This week's This week in the BMJ

	Meningitis in infancy leads to developmental disabilities [Full text] FREE

	Post-traumatic stress disorder is a valid and useful diagnosis [Full text] FREE

	Many children develop permanent hearing impairment even after neonatal screening [Full text] FREE

	Environmental factors influence sex differences in coronary heart disease mortality [Full text] FREE

	Universal screening for diabetes in patients aged over 45 should not be adopted in Britain [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Legacy of bacterial meningitis in infancy
	Keith Grimwood
	BMJ  2001;323:523-524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.523 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Telemedicine in developing countries
	Steven M Edworthy
	BMJ  2001;323:524-525, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.524 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Measuring the prevalence of permanent childhood hearing impairment
	Shirley Russ
	BMJ  2001;323:525-526, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.525 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Problems with temporary cardiac pacing
	J J Murphy
	BMJ  2001;323:527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.527 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Measuring the social impact of research
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.528 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Medical errors and medical culture
	Laurie Lyckholm, Stephen Workman, Wayne Lewis, Brendan Harrington
	BMJ  2001;323:570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.570 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Global campaign to eradicate malaria
	Sylvia Meek, Jane Edmondson, Dennis Carroll, D H Molyneux, G Barnish, S Looreesuwan, B Liese, J Hemingway
	BMJ  2001;323:571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Opioids in chronic non-malignant pain
	James S Milledge, Richard A Lawhern, Andrew Byrne
	BMJ  2001;323:571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Early growth and coronary heart disease in later life
	T J Cole, M Fewtrell, A Lucas, C Osmond, D J P Barker, J G Eriksson, T Forsén
	BMJ  2001;323:572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.572 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Riluzole for motor neurone disease
	David Barnett, Martin Ford, Cyrille Leperlier
	BMJ  2001;323:573, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.573 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antidepressant trials generally have methodological defects
	Christian Even, Serge Friedman, Roland Dardennes
	BMJ  2001;323:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.574 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors should tell patients truth about their waiting lists
	Noelle O'Rourke
	BMJ  2001;323:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.574 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Equipoise is not synonymous with uncertainty
	R J Lilford
	BMJ  2001;323:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.574 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical litigation
	Adrian Rogers, Peter Gray
	BMJ  2001;323:575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.575 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Career advice for doctors with a chronic illness
	Ian Aston, Julian Berry
	BMJ  2001;323:575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.575 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drugs are not best for obesity
	Elliot M Berry
	BMJ  2001;323:576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.576 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I was obviously fortunate when my salivary gland was removed
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2001;323:576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.576 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A poem to benefit health
	Robin Philipp
	BMJ  2001;323:576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.576 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Concern grows over health of Australia's refugee population
	Norman Swan
	BMJ  2001;323:529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.529 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Baxter withdraws dialyser after 12 patients die
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2001;323:529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.529 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;323:530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.530 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	India to tighten rules on human embryonic stem cells research
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2001;323:530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.530 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Auditors slate top Indian medical centre
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2001;323:530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.530 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Viagra wears off after two years
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.530 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Johns Hopkins faces further criticism over experiments
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.531 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	AIDS expert challenges ethical stance on drug trials
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2001;323:531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.531 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Woman passes first hurdle in right to die case
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;323:531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.531 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Colombian newspaper delivers free cigarettes
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Scottish GPs to be sent discussion packs on MMR vaccine
	Helen Barratt
	BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Takeaway shop converts to drug centre
	Andrew Byrne
	BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Safe sex message fails to get through to young people
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Single use equipment is used up to 20 times, says report
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Israel bans imports of fertilised ova
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Meningitis in infancy in England and Wales: follow up at age 5 years
	Helen Bedford, John de Louvois, Susan Halket, Catherine Peckham, Rosalinde Hurley, David Harvey
	BMJ  2001;323:533, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.533 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of permanent childhood hearing impairment in the United Kingdom and implications for universal neonatal hearing screening: questionnaire based ascertainment study • Commentary: Universal newborn hearing screening: implications for coordinating and developing services for deaf and hearing impaired children
	Heather M Fortnum, A Quentin Summerfield, David H Marshall, Adrian C Davis, John M Bamford, Adrian Davis, Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, Sally Hind
	BMJ  2001;323:536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.536 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sex matters: secular and geographical trends in sex differences in coronary heart disease mortality
	D A Lawlor, S Ebrahim, G Davey Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:541-545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.541 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Data sources and ICD codes] FREE

	Assessment of therapeutic safety in systematic reviews: literature review
	Edzard Ernst, Max H Pittler
	BMJ  2001;323:546, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.546 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Diabetes inspidus induced by ofloxacin
	Anil Bharani, Hrishikesh Kumar
	BMJ  2001;323:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.547 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Screening for diabetes in general practice: cross sectional population study
	James M Lawrence, Paul Bennett, Alan Young, Anthony M Robinson
	BMJ  2001;323:548-551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.548 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Verifying quality and safety in health informatics services
	Michael Rigby, Jari Forsström, Ruth Roberts, Jeremy Wyatt
	BMJ  2001;323:552-556, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.552 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Telemedicine
	Richard Wootton
	BMJ  2001;323:557-560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.557 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Anyone for tennis?
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2001;323:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.581 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The lost video
	Jamie Bahrami
	BMJ  2001;323:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.581 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Usefulness and validity of post-traumatic stress disorder as a psychiatric category
	Gillian Mezey, Ian Robbins
	BMJ  2001;323:561-563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.561 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Should NHS patients be allowed to contribute extra money to their care?
	Clive Richards, Robert Dingwall, Alan Watson
	BMJ  2001;323:563-565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.563 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Regulating nursing homes: Caring for older people in the private sector in England
	Susan H Kerrison, Allyson M Pollock
	BMJ  2001;323:566-569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.566 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Frederic Basil Stileman Barkworth • Paul Brian Counsell • Samuel Wolfe Hirschmann • Mohammed Shahbaaz Khan • Robert Kenneth McAll • Leslie Alexander McDowell • George Hay Marshall • Walter John Murfin • Bruce Drummond Taylor • Scott Nigel John Wilson
	Ian Brown, John Surtees, Gordon Black, P N Hirschmann, Jagdip Haer, Margaret Crowley, G E Owen Williams, John Black, David Murfin, Malcolm Walker-Kinnear, M Hull, R Delaney, G Pritchard
	BMJ  2001;323:577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.577 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;323:582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.582 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: A regular pain
	Colm Lanigan
	BMJ  2001;323:540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.540 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The skills it takes
	James Clover
	BMJ  2001;323:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.547 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A short case prolonged
	Rebekah Schiff
	BMJ  2001;323:551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.551 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One hundred years ago: The anticigarette crusade in America
	BMJ  2001;323:557, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.557 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Two smokers and evidence based medicine
	H A Brewster
	BMJ  2001;323:569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.569 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Virtual University? Educational Environments for the Future
	Jason O'Neale Roach
	BMJ  2001;323:579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.579 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Problems, Progress and Possibilities
	Heather O Dickinson
	BMJ  2001;323:579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.579 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Alcohol: the media are in denial
	Colin Brewer
	BMJ  2001;323:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.580 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Grabbed
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Grabbed
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Virtual universities
	Helen Barratt
	BMJ  2001;323:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.580 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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