How political should a general medical journal be?
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2002;325:1431-1432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1431 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Spend (slightly) less on health and more on the arts
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:1432-1433, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1432 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Time to move beyond the mind-body split
	Patrick Bracken, Philip Thomas
	BMJ  2002;325:1433-1434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1433 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Spirituality and clinical care
	Larry Culliford
	BMJ  2002;325:1434-1435, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1434 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References]

	The joy of banning
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2002;325:1436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1436 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Data dredging, bias, or confounding
	George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  2002;325:1437-1438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figures][extra: References]

Fillers

	Slings and roundabouts
	George Debono
	BMJ  2002;325:1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1448 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pomegranate MRI
	Emma C Tallantyre, Nikos Evangelou, Robert Kerslake, Alan M Whitely
	BMJ  2002;325:1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1448/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The devil in the test tube
	Elizabeth Davies
	BMJ  2002;325:1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1471 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A medical mishap: Stix nix
	N Oliver, R Smith, R Hillson, M Adam
	BMJ  2002;325:1481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1481 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Science close up
	BMJ  2002;325:1484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1484 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Stocking filler
	Catherine Edwards
	BMJ  2002;325:1489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1489 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sing Ho! for the life of a bear
	Dermot M Murphy, Sucheta Vaidya, Frank Sarran
	BMJ  2002;325:1489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1489/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Collective terms for doctors
	Sanjay Pai
	BMJ  2002;325:1498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1498 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Extra vigilance required
	Ruben J Azocar, Alan Lisbon
	BMJ  2002;325:1505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1505 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The 31st PilgrimSister Bettie
	J W Fletcher
	BMJ  2002;325:1508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1508 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

FUTURAMA

	Four futures for scientific and medical publishing
	Kamran Abbasi, Michael Butterfield, Jackie Connor, Tony Delamothe, Stella Dutton, Philip Hadridge, Andrea Horgan, Jane Smith, Richard Smith, Eunice Walford, Alex Williamson
	BMJ  2002;325:1472-1475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1472 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is that it? How online articles have changed over the past five years
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2002;325:1475-1478, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1475 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Papyrus to PowerPoint (P 2 P): metamorphosis of scientific communication
	Ronald E LaPorte, Faina Linkov, Tony Villasenor, Francois Sauer, Carlos Gamboa, Mita Lovalekar, Eugene Shubnikov, Akira Sekikawa, Eun Ryoung Sa
	BMJ  2002;325:1478-1481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1478 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

TROUBLED PLANET

	Empty arms: the effect of the arms trade on mothers and children
	David P Southall, Bernadette A M O'Hare
	BMJ  2002;325:1457-1461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1457 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Supplementary analysis][extra: References]

	How healthy is the world? • Commentary: Gilding the global lily
	Bjørn Lomborg, Anthony J McMichael
	BMJ  2002;325:1461-1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1461 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Time and tide wait for no man
	David Shearman
	BMJ  2002;325:1466-1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1466 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Identity and genetic ancestry tracing
	Carl Elliott, Paul Brodwin
	BMJ  2002;325:1469-1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1469 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

ONE FOOT IN THE PAST

	The mummy's curse: historical cohort study
	Mark R Nelson
	BMJ  2002;325:1482-1484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1482 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Forgotten transfusion history: John Leacock of Barbados
	P J Schmidt, A G Leacock
	BMJ  2002;325:1485-1487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1485 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Soviet "Doctors' Plot"50 years on
	A Mark Clarfield
	BMJ  2002;325:1487-1489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1487 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

COUNSELLORS AND ACOLYTES

	The case of the missing data
	James Le Fanu
	BMJ  2002;325:1490-1493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1490 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Are ethical principles relative to time and place? A Star Wars perspective on the Alder Hey affair
	Kim D Arcus, Anthony S Kessel
	BMJ  2002;325:1493-1495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1493 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	EBM: unmasking the ugly truth
	Clinicians for the Restoration of Autonomous Practice Writing Group
	BMJ  2002;325:1496-1498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1496 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

THROUGH THE ARTIST'S EYE

	Visible signs of illness from the 14th to the 20th century: systematic review of portraits
	C Als, Y Stüssi, U Boschung, U Tröhler, J H Wäber
	BMJ  2002;325:1499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1499 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Images][extra: Tables]

	Poverty and painting: representations in 19th century Europe
	Philippa Howden-Chapman, Johan Mackenbach
	BMJ  2002;325:1502-1505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1502 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of relevant paintings]

	Doctors versus artists: Gustav Klimt's Medicine
	Maria Bitsori, Emmanouil Galanakis
	BMJ  2002;325:1506-1508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1506 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

EVIDENCE THAT REALLY MATTERS

	Admissions for myocardial infarction and World Cup football: database survey
	Douglas Carroll, Shah Ebrahim, Kate Tilling, John Macleod, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:1439-1442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1439 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Scared to death?
	Gary Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:1442-1443, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1442 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Controlled prospective study of faecal occult blood screening for colorectal cancer in Bury, black pudding capital of the world
	Stuart Fludger, Anne-Marie Turner, Richard F Harvey, Neil Haslam
	BMJ  2002;325:1444-1445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1444 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ice cream evoked headaches (ICE-H) study: randomised trial of accelerated versus cautious ice cream eating regimen
	Maya Kaczorowski, Janusz Kaczorowski
	BMJ  2002;325:1445-1446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1445 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sexcan you get it right?
	Jonathan E C Round, Maesha Deheragoda
	BMJ  2002;325:1446-1447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1446 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Shapely centrefolds? Temporal change in body measures: trend analysis
	Martin Voracek, Maryanne L Fisher
	BMJ  2002;325:1447-1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1447 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

READING, WRITING, AND REVALIDATION

	What should we say to patients with symptoms unexplained by disease? The "number needed to offend"
	Jon Stone, Wojtek Wojcik, Daniel Durrance, Alan Carson, Steff Lewis, Lesley MacKenzie, Charles P Warlow, Michael Sharpe
	BMJ  2002;325:1449-1450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1449 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure]

	A paradigm shift in the medical literature
	Philip A Atkin
	BMJ  2002;325:1450-1451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1450 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Readability of British and American medical prose at the start of the 21st century
	William B Weeks, Amy E Wallace
	BMJ  2002;325:1451-1452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1451 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A tale of two citations: counting on numeracy in the digital divide
	Igor M Gladstone, Vern L Katz
	BMJ  2002;325:1452-1453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1452 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can medical education be fun as well as educational?
	Gemeah Howarth-Hockey, Peter Stride
	BMJ  2002;325:1453-1454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1453 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Revalidation: the real life OSCE
	Richard Harrison
	BMJ  2002;325:1454-1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1454 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A seasonal cost effectiveness analysis: the last Noel?
	David Isaacs, Dominic Fitzgerald
	BMJ  2002;325:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1456 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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