This week's This week in the BMJ

	Electrodermal testing for allergies is unreliable [Full text] FREE

	Agnus castus is effective in premenstrual syndrome [Full text] FREE

	High impact physical activity may increase bone mineral density [Full text] FREE

	Integrated medicine poses challenges for education, regulation, and research [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Integrated medicine
	Lesley Rees, Andrew Weil
	BMJ  2001;322:119-120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.119 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Enhancing human healing
	David Reilly
	BMJ  2001;322:120-121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.120 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Complementary medicine and medical education
	Brian M Berman
	BMJ  2001;322:121-122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.121 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advances in the management of CSF leaks
	N S Jones, Daniel G Becker
	BMJ  2001;322:122-123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.122 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Depleted uranium and public health
	Melissa A McDiarmid
	BMJ  2001;322:123-124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.123 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Integrated medicine: orthodox meets alternative
	Opher Caspi, Tony Woolfson, Peter Morrell
	BMJ  2001;322:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.168 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Homoeopathy versus placebo in perennial allergic rhinitis
	Barry Miller, Brian J Lipworth, Michael Emmans Dean, Jürgen Windeler, H Morrow Brown, Morag A Taylor, David Reilly, Robert H Llewellyn-Jones, Charles McSharry, Tom C Aitchison
	BMJ  2001;322:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.169 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply on aspirin for primary prevention
	T W Meade, P J Brennan
	BMJ  2001;322:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.171 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on burns after photodynamic therapy
	D F Horrobin, Richard Bryce
	BMJ  2001;322:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.171/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Protective measures may help prevent Helicobacter pylori infection
	Peter Noone, E R Waclawski
	BMJ  2001;322:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.172 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Global health research
	Robin Stott, Helga Patrikios, Wasim Maziak
	BMJ  2001;322:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.172/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescription pricing databases should include more details to assess prescribing rationality
	Hugh McGavock
	BMJ  2001;322:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.173 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Global health agencies' response to malaria
	Amir Attaran, David Nabarro, Andre Roberfroid, Ok Pannenborg, Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;322:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.174 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS Direct
	Mike Sadler, Mike Vaughan, Ben Green, Christopher Anton
	BMJ  2001;322:175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.175 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Summit signals a change in the law on organ retention
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2001;322:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.125 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;322:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.126 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Nevirapine should not be prescribed for needlestick injuries
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;322:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.126/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	India's plans to grow GM crops draw flak
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2001;322:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.126/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Hospital tables "should prompt authorities to investigate"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;322:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.127 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bone marrow transplants show no benefit for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;322:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.127/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Finnish study confirms safety of MMR vaccine
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2001;322:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.129/b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Government agrees to screen war veterans for uranium exposure
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2001;322:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.130 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Prescription drug shortages plague US
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.130/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Primary prevention with low dose aspirin cuts cardiovascular deaths
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;322:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.128 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Ireland sets up fund for patients who cannot get insurance
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;322:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.128/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Scheme aims to create "intermediate" GP specialists
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;322:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.128/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US takes precautions against BSE
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.128/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	"Sale of organs" to be investigated
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2001;322:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.128/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Scientists create first genetically modified monkey
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2001;322:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.128/e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Courts too deferential to doctors, says judge
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;322:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.129 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Evidence grows for safety of mobile phones
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;322:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.129/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Finnish study confirms safety of MMR vaccine
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2001;322:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.130/b [Extract] [Full text]

	German ministers resign over BSE
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2001;322:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.130/c [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Patterns of physical activity and ultrasound attenuation by heel bone among Norfolk cohort of European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC Norfolk): population based study
	Rupert W Jakes, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nicholas E Day, Sheila Bingham, Ailsa Welch, Suzy Oakes, Robert Luben, Nicola Dalzell, Jonathan Reeve, Nicholas J Wareham
	BMJ  2001;322:140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.140 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Regular review: Delirium: optimising management
	David J Meagher
	BMJ  2001;322:144-149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.144 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: A painful hip as a presentation of Guillain-Barré syndrome in children
	Tjun Tang, Charles Noble-Jamieson
	BMJ  2001;322:149-150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.149 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of diseases of liver, pancreas, and biliary system: Acute hepatitis
	S D Ryder, I J Beckingham
	BMJ  2001;322:151-153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.151 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Say nointy-noine
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2001;322:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.181/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The best of both worlds
	HRH Prince Charles
	BMJ  2001;322:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.181 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Can doctors respond to patients' increasing interest in complementary and alternative medicine? • Commentary: Special study modules and complementary and alternative medicinethe Glasgow experience
	D K Owen, G Lewith, C R Stephens, Helen Bryden
	BMJ  2001;322:154-158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.154 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation in complementary and alternative medicine
	Simon Y Mills
	BMJ  2001;322:158-160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.158 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research into complementary and alternative medicine: problems and potential
	Richard L Nahin, Stephen E Straus
	BMJ  2001;322:161-164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.161 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lessons on integration from the developing world's experience • Commentary: Challenges in using traditional systems of medicine
	Gerard Bodeker, Ranjit Roy Chaudhury
	BMJ  2001;322:164-167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.164 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;322:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.182 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Examinations
	BMJ  2001;322:139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.139/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Addressing the issue
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  2001;322:139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.139/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The best physician
	BMJ  2001;322:140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.140/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Should treatment recommendations for lipid lowering drugs be based on absolute coronary risk or risk reduction?
	BMJ  2001;322:150 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of colorectal cancer: Innovative treatment for colon cancer
	BMJ  2001;322:150 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-94
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  2001;322:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.177 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Doctors in the Great War
	Linda Bryder
	BMJ  2001;322:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.177/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Human Effect in Medicine: Theory, Research and Practice
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2001;322:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.179 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926
	Michael F Maltese
	BMJ  2001;322:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.180 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Shape of the Heart
	Arpan K Banerjee
	BMJ  2001;322:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.180/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Restoring the soul of medicine
	BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

PROFILE

This week's PROFILE

	Profile: The human league
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2001;322:178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.178 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

This week's NETLINES

	Netlines
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2001;322:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.179/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Restoring the soul of medicine
	BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BESTSELLERS

This week's BESTSELLERS

	Bestsellers
	BMJ  2001;322:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.180/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Regulation of integrated health care
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2001;322:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.179/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Reginald Bignall • Armond Lucas Gwynne • Constance Marjorie Ridley • Ian Gordon Thomson • Jenny Yates (née Simmonds)
	John Bignall, Anthony Stevens, Sallie Neill, Carlos Novi, Colin Yates
	BMJ  2001;322:176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.176 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Is electrodermal testing as effective as skin prick tests for diagnosing allergies? A double blind, randomised block design study
	George T Lewith, Julian N Kenyon, Jackie Broomfield, Philip Prescott, Jonathan Goddard, Stephen T Holgate
	BMJ  2001;322:131-134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.131 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: details of electrodermal tests] FREE

	Treatment for the premenstrual syndrome with agnus castus fruit extract: prospective, randomised, placebo controlled study
	R Schellenberg
	BMJ  2001;322:134-137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.134 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparative study of nasopharyngeal aspirate and nasal swab specimens for detection of influenza
	Terho Heikkinen, Aimo A Salmi, Olli Ruuskanen
	BMJ  2001;322:138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.138 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Hepatitis associated with Kava, a herbal remedy for anxiety
	Monica Escher, Jules Desmeules, Emile Giostra, Gilles Mentha
	BMJ  2001;322:139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7279.139 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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