02 March 2002(vol 324, issue 7336)

This Week In the BMJ

• Asian patients have lower levels of cardiac revascularisation than white

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• Homoeopathy does not reduce allergy to dust mite in people with asthma

  BMJ 2002; 324 :c (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Diagnostic specificity and sensitivity changes in different settings

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• One stop breast clinics are costly and reduce only short term anxiety

  BMJ 2002; 324 :0 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Different models of informaticist services serve different functions

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• Focus groups are effective in eliciting views in those with head and neck cancer

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• One year survival after renal transplantation is steadily improving

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Editorials

• The misdiagnosis of epilepsy

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• Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy

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• The discomfort of patient power

  BMJ 2002; 324 :497 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Randomised controlled trials for homoeopathy

  BMJ 2002; 324 :498 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Brain drain and health professionals

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Letters

• Performance league tables

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• Effect of patient centredness and positive approach

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• Somatisation in primary care

  BMJ 2002; 324 :544 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Deputy editor of Clinical Evidence replies to letter

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• Quality of Cochrane reviews

  BMJ 2002; 324 :545 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Reye's syndrome revisited

  BMJ 2002; 324 :546 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Demand for prostate specific antigen testing in primary care

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• Despite author's opinion, radiology guideline was correct

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• Dishonest doctors should not continue to practise

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• Clinical medication review by pharmacists would improve care

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• Dementia is being avoided in NHS and social care

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News

• GPs asked to do more for drug misusers

  BMJ 2002; 324 :501 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• NHS settles claim of patients treated with LSD

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• In brief

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• Blair warns of tax increases to pay for NHS

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• US encourages flu jabs for infants aged under 2

  BMJ 2002; 324 :502 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Embryo cell research should continue, committee says

  BMJ 2002; 324 :503 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Watchdog approves embryo selection to treat 3 year old child

  BMJ 2002; 324 :503 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Bush moves to tighten security around scientific research

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• US issues new guidelines as mammography debate continues

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• First cases of type 2 diabetes found in white UK teenagers

  BMJ 2002; 324 :506 (Published 02 March 2002)

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Clinical Reviews

• Renal transplantation

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• Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block

  BMJ 2002; 324 :535 (Published 02 March 2002)

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis

  BMJ 2002; 324 :g (Published 02 March 2002)

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• “No star” NHS trust slated by CHI report

  BMJ 2002; 324 :504 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Women more likely than men to die after heart surgery

  BMJ 2002; 324 :504 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Private medical services in state hospitals in Israel to be shut down

  BMJ 2002; 324 :504 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Surgeon criticised for performing kidney operation using living donor

  BMJ 2002; 324 :504 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Netherlands to run trials of marijuana in patients with multiple sclerosis

  BMJ 2002; 324 :504 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Judge criticises expert witness for misrepresenting research findings

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• India faces drug resistant leishmaniasis

  BMJ 2002; 324 :505 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• More clinics for younger people needed to reduce sex infections

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Papers

• Costs and benefits of a one stop clinic compared with a dedicated breast clinic: randomised controlled trialCommentary: one stop clinics should not be abandoned

  BMJ 2002; 324 :507 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Ethnic differences in invasive management of coronary disease: prospective cohort study of patients undergoing angiography

  BMJ 2002; 324 :511 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Eliciting views of patients with head and neck cancer and carers on professionally derived standards for careCommentary: Patients' involvement in their treatment matters

  BMJ 2002; 324 :516 (Published 02 March 2002)

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Primary care

• Use of ultramolecular potencies of allergen to treat asthmatic people allergic to house dust mite: double blind randomised controlled clinical trial

  BMJ 2002; 324 :520 (Published 02 March 2002)

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Information in practice

• A comparative case study of two models of a clinical informaticist service

  BMJ 2002; 324 :524 (Published 02 March 2002)

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Education and debate

• The architecture of diagnostic research

  BMJ 2002; 324 :539 (Published 02 March 2002)

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Film

• The curious adoption of John Q

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PUBLISHING

• A doctor's guide to Dr Foster

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Nosing around:

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Personal View

• Prosecution or persecution?

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Soundings

• Bad smells are good

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Fillers

• Cleanliness and godliness

  BMJ 2002; 324 :516 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• What's possible

  BMJ 2002; 324 :520 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• Never say, “never” again

  BMJ 2002; 324 :529 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• My important surgical appliance

  BMJ 2002; 324 :534 (Published 02 March 2002)

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• A new statue to Pasteur

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Obituaries

• Donald William Gould

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• James Robert Clark

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• Edward Beresford Davies

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• Margaret Joan Fingland (née Croall)

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• Ann Annam Herrick (née Ponnudarai)

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• Michael Gerard McEntegart

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• Harry Stafford Morton

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• Rani Rajasekaran

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• John Baynes Searle

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• William Simpson

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• Frances Sorrell

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