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10 May 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7397)
 
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 Editor's choice
This week in the BMJ
Editorials
News
News roundup
News extra
Papers
BMJ family highlights
Primary care
Learning in practice
Clinical review
Education and debate
Letters
Obituaries
reviews
Minerva
Fillers
Career focus
Press releases

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Editor's choice

 

Unknown unknowns in suicide and depression
Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]  

 

This week in the BMJ

 

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

 

Co-proxamol overdose is an important means of suicide [Full text]
Some medical schools are better at preparing students for their first jobs [Full text]
Preregistration rotations in general practice are invaluable [Full text]
Better antidepressant prescribing is associated with fewer suicides [Full text]
Tricyclics and SSRIs are equally effective in primary care [Full text]
Long term complications are fewer after laparoscopic hernia repair [Full text]

Editorials

 

  Vulvovaginal candidiasis
Jeanne Marrazzo
BMJ 2003; 326: 993-994. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Liver cancer in low and middle income countries
Andrew J Hall and Christopher P Wild
BMJ 2003; 326: 994-995. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Safety and efficacy of combination vaccines
David Elliman and Helen Bedford
BMJ 2003; 326: 995-996. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Management of bacterial meningitis in adults
Jonathan Cohen
BMJ 2003; 326: 996-997. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  No-fault compensation systems
William J Gaine
BMJ 2003; 326: 997-998. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

News

 

Two strains of the SARS virus sequenced [Full text] [PDF]  
WHO warns that death rate from SARS could reach 10% [Full text] [PDF]  
In brief [Full text] [PDF]  
Health committee questions benefit of foundation hospitals to patients [Full text] [PDF]  
Food watchdog warns against high doses of vitamins and minerals [Full text] [PDF]  
Complementary medicines industry in crisis after recall of 1546 products [Full text] [PDF]  
New guidance on ECT looks set to curb its use [Full text] [PDF]  
Lundbeck broke advertising rules [Full text] [PDF]  
WHO to create international human resources database on health care [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

Australia proposes two tier system for paying for GP consultations [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
New slimmed down GMC takes shape [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Syrian doctor expelled from Hungary for allegedly supporting Hamas [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
France offers E800 reward for each new baby [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Occupational injuries to NHS staff in England increase by a quarter [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Child soldiers forgotten in Angola [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Men should eat nine servings of fruit and vegetables a day [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Poor housing continues to adversely affect heath of vulnerable groups [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

Containment of SARS depends on how it is handled in China [Full text]  
Toronto strives for normality after WHO lifts travel warning [Full text]  
FDA announces fast track approval of new drug for lung cancer [Full text]  
Advances in medical technology account for a third of the reduction in road traffic deaths [Full text]  
Handwashing programmes could be intervention of choice for diarrhoeal diseases [Full text]  

 

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Papers

 

Co-proxamol and suicide: a study of national mortality statistics and local non-fatal self poisonings
Keith Hawton, Sue Simkin, and Jonathan Deeks
BMJ 2003; 326: 1006-1008. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Association between antidepressant prescribing and suicide in Australia, 1991-2000: trend analysis
Wayne D Hall, Andrea Mant, Philip B Mitchell, Valerie A Rendle, Ian B Hickie, and Peter McManus
BMJ 2003; 326: 1008. [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Preregistration house officers' views on whether their experience at medical school prepared them well for their jobs: national questionnaire survey
Michael J Goldacre, Trevor Lambert, Julie Evans, and Gill Turner
BMJ 2003; 326: 1011-1012. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Prospective randomised controlled trial of laparoscopic versus open inguinal hernia mesh repair: five year follow up
M Douek, G Smith, A Oshowo, D L Stoker, and J M Wellwood
BMJ 2003; 326: 1012-1013. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

BMJ family highlights

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Primary care

 

Efficacy and tolerability of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors compared with tricyclic antidepressants in depression treated in primary care: systematic review and meta-analysis
Steve MacGillivray, Bruce Arroll, Simon Hatcher, Simon Ogston, Ian Reid, Frank Sullivan, Brian Williams, and Iain Crombie
BMJ 2003; 326: 1014. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: References]  
 
  10-minute consultation: Adverse drug event
Nick Dunn
BMJ 2003; 326: 1018. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Learning in practice

 

Preregistration house officers in general practice: review of evidence
Jan Illing, Tim van Zwanenberg, William F Cunningham, George Taylor, Cath O'Halloran, and Richard Prescott
BMJ 2003; 326: 1019-1022. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]  
 

