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21 June 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7403)
 
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Other Issues:
 Editor's choice
This week in the BMJ
Editorials
News
News roundup
News extra
Papers
BMJ family highlights
Primary care
Clinical review
Education and debate
Letters
Obituaries
reviews
Minerva
Fillers
Corrections
Career focus
Press releases

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Editor's choice

 

Changing the "leadership" of the NHS
Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]  

 

This week in the BMJ

 

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

 

WHO guidelines for detecting SARS need to be reconsidered [Full text]
Haematological changes signal outcome in SARS patients [Full text]
Outcome varies in open spina bifida [Full text]
Electroconvulsive therapy causes memory loss, say patients [Full text]
Devising new strategies for AIDS in the developing world [Full text]
Fluticasone propionate reduces risk of relapse in atopic dermatitis [Full text]

Editorials

 

  Managing pulmonary embolism
Karin Janata
BMJ 2003; 326: 1341-1342. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Preventing HIV
Arthur J Ammann
BMJ 2003; 326: 1342-1343. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Electroconvulsive therapy
Stuart Carney and John Geddes
BMJ 2003; 326: 1343-1344. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Foundation trusts
Jennifer Dixon
BMJ 2003; 326: 1344-1345. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Anecdotes as evidence
Jeffrey K Aronson
BMJ 2003; 326: 1346. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Extra tables and a suggested protocol]  
 

News

 

New health secretary vows to continue NHS reform agenda [Full text] [PDF]  
Select committee rejects proposals for high street pharmacies [Full text] [PDF]  
In brief [Full text] [PDF]  
EU legislation threatens clinical trials [Full text] [PDF]  
Statins cut cardiovascular events by a quarter in people with diabetes [Full text] [PDF]  
Some operating theatres are used only eight hours a week [Full text] [PDF]  
Fewer trusts find CHI reviews a positive experience [Full text] [PDF]  
Court upholds murder verdict on doctor who ended woman's life [Full text] [PDF]  
Wellcome exhibition explores magic, religion, beauty, and eroticism [Full text] [PDF]  
Readers want transparency in link between doctors and drug firms [Full text] [PDF]  
Doctors struggle to define the essence of being a doctor [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

WHO praises China's control measures for SARS [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Court stands by decision on Gulf war syndrome [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
US doctors investigate more than 50 possible cases of monkeypox [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
New South Wales cracks down on commercial scanning [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Fees waived for university researchers publishing through BioMed Central [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Controversy grows over India's genetically modified potato [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Judge overrules mothers' objections to MMR vaccine [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Senior citizens to get part of drug costs paid under new plan [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

Monitoring of assisted reproduction techniques is inadequate, US experts say [Full text]  

 

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Papers

 

Evaluation of WHO criteria for identifying patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome out of hospital: prospective observational study
Timothy H Rainer, Peter A Cameron, DeVilliers Smit, Kim L Ong, Alex Ng Wing Hung, David Chan Po Nin, Anil T Ahuja, Louis Chan Yik Si, and Joseph J Y Sung
BMJ 2003; 326: 1354-1358. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Details of health advice]  
 
Haematological manifestations in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome: retrospective analysis
Raymond S M Wong, Alan Wu, K F To, Nelson Lee, Christopher W K Lam, C K Wong, Paul K S Chan, Margaret H L Ng, L M Yu, David S Hui, John S Tam, Gregory Cheng, and Joseph J Y Sung
BMJ 2003; 326: 1358-1362. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Patients' perspectives on electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review
Diana Rose, Pete Fleischmann, Til Wykes, Morven Leese, and Jonathan Bindman
BMJ 2003; 326: 1363. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Search terms]  
 
  Outcome in people with open spina bifida at age 35: prospective community based cohort study
Gillian M Hunt and Pippa Oakeshott
BMJ 2003; 326: 1365-1366. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

BMJ family highlights

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Primary care

 

Twice weekly fluticasone propionate added to emollient maintenance treatment to reduce risk of relapse in atopic dermatitis: randomised, double blind, parallel group study
John Berth-Jones, Robert J Damstra, Stefan Golsch, John K Livden, Oliver Van Hooteghem, Fulvio Allegra, and Christine A Parker
BMJ 2003; 326: 1367. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  10-minute consultation: Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus
Susan M Smith
BMJ 2003; 326: 1371. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Leaflet information]  
 

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Clinical review

 

  Diagnosis and management of intestinal ischaemic disorders
Jayaprakash Sreenarasimhaiah
BMJ 2003; 326: 1372-1376. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Lesson of the week: Clarithromycin and pulmonary infiltration with eosinophilia
Claudio Terzano and Angelo Petroianni
BMJ 2003; 326: 1377-1378. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ABC of interventional cardiology: Acute coronary syndrome: ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
Ever D Grech and David R Ramsdale
BMJ 2003; 326: 1379-1381. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Education and debate

 

  Antiretroviral treatment in developing countries: the peril of neglecting private providers
Ruairķ Brugha
BMJ 2003; 326: 1382-1384. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Back to basics in HIV prevention: focus on exposure
Elizabeth Pisani, Geoff P Garnett, Nicholas C Grassly, Tim Brown, John Stover, Catherine Hankins, Neff Walker, and Peter D Ghys
BMJ 2003; 326: 1384-1387. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Public policies and the orphans of AIDS in Africa
Alok Bhargava and Betty Bigombe
BMJ 2003; 326: 1387-1389. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Tackling India's HIV epidemic: lessons from Africa
Malcolm Potts and Julia Walsh
BMJ 2003; 326: 1389-1392. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Further tables and figure]  
 

