This Week In BMJ - October 12, 2002

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12 October 2002 (Volume 325, Issue 7368)

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Other Issues:

Editor's choice

This week in the BMJ

Editorials

News

News roundup

News extra

Papers

Primary care

Learning in practice

Clinical review

Education and debate

Letters

Obituaries

reviews

Minerva

Fillers

Career focus

Press releases

Editor's choice

Genes and ethics [Full text] [PDF]

This week in the BMJ

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

Scales do not assess the risk of pressure ulcers [Full text]

Blood pressure helps diagnose brain lesions [Full text]

Childhood circumstances linked to cardiovascular disease [Full text]

Successful withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs can be predicted [Full text]

Larger reserves of blood needed for ageing population [Full text]

Parathyroidectomy doesn't cure renal stone disease [Full text]

Patients are becoming more important as teachers in medical training [Full text]

Curtains with insecticide reduce rates of cutaneous leishmaniasis [Full text]

Child health professionals still believe in "teething" [Full text]

Editorials

	Surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism Henrik Ancher Sørensen BMJ 2002; 325: 785-786. [Full text] [PDF]

	Medical school applicationsa critical situation I C McManus BMJ 2002; 325: 786-787. [Full text] [PDF]

	Volume of procedures and outcome of treatment Michael Soljak BMJ 2002; 325: 787-788. [Full text] [PDF]

	Urinary stress incontinence G J Maddern, P F Middleton, and A M Grant BMJ 2002; 325: 789-790. [Full text] [PDF]

	Your career: planning for the unexpected Richard Smith BMJ 2002; 325: 790. [Full text] [PDF]

News

Human genome pioneers are awarded Nobel prize [Full text] [PDF]

Rules on gene therapy are tightened after leukaemia alert [Full text] [PDF]

In brief [Full text] [PDF]

Genomes of the malaria mosquito and parasite are sequenced [Full text] [PDF]

Breast self examination does not improve cancer survival [Full text] [PDF]

Pregnancy and early smoking increases breast cancer risk [Full text] [PDF]

Selling a kidney fails to rescue Indians from poverty [Full text] [PDF]

Report demands better protection for people in research trials [Full text] [PDF]

Developed countries should not impose ethics on other countries [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup

Cost price drugs for developing countries are found in Belgian pharmacies [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Jury awards $28bn in punitive damages to former smoker [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Cocaine use rises markedly among 16-29 year olds [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

College tells tobacco company to take its money elsewhere [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

BMA says world is ill prepared for bioterrorism [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

US health officials recommend offering smallpox vaccination to all [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

GMC opposes EU proposal to allow greater freedom of movement for doctors [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

US tackles drug company gifts to doctors [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra

Programme to discover how to reduce mortality among mothers is launched [Full text]

Lump sums for children taking part in research may distort parents’ judgment [Full text]

Commission criticises trust that makes its patients eat supper at 4 30 pm [Full text]

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Papers

	Prospective cohort study of routine use of risk assessment scales for prediction of pressure ulcers Lisette Schoonhoven, Jeen R E Haalboom, Mente T Bousema, Ale Algra, Diederick E Grobbee, Maria H Grypdonck, and Erik Buskens BMJ 2002; 325: 797. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Using vital signs to diagnose impaired consciousness: cross sectional observational study Masayuki Ikeda, Takashi Matsunaga, Noritsugu Irabu, and Shohji Yoshida BMJ 2002; 325: 800. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Where does blood go? Prospective observational study of red cell transfusion in north England A W Wells, P J Mounter, C E Chapman, D Stainsby, and J P Wallis BMJ 2002; 325: 803. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Socioeconomic position in childhood and adulthood and insulin resistance: cross sectional survey using data from British women's heart and health study Debbie A Lawlor, Shah Ebrahim, and George Davey Smith BMJ 2002; 325: 805. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Risk of renal stone events in primary hyperparathyroidism before and after parathyroid surgery: controlled retrospective follow up study Charlotte L Mollerup, Peter Vestergaard, Vibe Gedsø Frøkjær, Leif Mosekilde, Peer Christiansen, and Mogens Blichert-Toft BMJ 2002; 325: 807. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Insecticide impregnated curtains to control domestic transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Venezuela: cluster randomised trial Axel Kroeger, Elci Villegas Avila, and Linda Morison BMJ 2002; 325: 810-813. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Teething symptoms: cross sectional survey of five groups of child health professionals Melissa Wake and Kylie Hesketh BMJ 2002; 325: 814. [Full text] [PDF]

