31 July 2004 (Vol 329, Issue 7460)

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Editor's Choice

My last choice

BMJ 2004;329:0.8 (Published 29 July 2004)

News

Scandals have eroded US public's confidence in drug industry

BMJ 2004;329:247.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Health experts warn of disease as worst flooding in years hits Bangladesh

BMJ 2004;329:247.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;329:248.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

WHO wants more palliative care for Europeans

BMJ 2004;329:248.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Report calls for more care for people wanting to die at home

BMJ 2004;329:248.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

French surgeons are set to strike

BMJ 2004;329:249.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Sexually transmitted diseases continue to rise

BMJ 2004;329:249.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Rape victims in Sudan face life of stigma, says report

BMJ 2004;329:251.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

WHO uses work on tuberculosis in Lima as model for tackling AIDS

BMJ 2004;329:252.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Editorials

Clinical research under the cosh again

BMJ 2004;329:241 (Published 29 July 2004)

Travelling but never arriving: reflections of a retiring editor

BMJ 2004;329:242 (Published 29 July 2004)

Fine needle aspiration cytology in cancer diagnosis

BMJ 2004;329:244 (Published 29 July 2004)

The future of psychotherapy in the NHS

BMJ 2004;329:245 (Published 29 July 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Fine needle aspiration of hepatic colorectal metastases: Fine needle aspiration has its place

BMJ 2004;329:290.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Fine needle aspiration of hepatic colorectal metastases: BMJ enters arena of tabloid journalism

BMJ 2004;329:290.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Fine needle aspiration of hepatic colorectal metastases: Damage is done now

BMJ 2004;329:290.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

Fine needle aspiration of hepatic colorectal metastases: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:290.4 (Published 29 July 2004)

Social class and elective caesareans in the NHS: Analysis is not really about social class

BMJ 2004;329:291.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Social class and elective caesareans in the NHS: Dr Foster is cheap and offensive

BMJ 2004;329:291.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Social class and elective caesareans in the NHS: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:291.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

Treatment of minor burns: Dressings do not need to stick

BMJ 2004;329:291.4 (Published 29 July 2004)

Treatment of minor burns: Treatment of burns is controversial

BMJ 2004;329:292.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Treatment of minor burns: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:292.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness: Is road of initiative paved with good intentions?

BMJ 2004;329:292.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness: An unlikely public healthcare initiative

BMJ 2004;329:292.4 (Published 29 July 2004)

Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness: Bush's sanity test is revealed

BMJ 2004;329:292.5 (Published 29 July 2004)

Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness: Summary of responses

BMJ 2004;329:292.6 (Published 29 July 2004)

Good news is often ignored

BMJ 2004;329:293.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Hope of prevention training in South Asia

BMJ 2004;329:293.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Don't believe us

BMJ 2004;329:294.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Letters - continued

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Is the bubble due to burst for medical research funding?

BMJ 2004;329:294.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Doctors are not scientists but we still need science

BMJ 2004;329:294.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

William Einar Miall

BMJ 2004;329:295 (Published 29 July 2004)

Michael Shirley Adams

BMJ 2004;329:296.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Tim Cullinan

BMJ 2004;329:296.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Nicholas Mark Hone

BMJ 2004;329:296.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

Archibald McDougall

BMJ 2004;329:296.4 (Published 29 July 2004)

Thomas Reynolds

BMJ 2004;329:296.5 (Published 29 July 2004)

John Pendered Stephens

BMJ 2004;329:296.6 (Published 29 July 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:300 (Published 29 July 2004)

This Week In the BMJ

Nurses using oesophageal Doppler improve outcome after heart surgery

BMJ 2004;329:0.5 (Published 29 July 2004)

Suicide rates in people with schizophrenia have declined

BMJ 2004;329:0.4 (Published 29 July 2004)

Training doctors did not improve careseeking in mothers

BMJ 2004;329:0.6 (Published 29 July 2004)

Dronabinol has a modest analgesic effect in multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2004;329:0.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

New ethics committee regulations hinder research

BMJ 2004;329:0.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

What would you tell Mrs Prior?

