Early treatment for amblyopia improves outcome [Full text]

	Anti-leukotrienes do not benefit asthma [Full text]

	Spiritual belief resolves grief [Full text]

	Disorganised students fail exams [Full text]

	Walk-in centres outperform GPs [Full text]

	Scrutinising risk factor thresholds [Full text]

	NSF targets for diabetes are impractical [Full text]

	Researching medical education [Full text]

	Dengue is escalating [Full text]

Editorials

	New treatments for atopic dermatitis
	Hywel Williams
	BMJ  2002;324:1533-1534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1533 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Long term care for older people
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2002;324:1534-1535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1534 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychological medicine
	Kurt Kroenke
	BMJ  2002;324:1536-1537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1536 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Whooping cougha continuing problem
	N S Crowcroft, Joseph Britto
	BMJ  2002;324:1537-1538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1537 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Alteplase for stroke
	Howard Mann, James Li, Larry A Nathanson, Trevor J Mills, Karin E Netland, Richard Paula, Douglas Ragland, David Faxon, Robert C Solomon, Jerome R Hoffman, Jeanne Lenzer, Jeffrey L Saver, Chelsea S Kidwell, Sidney Starkman
	BMJ  2002;324:1581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1581 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply to getting more for their dollar: Kaiser v the NHS
	Richard G A Feachem, Neelam Sekhri, Karen White
	BMJ  2002;324:1583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1583 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health care in Britain remains variable
	Lindsay Abraham, Alwyn Abraham
	BMJ  2002;324:1584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1584 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PFI is here to stay
	Brian McCloskey, Alison Macfarlane, Bob Heyman, Daniel Dorling, Dave Gordon, George Davey-Smith, Helen Dolk, Helen Roberts, Ian Basnett, Ian Roberts, Jane Lewis, Jennie Popay, Martin McKee, Miranda Mugford, Rodney Barker, Rosalind Raine, Sally Baldwin, Sally Glen, Stephen Platt, Trevor Sheldon
	BMJ  2002;324:1584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1584/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics of limb allografts
	Kenneth J Mukamal, David Benatar, Don A Hudson
	BMJ  2002;324:1585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1585 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Co-artemether has been used in ambulatory treatment of falciparum malaria
	Stephen Toovey, Andrew Jamieson
	BMJ  2002;324:1585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1585/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Action is still needed to stem heterosexual transmission of HIV in Africa
	Douglas M G Bowley, Graeme J Pitcher
	BMJ  2002;324:1586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1586 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clarifications: open access follow up for inflammatory bowel disease
	J G Williams, D R Cohen, I T Russell
	BMJ  2002;324:1586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1586/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Anastrozole shows promise for early breast cancer
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:1539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1539 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor "interfered" in treatment of girl after parents rejected his help
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1539/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:1540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1540 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US draws up plans for smallpox outbreak after terrorist attack
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:1540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1540/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Give patients a second chance before striking them off, says ombudsman
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:1540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1540/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	AMA considers whether to pay for donation of organs
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;324:1541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1541 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA has to pay £815000 in damages for indirect racial discrimination
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1541/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rare medieval medical manuscript goes public
	BMJ  2002;324:1541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1541/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Researchers discover adult cell that acts like stem cell from embryos
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;324:1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1544 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Popping a multivitamin daily can keep disease at bay
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;324:1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1544/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doped East German athletes to receive compensation
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;324:1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1544/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	United Kingdom divided as Scotland introduces free personal care for elderly people
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2002;324:1542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1542 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Netherlands: long term care paid by compulsory insurance
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2002;324:1542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1542/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Germany: everyone has to be insured for cost of long term care
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;324:1542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1542/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Spain: old people frequently live with their families
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2002;324:1543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1543 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Ireland: state pays maximum of £124 a week to the cost of a nursing home bed
	Muiris Houston
	BMJ  2002;324:1543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1543/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Australia: federal government subsidises long term care by up to £22,000 a year
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2002;324:1543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1543/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US: Medicaid pays for half of nursing home bills, but better off do not qualify
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:1543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1543/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Older people in queues for surgery might make way for younger people
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;324:1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1544/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Harm from smoking is even greater than previously thought
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1544/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Children of HIV infected mothers have heart damage, says report
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;324:1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1544/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Eating meat more than 10 times a week almost doubles chances of bowel cancer
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2002;324:1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1544/f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	An observational study comparing quality of care in walk-in centres with general practice and NHS Direct using standardised patients
	Clare Grant, Ruth Nicholas, Laurence Moore, Chris Salisbury
	BMJ  2002;324:1556, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1556 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

