This week's This week in the BMJ

	High risk of HIV infection during remand in Thailand [Full text] FREE

	Communication with seriously ill children is challenging [Full text] FREE

	Decision support systems disrupt GPs' workflow [Full text] FREE

	Cardiac troponin T is raised in severe pulmonary embolism [Full text] FREE

	Competent in evidence based medicine? Take the Fresno test [Full text] FREE

	TSH is a poor measure of severity of tissue hypothyroidism [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Child protectionlessons from Victoria Climbié
	David Hall
	BMJ  2003;326:293-294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.293 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical experts and the criminal courts
	Christopher M Milroy
	BMJ  2003;326:294-295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.294 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism
	Anthony D Toft, Geoffrey J Beckett
	BMJ  2003;326:295-296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.295 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The prevention and treatment of jet lag
	Andrew Herxheimer, Jim Waterhouse
	BMJ  2003;326:296-297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.296 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Donating books and journals to less developed countries
	Trish Groves, Sallie Nicholas, John Hudson
	BMJ  2003;326:298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.298 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Report and application] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Systematic review of celecoxib for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
	Peter Jüni, Rebekka Sterchi, Paul Dieppe, Scott Metcalfe, Sean Dougherty, Wayne McNee, Jonathan J Deeks, Lesley A Smith, Matthew D Bradley
	BMJ  2003;326:334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.334 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General practitioner screening for excessive alcohol use
	Stephen Rollnick, Jim McCambridge, Francis Keaney, John Strang, Stephen Rollnick, Robert Patton, Robin Touquet
	BMJ  2003;326:336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.336 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antiretroviral therapy: new solutions bring new problems
	Joanne L Atkins, Simon Eccles, Peter E M Butler
	BMJ  2003;326:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.337 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Model for Bangalore helped disseminate information to doctors in India
	C B Sridhar, Deena Suresh
	BMJ  2003;326:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.337/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Depressed patients need more than drugs and psychiatrists
	Sharon J Williams
	BMJ  2003;326:338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.338 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Host should also protect students on electives from HIV
	Nigel R M Tai, Sue Nielson, Ken Boffard
	BMJ  2003;326:338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.338/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Disposal of remains of fetuses of under 24 weeks' gestation
	R G Forster
	BMJ  2003;326:338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.338/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Bush criticised for not giving AIDS money to Global Fund
	Sarah Macdonald
	BMJ  2003;326:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.299 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Researchers launch major initiative to hunt human cancer genes
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.299/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.300 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Arkansas bans selling of clean urine to beat drug testing
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;326:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.300/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	"Weak" safety culture behind errors, says chief medical officer
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2003;326:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.300/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Pharmaceutical industry is main influence in GP prescribing
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.301 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Women still have difficulty getting local contraceptive advice
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;326:301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.301/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Doctors told to use positive language in managing pain
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2003;326:301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.301/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Trial shows that homoeopathic arnica is no better than placebo
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.303/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Sally Clark freed after appeal court quashes her convictions
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	GP suspended for enrolling patients in drug trials without consent
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Patient complaints procedure uncertain as health councils abolished
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Consumers’ Association calls for better information for patients
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Chocolate cigarettes "recruit" children to smoking
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Sleep deprivation increases cardiac risk in women
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Report says 100 Roma women have been forcibly sterilised in Slovakia
	Katka Krosnar
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	German doctors "work to rule" in protest at government plans
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2003;326:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.303 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Dietary acrylamide may not cause cancer
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;326:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.303/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Scotland breaks rank to offer compensation to hepatitis C victims
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2003;326:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.303/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Doctors should be more aggressive in treating hypertension in diabetic patients
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Bush proposes Medicare reform in "state of the union" address
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Belgium signs agreement to treat NHS patients
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Israel to move more psychiatric services into the community
