Travel medicinea growing specialty [Full text]

	Olanzapine increases risk of diabetes [Full text]

	Daily progestogen protects the endometrium [Full text]

	Trust mergers do not save money [Full text]

	Home blood pressure testing is preferred [Full text]

	Trials funded by for profit organisations favour the intervention [Full text]

	New cancer drugs: little extra benefit, higher price [Full text]

	Learning from adverse incidents [Full text]

Editorials

	Depression in children
	Philip Hazell
	BMJ  2002;325:229-230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.229 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mr Milburn's good hospital guide
	Rudolf Klein
	BMJ  2002;325:230-231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.230 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Continuous combined hormone replacement therapy and endometrial hyperplasia
	David F Archer
	BMJ  2002;325:231-232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.231 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention and cure of type 2 diabetes
	Jonathan Pinkney
	BMJ  2002;325:232-233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.232 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Counting the cost of medical negligence
	Paul Fenn
	BMJ  2002;325:233-234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.233 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	War on the roads
	J Gordon Avery, Penny Avery, John Dwyer, David S Thompson, Tony H Reinhardt-Rutland, Nicholas Moore, Adnan A Hyder, Irvine S L Loudon
	BMJ  2002;325:277, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.277 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prehospital care for road traffic casualties
	Mark J Coates, B Salkin, Darren Braude, Robert M Domeier
	BMJ  2002;325:279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.279 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors' self rating of skills in evidence based medicine
	John Macleod, Jonathan Mant, Hamish McLaren
	BMJ  2002;325:280, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.280 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practice based interventions to prevent repeat episodes of deliberate self harm
	Alex J Mitchell, Judith Horrocks, David Owens, Allan House
	BMJ  2002;325:281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.281 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of dyspepsia should be individualised
	Neal Maskrey, Ruth Micklewright
	BMJ  2002;325:281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.281/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A case of mistaken muscles
	Robert H Whitaker, Philip D Welsby, Giles N Cattermole, A Jewell, K Bean, K Yong
	BMJ  2002;325:282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.282 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Surgeons top the number of referrals to assessment authority
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;325:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.235 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Judge criticises paediatrician for "overstating" sex abuse allegations
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.235/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;325:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.236 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health professionals question "star ratings" for NHS
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2002;325:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.236/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Former Peruvian government censured over sterilisations
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2002;325:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.236/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Judge dismisses test case on third generation pill
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.237 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fertility watchdog says that donor identity should be revealed
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.237/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New surgery opens for asylum seekers
	Claire McKenna
	BMJ  2002;325:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.237/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Lords support animal experiments but call for alternatives
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.238 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Charity calls for ban on tobacco industry funding of research
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2002;325:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.238/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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	Medical degrees from former Soviet countries are under question
	Sanjay Kumar
	BMJ  2002;325:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.238/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Blood pressure controls needed to save on European health bills
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.238/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Governments need to be more aware of human rights implications of health care
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2002;325:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.238/d [Extract] [Full text]

	"Alarming increase" in clinical negligence claims in Wales
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.238/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Geneticist found guilty in baby selling scheme
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  2002;325:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.238/f [Extract] [Full text]

	European patent changed to restrict use of embryonic stem cells
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;325:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.238/g [Extract] [Full text]

	Viagra for blue babies likely to be trialled
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.238/h [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Comparison of agreement between different measures of blood pressure in primary care and daytime ambulatory blood pressure
	Paul Little, Jane Barnett, Lucy Barnsley, Jean Marjoram, Alex Fitzgerald-Barron, David Mant
	BMJ  2002;325:254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.254 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of acceptability of and preferences for different methods of measuring blood pressure in primary care
	Paul Little, Jane Barnett, Lucy Barnsley, Jean Marjoram, Alex Fitzgerald-Barron, David Mant
	BMJ  2002;325:258-259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.258 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent developments: Travel medicine
	Jane N Zuckerman
	BMJ  2002;325:260-264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.260 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of courses]

