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bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 04 January 2003

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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 England are linked to devices

    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 India

    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 Nigeria: cross sectional survey of

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 London: review of a community register

     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 England

     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

     N Hoveyda and Ron Behrens

     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: Oxford Handbook of General Practice

     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 Russia

    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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