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bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 14 December 2002

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This issue's table of contents:

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Editor's Choice

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Doing better with everyday clinical problems

This Week in the BMJ

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Self help intervention during antenatal care fails to cut smoking

Topical beta blockers may cause new airways obstruction

Worldwide gastroschisis epidemic

Early CT improves diagnosis in abdominal pain

Emergency contraception is not an easy choice

Papers with competing interests are less credible

Introduction of NHS Direct did not cause under-reporting of flu

Editorials

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Interim smallpox guidelines for the United Kingdom

Richard Harling, Dilys Morgan, W John Edmunds, and Helen Campbell

BMJ 2002;325 1371-1372

Evaluating treatment effects reliably

Martin J Landray and Gary Whitlock

BMJ 2002;325 1372-1373

Ultrasound guided central venous access

Manfred Muhm

BMJ 2002;325 1373-1374

Influences of the media on suicide

Keith Hawton and Kathryn Williams

BMJ 2002;325 1374-1375

Making progress with competing interests

Richard Smith

BMJ 2002;325 1375-1376

News

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Atrial fibrillation: rate as important as rhythm

FDA limits research of former AHA president for submitting false information

In brief

UK royal colleges publish competency based curriculums

Countries with better health systems have better football teams

Novartis breached code after doctors say it "invented" a disease

Congress criticises drugs industry for misleading advertising

Doctor may face manslaughter charges after a confidential report is made public

Ageing workforce will exacerbate NHS staffing crisis

Proposals for UK body to investigate research fraud "lack teeth"

News roundup

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HIV infection rate among South African children found to be 5.6%

Jennifer Colman sues the GMC for {pound}5.2m

Oregon’s governor apologises for forced sterilisations

Air pollution responsible for 600 000 premature deaths worldwide

India announces plan to inform HIV infected blood donors

Exhibition will act as hospital’s memorial

EU ministers support draft legislation for patients to be treated abroad

Tobacco giant wins appeal over document shredding

News Extra

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"Alternative" cigarettes are no safer than conventional brands, report says

Papers

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Self help smoking cessation in pregnancy: cluster randomised controlled trial

Laurence Moore, Rona Campbell, Amanda Whelan, Nicola Mills, Phillippa

Lupton, Elizabeth Misselbrook, and Julie Frohlich

BMJ 2002;325 1383

Evaluation of early abdominopelvic computed tomography in patients with acute abdominal pain of unknown cause: prospective randomised study

Chaan S Ng, Christopher J E Watson, Christopher R Palmer, Teik Choon

See, Nigel A Beharry, Barbara A Housden, J Andrew Bradley, and Adrian

K Dixon

BMJ 2002;325 1387

Prevalence of gastroschisis at birth: retrospective study

Gian Luca Di Tanna, Aldo Rosano, and Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo

BMJ 2002;325 1389-1390

Mortality from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in England and Wales: analysis of death certificates

N S Crowcroft and M Catchpole

BMJ 2002;325 1390-1391

Does declaration of competing interests affect readers' perceptions? A randomised trial

Samena Chaudhry, Sara Schroter, Richard Smith, and Julie Morris

BMJ 2002;325 1391-1392

Primary care

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Young women's accounts of factors influencing their use and non-use of emergency contraception: in-depth interview study

Caroline Free, Raymond M Lee, and Jane Ogden

BMJ 2002;325 1393

beta Blockers for glaucoma and excess risk of airways obstruction: population based cohort study

James F Kirwan, Julia A Nightingale, Catey Bunce, and Richard Wormald

BMJ 2002;325 1396-1397

Impact of NHS Direct on general practice consultations during the winter of 1999-2000: analysis of routinely collected data

Rachel S Chapman, Gillian E Smith, Fiona Warburton, Richard T Mayon-White, and Douglas M Fleming

BMJ 2002;325 1397-1398

Clinical Review

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Recent developments in gastroenterology

Paul Moayyedi and Alex Ford

BMJ 2002;325 1399-1402

How does it work?: Alcohol breath testing

Abi Berger

BMJ 2002;325 1403

ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Antithrombotic strategies in acute coronary syndromes and percutaneous coronary interventions

