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28 June 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7404)
 
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Other Issues:
 Editor's choice
This week in the BMJ
Editorials
News
News roundup
News extra
Papers
Primary care
Information 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 most important BMJ for 50 years?
Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]  

 

This week in the BMJ

 

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

 

Pill could reduce cardiovascular disease considerably [Full text]
Measure cholesterol in everyone over 50 [Full text]
Paperless records are better than traditional system [Full text]
Scottish hospital consultants deprecate on-call workload [Full text]
Genetic epidemiology can help control Chagas' disease in Latin America [Full text]

Editorials

 

  A cure for cardiovascular disease?
Anthony Rodgers
BMJ 2003; 326: 1407-1408. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Managing chronic pain in children and adolescents
Christopher Eccleston and Peter Malleson
BMJ 2003; 326: 1408-1409. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  What next for human gene therapy?
Eric T Juengst
BMJ 2003; 326: 1410-1411. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Persistent atrial fibrillation: rate control or rhythm control
Christopher J Boos, Ranjit S More, and Jörg Carlsson
BMJ 2003; 326: 1411-1412. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  The return of Questions and answers
Tony Delamothe
BMJ 2003; 326: 1412. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

News

 

Genetics white paper heralds "a revolution in health care" [Full text] [PDF]  
In brief [Full text] [PDF]  
MPs call for smacking to be outlawed [Full text] [PDF]  
NICE recommends greater use of CT imaging for head injuries [Full text] [PDF]  
Lack of allergy specialists drives patients to alternative treatments [Full text] [PDF]  
GPs accept contract, but consultants ask for ballot on industrial action [Full text] [PDF]  
Annual deaths from mesothelioma in Britain to reach 2000 by 2010 [Full text] [PDF]  
Racism rife in the medical profession, BMA report says [Full text] [PDF]  
Former US assistant surgeon general to edit BMJ USA [Full text] [PDF]  
Advanced scanning techniques help doctors stage prostate cancer [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

Hospital apologises for remarks following after IVF mix-up [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Medical groups fight to stop doctors working for months without registration [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
"Saviour sibling" is born after embryo selection in the United States [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Ombudsman's ruling on long term care prompts 50% rise in complaints [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Professor is replaced as lead scientist while GMC investigates his research [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Privy Council overturns GMC’s erasure of psychiatrist [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
American Medical Association approves stem cell research [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

Conference recommends joint training for doctors and health service managers [Full text]  
Enforced humour annoys patients [Full text]  
£300m of NHS fraud was prevented over past four years, agency says [Full text]  
Lack of health insurance costs up to $130bn in illness and premature death [Full text]  
Canadian health experts demand that tobacco firms stop using term "light" [Full text]  
Mental activity may help prevent dementia [Full text]  
NICE guidance clarifies when to do preoperative tests in elective surgery [Full text]  

 

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Papers

 

A strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 80%
N J Wald and M R Law
BMJ 2003; 326: 1419. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Tables]  
 
Quantifying effect of statins on low density lipoprotein cholesterol, ischaemic heart disease, and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis
M R Law, N J Wald, and A R Rudnicka
BMJ 2003; 326: 1423. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: References and tables]  
 
Value of low dose combination treatment with blood pressure lowering drugs: analysis of 354 randomised trials
M R Law, N J Wald, J K Morris, and R E Jordan
BMJ 2003; 326: 1427. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
What do hospital consultants value about their jobs? A discrete choice experiment
Cristina Ubach, Anthony Scott, Fiona French, Morag Awramenko, and Gillian Needham
BMJ 2003; 326: 1432. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Primary care

 

Comparison of methods to identify individuals at increased risk of coronary disease from the general population
S Wilson, A Johnston, J Robson, N Poulter, D Collier, G Feder, and M J Caulfield
BMJ 2003; 326: 1436. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Information in practice

 

The electronic patient record in primary care—regression or progression? A cross sectional study
Julia Hippisley-Cox, Mike Pringle, Ruth Cater, Alison Wynn, Vicky Hammersley, Carol Coupland, Rhydian Hapgood, Peter Horsfield, Sheila Teasdale, and Christine Johnson
BMJ 2003; 326: 1439-1443. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Definitions used in assessing medical records]  
 

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Clinical review

 

  Science, medicine, and the future: American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) and the role of molecular epidemiology in guiding control strategies
Michael A Miles, M Dora Feliciangeli, and Antonieta Rojas de Arias
BMJ 2003; 326: 1444-1448. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  How does it work?: Positron emission tomography
Abi Berger
BMJ 2003; 326: 1449. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ABC of interventional cardiology: Percutaneous coronary intervention: cardiogenic shock
John Ducas and Ever D Grech
BMJ 2003; 326: 1450-1452. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Education and debate

 

  Effect of interpretive bias on research evidence
Ted J Kaptchuk
BMJ 2003; 326: 1453-1455. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Further references]  
 

Letters

 

  This week's letters [PDF]
 
