bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 01 March 2003

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Editor's Choice

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AIDS in Africa

This Week in the BMJ

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Vitamin D three times a year can prevent fractures

Is adjusted indirect comparison valid?

Changing partners reduces risk of prolonged pregnancy

Integrated cardiac rehabilitation service meets NSF targets

AIDS in South Africa is more than polemics

Telephone consultations for review of asthma improve access

Editorials

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New contract for general practitioners

Paul Shekelle

BMJ 2003;326 457-458

Management of people who have been raped

Jantje Wilken and Jan Welch

BMJ 2003;326 458-459

Arms sales, health, and security

Lawrence Korb

BMJ 2003;326 459-460

Mobile phones in hospitals

Saul G Myerson and Andrew R J Mitchell

BMJ 2003;326 460-461

Fetal surgery

Diana Farmer

BMJ 2003;326 461-462

News

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AIDS vaccine may offer hope only for some ethnic groups

Industry group created bogus websites to hijack browsers

In brief

Combined aspirin and clopidogrel treatment improves outcomes, study finds

Ephedra supplement may have contributed to sportsman's death

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

No deal in sight on cheap drugs for poor countries

Surgeon who alleged constructive dismissal over bullying loses case

Scientist or showman?

News roundup

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Health authorities face big payouts after ombudsman’s ruling

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

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

film

UK government’s epilepsy action plan "fundamentally flawed"

Millions more at risk of arsenic poisoning than previously thought

Women too busy to exercise

Ban direct to consumer advertising, report recommends

Streamlined training for junior doctors is set for 2004

News Extra

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Rich countries pledge to help poor nations fight tobacco

United States limits resident physicians to 80 hour working week

Commissions start review of service framework for coronary heart disease

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

weapon test veterans

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

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

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

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

reviews

Phil Alderson and Iain Chalmers

BMJ 2003;326 475

Risk of recurrence of prolonged pregnancy

Annette Wind Olesen, Olga Basso, and Jorn Olsen

BMJ 2003;326 476

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

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

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

Clinical Review

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Age related macular degeneration

Amresh Chopdar, Usha Chakravarthy, and Dinesh Verma

BMJ 2003;326 485-488

Lesson of the week: Bilateral renovascular disease causing cardiorenal

failure

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

BMJ 2003;326 489-491

ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Teaching small groups

David Jaques

BMJ 2003;326 492-494

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

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

Death risk other than from suicide is raised in self harm

Cameron Stark, David Hall, and Anthony Pelosi

BMJ 2003;326 499

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

Regulatory bodies can root out corruption

Francis J Morrissey

BMJ 2003;326 501

Mortality from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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

BMJ 2003;326 501

Managing acute renal colic

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

BMJ 2003;326 502

Establish reason why purulent rhinitis is persistent first

Peter J Robb

BMJ 2003;326 502

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

Joseph Ana

BMJ 2003;326 502

Obituaries

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Emanuel M Papper

Alfred Finlay Brown

Edmund Henry Hemsted

Donald Longson

Evelyn Morag MacDonald

John Niall Meredydd Parry

Robert Heywood Seville

Patricia Mary Tate (nee Tomlins)

Sir Douglas Black

Reviews

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Art: Unknown Quantity

Deborah Cohen

BMJ 2003;326 505

TV: Horizon: Trial and Error

Alastair Kent

BMJ 2003;326 506

Website of the week: Gene therapy

Birte Twisselmann

BMJ 2003;326 506

Personal Views:

The population trap

Imre Loefler

BMJ 2003;326 507

Soundings:

Speech that irritates

George Dunea

BMJ 2003;326 507

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: Physical therapy is probably effective for patellofemoral pain

One hundred years ago: Doctors in British fiction

When I use a word: Dropsy

Submitting articles to the BMJ

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

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

sectional survey

Distinguishing between salt poisoning and hypernatraemic dehydration in

children

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326 65

Who should pay for higher education?

Graeme Catto

BMJ 2003;326 65

It's only money

Peter Cross

BMJ 2003;326 67

TIPS ON...: Organising a reunion

Alastair M Hull and Fiona S Morrison

BMJ 2003;326 68

Profile: James Jobanputra

Sabina Dosani

BMJ 2003;326 69

The way I see it: Medical French is an asset

Andrew Leitch

BMJ 2003;326 70

TIPS ON...: Getting ahead

Mark Griffiths

BMJ 2003;326 70

Soap opera: Episode 13: The return of CHI

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2003;326 71

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