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Managing communication with young people who have a potentially life threatening chronic illness: qualitative study of patients and parents
	Bridget Young, Mary Dixon-Woods, Kate C Windridge, David Heney
	BMJ  2003;326:305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.305 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of prevalent HIV infection associated with incarceration among injecting drug users in Bangkok, Thailand: case-control study
	Aumphornpun Buavirat, Kimberly Page-Shafer, G J P van Griensven, J S Mandel, J Evans, J Chuaratanaphong, S Chiamwongpat, R Sacks, A Moss
	BMJ  2003;326:308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.308 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Serum thyroid stimulating hormone in assessment of severity of tissue hypothyroidism in patients with overt primary thyroid failure: cross sectional survey
	Christian Meier, Peter Trittibach, Merih Guglielmetti, Jean-Jacques Staub, Beat Müller
	BMJ  2003;326:311-312, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.311 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cardiac troponin T in the severity assessment of patients with pulmonary embolism: cohort study
	Karin Janata, Michael Holzer, Anton N Laggner, Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  2003;326:312-313, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.312 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra table] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Practice based, longitudinal, qualitative interview study of computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care
	Nikki Rousseau, Elaine McColl, John Newton, Jeremy Grimshaw, Martin Eccles
	BMJ  2003;326:314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.314 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	Validation of the Fresno test of competence in evidence based medicine
	Kathleen D Ramos, Sean Schafer, Susan M Tracz
	BMJ  2003;326:319-321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.319 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Test and validation process details] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy
	Janice Rymer, Ruth Wilson, Karen Ballard
	BMJ  2003;326:322-326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.322 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lesson of the week: Misdiagnosis of epilepsy in patients prescribed anticonvulsant drugs for other reasons
	M Oto, A J C Russell, A McGonigal, R Duncan
	BMJ  2003;326:326-327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.326 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Problem based learning
	Diana F Wood
	BMJ  2003;326:328-330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.328 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Mornings
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2003;326:343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.343/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The police should take the lead on protecting children from criminal abuse
	David Southall, Martin Samuels, John Bridson
	BMJ  2003;326:343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.343 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Prenatal diagnosis requests for Huntington's disease when the father is at risk and does not want to know his genetic status: clinical, legal, and ethical viewpoints
	Ros Tassicker, Julian Savulescu, Loane Skene, Pam Marshall, Lara Fitzgerald, Martin B Delatycki
	BMJ  2003;326:331-333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.331 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Arthur H Coleman
	Ken Howard
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Geoffrey Neish Barker
	Geoffrey Fox
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Kathleen May Corbett
	Margaret Lyons
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Keith Kenneth Eaton
	David L J Freed
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Christopher Grahame Fagg
	Chris Fagg
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Joseph Finer
	Nigel R Fieldman
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Nathaniel Hockman
	Christian C Mahendra
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Evan Osmond Leyshon Hoskins
	Hugh Saxton, John Reidy
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Robert Vernon Holmes Jones
	Denis Pereira Gray, Michael Hall
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.344 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM: Uterine rupture is associated with a history of caesarean section, even without labour
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.0/g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: The art of surgery
	BMJ  2003;326:308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.308/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A patient who changed my practice: Northern Ireland weather
	Kishor A Choudhari
	BMJ  2003;326:313, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.313 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: What's a doctor?
	BMJ  2003;326:314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.314/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Paper thin
	BMJ  2003;326:326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.326/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Testing new pharmaceutical products in children
	BMJ  2003;326:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.321 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Involving patients can work in home blood glucose testing
	BMJ  2003;326:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.321/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Institutional corruption in medicine
	BMJ  2003;326:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.333 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Handhelds for Doctors
	Andrew Harrison
	BMJ  2003;326:341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.341 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Science: A History 1543-2001
	Sanjay A Pai
	BMJ  2003;326:341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.341/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Mystery of the imported plagues
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2003;326:342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.342 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Protecting children
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.0/f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: North American style
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;326:342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.342/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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