Illness is a risk factor for suicide [Full text]

	Case finding identifies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [Full text]

	Accurate sedation reduces ventilation time [Full text]

	Delay in licensing drugs costs lives [Full text]

	How to manage childhood eczema [Full text]

	Probiotics can prevent diarrhoea [Full text]

	Zinc reduces the incidence of pneumonia [Full text]

	Genital herpes infections increase in Scotland [Full text]

Editorials

	Managing antibiotic associated diarrhoea
	Frédéric Barbut, Jean Luc Meynard
	BMJ  2002;324:1345-1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1345 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The power of the press in smokers' attempts to quit
	Linda Hyder Ferry
	BMJ  2002;324:1346-1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1346 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intermediate care
	David Pencheon
	BMJ  2002;324:1347-1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1347 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Delaying folic acid fortification of flour
	Godfrey P Oakley
	BMJ  2002;324:1348-1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1348 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Physicians' and patients' choices in evidence based practice
	R Brian Haynes, P J Devereaux, Gordon H Guyatt
	BMJ  2002;324:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1350 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Storm over screening for prostate specific antigen
	Martin J Duckworth, Rick Ward, E Darracott Vaughan, David G McLeod, Mario L de Lemos, Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2002;324:1392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	MMR uptake data are unlikely to be subject to manipulation
	Mary Ramsay, Joanne White, Natasha Crowcroft
	BMJ  2002;324:1394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1394 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fusidic acid cream for impetigo
	Erwin M Brown, Richard Wise, Olajumoke Sule, Nick Brown, Derek F J Brown, Nigel Burrows, Vivienne C Weston, Timothy C J Boswell, Roger G Finch, William Perkins, Bethan Stoddart, Timothy Collyns, Miles Denton, Paul Zadik, Nicola Young, Susannah E Owen, John S Cheesbrough, S Koning, L W A van Suijlekom-Smit, J L Nouwen, C M Verduin, R M D Bernsen, A P Oranje, S Thomas, J C van der Wouden
	BMJ  2002;324:1394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1394/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eye drops and patches both in fact work for amblyopia
	Michael X Repka
	BMJ  2002;324:1397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1397 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The power of shame
	Peter Davies, Bolanle Akinosi, R Nicholas Pugh
	BMJ  2002;324:1397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1397/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical quality should be put at the centre of care
	William G Pickering
	BMJ  2002;324:1398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1398 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Declining altruism in medicine
	Kevin Fleming, Stephen Workman
	BMJ  2002;324:1398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1398/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Mortality higher at for-profit hospitals
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;324:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1351 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Magnesium could save hundreds of women's lives worldwide
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1351/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1352 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors condemn NICE's guidance on leukaemia drug
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1352/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	More women in the workforce reduces mortality
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;324:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1352/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	High level of resources for neonatal intensive care does not give US better outcomes
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;324:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1353 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Researchers claim clinical trials are reported with misleading statistics
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1353/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US and UK are top in teenage pregnancy rates
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1354 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	PFI critic rebuts criticism from select committee
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;324:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1354/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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	Reported euthanasia cases in Holland fall for second year
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2002;324:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1354/b [Extract] [Full text]

	New test for bowel cancer could aid screening programme
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1354/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Two victims of diethylstilbestrol win lawsuit
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  2002;324:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1354/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Number of people with diabetes will increase by 40% by 2023, says report
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;324:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1354/e [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC reprimands consultant for terminating pregnancy without consent
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1354/f [Extract] [Full text]

	New York doctor charged with fraud in surgery on mentally ill patients
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1354/g [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Detecting patients at a high risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in general practice: cross sectional case finding study
	C P van Schayck, J M C Loozen, E Wagena, R P Akkermans, G J Wesseling
	BMJ  2002;324:1370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1370 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Burden of corticosteroids in children with asthma in primary care: retrospective observational study
	Suzie Ekins-Daukes, Colin R Simpson, Peter J Helms, Michael W Taylor, James S McLay
	BMJ  2002;324:1374, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1374 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Newly diagnosed hypertension
	Christine A'Court
	BMJ  2002;324:1375, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1375 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

Clinical review

	Childhood atopic eczema
	Ross St C Barnetson, Maureen Rogers
	BMJ  2002;324:1376-1379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1376 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional US educational resources]

