This week's This week in the BMJ

	Interferon alfa plus ribavirin combination therapy benefits patients with chronic hepatitis C [Full text] FREE

	Most caesarean sections in Brazil are unwanted [Full text] FREE

	Most older people would like to be told if they developed cancer [Full text] FREE

	Making knowing transmission of HIV a criminal offence may have negative public health effects [Full text] FREE

	Enuresis alarms are an effective and safe treatment for nocturnal enuresis [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The World Trade Organization's health agenda
	Debra J Lipson
	BMJ  2001;323:1139-1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1139 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	National smoking cessation services at risk
	Martin Raw, Ann McNeill, Judith Watt, David Raw
	BMJ  2001;323:1140-1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1140 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of chronic hepatitis C
	Gary L Davis
	BMJ  2001;323:1141-1142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1141 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting normality in childbirth
	Richard Johanson, Mary Newburn
	BMJ  2001;323:1142-1143, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1142 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Participation of patients in decisions about treatment for cancer
	Lesley Fallowfield
	BMJ  2001;323:1144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1144 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Heavy drinking by young British women gives cause for concern
	Moira Plant, Martin Plant
	BMJ  2001;323:1183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Full time forensic pathology service needs to be established
	Christopher Milroy, Bill Hunt
	BMJ  2001;323:1183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nodular thyroid disease
	G L Sayer, M Keston Jones
	BMJ  2001;323:1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic patient records in general practice
	Philip J Bayliss Brown, Robert G Newcombe, Douglas G Altman, Trevor N Bryant, Alan Hassey, David Gerrett, Ali Wilson
	BMJ  2001;323:1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient passports would alert doctors to previous bone marrow transplantation
	Arabella Smith, Helen Somerville
	BMJ  2001;323:1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vocational rehabilitation
	Gillian Paschkes-Bell, Jonathan Leach, Ian McCurdie, Nick Carter
	BMJ  2001;323:1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1186 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based policy: don't be timid
	Kieran Walshe
	BMJ  2001;323:1187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Declaring competing interests
	Giovanni A Fava, George N Papanikolaou, John P A Ioannidis
	BMJ  2001;323:1187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast feeding must consider HIV transmission in Latin America and the Caribbean
	Rafael Perez-Escamilla
	BMJ  2001;323:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1188 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systematic reviews of evaluations of diagnostic and screening tests
	Nicole Jill-Marie Blackman, Gerben ter Riet, Alphons G H Kessels, Lucas M Bachmann
	BMJ  2001;323:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1188 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uptake of antenatal screening for HIV infection can be high outside London too
	Gillian Dean, Martin Fisher, Melanie Ottewill
	BMJ  2001;323:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1188 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increasing email consultations may marginalise more people
	Geoff Wong
	BMJ  2001;323:1189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1189 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Moses baskets are a potential health hazard
	M Hesseling, J A Sills
	BMJ  2001;323:1189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1189 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Statins are the new aspirin, Oxford researchers say
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;323:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1145 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Standards watchdog to get a bigger role in NHS
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;323:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1145 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;323:1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1146 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Kyoto protocol ready for ratification after Marrakesh
	Kathryn Sheridan
	BMJ  2001;323:1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1146 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WTO relaxes rule on drug patents
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1146 [Extract] [Full text]

	Heart pumps improve survival in patients with severe heart failure
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;323:1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1147 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Controversy hits van Velzen cystic fibrosis paper
	Jane Seymour
	BMJ  2001;323:1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1147 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US government moves against doctor assisted suicide
	Fred Charatran
	BMJ  2001;323:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1149 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	The moderniser
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:1150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1150 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Doctors to get new warning system on complaints
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;323:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1148 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	French government agrees to subsidise private clinics by £300m
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  2001;323:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1148 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Cancer centre at "breaking point"
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2001;323:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1148 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Parents object to watering down of recommendations in infant death case
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;323:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1148 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Detentions under the Mental Health Act rise by 20 000 over 10 years
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1148 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Couple has the right to refuse test on newborn child
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;323:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1149 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	India ups the stakes in the fight against tobacco
	Rohit Sharma
	BMJ  2001;323:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1149 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GPs need more training in cancer genetics
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;323:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1149 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	BMJ  2001;323:1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1448

