08 May 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7448)

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Editor's Choice

Transparency: a modern essential

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 6 May 2004)

News

College proposes better deal for acute medical patients

BMJ 2004;328:1091.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

Companies offer surgeons incentives to use their prostheses

BMJ 2004;328:1091.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:1092.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

Doctors charged with planning to kill a patient for his kidneys

BMJ 2004;328:1092.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

Half of Russia's doctors face sack in healthcare reforms

BMJ 2004;328:1092.3 (Published 6 May 2004)

Newer hypnotics no better for insomnia than short acting benzodiazepines

BMJ 2004;328:1093.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

NICE gives guidance on use of new antiepileptic drugs in children

BMJ 2004;328:1093.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

Mentally ill offenders are being wrongly held in prisons

BMJ 2004;328:1095.4 (Published 6 May 2004)

A lawyer with the Hygeia touch

BMJ 2004;328:1096 (Published 6 May 2004)

Editorials

Informal care giving for disabled stroke survivors

BMJ 2004;328:1085 (Published 6 May 2004)

Roll Back Malaria: a failing global health campaign

BMJ 2004;328:1086 (Published 6 May 2004)

National screening programme for aortic aneurysm

BMJ 2004;328:1087 (Published 6 May 2004)

Assisted suicide

BMJ 2004;328:1088 (Published 6 May 2004)

Physical activity and coronary heart disease

BMJ 2004;328:1089 (Published 6 May 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

No time to train the surgeons:Royal College of Surgeons of England responds

BMJ 2004;328:1133.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

No time to train the surgeons: Medical profession must re-establish its independence from government

BMJ 2004;328:1133.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

No time to train the surgeons:Only repeal of European Working Time Directive will help

BMJ 2004;328:1133.3 (Published 6 May 2004)

No time to train the surgeons:Golden age of surgical training didn't exist

BMJ 2004;328:1133.4 (Published 6 May 2004)

No time to train the surgeons:The rot is deep

BMJ 2004;328:1134.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

No time to train the surgeons: Learning from the New Zealand experience

BMJ 2004;328:1134.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

No time to train the surgeons: Choosing trainees carefully may be the solution

BMJ 2004;328:1134.3 (Published 6 May 2004)

No time to train the surgeons: Summary of rapid responses

BMJ 2004;328:1134.4 (Published 6 May 2004)

Scan immediately for stroke using MRI when possible

BMJ 2004;328:1135.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

Turning a blind eye:Testing the success of blinding and the CONSORT statement

BMJ 2004;328:1135.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

Letters - continued

Turning a blind eye: Authors have blinkered view of blinding

BMJ 2004;328:1135.3 (Published 6 May 2004)

Turning a blind eye:Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;328:1136.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

Turning a blind eye:Why we don't test for blindness at the end of our trials

BMJ 2004;328:1136.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

We are not “amueslied”

BMJ 2004;328:1136.3 (Published 6 May 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Patrick Trevor-Roper

BMJ 2004;328:1137 (Published 6 May 2004)

James Brunskill Brierley

BMJ 2004;328:1138.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

Samuel Howard Davies

BMJ 2004;328:1138.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

David Hewspear

BMJ 2004;328:1138.3 (Published 6 May 2004)

Francis Robert Stanley Knight

BMJ 2004;328:1138.4 (Published 6 May 2004)

Matthew McLearie

BMJ 2004;328:1138.5 (Published 6 May 2004)

Wendy Scott

BMJ 2004;328:1138.6 (Published 6 May 2004)

William Buchanan Smellie

BMJ 2004;328:1138.7 (Published 6 May 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:1142 (Published 6 May 2004)

Fillers

LMW heparin effective for pulmonary embolus

BMJ 2004;328:0.6 (Published 6 May 2004)

Reduction of dislocations immediately after the accident

BMJ 2004;328:1113.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

Deafness makes you depressed

BMJ 2004;328:1132 (Published 6 May 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Ergonomics in medicine and surgery

BMJ 2004;328:1115 (Published 6 May 2004)

Low back pain

BMJ 2004;328:1119 (Published 6 May 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

US universities get round regulations on stem cell research

BMJ 2004;328:1094.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

NHS meets financial targets, but some trusts could do better

BMJ 2004;328:1094.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

UK government endorses national exercise regime

BMJ 2004;328:1094.3 (Published 6 May 2004)

New EU trials database is criticised for lack of openness

BMJ 2004;328:1094.4 (Published 6 May 2004)

Open access could reduce cost of scientific publishing

BMJ 2004;328:1094.5 (Published 6 May 2004)

Health agencies end in-fighting on malaria

BMJ 2004;328:1095.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

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

Patients with type 2 diabetes should take statins

BMJ 2004;328:1095.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

Patients will be able to report drugs' side effects

BMJ 2004;328:1095.3 (Published 6 May 2004)

Dr Foster's case notes

Some way to go for consistent implementation of guidance on hip fracture

BMJ 2004;328:1097 (Published 6 May 2004)

BMJ family highlights

What's new this month in BMJ Journals

BMJ 2004;328:1098 (Published 6 May 2004)

Papers

Training carers of stroke patients: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2004;328:1099 (Published 6 May 2004)

Training care givers of stroke patients: economic evaluation

BMJ 2004;328:1102 (Published 6 May 2004)

Predictors for the development of microalbuminuria and macroalbuminuria in patients with type 1 diabetes: inception cohort study

BMJ 2004;328:1105 (Published 6 May 2004)

Variations in the hospital management of self harm in adults in England: observational study

BMJ 2004;328:1108 (Published 6 May 2004)

Primary care

Influence of socioeconomic deprivation on the primary care burden and treatment of patients with a diagnosis of heart failure in general practice in Scotland: population based study

BMJ 2004;328:1110 (Published 6 May 2004)

Valuable insights from morbidity coding in primary care

BMJ 2004;328:1113.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

Management of diastolic heart failure in older adults

BMJ 2004;328:1114 (Published 6 May 2004)

Education and debate

Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms in men

BMJ 2004;328:1122 (Published 6 May 2004)

Lessons from developing nations on improving health care

BMJ 2004;328:1124 (Published 6 May 2004)

Linking disease control programmes in rural Africa: a pro-poor strategy to reach Abuja targets and millennium development goals

BMJ 2004;328:1129 (Published 6 May 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Escape Fire: Designs for the Future of Health Care

BMJ 2004;328:1139.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

Autism and Creativity: Is there a Link between Autism in Men and Exceptional Ability?

BMJ 2004;328:1139.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative

BMJ 2004;328:1140.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

Media hype? It's not as bad as it seems

BMJ 2004;328:1140.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

Are we creating a health pariah class?

BMJ 2004;328:1141.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

I don't know much, but this I do know

BMJ 2004;328:1141.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

Corrections

Every breath you take

BMJ 2004;328:1104.1 (Published 6 May 2004)

Correction: Interactive case report: Treatment of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

BMJ 2004;328:1104.2 (Published 6 May 2004)

Clustering of common risk factors does not explain risk of CHD

BMJ 2004;328:1104.3 (Published 6 May 2004)