09 October 2004 (Vol 329, Issue 7470)

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Editor's Choice

A hybrid for open access

BMJ 2004;329:0.8 (Published 7 October 2004)

News

Scientists receive Nobel prize for unravelling secrets of smell

BMJ 2004;329:815.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

GMC decision on Southall is challenged as “unduly lenient”

BMJ 2004;329:815.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;329:816.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Merck withdraws arthritis drug worldwide

BMJ 2004;329:816.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

FDA to review risks of antidepressants in adults

BMJ 2004;329:816.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

Vitamin supplements do not cut risk of gastrointestinal cancer

BMJ 2004;329:817.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Can country music drive you to suicide?

BMJ 2004;329:817.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

A quarter of young children in Iraq are chronically malnourished

BMJ 2004;329:819.4 (Published 7 October 2004)

Pathologist cleared of misconduct by GMC in Shipman hearing

BMJ 2004;329:820.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

McDonald's profits drop and Mars abandons king size bars

BMJ 2004;329:820.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

Editorials

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

BMJ 2004;329:809 (Published 7 October 2004)

Why the GMC is right to appeal over life prolonging treatment

BMJ 2004;329:810 (Published 7 October 2004)

Antenatal screening for Down's syndrome

BMJ 2004;329:811 (Published 7 October 2004)

Managing metastatic bone pain

BMJ 2004;329:812 (Published 7 October 2004)

Publishing tobacco tar measurements on packets

BMJ 2004;329:813 (Published 7 October 2004)

bmj.com behind access controls

BMJ 2004;329:814 (Published 7 October 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Improving mortality of coronary surgery: Study conclusions are paradoxical

BMJ 2004;329:855.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Improving mortality of coronary surgery: Data analysis was not robust

BMJ 2004;329:855.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

Improving mortality of coronary surgery: Authors' repl

BMJ 2004;329:855.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

Performance monitoring should take costs to heart

BMJ 2004;329:856.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Bypass surgery mortality is blunt measure of performance

BMJ 2004;329:856.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: Vague numbers are being perpetuated

BMJ 2004;329:856.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: No data were produced

BMJ 2004;329:856.4 (Published 7 October 2004)

Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: Data relevant to patient safety should not be presented alone and out of context

BMJ 2004;329:857.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: Patients should be involved as partners

BMJ 2004;329:857.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:857.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

The prince and the professor: Integrated approach is needed

BMJ 2004;329:857.4 (Published 7 October 2004)

The prince and the professor: Which emperor is naked?

BMJ 2004;329:858.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Letters - continued

The prince and the professor: With respect, Professor Baum, you've got it wrong

BMJ 2004;329:858.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

The prince and the professor: With respect, professor, the Prince of Wales is not so wrong

BMJ 2004;329:858.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

The prince and the professor: Heretics unite

BMJ 2004;329:859.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

The prince and the professor: Science is worth the effort

BMJ 2004;329:859.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

The prince and the professor: Summary of responses

BMJ 2004;329:859.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

Human touch could be saved by using robots

BMJ 2004;329:859.4 (Published 7 October 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Philip Michael Stell

BMJ 2004;329:860.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Sheila Callender

BMJ 2004;329:860.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

Margaret Monica Fisher (née Hanford)

BMJ 2004;329:861.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

John Dudley Harte

BMJ 2004;329:861.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

John Stephen Hughes-Games

BMJ 2004;329:861.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

Ian George Kelly

BMJ 2004;329:861.4 (Published 7 October 2004)

Thakorlal Vallabhdas Raivadera

BMJ 2004;329:861.5 (Published 7 October 2004)

Louis Reid Robinson

BMJ 2004;329:861.6 (Published 7 October 2004)

Thomas Wilson Roddie

BMJ 2004;329:861.7 (Published 7 October 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:866 (Published 7 October 2004)

Fillers

Erectile dysfunction is common with long distance cycling

BMJ 2004;329:0.7 (Published 7 October 2004)

Bad news

BMJ 2004;329:831 (Published 7 October 2004)

The best physician

BMJ 2004;329:833.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

And a memorable day

BMJ 2004;329:833.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

A 35 year old woman with diabetic nephropathy who wants a baby

BMJ 2004;329:844 (Published 7 October 2004)

Food for x ray

BMJ 2004;329:848 (Published 7 October 2004)

Should life be longer?

