bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 22 February 2003

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Editor's Choice

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What are journals good at?

This Week in the BMJ

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Ottawa ankle rules effectively exclude fractures

Viagra swells diagnosis rates for erectile dysfunction

Too much coffee during pregnancy risks stillbirth

Women with diabetes should avoid HRT

Teacher doesn't know best

Epistaxis: not to be overlooked in bleeding in cirrhosis

Editorials

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Ottawa ankle rules for the injured ankle

John Heyworth

BMJ 2003;326 405-406

Should psychiatrists protect the public?

Jeremy Coid and Tony Maden

BMJ 2003;326 406-407

Patients choosing their hospital

John Appleby, Anthony Harrison, and Steve Dewar

BMJ 2003;326 407-408

Fewer new drugs from the pharmaceutical industry

David Taylor

BMJ 2003;326 408-409

Zinc deficiency

Ananda S Prasad

BMJ 2003;326 409-410

News

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Editors call for responsibility in publishing "dangerous" research

GMC may be open to accusations of racial bias

In brief

WHO accused of watering down tobacco treaty

NICE to start assessing diagnostic and treatment procedures

Anti-Glaxo campaign heats up in United States

Italian police investigate GSK Italy for bribery

ACE inhibitors are better first choice than diuretics for elderly patients, study says

Pneumonia causes panic in Guangdong province

New Yorkers are given details on doctors' volume of work

News roundup

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Junior doctor is cleared of manslaughter after feeding tube error

WHO faces funding controversy over new food fund

Health community joins anti war march in London

AIDS vaccine trial begins in Uganda

Dutch health service is asked to draw up smallpox contingency plans

EU parliament calls for tougher rules on breast implants

US court rules that insane prisoners can be executed

Privy Council again overturns GMC ruling

News Extra

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Top scientist warns of "sickness" in US health system

Heart disease prevention should not be left to professionals

Society should accept that euthanasia is a "personal decision," report says

New method for naming genetic diseases is proposed

Milburn accused of trying to minimise effect of Audit Commission report

Welsh patients are having to wait longer than English patients for surgery

Whistle blowing consultant suspended again

Papers

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Accuracy of Ottawa ankle rules to exclude fractures of the ankle and

mid-foot: systematic review

Lucas M Bachmann, Esther Kolb, Michael T Koller, Johann Steurer, and

Gerben ter Riet

BMJ 2003;326 417

Maternal consumption of coffee during pregnancy and stillbirth and infant

death in first year of life: prospective study

Kirsten Wisborg, Ulrik Kesmodel, Bodil Hammer Bech, Morten Hedegaard,

and Tine Brink Henriksen

BMJ 2003;326 420

Longitudinal study of childhood wheezy bronchitis and asthma: outcome at

age 42

Elisabeth Horak, Anna Lanigan, Mary Roberts, Liam Welsh, John Wilson,

John B Carlin, Anthony Olinsky, and Colin F Robertson

BMJ 2003;326 422-423

Spontaneous loss of early pregnancy and risk of ischaemic heart disease in

later life: retrospective cohort study

Gordon C S Smith, Jill P Pell, and David Walsh

BMJ 2003;326 423-424

Incidence of erectile dysfunction and characteristics of patients before

and after the introduction of sildenafil in the United Kingdom: cross

sectional study with comparison patients

James A Kaye and Hershel Jick

BMJ 2003;326 424-425

Primary care

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Relation between hormone replacement therapy and ischaemic heart disease in

women: prospective observational study

E Lokkegaard, A T Pedersen, B L Heitmann, Z Jovanovic, N Keiding, Y A

Hundrup, E B Obel, and B Ottesen

BMJ 2003;326 426

Learning in practice

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Pilot study of the roles of personality, references, and personal

statements in relation to performance over the five years of a medical

degree * Commentary: How to derive causes from correlations in educational

studies

Eamonn Ferguson, David James, Fiona O'Hehir, Andrea Sanders, and I C

McManus

BMJ 2003;326 429-432

Clinical Review

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Investigation and management of chronic dysphagia

