New cervical smear tests should not replace conventional ones [Full text]

	Prevalence of H pylori is lower in patients with reflux disease [Full text]

	Participation in teaching is good therapy for patients with mental disorders [Full text]

	Healthcare quality programmes lack evidence [Full text]

	How to treat herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia [Full text]

	Work based assessment is best for appraisal of doctors [Full text]

Editorials

	Maintaining perioperative normothermia
	Christopher Mark Harper, Thomas McNicholas, S Gowrie-Mohan
	BMJ  2003;326:721-722, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.721 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	Setting global health research priorities
	Ronald Labonte, Jerry Spiegel
	BMJ  2003;326:722-723, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.722 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of raised intraocular pressure and prevention of glaucoma
	R Wormald
	BMJ  2003;326:723-724, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.723 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patient privacy and confidentiality
	Jim Chalmers, Rod Muir
	BMJ  2003;326:725-726, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.725 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bat rabies
	Derrick Pounder
	BMJ  2003;326:726, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.726 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Medical staff need to be aware of major incident planning
	Anusha G Edwards, Olly Donaldson, Ed Walsh, Alexia Karantana
	BMJ  2003;326:762, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.762 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Contraindications to use of metformin
	Andrew T Elder, W M Hague, P M Davoren, J Oliver, J Rowan, Philip Jones, Paul Yate, G C Jones, J P Macklin, W D Alexander
	BMJ  2003;326:762, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.762/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increase in resources should lead to reduced waiting times
	Stephen Martin, Peter C Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:763, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.763 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New structures of governance are needed
	Kieran M J Walshe
	BMJ  2003;326:764, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.764 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug treatment of hypertension
	Daniel G Hackam, John S Ashcroft
	BMJ  2003;326:764, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.764/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Identifying malnourished children may not be easy
	Frank van Leth
	BMJ  2003;326:765, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.765 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Skin scarring: new insights may make adjustment easier
	James Partridge, Nichola Rumsey
	BMJ  2003;326:765, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.765/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Author pays" as new science publishing model
	Martin Richardson, Ahmad Risk, Debasish Debnath
	BMJ  2003;326:765, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.765/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Free" medical publishing venture gets under way
	Gunther Eysenbach, Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2003;326:766, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.766 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sore throats, why the dilemma?
	Larry Martel
	BMJ  2003;326:766, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.766/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Hong Kong and US scientists believe illness is a coronavirus
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.727 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.728 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	World cancer rates set to double by 2020
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.728/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Sharp decline in UK deaths from bowel cancer predicted
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  2003;326:728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.728/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Questions remain over lack of UN role in humanitarian aid in Iraq
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2003;326:729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.729 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Charity calls for the release of its kidnapped worker
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;326:729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.729/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Epstein-Barr virus may increase risk of multiple sclerosis
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:731, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.731/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Genes, genes, genes
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2003;326:732, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.732 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Unprotected oral sex can transmit HIV
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:730, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.730 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GMC reprimands doctor for research fraud
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:730, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.730/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Exhibition celebrates 50th anniversary of discovery of DNA
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;326:730, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.730/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	No practice will lose out under new GP contract, agreement says
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;326:730, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.730/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Drug company executives sacked after allegations of illegal surveillance
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  2003;326:730, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.730/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Charity Commission says claim against GMC cannot proceed
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:730, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.730/e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Women facing prophylactic mastectomy need more advice and support
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:731, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.731 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	CHI finds poor working relationships hamper hospital's care
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2003;326:731, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.731/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Primary care

	Teaching as therapy: cross sectional and qualitative evaluation of patients' experiences of undergraduate psychiatry teaching in the community
	Kate Walters, Marta Buszewicz, Jill Russell, Charlotte Humphrey
	BMJ  2003;326:740, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.740 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Primary care in the United States: Profiling performance in primary care in the United States
	Norbert Goldfield, Shamini Gnani, Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  2003;326:744-747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.744 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Relevant websites list] FREE

Clinical review

	Treatment of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia
	Robert W Johnson, Robert H Dworkin
	BMJ  2003;326:748-750, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.748 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Treating hepatic hydrothorax
	Jakob Borchardt, Alona Smirnov, Lora Metchnik, Stephen Malnick
	BMJ  2003;326:751-752, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.751 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Work based assessment
	John J Norcini
	BMJ  2003;326:753-755, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.753 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Working together
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2003;326:771, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.771/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The reification of numbers: statistics and the distance between self, work, and others
	Rick Iedema, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Ros Sorensen
	BMJ  2003;326:771, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.771 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Why certain systematic reviews reach uncertain conclusions
	Mark Petticrew
	BMJ  2003;326:756-758, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.756 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the quality of health care: Using research to inform quality programmes
	John Øvretveit, David Gustafson
	BMJ  2003;326:759-761, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.759 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:772, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.772 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM: Systolic blood pressure predicts heart failure best
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.0/g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Good advice
	BMJ  2003;326:733, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.733/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Evidence based practice
	BMJ  2003;326:737, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.737/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A tribute
	BMJ  2003;326:740, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.740/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The instrument that determined my practice
	S Alam Hannan
	BMJ  2003;326:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.747 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	On writing prescriptions
	Sundaram V Ramanan
	BMJ  2003;326:750, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.750 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: A 66 year old woman with a rash
	BMJ  2003;326:752, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.752 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: How many days have you lost?
	BMJ  2003;326:756, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.756/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The Nestor of medicine
	BMJ  2003;326:759, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.759/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

TV

	TV: Keeping up appearances
	Naomi Marks
	BMJ  2003;326:770, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.770 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ART

	Art: Ron Mueck: Making Sculpture at the National Gallery
	John Quin
	BMJ  2003;326:769, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.769 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: On The Natural History of Destruction
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;326:769, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.769/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Turning a blind eye to the war
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.0/f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Cervical cancer screening
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;326:770, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.770/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	John Leigh Collis
	Christopher Collis
	BMJ  2003;326:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.767 [Extract] [Full text]

	Marjorie Mary Brearley
	Anne B Neil
	BMJ  2003;326:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.767/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thomas Albert Brown
	Niall Brown
	BMJ  2003;326:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.767/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Leuchars Crighton
	Ian L Crighton
	BMJ  2003;326:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.767/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Ronald Forbes
	Clifford Sissons
	BMJ  2003;326:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.767/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Walter Gordon
	Susan Jessop
	BMJ  2003;326:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.767/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Nicholas Radvanyi
	Peter Meisner
	BMJ  2003;326:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.767/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Leslie Frederick William Salmon
	O H Shaheen
	BMJ  2003;326:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.767/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Frederick de Coverly Veale
	David Veale
	BMJ  2003;326:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.767/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Cross sectional study of conventional cervical smear, monolayer cytology, and human papillomavirus DNA testing for cervical cancer screening
	Joël Coste, Béatrix Cochand-Priollet, Patricia de Cremoux, Catherine Le Galès, Isabelle Cartier, Vincent Molinié, Sylvain Labbé, Marie-Cécile Vacher-Lavenu, Philippe Vielh
	BMJ  2003;326:733, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.733 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: systematic review
	Anan Raghunath, A Pali S Hungin, David Wooff, Susan Childs
	BMJ  2003;326:737, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.737 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Searches details and tables] FREE

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