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Editor's Choice
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Some politics: against academic boycotts and for cheap
drugs
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/0/g?etoc
This Week in the BMJ
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Breast feeding has analgesic effect in newborn babies
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/0?etoc
Polygamy and early sexual activity in adolescents are
linked
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/0/a?etoc
Driving recommendations are given but not heard
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/0/b?etoc
More GPs intend to quit
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/0/c?etoc
A good death is possible
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/0/d?etoc
Surgical outcomes database is incomplete and
unreliable
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/0/e?etoc
"Female sexual dysfunction" may be an
invention
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/0/f?etoc
Editorials
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Breast self examination
Joan Austoker
BMJ 2003;326 1-2
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/1?etoc
Using clinical databases in practice
Nick Black
BMJ 2003;326 2-3
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/2?etoc
Reporting diagnostic tests
Sharon E
Straus
BMJ 2003;326 3-4
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/3?etoc
Contraindications to the use of metformin
G C Jones,
J P Macklin, and W D Alexander
BMJ 2003;326 4-5
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/4?etoc
Evidence based policy making
Sally
Macintyre
BMJ 2003;326 5-6
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/5?etoc
News
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Diuretics are as effective as ACE inhibitors and
channel blockers
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/7?etoc
In brief
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/8?etoc
Family finds hospital willing to give experimental CJD
treatment
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/8/a?etoc
GP contract delayed, but negotiations continue
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/8/b?etoc
US blocks deal on cheap drugs
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/9?etoc
Urologist recommends daily Viagra to prevent impotence
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/9/a?etoc
Fertilisation authority to challenge High Court tissue ruling
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/11/c?etoc
New designs for familiar objects
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/11/d?etoc
No shrinking violet
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/12?etoc
News roundup
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Half the cases of bacteraemia
in hospitals in
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/10?etoc
Parkinson’s in men may be linked to high dairy diet
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/10/a?etoc
Limited edition DNA print published
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/10/b?etoc
Health care is among the most corrupt services in
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/10/c?etoc
Foundation trusts could be divisive, MPs claim
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/10/d?etoc
EU sets standards for safe blood products
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/11?etoc
German hospital curtails services because of deficit
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/11/a?etoc
"Free" medical publishing venture gets under
way
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/11/b?etoc
News Extra
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Obstetrician issues writ after embryo mix-up
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/12/a?etoc
Indian endocrinologists warn of vitamin D deficiency
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/12/b?etoc
Tel Aviv hospital destroys frozen embryos by mistake
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/12/c?etoc
Inadequate research facilities fail to tackle mystery
disease
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/12/d?etoc
Scottish postoperative care is improving
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/12/e?etoc
Papers
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Analgesic effect of breast feeding in term neonates: randomised controlled
trial
Ricardo Carbajal, Soocramanien Veerapen, Sophie Couderc, Myriam Jugie,
and Yves Ville
BMJ 2003;326 13
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7379/13?etoc
Sexual behaviour of
adolescents in
secondary school students
Gail B
Slap, Lucy Lot, Bin Huang, Comfort A Daniyam, Therese M Zink,
and Paul A Succop
BMJ 2003;326 15
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7379/15?etoc
Parental diabetes and birth weight of offspring:
intergenerational cohort
study
Elina Hypponen, George Davey Smith, and Chris Power
BMJ 2003;326 19-20
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/19?etoc
Incidence of coronary heart disease in a health
authority in
Steven J
Sutcliffe, Kevin F Fox, David A Wood, Angela Sutcliffe,
Kathryn
Stock, Melissa Wright, Fawaz Akhras,
and Ed Langford
BMJ 2003;326 20
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/20?etoc
Syncope, driving recommendations, and clinical
reality: survey of patients
Renke Maas, Rodolfo Ventura, Christina Kretzschmar,
Ali Aydin, and
Andreas Schuchert
BMJ 2003;326 21
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/21?etoc
Primary care
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National survey of job satisfaction and retirement
intentions among general practitioners in
Bonnie Sibbald, Chris Bojke, and Hugh Gravelle
BMJ 2003;326 22
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7379/22?etoc
Information in Practice
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How to evaluate and improve the quality and
credibility of an outcomes
database: validation and feedback study on the UK Cardiac
Surgery
Experience
Leon G
Fine, Bruce E Keogh, Shan Cretin, Maria Orlando, and Mairi
M
Gould
BMJ 2003;326 25-28
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7379/25?etoc
Infopoints: A web-based system for individualised
survival estimation in
breast cancer
Johan Lundin, Mikael Lundin, Jorma Isola,
and Heikki Joensuu
BMJ 2003;326 29
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/29?etoc
Clinical Review
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Care of the dying patient: the last hours or days of
life * Commentary: a
"good death" is
possible in the NHS
John Ellershaw, Chris Ward, and Rabbi Julia Neuberger
BMJ 2003;326 30-34
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/30?etoc
Lesson of the week: Danger of salt substitutes that
contain potassium in
patients with renal failure
C J Doorenbos and C G Vermeij
BMJ 2003;326 35-36
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/35?etoc
ABC of antithrombotic
therapy: Antithrombotic therapy in special
circumstances. I---pregnancy and cancer
Bernd Jilma, Sridhar Kamath, and
