This week's This week in the BMJ

	Chickenpox can still kill adults [Full text] FREE

	Intensive case management does not reduce violence in psychosis [Full text] FREE

	Toe ulceration may complicate four layer compression bandaging for venous ulceration [Full text] FREE

	Grommet insertion fell after distribution of evidence based guidelines on treating glue ear [Full text] FREE

	Personal and patient feelings affect how GPs apply clinical evidence [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Why active euthanasia and physician assisted suicide should be legalised
	Len Doyal, Lesley Doyal
	BMJ  2001;323:1079-1080, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1079 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing violence in severe mental illness
	Tilman Steinert
	BMJ  2001;323:1080-1081, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1080 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Non-attendance at general practices and outpatient clinics
	Deborah J Sharp, William Hamilton
	BMJ  2001;323:1081-1082, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1081 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The future of rehabilitation
	Richard Greenwood
	BMJ  2001;323:1082-1083, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1082 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of head lice
	Ciara Dodd
	BMJ  2001;323:1084, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1084 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Racism in medicine
	B R Pal, Pradip Singh, Paula McDonald, Nisha Dogra, Niranjan Karnik, Charles Essex, J V R Barbour, Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  2001;323:1125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1125 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Equity in the new NHS
	Daphne Austin, A J D Macdonald
	BMJ  2001;323:1127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1127 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drugs for Alzheimer's disease
	James Warner, Rob Butler, Jane M Noble
	BMJ  2001;323:1127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1127 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bacteriotherapy may be useful in treating bacterial vaginosis
	David Taylor-Robinson, Isobel Rosenstein
	BMJ  2001;323:1128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1128 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antihypertensive treatment and compliance
	Jean-Jacques Parienti, Michel Burnier, H R Brunner, Knut Schroeder, Alan Montgomery, Shah Ebrahim, Edouard Battegay, Reto Nüesch, Benedict Martina, Thomas Dieterle
	BMJ  2001;323:1129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1129 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version]

	No blame should be apportioned in corporate failure
	David Hall
	BMJ  2001;323:1130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1130 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An unmerciful end
	Lesley Fallowfield, Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  2001;323:1131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1131 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Office of NHS cancer screening programme misrepresents Nordic work in breast screening row
	Peter C Gøtzsche
	BMJ  2001;323:1131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1131 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Report clears researcher who broke drug company agreement
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;323:1085, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1085 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;323:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1086 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US doctors' group opposes war in Afghanistan
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2001;323:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1086 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Europe needs "urgent focus" on bioterrorism
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2001;323:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1086 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health department to fund interferon beta despite institute's ruling
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;323:1087, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1087 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Tobacco company prepares its first social responsibility report
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2001;323:1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1089 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Indian doctors decry proposal to teach traditional medicine
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2001;323:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1090 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Private and public sectors should face same rules
	Zosia Kmietowicz London
	BMJ  2001;323:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1090 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Baxter identifies processing fluid as possible cause of deaths
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2001;323:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1088 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	NHS breast screening report contradicts Cochrane findings
	Andrew Moscrop
	BMJ  2001;323:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1088 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Abortion clinics fail to meet standards
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;323:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1088 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New law requires doctors to learn care of the dying
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;323:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1088 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Rise in world population threatens the planet
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1088 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text]

	Carers face poverty and isolation, report says
	Jane Seymour
	BMJ  2001;323:1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1089 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New General Medical Council president elected
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2001;323:1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1089 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Eastern Cape tightens law on circumcision to stem casualties
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2001;323:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1090 [Extract] [Full text]

	Stem cell registry moves closer to launch
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1090 [Extract] [Full text]

	Fast track patients more likely to beat colorectal cancer
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;323:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1090 [Extract] [Full text]

	Right to die case goes to House of Lords
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;323:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1090 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gatekeeping may not be cost effective
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1090 [Extract] [Full text]

	Government refuses to fund flexible training in England
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2001;323:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1090 [Extract] [Full text]

	Trade liberalisation threatens public health systems
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1090 [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Why general practitioners do not implement evidence: qualitative study
	A C Freeman, K Sweeney
	BMJ  2001;323:1100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1100 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities
	Gunther Eysenbach, James E Till
	BMJ  2001;323:1103-1105, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1103 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Infopoints: The internet and the globalisation of medical education
	John M Harris, Jr, Stuart J Salasche, Robin B Harris
	BMJ  2001;323:1106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1106 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Radiotherapy
	R P Symonds
	BMJ  2001;323:1107-1110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1107 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based paediatrics: Evidence based management of seizures associated with fever
	Martin Offringa, Virginia A Moyer
	BMJ  2001;323:1111-1114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1111 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of the upper gastrointestinal tract: Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage
	Helen J Dallal, K R Palmer
	BMJ  2001;323:1115-1117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1115 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Consultants' hootenanny
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2001;323:1137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1137 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Beyond breaking point
	Anonymous
	BMJ  2001;323:1137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1137 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Quality improvement report: Effect of a formal education programme on safety of transfusions
	Peter Clark, Iain Rennie, Sam Rawlinson
	BMJ  2001;323:1118-1120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1118 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Navigating across medicine's electronic landscape, stopping at places with Pub or Central in their names
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2001;323:1120-1122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1120 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Analysing controlled trials with baseline and follow up measurements
	Andrew J Vickers, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2001;323:1123-1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1123 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;323:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1138 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Beaten
	BMJ  2001;323:1099, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1099 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A headache to diagnose sometimes
	Peter Thatcher
	BMJ  2001;323:1110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1110 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Informed consent
	I Tiwari
	BMJ  2001;323:1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1124 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Presidential Disability
	John Bunker
	BMJ  2001;323:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1134 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;323:1135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1135 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  2001;323:1135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1135 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Cannabis the wonder drug?
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2001;323:1136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1136 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The agonies of evidence
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Headlice
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1136 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Edward Parrish Radford • Andrew Allison • Qahtan Abdul-Rahman Al-Samarrai • Stephen David Crabtree • Kathleen Agnes Dru Drury • Francis George Hattersley • William Edgar Parkes • Patrick Morries Gordon Russell • Patrick McIlroy Smyth
	Caroline Richmond, A G Allison, L Bryce, G E Phillips, R Baxter, F Khan, W Scott, P Sutaria, James Andrew, F G Hattersley, O V Maxim, J P G Hattersley, D Keegan, H Dunn, D W Sykes, J Martin Stewart
	BMJ  2001;323:1132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1132 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Deaths from chickenpox in England and Wales 1995-7: analysis of routine mortality data
	Helen Rawson, Amelia Crampin, Norman Noah
	BMJ  2001;323:1091-1093, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1091 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reducing violence in severe mental illness: randomised controlled trial of intensive case management compared with standard care
	Elizabeth Walsh, Catherine Gilvarry, Chiara Samele, Kate Harvey, Catherine Manley, Peter Tyrer, Francis Creed, Robin Murray, Thomas Fahy
	BMJ  2001;323:1093, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1093 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of Effective Health Care bulletin on treatment of persistent glue ear in children: time series analysis
	James Mason, Nick Freemantle, George Browning
	BMJ  2001;323:1096-1097, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1096 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General outbreaks of infectious intestinal diseases linked with private residences in England and Wales, 1992-9: questionnaire study
	Iain A Gillespie, Sarah J O'Brien, Goutam K Adak
	BMJ  2001;323:1097-1098, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1097 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Toe ulceration associated with compression bandaging: observational study
	Christopher L H Chan, Felicity J Meyer, Rod J Hay, Kevin G Burnand
	BMJ  2001;323:1099, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1099 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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