Obesity prevention programme produces changes at school level [Full text]

	Use of antibacterials in community is weakly linked to resistance [Full text]

	Minor injuries cause significant and unnecessary school absence among children [Full text]

	Incidence of Duchenne muscular dystrophy is associated with social deprivation [Full text]

	Impaired fetal growth is strongly associated with haemorrhagic stroke [Full text]

Editorials

	The future of men and their health
	Siegfried Meryn, Alejandro R Jadad
	BMJ  2001;323:1013-1014, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1013 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The international men's health movement
	Peter Baker
	BMJ  2001;323:1014-1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1014 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Body dysmorphic disorder in men
	Katharine A Phillips, David J Castle
	BMJ  2001;323:1015-1016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1015 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling coronary heart disease
	Alan White, Lesley Lockyer
	BMJ  2001;323:1016-1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1016 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylactic treatment of anthrax with antibiotics
	C Anthony Hart, Nicholas J Beeching
	BMJ  2001;323:1017-1018, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1017 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	School based programmes on obesity
	Richard L Atkinson, Susan A Nitzke
	BMJ  2001;323:1018-1019, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1018 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Peace through health
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1020 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Consultants at Alder Hey look to the future
	David A Hughes
	BMJ  2001;323:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1064 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One Bristol
	Peter West, Alan Kay, Barry Hoffbrand, Elizabeth Evans
	BMJ  2001;323:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1064a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors' positioning of defibrillation paddles
	J Calinas-Correia, R Khiani, Richard M Heames, Daniel M Sado, Charles D Deakin
	BMJ  2001;323:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1065 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Testing for Helicobacter pylori in dyspeptic patients
	Adam Jacobs, Alexander Williams, Kenneth E L McColl, Lilian S Murray, Ronald Sultana, Catherine F Weijnen, Mattijs E Numans, Niek J de Wit, Karel G M Moons, Theo J M Verheij, Arno W Hoes, André J P M Smout
	BMJ  2001;323:1066, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1066 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ireland lacks consensus on neonatal vitamin K prophylaxis
	Roy K Philip, Riswan Gul, Margo Dunworth, Noreen Keane
	BMJ  2001;323:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1068 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oral rehydration solution
	Ting Fei Ho, William C L Yip, Christopher Duggan, Vipin M Vashishtha
	BMJ  2001;323:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1068a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oxygen treatment for acute severe asthma
	Yasuharu Tokuda, Seishiro Miyagi, Gustavo J Rodrigo
	BMJ  2001;323:1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1069 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors should make their data available
	Douglas G Altman, Christopher Cates
	BMJ  2001;323:1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1069a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prehospital care of trauma must be improved in UK
	Arpan Guha
	BMJ  2001;323:1070, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1070 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Story on smoking and poor people is incomplete
	Prabhat Jha, Philip Musgrove, Frank J Chaloupka, Derek Yach
	BMJ  2001;323:1070, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1070a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health of socially excluded groups: lessons must be applied
	Anne M Grant
	BMJ  2001;323:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1071 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bias in alternative medicine is still rife but is diminishing
	Katja Schmidt, Max H Pittler, Edzard Ernst
	BMJ  2001;323:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1071a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is it denial or wisdom to accept life threatening illness?
	Arthur Rifkin
	BMJ  2001;323:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1071b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgeon with worst performance figures might be best option
	John Wilks
	BMJ  2001;323:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1071c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	UK insurers agree five year ban on using genetic tests
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;323:1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1021 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	French presidential elections can kill
	Alexandre Dorozynski
	BMJ  2001;323:1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1021a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;323:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1022 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	How anthrax gets a grip on cells
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1022a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Toll of anthrax cases reaches 15
	BMJ  2001;323:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1022b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bayer cuts price of ciprofloxacin after Bush threatens to buy generics
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;323:1023, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1023 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mass hysteria is seen as main threat from bioweapons
	Andrew Moscrop
	BMJ  2001;323:1023, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1023a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug effects blamed for fifth of hospital deaths among elderly
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1025b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	General Medical Council to elect a new president to succeed Irvine
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2001;323:1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1026 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Trust faces sex discrimination claim
	Mark Hunter
	BMJ  2001;323:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1024 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Belgium gives terminally ill people the right to die
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2001;323:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1024a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Councils must start work on new NHS scrutiny role
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1024b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	India relies too heavily on screening for safe blood supply, conference told
	Rohit Sharma
	BMJ  2001;323:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1024c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Condom most popular method of contraception in girls under 16
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2001;323:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1024d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Milburn defends use of private sector in the NHS
	Andrew Moscrop
	BMJ  2001;323:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1025 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Paediatricians criticise college over Southall debacle
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2001;323:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1025a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Ireland seeks injunction to prevent opening of new fuel plant at Sellafield
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;323:1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1026a [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA reassured over revalidation
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1026b [Extract] [Full text]

