This week's This week in the BMJ

	Manufacturers violate breast milk substitutes code in west Africa [Full text] FREE

	Folate and vitamin B-12 do not reduce cardiovascular mortality [Full text] FREE

	Boys' births are more complicated than girls' [Full text] FREE

	GPs believe their use of antibiotics for sore throat is appropriate [Full text] FREE

	Evidence based education can't rely solely on RCTs [Full text] FREE

	Salt poisoning and dehydration must be distinguished [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Monitoring the marketing of infant formula feeds
	Tony Waterston, James Tumwine
	BMJ  2003;326:113-114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.113 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing skin cancer
	Alison Fry, Julia Verne
	BMJ  2003;326:114-115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.114 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Levelling the playing field for regulation of nicotine
	Ichiro Kawachi
	BMJ  2003;326:115-116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.115 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers
	Nigel Edwards, Martin Marshall
	BMJ  2003;326:116-117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.116 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing and treating tetanus
	C L Thwaites, J J Farrar
	BMJ  2003;326:117-118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.117 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Mobile phone use has not replaced smoking in adolescence
	Leena Koivusilta, Tomi Lintonen, Arja Rimpelä
	BMJ  2003;326:161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical school applications
	Cornelius Katona, Philippa Katona, Margaux Katona, Wiji Arulampalam, Robin A Naylor, Jeremy P Smith, Samuel J Leinster, Douglas Salmon
	BMJ  2003;326:161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.161/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public access defibrillators
	Malcolm F Woollard, Michael C Colquhoun, Jill P Pell, Jane M Sirel, Nicola L Walker, Stuart M Cobbe, Andrew K Marsden, Ian Ford, Judith Chaloner, Nick Gent, Alfredo D Espinosa-Brito, Alfredo A Espinosa-Roca, Yenisey Quintero-Méndez, Yainel Cutiño-Maás
	BMJ  2003;326:162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Society of Homeopaths does not advise against vaccination
	Susan C Crump, Melanie Oxley
	BMJ  2003;326:164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consuming alcohol on duty may have adverse consequences
	Matthew Lee
	BMJ  2003;326:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.165 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk assessment scales poorly predict pressure ulceration
	Peter J Franks, Christine J Moffatt, Donna Chaloner
	BMJ  2003;326:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.165/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Papua New Guinea needs law and order above all
	Peter A Sims
	BMJ  2003;326:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.165/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Free smoke alarms: a fire officer responds
	Roger Greet
	BMJ  2003;326:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.165/c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mastectomy is not always so bad
	Kate F Gould
	BMJ  2003;326:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.166 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Theme issue for medics and health informed public
	James D Curran, Gunther Eysenbach
	BMJ  2003;326:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.166/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Lack of new drugs is reaching crisis point, says review
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.119 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Medicines Control Agency must be more open
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.119/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.120 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Company launches campaign to "counter" BMJ claims
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.120/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Environmentalist accused of scientific dishonesty
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2003;326:120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.120/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government publishes strategy to improve diabetes care
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.121 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Nigerian immunisation programme sees results
	Abiodun Raufu
	BMJ  2003;326:121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.121/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO leadership contest: More resources should go into core funding
	Awa Marie Coll-Seck
	BMJ  2003;326:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.122 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Full answer]

	WHO leadership contest: WHO must help countries deal with non-communicable diseases and mental health
	Julio Frenk
	BMJ  2003;326:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.122/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Full answer]

	WHO leadership contest: Partnerships with the drug industry would be constructive
	Karam Karam
	BMJ  2003;326:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.123 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Full answer]

	WHO leadership contest: Resources should be decentralised to countries
	Jong Wook Lee
	BMJ  2003;326:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.123/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Full answer]

	WHO leadership contest: Regions with a high disease burden should be prioritised
	Pascoal Mocumbi
	BMJ  2003;326:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.124 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Full answer]

	WHO leadership contest: Comparing national health systems should continue
	Peter Piot
	BMJ  2003;326:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.124/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Full answer]

	WHO leadership contest: WHO must strengthen partnerships at a global level
	Ismail Sallam
	BMJ  2003;326:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.125 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Full answer]

	WHO leadership contest: WHO needs a global health alliance, which should be called the Mandela plan
	Joseph Williams
	BMJ  2003;326:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.125/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Full answer]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	UK doctors warned after ricin poison found in police raid
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	FDA insists that oestrogen products for menopause carry a warning
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Painting is earliest example of portrayal of Down�s syndrome
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Israel considers paying people for donating a kidney
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2003;326:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	India sets up a commission on macroeconomics and health
	Sanjay Kumar
	BMJ  2003;326:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Canadian aboriginals in Vancouver face AIDS epidemic
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;326:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Community treatment is effective for drug resistant tuberculosis
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126/f [Extract] [Full text]

