17 April 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7445)

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Editor's Choice

Advertising: boon or bother?

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 15 April 2004)

News

Pressure mounts over European Working Time Directive

BMJ 2004;328:911.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

Exploring perspectives on death

BMJ 2004;328:911.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:912.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

HRT does not prevent chronic disease after menopause

BMJ 2004;328:912.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

EU expansion will open patient floodgates, minister warns

BMJ 2004;328:912.3 (Published 15 April 2004)

Rwandan genocide survivors denied AIDS treatment

BMJ 2004;328:913.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

WHO confirms avian flu infections in Canada

BMJ 2004;328:913.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Secret documents show tobacco industry's plans to stop smoking ban

BMJ 2004;328:914.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

US bans doctors from conference in Cuba

BMJ 2004;328:914.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Editorials

The alcohol harm reduction strategy for England

BMJ 2004;328:905 (Published 15 April 2004)

Evidence based policy or policy based evidence?

BMJ 2004;328:906 (Published 15 April 2004)

Growth hormone: uses and abuses

BMJ 2004;328:907 (Published 15 April 2004)

Refeeding syndrome

BMJ 2004;328:908 (Published 15 April 2004)

Pre-eclampsia and the risk of cancer

BMJ 2004;328:909 (Published 15 April 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Treating homosexuality as a sickness:Transvestites might be the new outcasts

BMJ 2004;328:955.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

Treating homosexuality as a sickness: Time to rethink extent to which social norms determine disease

BMJ 2004;328:955.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Treating homosexuality as a sickness:Enlightenment is worrying

BMJ 2004;328:955.3 (Published 15 April 2004)

Treating homosexuality as a sickness:Step in the right direction has been taken

BMJ 2004;328:955.4 (Published 15 April 2004)

Treating homosexuality as a sickness: Psychiatric abuses during apartheid era have not been brought to account

BMJ 2004;328:956.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

Treating homosexuality as a sickness: Summary of responses

BMJ 2004;328:956.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Dicycloverine for persistent crying in babies: Dicycloverine is contraindicated in infants

BMJ 2004;328:956.3 (Published 15 April 2004)

Dicycloverine for persistent crying in babies: Beware recommending dicycloverine treatment in babies

BMJ 2004;328:956.4 (Published 15 April 2004)

Dicycloverine for persistent crying in babies: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;328:956.5 (Published 15 April 2004)

Treatment of acute pyelonephritis in children: Conclusions should have been more cautious

BMJ 2004;328:957.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

Treatment of acute pyelonephritis in children: Author's reply

BMJ 2004;328:957.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

“Drink plenty of fluids”:No harm in fluids for colds and flu

BMJ 2004;328:957.3 (Published 15 April 2004)

“Drink plenty of fluids”: Argument was not convincing

BMJ 2004;328:958.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

“Drink plenty of fluids”: Recommendations are not supported by data

BMJ 2004;328:958.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

“Drink plenty of fluids”: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;328:958.3 (Published 15 April 2004)

Letters - continued

WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has major flaw

BMJ 2004;328:958.4 (Published 15 April 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Jordi Casals-Ariet

BMJ 2004;328:959.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

Terrence Noel Joseph Alles

BMJ 2004;328:960.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

Nachman Ambache

BMJ 2004;328:960.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Samuel Henry Brock

BMJ 2004;328:960.3 (Published 15 April 2004)

David Sydney Gordon

BMJ 2004;328:960.4 (Published 15 April 2004)

Robert (“Robin”) Anthony Kell

BMJ 2004;328:960.5 (Published 15 April 2004)

George Alexander Mogey

BMJ 2004;328:960.6 (Published 15 April 2004)

Bernard (“Bernie”) John O'Brien

BMJ 2004;328:960.7 (Published 15 April 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:964 (Published 15 April 2004)

Fillers

Symptomatic pulmonary embolisms predict recurrent venous thromboembolism

BMJ 2004;328:0.6 (Published 15 April 2004)

Telling it how it is

BMJ 2004;328:918 (Published 15 April 2004)

Is Dad mad, doctor?

