This week's This week in the BMJ

	Low dose inhaled glucocorticoid is superior to anti-leukotrienes [Full text] FREE

	NHS doctors and managers hold different views on their relationship [Full text] FREE

	Doctor-manager relationships can be improved [Full text] FREE

	Obesity is on the increase in British youth, especially in girls [Full text] FREE

	Pain needs a multidisciplinary, mechanism based approach [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Doctors and managers: a problem without a solution?
	Nigel Edwards, Martin Marshall, Alastair McLellan, Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2003;326:609-610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.609 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What doctors and managers can learn from each other
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:610-611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.610 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors in chambers
	Pam Garside, Andy Black
	BMJ  2003;326:611-612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.611 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Useful information about rare inherited disorders
	Michael A Patton
	BMJ  2003;326:612-613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.612 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Not so benign intracranial hypertension
	Kathleen B Digre
	BMJ  2003;326:613-614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.613 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Drugs list]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Doctors and managers
	Hugo Mascie-Taylor, Tim Wilson, Kieran Sweeney, Mayur Lakhani, Thomas Plochg, Kiki Lombarts, Yolande Witman, Niek Klazinga, Karen Kruijthof
	BMJ  2003;326:656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.656 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Values and leadership
	Pramod P Bapat, Miles D A Protter, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
	BMJ  2003;326:657, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.657 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction
	Rosemary Basson, Sandra Leiblum, Annie Potts, Pauline Lewis, Declan P Doogan, Alison Tonks, Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:658, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.658 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Company defends "campaign to `counter' BMJ claims"
	Richard J Cripps
	BMJ  2003;326:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.660 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spending (slightly) less on health and more on the arts
	Christine M Hamilton, Mark Petticrew, Philip V Kaye, Kerry S Kidd
	BMJ  2003;326:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.660/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sensory stimulation in dementia
	Esme Moniz-Cook, Michael Bird, Jed Rowe
	BMJ  2003;326:661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.661 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	WHO issues global alert on respiratory syndrome
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.615 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK travellers warned after first suspected case of new syndrome
	Anna Ellis
	BMJ  2003;326:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.615/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.616 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Brain haemorrhage in babies may not indicate violent abuse
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.616/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC accuses doctor of research fraud
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.616/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Privatisation of water is high on Kyoto summit agenda
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  2003;326:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.617 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ballot on GP contract postponed
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.617/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK nuclear medicine is close to collapse, experts warn
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.619/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Whistleblower charges drug company with deceptive practices
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2003;326:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.620 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US body reviews errors in emergency departments
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.620/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Lawyers may seek judicial review of panel reviewing paroxetine
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.618 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US buyers of drugs from Canadian pharmacies face prosecution
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;326:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.618/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Charity to promote links between creativity and serious illness
	Sarah Macdonald
	BMJ  2003;326:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.618/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	NHS should be less paternalistic, conference is urged
	Sarah Macdonald
	BMJ  2003;326:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.618/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Interviews with patients better than surveys for generating change
	Chris Mahoney
	BMJ  2003;326:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.618/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Transparency is key to rationing debate, delegates told
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2003;326:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.619 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US Senate outlaws "partial birth abortion"
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.619/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Ambulance services to have access to telephone and email records
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.619/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Possible link between flu jab and Guillain-Barre syndrome under investigation
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2003;326:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.620/b [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Primary care in the United States: Organisation of primary care in the United States
	Andrew B Bindman, Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  2003;326:631-634, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.631 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent developments: Management of pain
	Anita Holdcroft, Ian Power
	BMJ  2003;326:635-639, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.635 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Testing description and tables]