	US medical liability crisis spurs doctors� walkouts and rallies
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;326:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126/g [Extract] [Full text]

	Task force proposes changing body mass risk indicators for diabetes
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2003;326:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126/h [Extract] [Full text]

	Obesity in young blacks is linked to a 20 year reduction in life span
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.126/i [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Why do general practitioners prescribe antibiotics for sore throat? Grounded theory interview study
	Satinder Kumar, Paul Little, Nicky Britten
	BMJ  2003;326:138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.138 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	Transferability of principles of evidence based medicine to improve educational quality: systematic review and case study of an online course in primary health care
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Peter Toon, Jill Russell, Geoff Wong, Liz Plumb, Fraser Macfarlane
	BMJ  2003;326:142-145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.142 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Management of the severely malnourished child: perspective from developing countries
	Maharaj K Bhan, Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl
	BMJ  2003;326:146-151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.146 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Unsuspected haemophilia in children with a single swollen joint
	Beatrice Nolan, Vicky Vidler, Ajay Vora, Michael Makris
	BMJ  2003;326:151-152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.151 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Anticoagulation in hospitals and general practice
	Andrew D Blann, David A Fitzmaurice, Gregory Y H Lip
	BMJ  2003;326:153-156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.153 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Challenge and change
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2003;326:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.171/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The second gasoline war and how we can prevent the third
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  2003;326:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.171 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Distinguishing between salt poisoning and hypernatraemic dehydration in children
	Malcolm G Coulthard, George B Haycock
	BMJ  2003;326:157-160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.157 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Boxes]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.172 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM: Montelukast helps chronic urticaria
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.0/g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Online polls: results
	BMJ  2003;326:118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.118 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.127/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Medicine and matrimony
	BMJ  2003;326:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.134/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A case of mistaken identity
	Omar Quaba
	BMJ  2003;326:145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.145 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A good physician versus no physician
	BMJ  2003;326:151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.151/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Forthcoming BMJ theme issues (provisional dates and titles)
	BMJ  2003;326:160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.160 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Venous thromboembolism: treatment strategies
	BMJ  2003;326:156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.156 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Poor Health: Social Inequality before and after the Black Report
	Peter Davies
	BMJ  2003;326:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.169 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Medicine's Strangest Cases
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2003;326:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.169/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Why WHO matters
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.0/f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MARKETING

This week's MARKETING

	Marketing: Spin doctors soft pedal data on antihypertensives
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2003;326:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.170 [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Childcare for working parents
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2003;326:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.170/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Biddy Davidson Bourhill
	Carole McKeown
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Jack Cherry
	Ann Simpson
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Bryan Eagles
	John Barry Hobson
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Vincent Alpe Grantham
	David Hadfield, David Clayton
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Lawson Griffiths
	Belinda Griffiths
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Angus Ian Kinnear
	Dominic Beer
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mary Lavelle
	Sylvia Nicholas
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/f [Extract] [Full text]

	Michael Lee-Jones
	Peter Kay, Trevor Wintle
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Daniel Joseph ("Donal") McWilliams
	Ian Archer, Anthony McWilliams
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Khushbal Singh Mangat
	George Heyse-Moore
	BMJ  2003;326:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/i [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Richard O'Brien
	Peter J Green
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/j [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Helen Louise Parsons
	Ranette Tippetts, Jenny Eaton, Sian Llewellyn-Jones
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/k [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Andrew Ratchford
	Marten Walker
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/l [Extract] [Full text]

	Lewis Daniel Rutter
	Nicholas Rutter
	BMJ  2003;326:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.167/m [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Monitoring compliance with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes in west Africa: multisite cross sectional survey in Togo and Burkina Faso
	Victor M Aguayo, Jay S Ross, Souleyman Kanon, Andre N Ouedraogo
	BMJ  2003;326:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.127 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Folate and vitamin B-12 and risk of fatal cardiovascular disease: cohort study from Busselton, Western Australia
	Joseph Hung, John P Beilby, Matthew W Knuiman, Mark Divitini
	BMJ  2003;326:131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.131 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of changing diagnostic criteria on incidence, management, and outcome of acute myocardial infarction: retrospective cohort study
	J P Pell, E Simpson, J C Rodger, A Finlayson, D Clark, J Anderson, A C H Pell
	BMJ  2003;326:134-135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.134 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Demographic and Health Surveys: caesarean section rates in sub-Saharan Africa
	Pierre Buekens, Siân Curtis, Silvia Alayón
	BMJ  2003;326:136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.136 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of fetal sex on labour and delivery: retrospective review
	Maeve A Eogan, Michael P Geary, Michael P O'Connell, Declan P Keane
	BMJ  2003;326:137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.137 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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