High blood pressure and cholesterol are risk factors for Alzheimer's disease [Full text]

	Primary care groups need more resources to manage change [Full text]

	Behavioural interventions do not reduce risk of HIV [Full text]

	Admission cardiotography increases obstetric intervention [Full text]

	Secondary prevention in coronary heart disease needs to be improved [Full text]

Editorials

	Health and human rights
	Jennifer Leaning
	BMJ  2001;322:1435-1436, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1435 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic fetal monitoring
	Ros Goddard
	BMJ  2001;322:1436-1437, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1436 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing renal failure in the critically ill
	Michael J O'Leary, David J Bihari
	BMJ  2001;322:1437-1439, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1437 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Glucosamine for osteoarthritis: magic, hype, or confusion?
	Jiri Chard, Paul Dieppe
	BMJ  2001;322:1439-1440, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1439 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Twenty years of AIDS, and no end in sight
	Gavin Yamey, William Rankin, Richard Feachem
	BMJ  2001;322:1440, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1440 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	South Africa will not pay for antiretroviral therapy
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2001;322:1441, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1441 [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC extends restrictions on Bristol heart surgeon
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;322:1441, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1441/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortage of academics threatens rise in number of doctors
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;322:1442, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1442 [Full text] [PDF]

	Gene therapy shows promise for haemophilia
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;322:1442, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1442/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;322:1442, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1442/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor wins seat in fight to save hospital
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2001;322:1443, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1443 [Full text] [PDF]

	Fake prescription drugs are flooding the United States
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:1443, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1443/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Tobacco industry to pay damages to smoker and insurance firm
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:1445, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1445/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Canadians seek kidney transplants in poor countries
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;322:1446, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1446 [Full text] [PDF]

	Mutation increases cancer risk in carriers of BRCA2
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2001;322:1446, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1446/a [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Junior doctors warn NHS may lose newly qualified medical staff
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;322:1444, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1444 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patients with cancer do not seek pain relief in Hungary
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  2001;322:1444, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1444/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Services for elderly and disabled people face collapse
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2001;322:1444, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1444/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Irish poll indicates attitudes on abortion are changing
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;322:1444, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1444/c [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	European states agree to fund six year public health programme
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2001;322:1444, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1444/d [Abridged text] [Full text]

	German research society apologises to victims of Nazis
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2001;322:1445, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1445 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Gene test could help detect colorectal cancer
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;322:1445, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1445/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Jury finds drug 80% responsible for killings
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;322:1446, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1446/b [Full text]

	Fake prescription drugs are flooding the United States
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:1446, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1446/c [Full text]

Papers

	Midlife vascular risk factors and Alzheimer's disease in later life: longitudinal, population based study
	Miia Kivipelto, Eeva-Liisa Helkala, Mikko P Laakso, Tuomo Hänninen, Merja Hallikainen, Kari Alhainen, Hilkka Soininen, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Aulikki Nissinen
	BMJ  2001;322:1447-1451, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1447 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure]

	A cognitive behavioural intervention to reduce sexually transmitted infections among gay men: randomised trial
	John Imrie, Judith M Stephenson, Frances M Cowan, Shamil Wanigaratne, Andrew J P Billington, Andrew J Copas, Lesley French, Patrick D French, Anne M Johnson
	BMJ  2001;322:1451-1456, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1451 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Description]

	Randomised controlled trial of cardiotocography versus Doppler auscultation of fetal heart at admission in labour in low risk obstetric population • Commentary: changes between protocol and manuscript should be declared at submission • Commentary: research governance must focus on research training • Commentary: Approach to power calculations has to be realistic
	Gary Mires, Fiona Williams, Peter Howie, Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, Gordon D Murray, Britt-Ingjerd Nesheim
	BMJ  2001;322:1457-1462, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1457 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Secondary prevention in 24 431 patients with coronary heart disease: survey in primary care
	A J B Brady, M A Oliver, J B Pittard
	BMJ  2001;322:1463, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1463 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Primary care groups: Tackling organisational change in the new NHS
	David Wilkin, Steve Gillam, Keri Smith
	BMJ  2001;322:1464-1467, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1464 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	10-minute consultation: Prostatic symptoms
	Andrew Farmer
	BMJ  2001;322:1468, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1468 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Recent advances: Paediatrics
	Anjali Jain, Matthew M Davis
	BMJ  2001;322:1469-1472, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1469 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of smoking]

