26 June 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7455)

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Editor's Choice

Self pity will destroy you

BMJ 2004;328:0.8 (Published 24 June 2004)

News

WHO warns of a polio epidemic in Africa

BMJ 2004;328:1513.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

GlaxoSmithKline to publish clinical trials after US lawsuit

BMJ 2004;328:1513.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:1514.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Girls in southern Sudan are more likely to die in childbirth than complete primary school

BMJ 2004;328:1514.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Oestrogen doesn't protect mental function in older women

BMJ 2004;328:1514.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

Women aged over 40 who are at increased risk of breast cancer should get annual mammograms

BMJ 2004;328:1515.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Wyeth found guilty of paying to boost use of a specific medicine

BMJ 2004;328:1515.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Review finds child experts disagreed in 47 cases out of 5000

BMJ 2004;328:1517.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

US doctors debate refusing treatment to malpractice lawyers

BMJ 2004;328:1518.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Human Tissue Bill is modified because of research needs

BMJ 2004;328:1518.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Editorials

New insights from the British doctors study

BMJ 2004;328:1507 (Published 24 June 2004)

Opening doors to medicine

BMJ 2004;328:1508 (Published 24 June 2004)

Is epidural injection of steroids effective for low back pain?

BMJ 2004;328:1509 (Published 24 June 2004)

The human tissue bill and the mental capacity bill

BMJ 2004;328:1510 (Published 24 June 2004)

Newer drug combinations for malaria

BMJ 2004;328:1511 (Published 24 June 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

How electronic communication is changing health care: Usability is main barrier to effective electronic information systems

BMJ 2004;328:1564.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

How electronic communication is changing health care: Barriers to online learning networks need to be overcome

BMJ 2004;328:1564.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

How electronic communication is changing health care: Patients are e-literate, or not

BMJ 2004;328:1564.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

How electronic communication is changing health care:Imagining tomorrow's world stuck in the old paradigm

BMJ 2004;328:1564.4 (Published 24 June 2004)

Handheld computers in clinical practice:Are useful in informing and educating patients…

BMJ 2004;328:1565.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Handheld computers in clinical practice:… and will appeal to new breed of general practitioners

BMJ 2004;328:1565.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Computer aided prescribing: Software needs to take account of how doctors prescribe

BMJ 2004;328:1565.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

Computer aided prescribing: Computer aided prescribing is not panacea but can help

BMJ 2004;328:1565.4 (Published 24 June 2004)

Computer aided prescribing: Electronic prescribing is helpful in children too

BMJ 2004;328:1566.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Computer aided prescribing: Decision support needs to be evidence based

BMJ 2004;328:1566.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Amoxicillin for non-severe pneumonia in young children:Stop skimping, start investing in antibiotic treatment

BMJ 2004;328:1566.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

Amoxicillin for non-severe pneumonia in young children:Admission to hospital may indicate adverse effects

BMJ 2004;328:1567.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Letters - continued

Amoxicillin for non-severe pneumonia in young children:Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;328:1567.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Reduce door to needle, not door to balloon, times first

BMJ 2004;328:1567.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

Sexuality of health practitioners is complex

BMJ 2004;328:1567.4 (Published 24 June 2004)

Implementing guidance on hip fracture: Advice is misleading

BMJ 2004;328:1568.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Implementing guidance on hip fracture: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;328:1568.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Public health programmes: you don't know what you've got till it's gone

BMJ 2004;328:1568.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Paul Francis Wehrle

BMJ 2004;328:1569 (Published 24 June 2004)

Richard Gore Benians

BMJ 2004;328:1570.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Harbaksh Singh Capoore

BMJ 2004;328:1570.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Malcolm “Callum” Walker Clark

BMJ 2004;328:1570.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

Philip Haigh

BMJ 2004;328:1570.4 (Published 24 June 2004)

Gillian Anne Hartley

BMJ 2004;328:1570.5 (Published 24 June 2004)

Thomas Loftus Townshend Lewis

BMJ 2004;328:1570.6 (Published 24 June 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:1574 (Published 24 June 2004)

Fillers

Fetal fibronectin does not affect outcomes of preterm labour

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 24 June 2004)

The cover

BMJ 2004;328:1528 (Published 24 June 2004)

