24 April 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7446)

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Editor's Choice

A commentary on commentaries

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 22 April 2004)

News

Thousands of elderly people face abuse, says Commons report

BMJ 2004;328:971 (Published 22 April 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:972.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Poor countries lag behind on water goals

BMJ 2004;328:972.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Plans for clinic raise fears of privatisation in Canada

BMJ 2004;328:972.3 (Published 22 April 2004)

GMC sees rise in doctors charged with accessing child pornography websites

BMJ 2004;328:973.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

WHO resists food industry pressure on its diet plan

BMJ 2004;328:973.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

US consumer group names “dirty dozen” dietary supplements

BMJ 2004;328:975.4 (Published 22 April 2004)

Italian doctors strike over threat to break up state health service

BMJ 2004;328:976.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

New Cochrane policy tightens limits on industry funding

BMJ 2004;328:976.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Editorials

Nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy

BMJ 2004;328:965 (Published 22 April 2004)

Making public health interventions more evidence based

BMJ 2004;328:966 (Published 22 April 2004)

Pathogenesis and treatment of varicoceles

BMJ 2004;328:967 (Published 22 April 2004)

Management of acute pancreatitis

BMJ 2004;328:968 (Published 22 April 2004)

Payment by results—new financial flows in the NHS

BMJ 2004;328:969 (Published 22 April 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

If it doesn't work, stop it

BMJ 2004;328:1015.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

If it doesn't work, stop it

BMJ 2004;328:1015.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

If it doesn't work, stop it

BMJ 2004;328:1015.3 (Published 22 April 2004)

If it doesn't work, stop it

BMJ 2004;328:1015.4 (Published 22 April 2004)

If it doesn't work, stop it

BMJ 2004;328:1016.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

If it doesn't work, stop it

BMJ 2004;328:1016.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Confidence intervals illuminate absence of evidence

BMJ 2004;328:1016.3 (Published 22 April 2004)

Coeliac disease and schizophrenia

BMJ 2004;328:1017.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Coeliac disease and schizophrenia

BMJ 2004;328:1017.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Missing evidence that animal research benefits humans

BMJ 2004;328:1017.3 (Published 22 April 2004)

Missing evidence that animal research benefits humans

BMJ 2004;328:1017.4 (Published 22 April 2004)

Well informed uncertainties about the effects of treatment

BMJ 2004;328:1018.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Letters - continued

Well informed uncertainties about the effects of treatment

BMJ 2004;328:1018.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

New system for ethics approval is unacceptable

BMJ 2004;328:1018.3 (Published 22 April 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Zhong Wei Chen

BMJ 2004;328:1019.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Tom Anderson

BMJ 2004;328:1020.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Charles Peter Beynon Brook

BMJ 2004;328:1020.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Alexander Campbell Buchan

BMJ 2004;328:1020.3 (Published 22 April 2004)

Francis Cameron Edington

BMJ 2004;328:1020.4 (Published 22 April 2004)

Theodore David Fountain Money

BMJ 2004;328:1020.5 (Published 22 April 2004)

Christopher Richard Sheard

BMJ 2004;328:1020.6 (Published 22 April 2004)

John Ludlow Whitmore

BMJ 2004;328:1020.7 (Published 22 April 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:1024 (Published 22 April 2004)

Fillers

Eradication of chronic H pylori reduces risk of gastric cancer

BMJ 2004;328:0.6 (Published 22 April 2004)

Many a true word spoken in jest

BMJ 2004;328:986 (Published 22 April 2004)

NHS change management (or how many people it take to change a light bulb)

BMJ 2004;328:987.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Your time's up

BMJ 2004;328:990 (Published 22 April 2004)

The brutalised poor of our manufacturing districts

BMJ 2004;328:994 (Published 22 April 2004)

Three memorable consultations

BMJ 2004;328:998.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Diagnosing cardiac chest pain

BMJ 2004;328:1001 (Published 22 April 2004)

Illness

BMJ 2004;328:1006 (Published 22 April 2004)

Advice

BMJ 2004;328:1019.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Recent developments in fetal medicine

BMJ 2004;328:1002 (Published 22 April 2004)

Policy priorities for tobacco control

BMJ 2004;328:1007 (Published 22 April 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Audit Commission tells trusts to improve if they want to survive

BMJ 2004;328:974.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Drug company raises US price of AIDS drug five-fold

BMJ 2004;328:974.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Bowel cancer survival rates vary across England

BMJ 2004;328:974.3 (Published 22 April 2004)

Indian Medical Association wants off-label prescribing

BMJ 2004;328:974.4 (Published 22 April 2004)

Stroke prevention opportunities are being lost, study shows

BMJ 2004;328:975.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

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

China to offer free HIV testing and treatment

BMJ 2004;328:975.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Much health care in rural India comes from unqualified practitioners

BMJ 2004;328:975.3 (Published 22 April 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Websites fail to meet needs of disabled people

BMJ 2004;328:976.3 (Published 22 April 2004)

News extra

BMJ 2004;328:976.4 (Published 22 April 2004)

Abolition of agency reduces Aboriginal input on health policy

BMJ 2004;328:976.5 (Published 22 April 2004)

World Medical Association ‘appalled’ at oral mutilation in parts of Africa

BMJ 2004;328:976.6 (Published 23 April 2004)

Papers

Reduced incidence of admissions for myocardial infarction associated with public smoking ban: before and after study

BMJ 2004;328:977 (Published 22 April 2004)

How acute and reversible are the cardiovascular risks of secondhand smoke?

BMJ 2004;328:980 (Published 22 April 2004)

Normal serum aminotransferase concentration and risk of mortality from liver diseases: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2004;328:983 (Published 22 April 2004)

Liver function tests: defining what's normal

BMJ 2004;328:987.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Mortality among “never smokers” living with smokers: two cohort studies, 1981-4 and 1996-9

BMJ 2004;328:988 (Published 22 April 2004)

Effectiveness of nicotine patches in relation to genotype in women versus men: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2004;328:989 (Published 22 April 2004)

Primary care

Systematic review of topical capsaicin for the treatment of chronic pain

BMJ 2004;328:991 (Published 22 April 2004)

Systematic review of efficacy of topical rubefacients containing salicylates for the treatment of acute and chronic pain

BMJ 2004;328:995 (Published 22 April 2004)

It's not just about rubbing—topical capsaicin and topical salicylates may be useful as adjuvants to conventional pain treatment

BMJ 2004;328:998.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Learning in practice

The need for needs assessment in continuing medical education

BMJ 2004;328:999 (Published 22 April 2004)

Education and debate

Integrating qualitative research with trials in systematic reviews

BMJ 2004;328:1010 (Published 22 April 2004)

Assessing ethics of trials in systematic reviews

BMJ 2004;328:1013 (Published 22 April 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

My Foetus

BMJ 2004;328:1021 (Published 22 April 2004)

Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the United States and Great Britain

BMJ 2004;328:1022.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Physician's Guide to Terrorist Attack

BMJ 2004;328:1022.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Screening must remain a free choice

BMJ 2004;328:1023.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Pedalling up the Amazon

BMJ 2004;328:1023.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

Corrections

Intimate partner violence

BMJ 2004;328:997.1 (Published 22 April 2004)

Smoking and blindness

BMJ 2004;328:997.2 (Published 22 April 2004)

This week in the BMJ: Children treated for heart conditions survive equally well across UK

BMJ 2004;328:997.3 (Published 22 April 2004)