This week's This week in the BMJ

	Scales do not assess the risk of pressure ulcers [Full text] FREE

	Blood pressure helps diagnose brain lesions [Full text] FREE

	Childhood circumstances linked to cardiovascular disease [Full text] FREE

	Successful withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs can be predicted [Full text] FREE

	Larger reserves of blood needed for ageing population [Full text] FREE

	Parathyroidectomy doesn't cure renal stone disease [Full text] FREE

	Patients are becoming more important as teachers in medical training [Full text] FREE

	Curtains with insecticide reduce rates of cutaneous leishmaniasis [Full text] FREE

	Child health professionals still believe in "teething" [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism
	Henrik Ancher Sørensen
	BMJ  2002;325:785-786, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.785 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical school applicationsa critical situation
	I C McManus
	BMJ  2002;325:786-787, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.786 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Volume of procedures and outcome of treatment
	Michael Soljak
	BMJ  2002;325:787-788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.787 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Urinary stress incontinence
	G J Maddern, P F Middleton, A M Grant
	BMJ  2002;325:789-790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.789 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Your career: planning for the unexpected
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.790 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Ethical market in organs
	Ignazio R Marino, Claudia Cirillo, Alessandra Cattoi, Jeremy P Wight, Stephen J Wigmore, Jen A Lumsdaine, John L R Forsythe
	BMJ  2002;325:835, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.835 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing brain death
	David J Hill, Peter Hutton, Peter Nightingale, Saxon Ridley, Alasdair Short
	BMJ  2002;325:836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.836 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adrenal insufficiency after treatment with fluticasone
	Brian J Lipworth, Lydia Pescollderungg, Angelo Pietrobelli, Attilio L Boner, Abdullah Sh Mohamed, Leena Patel, Peter E Clayton, Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2002;325:836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.836/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Education on preventing HIV is paramount
	Tim Wiggin, William A K Banda, Matson Dezi, Hop Chipwatali, Moffat Kachombo, Andrew Mkawa
	BMJ  2002;325:838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.838 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	September 11 might be shock treatment for addressing global health inequalities
	Niyi Awofeso
	BMJ  2002;325:838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.838/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Results of study on walk-in centres are only to be expected
	Andrew J Cave
	BMJ  2002;325:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.839 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on doctors and pilots
	Peter A West, Ian Callanan
	BMJ  2002;325:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.839/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Human genome pioneers are awarded Nobel prize
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;325:791, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.791 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rules on gene therapy are tightened after leukaemia alert
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2002;325:791, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.791/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;325:792, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.792 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Genomes of the malaria mosquito and parasite are sequenced
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  2002;325:792, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.792/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Breast self examination does not improve cancer survival
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.793 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pregnancy and early smoking increases breast cancer risk
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;325:793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.793/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Selling a kidney fails to rescue Indians from poverty
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.795/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Report demands better protection for people in research trials
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2002;325:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.796 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Developed countries should not impose ethics on other countries
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2002;325:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.796/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Cost price drugs for developing countries are found in Belgian pharmacies
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.794 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Jury awards $28bn in punitive damages to former smoker
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;325:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.794/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Cocaine use rises markedly among 16-29 year olds
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;325:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.794/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	College tells tobacco company to take its money elsewhere
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2002;325:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.794/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	BMA says world is ill prepared for bioterrorism
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;325:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.794/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US health officials recommend offering smallpox vaccination to all
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;325:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.794/e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GMC opposes EU proposal to allow greater freedom of movement for doctors
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;325:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.795 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US tackles drug company gifts to doctors
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2002;325:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.795/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Programme to discover how to reduce mortality among mothers is launched
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2002;325:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.796/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Lump sums for children taking part in research may distort parents� judgment
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.796/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Commission criticises trust that makes its patients eat supper at 4 30 pm
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;325:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.796/d [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Predictors of normotension on withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs in elderly patients: prospective study in second Australian national blood pressure study cohort
	Mark R Nelson, Chris M Reid, Henry Krum, Tui Muir, Philip Ryan, John J McNeil
	BMJ  2002;325:815-817, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.815 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	Developing the role of patients as teachers: literature review
	Geoff Wykurz, Diana Kelly
	BMJ  2002;325:818-821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.818 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Box, table and extra references] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck • Commentary: Head and neck carcinomas in the developing world
	R J Sanderson, J A D Ironside, William I Wei
	BMJ  2002;325:822-827, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.822 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Information]

	ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Bleeding risks of antithrombotic therapy
	David A Fitzmaurice, Andrew D Blann, Gregory Y H Lip
	BMJ  2002;325:828-831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.828 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Night dive
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2002;325:843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.843/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Is general practice really so bad?
	Robin Gatenby
	BMJ  2002;325:843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.843 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Evaluating complementary medicine: methodological challenges of randomised controlled trials
	Su Mason, Philip Tovey, Andrew F Long
	BMJ  2002;325:832-834, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.832 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;325:844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.844 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: It works in every country
	BMJ  2002;325:800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.800/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Erving Goffman revisited
	Honor Merriman
	BMJ  2002;325:817, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.817 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Of middle years and white coats
	Vengudi S Sankar
	BMJ  2002;325:821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.821 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The cycle of abuse goes on
	BMJ  2002;325:831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.831 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2002;325:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.832/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Y: The Descent of Men
	Fred Kavalier
	BMJ  2002;325:841, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.841 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy
	Druin Burch
	BMJ  2002;325:841, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.841/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: MS and sex link puts neurologist in hotseat
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2002;325:842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.842 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Genes and ethics
	BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.0/i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

This week's NETLINES

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2002;325:842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.842/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Oliver Pearce Edgcumbe
	Richard Pocock, Jane Shotter, Richard Edgcumbe
	BMJ  2002;325:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.840 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Austin Gerard O'Malley
	F Howard Beddow
	BMJ  2002;325:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.840/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Charles Anthony Rushmer
	Paul Millard
	BMJ  2002;325:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.840/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Cyril Valentine Shanahan
	Austin Carty
	BMJ  2002;325:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.840/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Joseph Sharkey
	H Caplan
	BMJ  2002;325:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.840/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Marshall Walker
	Alasdair Walker
	BMJ  2002;325:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.840/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Hansell
	BMJ  2002;325:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.840/f [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Prospective cohort study of routine use of risk assessment scales for prediction of pressure ulcers
	Lisette Schoonhoven, Jeen R E Haalboom, Mente T Bousema, Ale Algra, Diederick E Grobbee, Maria H Grypdonck, Erik Buskens
	BMJ  2002;325:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.797 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Using vital signs to diagnose impaired consciousness: cross sectional observational study
	Masayuki Ikeda, Takashi Matsunaga, Noritsugu Irabu, Shohji Yoshida
	BMJ  2002;325:800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.800 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Where does blood go? Prospective observational study of red cell transfusion in north England
	A W Wells, P J Mounter, C E Chapman, D Stainsby, J P Wallis
	BMJ  2002;325:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.803 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Socioeconomic position in childhood and adulthood and insulin resistance: cross sectional survey using data from British women's heart and health study
	Debbie A Lawlor, Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:805, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.805 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Corrected versions of tables 2 and 3] FREE

	Risk of renal stone events in primary hyperparathyroidism before and after parathyroid surgery: controlled retrospective follow up study
	Charlotte L Mollerup, Peter Vestergaard, Vibe Gedsø Frøkjær, Leif Mosekilde, Peer Christiansen, Mogens Blichert-Toft
	BMJ  2002;325:807, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.807 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Insecticide impregnated curtains to control domestic transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Venezuela: cluster randomised trial
	Axel Kroeger, Elci Villegas Avila, Linda Morison
	BMJ  2002;325:810-813, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.810 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Teething symptoms: cross sectional survey of five groups of child health professionals
	Melissa Wake, Kylie Hesketh
	BMJ  2002;325:814, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7368.814 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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