Letters

 

  This week's letters [PDF]
 
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Patients were epidemiologically linked
Moira Chan-Yeung, Wing Hong Seto, and Joseph J Y Sung
BMJ 2003; 326: 1393. [Full text]  
 
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Imported cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome to Singapore had impact on national epidemic
Annelies Wilder-Smith and Nicholas I Paton
BMJ 2003; 326: 1393-1394. [Full text]  
 
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Clinical outcome after inpatient outbreak of SARS in Singapore
Yu-Meng Tan, Pierce KH Chow, and Khee-Chee Soo
BMJ 2003; 326: 1394. [Full text]  
 
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Private hospital in Singapore took effective control measures
S C Yeoh, E Lee, B W Lee, and D L Goh
BMJ 2003; 326: 1394. [Full text]  
 
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Guidelines were drawn up collaboratively to protect healthcare workers in British Columbia
Annalee Yassi, Michael A Noble, Patricia Daly, and Elizabeth Bryce
BMJ 2003; 326: 1394-1395. [Full text]  
 
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Numbers do not tell whole story
Ying-Hen Hsieh and Cathy Woan-Shu Chen
BMJ 2003; 326: 1395-1396. [Full text]  
 
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Capture-recapture method should be used to count how many cases of SARS really exist
John H Lange and Ronald E LaPorte
BMJ 2003; 326: 1396. [Full text]  
 
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Lessons may be learnt from the outbreak of legionnaires' disease in Barrow in Furness
Andrew F Smith, Cathy Wild, and John Law
BMJ 2003; 326: 1396. [Full text]  
 
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Threat of tuberculosis persists
Peter D O Davies
BMJ 2003; 326: 1396. [Full text]  
 
  BMJ was out of touch with grass roots doctors on wellbeing
Adrian Fogarty
BMJ 2003; 326: 1396-1397. [Full text]  
 
  Mortality control charts: Assessment of outcome is complex
Frank A Frizelle and John Frye
BMJ 2003; 326: 1397. [Full text]  
 
  Mortality control charts: Both components of POSSUM ratio require critical analysis
George A Khoury
BMJ 2003; 326: 1397. [Full text]  
 
  What hospital mortality league tables tell you
Paul Aylin, Sir Brian Jarman, and Tim Kelsey
BMJ 2003; 326: 1397-1398. [Full text]  
 
  Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy: Preparations containing oestrogen should not be given during treatment for breast cancer
Christopher P Hinton, Claire Coventry, and Bridget Borrowclough
BMJ 2003; 326: 1398. [Full text]  
 
  Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy: Bisphosphonates should not be recommended for women aged 50
Susan M Ott
BMJ 2003; 326: 1398. [Full text]  
 
  Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy: Authors' reply
Janice Rymer, Ruth Wilson, and Karen Ballard
BMJ 2003; 326: 1398-1399. [Full text]  
 
  Pressure index is important in peripheral arterial disease
Robert E Brightwell and Isam S Osman
BMJ 2003; 326: 1399. [Full text]  
 
  Setting global health research priorities: Investments for health research for developing countries must be increased
Mohammad Abdur Rab
BMJ 2003; 326: 1399. [Full text]  
 
  Setting global health research priorities: Ethics should also guide global health research
Tikki Pang
BMJ 2003; 326: 1399. [Full text]  
 
  Mental health is improved with teaching therapy
Tina Coldham
BMJ 2003; 326: 1399. [Full text]  
 

Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

Olikoye Ransome-Kuti [Full text]  
Lewis Bernard Cannell [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Mary Alexa Clayton ("Maureen") Cowell [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Patrick Murphy [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Kunal Raychaudhuri [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Vernon Hope Smith [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Martin John Wood [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Arthur Lewis Wyman [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Web: SARS Reference
James Maskalyk [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Book: Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
Marga Hogenboom [Full text]  

 

Press: How the media left the evidence out in the cold
Gary Schwitzer [Full text]  

 

Website of the week: SARS art
Trevor Jackson [Full text]  

 

Personal views

Argentina: torture, silence, and medical teaching
Luis Justo [Full text]  

 

Soundings

PIGPEN therapy for head lice
Trisha Greenhalgh [Full text]  

 

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

 

POEM*: It's all right to give analgesics to patients with abdominal pain [Full text] [PDF]  
One hundred years ago: A vaccination compliment [Full text] [PDF]  
Getting back into medicine [Full text] [PDF]  
Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]  

Corrections

 

  Risk of subsequent thromboembolism for patients with pre-eclampsia
BMJ 2003; 326: 1362. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Venous thromboembolism: treatment strategies
BMJ 2003; 326: 1362. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Career focus

 

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

 

A career in metabolic medicine
Tahseen A Chowdhury, Stephen Bloom, and Robert Cramb [Full text]  

 

An attachment in liaison psychiatry for hospital doctors
Ignasi Agell and Manoj Kumar [Full text]  

 

How to become a publisher: part 2
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli [Full text]  

 

THE DOCTOR WHO INFLUENCED ME MOST: Christopher Lynch on Sir Alec Turnbull
Peter Cross [Full text]  

 

PROFILE: From devastated mother to pioneering researcher
Mareeni Raymond [Full text]  

 

THE WAY I SEE IT: Children's diabetic camps: doctors can gain too
Victoria Dublon and Anu Morjaria [Full text]  

 

Tips on...: Leading a team
Mark Griffiths [Full text]  

 

SOAP OPERA: Episode 29: David finds out
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 

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