One stop breast clinics are costly and reduce only short term anxiety [Full text]

	Asian patients have lower levels of cardiac revascularisation than white [Full text]

	Focus groups are effective in eliciting views in those with head and neck cancer [Full text]

	Homoeopathy does not reduce allergy to dust mite in people with asthma [Full text]

	Different models of informaticist services serve different functions [Full text]

	One year survival after renal transplantation is steadily improving [Full text]

	Diagnostic specificity and sensitivity changes in different settings [Full text]

Editorials

	The misdiagnosis of epilepsy
	David Chadwick, David Smith
	BMJ  2002;324:495-496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.495 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy
	Robert D C Elwes
	BMJ  2002;324:496-497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.496 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The discomfort of patient power
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2002;324:497-498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.497 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Randomised controlled trials for homoeopathy
	Gene Feder, Tessa Katz
	BMJ  2002;324:498-499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.498 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Brain drain and health professionals
	Tikki Pang, Mary Ann Lansang, Andy Haines
	BMJ  2002;324:499-500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.499 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Performance league tables
	Jonathan Howell, M F Shiu, B Bridgewater, T Hooper, C Campbell, M Jones, J Carey, P Waterworth, A Deiraniya, N Yonan, Peter M Dunn, Tom Aslan
	BMJ  2002;324:542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of patient centredness and positive approach
	David Shepherd, Michael Hurley, Marian Pitts, Jeffrey Grierson
	BMJ  2002;324:543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.543 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Somatisation in primary care
	James W Pennebaker, Antonio L Teixeira, Jr, Henrique Alvarenga-Silva, A F Schilte
	BMJ  2002;324:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.544 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deputy editor of Clinical Evidence replies to letter
	Giselle Jones
	BMJ  2002;324:545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.545 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of Cochrane reviews
	Mark Petticrew, Paul Wilson, Kath Wright, Fujian Song, Helen Handoll, Rajan Madhok
	BMJ  2002;324:545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.545/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reye's syndrome revisited
	M Casteels-Van Daele, C Wouters, C Van Geet, M C McGovern, J F T Glasgow, M C Stewart
	BMJ  2002;324:546, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.546 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Demand for prostate specific antigen testing in primary care
	Keith Hopcroft, Gurmukh Singh Kalsi
	BMJ  2002;324:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.547 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Despite author's opinion, radiology guideline was correct
	Bob Bury
	BMJ  2002;324:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.547/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dishonest doctors should not continue to practise
	Nigel Dudley
	BMJ  2002;324:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.547/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical medication review by pharmacists would improve care
	Joe Neary
	BMJ  2002;324:548, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.548 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dementia is being avoided in NHS and social care
	Alastair Macdonald, Tom Dening
	BMJ  2002;324:548, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.548/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	GPs asked to do more for drug misusers
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.501 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS settles claim of patients treated with LSD
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.501/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.502 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Blair warns of tax increases to pay for NHS
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.502/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US encourages flu jabs for infants aged under 2
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;324:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.502/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Embryo cell research should continue, committee says
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.503 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Watchdog approves embryo selection to treat 3 year old child
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.503/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bush moves to tighten security around scientific research
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.505/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US issues new guidelines as mammography debate continues
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;324:506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.506 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	First cases of type 2 diabetes found in white UK teenagers
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.506/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	"No star" NHS trust slated by CHI report
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.504 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Women more likely than men to die after heart surgery
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;324:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.504/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Private medical services in state hospitals in Israel to be shut down
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2002;324:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.504/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Surgeon criticised for performing kidney operation using living donor
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;324:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.504/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Netherlands to run trials of marijuana in patients with multiple sclerosis
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2002;324:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.504/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Judge criticises expert witness for misrepresenting research findings
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.505 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	India faces drug resistant leishmaniasis
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2002;324:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.505/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	More clinics for younger people needed to reduce sex infections
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.505/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Primary care

	Use of ultramolecular potencies of allergen to treat asthmatic people allergic to house dust mite: double blind randomised controlled clinical trial
	G T Lewith, A D Watkins, M E Hyland, S Shaw, J A Broomfield, G Dolan, S T Holgate
	BMJ  2002;324:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.520 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

	A comparative case study of two models of a clinical informaticist service
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Jane Hughes, Charlotte Humphrey, Stephen Rogers, Deborah Swinglehurst, Peter Martin
	BMJ  2002;324:524-529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.524 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details of the study] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent developments: Renal transplantation
	Peter A Andrews
	BMJ  2002;324:530-534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.530 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block
	David Da Costa, William J Brady, June Edhouse
	BMJ  2002;324:535-538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.535 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Bad smells are good
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2002;324:553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.553/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Prosecution or persecution?
	Kosalakumar Karunaratne, John Gibbs
	BMJ  2002;324:553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.553 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Evidence base of clinical diagnosis: The architecture of diagnostic research
	D L Sackett, R B Haynes
	BMJ  2002;324:539-541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.539 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List of DLS's potential conflicts]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.554 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Endpiece: Cleanliness and godliness
	BMJ  2002;324:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.516/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: What's possible
	BMJ  2002;324:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.520/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: Never say, "never" again
	B Sadananda Naik
	BMJ  2002;324:529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.529 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: My important surgical appliance
	Kenneth S Holt
	BMJ  2002;324:534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.534 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A new statue to Pasteur
	BMJ  2002;324:539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.539/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

FILM

	Film: The curious adoption of John Q
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2002;324:551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.551 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis
	BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.0/g [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

PUBLISHING

	Publishing: A doctor's guide to Dr Foster
	Ruth Little
	BMJ  2002;324:552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.552 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Nosing around:
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2002;324:552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.552/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Donald William Gould
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549 [Extract] [Full text]

	James Robert Clark
	Marjorie Clark
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Edward Beresford Davies
	Alan Broadhurst
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Margaret Joan Fingland (née Croall)
	Ian W Fingland, Ian G Fingland, Alison M Dunsire
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ann Annam Herrick (née Ponnudarai)
	Peter Herrick, Max Bayer
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Michael Gerard McEntegart
	Kevin McCarthy
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Harry Stafford Morton
	C J Cameron
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Rani Rajasekaran
	P Mohamed Bashir
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/g [Extract] [Full text]

	John Baynes Searle
	Robert Searle
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/h [Extract] [Full text]

	William Simpson
	Jean Adams
	BMJ  2002;324:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/i [Extract] [Full text]

	Frances Sorrell
	Colin Gillespie, John R Wedley
	BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/j [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Costs and benefits of a one stop clinic compared with a dedicated breast clinic: randomised controlled trial • Commentary: one stop clinics should not be abandoned
	Paola Dey, Nigel Bundred, Alan Gibbs, Penny Hopwood, Andrew Baildam, Caroline Boggis, Marilyn James, Fiona Knox, Vicki Leidecker, Ciarán Woodman, J Michael Dixon
	BMJ  2002;324:507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.507 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ethnic differences in invasive management of coronary disease: prospective cohort study of patients undergoing angiography
	Gene Feder, Angela M Crook, Patrick Magee, Shrilla Banerjee, Adam D Timmis, Harry Hemingway
	BMJ  2002;324:511-516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.511 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Eliciting views of patients with head and neck cancer and carers on professionally derived standards for care • Commentary: Patients' involvement in their treatment matters
	M Birchall, A Richardson, L Lee, P Morton
	BMJ  2002;324:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.516 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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