Three step screening predicts dementia [Full text]

	Big baby girls have higher breast cancer risk [Full text]

	Sepsis treatment: one size does not fit all [Full text]

	Low doses of methotrexate can suppress bone marrow [Full text]

	Patients who see the same GP are more satisfied [Full text]

	Euthanasia is not just the doctors' domain [Full text]

	I passed the marriage medical [Full text]

Editorials

	Therapeutic thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke
	Charles Warlow, Joanna Wardlaw
	BMJ  2003;326:233-234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.233 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"Schools and hospitals" for "education and health"
	David Haslam
	BMJ  2003;326:234-235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.234 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Old drugs for new bugs
	Silvio Pitlik
	BMJ  2003;326:235-236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.235 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The BetterCare judgmenta challenge to health care
	Allyson M Pollock, David Price
	BMJ  2003;326:236-237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.236 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Closing the digital divide
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.238 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Shipman proposals will alter general practice profoundly
	John Holden, Seamus O'Donnell
	BMJ  2003;326:280, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.280 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Volume of procedures and outcome of treatment
	Gareth Parry, Janet Tucker, William Tarnow-Mordi, Hans O Birk, Morten Joenler, Leif P Jensen, Janne L Knudsen, Flemming Moesgaard, Cai Frimodt-Moeller
	BMJ  2003;326:280, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.280/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic tagging of people with dementia
	Kevin D Bail, Desmond J O'Neill, Suzanne Cahill
	BMJ  2003;326:281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.281 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck
	Vinod K Joshi, Pankaj Chaturvedi
	BMJ  2003;326:282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.282 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	On teething symptoms
	Mike South
	BMJ  2003;326:282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.282/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of impact factors of general medical journals
	K S Joseph
	BMJ  2003;326:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.283 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Efficacy should drive atypical antipsychotic treatment
	Leslie L Citrome
	BMJ  2003;326:283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.283/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for aortic aneurysm
	Simon Curtis, Richard M Lynch
	BMJ  2003;326:284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.284 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Haemophilus influenzae type b epiglottitis
	Carline Lee, Andrew Coatsworth, Julia E Clark, Jodie McVernon, Richard Moxon, Paul Heath, Mary Ramsay, Mary Slack
	BMJ  2003;326:284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.284/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	EU reimporting drugs meant for Africa is only part of story
	Geoff Crumplin
	BMJ  2003;326:285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.285 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Climbié inquiry recommends national agency for children
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2003;326:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.239 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shaken baby syndrome requires a national prevention strategy
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;326:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.239/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.240 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Egg or sperm donation children will be entitled to more information
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.240/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Consultants unlikely to accept local pay deals, says BMA
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;326:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.240/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	South Korean to head world's top health body
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.241 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Little evidence for effectiveness of scientific peer review
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2003;326:241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.241/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	High Court strikes down Merck's patent on alendronate
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.243/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Preparing for the worst
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2003;326:244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.244 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Swiss parliament may try to ban "suicide tourism"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.242 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Social costs of smoking are triple those of illicit drugs
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2003;326:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.242/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	UK lags behind rest of Europe in reducing deaths from heart disease
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.242/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Review to consider shorter training for consultants in England
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.242/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Link found between Agent Orange and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2003;326:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.242/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Privy Council quashes GMC ruling
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.243 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	England short of 970 GPs
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.243/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Italian courts find 175 doctors and managers guilty of fraud
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2003;326:243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.243/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Tamoxifen reduces risk of breast cancer in high risk patients
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;326:244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.244/a [Extract] [Full text]

