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16 November 2002 (Vol 325, No 7373)
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Screening for aneurysms in men is cost effective [Full text] FREE
Patients with psychotic illness want to discuss their symptoms [Full text] FREE
Bezafibrate has limited effects on heart attacks and strokes [Full text] FREE
Parents and screening tests miss children's language problems [Full text] FREE
Nurse led follow up of cancer patients is safe and acceptable [Full text] FREE
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This week's Editorials

Screening men for aortic aneurysm
Roger M Greenhalgh, Janet T Powell
BMJ  2002;325:1123-1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1123
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New BMJ policy on economic evaluations
Richard Smith
BMJ  2002;325:1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1124
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Improving iron status in children in poor environments
Andrew Tomkins
BMJ  2002;325:1125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1125
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Suicide after parasuicide
Bo S Runeson
BMJ  2002;325:1125-1126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1125/a
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Personal medical services
Richard Lewis, Stephen Gillam
BMJ  2002;325:1126-1127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1126
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Infection as a cause of multiple sclerosis
Jock Murray
BMJ  2002;325:1128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1128
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This week's Letters

Undisclosed payments in research
Jacqueline M Atkinson, Frank O Wells
BMJ  2002;325:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1174
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Sildenafil for "blue babies"
James Oliver, David J Webb, Sanjay Patole, Javeed Travadi
BMJ  2002;325:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1174/a
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Making the best of health advocates and interpreters
Peter von Kaehne, Graham A Jones
BMJ  2002;325:1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1175
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Homosexual related legislation does not reduce suicidal intent in sexual minority groups
Robin M Mathy
BMJ  2002;325:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1176
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Iron deficiency is neglected in women's health
D Hugh Rushton, Robin Dover, Anthony W Sainsbury, Michael J Norris, Jeremy J H Gilkes, Ian D Ramsay
BMJ  2002;325:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1176/a
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Guidelines partly explain differences in referral rates
John F Navein
BMJ  2002;325:1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1177
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Tailored exercise is key to preventing falls
Piers W Simey, Dawn Skelton, Susie Dinan, Bob Laventure
BMJ  2002;325:1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1177/a
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Being difficult is not necessarily a bad thing
Charles Essex
BMJ  2002;325:1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1177/b
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Poor team work is killing patients
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2002;325:1129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1129
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"No" vote frees £250m
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2002;325:1129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1129/a
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In brief
BMJ  2002;325:1130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1130
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Long term HRT may protect women from Alzheimer's disease
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  2002;325:1130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1130/a
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FBI investigates cardiac surgeries
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2002;325:1130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1130/b
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Controversial stroke trial is under review following BMJ report
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2002;325:1131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1131
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BMJ launches soap opera
Rhona MacDonald
BMJ  2002;325:1131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1131/a
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Deadly parasitic disease grips southern Sudan
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2002;325:1133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1133/b
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War on Iraq could produce a humanitarian disaster, health professionals warn
Jocalyn Clark
BMJ  2002;325:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1134
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MMR vaccine is not linked with autism, says Danish study
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2002;325:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1134/a
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Serious adverse events associated with perinatal drugs
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  2002;325:1132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1132
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Exhibition shows the "poor ruined faces of England"
Annabel Ferriman
BMJ  2002;325:1132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1132/a
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India must change health priorities to tackle HIV
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2002;325:1132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1132/b
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US public health system needs major overhaul, says report
Charles Marwick
BMJ  2002;325:1132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1132/c
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Australians set up a mental health first aid course
Natasha Gilbert
BMJ  2002;325:1133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1133
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Coroner cites football as reason for brain injury
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2002;325:1133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1133/a
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"Telephone stroke" identified in Canada
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2002;325:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1134/b
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This week's Primary care

Prevalence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure in high risk patients: community based epidemiological study
R C Davis, F D R Hobbs, J E Kenkre, A K Roalfe, R Hare, R J Lancashire, M K Davies
BMJ  2002;325:1156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1156
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This week's Clinical review

Extracts from "Concise Clinical Evidence": Chronic suppurative otitis media Commentary: Interpreting the evidence
Jose Acuin, G G Browning
BMJ  2002;325:1159-1160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1159
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ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Antithrombotic therapy for cerebrovascular disorders
Gregory Y H Lip, Sridhar Kamath, Robert G Hart
BMJ  2002;325:1161-1163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1161
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This week's Soundings