	Lesson of the week: A family cluster of Chlamydia trachomatis infection
	C Thompson, M Macdonald, S Sutherland
	BMJ  2001;322:1473-1474, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1473 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of AIDS: HIV infection and AIDS in the developing world
	Alison D Grant, Kevin M De Cock
	BMJ  2001;322:1475-1478, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1475 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	The old and the new
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2001;322:1497, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1497/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Lament for missing an A award
	Adrian Padfield
	BMJ  2001;322:1497, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1497 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Forest plots: trying to see the wood and the trees
	Steff Lewis, Mike Clarke
	BMJ  2001;322:1479-1480, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1479 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring quality of life: Is there such a thing as a life not worth living?
	Bobbie Farsides, Robert J Dunlop
	BMJ  2001;322:1481-1483, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1481 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Integrated medicine
	Andy Carr, David St George, Nick Read, Jack Czauderna, Michael Sharpe, Stephen G Wright, David Ramey, Michael J Goodman, Roger A Fisken, Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2001;322:1484, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1484 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Water fluoridation
	Graeme Jones, Paul Connett, Sheila L M Gibson, Robin G Gibson, P J Holloway, Marian S McDonagh, Jos Kleijnen, T C Schmidt, Kathy Phipps, Eric Orwoll, Jill Mason, Jane Cauley, Edward Baldwin, Don Mac Auley
	BMJ  2001;322:1486, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1486 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pregnancy is contraindication for rubella vaccination still
	Pat Tookey
	BMJ  2001;322:1489, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1489 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maternal age and risk of type 1 diabetes in children
	Graham Byrnes, C C Patterson, G Dahlquist, G Soltész, Alistair J Gunn, Wayne S Cutfield, Paul L Hofman, Craig Jeferries, Lars Christian Stene, Geir Joner, Polly J Bingley, Edwin A M Gale
	BMJ  2001;322:1489, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1489/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human consequences of foot and mouth disease are more than described
	Gillian Gibson
	BMJ  2001;322:1491, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1491 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Referral guidelines for cancer need closer scrutiny
	Jeffrey L Lancaster, I W Sherman
	BMJ  2001;322:1491, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1491/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assessment of grouping variable should have been blind in trial of dementia
	Petri E Voutilainen
	BMJ  2001;322:1491, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1491/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Portal hypertension
	Joseph Osterwalder, J E J Krige, I J Beckingham
	BMJ  2001;322:1492, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1492 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Back to tale of seven surgeons
	Anonymous
	BMJ  2001;322:1492, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1492/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Howard Roderick Duval • John Daniel Griffiths • David Eryl Meredith • Hugh Stewart Kerr Sainsbury • Norman Tate
	Richard E Shaw, Sian Griffiths, Morris Jonathan, Colin Wilson, Peter Smethurst
	BMJ  2001;322:1493, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1493 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;322:1498, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1498 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	People make mistakes: what then?
	Anne Seymour
	BMJ  2001;322:1462, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1462 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Hospitals and antivivisectors
	BMJ  2001;322:1468, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1468/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Patient empowerment
	P H Chew
	BMJ  2001;322:1472, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1472 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Novel reading
	BMJ  2001;322:1472, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1472/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A chandelier and a vat of custard
	Katherine Whybrew
	BMJ  2001;322:1480, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1480 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	How policy informs the evidence
	BMJ  2001;322:1456 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Efficacy and safety of rivastigmine in patients with Alzheimer's disease: international randomised controlled trial
	BMJ  2001;322:1456 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ADS

	Ads: A choice image
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;322:1496, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1496 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ART

	Art: Demon Drink: George Cruikshank's "The Worship of Bacchus" in Focus
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2001;322:1494, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1494 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Lies we Live by: The Art of Self-Deception
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2001;322:1495, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1495 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Evidence-Based Surgery
	Gordon Caruana-Dingli
	BMJ  2001;322:1495, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1495/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Politically corrector just plain kooky?
	BMJ  2001;322, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Politically corrector just plain kooky?
	BMJ  2001;322, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: AIDS: the global challenge
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2001;322:1496, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1496/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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