	Lesson of the week: Osteomyelitis in the well looking afebrile child
	L P Ferguson, T F Beattie
	BMJ  2002;324:1380-1381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1380 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Paediatric electrocardiography
	Steve Goodacre, Karen McLeod
	BMJ  2002;324:1382-1385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1382 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Profound and vacuous ambiguity
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2002;324:1403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1403/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Animal magic
	Patricia Houlston
	BMJ  2002;324:1403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1403 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Quality improvement report: Effect of a scoring system and protocol for sedation on duration of patients' need for ventilator support in a surgical intensive care unit
	Guttorm Brattebø, Dag Hofoss, Hans Flaatten, Anne Kristine Muri, Stig Gjerde, Paul E Plsek
	BMJ  2002;324:1386-1389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1386 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional figures]

	Clinical endpoints in trials of drugs for cancer: time for a rethink?
	P P Koopmans
	BMJ  2002;324:1389-1391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1389 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:1404, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1404 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Endpiece: Naughty thoughts
	BMJ  2002;324:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1355/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Can you hear me?
	S M Browning
	BMJ  2002;324:1364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1364/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The hygienic spittoon question in France
	BMJ  2002;324:1367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1367/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  2002;324:1370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1370/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Suicide in Chicago
	BMJ  2002;324:1376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1376/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Blind in more ways than one
	Nirupam Goenka
	BMJ  2002;324:1381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1381 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable locum job
	Stan Bloxham
	BMJ  2002;324:1391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1391/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Comparison of cardiovascular risk between patients with type 2 diabetes and those who had had a myocardial infarction: cross sectional and cohort studies
	BMJ  2002;324:1357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1357 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluation of diagnostic procedures
	BMJ  2002;324:1391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1391 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Communicating accuracy of tests to general practitioners: a controlled study
	BMJ  2002;324:1391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1391/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Between hope and acceptance: the medicalisation of dying
	BMJ  2002;324:1391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1391/b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Recombinant human parathyroid hormone
	BMJ  2002;324:1398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1398/b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

ADS

	Ads: Television icons join fight over stem cell research
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:1402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1402 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  2002;324:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1401 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: They Don't Know What's Wrong
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2002;324:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1401/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Deep fears
	BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.0/h [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Max Meier Glatt
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2002;324:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1399 [Extract] [Full text]

	Philip Douglas Bowen
	Elisabeth Bowen
	BMJ  2002;324:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1399/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Nelson Fuller Coghill
	James Stewart
	BMJ  2002;324:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1399/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thomas Fenwick
	Katie Wormington
	BMJ  2002;324:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1399/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Murray Harper
	J McBlane
	BMJ  2002;324:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1399/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Ian Wilson Kemp
	Gerald McGovern
	BMJ  2002;324:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1399/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mary Armour Millar
	Stella Goudie
	BMJ  2002;324:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1399/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Arthur Gourdin Smith
	David G Smith
	BMJ  2002;324:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1399/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Frederick (Derick) Griffiths St Clair Strange
	Glyn Thomas
	BMJ  2002;324:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1399/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Burden of illness and suicide in elderly people: case-control study
	Margda Waern, E Rubenowitz, B Runeson, I Skoog, K Wilhelmson, P Allebeck
	BMJ  2002;324:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1355 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of routine zinc supplementation on pneumonia in children aged 6 months to 3 years: randomised controlled trial in an urban slum
	Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl, Sunita Taneja, Tor Strand, Kåre Mølbak, Rune Johan Ulvik, Halvor Sommerfelt, Maharaj K Bhan
	BMJ  2002;324:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1358 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Probiotics in prevention of antibiotic associated diarrhoea: meta-analysis
	Aloysius L D'Souza, Chakravarthi Rajkumar, Jonathan Cooke, Christopher J Bulpitt
	BMJ  2002;324:1361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1361 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Science commentary: Probiotics
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2002;324:1364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1364 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Nottingham Staphylococcus aureus population study: prevalence of MRSA among elderly people in the community
	Hajo Grundmann, Adriana Tami, Satoshi Hori, Muhammad Halwani, Richard Slack
	BMJ  2002;324:1365-1366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1365 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Longitudinal study of genital infection by herpes simplex virus type 1 in western Scotland over 15 years
	Anne Scoular, John Norrie, Graeme Gillespie, Noreen Mir, W F Carman
	BMJ  2002;324:1366-1367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1366 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Follow up after a family based genetic screening programme for familial hypercholesterolaemia: is screening alone enough?
	Merel C van Maarle, Marlies E A Stouthard, Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Niek S Klazinga, Gouke J Bonsel
	BMJ  2002;324:1367-1368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1367 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Research pointers: Association of common genetic variant with susceptibility to invasive pneumococcal disease
	S Roy, A V S Hill, K Knox, D Griffiths, D Crook
	BMJ  2002;324:1369, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1369 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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