004;328:661.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Resectable pancreatic cancer needs surgery, then chemotherapy

BMJ 2004;328:661.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

Mother accused of murder after refusing caesarean section

BMJ 2004;328:663.3 (Published 18 March 2004)

Requiring doctors to take part in continuing medical education doesn't improve heart attack care

BMJ 2004;328:664.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Benefits of implantable cardiac defibrillators in heart failure are confirmed

BMJ 2004;328:664.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

Editorials

Preventing falls in elderly people

BMJ 2004;328:653 (Published 18 March 2004)

Extending CONSORT to include cluster trials

BMJ 2004;328:654 (Published 18 March 2004)

Diagnosis of stroke on neuroimaging

BMJ 2004;328:655 (Published 18 March 2004)

Improving peer review: who's responsible?

BMJ 2004;328:657 (Published 18 March 2004)

BMJ training for peer reviewers

BMJ 2004;328:658 (Published 18 March 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Suspension of doctors

BMJ 2004;328:709.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Suspension of doctors

BMJ 2004;328:709.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

Suspension of doctors

BMJ 2004;328:709.3 (Published 18 March 2004)

Suspension of doctors

BMJ 2004;328:710.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Ethics review in research

BMJ 2004;328:710.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

Ethics review in research

BMJ 2004;328:710.3 (Published 18 March 2004)

Ethics review in research

BMJ 2004;328:710.4 (Published 18 March 2004)

Ethics review in research

BMJ 2004;328:711.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure

BMJ 2004;328:711.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

Exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure

BMJ 2004;328:711.3 (Published 18 March 2004)

Increase in non-evidence based use of antidepressants in children is cause for concern

BMJ 2004;328:711.4 (Published 18 March 2004)

Letters - continued

Top up fees and medicine

BMJ 2004;328:712.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Top up fees and medicine

BMJ 2004;328:712.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

Regularly imbibing Dickens may inspire healthfulness

BMJ 2004;328:712.3 (Published 18 March 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Humphry Osmond

BMJ 2004;328:713 (Published 18 March 2004)

Philip Fairbrother Barwood

BMJ 2004;328:714.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

William David Doey

BMJ 2004;328:714.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

William (“Bill”) Guthrie

BMJ 2004;328:714.3 (Published 18 March 2004)

James Ralph Hudson

BMJ 2004;328:714.4 (Published 18 March 2004)

James Noel McGalliard

BMJ 2004;328:714.5 (Published 18 March 2004)

Deepak Mahabir

BMJ 2004;328:714.6 (Published 18 March 2004)

John Tracey Scales

BMJ 2004;328:714.7 (Published 18 March 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:718 (Published 18 March 2004)

Fillers

Tamsulosin is effective for renal colic

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 18 March 2004)

Life

BMJ 2004;328:672 (Published 18 March 2004)

Old theories and old men

BMJ 2004;328:675 (Published 18 March 2004)

Medical trivia

BMJ 2004;328:679 (Published 18 March 2004)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2004;328:683 (Published 18 March 2004)

The essence remains unchanged

BMJ 2004;328:691 (Published 18 March 2004)

Blocked ears and flying

BMJ 2004;328:708 (Published 18 March 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Recent developments in secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation after acute myocardial infarction

BMJ 2004;328:693 (Published 18 March 2004)

A 66 year old woman with breathlessness: case presentation

BMJ 2004;328:698 (Published 18 March 2004)

Setting up a cessation service

BMJ 2004;328:699 (Published 18 March 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Despite all odds, NHS staff are happy with their jobs

BMJ 2004;328:662.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Trust's mental health services are threadbare, says CHI

BMJ 2004;328:662.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

French researchers join mass protest over continuing cuts

BMJ 2004;328:662.3 (Published 18 March 2004)

Roma woman goes to UN claiming sterlisation without consent

BMJ 2004;328:662.4 (Published 18 March 2004)

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

Infectious diseases expert sentenced to prison and fined

BMJ 2004;328:662.5 (Published 18 March 2004)

Drug resistant tuberculosis soars in eastern Europe

BMJ 2004;328:663.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

BMA is frustrated by pay award for doctors on old contract

BMJ 2004;328:663.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Hospitals that follow heart attack guidelines save lives

BMJ 2004;328:664.3 (Published 18 March 2004)

Malnutrition reaches alarming level in Darfur, Sudan

BMJ 2004;328:664.4 (Published 18 March 2004)

WHO report calls for new approach to substance dependence

BMJ 2004;328:664.5 (Published 18 March 2004)

Preventive model of health care needed, says King's Fund

BMJ 2004;328:664.6 (Published 18 March 2004)

Papers

National cross sectional survey to determine whether the decision to delivery interval is critical in emergency caesarean section

BMJ 2004;328:665 (Published 18 March 2004)

β lactam monotherapy versus β lactam-aminoglycoside combination therapy for sepsis in immunocompetent patients: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials

BMJ 2004;328:668 (Published 18 March 2004)

Effects of training on quality of peer review: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2004;328:673 (Published 18 March 2004)

Effectiveness of targeted falls prevention programme in subacute hospital setting: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2004;328:676 (Published 18 March 2004)

Primary care

Interventions for the prevention of falls in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials

BMJ 2004;328:680 (Published 18 March 2004)

Learning in practice

Revalidation: the purpose needs to be clear

BMJ 2004;328:684 (Published 18 March 2004)

Revalidation for general practitioners: randomised comparison of two revalidation models

BMJ 2004;328:687 (Published 18 March 2004)

What the educators are saying

BMJ 2004;328:692 (Published 18 March 2004)

Education and debate

CONSORT statement: extension to cluster randomised trials

BMJ 2004;328:702 (Published 18 March 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

The Brainstorms Village: Epilepsy in our World

BMJ 2004;328:715.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension

BMJ 2004;328:715.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

NETLINES

BMJ 2004;328:716.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Your life in their hands

BMJ 2004;328:716.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

Saving the past: where do we stop?

BMJ 2004;328:717.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

Love's a funny thing

BMJ 2004;328:717.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

Corrections

Decline in mortality, AIDS, and hospital admissions in perinatally HIV-1 infected children in the United Kingdom and Ireland

BMJ 2004;328:686.1 (Published 18 March 2004)

ABC of smoking cessation: Nicotine replacement therapy

BMJ 2004;328:686.2 (Published 18 March 2004)

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;328:686.3 (Published 18 March 2004)