Gregory Y H Lip
BMJ 2003;326 37-40
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/37?etoc
Education and Debate
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Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of
diagnostic accuracy:
the STARD initiative
Patrick M Bossuyt, Johannes B Reitsma,
David E Bruns, Constantine A
Gatsonis, Paul P Glasziou, Les M Irwig, Jeroen G Lijmer, David Moher,
Drummond Rennie,
and Henrica C W de Vet
BMJ 2003;326 41-44
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7379/41?etoc
The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction
Ray
Moynihan
BMJ 2003;326 45-47
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/45?etoc
Letters
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Trainees' attitudes to shift work depend on grade and
specialty
Maryanne Aitken and Elisabeth Paice
BMJ 2003;326 48
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/48?etoc
Delayed discharge and hospital congestion
David R J
Jarrett, Anna Hinton, and David J Seddon
BMJ 2003;326 48
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/48/a?etoc
Emergency pyramid is inverting already
Matthew
Cooke and Karen Castille
BMJ 2003;326 49
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/49?etoc
Managing acute appendicitis
John Howie, Rajesh K Choudhary, and A M F Hassn
BMJ 2003;326 49
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/49/a?etoc
Preventing and treating eclamptic
seizures
Neil F
Moran, Ben Moore, and Richard Collins
BMJ 2003;326 50
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/50?etoc
Alcohol handrubs v soap
Juhani Ojajarvi, Arti Thakerar, and Collin Goodbourn
BMJ 2003;326 50
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/50/a?etoc
Outdated drugs may be useful
John Sandford-Smith
BMJ 2003;326 51
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/51?etoc
Sustaining medical education is difficult in poor
countries
Joseph Yikona
BMJ 2003;326 51
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/51/a?etoc
Alosetron for irritable bowel syndrome
James B D
Palmer and Robert H Palmer
BMJ 2003;326 51
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/51/b?etoc
Preventing stroke with ramipril---authors'
reply
Salim Yusuf, Jackie Bosch, and
Peter Sleight
BMJ 2003;326 52
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/52?etoc
More travel advice and fewer vaccinations are needed
BMJ 2003;326 52
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/52/a?etoc
Screening populations at low risk carries high risks
Luc Bonneux
BMJ 2003;326 53
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/53?etoc
Embryo selection for complex traits is impracticable
Edwin P
Kirk
BMJ 2003;326 53
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/53/a?etoc
Obituaries
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Eric John Barton
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54?etoc
Devendra Kumar Gupta
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/a?etoc
Richard Douglas Jackson
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/b?etoc
John Henry Gordon Jowett
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/c?etoc
Susan Jean England Kerr
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/d?etoc
Richard Melville Malins
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/e?etoc
Patricia Theresa Moore
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/f?etoc
Thomas Meurig Owen
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/g?etoc
Kenneth George Poyner
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/h?etoc
Jairam Madura Rajgopal
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/i?etoc
John Richardson
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/j?etoc
Henry Peter Scurlock
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/k?etoc
Thomas Alan Wylie
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/54/l?etoc
Reviews
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Book: Narrative-based Primary Care: A Practical Guide
Ellen
Rosenberg
BMJ 2003;326 56
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/56?etoc
Book:
Kevin Barraclough
BMJ 2003;326 56
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/56/a?etoc
Book: Medicine and Art
Jeremy Hugh
Baron
BMJ 2003;326 57
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/57?etoc
Book: Cold Wars: The Fight against the Common Cold
Harold
Ellis
BMJ 2003;326 57
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/57/a?etoc
Netlines
Harry Brown
BMJ 2003;326 58
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/58/a?etoc
Press: Lessons from the HRT story
Melissa
Sweet
BMJ 2003;326 58
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/58?etoc
Personal Views:
The inside story on prison health care
Penny A
Mellor
BMJ 2003;326 59
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/59?etoc
Soundings:
Count your blessings
Liam Farrell
BMJ 2003;326 59
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/59/a?etoc
Minerva
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http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/60
Fillers
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POEM: Acute intervention has no effect on mortality in
patients with acute
coronary syndromes
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/0/h?etoc
Fever
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/24?etoc
A lesson in prescribing
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/36?etoc
One hundred years ago: Ether drinking in
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/37/a?etoc
One hundred years ago: Art and nature
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/41/a?etoc
Corrections
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Managing acute renal colic across the
primary-secondary care interface: a
pathway of care based on evidence and consensus
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/18?etoc
Letters: summary of responses
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/18/a?etoc
Career focus
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This week:
Rhona MacDonald
BMJ 2003;326 1
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/S1?etoc
Surgical training in the developing world
Khurshid R Ghani, Michael H Cotton, and S Paterson-Brown
BMJ 2003;326 1
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/S1a?etoc
Practising medicine in a multicultural society
Sabina Dosani
BMJ 2003;326 3
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/S3?etoc
Just who are tomorrow's doctors?
Elaine
Griffiths
BMJ 2003;326 4
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/S4?etoc
Running an induction course
Yong-Lock Ong
BMJ 2003;326 5
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/S5?etoc
Profile: David Colin-Thome
Omar Mukhtar
BMJ 2003;326 6
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/S6?etoc
TIPS ON...: Networking
Mark
Griffiths
BMJ 2003;326 6
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/S6a?etoc
Soap opera: Episode 5: The coroner's postmortem
Nicola
Sharp
BMJ 2003;326 7
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/S7?etoc
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