This week's This week in the BMJ

	Higher rates of breast feeding would reduce infant mortality [Full text] FREE

	Heavier babies have higher IQs [Full text] FREE

	Efficiency of health systems could be improved [Full text] FREE

	Combined zinc and vitamin A supplementation reduces diarrhoea and dysentery [Full text] FREE

	Singlehanded general practitioners are not underperforming [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Management of nodular thyroid disease
	M Keston Jones
	BMJ  2001;323:293-294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.293 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Campbell Collaboration
	Philip Davies, Robert Boruch
	BMJ  2001;323:294-295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.294 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring the efficiency of health systems
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  2001;323:295-296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.295 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fabricated or induced illness in children
	Richard G Wilson
	BMJ  2001;323:296-297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.296 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving patients' safety by gathering information
	Bill Runciman, Alan Merry, Alexander McCall Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.298 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Is the NHS guilty of ageism by not giving free personal care for some older people in England?
	Paul V Knight
	BMJ  2001;323:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.337 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New beginning for care for elderly people?
	Ian Philp, Shah Ebrahim, Peter Connelly, Damian Jenkinson, Gary Ford, Richard J McManus, Louise Lumley, Mandy Gough, Lak Jhass, Ken Deacon, Raymond C Tallis, J Grimley Evans
	BMJ  2001;323:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.337/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maintaining older people's dignity and autonomy in healthcare settings
	A J D Macdonald, Phillip Malouf, Felik Paulus
	BMJ  2001;323:340, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.340 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chemotherapy could be given at patients' workplace
	Joyce M Carter
	BMJ  2001;323:340, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.340/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New approach to clinical trials and drug registration
	Silvio Garattini, Vittorio Bertele', Thomas C Jones
	BMJ  2001;323:341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.341 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgeons' attitudes to intraoperative death
	Norman Briffa, Boerge Christoph Seifert
	BMJ  2001;323:341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.341/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	H pylori testing and endoscopy for dyspepsia in primary care
	Val Heatley, Brendan C Delaney, Sue Wilson, Andrea Roalfe, Lesley Roberts, Andrew Wearn, F D Richard Hobbs, M J Lancaster Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.342 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Some patients seem not to have been included in census
	Alick J Munro, Mark Chambers, Anthony Marwaha
	BMJ  2001;323:343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.343 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sudden death may not be best
	Peter von Kaehne
	BMJ  2001;323:343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.343/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Indian doctors defend "unethical" anticancer drug trial
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2001;323:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.299 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Second US institute investigates use of drug in asthma trial
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.299/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK civil rights groups question safety of stun guns
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2001;323:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.300 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MMR vaccine row raises questions of clinical freedom
	Helen Barratt
	BMJ  2001;323:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.300/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;323:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.300/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Researchers deny any attempt to mislead the public over JAMA article on arthritis drug
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.301 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	AIDS campaigners to take South Africa's health ministry to court
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2001;323:301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.301/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Asthma "crisis" for black Americans
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2001;323:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.302 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New child health tsar promises shake-up of services
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2001;323:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.302/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US tries to ban human cloning
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2001;323:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.302/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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This week's News extra

	Most NHS Direct callers are offered self care advice, study shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;323:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.302/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Genetically inherited heart disease may not show until mid-life
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.302/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Government simplifies warnings on air pollution
	Helen Barratt
	BMJ  2001;323:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.302/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Canadian doctors brace themselves as cannabis becomes legal
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;323:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.302/f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Do single handed practices offer poorer care? Cross sectional survey of processes and outcomes
	Julia Hippisley-Cox, Mike Pringle, Carol Coupland, Vicky Hammersley, Andrew Wilson
	BMJ  2001;323:320-323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.320 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Use of cumulative mortality data in patients with acute myocardial infarction for early detection of variation in clinical practice: observational study
	Richard A Lawrance, Micha F Dorsch, Robert J Sapsford, Alan F Mackintosh, Darren C Greenwood, Beryl M Jackson, Christine Morrell, Michael B Robinson, Alistair S Hall
	BMJ  2001;323:324-327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.324 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Sports medicine
	Roald Bahr
	BMJ  2001;323:328-331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.328 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Deterioration of symptoms after start of thyroid hormone replacement
	Jonathan Stephen Murray, Rubaraj Jayarajasingh, Petros Perros
	BMJ  2001;323:332-333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.332 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Paging Dr Parris
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2001;323:349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.349/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The burden of evidence
	Jerry L Rushton
	BMJ  2001;323:349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.349 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines
	Robin Harbour, Juliet Miller
	BMJ  2001;323:334-336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.334 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;323:350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.350 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Physicians
	BMJ  2001;323:318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.318/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Another Englishman
	BMJ  2001;323:318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.318/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Life hangs on chance and the generosity of others
	Anthony Kevin Webb
	BMJ  2001;323:327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.327 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Magisterial
	BMJ  2001;323:332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.332/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Reserve thy judgment
	Chinmay M Gupte
	BMJ  2001;323:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.333 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Be on your guard
	BMJ  2001;323:334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.334/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: "To Improve the Evidence of Medicine": The 18th Century British Origins of a Critical Approach • Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine 1550-1680
	Arpan K Banerjee
	BMJ  2001;323:348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.348 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Cot death confusion: explaining the unexplainable
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2001;323:347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.347 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Aspiring to be global
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Aspiring to be global
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

EXHIBITION

This week's EXHIBITION

	Exhibition: Torture: European Instruments of Torture and Capital Punishment from the Middle Ages to the Present
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;323:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.346 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BESTSELLERS

This week's BESTSELLERS

	Bestsellers
	BMJ  2001;323:348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.348/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Testing intelligence
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2001;323:348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.348/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Bertram John Bickford • Thurstan Brewin • Neil Geddes Clarkson Hendry • Barclay Renfrew Hillis • Margaret Brown Keeble (née Morton) • James Corson Lees • Shibtosh Roy • Anna Violet Seager (née Thompson) • Kenneth Southgate • Derek Wilson
	Christen Herbert, Gareth Rees, Alex Adam, Julian Bath, Michael Keeble, J G Begg, Quazi Quamruzzaman, John Seager, David Bailey, Derek Henderson
	BMJ  2001;323:344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.344 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Ecological study of effect of breast feeding on infant mortality in Latin America
	Ana P Betrán, Mercedes de Onís, Jeremy A Lauer, José Villar
	BMJ  2001;323:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.303 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparative efficiency of national health systems: cross national econometric analysis
	David B Evans, Ajay Tandon, Christopher J L Murray, Jeremy A Lauer
	BMJ  2001;323:307-310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.307 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details and results] FREE

	Influence of variation in birth weight within normal range and within sibships on IQ at age 7 years: cohort study
	Thomas D Matte, Michaeline Bresnahan, Melissa D Begg, Ezra Susser
	BMJ  2001;323:310-314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.310 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Simultaneous zinc and vitamin A supplementation in Bangladeshi children: randomised double blind controlled trial
	Mohammad M Rahman, Sten H Vermund, Mohammad A Wahed, George J Fuchs, Abdullah H Baqui, Jose O Alvarez
	BMJ  2001;323:314-318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.314 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Failure to report ethical approval in child health research: review of published papers
	Howard Bauchner, Joshua Sharfstein
	BMJ  2001;323:318-319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7308.318 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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Does exposure to landfill waste harm the fetus? [Full text]

Death and smoking in Hong Kong [Full text]

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