09 March 2002(vol 324, issue 7337)

This Week In the BMJ

• Consumers should be encouraged to search critically

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• Apparently credible websites may be inaccurate

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• Internet law is muddling along

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• Unvalidated tools to rate web health information are proliferating

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• People at risk of cervical cord injury are often not immobilised

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• Popular breast cancer websites not necessarily of higher quality

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• Improving public safety in primary care

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• Quality of health information on the internet has improved

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• Microdialysis has wide applicability for in vivo measurements

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• Internet users say and do different things about quality

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Editorials

• From patients to end users

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• Against internet exceptionalism

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• The quality of health information on the internet

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• NHS Direct audited

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• Three new initiatives involving bmj.com

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Letters

• Effectiveness of smoking cessation initiatives

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• Commentary: Iloprost for cholesterol emboli syndrome

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• Deaths from chickenpox

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• Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease

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• Advances in virtual reality are wide ranging

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• News article on report about drug researcher was biased

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• Dysphagia

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• Psychiatrists' perspective is insufficient to root out racism

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• Management of Helicobacter pylori infection

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• Clinical databases can complement controlled trials

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• Hospital revises its own data in government league table

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• Death rates of surgeons should not be published

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News

• Claim launched against makers of third generation pill

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• Aspirin before a clot busting drug is more effective than after

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• In brief

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• United Kingdom grants first human embryo research licences

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• Veterans sue Ministry of Defence over post-traumatic stress disorder

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• Drugs industry urged to develop medicines for children

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• Overseas talent can help us build a better NHS, says Magdi Yacoub

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• “Buyer beware” remains US policy towards information on the net

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• WHO calls for a health domain name to help consumers

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• UK government aims to integrate health information on the internet

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• European Commission to publish a code of practice for websites

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• Barcelona medical college runs certification system for websites

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• Trust mark launched as a guarantee of safety in the Netherlands

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• NHS Direct Online explores partnerships with other health organisations

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Clinical Reviews

• Microdialysis

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• Immobilisation of the cervical spine in children

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• Atrial arrhythmias

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• The invention of talk

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Health authority employing HIV positive dentist wins anonymity

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• Doctors successfully screen embryos for gene mutation linked to early onset Alzheimer's

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• Report recommends tougher safeguards for children in NHS

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• Help the Aged accuses NHS of discrimination

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• Five million deaths despite royal college's warning 40 years ago

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• BMA suggests nurses could become gatekeepers of the NHS

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• Use of homeopathy in NHS not justified

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• German women to receive quality controlled breast screening

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• German health ministry forum monitors quality of health information

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• Websites should specify level of evidence for information they publish, report says

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Papers

• Examination of instruments used to rate quality of health information on the internet: chronicle of a voyage with an unclear destination

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• How do consumers search for and appraise health information on the world wide web? Qualitative study using focus groups, usability tests, and in-depth interviews

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• Breast cancer on the world wide web: cross sectional survey of quality of information and popularity of websites

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• Accuracy of information on apparently credible websites: survey of five common health topics

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• Follow up of quality of public oriented health information on the world wide web: systematic re-evaluation

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Primary care

• Enhancing public safety in primary care

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Education and debate

• How to find the good and avoid the bad or ugly: a short guide to tools for rating quality of health information on the internetCommentary: On the way to quality

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• Regulating health information: a US perspectiveCommentary: Legal aspects of health on the internet: a European perspective

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• Validating scales and indexes

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Books

• Medicine and the Internet: The Essential Guide for Doctors

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• The Patient's Internet Handbook

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• The Regulation of Privacy and Data Protection in the Use of Electronic Health Information

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NETLINES

• Netlines

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EXHIBITION

• Dots and dashes; zeros and ones: The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet

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Personal View

• A day in the life of a stalker's victim

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Soundings

• The basics

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Fillers

• An escalating problem

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• Medicine by numbers

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• Communication in the doctor-patient relationship

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• We cannot eat money

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• Honour a physician with the honour due unto him

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Obituaries

• Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor

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• Paula Cienska

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• Guy Nicholson Constable

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• Allen John Hughes

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• Aftab Hussain

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• John Cuthbertson Jeffrey

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• Herbert Kaye

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• Ekkehard Von Kuenssberg

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• Eva Martin-Bates

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• Philip John Simpson

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• Norman Vincent Williams

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• Helen Elizabeth Young (née Dunn)

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