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bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 08 February 2003

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This issue's table of contents:

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Editor's Choice

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Protecting children

This Week in the BMJ

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High risk of HIV infection during remand in Thailand

Communication with seriously ill children is challenging

Decision support systems disrupt GPs' workflow

Cardiac troponin T is raised in severe pulmonary embolism

Competent in evidence based medicine? Take the Fresno test

TSH is a poor measure of severity of tissue hypothyroidism

Editorials

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Child protection---lessons from Victoria Climbie

David Hall

BMJ 2003;326 293-294

Medical experts and the criminal courts

Christopher M Milroy

BMJ 2003;326 294-295

Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism

Anthony D Toft and Geoffrey J Beckett

BMJ 2003;326 295-296

The prevention and treatment of jet lag

Andrew Herxheimer and Jim Waterhouse

BMJ 2003;326 296-297

Donating books and journals to less developed countries

Trish Groves, Sallie Nicholas, and John Hudson

BMJ 2003;326 298

News

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Bush criticised for not giving AIDS money to Global Fund

Researchers launch major initiative to hunt human cancer genes

In brief

Arkansas bans selling of clean urine to beat drug testing

"Weak" safety culture behind errors, says chief medical officer

Pharmaceutical industry is main influence in GP prescribing

Women still have difficulty getting local contraceptive advice

Doctors told to use positive language in managing pain

Trial shows that homoeopathic arnica is no better than placebo

Sally Clark freed after appeal court quashes her convictions

GP suspended for enrolling patients in drug trials without consent

News roundup

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Patient complaints procedure uncertain as health councils abolished

Consumers’ Association calls for better information for patients

Chocolate cigarettes "recruit" children to smoking

Sleep deprivation increases cardiac risk in women

Report says 100 Roma women have been forcibly sterilised in Slovakia

German doctors "work to rule" in protest at government plans

Dietary acrylamide may not cause cancer

Scotland breaks rank to offer compensation to hepatitis C victims

News Extra

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Doctors should be more aggressive in treating hypertension in diabetic

patients

Bush proposes Medicare reform in "state of the union" address

Belgium signs agreement to treat NHS patients

Israel to move more psychiatric services into the community

Papers

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Managing communication with young people who have a potentially life

threatening chronic illness: qualitative study of patients and parents

Bridget Young, Mary Dixon-Woods, Kate C Windridge, and David Heney

BMJ 2003;326 305

Risk of prevalent HIV infection associated with incarceration among

injecting drug users in Bangkok, Thailand: case-control study

Aumphornpun Buavirat, Kimberly Page-Shafer, G J P van Griensven, J S

Mandel, J Evans, J Chuaratanaphong, S Chiamwongpat, R Sacks, and A

Moss

BMJ 2003;326 308

Serum thyroid stimulating hormone in assessment of severity of tissue

hypothyroidism in patients with overt primary thyroid failure: cross

sectional survey

Christian Meier, Peter Trittibach, Merih Guglielmetti, Jean-Jacques

Staub, and Beat Muller

BMJ 2003;326 311-312

Cardiac troponin T in the severity assessment of patients with pulmonary

embolism: cohort study

Karin Janata, Michael Holzer, Anton N Laggner, and Marcus Mullner

BMJ 2003;326 312-313

Primary care

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Practice based, longitudinal, qualitative interview study of computerised

evidence based guidelines in primary care

Nikki Rousseau, Elaine McColl, John Newton, Jeremy Grimshaw, and

Martin Eccles

BMJ 2003;326 314

Learning in practice

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Validation of the Fresno test of competence in evidence based medicine

Kathleen D Ramos, Sean Schafer, and Susan M Tracz

BMJ 2003;326 319-321

Clinical Review

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Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy

Janice Rymer, Ruth Wilson, and Karen Ballard

BMJ 2003;326 322-326

Lesson of the week: Misdiagnosis of epilepsy in patients prescribed

anticonvulsant drugs for other reasons

M Oto, A J C Russell, A McGonigal, and R Duncan

BMJ 2003;326 326-327

ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Problem based learning

Diana F Wood

BMJ 2003;326 328-330

Education and Debate

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Prenatal diagnosis requests for Huntington's disease when the father is at

risk and does not want to know his genetic status: clinical, legal, and

ethical viewpoints

Ros Tassicker, Julian Savulescu, Loane Skene, Pam Marshall, Lara

Fitzgerald, and Martin B Delatycki

BMJ 2003;326 331-333

Letters

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Systematic review of celecoxib for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

Peter Juni, Rebekka Sterchi, Paul Dieppe, Scott Metcalfe, Sean

Dougherty, Wayne McNee, Jonathan J Deeks, Lesley A Smith, and Matthew

D Bradley

BMJ 2003;326 334

General practitioner screening for excessive alcohol use

Stephen Rollnick, Jim McCambridge, Francis Keaney, John Strang,

Stephen Rollnick, Robert Patton, and Robin Touquet

BMJ 2003;326 336

Antiretroviral therapy: new solutions bring new problems

Joanne L Atkins, Simon Eccles, and Peter E M Butler

BMJ 2003;326 337

Model for Bangalore helped disseminate information to doctors in India

C B Sridhar and Deena Suresh

BMJ 2003;326 337

Depressed patients need more than drugs and psychiatrists

Sharon J Williams

BMJ 2003;326 338

Host should also protect students on electives from HIV

Nigel R M Tai, Sue Nielson, and Ken Boffard

BMJ 2003;326 338

Disposal of remains of fetuses of under 24 weeks' gestation

R G Forster

BMJ 2003;326 338

Obituaries

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Arthur H Coleman

Geoffrey Neish Barker

Kathleen May Corbett

Keith Kenneth Eaton

Christopher Grahame Fagg

Joseph Finer

Nathaniel Hockman

Evan Osmond Leyshon Hoskins

Robert Vernon Holmes Jones

Reviews

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Book: Handhelds for Doctors

Andrew Harrison

BMJ 2003;326 341

Book: Science: A History 1543-2001

Sanjay A Pai

BMJ 2003;326 341

Press: Mystery of the imported plagues

Trevor Jackson

BMJ 2003;326 342

Website of the week: North American style

Jocalyn Clark

BMJ 2003;326 342

Personal Views:

The police should take the lead on protecting children from criminal abuse

David Southall, Martin Samuels, and John Bridson

BMJ 2003;326 343

Soundings:

Mornings

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2003;326 343

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: Uterine rupture is associated with a history of caesarean section,

even without labour

Endpiece: The art of surgery

A patient who changed my practice: Northern Ireland weather

Endpiece: What's a doctor?

Endpiece: Paper thin

Corrections

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Testing new pharmaceutical products in children

Involving patients can work in home blood glucose testing

Institutional corruption in medicine

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326 41

Surgical oncology

David A Rew

BMJ 2003;326 41

Obstetrics and gynaecology: where are we now?

Jane Ramsay

BMJ 2003;326 43

The doctor who influenced me most: Linda Cardozo on Bob Atlay

Peter Cross

BMJ 2003;326 44

Profile: Breast is best

Samena Chaudhry

BMJ 2003;326 45

The way I see it: Resensitisation: how working in general practice can make you human again

Trevor Yellon

BMJ 2003;326 46

TIPS ON...: Giving poster presentations

Mark Griffiths

BMJ 2003;326 46

Soap opera: Episode 10: Patients before paperwork

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2003;326 47

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