05 June 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7452)

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Editor's Choice

Medicine and man's fall

BMJ 2004;328:0.8 (Published 3 June 2004)

News

Italian doctors face criminal allegations over bribes

BMJ 2004;328:1333.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

German prosecutors probe again into bribes by drug companies

BMJ 2004;328:1333.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:1334.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

New law forces Italian couple with genetic disease to implant all their IVF embryos

BMJ 2004;328:1334.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

HIV positive witness learns of his status in courtroom

BMJ 2004;328:1334.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

Commons committee slates inaction on obesity

BMJ 2004;328:1335.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Secret smoking documents finally to go on the web

BMJ 2004;328:1335.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

Appeal court upholds Oregon's assisted suicide law

BMJ 2004;328:1337.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

Electioneering nipple shot banned

BMJ 2004;328:1337.4 (Published 3 June 2004)

Hospitals in India woo foreign patients

BMJ 2004;328:1338.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Editorials

Fighting obesity

BMJ 2004;328:1327 (Published 3 June 2004)

Financial incentives for doctors

BMJ 2004;328:1328 (Published 3 June 2004)

Scars and keloids

BMJ 2004;328:1329 (Published 3 June 2004)

Sentinel lymph node biopsy

BMJ 2004;328:1330 (Published 3 June 2004)

The first wave of NHS foundation trusts

BMJ 2004;328:1332 (Published 3 June 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Crisis in UK academia affects academic medicine too

BMJ 2004;328:1376.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Isolation hinders academic medicine

BMJ 2004;328:1376.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Funding needs to be on the discussion table

BMJ 2004;328:1376.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Focus on health care is needed

BMJ 2004;328:1377.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Academic medicine needs teeth

BMJ 2004;328:1377.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Direction of academic medicine is worrying

BMJ 2004;328:1377.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: A road map needs to be drawn for the 21st century

BMJ 2004;328:1377.4 (Published 3 June 2004)

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine

BMJ 2004;328:1378.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Roll Back Malaria: a failing global health challenge:Options for malaria control need to be weighed

BMJ 2004;328:1378.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

Roll Back Malaria: a failing global health challenge: Developing a market for bed nets and insecticides is problematic

BMJ 2004;328:1378.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

Management of diastolic heart failure in older adults: Diagnosing diastolic dysfunction is complex

BMJ 2004;328:1378.4 (Published 3 June 2004)

Management of diastolic heart failure in older adults: B-type natriuretic peptide was not mentioned

BMJ 2004;328:1379.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Management of diastolic heart failure in older adults: Author's reply

BMJ 2004;328:1379.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

Letters - continued

Effect of public smoking ban in Helena, Montana: When results look too good to be true, they probably are

BMJ 2004;328:1379.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

Effect of public smoking ban in Helena, Montana: Can law really make a difference?

BMJ 2004;328:1379.4 (Published 3 June 2004)

Effect of public smoking ban in Helena, Montana: Author's reply

BMJ 2004;328:1380.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Eating more vegetables might explain reduced asthma symptoms

BMJ 2004;328:1380.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

The power of five

BMJ 2004;328:1380.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Boris Petrovsky

BMJ 2004;328:1381 (Published 3 June 2004)

Henry de Chair Baker

BMJ 2004;328:1382.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Mary Theresa Brennan (née Rahill)

BMJ 2004;328:1382.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

Alexander (“Alastair”) Cameron

BMJ 2004;328:1382.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

John William MacLeod

BMJ 2004;328:1382.4 (Published 3 June 2004)

Douglas Keith MacTaggart

BMJ 2004;328:1382.5 (Published 3 June 2004)

Griffith Wyn Roberts

BMJ 2004;328:1382.6 (Published 3 June 2004)

Donald (“Don”) Robert Smith

BMJ 2004;328:1382.7 (Published 3 June 2004)

This Week In the BMJ

Doctors trained abroad are less likely to win merit awards

BMJ 2004;328:0.4 (Published 3 June 2004)

Venous leg ulcers are best treated at home

BMJ 2004;328:0.5 (Published 3 June 2004)

