09 November 2002(vol 325, issue 7372)

This Week In the BMJ

• Coping style doesn't affect outcome in people with cancer

  BMJ 2002; 325 :a (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Therapeutic window for anticoagulation is narrow

  BMJ 2002; 325 :d (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Mental health interventions may help patients with somatic conditions

  BMJ 2002; 325 :e (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Nepalese women need educating about care of newborns

  BMJ 2002; 325 :b (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Risks to longevity begin early in life

  BMJ 2002; 325 :f (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of cardiac arrest

  BMJ 2002; 325 :c (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Zinc treatment for diarrhoea reduces child deaths

  BMJ 2002; 325 :0 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Editorials

• Take back your mink, take back your pearls

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1047 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Treatments for sleep problems in elderly people

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1049 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Primary prevention of sudden cardiac death using implantable cardioverter defibrillators

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1050 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Bisphosphonates as adjuvant treatment for breast cancer

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1051 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Letters

• Suturing v conservative management of hand lacerations

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1113 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Risk factor thresholds

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1114 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Most patients depressed by cancer do not need drugs

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1115 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Management of infertility: one stop clinic may offer solution

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1116 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Collaboration is key to preventing syphilis

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1116 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Are inactivation procedures for blood products good or bad?

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1116 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Weber's test demystified

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1117 (Published 09 November 2002)

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News

• Milburn refuses to renegotiate consultants' contract

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1053 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Doctors open talks with Scottish Executive after voting “yes”

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1053 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1054 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Heart failure falling in women but not in men

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1054 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Police find no evidence of forgery by accused paediatricians

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1054 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• US doctors and public disagree over mandatory reporting of errors

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1055 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Inquiry into handling of CJD alert welcomed

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1055 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• White couple can keep mixed race twins after IVF blunder

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1055 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Patients are more satisfied with care from doctors of same race

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1057 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• EU clamps down on reimportation of cheap drugs meant for Africa

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1058 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• BMA steps up call for ban on smoking in public places

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1058 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Clinical Reviews

• Hotspots in climate change and human health

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1094 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Haemophilus influenzae type b epiglottitis as a cause of acute upper airways obstruction in children

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1099 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Antithrombotic therapy in peripheral vascular disease

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1101 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1122 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Editor's Choice

• Think before condemning

  BMJ 2002; 325 :g (Published 09 November 2002)

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Scientists unveil the next step in the human genome project

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1056 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Climate change conference ends in recrimination

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1056 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• New exhibition combines art and science

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1056 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Patients should be sent copies of doctors' letters about them

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1056 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Mental health staff are anxious after murder of psychiatrist

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1056 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Transplanted organs from women more likely to be rejected

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1057 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Children in the Gaza Strip suffer malnutrition

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1057 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• NICE recommends greater use of thrombolytics in acute myocardial infarction

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1057 (Published 09 November 2002)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Canadians need to spend $C5bn more a year on health care

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1058 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Italy cracks down on its drugs bill

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1058 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• GMC guidelines will double ENT consultation times

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1058 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• US government cannot revoke licences of doctors who recommend marijuana

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1058 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Bus passes could be causing contact dermatitis

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1058 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Papers

• Effect of zinc supplementation started during diarrhoea on morbidity and mortality in Bangladeshi children: community randomised trial

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1059 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• What does zinc do?

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1062 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Cross sectional, community based study of care of newborn infants in Nepal

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1063 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Influence of psychological coping on survival and recurrence in people with cancer: systematic review

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1066 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Cardiac arrest and ventricular arrhythmia in patients taking antipsychotic drugs: cohort study using administrative data

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1070 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Oral anticoagulation and risk of death: a medical record linkage study

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1073 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Mortality in adults aged 26-54 years related to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood: post war birth cohort study

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1076 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Observational study of 353 applications to London multicentre research ethics committee 1997-2000

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1081 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Primary care

• Systematic review of mental health interventions for patients with common somatic symptoms: can research evidence from secondary care be extrapolated to primary care?

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1082 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Information in practice

• Why general practitioners use computers and hospital doctors do not—Part 1: incentives

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1086 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Why general practitioners use computers and hospital doctors do not—Part 2: scalability

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1090 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Education and debate

• Effects of war: moral knowledge, revenge, reconciliation, and medicalised concepts of “recovery”

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1105 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Have the latest reforms reversed WHO's decline?

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1107 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Film

• 28 Days Later

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1119 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Book

• Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1119 (Published 09 November 2002)

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PRESS

• The consultant contract

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1120 (Published 09 November 2002)

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Coping with cancer

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1120 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Personal View

• Families need more information about postmortem examinations

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1121 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Soundings

• Strategic, at a pan-Auchendreich level

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1121 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Fillers

• Arthroscopy is not effective for the treatment of osteoarthritis

  BMJ 2002; 325 :h (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Only Ten Commandments

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1066 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Less than a hair's breadth away

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1070 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• A crucial examination

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1075 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Submitting articles to the BMJ

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1076 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Forever young

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1082 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Persian advice

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1090 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• The final temptation

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1094 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Strangers in the night

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1104 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Family history

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1112 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Corrections

• UK senior doctors' career destinations, job satisfaction, and future intentions: questionnaire survey

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1089 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Dietary aflatoxin exposure and impaired growth in young children from Benin and Togo: cross sectional study

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1089 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Mental health campaigners cancel march because of fears of backlash

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1089 (Published 09 November 2002)

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Obituaries

• James Ivory

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1118 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Malcolm Downie McLean

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1118 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• John Douglas Rodger

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1118 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Michael Edwin Rope

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1118 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• John Stevenson

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1118 (Published 09 November 2002)

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• Eileen Mary Whapham

  BMJ 2002; 325 :1118 (Published 09 November 2002)

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