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bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 18 January 2003
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Editor's Choice
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Why WHO matters
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This Week in the BMJ
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Manufacturers violate breast milk substitutes code in west Africa
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/0?etocFolate and vitamin B-12 do not reduce cardiovascular mortality
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/0/a?etocBoys' births are more complicated than girls'
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/0/b?etocGPs believe their use of antibiotics for sore throat is appropriate
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/0/c?etocEvidence based education can't rely solely on RCTs
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/0/d?etocSalt poisoning and dehydration must be distinguished
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/0/e?etocEditorials
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Monitoring the marketing of infant formula feeds
Tony Waterston and James Tumwine
BMJ 2003;326 113-114
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/113?etocPreventing skin cancer
Alison Fry and Julia Verne
BMJ 2003;326 114-115
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/114?etocLevelling the playing field for regulation of nicotine
Ichiro Kawachi
BMJ 2003;326 115-116
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/115?etocDoctors and managers
Nigel Edwards and Martin Marshall
BMJ 2003;326 116-117
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/116?etocPreventing and treating tetanus
C L Thwaites and J J Farrar
BMJ 2003;326 117-118
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/117?etocNews
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Lack of new drugs is reaching crisis point, says review
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/119?etocMedicines Control Agency must be more open
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/119/a?etocIn brief
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/120?etocCompany launches campaign to "counter" BMJ claims
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/120/a?etocEnvironmentalist accused of scientific dishonesty
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/120/b?etocGovernment publishes strategy to improve diabetes care
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/121?etocNigerian immunisation programme sees results
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/121/a?etocWHO leadership contest: More resources should go into core funding
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/122?etocWHO leadership contest: WHO must help countries deal with non-communicable
diseases and mental health
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/122/a?etocWHO leadership contest: Partnerships with the drug industry would be
constructive
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/123?etocWHO leadership contest: Resources should be decentralised to countries
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/123/a?etocWHO leadership contest: Regions with a high disease burden should be
prioritised
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/124?etocWHO leadership contest: Comparing national health systems should continue
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/124/a?etocWHO leadership contest: WHO must strengthen partnerships at a global level
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/125?etocWHO leadership contest: WHO needs a global health alliance, which should be called the Mandela plan
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/125/a?etocNews roundup
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UK doctors warned after ricin poison found in police raid
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126?etocFDA insists that oestrogen products for menopause carry a warning
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126/a?etocPainting is earliest example of portrayal of Down’s syndrome
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126/b?etocIsrael considers paying people for donating a kidney
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126/c?etocIndia sets up a commission on macroeconomics and health
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126/d?etocNews Extra
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Canadian aboriginals in Vancouver face AIDS epidemic
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126/e?etocCommunity treatment is effective for drug resistant tuberculosis
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126/f?etocUS medical liability crisis spurs doctors’ walkouts and rallies
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126/g?etocTask force proposes changing body mass risk indicators for diabetes
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126/h?etocObesity in young blacks is linked to a 20 year reduction in life span
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/126/i?etocPapers
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Monitoring compliance with the International Code of Marketing of
Breastmilk Substitutes in west Africa: multisite cross sectional survey in
Togo and Burkina Faso
Victor M Aguayo, Jay S Ross, Souleyman Kanon, and Andre N Ouedraogo
BMJ 2003;326 127
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7381/127?etocFolate and vitamin B-12 and risk of fatal cardiovascular disease: cohort
study from Busselton, Western Australia
Joseph Hung, John P Beilby, Matthew W Knuiman, and Mark Divitini
BMJ 2003;326 131
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7381/131?etocImpact of changing diagnostic criteria on incidence, management, and
outcome of acute myocardial infarction: retrospective cohort study
J P Pell, E Simpson, J C Rodger, A Finlayson, D Clark, J Anderson, and
A C H Pell
BMJ 2003;326 134-135
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/134?etocDemographic and Health Surveys: caesarean section rates in sub-Saharan
Africa
Pierre Buekens, Sian Curtis, and Silvia Alayon
BMJ 2003;326 136
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/136?etocEffect of fetal sex on labour and delivery: retrospective review
Maeve A Eogan, Michael P Geary, Michael P O'Connell, and Declan P
Keane
BMJ 2003;326 137
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/137?etocPrimary care
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Why do general practitioners prescribe antibiotics for sore throat?
