This week's This week in the BMJ

	Kaiser outperforms the NHS [Full text] FREE

	Butterbur is as effective as cetirizine for hay fever [Full text] FREE

	Electronic monitoring improves control in asthma [Full text] FREE

	Delay in referral does not affect survival in ovarian cancer [Full text] FREE

	Women who continue with unintended pregnancies are less depressed than those who abort [Full text] FREE

	Better basic care is needed to promote chronic wound healing [Full text] FREE

	Problem based learning improves undergraduate outcomes [Full text] FREE

	Learning needs assessment should not be restrictive [Full text] FREE

	Redesigning cancer care improves patients' experiences [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Obstetric cholestasis
	Piotr Milkiewicz, Elwyn Elias, Catherine Williamson, Judith Weaver
	BMJ  2002;324:123-124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.123 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Caring for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
	Stephen E Straus
	BMJ  2002;324:124-125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.124 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Learning in practice: a new section in the BMJ
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood, Ed Peile
	BMJ  2002;324:125-126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.125 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Researching the outcomes of educational interventions: a matter of design
	David Prideaux
	BMJ  2002;324:126-127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.126 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Oh NHS, thou art sick
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2002;324:127-128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.127 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Article makes simple errors and could cause unnecessary deaths
	Colin Baigent, Rory Collins, Richard Peto
	BMJ  2002;324:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.167 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC must recognise and deal with vexatious complaints fast
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2002;324:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.167a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC member forced to stand down from disciplinary panel
	Jennie Colman, Paul Diggory, Wendy Franks
	BMJ  2002;324:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.168 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maintaining the integrity of the scientific record
	Stephen Senn, Dennis O Chanter
	BMJ  2002;324:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.169 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetic machines and anti-hypoxia devices
	Jonathan M Fielden, Chris G Pollock
	BMJ  2002;324:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.169a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors must read drug labels, not whinge about them
	J A W Wildsmith
	BMJ  2002;324:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.170 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety of acupuncture
	Tim Wilson, Hitoshi Yamashita, Hiroshi Tsukayama
	BMJ  2002;324:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.170a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Complexity science
	Ian Reid, William Notcutt
	BMJ  2002;324:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.171 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of permanent childhood hearing impairment
	Shamim Amis, Dominic Byrne, Helen D Bailey, Carol Bower, Kim Gifkins, Harvey L Coates
	BMJ  2002;324:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.172 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors' management should not make things worse for patients
	Pam Levack, Ian Cairns, Phyllis Guild, Helen Dryden
	BMJ  2002;324:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.172a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical students are demoralised by some teachers
	Allan D Struthers
	BMJ  2002;324:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.173 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tired surgical trainees: unfit to drive but fit to operate?
	Russell Jeffers, Lee Jeys
	BMJ  2002;324:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.173a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Children's charity criticises global immunisation initiative
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2002;324:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.129 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	France outlaws the right to sue for being born
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.129a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.130 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors worried about threat to supplies of animal insulin
	Mark Hunter
	BMJ  2002;324:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.130a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bayer faces Swiss criminal probe over cerivastatin
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2002;324:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.130b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Recognising chronic fatigue is key to improving outcomes
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.131 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New agency created to fight infectious diseases
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.131a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Americans swap the couch for pills
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;324:133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.133b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government sued for 11 week delay in warning about aspirin
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.134 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	General Medical Council rejects complaint brought by a member
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.134a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Exhibition challenges view of developing world
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;324:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.134b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Milburn announces setting up of "foundation" hospitals
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;324:132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.132 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Modernisation Board identifies progress on NHS Plan
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.132a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Medicine attracts most allegations of scientific dishonesty in Denmark
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;324:132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.132b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctors are called on to renew their professionalism
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.132c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Report calls for end to age discrimination in NHS
	Ruth Little
	BMJ  2002;324:132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.132d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Corridor scenes capture hospital life
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;324:132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.132e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctors found guilty of substandard care
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.133 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Greater exposure to viruses increases risk of heart disease
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;324:133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.133a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Operations in Ireland cancelled because of blood shortages
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2002;324:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.134c [Extract] [Full text]

