A sixth of Gulf war veterans believe they have Gulf war syndrome [Full text]

	Teenagers' risk of adverse events is not increased for first birth [Full text]

	Decision aids provide patients with informed choice [Full text]

	Palliative care patients are not asked for consent for drugs used outside their licence [Full text]

	Bullying can lead to emotional problems in teenagers [Full text]

Editorials

	Private health care in developing countries
	Anthony B Zwi, Ruairi Brugha, Elizabeth Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:463-464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.463 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiovascular complications of recreational drugs
	A Ghuran, L R van der Wieken, J Nolan
	BMJ  2001;323:464-466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.464 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A key medical decision maker: the patient
	Richard A Deyo
	BMJ  2001;323:466-467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.466 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The safety of acupuncture
	Charles Vincent
	BMJ  2001;323:467-468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.467 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Medical error reporting must take necropsy data into account
	James Sington, Barry Cottrell
	BMJ  2001;323:511, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.511 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is it time to abandon the term mental illness?
	Roger A Fisken, Michael Jameson, Thomas Szasz, Jeremy Holmes
	BMJ  2001;323:511, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.511a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing deaths among drug misusers
	Arnold S Trebach, Andrew Byrne, Chris Ford, Tom Carnwath, Mark Gabbay
	BMJ  2001;323:512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Predictive genetics and predictive morphology have certain similarities
	Elliott Foucar
	BMJ  2001;323:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.514 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Greater awareness and education are needed to help prevent acute mountain sickness
	J Windsor, H Montgomery
	BMJ  2001;323:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.514a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Checklists for improving rigour in qualitative research
	Robert Power, Brian Williams
	BMJ  2001;323:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.514b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing genitourinary chlamydial infection
	Mark H Wilcox, Dhinagar Subramanian, Richard J C Gilson, Adrian Mindel
	BMJ  2001;323:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.515 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Accessing emergency test results on ward computers
	Robert K Peel, Sunil Bhandari, Eileen Manning, Bernard Fernando, Kumara Mendis
	BMJ  2001;323:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.516 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Written information for treating minor illness
	Mary Dixon-Woods, Hazel Thornton, George Boulos
	BMJ  2001;323:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.516a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smear tests: déjà vu
	John Nottingham
	BMJ  2001;323:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.517 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conscription of children in armed conflict: clarifications
	D G H de Silva
	BMJ  2001;323:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.517a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Ireland fears blood shortage with new ban on donors
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;323:469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.469 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US worried as restrictions on blood donors tighten
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.469a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;323:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.470 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug company breaks 30 year agreement on patient advertising
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  2001;323:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.470a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch consider following UK on vaccines after meningitis scare
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2001;323:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.470b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	German company offers "package deal ops" to Ireland
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;323:471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.471 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	COX 2 inhibitors may increase risk of heart attack
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.471a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Life expectancy rates show health inequalities
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2001;323:471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.471c [Extract] [Full text]

	Leading the resistance
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2001;323:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.472 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	JAMA falls foul of fabricated suicide story
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.472a [Extract] [Full text]

	Hungarian doctors angered by plans to privatise hospitals
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  2001;323:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.472b [Extract] [Full text]

	Drug firm is to supply AIDS drug free in South Africa
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2001;323:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.472c [Extract] [Full text]