BMJ 2004;329:0.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Corticosteroids for HELLP (haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets) syndrome

BMJ 2004;329:270 (Published 29 July 2004)

Abnormal liver function found after an unplanned consultation: case presentation

BMJ 2004;329:273.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Burns reconstruction

BMJ 2004;329:274 (Published 29 July 2004)

Filler

Open hernia repair better than laparoscopic

BMJ 2004;329:0.7 (Published 29 July 2004)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2004;329:264 (Published 29 July 2004)

Coin debaser and quack doctor

BMJ 2004;329:265.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Give a disease a bad name

BMJ 2004;329:272 (Published 29 July 2004)

None of the above?

BMJ 2004;329:273.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

When Dr Mopp tried to get into research

BMJ 2004;329:279 (Published 29 July 2004)

Digestive Disease Week 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana

BMJ 2004;329:284 (Published 29 July 2004)

Improvement of the practice of medicine

BMJ 2004;329:285.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

The truth is not always a beautiful thing

BMJ 2004;329:287 (Published 29 July 2004)

News roundup

Childhood exposure to smoke may increase risk of back pain in later life

BMJ 2004;329:250.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Life expectancy in Great Britain rises—but later years are still spent in poor health

BMJ 2004;329:250.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Bush signs law to protect US from bioterrorism

BMJ 2004;329:250.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

News roundup - continued

Combination anticoagulation therapy doubles risk of bleeding in patients at high risk of stroke

BMJ 2004;329:250.4 (Published 29 July 2004)

Fertilisation authority rules in favour of embryo selection for tissue donation

BMJ 2004;329:251.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Government confirms second case of vCJD transmitted by blood transfusion

BMJ 2004;329:251.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

News extra

Canadian RCTs to have new registration rules

BMJ 2004;329:252.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Audit report criticises India's slow progress on AIDS

BMJ 2004;329:252.3 (Published 29 July 2004)

Health secretary cuts number of targets in a move to local health plans

BMJ 2004;329:252.4 (Published 29 July 2004)

“Arm's length” NHS bodies to be abolished in spending cull

BMJ 2004;329:252.5 (Published 29 July 2004)

New US Medicare policy changes ruling that obesity is not an illness

BMJ 2004;329:252.6 (Published 29 July 2004)

New minister to tackle Poland's healthcare crisis

BMJ 2004;329:252.7 (Published 29 July 2004)

Indian doctor's decision to “self test” AIDS vaccine decried as unethical

BMJ 2004;329:252.8 (Published 29 July 2004)

Papers

Does the cannabinoid dronabinol reduce central pain in multiple sclerosis? Randomised double blind placebo controlled crossover trial

BMJ 2004;329:253 (Published 29 July 2004)

Randomised controlled trial assessing the impact of a nurse delivered, flow monitored protocol for optimisation of circulatory status after cardiac surgery

BMJ 2004;329:258 (Published 29 July 2004)

Change in suicide rates for patients with schizophrenia in Denmark, 1981-97: nested case-control study

BMJ 2004;329:261 (Published 29 July 2004)

Photo-onycholysis associated with the use of doxycycline

BMJ 2004;329:265.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Science Commentary

High hopes for cannabinoid analgesia

BMJ 2004;329:257 (Published 29 July 2004)

Primary care

Impact of counselling on careseeking behaviour in families with sick children: cluster randomised trial in rural India

BMJ 2004;329:266 (Published 29 July 2004)

Commentary

Advice to parents has limited effect—where next?

BMJ 2004;329:269 (Published 29 July 2004)

View from the research and development office

BMJ 2004;329:281 (Published 29 July 2004)

Better support for investigators is essential

BMJ 2004;329:285.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Education and debate

Obstacles to conducting epidemiological research in the UK general population

BMJ 2004;329:277 (Published 29 July 2004)

The other face of research governance

BMJ 2004;329:280 (Published 29 July 2004)

Bureaucracy of ethics applications

BMJ 2004;329:282 (Published 29 July 2004)

Research ethics paperwork: what is the plot we seem to have lost?

BMJ 2004;329:286 (Published 29 July 2004)

Ethical review of research into rare genetic disorders

BMJ 2004;329:288 (Published 29 July 2004)

Review

This week's Review section

In the Shadow of “Just Wars”: Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action; Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action

BMJ 2004;329:297 (Published 29 July 2004)

Reviews

Why failed asylum seekers must not be denied access to the NHS

BMJ 2004;329:298.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Hit parade

BMJ 2004;329:298.2 (Published 29 July 2004)

Where can we publish?

BMJ 2004;329:299.1 (Published 29 July 2004)

Saving lives on the Silk Road

BMJ 2004;329:299.2 (Published 29 July 2004)