This week's This week in the BMJ

	Fatty acid supplementation in infancy reduces blood pressure later in childhood [Full text] FREE

	Using non-invasive ventilation in wards may save British hospitals money [Full text] FREE

	Valproic acid prescriptions are rising without evidence [Full text] FREE

	Are telephone consultations too risky? [Full text] FREE

	Smoking is normal for south Asian men [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Smoke free hospitals
	Martin McKee, Anna Gilmore, Thomas E Novotny
	BMJ  2003;326:941-942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.941 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparing cannabis with tobacco
	John A Henry, William L G Oldfield, Onn Min Kon
	BMJ  2003;326:942-943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.942 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	People missing as a result of armed conflict
	Robin Coupland, Stephen Cordner
	BMJ  2003;326:943-944, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.943 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Biventricular pacing for heart failure
	Rebecca E Lane, Jamil Mayet, Nicholas S Peters
	BMJ  2003;326:944-945, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.944 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Scientific literature's open sesame?
	Tony Delamothe, Fiona Godlee, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:945-946, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.945 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Screening for depression in primary care
	William P Plummer, Traolach S Brugha, Tom Fahey, Frank Sullivan, Steve MacGillivray, Verena Henkel, Roland Mergl, Ulrich Hegerl
	BMJ  2003;326:982, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.982 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cardiovascular mortality after radiotherapy for breast cancer
	Ian H Kunkler, Adrian N Harnett
	BMJ  2003;326:983, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.983 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Monitoring marketing of infant formula feeds
	Magda Sachs, Andrée Bronner
	BMJ  2003;326:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.984 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Australian Medical Association accepts generic prescribing
	Kerryn Phelps
	BMJ  2003;326:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.985 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New edicts for letters
	Douglas G Altman, Sean Bydder, Andrew N Bamji, W R Lee, Robert Richardson
	BMJ  2003;326:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.985/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Autism spectrum disorder is not as certain as implied
	David Simpson
	BMJ  2003;326:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.986 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Perhaps medicine should now be considered a trade
	Robert A Knuppel
	BMJ  2003;326:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.986/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Personality and performance during a medical degree
	Woody Caan, D R Nethercott
	BMJ  2003;326:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.986/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	SARS may have peaked in Canada, Hong Kong, and Vietnam
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:947, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.947 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:948, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.948 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Canada insists that it is a safe place to visit
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;326:948, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.948/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	SARS could still affect the United Kingdom, health secretary warns
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:948, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.948/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Mammography screening nearly halves breast cancer mortality
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:949, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.949 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Sigmoidoscopy screening every five years may be too frequent
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:949, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.949/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Roll Back Malaria campaign still has a long way to go
	Irina Haivas
	BMJ  2003;326:951, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.951/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Royal Society warns of risks from depleted uranium
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	GlaxoSmithKline takes legal action to block new controls on its smoking cessation drug
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Patients’ own marrow cells improve heart function
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.950 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Lumbar punctures could be used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;326:950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.950/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Stem cells in tooth pulp could be used in research
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;326:950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.950/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	United States proposes new HIV testing initiative
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;326:950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.950/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Australian GPs face red tape crisis, commission says
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2003;326:950, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.950/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Helpline for patients to report adverse reactions is piloted in England
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:951, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.951 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	GMC announces its new lay appointments
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:951, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.951/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	French government cuts payments for "moderately useful" drugs
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  2003;326:951, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.951/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Iraqi doctors return to work, but patients still face acute shortages of drugs
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Trials of AIDS vaccine to start in India
	Sanjay Kumar
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Trials of AIDS vaccine to start in Switzerland and United Kingdom
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Exercise and dietary advice can reduce blood pressure
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Canadian patients threaten to sue over cancelled operations
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/f [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	US food safety regulations are out of date, report says
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/g [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Vet dies from pneumonia in avian flu case
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/h [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Scientists harvest stem cells from blastocysts created by parthenogenesis
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/i [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	New ventilation system can reduce deaths from acute respiratory distress syndrome
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/j [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Women with breast cancer are more likely to have high blood levels of pesticides
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.952/k [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in infant formula and blood pressure in later childhood: follow up of a randomised controlled trial
	J S Forsyth, P Willatts, C Agostoni, J Bissenden, P Casaer, G Boehm
	BMJ  2003;326:953, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.953 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness of ward based non-invasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: economic analysis of randomised controlled trial
	P K Plant, J L Owen, S Parrott, M W Elliott
	BMJ  2003;326:956, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.956 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Loss of tolerance and overdose mortality after inpatient opiate detoxification: follow up study
	John Strang, Jim McCambridge, David Best, Tracy Beswick, Jenny Bearn, Sian Rees, Michael Gossop
	BMJ  2003;326:959-960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.959 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changing prescription patterns for lithium and valproic acid in old age: shifting practice without evidence
	Kenneth I Shulman, Paula Rochon, Kathy Sykora, Geoffrey Anderson, Muhammad Mamdani, Susan Bronskill, Chau T T Tran
	BMJ  2003;326:960-961, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.960 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Understanding influences on smoking in Bangladeshi and Pakistani adults: community based, qualitative study
	Judith Bush, Martin White, Joe Kai, Judith Rankin, Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  2003;326:962, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.962 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Telephone consultations
	Josip Car, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2003;326:966-969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.966 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Cerebral palsy: what parents and doctors want to know
	Peter Rosenbaum
	BMJ  2003;326:970-974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.970 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Interactive case report: A 42 year old man with acute chest pain: case progression
	G Sodeck, B Partik, H Domanovits
	BMJ  2003;326:974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.974 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lesson of the week: Benign sleep myoclonus in infancy mistaken for epilepsy
	Joseph Egger, Gabriele Grossmann, Ian A Auchterlonie
	BMJ  2003;326:975-976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.975 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of diabetes: The diabetic foot
	Peter J Watkins
	BMJ  2003;326:977-979, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.977 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Doing simple things well
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2003;326:991, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.991/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The kindest insult
	Jonathan Han
	BMJ  2003;326:991, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.991 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Ethics of clinical trials from a bayesian and decision analytic perspective: whose equipoise is it anyway?
	Richard J Lilford
	BMJ  2003;326:980-981, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.980 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Mark Swerdlow
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2003;326:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.987 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Richard ("Dick") Alexander Blaiklock
	Peter Irving, Paul Wearing
	BMJ  2003;326:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.987/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Dawn Kharissa Elvira Chance
	Sheena Hodgett, Jon Dowell, Sue Taylor
	BMJ  2003;326:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.987/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Samantha Irene Hoare (née White)
	Nicolas Samaniego
	BMJ  2003;326:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.987/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Ronald James Howd
	Leon Le Dune
	BMJ  2003;326:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.987/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Ewart Martin Jepson
	John F Newcombe
	BMJ  2003;326:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.987/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Cyril Hugh Kinder
	A R Mundy
	BMJ  2003;326:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.987/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Patricia Morley
	J K "Jake Davidson, John E E Fleming
	BMJ  2003;326:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.987/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Marcus Aurelius ("Aurel") Stefan
	Eileen Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;326:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.987/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.992 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM: Uterine fibroids are common in middle aged women
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.0/f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:953, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.953/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One hundred years ago: Degrees and how not to give them
	BMJ  2003;326:960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.960/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Know your weed
	Ben J Challacombe, Garrick Georgeu, Naguib El-Muttardi
	BMJ  2003;326:976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.976 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

This week's TV

	TV: Dying for Drugs
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2003;326:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.990 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People • In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  2003;326:989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.989 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Smoke free journal?
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.0/e [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Patient power in randomised controlled trials
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2003;326:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7396.990/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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