Primary care

	Predictors of normotension on withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs in elderly patients: prospective study in second Australian national blood pressure study cohort Mark R Nelson, Chris M Reid, Henry Krum, Tui Muir, Philip Ryan, and John J McNeil BMJ 2002; 325: 815-817. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

Learning in practice

	Developing the role of patients as teachers: literature review Geoff Wykurz and Diana Kelly BMJ 2002; 325: 818-821. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Box, table and extra references]

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Clinical review

	Squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck • Commentary: Head and neck carcinomas in the developing world R J Sanderson, J A D Ironside, and William I Wei BMJ 2002; 325: 822-827. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Information]

	ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Bleeding risks of antithrombotic therapy David A Fitzmaurice, Andrew D Blann, and Gregory Y H Lip BMJ 2002; 325: 828-831. [Full text] [PDF]

Education and debate

	Evaluating complementary medicine: methodological challenges of randomised controlled trials Su Mason, Philip Tovey, and Andrew F Long BMJ 2002; 325: 832-834. [Full text] [PDF]

Letters

	This week's letters [PDF]

	Ethical market in organs Ignazio R Marino, Claudia Cirillo, Alessandra Cattoi, Jeremy P Wight, Stephen J Wigmore, Jen A Lumsdaine, and John L R Forsythe BMJ 2002; 325: 835. [Full text]

	Diagnosing brain death David J Hill, Peter Hutton, Peter Nightingale, Saxon Ridley, and Alasdair Short BMJ 2002; 325: 836. [Full text]

	Adrenal insufficiency after treatment with fluticasone Brian J Lipworth, Lydia Pescollderungg, Angelo Pietrobelli, Attilio L Boner, Abdullah Sh Mohamed, Leena Patel, Peter E Clayton, and Birte Twisselmann BMJ 2002; 325: 836. [Full text]

	Education on preventing HIV is paramount Tim Wiggin, William A K Banda, Matson Dezi, Hop Chipwatali, Moffat Kachombo, and Andrew Mkawa BMJ 2002; 325: 838. [Full text]

	September 11 might be shock treatment for addressing global health inequalities Niyi Awofeso BMJ 2002; 325: 838. [Full text]

	Results of study on walk-in centres are only to be expected Andrew J Cave BMJ 2002; 325: 839. [Full text]

	More on doctors and pilots Peter A West and Ian Callanan BMJ 2002; 325: 839. [Full text]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

John Oliver Pearce Edgcumbe [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Austin Gerard O'Malley [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Charles Anthony Rushmer [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Cyril Valentine Shanahan [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Joseph Sharkey [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

William Marshall Walker [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Peter Hansell [Full text]

reviews

Multimedia

Book: Y: The Descent of Men: Fred Kavalier [Full text] [PDF]

Book: Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy: Druin Burch [Full text]

Netlines: Harry Brown [Full text]

Press: MS and sex link puts neurologist in hotseat: Geoff Watts [Full text]

Personal views

Is general practice really so bad?: Robin Gatenby [Full text]

Soundings

Night dive: Kevin Barraclough [Full text]

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

Endpiece: It works in every country [Full text]

Erving Goffman revisited [Full text] [PDF]

Of middle years and white coats [Full text] [PDF]

The cycle of abuse goes on [Full text]

Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]

Career focus

This week's Career focus section [PDF]

This week:: Rhona MacDonald [Full text]

Gastroenterology: Janusz Jankowski, John de Caestecker, Bertus Eksteen, and Ian Perry [Full text]

My beautiful career: Philip Hadridge and Rhona MacDonald [Full text]

TIPS ON...: Conducting interviews: Ruth McGuire [Full text]

The Doctors' Support Line: Lizzie Miller [Full text]

Profile: Iain Hutchinson: Deborah Cohen [Full text]

The way I see it: Working as a Spanish GP in London: Ana Garaikoetxea [Full text]

TIPS ON...: Self directed learning: Wai-Ching Leung [Full text]

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