This week's This week in the BMJ

	Unvalidated tools to rate web health information are proliferating [Full text] FREE

	Internet users say and do different things about quality [Full text] FREE

	Popular breast cancer websites not necessarily of higher quality [Full text] FREE

	Apparently credible websites may be inaccurate [Full text] FREE

	Quality of health information on the internet has improved [Full text] FREE

	Improving public safety in primary care [Full text] FREE

	Consumers should be encouraged to search critically [Full text] FREE

	Microdialysis has wide applicability for in vivo measurements [Full text] FREE

	People at risk of cervical cord injury are often not immobilised [Full text] FREE

	Internet law is muddling along [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	From patients to end users
	Tom Ferguson
	BMJ  2002;324:555-556, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.555 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Guidelines for patients]

	Against internet exceptionalism
	Sasha Shepperd, Deborah Charnock
	BMJ  2002;324:556-557, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.556 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The quality of health information on the internet
	Gretchen P Purcell, Petra Wilson, Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2002;324:557-558, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.557 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NHS Direct audited
	Steve George
	BMJ  2002;324:558-559, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.558 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Three new initiatives involving bmj.com
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2002;324:559-560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.559 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Effectiveness of smoking cessation initiatives
	Martin J Jarvis, Doreen McIntyre, Clive Bates, Jonathan Foulds
	BMJ  2002;324:608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.608 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Iloprost for cholesterol emboli syndrome
	Charles D Pusey
	BMJ  2002;324:609, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.609 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths from chickenpox
	Marc Brisson, W John Edmunds, Nigel J Gay, Elizabeth Miller, J Claire Bramley, Ruby Devi, David Muir, Philip Rice, A H Mohsen, M W McKendrick, Neil Roberts, Giles J Peek, Nikki Jones, Richard K Firmin, Diana Elbourne
	BMJ  2002;324:609, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.609/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease
	Karen Rees, Shah Ebrahim, Jin Ling Tang, Wilson Tam, Bob Leckridge
	BMJ  2002;324:611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advances in virtual reality are wide ranging
	Francesco Rubino, Luc Soler, Jacques Marescaux, Herve Maisonneuve
	BMJ  2002;324:612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.612 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	News article on report about drug researcher was biased
	Elie Betito
	BMJ  2002;324:612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.612/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dysphagia
	Kerry Haddow, Gillian M MacDougall, Malcolm A Buchanan, Grant Bates
	BMJ  2002;324:613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.613 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatrists' perspective is insufficient to root out racism
	Apu Chakraborty, Kwame McKenzie
	BMJ  2002;324:613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.613/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of Helicobacter pylori infection
	Ian L P Beales, Helena K Parsons, David S Sanders, Martyn J Carter, Alan J Lobo, Trevor Watts
	BMJ  2002;324:614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.614 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical databases can complement controlled trials
	Louie Plenderleith
	BMJ  2002;324:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.615 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital revises its own data in government league table
	M M Wright, J G N Studley, M Wilkinson
	BMJ  2002;324:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.615/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death rates of surgeons should not be published
	Douglas Black
	BMJ  2002;324:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.615/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Claim launched against makers of third generation pill
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.561 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Aspirin before a clot busting drug is more effective than after
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;324:561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.561/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.562 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	United Kingdom grants first human embryo research licences
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.562/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Veterans sue Ministry of Defence over post-traumatic stress disorder
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.563 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drugs industry urged to develop medicines for children
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;324:563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.563/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Overseas talent can help us build a better NHS, says Magdi Yacoub
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2002;324:565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.565/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	"Buyer beware" remains US policy towards information on the net
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.566 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO calls for a health domain name to help consumers
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  2002;324:566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.566/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK government aims to integrate health information on the internet
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.566/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	European Commission to publish a code of practice for websites
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;324:567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.567 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Barcelona medical college runs certification system for websites
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2002;324:567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.567/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trust mark launched as a guarantee of safety in the Netherlands
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2002;324:567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.567/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS Direct Online explores partnerships with other health organisations
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.568 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Health authority employing HIV positive dentist wins anonymity
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.564 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctors successfully screen embryos for gene mutation linked to early onset Alzheimer's
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;324:564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.564/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Report recommends tougher safeguards for children in NHS
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;324:564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.564/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Help the Aged accuses NHS of discrimination
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.564/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Five million deaths despite royal college's warning 40 years ago
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2002;324:564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.564/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	BMA suggests nurses could become gatekeepers of the NHS
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.565 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Use of homeopathy in NHS not justified
	Mark Hunter
	BMJ  2002;324:565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.565/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	German women to receive quality controlled breast screening
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;324:565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.565/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	German health ministry forum monitors quality of health information
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;324:568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.568/a [Extract] [Full text]

