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This issue's table of contents:

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Editor's Choice

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AIDS in Africa

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/0/f?etoc

 

This Week in the BMJ

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Vitamin D three times a year can prevent fractures

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/0?etoc

Is adjusted indirect comparison valid?

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/0/a?etoc

Changing partners reduces risk of prolonged pregnancy

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/0/b?etoc

Integrated cardiac rehabilitation service meets NSF targets

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/0/c?etoc

AIDS in South Africa is more than polemics

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/0/d?etoc

Telephone consultations for review of asthma improve access

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/0/e?etoc

Editorials

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New contract for general practitioners

Paul Shekelle

BMJ 2003;326 457-458

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/457?etoc

Management of people who have been raped

Jantje Wilken and Jan Welch

BMJ 2003;326 458-459

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/458?etoc

Arms sales, health, and security

Lawrence Korb

BMJ 2003;326 459-460

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/459?etoc

Mobile phones in hospitals

Saul G Myerson and Andrew R J Mitchell

BMJ 2003;326 460-461

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/460?etoc

Fetal surgery

Diana Farmer

BMJ 2003;326 461-462

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/461?etoc

News

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AIDS vaccine may offer hope only for some ethnic groups

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/463?etoc

Industry group created bogus websites to hijack browsers

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/463/a?etoc

In brief

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/464?etoc

Combined aspirin and clopidogrel treatment improves outcomes, study finds

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/464/a?etoc

Ephedra supplement may have contributed to sportsman's death

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/464/b?etoc

GPs to get rises of 10-50% over three years

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/465?etoc

No deal in sight on cheap drugs for poor countries

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/465/a?etoc

Surgeon who alleged constructive dismissal over bullying loses case

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/467/c?etoc

Scientist or showman?

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/468?etoc

News roundup

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Health authorities face big payouts after ombudsman’s ruling

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/466?etoc

Spread of AIDS in Africa driven by poor medical practice, report says

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/466/a?etoc

Children with Tourette's syndrome given special showing of Harry Potter

film

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/466/b?etoc

UK government’s epilepsy action plan "fundamentally flawed"

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/466/c?etoc

Millions more at risk of arsenic poisoning than previously thought

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/466/d?etoc

Women too busy to exercise

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/467?etoc

Ban direct to consumer advertising, report recommends

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/467/a?etoc

Streamlined training for junior doctors is set for 2004

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/467/b?etoc

News Extra

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Rich countries pledge to help poor nations fight tobacco

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/468/a?etoc

United States limits resident physicians to 80 hour working week

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/468/b?etoc

Commissions start review of service framework for coronary heart disease

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/468/c?etoc

Long term study shows no increase in mortality or cancer in UK nuclear

weapon test veterans

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/468/d?etoc

Digoxin levels should be kept to a minimum in men with heart failure

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/468/e?etoc

Papers

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Effect of four monthly oral vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) supplementation on fractures and mortality in men and women living in the community:

randomised double blind controlled trial

Daksha P Trivedi, Richard Doll, and Kay Tee Khaw

BMJ 2003;326 469

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7387/469?etoc

Validity of indirect comparison for estimating efficacy of competing

interventions: empirical evidence from published meta-analyses

Fujian Song, Douglas G Altman, Anne-Marie Glenny, and Jonathan J Deeks

BMJ 2003;326 472

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7387/472?etoc

Research pointers: Survey of claims of no effect in abstracts of Cochrane

reviews

Phil Alderson and Iain Chalmers

BMJ 2003;326 475

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/475?etoc

Risk of recurrence of prolonged pregnancy

Annette Wind Olesen, Olga Basso, and Jorn Olsen

BMJ 2003;326 476

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/476?etoc

Primary care

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Accessibility, acceptability, and effectiveness in primary care of routine

telephone review of asthma: pragmatic, randomised controlled trial

Hilary Pinnock, Robert Bawden, Stephen Proctor, Stephanie Wolfe, Jane

Scullion, David Price, and Aziz Sheikh

BMJ 2003;326 477-479

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7387/477?etoc

Near patient testing for influenza in children in primary care: comparison

with laboratory test

Anthony Harnden, Angela Brueggemann, Sasha Shepperd, Judy White,

Andrew C Hayward, Maria Zambon, Derrick Crook, and David Mant

BMJ 2003;326 480

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/480?etoc

Quality improvement report

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Achieving national service framework standards for cardiac rehabilitation

and secondary prevention

Hasnain M Dalal and Philip H Evans

BMJ 2003;326 481-484

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7387/481?etoc

 