BMJ 2004;329:854 (Published 7 October 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Recent developments and current status of gene therapy using viral vectors in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2004;329:839 (Published 7 October 2004)

Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis: an imported infection among travellers to central and South America

BMJ 2004;329:842 (Published 7 October 2004)

Immediate care of the preterm infant

BMJ 2004;329:845 (Published 7 October 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

GMC appeals against judgment on withholding treatment

BMJ 2004;329:818.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Less than half the world is likely to meet target for cutting child deaths

BMJ 2004;329:818.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

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

How images can enhance patients' understanding

BMJ 2004;329:818.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

European Commission wants drug companies to test products for use in children

BMJ 2004;329:818.4 (Published 7 October 2004)

Seven doctors accused of failing to monitor health of addicted patients

BMJ 2004;329:818.5 (Published 7 October 2004)

Czech Republic offers free beer to blood donors

BMJ 2004;329:819.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

US accrediting agency tightens rules for continuing medical education

BMJ 2004;329:819.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

GPs given go ahead to buy care for patients

BMJ 2004;329:819.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Women sue over epilepsy drug risks

BMJ 2004;329:820.3 (Published 7 October 2004)

Labour pledges cleaner hospitals and a more patient friendly health service

BMJ 2004;329:820.4 (Published 7 October 2004)

Scottish researchers apply for licence for human cloning

BMJ 2004;329:820.5 (Published 7 October 2004)

US Justice Department appeals against the rulings that banning partial birth abortion is unconstitutional

BMJ 2004;329:820.6 (Published 7 October 2004)

Reanalysis of alteplase for stroke stirs controversy

BMJ 2004;329:820.7 (Published 7 October 2004)

Papers

Combined use of rapid D-dimer testing and estimation of clinical probability in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis: systematic review

BMJ 2004;329:821 (Published 7 October 2004)

Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality in England after Bristol: descriptive analysis of hospital episode statistics 1991-2002

BMJ 2004;329:825 (Published 7 October 2004)

Primary care

Effects of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor antagonists on mortality and renal outcomes in diabetic nephropathy: systematic review

BMJ 2004;329:828 (Published 7 October 2004)

Physical activity cost of the school run: impact on schoolchildren of being driven to school (EarlyBird 22)

BMJ 2004;329:832 (Published 7 October 2004)

Learning in practice

What can experience add to early medical education? Consensus survey

BMJ 2004;329:834 (Published 7 October 2004)

What the educators are saying

BMJ 2004;329:838 (Published 7 October 2004)

Education and debate

Informed consent and communication of risk from radiological and nuclear medicine examinations: how to escape from a communication inferno

BMJ 2004;329:849 (Published 7 October 2004)

Making clinical decisions when the stakes are high and the evidence unclear

BMJ 2004;329:852 (Published 7 October 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How they deceive us and what to do about it

BMJ 2004;329:862 (Published 7 October 2004)

Future Face

BMJ 2004;329:863 (Published 7 October 2004)

NETLINES

BMJ 2004;329:864.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Film reopens euthanasia debate in Spain

BMJ 2004;329:864.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

When TV damned the drug regulators

BMJ 2004;329:865.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

The Welshman in the temple

BMJ 2004;329:865.2 (Published 7 October 2004)

Corrections

Taking account of future technology in cost effectiveness analysis

BMJ 2004;329:837.1 (Published 7 October 2004)

Effect of a flow chart on use of blood transfusions in primary total hip and knee replacement: prospective before and after study

BMJ 2004;329:837.2 (Published 7 October 2004)