Derek L Connolly, Gregory Y H Lip, and Bernard S P Chin

BMJ 2002;325 1404-1407

Education and Debate

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Managing acute renal colic across the primary-secondary care interface: a pathway of care based on evidence and consensus

P J Wright, P J English, A P S Hungin, and S N E Marsden

BMJ 2002;325 1408-1412

How the tobacco industry responded to an influential study of the health effects of secondhand smoke

Mi-Kyung Hong and Lisa A Bero

BMJ 2002;325 1413-1416

Letters

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Screening for domestic violence

Jo Nurse, Samuel T Bauer, Elizabeth M Shadigian, Peter Davies, Angela Taft, Kelsey Hegarty, Mike Crilly, Andy Howe, Mary M Goodwin, PatriciaDietz, Alison M Spitz, Ileana Arias, Linda E Saltzman, Gene Feder, and

Birte Twisselmann

BMJ 2002;325 1417

Association between competing interests and conclusions

Benjamin Djulbegovic and Adam Jacobs

BMJ 2002;325 1420

Treating head injuries

Vincenzo Bonicalzi, Sergio Canavero, Peter Baxter, Charles Stack, Judith Short, Tarek A Gaber, and Mamoun Mobayed

BMJ 2002;325 1420

Robust evidence is needed in treating acne

Sarah Garner, Anne Eady, and Tony Avery

BMJ 2002;325 1422

Galantamine may be effective in treating autistic disorder

Helmut Niederhofer, W Staffen, and A Mair

BMJ 2002;325 1422

Broad statements do not tell whole story of prison medicine

I Jamieson

BMJ 2002;325 1422

Watchfulness may not be as good as surgery for prostate cancer

Paul B Silcocks

BMJ 2002;325 1423

People with partial hearing need to seek hearing potential

Richard A Preiss

BMJ 2002;325 1423

On communication---editors and reporters should not be blamed

Michael O'Donnell

BMJ 2002;325 1423

Obituaries

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Morris Nathan Young

Charlotte Morrison Anderson

John Stewart Boyd

John Singleton Darling

Duncan Macdonald

James Anderson McFadzean

Bhagwan Dayal Shrivastava

Alun Lloyd Thomas

Sarah Catherine Betty Walker

Reviews

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Book: Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

Cameron Stark

BMJ 2002;325 1426

Book: A Mind of its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis

Birte Twisselmann

BMJ 2002;325 1427

Film: Dirty Pretty Things

Anna Ellis

BMJ 2002;325 1427

Film: Those who are Jesus

Sean A Spence

BMJ 2002;325 1428

Website of the week: Drinking, driving, and playing Tetris

Marcus Mullner

BMJ 2002;325 1428

Hit parade BMJ 2002;325 1428

Personal Views:

My mother's name was Jan

Kevin Perrett

BMJ 2002;325 1429

Soundings:

Protect and survive

Trisha Greenhalgh

BMJ 2002;325 1429

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: Steroid injections may be better than shock wave therapy for tennis

elbow, but this study has too many biases to conclude this confidently

Endpiece: Age and wisdom

Endpiece: Cost of candles

Endpiece: Surgical training

Submitting articles to the BMJ

Corrections

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Private doctors must improve their TB treatment

Work stress and risk of cardiovascular mortality: prospective cohort study

of industrial employees

Career focus

Nurse led follow up and conventional medical follow up in management of

patients with lung cancer: randomised trial

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2002;325 199

Chairing meetings

Judith Harvey

BMJ 2002;325 199

Getting attached to NICE

Elizabeth Davies

BMJ 2002;325 201

The Hippokrates programme

Josep Vidal Alaball and Per Kallestrup

BMJ 2002;325 202

Profile: Stephanie Bown

Catriona Richardson

BMJ 2002;325 203

The way I see it: Jury service for doctors---why bother?

Rajesh Varma

BMJ 2002;325 204

TIPS ON...: How to get the most from multiprofessional team meetings

Jason Ward

BMJ 2002;325 204

Soap opera: Episode 3: Two postcards for Martha Millstone

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2002;325 205

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