Psychological impact of chlamydia diagnosis is considerable [Full text]

	Birth weight is linked to intellectual development [Full text]

	Supported employment helps people with severe mental illness to obtain work [Full text]

	Recolonisation with normal flora decreases the recurrence of otitis media [Full text]

	The NHS needs to take action to reduce work related ill health [Full text]

	Government inquiry into health inequality lacked evidence [Full text]

Editorials

	MMR vaccine: the continuing saga
	David Elliman, Helen Bedford
	BMJ  2001;322:183-184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.183 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How policy informs the evidence
	George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim, Stephen Frankel
	BMJ  2001;322:184-185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.184 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Box]

	Death underfunded
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2001;322:186-187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.186 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving access to emergency contraception
	Mira Harrison-Woolrych, Andrea Duncan, Jeannette Howe, Conamore Smith
	BMJ  2001;322:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.186/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The risk of venous thromboembolism from air travel
	George Geroulakos
	BMJ  2001;322:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.188 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Time to talk about rape
	Jean R Edwards, Evelyn Kerr, Ruhi Jawad, Bernadette Butler, Jan Welch
	BMJ  2001;322:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.232 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chemotherapy for advanced colorectal cancer
	Magdi M Kirollos, Dan Munday, Michael Michael, John Zalcberg, D I Jeffrey
	BMJ  2001;322:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.232/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recent advances in palliative care
	Peter W Szlosarek, Ann Goldman
	BMJ  2001;322:234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.234 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to manage the first episode of schizophrenia
	T J Crow, David Curtis, Sophia Frangou, Patrick Byrne
	BMJ  2001;322:234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.234/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thiazolidinediones for type 2 diabetes
	N Bradly Glazer, Wayman Wendell Cheatham, Alastair Benbow, Murray Stewart, Guy Yeoman
	BMJ  2001;322:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Revised guideline for prescribing vigabatrin in children
	Andrew L Lux, Stuart W Edwards, John P Osborne, Eleanor Hancock, Anthony L Johnson, Colin R Kennedy, Finbar J K O'Callaghan, Richard W Newton, Christopher M Verity, Vigabatrin Paediatric Advisory Group
	BMJ  2001;322:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.236 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do tobacco companies encourage young people to smoke?
	Ellen Merlo, Steve St Clair, Jonathan Klein, Ron Davis
	BMJ  2001;322:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.237 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What is suspected heart failure with preserved left ventricular systolic function?
	David Leibowitz, Roger H Jay, Helen Rimington, John Chambers, John McMurray
	BMJ  2001;322:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.238 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New drug discovery techniques are not so revolutionary
	David F Horrobin
	BMJ  2001;322:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.239 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health professionals need more information on vertical transmission of HIV
	Dominique Florin
	BMJ  2001;322:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.239/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	House of Lords supports human embryonic stem cell research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;322:189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.189 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Canada asked to recruit fewer South African doctors
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;322:189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.189/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;322:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.190 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Holy water not always a blessing
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;322:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.190/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE approves drugs for Alzheimer's disease
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;322:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.190/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Campaigners for breast feeding claim partial victory
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  2001;322:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.191 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pop musicians boycott Nestlé promotion
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;322:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.191/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Resistin: a new hormone that links obesity with type 2 diabetes
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2001;322:193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.193/c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Pfizer accused of testing new drug without ethical approval
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2001;322:194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.194 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs warned on accepting hospitality from drug companies
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2001;322:194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.194/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	English government sets out first national cancer standards
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;322:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.192 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Scientists discover possible test for schizophrenia
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2001;322:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.192/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Emergence of BSE in Spain provokes political spat
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2001;322:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.192/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Cannabis trial launched in patients with MS
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2001;322:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.192/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US drug companies help pay for Bush inauguration
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.192/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Spare the television and improve the child
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;322:193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.193 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Exercise during pregnancy may increase birth weight
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;322:193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.193/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Bush restricts aid to overseas groups helping women obtain abortions
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.193/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Diabetes a growing problem in United States
	Janice Hopkins, Tanne
	BMJ  2001;322:194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.194/b [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Effect of recolonisation with "interfering" streptococci on recurrences of acute and secretory otitis media in children: randomised placebo controlled trial
	Kristian Roos, Eva Grahn Håkansson, Stig Holm
	BMJ  2001;322:210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.210 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Regular review: Management of patients who deliberately harm themselves
	Göran Isacsson, Charles L Rich
	BMJ  2001;322:213-215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.213 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Narcolepsy mistaken for epilepsy
	Adam Zeman, Neil Douglas, Rebecca Aylward
	BMJ  2001;322:216-218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.216 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Science commentary: HLA typing
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2001;322:218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of diseases of liver, pancreas, and biliary system: Chronic viral hepatitis
	S D Ryder, I J Beckingham
	BMJ  2001;322:219-221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.219 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	More on wives
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2001;322:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.245/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The show must go on
	Robert Baker
	BMJ  2001;322:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.245 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Using evidence to inform health policy: case study
	Sally Macintyre, Iain Chalmers, Richard Horton, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2001;322:222-225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sifting the evidencewhat's wrong with significance tests? • Another comment on the role of statistical methods
	Jonathan A C Sterne, George Davey Smith, D R Cox
	BMJ  2001;322:226-231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.226 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;322:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.246 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	When cigarettes were acceptable
	Simon Barley
	BMJ  2001;322:203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.203/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A device that changed my practice: Palmtop medical information
	David Wilkinson
	BMJ  2001;322:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.209 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The Mystical Marriage
	BMJ  2001;322:210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.210/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Superspecialisation BC
	BMJ  2001;322:218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.218/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Progress
	Andrew Iddles
	BMJ  2001;322:218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.218/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Cribbage
	BMJ  2001;322:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.226/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

