Breath testing for dyspepsia is safe [Full text]

	"Test and treat" significantly improves dyspepsia [Full text]

	Deciding to seek medical help is a complex process [Full text]

	Documentation errors fall in mortuary services [Full text]

	Asthma action plans are often personalised [Full text]

	Who analysed the human genome? [Full text]

	Screening for hip dysplasia can be improved [Full text]

	European union law affects health policy [Full text]

	Media coverage was responsible for patient safety [Full text]

Editorials

	Gold for the NHS
	Ray Robinson
	BMJ  2002;324:987-988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.987 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing differentiated thyroid cancer
	Pat Kendall-Taylor
	BMJ  2002;324:988-989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.988 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lithium in bipolar mood disorder
	Timothy G Dinan
	BMJ  2002;324:989-990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.989 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Confronting the small arms pandemic
	Neil Arya
	BMJ  2002;324:990-991, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.990 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health care and the European Union
	Elias Mossialos, Martin McKee
	BMJ  2002;324:991-992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.991 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Global voices on HIV/AIDS
	Dorothy Logie, Elaine Monisola Baruwa, Richard J Tomlinson, Angelo Madjarov, Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Valendar F Turner, John M Papadimitriou, Helman Alfonso, Barry A P Page, David Causer, Sam Mhlongo, Todd Miller, Christian Fiala, Anders Nordström
	BMJ  2002;324:1034, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1034 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer isn't the only malignant disease
	Richard H Sloan, Lesley A M Evans, Marten C Howes
	BMJ  2002;324:1035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1035 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of retroactive intercessory prayer
	Andrew M Thornett, Shehan Hettiaratchy, Carolyn Hemsley, John Hopkins, Michael J Brownnutt, Christopher I Price, Max Lagnado, Stephan A Schwartz, Stephen L Black, Leonard Leibovici
	BMJ  2002;324:1037, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1037 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Careless talk may cost lives in attributing adverse events to ADP receptor antagonists
	Michael J Green, Martin Iveson, Robert Crook, Nichola Burrows, Andrew KS Gough
	BMJ  2002;324:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1039 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Proper benchmark for drug prescribing needs to be found
	Uwe E Reinhardt
	BMJ  2002;324:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1039/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Serum magnesium must also be known in profound hypokalaemia
	Clodagh M Loughrey
	BMJ  2002;324:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1039/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
	Patrick Connor, Bernard Guyot
	BMJ  2002;324:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1040 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tour operators should tell clients about potential risks of adventure holidays
	Fiona Bellis
	BMJ  2002;324:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1040/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	NHS to receive an extra £40bn over next five years
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2002;324:993, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.993 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs get a new contract "to transform their lives"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.994 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Male circumcision linked to lower rates of cervical cancer
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.994/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.994/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Amnesty team claims to have found human rights abuses in Jenin
	Kendra Inman
	BMJ  2002;324:995, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.995 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Anoraks can damage your health, study shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;324:995, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.995/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Court rules that emergency contraception is lawful
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:995, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.995/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New treatment improves symptoms of Parkinson's disease
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.997/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Wanless report outlines "Rolls- Royce" health service for 2022
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2002;324:998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.998 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Spanish doctors draw up advice on ethics of virginity certificates
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Angioplasty better than thrombolytics after heart attack
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Controversial cancer treatment sparks row
	Katka Krosnar
	BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Primary care trusts need local flexibility to deliver on public health
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Rich countries must not exploit poorer nations for research purposes
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Mbeki forced to do a U turn over AIDS drugs
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2002;324:997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.997 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	NHS faces increase of £500m in clinical negligence liability
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.997/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Professor faces inquiry into allegations of fraud
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2002;324:997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.997/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Internet sales threaten drug companies� supremacy
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;324:998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.998/a [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Treating Helicobacter pylori infection in primary care patients with uninvestigated dyspepsia: the Canadian adult dyspepsia empiric treatmentHelicobacter pylori positive (CADET-Hp) randomised controlled trial
	Naoki Chiba, Sander J O Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Paul Sinclair, Ralph A Ferguson, Sergio Escobedo, Eileen Grace
	BMJ  2002;324:1012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1012 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Quitting and restarting smoking: cohort study of patients with angina in primary care
	Mairead Corrigan, Margaret E Cupples, Mike Stevenson
	BMJ  2002;324:1016-1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1016 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Bioinformatics
	Ardeshir Bayat
	BMJ  2002;324:1018-1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1018 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional figure]

	ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Myocardial ischaemia
	Kevin Channer, Francis Morris
	BMJ  2002;324:1023-1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1023 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Youthful aspirations
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2002;324:1045, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1045/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	A new hazard of medicine
	Saad Shafqat
	BMJ  2002;324:1045, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1045 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Health policy in the European Union: how it's made and how to influence it
	Ben Duncan
	BMJ  2002;324:1027-1030, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1027 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Appendices with further information]

	Quality improvement report: Clinical screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Northern Ireland
	S L Maxwell, A L Ruiz, K J Lappin, A P Cosgrove
	BMJ  2002;324:1031-1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1031 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:1046, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1046 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Request for advice
	BMJ  2002;324:1010, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1010/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A paper that changed my life: Dishing the dirt
	James Le Fanu
	BMJ  2002;324:1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1017 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: Meta-
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2002;324:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1022 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Never apologise
	BMJ  2002;324:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1027/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Atrial arrhythmias
	BMJ  2002;324:1002, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1002 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Protein conjugate pneumococcal vaccines
	BMJ  2002;324:1002, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1002/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:1002, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1002/b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

	Exhibition: Last Impressions
	Paul Keeley
	BMJ  2002;324:1043, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1043 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Link between Religion and Health: Psychoneuroimmunology and the Faith Factor
	Michael Saunders
	BMJ  2002;324:1043, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1043/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: How the US news media made patient safety a priority
	Michael L Millenson
	BMJ  2002;324:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1044 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	A bonanza for the NHS
	BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.0/i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Is religion good for your health?
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2002;324:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1044/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Kenneth David MacRae
	Jeremy Wright
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Hutley Breed
	Nicholas Breed, Bob Davies, Cliff Franklin
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Charles Alexander Brown
	Stephen Spiro
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Edward Brownrigg
	Frank Tovey
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Douglas Alton Chandler
	R Terry
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Logan Jack
	F L Jack
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert Aloysius McCluskie
	Dan Miller
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Edwin Ian Richardson
	Peter Williams, Brian Jacobs
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Elspeth Anne Umez-Eronini
	Nkemi Umez-Eronini
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Stefan Varadi
	R. Vaughan Jones
	BMJ  2002;324:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/i [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Watts
	G H Hall
	BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/j [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Randomised trial of endoscopy with testing for Helicobacter pylori compared with non-invasive H pylori testing alone in the management of dyspepsia
	K E L McColl, L S Murray, D Gillen, A Walker, A Wirz, J Fletcher, C Mowat, E Henry, A Kelman, A Dickson
	BMJ  2002;324:999, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.999 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A qualitative study of action plans for asthma
	Jo Douglass, Rosalie Aroni, Dianne Goeman, Kay Stewart, Susan Sawyer, Frank Thien, Michael Abramson
	BMJ  2002;324:1003, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1003 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Decision making processes in people with symptoms of acute myocardial infarction: qualitative study
	Jill Pattenden, Ian Watt, Robert J P Lewin, Neil Stanford
	BMJ  2002;324:1006, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1006 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective audit of records of deceased patients received in hospital mortuary
	Y L Hock, P Stewart, E Livesley
	BMJ  2002;324:1009-1010, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1009 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Research pointers: Unexplained differences in sex ratios at birth in Europe and North America
	Victor Grech, Charles Savona-Ventura, P Vassallo-Agius
	BMJ  2002;324:1010-1011, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1010 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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