I believe
Liam Farrell
BMJ  2002;325:1181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1181/a
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This week's Personal views

Young patients
Claudio Crisci
BMJ  2002;325:1181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1181
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This week's Education and debate

Making regulation responsive to commercial interests: streamlining drug industry watchdogs Commentary: Concern over drug industry's influence on regulatory policy in Europe Commentary: Much ado about a good thing Commentary: The freedom of informed choice
John Abraham, Danielle Bardelay, Christophe Kopp, J D Kleinke, Emma Bennion
BMJ  2002;325:1164-1169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1164
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WHO in 2002: WHO's management: struggling to transform a "fossilised bureaucracy"
Gavin Yamey
BMJ  2002;325:1170-1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1170
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Minerva
BMJ  2002;325:1182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1182
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This week's Fillers

POEM: Children with uncomplicated UTIs may do well with short courses of antibiotics, but the quality of the evidence is poor
BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.0/h
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Endpiece: A newspaper
BMJ  2002;325:1135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1135/a
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The child whisperer
J A M Wright
BMJ  2002;325:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1141
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Submitting articles to the BMJ
BMJ  2002;325:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1148/a
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A memorable patient: An elderly man with flushing
Hans Engel
BMJ  2002;325:1160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1160
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Endpiece: Swearin'
BMJ  2002;325:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1164/a
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A memorable patient: Straight from the patient's mouth
Chittaranjan Andrade
BMJ  2002;325:1169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1169
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This week's BOOK

Book: Clinicians' Guide to Sleep Medicine Sleep Medicine
Roy Jones
BMJ  2002;325:1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1179/a
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This week's PRESS

Press: Promoting drugs through hairdressers: is nothing sacred?
Hilda Bastian
BMJ  2002;325:1180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1180
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This week's CHOICE

Ban a word for Christmas and please an old journal
BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.0/g
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This week's THEATRE

Theatre: Sleepers
James Allen
BMJ  2002;325:1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1179
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This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Website of the week: Overseas doctors
Rhona MacDonald
BMJ  2002;325:1180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1180/a
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This week's Obituaries

Magdy Kamel Ishak
Abdel Mahfouz
BMJ  2002;325:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1178
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Arthur Jarrett
Patrick Riley
BMJ  2002;325:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1178/a
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Gabrielle Maria Kearney
M L Wesson
BMJ  2002;325:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1178/b
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Alasdair Bruce MacGregor
Iain F MacLaren, Donald A D Macleod
BMJ  2002;325:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1178/c
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James Ferguson Mackie
Michael Mackie
BMJ  2002;325:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1178/d
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Ray Norton
Sally Norton
BMJ  2002;325:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1178/e
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This week's Papers

Multicentre aneurysm screening study (MASS): cost effectiveness analysis of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms based on four year results from randomised controlled trial
Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study Group
BMJ  2002;325:1135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1135
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Bezafibrate in men with lower extremity arterial disease: randomised controlled trial
Tom Meade, Riaz Zuhrie, Claire Cook, Jackie Cooper
BMJ  2002;325:1139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1139
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Effect of iron supplementation on incidence of infectious illness in children: systematic review
Tarun Gera, H P S Sachdev
BMJ  2002;325:1142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1142
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Nurse led follow up and conventional medical follow up in management of patients with lung cancer: randomised trial
Sally Moore, Jessica Corner, Jo Haviland, Mary Wells, Emma Salmon, Charles Normand, Mike Brada, Mary O'Brien, Ian Smith
BMJ  2002;325:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1145
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Engagement of patients with psychosis in the consultation: conversation analytic study Commentary: Understanding conversation
Rosemarie McCabe, Christian Heath, Tom Burns, Stefan Priebe, John Skelton
BMJ  2002;325:1148-1151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1148
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Evaluation of a structured test and a parent led method for screening for speech and language problems: prospective population based study
Gabrielle J Laing, James Law, Abigail Levin, Stuart Logan
BMJ  2002;325:1152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1152
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Suicide rate 22 years after parasuicide: cohort study
Gary R Jenkins, Robert Hale, Maria Papanastassiou, Michael J Crawford, Peter Tyrer
BMJ  2002;325:1155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1155
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