TV

	TV: How animal passions became aroused
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2001;322:244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.244 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Caring for Muslim Patients
	Geri-Ann Galanti
	BMJ  2001;322:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.242 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Immigrant Women's Health: Problems and Solutions
	Annette MacKay Rossignol
	BMJ  2001;322:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.242/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: On the Fabric of the Human Body • Book I: The Bones and Cartilages • Book II: The Ligaments and Muscles
	James R Heron
	BMJ  2001;322:243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.243 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Health Care in the New Millennium: Vision, Values and Leadership
	David Woods
	BMJ  2001;322:243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.243/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Some gentle statistics
	BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Some gentle statistics
	BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Animal research
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2001;322:244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.244/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	David Alexander Baird • Henry Oswald Chisholm • Terence English • Ernest Christopher Bernard Hall-Craggs • Gordon Tom Eric Jenkins (Jenks) • John David Oriel • Robert Vaughan (Roy) Roberts • John Westwood Sandison • Joseph Francis Smith • Harold Sterndale
	John Baird, Alistair Clark, John Carter, Margaret A Hall-Craggs, Gay Davies, A J Boakes, G L Ridgway, Wil Owen, Joy Newman and others, Peter Sutton, Cyril Fisher, David Lillicrap
	BMJ  2001;322:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.240 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Qualitative analysis of psychosocial impact of diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis: implications for screening
	Barbara Duncan, Graham Hart, Anne Scoular, Alison Bigrigg
	BMJ  2001;322:195-199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.195 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Interview schedule] FREE

	Birth weight and cognitive function in the British 1946 birth cohort: longitudinal population based study
	Marcus Richards, Rebecca Hardy, Diana Kuh, Michael E J Wadsworth
	BMJ  2001;322:199-203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.199 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Science commentary: Insulin-like growth factor and cognitive function
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2001;322:203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.203 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Helping people with severe mental illness to obtain work: systematic review
	Ruth E Crowther, Max Marshall, Gary R Bond, Peter Huxley
	BMJ  2001;322:204-208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.204 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of trials] FREE

	Who retires early from the NHS because of ill health and what does it cost? A national cross sectional study
	Shriti Pattani, Nick Constantinovici, Siân Williams
	BMJ  2001;322:208-209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.208 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history][extra: NHS pensions calculation] FREE

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