	FDA calls for standardised racial and ethnic data
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;326:244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.244/b [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Setting standards based on patients' views on access and continuity: secondary analysis of data from the general practice assessment survey
	Peter Bower, Martin Roland, John Campbell, Nicola Mead
	BMJ  2003;326:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.258 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional tables] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Chronic cough
	Graeme P Currie, Robert D Gray, John McKay
	BMJ  2003;326:261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.261 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Pathogenesis of sepsis: new concepts and implications for future treatment
	Pierre-Yves Bochud, Thierry Calandra
	BMJ  2003;326:262-266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.262 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	Lesson of the week: Low dose methotrexate and bone marrow suppression
	Michael Sosin, Sunil Handa
	BMJ  2003;326:266-267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.266 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Curriculum design
	David Prideaux
	BMJ  2003;326:268-270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.268 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Gadgets for consultants
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2003;326:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.291/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Us and them
	Andy Bell
	BMJ  2003;326:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.291 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: allowing a role for non-physicians
	Samia A Hurst, Alex Mauron
	BMJ  2003;326:271-273, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.271 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring mortality rates in general practice after Shipman
	Richard Baker, David R Jones, Peter Goldblatt
	BMJ  2003;326:274-276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.274 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Getting married in China: pass the medical first
	Therese Hesketh
	BMJ  2003;326:277-279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.277 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.292 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM: Vitamin K works faster orally than subcutaneously
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.0/h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas competition
	BMJ  2003;326:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.238/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient or client?
	T P S Bloch
	BMJ  2003;326:253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.253 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"I think I need a psychiatrist"
	Andrew Larner
	BMJ  2003;326:273, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.273 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Gatling and Guillotin
	BMJ  2003;326:274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.274/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: An aunt without health insurance
	Bjørn Blomberg
	BMJ  2003;326:279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.279 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

TV

	TV: The Day I Died
	Michael O'Brien
	BMJ  2003;326:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.288 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: The Quotable Osler
	David Woods
	BMJ  2003;326:289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.289 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
	Jo Ann Rosenfeld
	BMJ  2003;326:289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.289/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Tabloids blame asylum seekers for GP shortages
	Mareeni Raymond
	BMJ  2003;326:290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.290 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Death in a consumer society
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.0/g [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2003;326:290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.290/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Robert Evan Kendell
	BMJ  2003;326:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286 [Extract] [Full text]

	Thomas Henry Eustace
	Jonathan Eustace
	BMJ  2003;326:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Robert Fleming
	R I S Bayliss
	BMJ  2003;326:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Charles Mackintosh Flood
	Rosemarie Flood
	BMJ  2003;326:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Henry Pearson McNamara
	Ian McNamara, Hugh McNamara
	BMJ  2003;326:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286/d [Extract] [Full text]

	James Edward Mitchell ("Sam")
	David Mitchell, Patricia Steane
	BMJ  2003;326:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ronald ("Ronnie") Shaw
	Tim Shaw and Jon Shaw, Gillian Cotter-Shaw
	BMJ  2003;326:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Vernon Hope Smith
	S K McVernon
	BMJ  2003;326:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286/g [Extract] [Full text]

	Mary ("May") Donaldson Stewart
	Geoffrey V Seccombe
	BMJ  2003;326:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286/h [Extract] [Full text]

	Sisir Kumar Tewari
	Tahir A Mahmood, D Rennie Urquhart
	BMJ  2003;326:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.286/i [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Detection of Alzheimer's disease and dementia in the preclinical phase: population based cohort study
	Katie Palmer, Lars Bäckman, Bengt Winblad, Laura Fratiglioni
	BMJ  2003;326:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.245 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fetal growth and subsequent risk of breast cancer: results from long term follow up of Swedish cohort
	V A McCormack, I dos Santos Silva, B L De Stavola, R Mohsen, D A Leon, H O Lithell
	BMJ  2003;326:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.248 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Controlled trial of effect of documented cardiovascular risk scores on prescribing
	L M L Hall, R T Jung, G P Leese
	BMJ  2003;326:251-252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.251 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Discrepancies between patients' assessments of outcome: qualitative study nested within a randomised controlled trial
	Rona Campbell, Brian Quilty, Paul Dieppe
	BMJ  2003;326:252-253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.252 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Interview examples] FREE

	Influence of the third generation pill controversy on prescriptions for oral contraceptives among first time users: population based study
	Lolkje de Jong-van den Berg, Hilde Tobi, Bert Bijker, Paul van den Berg
	BMJ  2003;326:254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.254 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cholesterol lowering drugs and risk of age related maculopathy: prospective cohort study with cumulative exposure measurement
	R van Leeuwen, J R Vingerling, A Hofman, P T V M de Jong, B H Ch Stricker
	BMJ  2003;326:255-256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.255 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Research pointers: Mortality from cardiovascular disease more than 10 years after radiotherapy for breast cancer: nationwide cohort study of 90 000 Swedish women
	Sarah Darby, Paul McGale, Richard Peto, Fredrik Granath, Per Hall, Anders Ekbom
	BMJ  2003;326:256-257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.256 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Thromboembolism associated with the new contraceptive Yasmin
	Kees van Grootheest, Tom Vrieling
	BMJ  2003;326:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.257 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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