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19 July 2003 (Volume 327, Issue 7407)
 
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 Editor's choice
This week in the BMJ
Editorials
News
News roundup
News extra
Papers
BMJ family highlights
Primary care
Learning in practice
Clinical review
Education and debate
Letters
Obituaries
reviews
Minerva
Fillers
Corrections
Career focus
Press releases

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Editor's choice

 

The pleasures of deep reading
Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]  

 

This week in the BMJ

 

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

 

Girls are less likely to survive infancy in India [Full text]
School exam results predict success in medicine [Full text]
Alzheimer's disease may be prevented with NSAIDs [Full text]
Knee taping reduces symptoms associated with osteoarthritis [Full text]
First WHO treaty tackles international tobacco control [Full text]

Editorials

 

  Overconsumption of fluids by athletes
Timothy David Noakes
BMJ 2003; 327: 113-114. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Sharing patient information electronically throughout the NHS
Nick Booth
BMJ 2003; 327: 114-115. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Rhabdomyolysis
Russell Lane and Malcolm Phillips
BMJ 2003; 327: 115-116. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Acute psychiatric day hospitals
Max Marshall
BMJ 2003; 327: 116-117. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Immunonutrition
Philip C Calder
BMJ 2003; 327: 117-118. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Overview of nutrients with their functions and effects]  
 

News

 

Hospital ratings rise, but ambulance ratings fall [Full text] [PDF]  
In brief [Full text] [PDF]  
Lords committee warns of gaps in infection control measures [Full text] [PDF]  
Hypertension is increasing in United States [Full text] [PDF]  
New patients' forums are no substitute for community health councils, MPs say [Full text] [PDF]  
Food industry obfuscates healthy eating message [Full text] [PDF]  
Investigators should be trained to "think dirty" about cause of death, Shipman report says [Full text] [PDF]  
HIV testing should not be used to restrict access to UK, report says [Full text] [PDF]  
WHO report calls for free anti-tuberculosis drugs for AIDS patients [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

Suicide among women prisoners at a record high, report says [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Supervised drug injecting room trial considered a success [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
AIDS will affect us all eventually, Mandela tells London audience [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
New consent form designed for release of medical records [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Canadian doctors question marijuana for medicinal use [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Doctor's manslaughter trial halted owing to defendant's health [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
One in three doctors don't tell patients about services they can't have [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
GMC proposes radical changes to registration [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

Trial starts of malaria vaccine in 2000 children in Mozambique [Full text]  
US Senate defeats bill to limit malpractice claims [Full text]  
EU will fund research on stem cells only from embryos created before June 2002 [Full text]  
Africa has a right to support from international community in its fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis [Full text]  
Doctors' and other health workers' pay negotiations should not be separate [Full text]  
Welsh health service faces overwhelming demand for services, says report [Full text]  

 

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Papers

 

Community based retrospective study of sex in infant mortality in India
R Khanna, A Kumar, J F Vaghela, V Sreenivas, and J M Puliyel
BMJ 2003; 327: 126. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on risk of Alzheimer's disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Mahyar Etminan, Sudeep Gill, and Ali Samii
BMJ 2003; 327: 128. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Prevalence of five common clinical abnormalities in very elderly people: population based cross sectional study
A J M de Craen, J Gussekloo, Y K O Teng, P W Macfarlane, and R G J Westendorp
BMJ 2003; 327: 131-132. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Longevity and carrying the C282Y mutation for haemochromatosis on the HFE gene: case control study of 492 French centenarians
Hélène Coppin, M Bensaid, S Fruchon, N Borot, H Blanché, and MP Roth
BMJ 2003; 327: 132-133. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Mental health of refugee children: comparative study
Mina Fazel and Alan Stein
BMJ 2003; 327: 134. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

BMJ family highlights

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Primary care

 

Efficacy of knee tape in the management of osteoarthritis of the knee: blinded randomised controlled trial
Rana S Hinman, Kay M Crossley, Jenny McConnell, and Kim L Bennell
BMJ 2003; 327: 135. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Learning in practice

 

A levels and intelligence as predictors of medical careers in UK doctors: 20 year prospective study
I C McManus, Eleni Smithers, Philippa Partridge, A Keeling, and Peter R Fleming
BMJ 2003; 327: 139-142. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Definitions, extra tables and extra figures]  
 

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Clinical review

 

  Science, medicine, and the future: Cirrhosis: new research provides a basis for rational and targeted treatments
John P Iredale
BMJ 2003; 327: 143-147. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Lesson of the week: Interaction of spironolactone with ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers: analysis of 44 cases
Eike Wrenger, Regina Müller, Michael Moesenthin, Tobias Welte, Jürgen C Frölich, and Klaus H Neumann
BMJ 2003; 327: 147-149. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ABC of interventional cardiology: New developments in percutaneous coronary intervention
Julian Gunn, David Crossman, Ever D Grech, and David Cumberland
BMJ 2003; 327: 150-153. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Education and debate

 

  WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development of an evidence based global public health treaty
Kenji Shibuya, Christina Ciecierski, Emmanuel Guindon, Douglas W Bettcher, David B Evans, and Christopher J L Murray
BMJ 2003; 327: 154-157. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders: blind alley in psychopharmacology and classification of disease
Edward Shorter and Peter Tyrer
BMJ 2003; 327: 158-160. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Letters

