27 March 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7442)

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Editor's Choice

The pleasure of corrections

BMJ 2004;328:0.8 (Published 25 March 2004)

News

Palliative care services should have higher priority, says NICE

BMJ 2004;328:725.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Cognitive behaviour therapy can reduce hypochondriasis

BMJ 2004;328:725.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:726.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

MP raises new allegations against Andrew Wakefield

BMJ 2004;328:726.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Drug spending in North America rose by 11% in 2003

BMJ 2004;328:727.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

New coroner's system will require two people to verify cause of death

BMJ 2004;328:727.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Government figures show rapid increase in NHS staff

BMJ 2004;328:729.4 (Published 25 March 2004)

Waking governments up to their obligations

BMJ 2004;328:730.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Editorials

The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome

BMJ 2004;328:719 (Published 25 March 2004)

Shaken baby syndrome

BMJ 2004;328:720 (Published 25 March 2004)

Risk assessment for spinal injury after trauma

BMJ 2004;328:721 (Published 25 March 2004)

“Expert patient”—dream or nightmare?

BMJ 2004;328:723 (Published 25 March 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Patterns of presentation of the shaken baby syndrome: Four types of inflicted brain injury predominate

BMJ 2004;328:766 (Published 25 March 2004)

Patterns of presentation of the shaken baby syndrome:Subdural and retinal haemorrhages are not necessarily signs of abuse

BMJ 2004;328:767.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Reluctance in child protection must be for several reasons

BMJ 2004;328:767.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Labouring in water:Method is unclear

BMJ 2004;328:767.3 (Published 25 March 2004)

Labouring in water:Findings do not fully support conclusions

BMJ 2004;328:767.4 (Published 25 March 2004)

Labouring in water:Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;328:768.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Labouring in water:Cover wrongly said study was about giving birth in water

BMJ 2004;328:768.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Labouring in water:The editor confesses—and apologises to anybody upset

BMJ 2004;328:768.3 (Published 25 March 2004)

Folic acid as ultimate in disease prevention:Folate also improves mental health

BMJ 2004;328:768.4 (Published 25 March 2004)

Folic acid as ultimate in disease prevention:Beware of vitamin B12 deficiency

BMJ 2004;328:769.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Websites on screening for breast cancer:Language may be as misleading as statistics

BMJ 2004;328:769.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Websites on screening for breast cancer:“Infodemiology” studies have surely had their day

BMJ 2004;328:769.3 (Published 25 March 2004)

Websites on screening for breast cancer:Not all advocacy groups receive industry funding

BMJ 2004;328:769.4 (Published 25 March 2004)

Websites on screening for breast cancer:Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;328:769.5 (Published 25 March 2004)

GPs need training and funding in caring for refugees and asylum seekers

BMJ 2004;328:770.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Letters - continued

Medicine's weapons of mass destruction come in human form

BMJ 2004;328:770.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Guan Bee Ong

BMJ 2004;328:771.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Laurence Justin Charles

BMJ 2004;328:771.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Alexander Coulter Darrah

BMJ 2004;328:772.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Christopher Plunkett Elliott-Binns

BMJ 2004;328:772.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Robin Wattie Glashan

BMJ 2004;328:772.3 (Published 25 March 2004)

Elwyn Trefor Hughes

BMJ 2004;328:772.4 (Published 25 March 2004)

John Keeling Roberts

BMJ 2004;328:772.5 (Published 25 March 2004)

John Thomas Kennedy

BMJ 2004;328:772.6 (Published 25 March 2004)

William Gilson Wenley

BMJ 2004;328:772.7 (Published 25 March 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:776 (Published 25 March 2004)

Fillers

Once daily valcyclovir slightly reduces the risk of transmitting HSV-2 to uninfected partners

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 25 March 2004)

BMJ Publishing Group to launch new website for patients

BMJ 2004;328:724 (Published 25 March 2004)

Copying letters to patients

BMJ 2004;328:733 (Published 25 March 2004)

Managing cerebral palsy in primary care

BMJ 2004;328:743 (Published 25 March 2004)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2004;328:756 (Published 25 March 2004)