	Canadian government almost swamped by ciprofloxacin
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;323:1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1026c [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Antibacterial prescribing and antibacterial resistance in English general practice: cross sectional study • Commentary: antibiotic resistance is a dynamic process
	Patricia Priest, Patricia Yudkin, Cliodna McNulty, David Mant, Richard Wise
	BMJ  2001;323:1037-1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1037 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Extracts from "Clinical Evidence": Benign prostatic hyperplasia
	Michael J Barry, Claus G Roehrborn
	BMJ  2001;323:1042-1046, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1042 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of the upper gastrointestinal tract: Management of Helicobacter pylori infection
	Adam Harris, J J Misiewicz
	BMJ  2001;323:1047-1050, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1047 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Escape to Eden
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2001;323:1077, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1077b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	A medical memoir
	Gordon Graham
	BMJ  2001;323:1076, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1076 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Everyman's view of doctors
	Demetrios Matheou
	BMJ  2001;323:1077, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1077 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Girl power
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2001;323:1077, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1077a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Understanding the toll of premature death among men in eastern Europe
	Martin McKee, Vladimir Shkolnikov
	BMJ  2001;323:1051-1055, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1051 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of sex and gender on psychosocial aspects of prostate and breast cancer
	Alexander Kiss, Siegfried Meryn
	BMJ  2001;323:1055-1058, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1055 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	No man's land: men, illness, and the NHS
	Ian Banks
	BMJ  2001;323:1058-1060, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1058 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sex, gender, and health: the need for a new approach
	Lesley Doyal
	BMJ  2001;323:1061-1063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1061 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;323:1078, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1078 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Time out
	Sarah Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1036 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: An obstacle course
	BMJ  2001;323:1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1036a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Foolish idea
	BMJ  2001;323:1042, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1042a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Infections travellers
	BMJ  2001;323:1047, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1047a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is a tattoo the answer?
	Clare Polack
	BMJ  2001;323:1063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1063 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Seasonal Affective Disorder: Practice and Research
	Richard Morriss
	BMJ  2001;323:1074, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1074 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Diseases of Globalization: Socioeconomic Transitions and Health
	Lesley Morrison
	BMJ  2001;323:1074, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1074a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Types of resistance
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

THEATRE

	Theatre: Mother Clap's Molly House
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1075, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1075 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2001;323:1075, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1075a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Men's health
	Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  2001;323:1076, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1076a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	John (Iain) Wylie Cook • Ian Macdonald Dingwall • Clara Jean Fraser • William Ingman • Francis Stephen Perry • Zoë Christine Randall • Joseph Robinson • James Gordon Searle • John Elphinstone Underwood • William Van Essen • James Meighan Wallace • John Logan Wilson
	David Duff, David Illingworth, John Saunders, Sheila E Fraser, Jennifer Hay, Mark Perry, Winston Leigh, Michael Robinson, P J Crawshaw, James Underwood, Morna Murgatroyd, Alan Wallace, David Wallace, and Ronald Wallace, Margaret Denholm
	BMJ  2001;323:1072, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1072 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Evaluation of implementation and effect of primary school based intervention to reduce risk factors for obesity
	Pinki Sahota, Mary C J Rudolf, Rachael Dixey, Andrew J Hill, Julian H Barth, Janet Cade
	BMJ  2001;323:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1027 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of primary school based intervention to reduce risk factors for obesity
	Pinki Sahota, Mary C J Rudolf, Rachael Dixey, Andrew J Hill, Julian H Barth, Janet Cade
	BMJ  2001;323:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1029 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prenatal growth and risk of occlusive and haemorrhagic stroke in Swedish men and women born 1915-29: historical cohort study
	E Hyppönen, D A Leon, M G Kenward, H Lithell
	BMJ  2001;323:1033-1034, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1033 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Unnecessary school absence after minor injury: case-control study
	Peter M Barnes, Lorna Price, Alison Maddocks, Ronan A Lyons, Pam Nash, Michael McCabe
	BMJ  2001;323:1034-1035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1034 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Social deprivation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: population based study
	Kate Bushby, Simon Raybould, Sara O'Donnell, James G Steele
	BMJ  2001;323:1035-1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1035 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details of methods] FREE

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