The difference

BMJ 2004;328:1544 (Published 24 June 2004)

Caring for those who refuse help

BMJ 2004;328:1546 (Published 24 June 2004)

A 64 year old woman with knee pain

BMJ 2004;328:1554.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

The recurrent attender with a difference

BMJ 2004;328:1554.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Webchat

BMJ 2004;328:1560 (Published 24 June 2004)

Birth of a baby girl and social stigma

BMJ 2004;328:1563 (Published 24 June 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Healthcare challenges from the developing world: post-immigration refugee medicine

BMJ 2004;328:1548 (Published 24 June 2004)

Charles Bonnet syndrome—elderly people and visual hallucinations

BMJ 2004;328:1552 (Published 24 June 2004)

Initial management of a major burn: I—overview

BMJ 2004;328:1555 (Published 24 June 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Hospitals improve on “door to needle” time

BMJ 2004;328:1516.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Psychiatrist suspended for undermining patients' trust in treatment

BMJ 2004;328:1516.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

Dutch government demands reimbursement for charity worker's ransom

BMJ 2004;328:1516.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

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

“Arrogant doctors” not to blame for variability in drug prescribing

BMJ 2004;328:1516.4 (Published 24 June 2004)

Bill clarifies gap in law over living wills

BMJ 2004;328:1516.5 (Published 24 June 2004)

Obese men can regain sexual function by losing weight and exercising

BMJ 2004;328:1517.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Health needs of people with learning disabilities neglected

BMJ 2004;328:1517.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Medical schools continue to favour white, middle class candidates

BMJ 2004;328:1518.3 (Published 24 June 2004)

Human error and systems failure caused IVF mix up

BMJ 2004;328:1518.4 (Published 24 June 2004)

WHO pulls two generic AIDS drugs from approved list

BMJ 2004;328:1518.5 (Published 24 June 2004)

Delays in abortion referrals limit women's choices, says report

BMJ 2004;328:1518.6 (Published 24 June 2004)

Australian Senate committee decides against compensation for victims of infected blood

BMJ 2004;328:1518.7 (Published 24 June 2004)

Papers

Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors

BMJ 2004;328:1519 (Published 24 June 2004)

The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits: a preliminary report: (Reprinted from Br Med J 1954:ii;1451-5)

BMJ 2004;328:1529 (Published 24 June 2004)

scientific articles have hardly changed in 50 years

BMJ 2004;328:1533 (Published 24 June 2004)

Offending in psychiatric patients after discharge from medium secure units: prospective national cohort study

BMJ 2004;328:1534 (Published 24 June 2004)

Impact of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism on risk of neural tube defects: case-control study

BMJ 2004;328:1535 (Published 24 June 2004)

Delays in publication of cost utility analyses conducted alongside clinical trials: registry analysis

BMJ 2004;328:1536 (Published 24 June 2004)

Guillain-Barré syndrome seen in users of isotretinoin

BMJ 2004;328:1537 (Published 24 June 2004)

Primary care

Smokeless tobacco use, birth weight, and gestational age: population based, prospective cohort study of 1217 women in Mumbai, India

BMJ 2004;328:1538 (Published 24 June 2004)

Learning in practice

“Not a university type”: focus group study of social class, ethnic, and sex differences in school pupils' perceptions about medical school

BMJ 2004;328:1541 (Published 24 June 2004)

The standardised admission ratio for measuring widening participation in medical schools: analysis of UK medical school admissions by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex

BMJ 2004;328:1545 (Published 24 June 2004)

What the educators are saying

BMJ 2004;328:1547 (Published 24 June 2004)

Education and debate

Tobacco and obesity epidemics: not so different after all?

BMJ 2004;328:1558 (Published 24 June 2004)

Complex interventions: how “out of control” can a randomised controlled trial be?

BMJ 2004;328:1561 (Published 24 June 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

George and Sam

BMJ 2004;328:1571.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary

BMJ 2004;328:1571.2 (Published 24 June 2004)

The new tobacco?

BMJ 2004;328:1572 (Published 24 June 2004)

Wasting time with people

BMJ 2004;328:1573.1 (Published 24 June 2004)

A day in the country

BMJ 2004;328:1573.2 (Published 24 June 2004)