High risk of HIV infection during remand in Thailand [Full text]

	Communication with seriously ill children is challenging [Full text]

	Decision support systems disrupt GPs' workflow [Full text]

	Cardiac troponin T is raised in severe pulmonary embolism [Full text]

	Competent in evidence based medicine? Take the Fresno test [Full text]

	TSH is a poor measure of severity of tissue hypothyroidism [Full text]

Editorials

	Child protectionlessons from Victoria Climbié
	David Hall
	BMJ  2003;326:293-294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.293 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical experts and the criminal courts
	Christopher M Milroy
	BMJ  2003;326:294-295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.294 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism
	Anthony D Toft, Geoffrey J Beckett
	BMJ  2003;326:295-296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.295 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The prevention and treatment of jet lag
	Andrew Herxheimer, Jim Waterhouse
	BMJ  2003;326:296-297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.296 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Donating books and journals to less developed countries
	Trish Groves, Sallie Nicholas, John Hudson
	BMJ  2003;326:298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.298 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Report and application]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Systematic review of celecoxib for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
	Peter Jüni, Rebekka Sterchi, Paul Dieppe, Scott Metcalfe, Sean Dougherty, Wayne McNee, Jonathan J Deeks, Lesley A Smith, Matthew D Bradley
	BMJ  2003;326:334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.334 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioner screening for excessive alcohol use
	Stephen Rollnick, Jim McCambridge, Francis Keaney, John Strang, Stephen Rollnick, Robert Patton, Robin Touquet
	BMJ  2003;326:336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.336 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antiretroviral therapy: new solutions bring new problems
	Joanne L Atkins, Simon Eccles, Peter E M Butler
	BMJ  2003;326:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.337 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Model for Bangalore helped disseminate information to doctors in India
	C B Sridhar, Deena Suresh
	BMJ  2003;326:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.337/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Depressed patients need more than drugs and psychiatrists
	Sharon J Williams
	BMJ  2003;326:338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.338 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Host should also protect students on electives from HIV
	Nigel R M Tai, Sue Nielson, Ken Boffard
	BMJ  2003;326:338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.338/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disposal of remains of fetuses of under 24 weeks' gestation
	R G Forster
	BMJ  2003;326:338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.338/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Bush criticised for not giving AIDS money to Global Fund
	Sarah Macdonald
	BMJ  2003;326:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.299 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Researchers launch major initiative to hunt human cancer genes
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.299/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.300 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Arkansas bans selling of clean urine to beat drug testing
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;326:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.300/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	"Weak" safety culture behind errors, says chief medical officer
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2003;326:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.300/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pharmaceutical industry is main influence in GP prescribing
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.301 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Women still have difficulty getting local contraceptive advice
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;326:301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.301/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors told to use positive language in managing pain
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2003;326:301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.301/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trial shows that homoeopathic arnica is no better than placebo
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.303/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Sally Clark freed after appeal court quashes her convictions
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GP suspended for enrolling patients in drug trials without consent
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Patient complaints procedure uncertain as health councils abolished
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Consumers� Association calls for better information for patients
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Chocolate cigarettes "recruit" children to smoking
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Sleep deprivation increases cardiac risk in women
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Report says 100 Roma women have been forcibly sterilised in Slovakia
	Katka Krosnar
	BMJ  2003;326:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.302/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	German doctors "work to rule" in protest at government plans
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2003;326:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.303 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Dietary acrylamide may not cause cancer
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;326:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.303/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Scotland breaks rank to offer compensation to hepatitis C victims
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2003;326:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.303/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Doctors should be more aggressive in treating hypertension in diabetic patients
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Bush proposes Medicare reform in "state of the union" address
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Belgium signs agreement to treat NHS patients
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel to move more psychiatric services into the community
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2003;326:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.304/e [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Practice based, longitudinal, qualitative interview study of computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care
	Nikki Rousseau, Elaine McColl, John Newton, Jeremy Grimshaw, Martin Eccles
	BMJ  2003;326:314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.314 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

