This week's This week in the BMJ

	Helicobacter pylori testing is useful only in high risk patients [Full text] FREE

	A new scoring system determines risk of cardiovascular disease [Full text] FREE

	Remember nephrogenic diabetes insipidus in acute surgical patients taking lithium [Full text] FREE

	Disclosure does not improve somatisation in primary care [Full text] FREE

	Lower osmolarity oral rehydration solution is better than WHO solution [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	A better oral rehydration solution?
	George J Fuchs
	BMJ  2001;323:59-60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Umbilical cord blood banks in the UK
	S J Proctor, A M Dickinson, T Parekh, C Chapman
	BMJ  2001;323:60-61, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.60 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bridging the quality chasm
	Mark A Kelley, James M Tucci
	BMJ  2001;323:61-62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.61 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention of type 2 diabetes
	K M Venkat Narayan, Barbara A Bowman, Michael E Engelgau
	BMJ  2001;323:63-64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.63 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Wanted: a social contract for the practice of medicine
	Raanan Gillon, Roger Higgs, Kenneth Boyd, Brendan Callaghan, Raymond Hoffenberg
	BMJ  2001;323:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.64 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	NHS database of reference costs is severely flawed
	Brian Ferguson
	BMJ  2001;323:106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.106 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Approach to surgery in United Kingdom should be shaken up
	Philip A Isaac
	BMJ  2001;323:106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.106/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stakeholder health insurance
	David G Green, Alain C Enthoven, Jennifer Dixon, John Appleby
	BMJ  2001;323:107, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.107 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Warning to GMC
	Roger M Goss, Jim Hardy
	BMJ  2001;323:108, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.108 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rights involve responsibilities for patients
	Cyril Chantler, Terence W Wiseman
	BMJ  2001;323:108, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.108/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human papillomavirus testing
	Gemma Rebello, Nick Hallam, George Smart, David Farquharson, Jane McCafferty, Julian Little
	BMJ  2001;323:109, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.109 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The People's Health Assembly
	Gro Harlem Brundtland
	BMJ  2001;323:109, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.109/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peer led programme for asthma education in adolescents
	Tim J Peters, Anna Graham, Chris Salisbury, Laurence Moore, Martin Underwood, Sandra Eldridge, Peter G Gibson, Smita Shah, Doungkarnol Sindhusake, Han Wang, Jennifer K Peat, Richard L Henry
	BMJ  2001;323:110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.110 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Rapid response]

	Alcohol and drug services have been patient centred for years
	Rod MacQueen
	BMJ  2001;323:111, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.111 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimal refereeing will lead to global equity of information
	Peter A Singer
	BMJ  2001;323:111, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.111/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study should have reported more data about associated diseases
	Antonio Sgadari, Giovanni Gambassi, Claudio Pedone, Graziano Onder
	BMJ  2001;323:112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.112 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epidemiological surveillance of rubella must continue
	Jugnoo Rahi, Gill Adams, Isabelle Russell-Eggitt, Pat Tookey
	BMJ  2001;323:112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.112/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Deal allows developing countries free access to journals
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;323:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.65 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Eli Lilly violates patients' privacy
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;323:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.65/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK considers new compensation plan for NHS
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;323:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.66 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US surgeons implant new artificial heart
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.66/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;323:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.66/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Specialists question effectiveness of sex selection technique
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;323:67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.67 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors may be able to detect Down's syndrome during IVF
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.67/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA remains concerned about GMC structure
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2001;323:69, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.69/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Revalidation proposals will waste time
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA president warns doctors not to take public esteem for granted
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA supports GPs' quest for new contract
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Vaginal delivery after caesarean section triples risk of uterine rupture
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.68 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Cancer plan for Scotland will cost £40m
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2001;323:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.68/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Canada legalises the medical use of cannabis
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;323:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.68/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Tamoxifen may increase the risk of later tumours being more aggressive
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.68/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	A third of 18-19 year olds use the emergency pill
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2001;323:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.68/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Funding formula based on health needs planned for Wales
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;323:69, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.69 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctor testifies to China�s reuse of prisoners� organs
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;323:69, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.69/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US researchers guilty of breaking safety rules
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;323:69, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.69/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Germany forced to tackle high death rates from breast cancer
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch government plans to reform health insurance system
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Football World Cup is to be tobacco free
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Visits to the country pose biggest risk of E coli infection
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/f [Extract] [Full text]

