This week's This week in the BMJ

	Emergency hospital team cuts cardiac deaths by half [Full text] FREE

	Social security data predict use of inpatient services [Full text] FREE

	No link found between MMR vaccine and bowel problems in autistic children [Full text] FREE

	Link of restricted prenatal growth with marriage and mortality is unclear [Full text] FREE

	Poorer children are more likely to have traffic related injuries [Full text] FREE

	Prophylactic mastectomy is of great benefit to high risk women [Full text] FREE

	Patients involved in medical student assessment should be adequately cared for [Full text] FREE

	Walk-in centres get more visits than general practice from young adults [Full text] FREE

	Trial management team should be responsible for patient welfare [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Hip protectors
	Ian D Cameron
	BMJ  2002;324:375-376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.375 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thoracic surgery in a crisis
	Martyn R Partridge
	BMJ  2002;324:376-377, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.376 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Was it a heart attack?
	Charles J McKenna, J Colin Forfar
	BMJ  2002;324:377-378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.377 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Regulating the regulators
	Steve Dewar, Belinda Finlayson
	BMJ  2002;324:378-379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.378 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ journals free to the developing world
	Richard Smith, Alex Williamson
	BMJ  2002;324:380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.380 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Rapid assessment of chest pain
	John M Ryan, John Heyworth, Guy D Eslick, David S Coulshed
	BMJ  2002;324:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.422 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Wrong biochemistry results
	Ian D Watson, K Lawton, Göran Lindstedt, Ernst Nyström, Rolf Ekman, Roseanne Forberg, Anders Isaksson, Mats Stridsberg, Lena Hård, Gunnar Nordin, Mario Plebani, Pierangelo Bonini
	BMJ  2002;324:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.422/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring safety of over the counter drugs
	Alan G Wade, James Walmsley, Graham Marshall, Deborah Layton, Saad A W Shakir, David Clark
	BMJ  2002;324:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.424 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Daily regimen and compliance with treatment
	Knut Schroeder, Shah Ebrahim, Tom Fahey, Alan Montgomery, Tim Peters, Bryan Lask, Alan Porter
	BMJ  2002;324:425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.425 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for diabetes in general practice
	Bertil Hagström, Bengt Mattsson, Nigel Higson, M Bates, P Carmody, S Haba, S Smith, C Bradley
	BMJ  2002;324:425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.425/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Don't strangle health promotion, redefine it
	Allan Sinclair
	BMJ  2002;324:427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.427 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	School based intervention has reduced obesity in Singapore
	Cheong Mui Toh, Jeffery Cutter, Suok Kai Chew
	BMJ  2002;324:427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.427/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National guidance and allocation of resources
	G C W Howard, Peter Davey
	BMJ  2002;324:427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.427/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Article from Clinical Evidence
	Lars Christian Laursen
	BMJ  2002;324:428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.428 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs' undocumented work has increased substantially
	Sandra J Taylor
	BMJ  2002;324:428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.428/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children are at risk from parked cars
	Gary Lafferty
	BMJ  2002;324:428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.428/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Contraception endangered by legal challenge to emergency pill
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.381 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug therapy reduces birth rate of HIV infected babies from 19% to 3%
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;324:381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.381/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.382 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Campaigners fear that Russia's new tobacco law won't work
	Kirill Danishevski, Martin McKee
	BMJ  2002;324:382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.382/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Europe moving at the speed of its slowest member in controlling tobacco
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  2002;324:382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.382/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government launches intensive media campaign on MMR
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.383 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Authors of guidelines have strong links with drugs industry
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2002;324:383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.383/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Netherlands considers prescribing heroin to addicts
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2002;324:385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.385/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Parents' champion or loose cannon?
	BMJ  2002;324:386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.386 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Plan to put outside managers in NHS is criticised
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.384 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Hepataitis C compensation case could open floodgate to claims
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  2002;324:384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.384/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GMC issues new guidance on clinical research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.384/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Editorial board charged with wrongly accusing author
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;324:384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.384/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Practice in remote areas could disintegrate, report says
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2002;324:384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.384/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Ontario�s family doctors may opt for a capitation payment system
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;324:385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.385 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	France�s birth rate matches high Irish levels
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  2002;324:385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.385/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	India plans new legislation to prevent sex selection
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2002;324:385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.385/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Mandela emphasises importance of preventing vertical transmission of HIV
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2002;324:386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.386/a [Extract] [Full text]