	Relations between NHS and private sector are "not a one night stand," says Milburn
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.134d [Extract] [Full text]

	Half as many animals used in medical research as 20 years ago
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.134e [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Effect of delays in primary care referral on survival of women with epithelial ovarian cancer: retrospective audit
	John M J Kirwan, Douglas G Tincello, Jonathan J O Herod, Olive Frost, Robert E Kingston
	BMJ  2002;324:148-151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.148 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Depression and unintended pregnancy in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: a cohort study
	David C Reardon, Jesse R Cougle
	BMJ  2002;324:151-152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.151 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	Problem based learning in continuing medical education: a review of controlled evaluation studies
	P B A Smits, J H A M Verbeek, C D de Buisonjé
	BMJ  2002;324:153-156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.153 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of criteria used] FREE

	Learning needs assessment: assessing the need
	Janet Grant
	BMJ  2002;324:156-159, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.156 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Healing chronic wounds
	K G Harding, H L Morris, G K Patel
	BMJ  2002;324:160-163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.160 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Relationships
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2002;324:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.179a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Actually, making a diagnosis is quite important
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2002;324:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.179 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Redesigning cancer care
	David Kerr, Helen Bevan, Ben Gowland, Jean Penny, Don Berwick
	BMJ  2002;324:164-166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.164 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.180 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: A chance for a prince-physician
	BMJ  2002;324:146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.146a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Beware ill relatives who request second opinions
	David Fisher
	BMJ  2002;324:152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.152 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A nameless medical hero of the Franco-Prussian war
	BMJ  2002;324:164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.164a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Collaborative meta-analysis of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy for prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in high risk patients
	BMJ  2002;324:141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.141 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Magic Bullets, Lost Horizons: The Rise and Fall of Antibiotics
	Pentti Huovinen
	BMJ  2002;324:176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.176 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Stress and the Heart: Psychosocial Pathways to Coronary Heart Disease
	Ichiro Kawachi
	BMJ  2002;324:176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.176a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

FILM

This week's FILM

	Film: Iris
	David Wilkinson
	BMJ  2002;324:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.177 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Generalists versus specialists
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2002;324:178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.178 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

RADIO

This week's RADIO

	Radio: Beyond the Genome
	Jon Emery
	BMJ  2002;324:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.177a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Health systems: where doctors and patients meet
	BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.0i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Fighting infectious diseases
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2002;324:178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.178a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Dame Sheila Sherlock
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2002;324:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174 [Extract] [Full text]

	Regine Hildebrandt
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;324:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174a [Extract] [Full text]

	Mohamed Suleiman Hamza
	D A Archer, C J F Maguire
	BMJ  2002;324:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Keane
	P K Mukherjee
	BMJ  2002;324:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174c [Extract] [Full text]

	Thomas Stephen Low-Beer
	Mohsen Shahmanesh, Roy Cockel
	BMJ  2002;324:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Edgar Struthers
	Peter A Parish
	BMJ  2002;324:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174e [Extract] [Full text]

	James Colquhoun Petrie
	BMJ  2002;324:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.174f [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Getting more for their dollar: a comparison of the NHS with California's Kaiser Permanente • Commentary: Funding is not the only factor • Commentary: Same price, better care • Commentary: Competition made them do it
	Richard G A Feachem, Neelam K Sekhri, Karen L White, Jennifer Dixon, Donald M Berwick, Alain C Enthoven
	BMJ  2002;324:135-143, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.135 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of butterbur and cetirizine for treating seasonal allergic rhinitis
	Andreas Schapowal
	BMJ  2002;324:144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.144 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Analysis of adherence to peak flow monitoring when recording of data is electronic
	Helen K Reddel, Brett G Toelle, Guy B Marks, Sandra I Ware, Christine R Jenkins, Ann J Woolcock
	BMJ  2002;324:146-147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7330.146 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history] FREE

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