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03 July 2004 (Vol 329, Issue 7456)

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Editor's Choice

Think harm always

BMJ 2004;329:0.8 (Published 1 July 2004)

News

UK universities agree protocol for tobacco company funding

BMJ 2004;329:9.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Drug for Alzheimer's disease is of little benefit, study shows

BMJ 2004;329:9.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;329:10.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Drug marketing practices come under scrutiny

BMJ 2004;329:10.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

National Institutes of Health criticised for not preventing conflicts of interest

BMJ 2004;329:10.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

Doctors' careers are blighted by discrimination, says BMA

BMJ 2004;329:11.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

More patients could be treated in the UK if associate specialists' skills were recognised

BMJ 2004;329:11.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

United States brings in new rules to prevent surgical errors

BMJ 2004;329:13.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

UK parties set out their health stalls in lead-up to next election

BMJ 2004;329:14.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Editorials

The road to health care

BMJ 2004;329:1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Benefits and harms of drug treatments

BMJ 2004;329:2 (Published 1 July 2004)

New interventional procedures

BMJ 2004;329:3 (Published 1 July 2004)

Pharmacogenetics—expectations and reality

BMJ 2004;329:4 (Published 1 July 2004)

Collecting and sharing information about harms

BMJ 2004;329:6 (Published 1 July 2004)

Assessing the benefit-harm balance at the bedside

BMJ 2004;329:7 (Published 1 July 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Open letter to Annette King, Minister of Health, New Zealand

BMJ 2004;329:51.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Postmarketing surveillance is needed

BMJ 2004;329:51.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

Electronic incident reporting and professional monitoring transforms culture

BMJ 2004;329:51.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

North-south divide in social inequalities in Great Britain: Divide in social class inequalities may exist but is small

BMJ 2004;329:52.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

North-south divide in social inequalities in Great Britain: Self perceived health is affected by anxiety and self esteem

BMJ 2004;329:52.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

North-south divide in social inequalities in Great Britain: Health inequalities in Wirral: a living Black report?

BMJ 2004;329:52.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

North-south divide in social inequalities in Great Britain: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:53.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Fighting obesity: Physical activity has major role

BMJ 2004;329:53.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

Fighting obesity: Programme to fight obesity in primary care already exists

BMJ 2004;329:53.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

Fighting obesity: Clarification from World Health Organization

BMJ 2004;329:53.4 (Published 1 July 2004)

Childhood obesity and consumption of fizzy drinks: Diet is not that important in obesity

BMJ 2004;329:54.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Childhood obesity and consumption of fizzy drinks: Play outside to reduce childhood obesity

BMJ 2004;329:54.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

Letters - continued

Childhood obesity and consumption of fizzy drinks: Commercial interests have important role

BMJ 2004;329:54.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Egil Kristian Tynæs

BMJ 2004;329:55.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Nora George (née Zaytoun)

BMJ 2004;329:56.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Alan Proctor Grant

BMJ 2004;329:56.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

Frank Holmes

BMJ 2004;329:56.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

Terence Joseph Hypher

BMJ 2004;329:56.4 (Published 1 July 2004)

Cormac McNamara

BMJ 2004;329:56.5 (Published 1 July 2004)

Robert Kenneth Roddie

BMJ 2004;329:56.6 (Published 1 July 2004)

David Antony Charles Sharpe

BMJ 2004;329:56.7 (Published 1 July 2004)

This Week In the BMJ

Forceps and vacuum delivery pose the same mortality risk for babies

BMJ 2004;329:0.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

Does St John's wort interact with conventional drugs?

BMJ 2004;329:0.4 (Published 1 July 2004)

Do antidepressants reduce suicide?

