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3 May 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7396)
 
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 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
Career focus
Press releases

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Editor's choice

 

Smoke free journal?
Kamran Abbasi [Full text]  

 

This week in the BMJ

 

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

 

Fatty acid supplementation in infancy reduces blood pressure later in childhood [Full text]
Using non-invasive ventilation in wards may save British hospitals money [Full text]
Valproic acid prescriptions are rising without evidence [Full text]
Are telephone consultations too risky? [Full text]
Smoking is normal for south Asian men [Full text]

Editorials

 

  Smoke free hospitals
Martin McKee, Anna Gilmore, and Thomas E Novotny
BMJ 2003; 326: 941-942. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Comparing cannabis with tobacco
John A Henry, William L G Oldfield, and Onn Min Kon
BMJ 2003; 326: 942-943. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  People missing as a result of armed conflict
Robin Coupland and Stephen Cordner
BMJ 2003; 326: 943-944. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Biventricular pacing for heart failure
Rebecca E Lane, Jamil Mayet, and Nicholas S Peters
BMJ 2003; 326: 944-945. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Scientific literature's open sesame?
Tony Delamothe, Fiona Godlee, and Richard Smith
BMJ 2003; 326: 945-946. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

News

 

SARS may have peaked in Canada, Hong Kong, and Vietnam [Full text] [PDF]  
In brief [Full text] [PDF]  
Canada insists that it is a safe place to visit [Full text] [PDF]  
SARS could still affect the United Kingdom, health secretary warns [Full text] [PDF]  
Mammography screening nearly halves breast cancer mortality [Full text] [PDF]  
Sigmoidoscopy screening every five years may be too frequent [Full text] [PDF]  
Roll Back Malaria campaign still has a long way to go [Full text] [PDF]  
Royal Society warns of risks from depleted uranium [Full text] [PDF]  
GlaxoSmithKline takes legal action to block new controls on its smoking cessation drug [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

Patients’ own marrow cells improve heart function [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Lumbar punctures could be used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Stem cells in tooth pulp could be used in research [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
United States proposes new HIV testing initiative [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Australian GPs face red tape crisis, commission says [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Helpline for patients to report adverse reactions is piloted in England [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
GMC announces its new lay appointments [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
French government cuts payments for "moderately useful" drugs [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

Iraqi doctors return to work, but patients still face acute shortages of drugs [Full text]  
Trials of AIDS vaccine to start in India [Full text]  
Trials of AIDS vaccine to start in Switzerland and United Kingdom [Full text]  
Exercise and dietary advice can reduce blood pressure [Full text]  
Canadian patients threaten to sue over cancelled operations [Full text]  
US food safety regulations are out of date, report says [Full text]  
Vet dies from pneumonia in avian flu case [Full text]  
Scientists harvest stem cells from blastocysts created by parthenogenesis [Full text]  
New ventilation system can reduce deaths from acute respiratory distress syndrome [Full text]  
Women with breast cancer are more likely to have high blood levels of pesticides [Full text]  

 

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Papers

 

Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in infant formula and blood pressure in later childhood: follow up of a randomised controlled trial
J S Forsyth, P Willatts, C Agostoni, J Bissenden, P Casaer, and G Boehm
BMJ 2003; 326: 953. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Cost effectiveness of ward based non-invasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: economic analysis of randomised controlled trial
P K Plant, J L Owen, S Parrott, and M W Elliott
BMJ 2003; 326: 956. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Loss of tolerance and overdose mortality after inpatient opiate detoxification: follow up study
John Strang, Jim McCambridge, David Best, Tracy Beswick, Jenny Bearn, Sian Rees, and Michael Gossop
BMJ 2003; 326: 959-960. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Changing prescription patterns for lithium and valproic acid in old age: shifting practice without evidence
Kenneth I Shulman, Paula Rochon, Kathy Sykora, Geoffrey Anderson, Muhammad Mamdani, Susan Bronskill, and Chau T T Tran
BMJ 2003; 326: 960-961. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Primary care