BMJ 2004;328:926.4 (Published 15 April 2004)

A physician's tooth as an infallible amulet

BMJ 2004;328:930 (Published 15 April 2004)

Deep vein thrombosis

BMJ 2004;328:938 (Published 15 April 2004)

Submitting articles to theBMJ

BMJ 2004;328:943 (Published 15 April 2004)

Advice

BMJ 2004;328:959.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders in patients with cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2004;328:939 (Published 15 April 2004)

A 66 year old woman with breathlessness: case outcome

BMJ 2004;328:944.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

Patient's view

BMJ 2004;328:944.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Atypical features make echocardiography mandatory in suspected heart failure

BMJ 2004;328:945 (Published 15 April 2004)

Clinical reasoning

BMJ 2004;328:946.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

An evolving picture

BMJ 2004;328:946.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Economics of smoking cessation

BMJ 2004;328:947 (Published 15 April 2004)

BMJ USA

Labels

BMJ 2004;328:E286 (Published 15 April 2004)

The pseudoscience of sexual orientation change therapy

BMJ 2004;328:E287 (Published 15 April 2004)

Quality of care in the NHS of England

BMJ 2004;328:E288 (Published 15 April 2004)

Reinventing continuing medical education

BMJ 2004;328:E291 (Published 15 April 2004)

RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM

BMJ 2004;328:E293 (Published 15 April 2004)

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:E294 (Published 15 April 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Escape from normality

BMJ 2004;328:E292 (Published 15 April 2004)

Ten Minutes for the Family: Systemic Interventions in Primary Care

BMJ 2004;328:961.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

Pain: The Science and Culture of Why We Hurt

BMJ 2004;328:961.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Escape from normality

BMJ 2004;328:962.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

Hit Parade

BMJ 2004;328:962.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

The evidence base: rock of certainty or shifting sands?

BMJ 2004;328:963.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

On covering one's mouth (when yawning)

BMJ 2004;328:963.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Regulatory body fails in bid to challenge GMC's ruling on suspension

BMJ 2004;328:914.3 (Published 15 April 2004)

One in 12 children in Britain are at increased risk of respiratory diseases due to bad housing

BMJ 2004;328:914.4 (Published 15 April 2004)

Study shows new approach to managing sore throats

BMJ 2004;328:914.5 (Published 15 April 2004)

Poor more likely to smoke and less likely to quit

BMJ 2004;328:914.6 (Published 15 April 2004)

Papers

Risk of complications of pregnancy in women with type 1 diabetes: nationwide prospective study in the Netherlands

BMJ 2004;328:915 (Published 15 April 2004)

Cancer after pre-eclampsia: follow up of the Jerusalem perinatal study cohort

BMJ 2004;328:919 (Published 15 April 2004)

Incidence of breast cancer in Norway and Sweden during introduction of nationwide screening: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2004;328:921 (Published 15 April 2004)

Hospitals' star ratings and clinical outcomes: ecological study

BMJ 2004;328:924 (Published 15 April 2004)

Pertussis vaccination in infancy and asthma or allergy in later childhood: birth cohort study

BMJ 2004;328:925 (Published 15 April 2004)

Primary care

Impact of nurse practitioners on workload of general practitioners: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2004;328:927 (Published 15 April 2004)

Marketing in the lay media and prescriptions of terbinafine in primary care: Dutch cohort study

BMJ 2004;328:931 (Published 15 April 2004)

Representativeness of samples from general practice lists in epidemiological studies: case-control study

BMJ 2004;328:932 (Published 15 April 2004)

When measurements are misleading: modelling the effects of blood pressure misclassification in the English population

BMJ 2004;328:933 (Published 15 April 2004)

Quality Improvement Report

Effect of a flow chart on use of blood transfusions in primary total hip and knee replacement: prospective before and after study

BMJ 2004;328:934 (Published 15 April 2004)

Education and debate

Development of clinical ethics committees

BMJ 2004;328:950 (Published 15 April 2004)

Role of next of kin in accessing health records of deceased relatives

BMJ 2004;328:952 (Published 15 April 2004)

needs of the living should come first

BMJ 2004;328:954.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

the arguments could be extended

BMJ 2004;328:954.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Corrections

British Hypertension Society guidelines for hypertension management 2004 (BHS-IV): summary

BMJ 2004;328:926.1 (Published 15 April 2004)

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

BMJ 2004;328:926.2 (Published 15 April 2004)

Obituary: Leonard (“Johnnie”) Walker

BMJ 2004;328:926.3 (Published 15 April 2004)