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Clinical review

 

  Extracts from "Concise Clinical Evidence": Diabetic retinopathy • Commentary: Treatment of diabetic retinopathy
Simon Harding and Eva Kohner
BMJ 2003; 326: 1023-1025. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Lesson of the week: Zosteriform metastasis from melanoma
A V Evans, F J Child, and R Russell-Jones
BMJ 2003; 326: 1025-1026. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ABC of interventional cardiology: Pathophysiology and investigation of coronary artery disease
Ever D Grech
BMJ 2003; 326: 1027-1030. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Education and debate

 

  Giving citizens a voice in healthcare policy in Canada
Judith Maxwell, Steven Rosell, and Pierre-Gerlier Forest
BMJ 2003; 326: 1031-1033. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Letters

 

  This week's letters [PDF]
 
  Ten ways to improve information technology in the NHS
Steven Ford, Duncan Keeley, Murray Flett, Paul Heaton, Donald M Mackay, Caroline Papi, Nia Roberts, Nicola Bexon, and Ketan Dhatariya
BMJ 2003; 326: 1034. [Full text]  
 
  Closing the digital divide
Andrew D Weeks and Malcolm Grant
BMJ 2003; 326: 1035. [Full text]  
 
  Folate and risk of cardiovascular disease
David S Wald, Malcolm Law, Joan Morris, Nicholas J Wald, Joseph Hung, John P Beilby, Matthew W Knuiman, and Mark Divitini
BMJ 2003; 326: 1035. [Full text]  
 
  Chronic cough
Mike Thomas, David Price, Andrew M Ross, Douglas M Fleming, Peter B Graves, Yvonne Doyle, and G N Malavige
BMJ 2003; 326: 1036. [Full text]  
 
  Leishmaniasis also occurs in Mediterranean countries
Giovanna Russo
BMJ 2003; 326: 1037. [Full text]  
 
  Medical experts and the criminal courts
John A M Gall and Neville Davies
BMJ 2003; 326: 1037. [Full text]  
 
  Involving community may be way forward post-Shipman
Anthony P Morton
BMJ 2003; 326: 1038. [Full text]  
 
  Cleft lip and palate services still need to be improved
D Roberts-Harry
BMJ 2003; 326: 1038. [Full text]  
 
  Encouraging insensitivity in doctors is not an option
D B Double
BMJ 2003; 326: 1038. [Full text]  
 
  Senior medical staff need to be included in severe asthma
B Ronan O'Driscoll
BMJ 2003; 326: 1039. [Full text]  
 
  Difficulties in giving fully informed consent
Ruth G Jepson and Roma Robertson
BMJ 2003; 326: 1039. [Full text]  
 
  Parents are not homogeneous
Tom A Laws
BMJ 2003; 326: 1039. [Full text]  
 

Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

Katalin Eva Schopflin [Full text]  
Thomas Joseph Delaney [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Patricia Elizabeth Verdon [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Book: Perspectives on Health and Exercise
Camillia Clark [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Book: Textbook of Sports Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Aspects of Sports Injury and Physical Activity
Domhnall MacAuley [Full text]  

 

Website of the week: Antidepressants
Birte Twisselmann [Full text]  

 

Personal views

Patient power?
Frank Arnold [Full text]  

 

A parable of procurement
Robin Bosanquet [Full text]  

 

Soundings

Much doth it profit a subtle doc
Liam Farrell [Full text]  

 

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

 

POEM: Regular use of inhaled steroids does not increase the risk of bone loss in postmenopausal women [Full text] [PDF]  
Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]  
One hundred years ago: The evil effects of the corset [Full text]  
A memorable patient: Delivery from evil [Full text] [PDF]  
A memorable patient: The value of communication [Full text] [PDF]  
Interactive case report: A 42 year old man with acute chest pain [Full text] [PDF]  

Career focus

 

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

 

A career in rheumatology
Inam Haq and Ian Giles [Full text]  

 

Implications of the gender revolution in medicine
Sabina Dosani [Full text]  

 

Should general practitioners be called consultants?
Mayur Lakhani [Full text]  

 

Profile: The truth is out there
Peter Cross [Full text]  

 

The way I see it: Consultant appraisal is trying to achieve too much
Wendy Riley [Full text]  

 

TIPS ON...: Beating "techno stress"
Mark Griffiths [Full text]  

 

Soap opera: Episode 23: An unfortunate accident
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 

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