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bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 01 February 2003

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This issue's table of contents:

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Editor's Choice

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Death in a consumer society

This Week in the BMJ

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Three step screening predicts dementia

Big baby girls have higher breast cancer risk

Sepsis treatment: one size does not fit all

Low doses of methotrexate can suppress bone marrow

Patients who see the same GP are more satisfied

Euthanasia is not just the doctors' domain

I passed the marriage medical

Editorials

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Therapeutic thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke

Charles Warlow and Joanna Wardlaw

BMJ 2003;326 233-234

"Schools and hospitals" for "education and health"

David Haslam

BMJ 2003;326 234-235

Old drugs for new bugs

Silvio Pitlik

BMJ 2003;326 235-236

The BetterCare judgment---a challenge to health care

Allyson M Pollock and David Price

BMJ 2003;326 236-237

Closing the digital divide

Richard Smith

BMJ 2003;326 238

News

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Climbie inquiry recommends national agency for children

Shaken baby syndrome requires a national prevention strategy

In brief

Egg or sperm donation children will be entitled to more information

Consultants unlikely to accept local pay deals, says BMA

South Korean to head world's top health body

Little evidence for effectiveness of scientific peer review

High Court strikes down Merck's patent on alendronate

Preparing for the worst

News roundup

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Swiss parliament may try to ban "suicide tourism"

Social costs of smoking are triple those of illicit drugs

UK lags behind rest of Europe in reducing deaths from heart disease

Review to consider shorter training for consultants in England

Link found between Agent Orange and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

Privy Council quashes GMC ruling

England short of 970 GPs

Italian courts find 175 doctors and managers guilty of fraud

News Extra

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Tamoxifen reduces risk of breast cancer in high risk patients

FDA calls for standardised racial and ethnic data

Papers

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Detection of Alzheimer's disease and dementia in the preclinical phase:

population based cohort study

Katie Palmer, Lars Backman, Bengt Winblad, and Laura Fratiglioni

BMJ 2003;326 245

Fetal growth and subsequent risk of breast cancer: results from long term

follow up of Swedish cohort

V A McCormack, I dos Santos Silva, B L De Stavola, R Mohsen, D A Leon,

and H O Lithell

BMJ 2003;326 248

Controlled trial of effect of documented cardiovascular risk scores on

prescribing

L M L Hall, R T Jung, and G P Leese

BMJ 2003;326 251-252

Discrepancies between patients' assessments of outcome: qualitative study

nested within a randomised controlled trial

Rona Campbell, Brian Quilty, and Paul Dieppe

BMJ 2003;326 252-253

Influence of the third generation pill controversy on prescriptions for

oral contraceptives among first time users: population based study

Lolkje de Jong-van den Berg, Hilde Tobi, Bert Bijker, and Paul van den

Berg

BMJ 2003;326 254

Cholesterol lowering drugs and risk of age related maculopathy: prospective cohort study with cumulative exposure measurement

R van Leeuwen, J R Vingerling, A Hofman, P T V M de Jong, and B H Ch

Stricker

BMJ 2003;326 255-256

Research pointers: Mortality from cardiovascular disease more than 10 years after radiotherapy for breast cancer: nationwide cohort study of 90 000

Swedish women

Sarah Darby, Paul McGale, Richard Peto, Fredrik Granath, Per Hall, and

Anders Ekbom

BMJ 2003;326 256-257

Drug points: Thromboembolism associated with the new contraceptive Yasmin

Kees van Grootheest and Tom Vrieling

BMJ 2003;326 257

Primary care

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Setting standards based on patients' views on access and continuity:

secondary analysis of data from the general practice assessment survey

Peter Bower, Martin Roland, John Campbell, and Nicola Mead

BMJ 2003;326 258

10-minute consultation: Chronic cough

Graeme P Currie, Robert D Gray, and John McKay

BMJ 2003;326 261

Clinical Review

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Science, medicine, and the future: Pathogenesis of sepsis: new concepts and implications for future treatment

Pierre-Yves Bochud and Thierry Calandra

BMJ 2003;326 262-266

Lesson of the week: Low dose methotrexate and bone marrow suppression

Michael Sosin and Sunil Handa

BMJ 2003;326 266-267

ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Curriculum design

David Prideaux

BMJ 2003;326 268-270

Education and Debate

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Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: allowing a role for

non-physicians

Samia A Hurst and Alex Mauron

BMJ 2003;326 271-273

Monitoring mortality rates in general practice after Shipman

Richard Baker, David R Jones, and Peter Goldblatt

BMJ 2003;326 274-276

Getting married in China: pass the medical first

Therese Hesketh

BMJ 2003;326 277-279

Letters

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Shipman proposals will alter general practice profoundly

John Holden and Seamus O'Donnell

BMJ 2003;326 280

Volume of procedures and outcome of treatment

Gareth Parry, Janet Tucker, William Tarnow-Mordi, Hans O Birk, Morten

Joenler, Leif P Jensen, Janne L Knudsen, Flemming Moesgaard, and Cai

Frimodt-Moeller

BMJ 2003;326 280

Electronic tagging of people with dementia

Kevin D Bail, Desmond J O'Neill, and Suzanne Cahill

BMJ 2003;326 281

Squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck

Vinod K Joshi and Pankaj Chaturvedi

BMJ 2003;326 282

On teething symptoms

Mike South

BMJ 2003;326 282

Quality of impact factors of general medical journals

K S Joseph

BMJ 2003;326 283

Efficacy should drive atypical antipsychotic treatment

Leslie L Citrome

BMJ 2003;326 283

Screening for aortic aneurysm

Simon Curtis and Richard M Lynch

BMJ 2003;326 284

Haemophilus influenzae type b epiglottitis

Carline Lee, Andrew Coatsworth, Julia E Clark, Jodie McVernon, Richard

Moxon, Paul Heath, Mary Ramsay, and Mary Slack

BMJ 2003;326 284

EU reimporting drugs meant for Africa is only part of story

Geoff Crumplin

BMJ 2003;326 285

Obituaries

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Robert Evan Kendell

Thomas Henry Eustace

Peter Robert Fleming

Charles Mackintosh Flood

Henry Pearson McNamara

James Edward Mitchell ("Sam")

Ronald ("Ronnie") Shaw

Vernon Hope Smith

Mary ("May") Donaldson Stewart

Sisir Kumar Tewari

Reviews

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Book: The Quotable Osler

David Woods

BMJ 2003;326 289

Book: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

Jo Ann Rosenfeld

BMJ 2003;326 289

Netlines

Harry Brown

BMJ 2003;326 290

Press: Tabloids blame asylum seekers for GP shortages

Mareeni Raymond

BMJ 2003;326 290

TV: The Day I Died

Michael O'Brien

BMJ 2003;326 288

Personal Views:

Us and them

Andy Bell

BMJ 2003;326 291

Soundings:

Gadgets for consultants

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2003;326 291

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: Vitamin K works faster orally than subcutaneously

Christmas competition

Patient or client?

"I think I need a psychiatrist"

One hundred years ago: Gatling and Guillotin

A memorable patient: An aunt without health insurance

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326 33

My beautiful career: part 2

Rhona MacDonald and Philip Hadridge

BMJ 2003;326 33

Career crises

Kay Mohanna and Ruth Chambers

BMJ 2003;326 35

Returning to general practice

Elizabeth J Muller

BMJ 2003;326 37

Profile: Midlife medicine

Tosan Okoro

BMJ 2003;326 38

Soap opera: Episode 9: New management for Murkton Moor

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2003;326 39

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