 

Understanding influences on smoking in Bangladeshi and Pakistani adults: community based, qualitative study
Judith Bush, Martin White, Joe Kai, Judith Rankin, and Raj Bhopal
BMJ 2003; 326: 962. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Information in practice

 

  Telephone consultations
Josip Car and Aziz Sheikh
BMJ 2003; 326: 966-969. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Extra references]  
 

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Clinical review

 

  Cerebral palsy: what parents and doctors want to know
Peter Rosenbaum
BMJ 2003; 326: 970-974. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Interactive case report: A 42 year old man with acute chest pain: case progression
G Sodeck, B Partik, and H Domanovits
BMJ 2003; 326: 974. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Lesson of the week: Benign sleep myoclonus in infancy mistaken for epilepsy
Joseph Egger, Gabriele Grossmann, and Ian A Auchterlonie
BMJ 2003; 326: 975-976. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ABC of diabetes: The diabetic foot
Peter J Watkins
BMJ 2003; 326: 977-979. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Education and debate

 

  Ethics of clinical trials from a bayesian and decision analytic perspective: whose equipoise is it anyway?
Richard J Lilford
BMJ 2003; 326: 980-981. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Letters

 

  This week's letters [PDF]
 
  Screening for depression in primary care
William P Plummer, Traolach S Brugha, Tom Fahey, Frank Sullivan, Steve MacGillivray, Verena Henkel, Roland Mergl, and Ulrich Hegerl
BMJ 2003; 326: 982. [Full text]  
 
  Cardiovascular mortality after radiotherapy for breast cancer
Ian H Kunkler and Adrian N Harnett
BMJ 2003; 326: 983. [Full text]  
 
  Monitoring marketing of infant formula feeds
Magda Sachs and Andrée Bronner
BMJ 2003; 326: 984. [Full text]  
 
  Australian Medical Association accepts generic prescribing
Kerryn Phelps
BMJ 2003; 326: 985. [Full text]  
 
  New edicts for letters
Douglas G Altman, Sean Bydder, Andrew N Bamji, W R Lee, and Robert Richardson
BMJ 2003; 326: 985. [Full text]  
 
  Autism spectrum disorder is not as certain as implied
David Simpson
BMJ 2003; 326: 986. [Full text]  
 
  Perhaps medicine should now be considered a trade
Robert A Knuppel
BMJ 2003; 326: 986. [Full text]  
 
  Personality and performance during a medical degree
Woody Caan and D R Nethercott
BMJ 2003; 326: 986. [Full text]  
 

Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

Mark Swerdlow [Full text]  
Richard ("Dick") Alexander Blaiklock [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Dawn Kharissa Elvira Chance [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Samantha Irene Hoare (née White) [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Ronald James Howd [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Ewart Martin Jepson [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Cyril Hugh Kinder [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Patricia Morley [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Marcus Aurelius ("Aurel") Stefan [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Book: Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People • In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis
Ian Roberts [Full text] [PDF]  

 

TV: Dying for Drugs
Jeff Aronson [Full text]  

 

Website of the week: Patient power in randomised controlled trials
Christopher Martyn [Full text]  

 

Personal views

The kindest insult
Jonathan Han [Full text]  

 

Soundings

Doing simple things well
Trisha Greenhalgh [Full text]  

 

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

 

POEM: Uterine fibroids are common in middle aged women [Full text] [PDF]  
Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]  
One hundred years ago: Degrees and how not to give them [Full text]  
Know your weed [Full text] [PDF]  

Career focus

 

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

 

Clinical environmental medicine
Honor Anthony [Full text]  

 

Working as a medical homoeopath
Kathy Ryan [Full text]  

 

Training in acupuncture
Colin Lewis and Richard Halvorsen [Full text]  

 

Hypnotherapy: hype or healing?
Rhona MacDonald [Full text]  

 

TIPS ON...: Referring to osteopathy
Mathew Cousins [Full text]  

 

Soap opera: Episode 22: The heavy squad
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 

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