Marcus

BMJ 2004;328:758.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Type 1 diabetes: recent developments

BMJ 2004;328:750 (Published 25 March 2004)

Perimacular retinal folds from childhood head trauma

BMJ 2004;328:754 (Published 25 March 2004)

Burns caused by steam inhalation for respiratory tract infections in children

BMJ 2004;328:757 (Published 25 March 2004)

A 66 year old woman with breathlessness: case progression

BMJ 2004;328:758.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Population strategies to prevent smoking

BMJ 2004;328:759 (Published 25 March 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

BMJ 2004;328:728.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Government to put extra £100m into clinical research by 2008

BMJ 2004;328:728.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

New regular report will monitor global health issues

BMJ 2004;328:728.3 (Published 25 March 2004)

Fund for patients with asbestos induced diseases may run out

BMJ 2004;328:728.4 (Published 25 March 2004)

Canada's plan to sell generic drugs to developing countries is threatened

BMJ 2004;328:728.5 (Published 25 March 2004)

New Zealand widens access to “no fault” compensation for medical mishaps

BMJ 2004;328:729.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

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

NHS improved emergency waiting times during this winter

BMJ 2004;328:729.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

FDA warns on antidepressant use

BMJ 2004;328:729.3 (Published 26 March 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Rich and poor to clash over sugar in WHO's healthy diet plan

BMJ 2004;328:730.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Hospitals still don't do enough for patients' privacy and dignity

BMJ 2004;328:730.3 (Published 25 March 2004)

Germany's health insurance associations can set drug prices, EU court says

BMJ 2004;328:730.4 (Published 25 March 2004)

Medical treatment for menorrhagia may only delay hysterectomy

BMJ 2004;328:730.5 (Published 25 March 2004)

Papers

Association between stressful life events and exacerbation in multiple sclerosis: a meta-analysis

BMJ 2004;328:731 (Published 25 March 2004)

Mental illness in people who kill strangers: longitudinal study and national clinical survey

BMJ 2004;328:734 (Published 25 March 2004)

Does it matter what a hospital is “high volume” for? Specificity of hospital volume-outcome associations for surgical procedures: analysis of administrative data

BMJ 2004;328:737 (Published 25 March 2004)

Mortality in young people admitted to hospital for diabetes: database study

BMJ 2004;328:741 (Published 25 March 2004)

Does the type of competing interest statement affect readers' perceptions of the credibility of research? Randomised trial

BMJ 2004;328:742 (Published 25 March 2004)

Primary care

Acupuncture for chronic headache in primary care: large, pragmatic, randomised trial

BMJ 2004;328:744 (Published 25 March 2004)

Cost effectiveness analysis of a randomised trial of acupuncture for chronic headache in primary care

BMJ 2004;328:747 (Published 25 March 2004)

Education and debate

Making the NHS more like Kaiser Permanente

BMJ 2004;328:763 (Published 25 March 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

The new MMR?

BMJ 2004;328:773 (Published 25 March 2004)

Punishment by process

BMJ 2004;328:774.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Hit Parade

BMJ 2004;328:774.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Parents as well as children need protection

BMJ 2004;328:775.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Fast forward?

BMJ 2004;328:775.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

Corrections

Interactive case report: Treatment of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

BMJ 2004;328:762.1 (Published 25 March 2004)

Sustained clinical efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Malawi after 10 years as first line treatment: five year prospective study

BMJ 2004;328:762.2 (Published 25 March 2004)

What the educators are saying

BMJ 2004;328:762.3 (Published 25 March 2004)

Simulation of medical emergencies improves patients' care

BMJ 2004;328:762.4 (Published 25 March 2004)

ABC of Eyes

BMJ 2004;328:762.5 (Published 25 March 2004)

Diastolic heart failure

BMJ 2004;328:762.6 (Published 25 March 2004)

Obituary of Derek Herbert Clarke

BMJ 2004;328:762.7 (Published 25 March 2004)

Officials warn of looming humanitarian crisis in Sudan

BMJ 2004;328:762.8 (Published 25 March 2004)