  Ethics of clinical trials from bayesian perspective: Randomisation to clinical trials may solve dilemma of treatment choice in prostate cancer
Freddie C Hamdy, Jenny L Donovan, J Athene Lane, and David E Neal
BMJ 2003; 326: 1456. [Full text]  
 
  Ethics of clinical trials from bayesian perspective: Medical decision making should use posteriors, not priors
Stephen Frankel, Jonathan Sterne, and Shah Ebrahim
BMJ 2003; 326: 1456. [Full text]  
 
  Ethics of clinical trials from bayesian perspective: Society's role is important
Stephen J Senn
BMJ 2003; 326: 1456-1457. [Full text]  
 
  Ethics of clinical trials from bayesian perspective: Patients make fully informed choices about entry to trials
Ian H Kunkler
BMJ 2003; 326: 1457. [Full text]  
 
  Maintaining perioperative normothermia: Hyperthermia must be avoided
C Mark Hearn and K Chandradeva
BMJ 2003; 326: 1457. [Full text]  
 
  Maintaining perioperative normothermia: Forced air warming devices require risk assessments before use
Richard P D Cooke and Mandy Catchpole
BMJ 2003; 326: 1457. [Full text]  
 
  Screening for cancer with computed tomography: Screening in private sector has knock on effects in public sector in two tier health systems
Andrew C Mason
BMJ 2003; 326: 1457-1458. [Full text]  
 
  Screening for cancer with computed tomography: History repeats itself in another manifestation of "executive physical examinations"
Alan P Zelicoff
BMJ 2003; 326: 1458. [Full text]  
 
  Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption: Brief interventions have useful long term results
David A Brown
BMJ 2003; 326: 1458. [Full text]  
 
  Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption: An apple a day may be the secret
Stephen F Hayes
BMJ 2003; 326: 1458. [Full text]  
 
  Age related macular degeneration: Smoking entails major risk of blindness
C Simon P Kelly, Richard Edwards, Peter Elton, and Paul Mitchell
BMJ 2003; 326: 1458-1459. [Full text]  
 
  Age related macular degeneration: Macular relocation surgery was not taken into account
David Wong, David G Charteris, and Lyndon da Cruz
BMJ 2003; 326: 1459. [Full text]  
 
  Age related macular degeneration: Authors' reply
Amresh Chopdar, Usha Chakravarthy, and Dinesh Verma
BMJ 2003; 326: 1459-1460. [Full text]  
 
  Helicobacter pylori in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease needs comparator
Grigoris I Leontiadis, Savvas Kadis, Virender K Sharma, and Colin W Howden
BMJ 2003; 326: 1460. [Full text]  
 
  Doctors' performance needs to be discussed
Carmel M Martin and William Hogg
BMJ 2003; 326: 1460. [Full text]  
 
  Booster campaign is no incentive for parents
J G Daniels
BMJ 2003; 326: 1460. [Full text]  
 

Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

Eric George Lapthorne Bywaters [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Ronald Rodger Gordon [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
David Annis [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Edward Crosby Field [Full text]  
Carol Ann Henderson (née Ainsworth) [Full text]  
Beatrice Lewis [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Geoffrey Norman Lumb [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Colin Monteith Steven [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Grace Blain Steven (née Aitken) [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Radio: Refugee Doctors
Adrian Gonzalez [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Book: How the Cows Turned Mad
Markus Otto [Full text]  

 

Netlines: NETLINES
Harry Brown [Full text]  

 

Ads: IBS ad puts drug promotion under scrutiny
Melissa Sweet [Full text]  

 

Personal views

The value of agony aunts
Petra M Boynton [Full text]  

 

Soundings

Towards the cessation of smoking
Imre Loefler [Full text]  

 

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

 

POEM*: Breast feeding is associated with fewer hospitalisations [Full text] [PDF]  
Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]  
One hundred years ago: Up-to-date journalism [Full text] [PDF]  
Balloney [Full text] [PDF]  
Inappropriate prophylaxis for long haul flights [Full text] [PDF]  
Endpiece: In praise of neurotics [Full text] [PDF]  

Corrections

 

  ATAC trial: reports of interim results can be misleading
BMJ 2003; 326: 1460. [Full text]  
 

Career focus

 

   
THIS WEEK: THIS WEEK
Rhona MacDonald [Full text]  

 

Pick'n' mix career options for GPs
Andrew Thornett, Ruth Chambers, and Maureen Baker [Full text]  

 

Teaching fellow posts during vocational training in general practice
Mari Lloyd-Williams, Anthony Clark, and Lucy Witcome [Full text]  

 

Batten down or fight?
Shelagh Bullimore [Full text]  

 

Choosing the right GP trainer
Peter Aquino and Petre Jones [Full text]  

 

PROFILE: Making things happen
Peter Cross [Full text]  

 

Tips on...: Appraisal [Full text]  

 

SOAP OPERA: Episode 30: Marital therapy
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 

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