This week's This week in the BMJ

	Ottawa ankle rules effectively exclude fractures [Full text] FREE

	Viagra swells diagnosis rates for erectile dysfunction [Full text] FREE

	Too much coffee during pregnancy risks stillbirth [Full text] FREE

	Women with diabetes should avoid HRT [Full text] FREE

	Teacher doesn't know best [Full text] FREE

	Epistaxis: not to be overlooked in bleeding in cirrhosis [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Ottawa ankle rules for the injured ankle
	John Heyworth
	BMJ  2003;326:405-406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.405 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should psychiatrists protect the public?
	Jeremy Coid, Tony Maden
	BMJ  2003;326:406-407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.406 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patients choosing their hospital
	John Appleby, Anthony Harrison, Steve Dewar
	BMJ  2003;326:407-408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.407 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fewer new drugs from the pharmaceutical industry
	David Taylor
	BMJ  2003;326:408-409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.408 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Zinc deficiency
	Ananda S Prasad
	BMJ  2003;326:409-410, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.409 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	New BMJ policy on economic evaluations
	Dawn Craig, John Nixon, Nigel Armstrong, Julie Glanville, Jos Kleijnen, Michael Drummond, Tracy Roberts, Alastair M Gray, Andrew Briggs, Philip Clarke, Charles Normand, Christopher J McCabe, Jennifer Roberts, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.445 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Self help smoking cessation in pregnancy
	Jean-François Etter, Tracey A Battersby, Lisa Fendall, Carole Pougher
	BMJ  2003;326:446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO advocates investment in global infrastructure for outbreaks such as smallpox
	Cathy E Roth, Patrick Drury, Roberta Andraghetti, Ray R Arthur, Michael J Ryan, Guenael Rodier
	BMJ  2003;326:447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.447 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Polyspecific snake antivenom may help in antivenom crisis
	G D Laing, R A Harrison, R D G Theakston, J M Renjifo, A Nasidi, J M Gutierrez, D A Warrell
	BMJ  2003;326:447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.447/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Randomised controlled trial for twin delivery
	Jon F R Barrett
	BMJ  2003;326:448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.448 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thrombolysis with recombinant streptokinase in Cuba
	Pedro A Lopez-Saura
	BMJ  2003;326:448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.448/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Checklists for myocardial infarction should be precise
	G Alastair Cooke
	BMJ  2003;326:448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.448/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Copying letters to patients
	Graham K Murray, Harpal Nandhra, Nigel Hymas, Neil Hunt, Suzy Chapman
	BMJ  2003;326:449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.449 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Employing users who turn back into patients is difficult
	Anna Knight
	BMJ  2003;326:449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.449/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Editors call for responsibility in publishing "dangerous" research
	Tim Radford
	BMJ  2003;326:411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.411 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC may be open to accusations of racial bias
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.411/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.412 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO accused of watering down tobacco treaty
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.412/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE to start assessing diagnostic and treatment procedures
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.412/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Anti-Glaxo campaign heats up in United States
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:413, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.413 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Italian police investigate GSK Italy for bribery
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2003;326:413, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.413/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	ACE inhibitors are better first choice than diuretics for elderly patients, study says
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.415/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pneumonia causes panic in Guangdong province
	Lesley Rosling, Mark Rosling
	BMJ  2003;326:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.416 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New Yorkers are given details on doctors' volume of work
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.416/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Junior doctor is cleared of manslaughter after feeding tube error
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.414 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	WHO faces funding controversy over new food fund
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.414/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Health community joins anti war march in London
	Sarah Macdonald
	BMJ  2003;326:414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.414/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	AIDS vaccine trial begins in Uganda
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.414/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Dutch health service is asked to draw up smallpox contingency plans
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;326:414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.414/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	EU parliament calls for tougher rules on breast implants
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;326:414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.414/e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US court rules that insane prisoners can be executed
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.415 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Privy Council again overturns GMC ruling
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.415/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Top scientist warns of "sickness" in US health system
	Tim Radford
	BMJ  2003;326:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.416/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Heart disease prevention should not be left to professionals
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.416/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Society should accept that euthanasia is a "personal decision," report says
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.416/d [Extract] [Full text]

	New method for naming genetic diseases is proposed
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.416/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Milburn accused of trying to minimise effect of Audit Commission report
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.416/f [Extract] [Full text]

	Welsh patients are having to wait longer than English patients for surgery
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.416/g [Extract] [Full text]