	Websites should specify level of evidence for information they publish, report says
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  2002;324:568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.568/b [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Enhancing public safety in primary care
	Tim Wilson, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2002;324:584-587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.584 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Microdialysis
	Markus Müller
	BMJ  2002;324:588-591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.588 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Immobilisation of the cervical spine in children
	Sophie Skellett, Shane M Tibby, Andrew Durward, Ian A Murdoch
	BMJ  2002;324:591-593, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.591 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Atrial arrhythmias
	Steve Goodacre, Richard Irons
	BMJ  2002;324:594-597, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.594 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The basics
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2002;324:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.621/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A day in the life of a stalker's victim
	BMJ  2002;324:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.621 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	How to find the good and avoid the bad or ugly: a short guide to tools for rating quality of health information on the internet • Commentary: On the way to quality
	Petra Wilson, Ahmad Risk
	BMJ  2002;324:598-602, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.598 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Education and debate: Regulating health information: a US perspective • Commentary: Legal aspects of health on the internet: a European perspective
	Nicolas Terry, Benedict A Stanberry
	BMJ  2002;324:602-606, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.602 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Validating scales and indexes
	J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2002;324:606-607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.606 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.622 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: An escalating problem
	P K Das-Purkayastha, W F M Jackson
	BMJ  2002;324:583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.583 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Medicine by numbers
	BMJ  2002;324:591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.591/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A paper that changed my practice: Communication in the doctor-patient relationship
	Selwyn Goodacre
	BMJ  2002;324:597, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.597 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: We cannot eat money
	BMJ  2002;324:606, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.606/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Honour a physician with the honour due unto him
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  2002;324:607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.607 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Medicine and the Internet: The Essential Guide for Doctors
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2002;324:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.618 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Patient's Internet Handbook
	Cathy Neale
	BMJ  2002;324:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.618/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Regulation of Privacy and Data Protection in the Use of Electronic Health Information
	Ross Anderson
	BMJ  2002;324:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.619 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The invention of talk
	BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.0/j [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

This week's NETLINES

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2002;324:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.619/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

EXHIBITION

This week's EXHIBITION

	Exhibition: Dots and dashes; zeros and ones
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2002;324:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.620 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616 [Extract] [Full text]

	Paula Cienska
	Keith Ball
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/a [Extract] [Full text]

	Guy Nicholson Constable
	John N Constable
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Allen John Hughes
	Peter M Barnes, Jonathan C Kinnear
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Aftab Hussain
	Mohammed Ansari, Mohammed Ehtisham
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/d [Extract] [Full text]

	John Cuthbertson Jeffrey
	David Jeffrey
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Herbert Kaye
	Stephen Kaye
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ekkehard Von Kuenssberg
	Alan Large
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Eva Martin-Bates
	Charlie Martin-Bates, Marjorie Walker
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Philip John Simpson
	Anthony Harnden
	BMJ  2002;324:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/i [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Norman Vincent Williams
	Donald Ribeiro
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/j [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Helen Elizabeth Young (née Dunn)
	Jessie Shaw
	BMJ  2002;324:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.616/k [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Examination of instruments used to rate quality of health information on the internet: chronicle of a voyage with an unclear destination
	Anna Gagliardi, Alejandro R Jadad
	BMJ  2002;324:569-573, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.569 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How do consumers search for and appraise health information on the world wide web? Qualitative study using focus groups, usability tests, and in-depth interviews
	Gunther Eysenbach, Christian Köhler
	BMJ  2002;324:573-577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.573 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Breast cancer on the world wide web: cross sectional survey of quality of information and popularity of websites
	Funda Meric, Elmer V Bernstam, Nadeem Q Mirza, Kelly K Hunt, Frederick C Ames, Merrick I Ross, Henry M Kuerer, Raphael E Pollock, Mark A Musen, S Eva Singletary
	BMJ  2002;324:577-581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.577 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Accuracy of information on apparently credible websites: survey of five common health topics
	Heinke Kunst, Diederik Groot, Pallavi M Latthe, Manish Latthe, Khalid S Khan
	BMJ  2002;324:581-582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.581 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Follow up of quality of public oriented health information on the world wide web: systematic re-evaluation
	Chiara Pandolfini, Maurizio Bonati
	BMJ  2002;324:582-583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7337.582 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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