	Irish ombudsman chides doctors on poor record keeping
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/g [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors want to keep their review body
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/h [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA wants action against violence in NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2001;323:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/i [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA calls for action on "drug driving"
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2001;323:70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.70/j [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Randomised controlled trial of disclosure of emotionally important events in somatisation in primary care
	Albert F Schilte, Piet J M Portegijs, Annette H Blankenstein, Henriëtte E van der Horst, Monique B F Latour, Jacques Th M van Eijk, J André Knottnerus
	BMJ  2001;323:86, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.86 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Primary care groups: Can primary care groups and trusts improve health?
	Steve Gillam, Stephen Abbott, Jennifer Banks-Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:89-92, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.89 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Regular review: Endometriosis
	Andrew Prentice
	BMJ  2001;323:93-95, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.93 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Unsuspected nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
	A Waise, R A Fisken
	BMJ  2001;323:96-97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.96 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Learning in boxes
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2001;323:117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.117/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Conversations, observations, and exclamation
	Gerald Levy
	BMJ  2001;323:117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.117 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Oxygen treatment for acute severe asthma
	David Inwald, Mark Roland, Lieske Kuitert, Sheila A McKenzie, Andy Petros
	BMJ  2001;323:98-100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.98 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Systematic reviews in health care: Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases in meta-analysis
	Jonathan A C Sterne, Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:101-105, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.101 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;323:118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.118 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Pleasures
	BMJ  2001;323:85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.85/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Summer attire
	BMJ  2001;323:96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.96/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Laudanum in Lakeland
	Philip Mortimer
	BMJ  2001;323:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.100 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Trouble with life
	BMJ  2001;323:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.100/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

TV

This week's TV

	TV: Bringing up baby
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2001;323:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.116 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Suicide: An Unnecessary Death
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  2001;323:114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.114 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Women and Schizophrenia • Women and Mental Health
	Helen Pattison
	BMJ  2001;323:114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.114/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2001;323:115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.115 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug
	Ross Camidge
	BMJ  2001;323:115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.115/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Health information for the developing world: from desert to garden
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Health information for the developing world: from desert to garden
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Systematic reviews and the Cochrane Collaboration
	Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  2001;323:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.116/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Robin John Andrews • Rowland Nicholas Hill • Ernest Edward Spence • James Straton • Anthony de Toszeghi
	F M Howard, Brian W Cromie, H C Leitch, John Loudon, S Benaim
	BMJ  2001;323:113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.113 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Testing for Helicobacter pylori in dyspeptic patients suspected of peptic ulcer disease in primary care: cross sectional study
	Catherine F Weijnen, Mattijs E Numans, Niek J de Wit, André J P M Smout, Karel G M Moons, Theo J M Verheij, Arno W Hoes
	BMJ  2001;323:71-75, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.71 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A score for predicting risk of death from cardiovascular disease in adults with raised blood pressure, based on individual patient data from randomised controlled trials
	Stuart J Pocock, Valerie McCormack, François Gueyffier, Florent Boutitie, Robert H Fagard, Jean-Pierre Boissel
	BMJ  2001;323:75-81, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.75 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reduced osmolarity oral rehydration solution for treating dehydration due to diarrhoea in children: systematic review
	Seokyung Hahn, YaeJean Kim, Paul Garner
	BMJ  2001;323:81-85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.81 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables] FREE

	Drug points: Neonatal convulsions after withdrawal of baclofen
	B D M Ratnayaka, H Dhaliwal, S Watkin
	BMJ  2001;323:85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7304.85 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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