	AIDS education must target young men in developing countries
	Sam Crowe
	BMJ  2001;323:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.472d [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Randomised controlled trial of an interactive multimedia decision aid on hormone replacement therapy in primary care
	Elizabeth Murray, Hilary Davis, Sharon See Tai, Angela Coulter, Alastair Gray, Andy Haines
	BMJ  2001;323:490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.490 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of an interactive multimedia decision aid on benign prostatic hypertrophy in primary care
	Elizabeth Murray, Hilary Davis, Sharon See Tai, Angela Coulter, Alastair Gray, Andy Haines
	BMJ  2001;323:493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.493 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Beneficial effects of potassium
	Feng J He, Graham A MacGregor
	BMJ  2001;323:497-501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.497 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Recurrent bacterial meningitis: the need for sensitive imaging
	Enitan D Carrol, Amir H Latif, Siraj A Misbah, Terence J Flood, Mario Abinun, Julia E Clark, Robert E Pugh, Andrew J Cant
	BMJ  2001;323:501-503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.501 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Breaking bad news
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2001;323:521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.521a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Getting consent for autopsies: who should ask what, and why?
	Gwen M Sayers, James Mair
	BMJ  2001;323:521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.521 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Globalisation is good for your health, mostly
	Richard G A Feachem
	BMJ  2001;323:504-506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.504 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Regulating nursing homes: Residential nursing facilities in the United States
	Charlene Harrington
	BMJ  2001;323:507-510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.507 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;323:522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.522 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  2001;323:487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.487c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: To tell or not to tell
	A N G Clark
	BMJ  2001;323:489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.489a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nostalgia
	Damien Reid
	BMJ  2001;323:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.496 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Mother and child
	Ian Nesbitt
	BMJ  2001;323:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.503 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Mischievous gossip
	BMJ  2001;323:507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.507a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Stretched until they twang
	BMJ  2001;323:507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.507b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Trust defends decision to retain private beds at Heart Hospital
	BMJ  2001;323:471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.471b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Systematic reviews of evaluations of diagnostic and screening tests
	BMJ  2001;323:487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.487 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	This Week in the BMJ
	BMJ  2001;323:487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.487a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Why a 1940s medical committee should not be forgotten
	BMJ  2001;323:487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.487b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CD

	CD: Sound surgeons
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;323:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.520 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: The Strange Case of R L Stevenson
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2001;323:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.519 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
	Bernard Knight
	BMJ  2001;323:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.519a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Choice is hard
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Choice is hard
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.0a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Bullying
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2001;323:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.520a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	John Robert (Robin) Blackburne • David John Gee • Barbara Cunningham King • David Mander • John Leicester Sharp
	M A Green, Osmond Hoskins, Hugh Saxton, Anthony Mander, Madeline Sharp
	BMJ  2001;323:518, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.518 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Prevalence of Gulf war veterans who believe they have Gulf war syndrome: questionnaire study
	T Chalder, M Hotopf, C Unwin, L Hull, K Ismail, A David, S Wessely
	BMJ  2001;323:473-476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.473 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Teenage pregnancy and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes associated with first and second births: population based retrospective cohort study
	Gordon C S Smith, Jill P Pell
	BMJ  2001;323:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.476 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does bullying cause emotional problems? A prospective study of young teenagers
	Lyndal Bond, John B Carlin, Lyndal Thomas, Kerryn Rubin, George Patton
	BMJ  2001;323:480-484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.480 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Questionnaires] FREE

	Prescribing of drugs for use outside their licence in palliative care: survey of specialists in the United Kingdom
	Hilary Pavis, Andrew Wilcock
	BMJ  2001;323:484-485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.484 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Adverse events following acupuncture: prospective survey of 32 000 consultations with doctors and physiotherapists
	Adrian White, Simon Hayhoe, Anna Hart, Edzard Ernst
	BMJ  2001;323:485-486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.485 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The York acupuncture safety study: prospective survey of 34 000 treatments by traditional acupuncturists
	Hugh MacPherson, Kate Thomas, Stephen Walters, Mike Fitter
	BMJ  2001;323:486-487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.486 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Getting informed consent from patients to take part in the clinical training of students: randomised trial of two strategies
	Katarina Westberg, Niels Lynøe, Ann Lalos, Mats Löfgren, Mikael Sandlund
	BMJ  2001;323:488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.488 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Hypersensitivity reaction to balsalazide
	V Adhiyaman, A Vaishnavi, S Froese
	BMJ  2001;323:489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7311.489 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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