 

  This week's letters [PDF]
 
  Appraisal makes for effective revalidation (official)
Richard E Wakeford
BMJ 2003; 327: 161. [Full text]  
 
  Cervical cancer screening: Liquid based cytology may be preferred option for UK screening programme
Thomas Ind
BMJ 2003; 327: 161. [Full text]  
 
  Cervical cancer screening: Liquid based cytology is successful
Michael W Whitley
BMJ 2003; 327: 161-162. [Full text]  
 
  Cervical cancer screening: Paragraph for This week in the BMJ was misleading
Jonathan Weintraub
BMJ 2003; 327: 162. [Full text]  
 
  Cervical cancer screening: Authors' reply
Joël Coste, Béatrix Cochand-Priollet, and Patricia de Cremoux
BMJ 2003; 327: 162. [Full text]  
 
  Evaluating computerised health information systems: Opportunities were missed
Warren J Winkelman
BMJ 2003; 327: 162-163. [Full text]  
 
  Evaluating computerised health information systems: Article contains inaccuracies
Biagio A Longano
BMJ 2003; 327: 163. [Full text]  
 
  Evaluating computerised health information systems: Health professionals should be closely involved in implementation
Joel Ladner, Hippolyte Digbeu, Francoise Marquis, and Bernard Guessan Bi
BMJ 2003; 327: 163. [Full text]  
 
  Evaluating computerised health information systems: We are still getting information technology wrong
Matthew G Evans
BMJ 2003; 327: 163-164. [Full text]  
 
  Impact of DOTS and DOTS-plus on multidrug resistant TB: DOTS-plus strengthens, not weakens, DOTS programmes
Edward A Nardell
BMJ 2003; 327: 164. [Full text]  
 
  Impact of DOTS and DOTS-plus on multidrug resistant TB: Authors' reply
Timothy R Sterling, Harold P Lehmann, and Thomas R Frieden
BMJ 2003; 327: 164. [Full text]  
 
  TB should be diagnosed before using a fluoroquinolone
Atul Agarwal
BMJ 2003; 327: 164-165. [Full text]  
 
  Comparing cannabis with tobacco: Arithmetic does not add up
Les Iversen
BMJ 2003; 327: 165. [Full text]  
 
  Comparing cannabis with tobacco: Those who start taking cannabis young have the greatest problems
C Heather Ashton
BMJ 2003; 327: 165. [Full text]  
 
  Comparing cannabis with tobacco: Services are needed for acute and chronic effects of cannabis
Roy Robertson
BMJ 2003; 327: 165. [Full text]  
 
  British Heart Foundation speaks out in support of paper
Qaim Zaidi
BMJ 2003; 327: 165-166. [Full text]  
 
  Terminology for our times: Others will have similar examples
Patricia A Boyd and Paul Chamberlain
BMJ 2003; 327: 166. [Full text]  
 
  Terminology for our times: Excluding every diagnosis is not necessary
William Stevenson
BMJ 2003; 327: 166. [Full text]  
 
  Terminology for our times: Not just imaging is concerned
Matthew L Grove
BMJ 2003; 327: 166. [Full text]  
 
  Terminology for our times: "Lucragram" is well known term
Raymond C Seidler
BMJ 2003; 327: 166. [Full text]  
 
  Teaching materials should enhance the spoken word
Peter J Green
BMJ 2003; 327: 166. [Full text]  
 

Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

Belding Scribner [Full text]  
David Douglas French [Full text]  
David Jenkins [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
John Keith Merritt [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Peter Royston Rawle [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Michael Taylor Stather-Dunn [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
John Horatio Swan [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
John Woodall [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Book: Caring for Jewish Patients
Sabina Dosani [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Book: The Miraculous Fever Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World
Omar Mukhtar [Full text]  

 

Website of the week: Intelligence
Upasana Tayal [Full text]  

 

Personal views

The first world's role in the third world brain drain
Laurence F Levy [Full text]  

 

Are HIV positive asylum seekers an unfair burden on the NHS?
David R Chadwick [Full text]  

 

Soundings

Bullshitting
Kevin Barraclough [Full text]  

 

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

 

POEM*: Oral clindamycin for asymptomatic bacterial vaginosis in early pregnancy reduces premature births [Full text] [PDF]  
One hundred years ago: The prolongation of life [Full text] [PDF]  
Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]  
Endpiece: The wife who commands [Full text] [PDF]  
Advice [Full text]  

Corrections

 

  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: patients were epidemiologically linked
BMJ 2003; 327: 160. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Cost effectiveness analysis of different approaches of screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia
BMJ 2003; 327: 160. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Managing pulmonary embolism
BMJ 2003; 327: 160. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Career focus

 

  This week's Career focus section [PDF]
THIS WEEK
Rhona MacDonald [Full text]  

 

Mountain rescue medicine in France
Carron Scrimgeour [Full text]  

 

Training in the United States
Asrar Rashid, Mark Twite, and Sunil Bhudia [Full text]  

 

Diving doctor
David Wheeler [Full text]  

 

THE WAY I SEE IT: In praise of mucking about
Stephen Dinniss [Full text]  

 

Tips on...: Improving your body language
Stephen Manallack [Full text]  

 

SOAP OPERA: Episode 33: David confesses
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 

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