	Interactive case report: A 66 year old woman with a rash: case progression
	J Bligh, R Farrow
	BMJ  2003;326:640, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.640 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Doxycycline induced intracranial hypertension
	J Lochhead, J S Elston
	BMJ  2003;326:641-642, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.641 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Written assessment
	Lambert W T Schuwirth, Cees P M van der Vleuten
	BMJ  2003;326:643-645, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.643 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	War and causality
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2003;326:667, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.667/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The body tells a story
	Paquita de Zulueta
	BMJ  2003;326:666, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.666 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Don't drink the water . . .
	Andrew S Furber
	BMJ  2003;326:667, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.667 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Trends in doctor-manager relationships
	Huw T O Davies, Stephen Harrison
	BMJ  2003;326:646-649, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.646 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine, management, and modernisation: a "danse macabre"?
	Pieter Degeling, Sharyn Maxwell, John Kennedy, Barbara Coyle
	BMJ  2003;326:649-652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.649 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the doctor-manager relationship
	BMJ  2003;326:652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.652 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers: mind the gap
	David B Nash
	BMJ  2003;326:652-653, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.652/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Building a successful partnership between management and clinical leadership: experience from New Zealand
	Laurence Malcolm, Lyn Wright, Pauline Barnett, Chris Hendry
	BMJ  2003;326:653-654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.653 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Kaiser Permanente: a propensity for partnership
	Francis J Crosson
	BMJ  2003;326:654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.654 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers need to speak a common language
	Rifat A Atun
	BMJ  2003;326:655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.655 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical networks for doctors and managers
	Hilary Thomas
	BMJ  2003;326:655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.655/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:668, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.668 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM: Prophylactic zanamivir is effective for flu
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.0/f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The German Emperor and the medical profession
	BMJ  2003;326:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.621/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.629/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who made me think: We should not play God
	Peter A Andrews
	BMJ  2003;326:634, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.634 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: The eyes have it
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2003;326:639, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.639 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A choice
	BMJ  2003;326:640, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.640/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Success
	BMJ  2003;326:641, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.641/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Tobacco, coffee, and Parkinson's disease
	BMJ  2003;326:614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.614 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

This week's TV

	TV: This Little Life
	Malcolm Chiswick
	BMJ  2003;326:665, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.665/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice • Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;326:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.664 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Appraisal for the Apprehensive: A Guide for Doctors
	Ignasi Agell
	BMJ  2003;326:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.664/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Medical and Public Health Management
	Mark Reacher
	BMJ  2003;326:665, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.665 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Vive la différence?
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.0/e [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Doctors and managers
	Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  2003;326:666, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.666/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Fryer
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662 [Extract] [Full text]

	Timothy Greville Ashworth
	Tapas Guha
	BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Lewis Gillanders
	Ian Gillanders
	BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Abdul Latif
	Nahid Latif
	BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Viner Nicholl Leyshon
	Stephen Wilmot
	BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Henry Ronald Playfair
	James Playfair
	BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ramasamy Selvam
	Biji T Kurien
	BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ivor Sevitt
	Martin Hyatt
	BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/g [Extract] [Full text]

	Marjorie Paula Thomas
	Chris Thomas
	BMJ  2003;326:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.662/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Inhaled glucocorticoids versus leukotriene receptor antagonists as single agent asthma treatment: systematic review of current evidence
	Francine M Ducharme
	BMJ  2003;326:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.621 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Central overweight and obesity in British youth aged 11-16 years: cross sectional surveys of waist circumference
	H David McCarthy, Sandra M Ellis, Tim J Cole
	BMJ  2003;326:624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.624 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Views of doctors and managers on the doctor-manager relationship in the NHS
	Huw T O Davies, Claire-Louise Hodges, Thomas G Rundall
	BMJ  2003;326:626-628, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.626 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evidence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria resistant to atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride: case reports
	Anna Färnert, Johan Lindberg, Pedro Gil, Göte Swedberg, Yngve Berqvist, Mita M Thapar, Niklas Lindegårdh, Sándor Berezcky, A Björkman
	BMJ  2003;326:628-629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.628 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Media criticism of doctors: review of UK junior doctors' concerns raised in surveys
	Michael J Goldacre, Julie Evans, Trevor W Lambert
	BMJ  2003;326:629-630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.629 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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