BMJ 2004;329:0.6 (Published 1 July 2004)

Results of clinical trials are not generalisable

BMJ 2004;329:0.5 (Published 1 July 2004)

Adverse drug reactions cause too many hospital admissions

BMJ 2004;329:0.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Uterine rupture is more likely, but not common, after previous caesarean section

BMJ 2004;329:0.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:60 (Published 1 July 2004)

Fillers

No long-term benefit shown for bones after HRT

BMJ 2004;329:0.7 (Published 1 July 2004)

Learning from the world

BMJ 2004;329:23 (Published 1 July 2004)

A museum of security

BMJ 2004;329:26 (Published 1 July 2004)

Balancing benefits and harms in health care

BMJ 2004;329:30 (Published 1 July 2004)

Webchat

BMJ 2004;329:40.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

Advice

BMJ 2004;329:55.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Balancing benefits and harms: the example of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

BMJ 2004;329:31 (Published 1 July 2004)

Antidepressants and suicide: what is the balance of benefit and harm

BMJ 2004;329:34 (Published 1 July 2004)

A 64 year old woman with knee pain: case outcome

BMJ 2004;329:38 (Published 1 July 2004)

Is evidence based patient choice feasible?

BMJ 2004;329:39.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Decision aids in clinical practice

BMJ 2004;329:39.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

Patients' view

BMJ 2004;329:40.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Opinions on public health are split along class lines

BMJ 2004;329:12.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

NHS takes makers of generic drugs to court for price fixing

BMJ 2004;329:12.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

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

Smoking continues to fall among US teens

BMJ 2004;329:12.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

Fear of stigma deters US soldiers from seeking help for mental health

BMJ 2004;329:12.4 (Published 1 July 2004)

Doctors mistrust systems for reporting medical mistakes

BMJ 2004;329:12.5 (Published 1 July 2004)

Royal College expresses concern over transfer of out of hours GP services

BMJ 2004;329:13.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Young black women have more aggressive breast cancers than white women

BMJ 2004;329:13.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Doctors condemn “patient choice” initiative as no real choice at all

BMJ 2004;329:14.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

NHS needs to produce more doctors, says BMA chairman

BMJ 2004;329:14.3 (Published 1 July 2004)

US medical students in Cuba may be forced to leave

BMJ 2004;329:14.4 (Published 1 July 2004)

Regulatory bodies agree to streamline NHS inspections in England

BMJ 2004;329:14.5 (Published 1 July 2004)

Cancer “tsar” faces parliamentary group on waiting time targets

BMJ 2004;329:14.6 (Published 1 July 2004)

Young women in deprived areas in Britain are less likely to have an abortion

BMJ 2004;329:14.7 (Published 1 July 2004)

Environmental groups criticise WHO plans to improve health

BMJ 2004;329:14.8 (Published 1 July 2004)

India has widespread drug problem, report says

BMJ 2004;329:14.9 (Published 1 July 2004)

Papers

Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital: prospective analysis of 18 820 patients

BMJ 2004;329:15 (Published 1 July 2004)

Systematic review of the incidence and consequences of uterine rupture in women with previous caesarean section

BMJ 2004;329:19 (Published 1 July 2004)

Operative vaginal delivery and neonatal and infant adverse outcomes: population based retrospective analysis

BMJ 2004;329:24 (Published 1 July 2004)

Primary care

Interaction of St John's wort with conventional drugs: systematic review of clinical trials

BMJ 2004;329:27 (Published 1 July 2004)

Education and debate

Balancing benefits and harms in public health prevention programmes mandated by governments

BMJ 2004;329:41 (Published 1 July 2004)

silent prevention

BMJ 2004;329:43 (Published 1 July 2004)

Detection, verification, and quantification of adverse drug reactions

BMJ 2004;329:44 (Published 1 July 2004)

Making decisions about benefits and harms of medicines

BMJ 2004;329:47 (Published 1 July 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

iWITNESS: A Retrospective Photographic Exhibition by Tom Stoddart

BMJ 2004;329:57 (Published 1 July 2004)

Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes

BMJ 2004;329:58.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine: Must Health Care Deteriorate?

BMJ 2004;329:58.2 (Published 1 July 2004)

Balancing the benefits and harms of care

BMJ 2004;329:59.1 (Published 1 July 2004)

The good old days

BMJ 2004;329:59.2 (Published 1 July 2004)