	ABC of psychological medicine: Functional somatic symptoms and syndromes
	Richard Mayou, Andrew Farmer
	BMJ  2002;325:265-268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.265 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Graduation for oldies
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2002;325:287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.287/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	A leap of faith?
	Alan Cameron
	BMJ  2002;325:287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.287 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Efficacy, safety, and cost of new anticancer drugs
	Silvio Garattini, Vittorio Bertele'
	BMJ  2002;325:269-271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.269 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Quality improvement report: Learning from adverse incidents involving medical devices
	John Amoore, Paula Ingram
	BMJ  2002;325:272-275, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.272 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Feedback note]

	Economics notes: Converting international cost effectiveness data to UK prices
	Toby B Gosden, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  2002;325:275-276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.275 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;325:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.288 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The Simplon Tunnel
	BMJ  2002;325:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.239/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: When I use a mocking bird
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2002;325:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.245 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: "When can I go home?"
	Aml Abdala, Dimitrios Kassimos
	BMJ  2002;325:253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.253 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Three memorable patients: Friends in need
	BMJ  2002;325:259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.259/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: Pelvis
	Ed Walker
	BMJ  2002;325:264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.264 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Rudolf Virchow
	BMJ  2002;325:275, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.275/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Conditions not primarily affecting the heart
	BMJ  2002;325:259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.259 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Delaying folic acid fortification of flour
	BMJ  2002;325:259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.259/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

	Book: Medical Error: What Do We Know? What Do We Do?
	David Woods
	BMJ  2002;325:285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.285 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Women's Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook
	Helen Pattison
	BMJ  2002;325:285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.285/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Western medicine: a confidence trick driven by the drug industry?
	BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.0/h [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MARKETING

	Marketing: Celebrity sellingpart two
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2002;325:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.286 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Depressed children
	Claire McKenna
	BMJ  2002;325:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.286/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Phyllis Marjorie Mortimer, née Spreadbury
	Alyson Elliman, Frances Lefford, Jack Mortimer
	BMJ  2002;325:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.283 [Extract] [Full text]

	John Anderson
	Betty Anderson
	BMJ  2002;325:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.283/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Walter Dickson
	G V Feldman
	BMJ  2002;325:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.283/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David William Weir Hendry
	Michael Hendry
	BMJ  2002;325:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.283/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Margaret Mallinson (née Bowden)
	Andy Scrace, Denis Parr
	BMJ  2002;325:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.283/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Greer Manderson
	Hugh Conway
	BMJ  2002;325:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.283/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Steel Morton
	G R Kinghorn
	BMJ  2002;325:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.283/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	George Alfred Fiske Quinnell
	Philip Quinnell
	BMJ  2002;325:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.283/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alastair Robertson
	Elizabeth M Robertson
	BMJ  2002;325:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.283/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Effect on endometrium of long term treatment with continuous combined oestrogen-progestogen replacement therapy: follow up study
	Michael Wells, David W Sturdee, David H Barlow, Lian G Ulrich, Karen O'Brien, Michael J Campbell, Martin P Vessey, Anthony J Bragg
	BMJ  2002;325:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.239 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessment of independent effect of olanzapine and risperidone on risk of diabetes among patients with schizophrenia: population based nested case-control study
	Carol E Koro, Donald O Fedder, Gilbert J L'Italien, Sheila S Weiss, Laurence S Magder, Julie Kreyenbuhl, Dennis A Revicki, Robert W Buchanan
	BMJ  2002;325:243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.243 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Process and impact of mergers of NHS trusts: multicentre case study and management cost analysis
	Naomi Fulop, Gerasimos Protopsaltis, Andrew Hutchings, Annette King, Pauline Allen, Charles Normand, Rhiannon Walters
	BMJ  2002;325:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.246 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between competing interests and authors' conclusions: epidemiological study of randomised clinical trials published in the BMJ
	Lise L Kjaergard, Bodil Als-Nielsen
	BMJ  2002;325:249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.249 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of prenatal exposure to oestrogen on quality of semen: comparison of twins and singleton brothers
	Lone Storgaard, Jens Peter Bonde, Erik Ernst, Claus Yding Andersen, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Jørn Olsen
	BMJ  2002;325:252-253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7358.252 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure and table] FREE

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