This week's This week in the BMJ

	Epidurals do not cause chronic backache [Full text] FREE

	Mothers of smaller babies are at higher risk of diabetes [Full text] FREE

	Handrubbing with alcohol is better than soap [Full text] FREE

	All Hajj pilgrims should get meningitis jab [Full text] FREE

	US referral rates are double those in the UK [Full text] FREE

	Help to follow guidelines does not change practice [Full text] FREE

	Systematic reviews and chronic diseases [Full text] FREE

	Malawi develops a medical school [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	New outbreak of legionnaires' disease in the United Kingdom
	Carol Joseph
	BMJ  2002;325:347-348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.347 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bone marrow transplants
	Peter W M Johnson, Kim Orchard
	BMJ  2002;325:348-349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.348 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS, the private sector, and the virtual asylum
	Rob Poole, Tony Ryan, Alison Pearsall
	BMJ  2002;325:349-350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.349 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Physical activity for preventing strokes
	G David Batty, I-Min Lee
	BMJ  2002;325:350-351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.350 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ via the web
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.352 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Consultations do not have to be longer
	Linda Jenkins, Nicky Britten, Nick Barber, Colin P Bradley, Fiona A Stevenson
	BMJ  2002;325:388, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.388 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients should receive copies of letters and summaries
	Cyril Chantler, James Johnson
	BMJ  2002;325:388, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.388/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of Swiss paediatric emergency department has grown
	Bernard Laubscher, Cosima Donatiello
	BMJ  2002;325:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.389 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency medicine
	Matthew Cooke, Jerry P Nolan, David Gabbott, Sarah Mitchell, Robert Bingham, Stephen F Wilson, Nicholas Collins, Daniel M Fatovich
	BMJ  2002;325:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.389/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs mustn't be dismayed about grasp of cognitive therapy
	James L Spira
	BMJ  2002;325:390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.390 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bread is fortified with folic acid in Hungary
	Andrew E Czeizel, Mihály Kökény
	BMJ  2002;325:391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.391 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors respond to criticism of rheumatoid arthritis twin study
	Anders Svendsen, Niels V Holm, Kirsten Kyvik, Per Hyltoft Petersen, Peter Junker
	BMJ  2002;325:391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.391/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grading referrals to specialist breast units
	Victoria L Allgar, Richard D Neal, Shane W Pascoe, Andrew M Green
	BMJ  2002;325:392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General perception of stroke
	Abhaya Gupta, Peter Thomas, D R Collins, P M E McCormack, D O'Neill
	BMJ  2002;325:392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.392/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Licensing system for doctors
	Peter R Bradley, Roger K A Allen
	BMJ  2002;325:393, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.393 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Tobacco giant undermined Nicorette campaign
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2002;325:353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.353 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Researchers question ethics of diabetes drug trial
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2002;325:353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.353/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Psychiatrists, lawyers, and service users unite against proposed bill
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;325:354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.354 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Experts question latest MMR research
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.354/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;325:354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.354/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch GPs call for ban on Novartis products
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2002;325:355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.355 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Famine relief must also tackle health care
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;325:355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.355/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Proportion of spending on care for older people falls
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.355/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Aspirin shown to reduce risk of pancreatic cancer
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;325:356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.356 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Police seize computer files of euthanasia campaigner in cancer case
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2002;325:356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.356/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Medical centre recalls potentially infected body parts
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.356/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Pesticide ban imposed after reports of congenital abnormalities
	Sanjay Kumar
	BMJ  2002;325:356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.356/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Chronic disease management programmes are criticised by doctors
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;325:356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.356/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Failure to inform public is undermining confidence in clinical trials
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2002;325:356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.356/e [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Cluster randomised controlled trial of tailored interventions to improve the management of urinary tract infections in women and sore throat
	Signe Flottorp, Andrew D Oxman, Kari Håvelsrud, Shaun Treweek, Jeph Herrin
	BMJ  2002;325:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.367 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of specialty referral rates in the United Kingdom and the United States: retrospective cohort analysis
	Christopher B Forrest, Azeem Majeed, Jonathan P Weiner, Kevin Carroll, Andrew B Bindman
	BMJ  2002;325:370-371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.370 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional tables] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	The therapeutic potential of stem cells from adults
	Ingrid Kuehnle, Margaret A Goodell
	BMJ  2002;325:372-376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.372 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of psychological medicine: Cancer
	Craig A White, Una Macleod
	BMJ  2002;325:377-380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.377 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Go gently, please
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2002;325:397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.397/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The GMC is too lenient
	Peter Wilmshurst
	BMJ  2002;325:397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.397 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Systematic reviews and lifelong diseases
	Heather E Elphick, Anton Tan, Deborah Ashby, Rosalind L Smyth
	BMJ  2002;325:381-384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.381 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Creating a medical school for Malawi: problems and achievements
	Robert L Broadhead, Adamson S Muula
	BMJ  2002;325:384-387, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.384 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;325:398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.398 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	You can make a difference
	A J Gibbons
	BMJ  2002;325:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.366 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Observation of a believer
	Jerry Morris
	BMJ  2002;325:371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.371 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The headache and the rabbi
	Peter Arnold
	BMJ  2002;325:376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.376 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A vital lesson
	Gerald Moore
	BMJ  2002;325:380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.380 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: Patient centred verbs
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2002;325:387, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.387 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	The world's most neglected diseases
	BMJ  2002;325:352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.352/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Scientists develop more sensitive grading system for prostate cancer
	BMJ  2002;325:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.366/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Recent developments in neurology
	BMJ  2002;325:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.366/b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;325:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.366/c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Psychological stress and cardiovascular disease
	BMJ  2002;325:393, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.393/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off label prescribing in children
	BMJ  2002;325:393, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.393/b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Tobacco: A Global Threat
	David Chao
	BMJ  2002;325:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.395 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: You are the Target. Big Tobacco: Lies, ScamsNow the Truth
	Anne Charlton
	BMJ  2002;325:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.395/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: `Merciful Release': The History of the British Euthanasia Movement • Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground
	Elke Hausmann
	BMJ  2002;325:396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.396 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Complexity wins
	BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.0/h [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Handwashing
	Mirza Muminovic
	BMJ  2002;325:396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.396/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Peter Hansell
	Richard Bayliss
	BMJ  2002;325:394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.394 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ronald George Anderson
	J M Frew
	BMJ  2002;325:394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.394/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thomas Richard Littler
	F Howard Beddow
	BMJ  2002;325:394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.394/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Ruffell
	John Cockrill
	BMJ  2002;325:394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.394/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised study of long term outcome after epidural versus non-epidural analgesia during labour
	Charlotte J Howell, Tracy Dean, Linda Lucking, Krysia Dziedzic, Peter W Jones, Richard B Johanson
	BMJ  2002;325:357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.357 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Birth weight of offspring and insulin resistance in late adulthood: cross sectional survey
	Debbie A Lawlor, George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  2002;325:359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.359 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Efficacy of handrubbing with alcohol based solution versus standard handwashing with antiseptic soap: randomised clinical trial
	Emmanuelle Girou, Sabrina Loyeau, Patrick Legrand, Françoise Oppein, Christian Brun-Buisson
	BMJ  2002;325:362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.362 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Acquisition of W135 meningococcal carriage in Hajj pilgrims and transmission to household contacts: prospective study
	Annelies Wilder-Smith, Timothy M S Barkham, Arul Earnest, Nicholas I Paton
	BMJ  2002;325:365-366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7360.365 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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