This week's This week in the BMJ

	Blood pressure fell in young adults in Glasgow between 1948 and 1968 [Full text] FREE

	Heavier babies are more likely to develop childhood onset type 1 diabetes [Full text] FREE

	Human papillomavirus is not an accurate marker for high grade disease [Full text] FREE

	Older women have more caesarean sections irrespective of obstetric complications [Full text] FREE

	Take home naloxone saves lives [Full text] FREE

	H pylori testing in primary care increases endoscopy rates [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Resources, Down's syndrome, and cardiac surgery
	Julian Savulescu
	BMJ  2001;322:875-876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.875 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Synchronous chemoradiation for squamous carcinomas
	Jeffrey S Tobias, David Ball
	BMJ  2001;322:876-878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.876 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	HPV testing for clarifying borderline cervical smear results
	M Michele Manos
	BMJ  2001;322:878-879, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.878 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Any casualties in the clash of randomised and observational evidence?
	John P A Ioannidis, Anna-Bettina Haidich, Joseph Lau
	BMJ  2001;322:879-880, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.879 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	International funding for AIDS care in poor countries should be increased
	Amir Attaran
	BMJ  2001;322:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.924 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia
	Cliff Prior, Judi Clements, Michelle Rowett, David Taylor, Rhiannon Rowsell, Christopher Link, John Donoghue, Sing Lee, Ian Anderson, Richard Duggins, David Rhinds, William Hall, Robert Kerwin, Clive Adams, Lorna Duggan, John Geddes, Paul Harrison, Nick Freemantle, Paul Bebbington
	BMJ  2001;322:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.924/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychological debriefing
	Philip Boyce, John Condon, Paul Stallard, Alison Powell, Huw TO Davies, Rhonda Small, Judith Lumley
	BMJ  2001;322:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.928 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hands off technique has many benefits for breastfeeding mothers
	Di Napier
	BMJ  2001;322:929, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.929 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Partnership between NHS and pharmaceutical sector is needed
	Tadataka Yamada
	BMJ  2001;322:930, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.930 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical journals are socially responsible about war
	Annette Flanagin
	BMJ  2001;322:930, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.930/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is general practice losing its way?
	Paul A Fox, Jeremy G Jones
	BMJ  2001;322:930, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.930/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study of walk-in centres was flawed
	Steve George, Val Lattimer
	BMJ  2001;322:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.931 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Apples and oranges have previously been shown to be remarkably similar
	Marc Abrahams
	BMJ  2001;322:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.931/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Public health concerns grow over foot and mouth outbreak
	Mark Hunter
	BMJ  2001;322:881, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.881 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Antibiotics database launched
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;322:881, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.881/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;322:882, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.882 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Screensaver harnesses computer power for cancer research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;322:882, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.882/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Welsh assembly scraps prescription charges for under 25s
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;322:882, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.882/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA targets snack foods industry over allergens
	Debbie Josefson
	BMJ  2001;322:883, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.883 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs demand action to prevent "genetic underclass"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;322:883, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.883/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC publishes register of members' interests
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  2001;322:883, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.883/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Tuberculosis outbreak hits the UK
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;322:884, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.884 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Atopic dermatitis in children costs £47m each year
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;322:884, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.884/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch GP convicted after concealing rape sentence
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;322:884, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.884/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Ireland plans huge boost in consultant numbers
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;322:884, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.884/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Head injury patients "need personal advocates"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;322:884, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.884/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Plastic surgeon settles discrimination case against NHS
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;322:884, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.884/f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Randomised controlled trial of Helicobacter pylori testing and endoscopy for dyspepsia in primary care
	B C Delaney, S Wilson, A Roalfe, L Roberts, V Redman, A Wearn, F D R Hobbs
	BMJ  2001;322:898, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.898 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Orthopaedics
	C G Moran, L J Tourret
	BMJ  2001;322:902-905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.902 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: "High" ear piercing and the rising incidence of perichondritis of the pinna
	Junaid Hanif, Adam Frosh, C Marnane, K Ghufoor, R Rivron, G Sandhu
	BMJ  2001;322:906-907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.906 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based treatment of hypertension: Measurement of blood presssure: an evidence based review
	Finlay A McAlister, Sharon E Straus
	BMJ  2001;322:908-911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.908 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of hypertension: The pathophysiology of hypertension
	Gareth Beevers, Gregory Y H Lip, Eoin O'Brien
	BMJ  2001;322:912-916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.912 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The European Leisure Time Directive
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2001;322:937, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.937/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Time to abandon the term mental illness
	Mary Baker, Matthew Menken
	BMJ  2001;322:937, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.937 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Reducing maternal mortality in the developing world: sector-wide approaches may be the key
	Elizabeth Goodburn, Oona Campbell
	BMJ  2001;322:917-920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.917 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Call for a new approach to the process of clinical trials and drug registration
	Thomas C Jones
	BMJ  2001;322:920-923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.920 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;322:938, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.938 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  2001;322:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.897/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Just another chronic chest
	Graham Neale
	BMJ  2001;322:901, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.901 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A temperance experiment
	BMJ  2001;322:908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.908/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Reform in medical dinners
	BMJ  2001;322:908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.908/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A barber's licence to shave
	BMJ  2001;322:912, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.912/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME): The Facts
	Gina Hossain
	BMJ  2001;322:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.934 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Quacks: Fakers and Charlatans in English Medicine
	Tim Stokes
	BMJ  2001;322:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.934/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Ice Bound: One Woman's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
	Jo Ann Rosenfeld
	BMJ  2001;322:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.935 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Private Life of the Brain
	Barbara Godlee
	BMJ  2001;322:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.935/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: New Labour, new matrons
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  2001;322:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.936 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Lateral thinking
	BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Lateral thinking
	BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