	Early periods and late childbearing increase risk of breast cancer, study confirms
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.386/b [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	What is the role of walk-in centres in the NHS?
	Chris Salisbury, Mel Chalder, Taj Manku Scott, Catherine Pope, Laurence Moore
	BMJ  2002;324:399-402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.399 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Rhinitis
	Samantha Walker, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2002;324:403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.403 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Algorithm] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	Use of patients in professional medical examinations: current UK practice and the ethicolegal implications for medical education
	Melissa Sayer, Deborah Bowman, Dason Evans, Anne Wessier, Diana Wood
	BMJ  2002;324:404-407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.404 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Questionnaire] FREE

	The death of the long case?
	John J Norcini
	BMJ  2002;324:408-409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.408 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent developments: Breast cancer
	Monica Morrow, William Gradishar
	BMJ  2002;324:410-414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.410 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra table and figures]

	ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Introduction. ILeads, rate, rhythm, and cardiac axis
	Steve Meek, Francis Morris
	BMJ  2002;324:415-418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.415 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Fire down below
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2002;324:433, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.433/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	How should doctors decorate their consulting rooms?
	Martin Gaba
	BMJ  2002;324:433, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.433 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	What to do about poor clinical performance in clinical trials • Commentary: Of course patients should be told • Commentary: The surgeon is only one factor
	Su Mason, Jon Nicholl, Richard Lilford, Heather Goodare, Tom Treasure
	BMJ  2002;324:419-421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.419 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.434 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Three hundred years ago: Public health and the parish constable
	Tony Fox
	BMJ  2002;324:402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.402 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A compassionate end
	R H Soper
	BMJ  2002;324:407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.407 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Two memorable patients: Teaching myself lessons
	D W Sarll
	BMJ  2002;324:414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.414 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The emperor's pointer
	Jurgen A H R Claassen
	BMJ  2002;324:418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.418 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Post-combat syndromes from the Boer war to the Gulf war: a cluster analysis of their nature and attribution
	BMJ  2002;324:397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.397 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: The PSA storm
	Gavin Yamey, Michael Wilkes
	BMJ  2002;324:431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.431 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Press: The great American mammography debate
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.432 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	A modest proposal
	BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.0/i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Cancer screening
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2002;324:432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.432/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Richard Farndon
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2002;324:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.429 [Extract] [Full text]

	Julian Arthur John Hall Critchley
	Lester Critchley, Hilary Critchley, Christine West
	BMJ  2002;324:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.429/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Abhayakumar Gulabchand Gandhi ("Arun")
	Jerry Dyson
	BMJ  2002;324:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.429/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Hammond Gibson
	William Gibson, Richard Marshall
	BMJ  2002;324:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.429/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ann Mary Herrick (née Coggins)
	Ron Coggins
	BMJ  2002;324:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.429/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Lakhichand Dhondiram Munot
	K M Bohara
	BMJ  2002;324:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.429/e [Extract] [Full text]

	John William Bryan Palmer
	D O'Brian, R W M Palmer, M Voight
	BMJ  2002;324:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.429/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Norman Douglas Wayne
	Elizabeth Wayne
	BMJ  2002;324:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.429/g [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Effects of a medical emergency team on reduction of incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrests in hospital: preliminary study
	Michael D Buist, Gaye E Moore, Stephen A Bernard, Bruce P Waxman, Jeremy N Anderson, Tuan V Nguyen
	BMJ  2002;324:387-390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.387 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk adjustment for hospital use using social security data: cross sectional small area analysis
	Roy A Carr-Hill, James Q Jamison, Dermot O'Reilly, Michael R Stevenson, James Reid, Barry Merriman
	BMJ  2002;324:390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.390 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and bowel problems or developmental regression in children with autism: population study
	Brent Taylor, Elizabeth Miller, Raghu Lingam, Nick Andrews, Andrea Simmons, Julia Stowe
	BMJ  2002;324:393-396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.393 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Early release version (8 Feb 2002)] FREE

	Socioeconomic differences in Swedish children and adolescents injured in road traffic incidents: cross sectional study
	Lucie Laflamme, Karin Engström
	BMJ  2002;324:396-397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.396 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prenatal growth, subsequent marital status, and mortality: longitudinal study
	Denny Vågerö, Bitte Modin
	BMJ  2002;324:398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.398 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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