	Validation of the Fresno test of competence in evidence based medicine
	Kathleen D Ramos, Sean Schafer, Susan M Tracz
	BMJ  2003;326:319-321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.319 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Test and validation process details] FREE

Clinical review

	Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy
	Janice Rymer, Ruth Wilson, Karen Ballard
	BMJ  2003;326:322-326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.322 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Misdiagnosis of epilepsy in patients prescribed anticonvulsant drugs for other reasons
	M Oto, A J C Russell, A McGonigal, R Duncan
	BMJ  2003;326:326-327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.326 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Problem based learning
	Diana F Wood
	BMJ  2003;326:328-330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.328 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Mornings
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2003;326:343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.343/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The police should take the lead on protecting children from criminal abuse
	David Southall, Martin Samuels, John Bridson
	BMJ  2003;326:343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.343 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Prenatal diagnosis requests for Huntington's disease when the father is at risk and does not want to know his genetic status: clinical, legal, and ethical viewpoints
	Ros Tassicker, Julian Savulescu, Loane Skene, Pam Marshall, Lara Fitzgerald, Martin B Delatycki
	BMJ  2003;326:331-333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.331 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.344 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM: Uterine rupture is associated with a history of caesarean section, even without labour
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.0/g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The art of surgery
	BMJ  2003;326:308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.308/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: Northern Ireland weather
	Kishor A Choudhari
	BMJ  2003;326:313, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.313 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: What's a doctor?
	BMJ  2003;326:314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.314/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Paper thin
	BMJ  2003;326:326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.326/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Testing new pharmaceutical products in children
	BMJ  2003;326:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.321 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Involving patients can work in home blood glucose testing
	BMJ  2003;326:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.321/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Institutional corruption in medicine
	BMJ  2003;326:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.333 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

	Book: Handhelds for Doctors
	Andrew Harrison
	BMJ  2003;326:341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.341 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Science: A History 1543-2001
	Sanjay A Pai
	BMJ  2003;326:341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.341/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Mystery of the imported plagues
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2003;326:342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.342 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Protecting children
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.0/f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: North American style
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;326:342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.342/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Arthur H Coleman
	Ken Howard
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339 [Extract] [Full text]

	Geoffrey Neish Barker
	Geoffrey Fox
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Kathleen May Corbett
	Margaret Lyons
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Keith Kenneth Eaton
	David L J Freed
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Christopher Grahame Fagg
	Chris Fagg
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Joseph Finer
	Nigel R Fieldman
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Nathaniel Hockman
	Christian C Mahendra
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Evan Osmond Leyshon Hoskins
	Hugh Saxton, John Reidy
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Vernon Holmes Jones
	Denis Pereira Gray, Michael Hall
	BMJ  2003;326:339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.339/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Managing communication with young people who have a potentially life threatening chronic illness: qualitative study of patients and parents
	Bridget Young, Mary Dixon-Woods, Kate C Windridge, David Heney
	BMJ  2003;326:305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.305 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of prevalent HIV infection associated with incarceration among injecting drug users in Bangkok, Thailand: case-control study
	Aumphornpun Buavirat, Kimberly Page-Shafer, G J P van Griensven, J S Mandel, J Evans, J Chuaratanaphong, S Chiamwongpat, R Sacks, A Moss
	BMJ  2003;326:308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.308 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Serum thyroid stimulating hormone in assessment of severity of tissue hypothyroidism in patients with overt primary thyroid failure: cross sectional survey
	Christian Meier, Peter Trittibach, Merih Guglielmetti, Jean-Jacques Staub, Beat Müller
	BMJ  2003;326:311-312, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.311 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cardiac troponin T in the severity assessment of patients with pulmonary embolism: cohort study
	Karin Janata, Michael Holzer, Anton N Laggner, Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  2003;326:312-313, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.312 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra table] FREE

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