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bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 18 January 2003

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This issue's table of contents:

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Editor's Choice

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Why WHO matters

This Week in the BMJ

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Manufacturers violate breast milk substitutes code in west Africa

Folate and vitamin B-12 do not reduce cardiovascular mortality

Boys' births are more complicated than girls'

GPs believe their use of antibiotics for sore throat is appropriate

Evidence based education can't rely solely on RCTs

Salt poisoning and dehydration must be distinguished

Editorials

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Monitoring the marketing of infant formula feeds

Tony Waterston and James Tumwine

BMJ 2003;326 113-114

Preventing skin cancer

Alison Fry and Julia Verne

BMJ 2003;326 114-115

Levelling the playing field for regulation of nicotine

Ichiro Kawachi

BMJ 2003;326 115-116

Doctors and managers

Nigel Edwards and Martin Marshall

BMJ 2003;326 116-117

Preventing and treating tetanus

C L Thwaites and J J Farrar

BMJ 2003;326 117-118

News

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Lack of new drugs is reaching crisis point, says review

Medicines Control Agency must be more open

In brief

Company launches campaign to "counter" BMJ claims

Environmentalist accused of scientific dishonesty

Government publishes strategy to improve diabetes care

Nigerian immunisation programme sees results

WHO leadership contest: More resources should go into core funding

WHO leadership contest: WHO must help countries deal with non-communicable

diseases and mental health

WHO leadership contest: Partnerships with the drug industry would be

constructive

WHO leadership contest: Resources should be decentralised to countries

WHO leadership contest: Regions with a high disease burden should be

prioritised

WHO leadership contest: Comparing national health systems should continue

WHO leadership contest: WHO must strengthen partnerships at a global level

WHO leadership contest: WHO needs a global health alliance, which should be called the Mandela plan

News roundup

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UK doctors warned after ricin poison found in police raid

FDA insists that oestrogen products for menopause carry a warning

Painting is earliest example of portrayal of Down’s syndrome

Israel considers paying people for donating a kidney

India sets up a commission on macroeconomics and health

News Extra

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Canadian aboriginals in Vancouver face AIDS epidemic

Community treatment is effective for drug resistant tuberculosis

US medical liability crisis spurs doctors’ walkouts and rallies

Task force proposes changing body mass risk indicators for diabetes

Obesity in young blacks is linked to a 20 year reduction in life span

Papers

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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

Folate 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

Impact 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

Demographic and Health Surveys: caesarean section rates in sub-Saharan

Africa

Pierre Buekens, Sian Curtis, and Silvia Alayon

BMJ 2003;326 136

Effect 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

Primary 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

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

Clinical 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

Lesson 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

ABC 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

Education 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

Letters

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Mobile phone use has not replaced smoking in adolescence

Leena Koivusilta, Tomi Lintonen, and Arja Rimpela

BMJ 2003;326 161

Medical 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

Public 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

Society of Homeopaths does not advise against vaccination

Susan C Crump and Melanie Oxley

BMJ 2003;326 164

Consuming alcohol on duty may have adverse consequences

Matthew Lee

BMJ 2003;326 165

Risk assessment scales poorly predict pressure ulceration

Peter J Franks, Christine J Moffatt, and Donna Chaloner

BMJ 2003;326 165

Papua New Guinea needs law and order above all

Peter A Sims

BMJ 2003;326 165

Free smoke alarms: a fire officer responds

Roger Greet

BMJ 2003;326 165

Mastectomy is not always so bad

Kate F Gould

BMJ 2003;326 166

Theme issue for medics and health informed public

James D Curran and Gunther Eysenbach

BMJ 2003;326 166

Obituaries

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Biddy Davidson Bourhill

Jack Cherry

John Bryan Eagles

Vincent Alpe Grantham

John Lawson Griffiths

Angus Ian Kinnear

Mary Lavelle

Michael Lee-Jones

Daniel Joseph ("Donal") McWilliams

Khushbal Singh Mangat

John Richard O'Brien

Helen Louise Parsons

Andrew Ratchford

Lewis Daniel Rutter

Reviews

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Book: Poor Health: Social Inequality before and after the Black Report

Peter Davies

BMJ 2003;326 169

Book: Medicine's Strangest Cases

Birte Twisselmann

BMJ 2003;326 169

Marketing: Spin doctors soft pedal data on antihypertensives

Jeanne Lenzer

BMJ 2003;326 170

Website of the week: Childcare for working parents

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326 170

Personal Views:

The second gasoline war and how we can prevent the third

Ian Roberts

BMJ 2003;326 171

Soundings:

Challenge and change

Colin Douglas

BMJ 2003;326 171

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: Montelukast helps chronic urticaria

Online polls: results

Submitting articles to the BMJ

One hundred years ago: Medicine and matrimony

A case of mistaken identity

Endpiece: A good physician versus no physician

Forthcoming BMJ theme issues (provisional dates and titles)

Corrections

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ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Venous thromboembolism: treatment strategies

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326 17

So, you'd like a handheld computer

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

BMJ 2003;326 17

Emotional intelligence

Brian McMullen

BMJ 2003;326 19

Performing arts medicine

Helen Barratt

BMJ 2003;326 21

Profile: Practitioner to the performers

Helen Barratt

BMJ 2003;326 22

Soap opera: Episode 7: Who was in charge of the condom?

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2003;326 23

Web extra

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