 

 

 

 

Clinical Review

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Age related macular degeneration

Amresh Chopdar, Usha Chakravarthy, and Dinesh Verma

BMJ 2003;326 485-488

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/485?etoc

Lesson of the week: Bilateral renovascular disease causing cardiorenal

failure

Alison Brammah, Sue Robertson, Graeme Tait, and Chris Isles

BMJ 2003;326 489-491

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/489?etoc

ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Teaching small groups

David Jaques

BMJ 2003;326 492-494

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/492?etoc

Education and Debate

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The politics of AIDS in South Africa: beyond the controversies

Didier Fassin and Helen Schneider

BMJ 2003;326 495-497

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/495?etoc

Letters

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Media influence on suicide

Andy Howe, Vicci Owen-Smith, Judith Richardson, Rachel Hardyman,

Geraldine Leydon, Kathy P M Chan, Dominic T S Lee, Sing Lee, and Paul

S F Yip

BMJ 2003;326 498

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/498?etoc

Death risk other than from suicide is raised in self harm

Cameron Stark, David Hall, and Anthony Pelosi

BMJ 2003;326 499

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/499?etoc

Low dosage tricyclic antidepressants in depression

Hugh M Jones, Imad M Ali, Janet E Martin, Toshi A Furukawa, Corrado

Barbui, and Hugh McGuire

BMJ 2003;326 499

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/499/a?etoc

Regulatory bodies can root out corruption

Francis J Morrissey

BMJ 2003;326 501

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/501?etoc

Mortality from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Anthony J Howard, Mari Morgan, David N Looker, and Janice E Lessard

BMJ 2003;326 501

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/501/a?etoc

Managing acute renal colic

A Hindle, R Spedding, James P B O'Connor, and Philip M T Weston

BMJ 2003;326 502

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/502?etoc

Establish reason why purulent rhinitis is persistent first

Peter J Robb

BMJ 2003;326 502

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/502/a?etoc

G7 countries are not to blame for Africa's brain drain

Joseph Ana

BMJ 2003;326 502

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/502/b?etoc

Obituaries

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Emanuel M Papper

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/503?etoc

Alfred Finlay Brown

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/503/a?etoc

Edmund Henry Hemsted

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/503/b?etoc

Donald Longson

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/503/c?etoc

Evelyn Morag MacDonald

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/503/d?etoc

John Niall Meredydd Parry

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/503/e?etoc

Robert Heywood Seville

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/503/f?etoc

Patricia Mary Tate (nee Tomlins)

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/503/g?etoc

Sir Douglas Black

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/503/h?etoc

 

Reviews

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Art: Unknown Quantity

Deborah Cohen

BMJ 2003;326 505

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/505?etoc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TV: Horizon: Trial and Error

Alastair Kent

BMJ 2003;326 506

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/506?etoc

 

 

 

 

Website of the week: Gene therapy

Birte Twisselmann

BMJ 2003;326 506

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/506/a?etoc

 

 

Personal Views:

The population trap

Imre Loefler

BMJ 2003;326 507

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/507?etoc

Soundings:

Speech that irritates

George Dunea

BMJ 2003;326 507

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/507/a?etoc

 

Minerva

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http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/508

Fillers

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POEM: Physical therapy is probably effective for patellofemoral pain

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/0/g?etoc

One hundred years ago: Doctors in British fiction

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/481/a?etoc

When I use a word: Dropsy

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/491?etoc

Submitting articles to the BMJ

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/492/a?etoc

Corrections

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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

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/488?etoc

Doctors' use of electronic medical records systems in hospitals: cross

sectional survey

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/488/a?etoc

Distinguishing between salt poisoning and hypernatraemic dehydration in

children

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/497?etoc

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326 65

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/S65?etoc

Who should pay for higher education?

Graeme Catto

BMJ 2003;326 65

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/S65a?etoc

It's only money

Peter Cross

BMJ 2003;326 67

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/S67?etoc

TIPS ON...: Organising a reunion

Alastair M Hull and Fiona S Morrison

BMJ 2003;326 68

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/S68?etoc

Profile: James Jobanputra

Sabina Dosani

BMJ 2003;326 69

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/S69?etoc

The way I see it: Medical French is an asset

Andrew Leitch

BMJ 2003;326 70

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/S70?etoc

TIPS ON...: Getting ahead

Mark Griffiths

BMJ 2003;326 70

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/S70a?etoc

Soap opera: Episode 13: The return of CHI

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2003;326 71

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/S71?etoc

 

 

 

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