	Whistle blowing consultant suspended again
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.416/h [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Relation between hormone replacement therapy and ischaemic heart disease in women: prospective observational study
	E Løkkegaard, A T Pedersen, B L Heitmann, Z Jovanovic, N Keiding, Y A Hundrup, E B Obel, B Ottesen
	BMJ  2003;326:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.426 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	Pilot study of the roles of personality, references, and personal statements in relation to performance over the five years of a medical degree • Commentary: How to derive causes from correlations in educational studies
	Eamonn Ferguson, David James, Fiona O'Hehir, Andrea Sanders, I C McManus
	BMJ  2003;326:429-432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.429 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables and other details] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Investigation and management of chronic dysphagia
	Paula Leslie, Paul N Carding, Janet A Wilson
	BMJ  2003;326:433-436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.433 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional figures]

	ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Teaching large groups
	Peter Cantillon
	BMJ  2003;326:437, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Epistaxis: an overlooked cause of massive haematemesis in cirrhosis
	Shawinder S Johal, Andrew S Austin, Stephen D Ryder
	BMJ  2003;326:440-441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.440 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Dying we live
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2003;326:455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.455/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Alternative prescribing and negligence
	David R Blake
	BMJ  2003;326:455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.455 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Strategies for preventing heroin overdose
	Karl A Sporer
	BMJ  2003;326:442-444, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.442 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.456 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM: Non-contrast computed tomography is preferable for evaluating asymptomatic microhaematuria
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.0/g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Reality
	BMJ  2003;326:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.424/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Every knock
	BMJ  2003;326:440, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.440/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Drug points
	BMJ  2003;326:432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.432 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Application of Framingham risk estimates to ethnic minorities in United Kingdom and implications for primary prevention of heart disease in general practice: cross sectional population based study
	BMJ  2003;326:432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.432/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
	Bert Brunekreef
	BMJ  2003;326:452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.452 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Hansen's Disease: The Shared Paradigm
	Diana N J Lockwood
	BMJ  2003;326:452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.452/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	What are journals good at?
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.0/f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

THEATRE

This week's THEATRE

	Theatre: Mr Placebo
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2003;326:453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.453 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MAGAZINE

This week's MAGAZINE

	Magazine: Magazine's HIV claim rekindles "gay plague" row
	Ken Howard, Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2003;326:454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.454 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

HIT PARADE

This week's HIT PARADE

	Hit parade
	BMJ  2003;326:453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.453/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Personality types
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2003;326:453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.453/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Soromini Kallichurum
	Y K Seedat
	BMJ  2003;326:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.450 [Extract] [Full text]

	Rupert Jackson
	Chris Moulton
	BMJ  2003;326:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.450/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Koloman Kropach
	Jeanne Rathbone
	BMJ  2003;326:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.450/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alasdair Burnett Matheson
	Leslie Moffat
	BMJ  2003;326:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.450/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Isobel Jean McLarty
	G M Lowdon
	BMJ  2003;326:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.450/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Thomas Ariba Ogada
	Krishna Somers
	BMJ  2003;326:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.450/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Jackson Pollock
	Alexander Munn
	BMJ  2003;326:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.450/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Desmond Smith
	P M S Gillam
	BMJ  2003;326:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.450/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mary Marguerite ("Peggy") Szekely (née Lynch)
	Irene Murray
	BMJ  2003;326:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.450/h [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Accuracy of Ottawa ankle rules to exclude fractures of the ankle and mid-foot: systematic review
	Lucas M Bachmann, Esther Kolb, Michael T Koller, Johann Steurer, Gerben ter Riet
	BMJ  2003;326:417, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.417 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Examples of search strategy] FREE

	Maternal consumption of coffee during pregnancy and stillbirth and infant death in first year of life: prospective study
	Kirsten Wisborg, Ulrik Kesmodel, Bodil Hammer Bech, Morten Hedegaard, Tine Brink Henriksen
	BMJ  2003;326:420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.420 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Longitudinal study of childhood wheezy bronchitis and asthma: outcome at age 42
	Elisabeth Horak, Anna Lanigan, Mary Roberts, Liam Welsh, John Wilson, John B Carlin, Anthony Olinsky, Colin F Robertson
	BMJ  2003;326:422-423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.422 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Spontaneous loss of early pregnancy and risk of ischaemic heart disease in later life: retrospective cohort study
	Gordon C S Smith, Jill P Pell, David Walsh
	BMJ  2003;326:423-424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.423 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Incidence of erectile dysfunction and characteristics of patients before and after the introduction of sildenafil in the United Kingdom: cross sectional study with comparison patients
	James A Kaye, Hershel Jick
	BMJ  2003;326:424-425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.424 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables] FREE

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