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Milburn visits Spain for doctors and ideas
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2001;323:1150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1150 [Extract] [Full text]

	Proteins give early clue to coronary artery disease
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:1150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1150 [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Primary care in Bradford: from group to trust and beyond
	Neil Small, Sue Proctor
	BMJ  2001;323:1161-1163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1161 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Regular review: Treatment of chronic hepatitis
	Paul J Gow, David Mutimer
	BMJ  2001;323:1164-1167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1164 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based paediatrics: Evidence based management of nocturnal enuresis
	Jonathan H C Evans
	BMJ  2001;323:1167-1169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1167 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of the upper gastrointestinal tract: Upper abdominal pain: Gall bladder
	C D Johnson
	BMJ  2001;323:1170-1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1170 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Critical event audit
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2001;323:1195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1195 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Stuck in the middle?
	David Lock
	BMJ  2001;323:1195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1195 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Criminalisation of HIV transmission: implications for public health in Scotland
	Sheila M Bird, Andrew J Leigh Brown
	BMJ  2001;323:1174-1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1174 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prospective health impact assessment: pitfalls, problems, and possible ways forward
	Jayne Parry, Andrew Stevens
	BMJ  2001;323:1177-1182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1177 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;323:1196, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1196 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The campaign against rats
	BMJ  2001;323:1160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scientific spirit
	Shishir Gokhale
	BMJ  2001;323:1163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: -ize right
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2001;323:1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1173 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Just in time
	John Zorab
	BMJ  2001;323:1182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1182 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Abortion clinics fail to meet standards
	BMJ  2001;323:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1149 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editor's Choice
	BMJ  2001;323:1182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1182 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of adverse birth outcomes in populations living near landfill sites
	BMJ  2001;323:1182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1182 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

This week's TV

	TV: vCJD: health risks and health scares
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2001;323:1194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1194 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
	Alastair Baker
	BMJ  2001;323:1192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1192 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Brave New Brain: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2001;323:1192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1192 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population
	Maurice King
	BMJ  2001;323:1193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1193 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Do we need another anthrax test?
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;323:1193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1193 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Three important letters and a clue to a long life
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Pet bereavement
	Navin Chohan
	BMJ  2001;323:1194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1194 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Temple Theodore "Tim" Stamm • Chalmers Davidson • Trevor Davies • John Wanless Dickson • Richard Leigh • Joyce McQuillin • B K Naik • Shirley Storrier (née Clarke) • Cecil Henry Wilkinson • Jonathan Alun Williams
	Carol Harris, Ernest Jellinek, Bill Gutteridge, Andrew Dickson, Joanne Leigh, Dick Madeley, Sandeep Savla, Rosemary Smart, David Morgan, Annabel Walmsley
	BMJ  2001;323:1190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1190 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Interferon alfa with or without ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C: systematic review of randomised trials
	Lise L Kjaergard, Kim Krogsgaard, Christian Gluud
	BMJ  2001;323:1151-1155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1151 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Unwanted caesarean sections among public and private patients in Brazil: prospective study
	Joseph E Potter, Elza Berquó, Ignez H O Perpétuo, Ondina Fachel Leal, Kristine Hopkins, Marta Rovery Souza, Maria Célia de Carvalho Formiga
	BMJ  2001;323:1155-1158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1155 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Accuracy of a single question in screening for depression in a cohort of patients after stroke: comparative study
	Caroline Watkins, Leanne Daniels, Cathy Jack, Hazel Dickinson, Martin van den Broek
	BMJ  2001;323:1159, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1159 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history] FREE

	Should elderly patients be told they have cancer? Questionnaire survey of older people
	A Ajaj, M P Singh, A J J Abdulla
	BMJ  2001;323:1160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1160 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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