HIT PARADE

This week's HIT PARADE

	Hit parade
	BMJ  2001;322:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.935/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Body piercing
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2001;322:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.936/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Islay Cecil Chambers (Bunty Barne) • Charles Denley Clark • Emil Mendel Holzer • Alison Kennard Mitting • Mary Patricia Stella Phelan • Aileen Campbell Roche • Suhas Kumar Roy • James Brian Shaw • Arthur Harold Colyear Walker • William (Bill) Eric Watson
	Katharine Draper, Graham Bird, Denis Gibbs, Alastair McDonald, John Dove, Richard B Welbourn, M Higham, E Scott, Mike Roy, Rory Shaw, Jonathan West, Douglas Bainbridge, Irene Bainbridge
	BMJ  2001;322:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.932 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Changes in blood pressure among students attending Glasgow University between 1948 and 1968: analyses of cross sectional surveys • Commentary: Changing population blood pressure levels
	Peter McCarron, Mona Okasha, James McEwen, George Davey Smith, Bruce Neal
	BMJ  2001;322:885-889, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.885 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Birth weight and childhood onset type 1 diabetes: population based cohort study
	Lars C Stene, Per Magnus, Rolv T Lie, Oddmund Søvik, Geir Joner, The Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Study Group
	BMJ  2001;322:889-892, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.889 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Human papillomavirus testing and the management of women with mildly abnormal cervical smears: an observational study
	Gemma Rebello, Nick Hallam, George Smart, David Farquharson, Jane McCafferty
	BMJ  2001;322:893-894, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.893 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Do obstetric complications explain high caesarean section rates among women over 30? A retrospective analysis
	Jacqueline S Bell, Doris M Campbell, Wendy J Graham, Gillian C Penney, Mandy Ryan, Marion H Hall
	BMJ  2001;322:894-895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.894 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure] FREE

	Take home naloxone and the prevention of deaths from opiate overdose: two pilot schemes
	Kerstin Dettmer, Bill Saunders, John Strang
	BMJ  2001;322:895-896, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.895 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surgeons' attitudes to intraoperative death: questionnaire survey
	Ian C Smith, M W Jones
	BMJ  2001;322:896-897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.896 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Benign intracranial hypertension secondary to nasal fluticasone propionate
	D W Bond, C P J Charlton, R M Gregson
	BMJ  2001;322:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7291.897 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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