Paula Leslie, Paul N Carding, and Janet A Wilson

BMJ 2003;326 433-436

ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Teaching large groups

Peter Cantillon

BMJ 2003;326 437

Lesson of the week: Epistaxis: an overlooked cause of massive haematemesis

in cirrhosis

Shawinder S Johal, Andrew S Austin, and Stephen D Ryder

BMJ 2003;326 440-441

Education and Debate

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Strategies for preventing heroin overdose

Karl A Sporer

BMJ 2003;326 442-444

Letters

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New BMJ policy on economic evaluations

Dawn Craig, John Nixon, Nigel Armstrong, Julie Glanville, Jos

Kleijnen, Michael Drummond, Tracy Roberts, Alastair M Gray, Andrew

Briggs, Philip Clarke, Charles Normand, Christopher J McCabe, Jennifer

Roberts, and Richard Smith

BMJ 2003;326 445

Self help smoking cessation in pregnancy

Jean-Francois Etter, Tracey A Battersby, Lisa Fendall, and Carole

Pougher

BMJ 2003;326 446

WHO advocates investment in global infrastructure for outbreaks such as

smallpox

Cathy E Roth, Patrick Drury, Roberta Andraghetti, Ray R Arthur,

Michael J Ryan, and Guenael Rodier

BMJ 2003;326 447

Polyspecific snake antivenom may help in antivenom crisis

G D Laing, R A Harrison, R D G Theakston, J M Renjifo, A Nasidi, J M

Gutierrez, and D A Warrell

BMJ 2003;326 447

Randomised controlled trial for twin delivery

Jon F R Barrett

BMJ 2003;326 448

Thrombolysis with recombinant streptokinase in Cuba

Pedro A Lopez-Saura

BMJ 2003;326 448

Checklists for myocardial infarction should be precise

G Alastair Cooke

BMJ 2003;326 448

Copying letters to patients

Graham K Murray, Harpal Nandhra, Nigel Hymas, Neil Hunt, and Suzy

Chapman

BMJ 2003;326 449

Employing users who turn back into patients is difficult

Anna Knight

BMJ 2003;326 449

Obituaries

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Soromini Kallichurum

Rupert Jackson

Koloman Kropach

Alasdair Burnett Matheson

Isobel Jean McLarty

Thomas Ariba Ogada

John Jackson Pollock

Desmond Smith

Mary Marguerite ("Peggy") Szekely (nee Lynch)

Reviews

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Book: When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the

Battle Against Pollution

Bert Brunekreef

BMJ 2003;326 452

Book: Hansen's Disease: The Shared Paradigm

Diana N J Lockwood

BMJ 2003;326 452

Magazine: Magazine's HIV claim rekindles "gay plague" row

Ken Howard and Gavin Yamey

BMJ 2003;326 454

Theatre: Mr Placebo

Iain McClure

BMJ 2003;326 453

Website of the week: Personality types

Christopher Martyn

BMJ 2003;326 453

Hit parade BMJ 2003;326 453

Personal Views:

Alternative prescribing and negligence

David R Blake

BMJ 2003;326 455

Soundings:

Dying we live

Colin Douglas

BMJ 2003;326 455

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: Non-contrast computed tomography is preferable for evaluating

asymptomatic microhaematuria

Endpiece: Reality

Endpiece: Every knock

Corrections

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Drug points

Application of Framingham risk estimates to ethnic minorities in United

Kingdom and implications for primary prevention of heart disease in general

practice: cross sectional population based study

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326 57

How can we reduce the stigma of mental illness?

Jim Bolton

BMJ 2003;326 57

TIPS ON...: How to be successful in your job

Mark Griffiths

BMJ 2003;326 59

Disclosing personal health information: Daniella's dilemma

Sam Flynn and Anne Rossiter

BMJ 2003;326 60

Top doc

Karen Hebert

BMJ 2003;326 62

Soap opera: Episode 12: Two medical meetings

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2003;326 63

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