Grounded theory interview study
Satinder Kumar, Paul Little, and Nicky Britten
BMJ 2003;326 138
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Learning in practice
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Transferability of principles of evidence based medicine to improve
educational quality: systematic review and case study of an online course
in primary health care
Trisha Greenhalgh, Peter Toon, Jill Russell, Geoff Wong, Liz Plumb,
and Fraser Macfarlane
BMJ 2003;326 142-145
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/142?etocClinical Review
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Management of the severely malnourished child: perspective from developing
countries
Maharaj K Bhan, Nita Bhandari, and Rajiv Bahl
BMJ 2003;326 146-151
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/146?etocLesson of the week: Unsuspected haemophilia in children with a single
swollen joint
Beatrice Nolan, Vicky Vidler, Ajay Vora, and Michael Makris
BMJ 2003;326 151-152
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/151?etocABC of antithrombotic therapy: Anticoagulation in hospitals and general
practice
Andrew D Blann, David A Fitzmaurice, and Gregory Y H Lip
BMJ 2003;326 153-156
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/153?etocEducation and Debate
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Distinguishing between salt poisoning and hypernatraemic dehydration in
children
Malcolm G Coulthard and George B Haycock
BMJ 2003;326 157-160
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/157?etocLetters
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Mobile phone use has not replaced smoking in adolescence
Leena Koivusilta, Tomi Lintonen, and Arja Rimpela
BMJ 2003;326 161
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/161?etocMedical school applications
Cornelius Katona, Philippa Katona, Margaux Katona, Wiji Arulampalam,
Robin A Naylor, Jeremy P Smith, Samuel J Leinster, and Douglas Salmon
BMJ 2003;326 161
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/161/a?etocPublic access defibrillators
Malcolm F Woollard, Michael C Colquhoun, Jill P Pell, Jane M Sirel,
Nicola L Walker, Stuart M Cobbe, Andrew K Marsden, Ian Ford, Judith
Chaloner, Nick Gent, Alfredo D Espinosa-Brito, Alfredo A
Espinosa-Roca, Yenisey Quintero-Mendez, and Yainel Cutino-Maas
BMJ 2003;326 162
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/162?etocSociety of Homeopaths does not advise against vaccination
Susan C Crump and Melanie Oxley
BMJ 2003;326 164
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/164?etocConsuming alcohol on duty may have adverse consequences
Matthew Lee
BMJ 2003;326 165
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/165?etocRisk assessment scales poorly predict pressure ulceration
Peter J Franks, Christine J Moffatt, and Donna Chaloner
BMJ 2003;326 165
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/165/a?etocPapua New Guinea needs law and order above all
Peter A Sims
BMJ 2003;326 165
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/165/b?etocFree smoke alarms: a fire officer responds
Roger Greet
BMJ 2003;326 165
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/165/c?etocMastectomy is not always so bad
Kate F Gould
BMJ 2003;326 166
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/166?etocTheme issue for medics and health informed public
James D Curran and Gunther Eysenbach
BMJ 2003;326 166
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/166/a?etocObituaries
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Biddy Davidson Bourhill
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167?etocJack Cherry
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/a?etocJohn Bryan Eagles
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/b?etocVincent Alpe Grantham
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/c?etocJohn Lawson Griffiths
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/d?etocAngus Ian Kinnear
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/e?etocMary Lavelle
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/f?etocMichael Lee-Jones
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/g?etocDaniel Joseph ("Donal") McWilliams
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/h?etocKhushbal Singh Mangat
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/i?etocJohn Richard O'Brien
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/j?etocHelen Louise Parsons
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/k?etocAndrew Ratchford
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/167/l?etocLewis Daniel Rutter
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Reviews
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Book: Poor Health: Social Inequality before and after the Black Report
Peter Davies
BMJ 2003;326 169
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/169?etocBook: Medicine's Strangest Cases
Birte Twisselmann
BMJ 2003;326 169
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Marketing: Spin doctors soft pedal data on antihypertensives
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ 2003;326 170
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Website of the week: Childcare for working parents
Rhona MacDonald
BMJ 2003;326 170
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Personal Views:
The second gasoline war and how we can prevent the third
Ian Roberts
BMJ 2003;326 171
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/171?etocSoundings:
Challenge and change
Colin Douglas
BMJ 2003;326 171
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Minerva
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http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/172Fillers
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POEM: Montelukast helps chronic urticaria
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/0/g?etocOnline polls: results
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/118?etocSubmitting articles to the BMJ
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/127/a?etocOne hundred years ago: Medicine and matrimony
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/134/a?etocA case of mistaken identity
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/145?etocEndpiece: A good physician versus no physician
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/151/a?etocForthcoming BMJ theme issues (provisional dates and titles)
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/160?etocCorrections
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ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Venous thromboembolism: treatment strategies
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/156?etocCareer focus
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This week:
Rhona MacDonald
BMJ 2003;326 17
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/S17?etocSo, you'd like a handheld computer
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
BMJ 2003;326 17
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/S17a?etocEmotional intelligence
Brian McMullen
BMJ 2003;326 19
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/S19?etocPerforming arts medicine
Helen Barratt
BMJ 2003;326 21
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/S21?etocProfile: Practitioner to the performers
Helen Barratt
BMJ 2003;326 22
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/S22?etocSoap opera: Episode 7: Who was in charge of the condom?
Nicola Sharp
BMJ 2003;326 23
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7381/S23?etocWeb extra
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Who is favourite to lead WHO?
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