bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 15 February 2003

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Editor's Choice

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In praise of dissent

This Week in the BMJ

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Stomach bugs kill more than estimated

People die differently in different settings

Simple signs predict children's deaths in African hospitals

Patients want their consent sought for use of personal information

Large general practices may not deliver better care

Editorials

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Congestion charging and the walking classes

Ian Roberts

BMJ 2003;326 345-346

New guidelines on the management of asthma

P John Rees

BMJ 2003;326 346-347

Safety and efficacy of interventional procedures

Bruce Campbell and Guy Maddern

BMJ 2003;326 347-348

Not to be taken as directed

Marshall Marinker and Joanne Shaw

BMJ 2003;326 348-349

Sudden death in the shadows of epilepsy

Edward Reynolds

BMJ 2003;326 349-350

News

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US seniors group attacks pharmaceutical industry "fronts"

United Kingdom finally bans tobacco advertising

In brief

Lack of care homes blamed for delays in discharge of old people

GMC suspends doctor for research fraud

US given more time to consider cheap drugs deal for poor nations

Structure of the NHS mirrors feudal society

Rate of misdiagnosis of childhood epilepsy "may not be unusual"

Plans for foundation trusts could spark pay spiral

Wellcome Trust announces new award scheme

Threat of war is affecting mental health of Iraqi children, says report

News roundup

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Creationists accuse biology professor of discrimination

Commission plans new controls on supply of genetic tests to the public

Medical Research Council and BMJ sponsor new photographic awards

Task force says US academic health centres need major changes

India launches massive polio vaccine programme

Initiative will fast-track vaccine for childhood diarrhoea in developing

world

Women fail to recognise risk of heart disease

Being a caring doctor may be bad for you

Age discrimination difficult to identify, says King’s Fund guide

News Extra

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Consultants call for extra money to be spent on discretionary salary points

Report advocates moving NHS to insurance based system

Canadian Medical Association tightens control over its journal

Papers

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Short and long term mortality associated with foodborne bacterial

gastrointestinal infections: registry based study * Commentary: matched

cohorts can be useful

Morten Helms, Pernille Vastrup, Peter Gerner-Smidt, Kare Molbak, and

Stephen Evans

BMJ 2003;326 357

Prognostic indicators of early and late death in children admitted to

district hospital in Kenya: cohort study

J A Berkley, A Ross, I Mwangi, F H A Osier, M Mohammed, M Shebbe, B S

Lowe, K Marsh, and C R J C Newton

BMJ 2003;326 361

Cross sectional survey of meningococcal C immunisation in children looked

after by local authorities and those living at home

Catherine M Hill, Mary Mather, and Jonathan Goddard

BMJ 2003;326 364-365

Herd immunity from meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccination in

England: database analysis

Mary E Ramsay, Nick J Andrews, Caroline L Trotter, Edward B

Kaczmarski, and Elizabeth Miller

BMJ 2003;326 365-366

Effect of public education aimed at early diagnosis of malignant melanoma:

cohort comparison study

Rona M MacKie, Caroline A Bray, and Joyce A Leman

BMJ 2003;326 367

Primary care

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Dying from cancer in developed and developing countries: lessons from two

qualitative interview studies of patients and their carers

Scott A Murray, Elizabeth Grant, Angus Grant, and Marilyn Kendall

BMJ 2003;326 368

Association between practice size and quality of care of patients with

ischaemic heart disease: cross sectional study

Azeem Majeed, Jeremy Gray, Gareth Ambler, Kevin Carroll, and Andrew B

Bindman

BMJ 2003;326 371-372

Information in Practice

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Patients' consent preferences for research uses of information in

electronic medical records: interview and survey data

Donald J Willison, Karim Keshavjee, Kalpana Nair, Charlie Goldsmith,

and Anne M Holbrook

BMJ 2003;326 373

Clinical Review

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Leishmaniasis: new approaches to disease control