Be honest when talking to patients

BMJ 2004;328:0.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome are not treated properly

BMJ 2004;328:0.6 (Published 3 June 2004)

Chemoprophylaxis reduces the risk of meningitis

BMJ 2004;328:0.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

ELPS is the way forward

BMJ 2004;328:0.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:1386 (Published 3 June 2004)

Fillers

Data on treating bronchiolitis is severely limited

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 3 June 2004)

When to discharge a patient

BMJ 2004;328:1342 (Published 3 June 2004)

Tuberculosis: an update on management

BMJ 2004;328:1356 (Published 3 June 2004)

Cocaine and amphetamine combined

BMJ 2004;328:1365 (Published 3 June 2004)

Worse for the fish

BMJ 2004;328:1371 (Published 3 June 2004)

Am I my father's keeper?

BMJ 2004;328:1375 (Published 3 June 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Management of venous leg ulcers

BMJ 2004;328:1358 (Published 3 June 2004)

A 64 year old woman with knee pain: case presentation

BMJ 2004;328:1362 (Published 3 June 2004)

Clinical Reviews - continued

Toxicity after intermittent inhalation of nitrous oxide for analgesia

BMJ 2004;328:1364 (Published 3 June 2004)

Introduction

BMJ 2004;328:1366 (Published 3 June 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Dutch reporting of euthanasia cases falls -- despite legal reporting requirements

BMJ 2004;328:1336.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

New guidelines aim to improve management of COPD

BMJ 2004;328:1336.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

Dead bodies do not pose health risk in natural disasters

BMJ 2004;328:1336.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

Daily aspirin reduces risk of breast cancer, study finds

BMJ 2004;328:1336.4 (Published 3 June 2004)

Mental illness should be recognised as a disability

BMJ 2004;328:1337.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Medical journals don't publish trials on major global diseases

BMJ 2004;328:1337.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Risk of heart failure may be lower with celecoxib than with other NSAID

BMJ 2004;328:1338.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

US accreditor moves to tackle industry's influence on medical education

BMJ 2004;328:1338.3 (Published 3 June 2004)

FDA warns of risks from breast implants

BMJ 2004;328:1338.4 (Published 3 June 2004)

New safety study quantifies medical errors in Canadian hospitals

BMJ 2004;328:1338.5 (Published 3 June 2004)

Consumer advocate says GMC changes still don't go far enough

BMJ 2004;328:1338.6 (Published 3 June 2004)

Papers

Effectiveness of antibiotics in preventing meningococcal disease after a case: systematic review

BMJ 2004;328:1339 (Published 3 June 2004)

What do patients receiving palliative care for cancer and their families want to be told? A Canadian and Australian qualitative study

BMJ 2004;328:1343 (Published 3 June 2004)

Characteristics of consultants who hold distinction awards in England and Wales: database analysis with particular reference to sex and ethnicity

BMJ 2004;328:1347 (Published 3 June 2004)

Authors' perceptions of electronic publishing: two cross sectional surveys

BMJ 2004;328:1350 (Published 3 June 2004)

Slipped capital femoral epiphyses associated with the withdrawal of a gonadotrophin releasing hormone

BMJ 2004;328:1353 (Published 3 June 2004)

Primary care

General practitioners' perceptions of chronic fatigue syndrome and beliefs about its management, compared with irritable bowel syndrome: qualitative study

BMJ 2004;328:1354 (Published 3 June 2004)

Female dyspareunia

BMJ 2004;328:1357 (Published 3 June 2004)

Education and debate

Trafficking and health

BMJ 2004;328:1369 (Published 3 June 2004)

Administering, analysing, and reporting your questionnaire

BMJ 2004;328:1372 (Published 3 June 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Human Mutants

BMJ 2004;328:1383 (Published 3 June 2004)

Football Medicine

BMJ 2004;328:1384.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Child Public Health

BMJ 2004;328:1384.2 (Published 3 June 2004)

If it was your brother

BMJ 2004;328:1385.1 (Published 3 June 2004)

Stayin' alive with quantum physics

BMJ 2004;328:1385.2 (Published 3 June 2004)