	Research in medical education: three decades of progress
	Geoff Norman
	BMJ  2002;324:1560-1562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1560 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Dengue: an escalating problem
	Robert V Gibbons, David W Vaughn
	BMJ  2002;324:1563-1566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1563 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Criteria for dengue fever]

	ABC of psychological medicine: The consultation
	Linda Gask, Tim Usherwood
	BMJ  2002;324:1567-1569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1567 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Songlines
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2002;324:1591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1591/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Prescribing rights: are medical students properly prepared for them?
	Anna Ellis
	BMJ  2002;324:1591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1591 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Risk factor thresholds: their existence under scrutiny
	M R Law, N J Wald
	BMJ  2002;324:1570-1576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1570 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Expanded version of figure 3]

	Effective diabetes care: a need for realistic targets
	Peter H Winocour
	BMJ  2002;324:1577-1580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1577 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:1592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1592 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	What is a good doctor and how can we make one?
	BMJ  2002;324:1537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1537/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Make the first move
	BMJ  2002;324:1545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1545/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: One got away, and one was lost
	Alan Calvert Gibson
	BMJ  2002;324:1559, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1559 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Living with Parkinson's diseasea child's perspective
	Lesley Rees
	BMJ  2002;324:1562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1562 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A dead man brought to life
	Kamal Samanta
	BMJ  2002;324:1580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1580 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Are selective COX 2 inhibitors superior to traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs?
	BMJ  2002;324:1538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1538 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Male circumcision linked to lower rates of cervical cancer
	BMJ  2002;324:1555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1555/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Homoeopathy use in NHS not justified
	BMJ  2002;324:1555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1555/b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Driving and arrhythmias
	BMJ  2002;324:1555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1555/c [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

	TV: Inside My Head
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2002;324:1590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1590 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: The Devil's Gardens: A History of Landmines
	John Pearn
	BMJ  2002;324:1589, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1589 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Cure: A Story of Cancer and Politics from the Annals of the Cold War
	Ross Camidge
	BMJ  2002;324:1589, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1589/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Shooting the messenger
	BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.0/i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2002;324:1590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1590/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Raphael Marcus
	Samuel Marcus, Adrian Marcus, Aron Marcus, Norma Rudnick, Michelle Hirschfield
	BMJ  2002;324:1587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1587 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Christopher John Anders
	Patrick Bennett
	BMJ  2002;324:1587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1587/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Arnold Philip Bentley
	P J D Heaf
	BMJ  2002;324:1587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1587/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ernest James Dennison
	Graham Carnegie
	BMJ  2002;324:1587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1587/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Arthur ("Red") Evans
	George Morrison
	BMJ  2002;324:1587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1587/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Cyril Haydn Lewis Howells
	Glyn Walters, Nicholas Looker
	BMJ  2002;324:1587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1587/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alan Jenkins
	John Walton
	BMJ  2002;324:1587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1587/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John ("Jock") Burgess Metcalfe
	Ronwyn Metcalfe
	BMJ  2002;324:1587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1587/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Robinson
	Anne Davis, Glen Neil-Dwyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1587/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Anti-leukotrienes as add-on therapy to inhaled glucocorticoids in patients with asthma: systematic review of current evidence
	Francine M Ducharme
	BMJ  2002;324:1545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1545 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Amblyopia treatment outcomes after screening before or at age 3 years: follow up from randomised trial
	C Williams, K Northstone, R A Harrad, J M Sparrow, I Harvey, ALSPAC Study Team
	BMJ  2002;324:1549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1549 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Spiritual beliefs may affect outcome of bereavement: prospective study
	Kiri Walsh, Michael King, Louise Jones, Adrian Tookman, Robert Blizard
	BMJ  2002;324:1551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1551 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical students' compliance with simple administrative tasks and success in final examinations: retrospective cohort study
	Neil Wright, M S Tanner
	BMJ  2002;324:1554-1555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1554 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Prolonged erections produced by dihydrocodeine and sildenafil
	David Goldmeier, Harpal Lamba
	BMJ  2002;324:1555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1555 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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