03 November 2001(vol 323, issue 7320)

This Week In the BMJ

• Use of antibacterials in community is weakly linked to resistance

  BMJ 2001; 323 :b (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Obesity prevention programme produces changes at school level

  BMJ 2001; 323 :a (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Incidence of Duchenne muscular dystrophy is associated with social deprivation

  BMJ 2001; 323 :d (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Impaired fetal growth is strongly associated with haemorrhagic stroke

  BMJ 2001; 323 :e (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Minor injuries cause significant and unnecessary school absence among children

  BMJ 2001; 323 :c (Published 03 November 2001)

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Editorials

• The future of men and their health

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1013 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• The international men's health movement

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1014 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Body dysmorphic disorder in men

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1015 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Tackling coronary heart disease

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1016 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Prophylactic treatment of anthrax with antibiotics

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1017 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• School based programmes on obesity

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1018 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Peace through health

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1020 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Letters

• Consultants at Alder Hey look to the future

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1064 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• One Bristol

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1064 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Doctors' positioning of defibrillation paddles

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1065 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Testing for Helicobacter pylori in dyspeptic patients

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1066 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Ireland lacks consensus on neonatal vitamin K prophylaxis

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1068 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Oral rehydration solution

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1068 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Oxygen treatment for acute severe asthma

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1069 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Authors should make their data available

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1069 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Prehospital care of trauma must be improved in UK

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1070 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Story on smoking and poor people is incomplete

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1070 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Health of socially excluded groups: lessons must be applied

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1071 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Bias in alternative medicine is still rife but is diminishing

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1071 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Is it denial or wisdom to accept life threatening illness?

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1071 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Surgeon with worst performance figures might be best option

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1071 (Published 03 November 2001)

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News

• UK insurers agree five year ban on using genetic tests

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1021 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• French presidential elections can kill

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1021 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1022 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• How anthrax gets a grip on cells

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1022 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Toll of anthrax cases reaches 15

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1022 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Bayer cuts price of ciprofloxacin after Bush threatens to buy generics

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1023 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Mass hysteria is seen as main threat from bioweapons

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1023 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Drug effects blamed for fifth of hospital deaths among elderly

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1025 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• General Medical Council to elect a new president to succeed Irvine

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1026 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Clinical Reviews

• Benign prostatic hyperplasia

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1042 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Management of Helicobacter pylori infection

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1047 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1078 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Editor's Choice

• Types of resistance

  BMJ 2001; 323 :0 (Published 03 November 2001)

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Trust faces sex discrimination claim

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1024 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Belgium gives terminally ill people the right to die

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1024 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Councils must start work on new NHS scrutiny role

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1024 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• India relies too heavily on screening for safe blood supply, conference told

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1024 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Condom most popular method of contraception in girls under 16

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1024 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Milburn defends use of private sector in the NHS

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1025 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Paediatricians criticise college over Southall debacle

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1025 (Published 03 November 2001)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Ireland seeks injunction to prevent opening of new fuel plant at Sellafield

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1026 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• BMA reassured over revalidation

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1026 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Canadian government almost swamped by ciprofloxacin

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1026 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Papers

• Evaluation of implementation and effect of primary school based intervention to reduce risk factors for obesity

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1027 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Randomised controlled trial of primary school based intervention to reduce risk factors for obesity

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1029 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Prenatal growth and risk of occlusive and haemorrhagic stroke in Swedish men and women born 1915-29: historical cohort study

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1033 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Unnecessary school absence after minor injury: case-control study

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1034 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Social deprivation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: population based study

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1035 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Primary care

• Antibacterial prescribing and antibacterial resistance in English general practice: cross sectional studyCommentary: antibiotic resistance is a dynamic process

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1037 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Education and debate

• Understanding the toll of premature death among men in eastern Europe

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1051 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Effect of sex and gender on psychosocial aspects of prostate and breast cancer

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1055 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• No man's land: men, illness, and the NHS

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1058 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Sex, gender, and health: the need for a new approach

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1061 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Books

• Seasonal Affective Disorder: Practice and Research

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1074 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Diseases of Globalization: Socioeconomic Transitions and Health

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1074 (Published 03 November 2001)

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THEATRE

• Mother Clap's Molly House

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1075 (Published 03 November 2001)

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NETLINES

• Netlines

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1075 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Personal Views

• A medical memoir

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1076 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Everyman's view of doctors

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1077 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Girl power

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1077 (Published 03 November 2001)

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Men's health

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1076 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Soundings

• Escape to Eden

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1077 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Fillers

• Time out

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1036 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• An obstacle course

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1036 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Foolish idea

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1042 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Infections travellers

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1047 (Published 03 November 2001)

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• Is a tattoo the answer?

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1063 (Published 03 November 2001)

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Obituary

• John (Iain) Wylie CookIan Macdonald DingwallClara Jean FraserWilliam IngmanFrancis Stephen PerryZoë Christine RandallJoseph RobinsonJames Gordon SearleJohn Elphinstone UnderwoodWilliam Van EssenJames Meighan WallaceJohn Logan Wilson

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1072 (Published 03 November 2001)

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