12 October 2002(vol 325, issue 7368)

This Week In the BMJ

• Patients are becoming more important as teachers in medical training

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• Parathyroidectomy doesn't cure renal stone disease

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• Blood pressure helps diagnose brain lesions

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• Child health professionals still believe in “teething”

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• Childhood circumstances linked to cardiovascular disease

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• Curtains with insecticide reduce rates of cutaneous leishmaniasis

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• Scales do not assess the risk of pressure ulcers

  BMJ 2002; 325 :0 (Published 12 October 2002)

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• Successful withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs can be predicted

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• Larger reserves of blood needed for ageing population

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Editorials

• Surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism

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• Medical school applications—a critical situation

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• Volume of procedures and outcome of treatment

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• Urinary stress incontinence

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• Your career: planning for the unexpected

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Letters

• Ethical market in organs

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• Diagnosing brain death

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• Adrenal insufficiency after treatment with fluticasone

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• Education on preventing HIV is paramount

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• September 11 might be shock treatment for addressing global health inequalities

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• Results of study on walk-in centres are only to be expected

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• More on doctors and pilots

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News

• Human genome pioneers are awarded Nobel prize

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• Rules on gene therapy are tightened after leukaemia alert

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• In brief

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• Genomes of the malaria mosquito and parasite are sequenced

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• Breast self examination does not improve cancer survival

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• Pregnancy and early smoking increases breast cancer risk

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• Selling a kidney fails to rescue Indians from poverty

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• Report demands better protection for people in research trials

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• Developed countries should not impose ethics on other countries

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Clinical Reviews

• Clinical reviewSquamous cell carcinomas of the head and neckCommentary: Head and neck carcinomas in the developing world

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• Bleeding risks of antithrombotic therapy

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Genes and ethics

  BMJ 2002; 325 :i (Published 12 October 2002)

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Cost price drugs for developing countries are found in Belgian pharmacies

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• Jury awards $28bn in punitive damages to former smoker

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• Cocaine use rises markedly among 16-29 year olds

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• College tells tobacco company to take its money elsewhere

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• BMA says world is ill prepared for bioterrorism

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• US health officials recommend offering smallpox vaccination to all

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• GMC opposes EU proposal to allow greater freedom of movement for doctors

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• US tackles drug company gifts to doctors

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Programme to discover how to reduce mortality among mothers is launched

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• Lump sums for children taking part in research may distort parents' judgment

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• Commission criticises trust that makes its patients eat supper at 4 30 pm

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Papers

• Prospective cohort study of routine use of risk assessment scales for prediction of pressure ulcers

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• Using vital signs to diagnose impaired consciousness: cross sectional observational study

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• Where does blood go? Prospective observational study of red cell transfusion in north England

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• Socioeconomic position in childhood and adulthood and insulin resistance: cross sectional survey using data from British women's heart and health study

  BMJ 2002; 325 :805 (Published 12 October 2002)

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• Risk of renal stone events in primary hyperparathyroidism before and after parathyroid surgery: controlled retrospective follow up study

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• Insecticide impregnated curtains to control domestic transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Venezuela: cluster randomised trial

  BMJ 2002; 325 :810 (Published 12 October 2002)

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• Teething symptoms: cross sectional survey of five groups of child health professionals

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Primary care

• Predictors of normotension on withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs in elderly patients: prospective study in second Australian national blood pressure study cohort

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Learning in practice

• Developing the role of patients as teachers: literature review

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Education and debate

• Evaluating complementary medicine: methodological challenges of randomised controlled trials

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Books

• Y: The Descent of Men

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• Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy

  BMJ 2002; 325 :841 (Published 12 October 2002)

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PRESS

• MS and sex link puts neurologist in hotseat

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NETLINES

• Netlines

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Personal View

• Is general practice really so bad?

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Soundings

• Night dive

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Fillers

• It works in every country

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• Erving Goffman revisited

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• Of middle years and white coats

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• The cycle of abuse goes on

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• Submitting articles to the BMJ

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Obituaries

• John Oliver Pearce Edgcumbe

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• Austin Gerard O'Malley

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• Charles Anthony Rushmer

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• Cyril Valentine Shanahan

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• Joseph Sharkey

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• William Marshall Walker

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• Peter Hansell

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