Clive R Davies, Paul Kaye, Simon L Croft, and Shyam Sundar

BMJ 2003;326 377-382

Lesson of the week: Fatal dysnatraemia caused by elective colonoscopy

J Carlos Ayus, Robert Levine, and Allen I Arieff

BMJ 2003;326 382-384

ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Evaluation

Jill Morrison

BMJ 2003;326 385-387

Education and Debate

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Problems with UK government's risk sharing scheme for assessing drugs for

multiple sclerosis

Cathie L M Sudlow and Carl E Counsell

BMJ 2003;326 388-392

Letters

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Indiscriminate investigations have adverse effects

Julian H Barth and Richard G Jones

BMJ 2003;326 393

Simple presentation of test accuracy may lead to inflated disease

probabilities

Lucas M Bachmann, Johann Steurer, and Gerben ter Riet

BMJ 2003;326 393

Effect of computerised evidence based guidelines

Jon D Emery, Ian N Purves, Robin Beaumont, Tom Fahey, Liz Mitchell,

Frank Sullivan, Alan Montgomery, Peter Gregor, Jacobus T van Wyk,

Peter W Moorman, Marc A M van Wijk, Martin P Eccles, Elaine McColl,

Nick Steen, Nikki Rousseau, Jeremy Grimshaw, and David Parkin

BMJ 2003;326 394

Novartis was not in breach of code for "inventing" disease

Heather Simmonds

BMJ 2003;326 396

Assortative mating may explain spouses' risk of same disease

Gonneke Willemsen, Jacqueline M Vink, and Dorret I Boomsma

BMJ 2003;326 396

Drug misuse should always be considered in young people with impaired

consciousness

Kim Whelan, Alison Jones, and Paul Dargan

BMJ 2003;326 396

Unit of analysis errors should be clarified in meta-analyses

Ruth E Thomas, Craig R Ramsay, Laura McAuley, and Jeremy M Grimshaw

BMJ 2003;326 397

GPs can separate oncological wheat from chaff

William T Hamilton, Alison P Round, Deborah Sharp, and Tim Peters

BMJ 2003;326 397

Look before you flush

Mourad Ibrahim Habib

BMJ 2003;326 397

Obituaries

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Ronald Black

Basil George Bagot Christie

Phyllis Mary Edwards

Arthur Swindale ("Stubbs") Hughes

Lynne Jacob

Alexander Mavor Knox

Peter Lomax

Ronald Crum MacLeod

Archibald Mckenzie McGregor

Byomkes ("Sona") Mitra

Joan Gladys Harcourt Norris

Bernard Joseph Peck

David Graham Sargant

Sam Pullar Smith

Reviews

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Book: Heroin Century * Heroin Addiction Care and Control: The British

System 1916-1984

Wayne Hall

BMJ 2003;326 400

Book: A History of Scottish Medicine

Lawrence Weaver

BMJ 2003;326 401

Book: Enterprising Women: The Garretts and their Circle

Irene M Peat

BMJ 2003;326 401

TV: Cot Death Mothers: The Witch Hunt

Richard Wilson

BMJ 2003;326 402

Website of the week: Traffic congestion

Trevor Jackson

BMJ 2003;326 402

Personal Views:

Life as a medical secretary---a new learning experience for the aspiring

consultant

Jonny Alis and Mitch Blair

BMJ 2003;326 403

Soundings:

Busted

Liam Farrell

BMJ 2003;326 403

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: HRT and antioxidant vitamins increase the risk of cardiovascular

disease

Submitting articles to the BMJ

One hundred years ago: The war against quackery in Germany

My most unfortunate mistake: Courtesy towards NHS staff is a must

Forthcoming BMJ theme issues (provisional dates and titles)

My most unfortunate mistake: Sociable medicine

When I use a word: Wholly, holy, holey

Corrections

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Open letter to Tony Blair: Call to prevent escalating violence

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326 49

How to negotiate effectively

Philip S Crockett and Alastair M Hull

BMJ 2003;326 49

Spiritual intelligence

Brian McMullen

BMJ 2003;326 51

The doctor who influenced me most: David Firth on Digby Tantam

Peter Cross

BMJ 2003;326 52

The cycling GP

John Green

BMJ 2003;326 53

Profile: Never say never

Clare Hughes

BMJ 2003;326 54

Soap opera: Episode 11: A nice meal out with the Millstones?

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2003;326 55

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