Descent is mainstay of altitude illness treatment [Full text]

	Screening 1000 women for 35 years prevents one cervical cancer death [Full text]

	Delay in TB diagnosis is more common in white people and women [Full text]

	PFI is ineffective [Full text]

	Assessment of bed blocking lacks valid tools [Full text]

	Manual therapy is cost effective for treating neck pain [Full text]

Editorials

	The national service framework for children
	Alan W Craft
	BMJ  2003;326:891-892, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.891 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing Barrett's oesophagus
	Stuart Jon Spechler
	BMJ  2003;326:892-894, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.892 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for cancer with computed tomography
	Stephen J Swensen
	BMJ  2003;326:894-895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.894 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Failures of the therapeutic chain as a cause of drug ineffectiveness
	Albert Figueras, Joan-Ramon Laporte
	BMJ  2003;326:895-896, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.895 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Policies on SARS in UK boarding schools are confused
	Ian Wong
	BMJ  2003;326:929, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.929 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	EU working time directive
	Alan R Berry, Michael S Molloy
	BMJ  2003;326:929, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.929/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effectiveness of hip protectors
	David Torgerson, Jill Porthouse, Pekka A Kannus, Susan E Kurrle, Ian D Cameron, Gabriele Meyer, Andrea Warnke, Ingrid Mühlhauser
	BMJ  2003;326:930, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.930 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of impact factors of general medical journals
	Miquel Porta, Joseph L Y Liu
	BMJ  2003;326:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.931 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Overseas members of the BMA
	Peter A Sims, S G Barber, Jane L McLennan, Jeremy Strachan
	BMJ  2003;326:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.932 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Four futures for scientific and medical publishing
	David G Guest, Joseph Ana
	BMJ  2003;326:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.932/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Applying evidence is problem not just for educational quality
	Peter Griffiths, Angus Forbes
	BMJ  2003;326:933, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.933 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Seven steps to evidence based general practice
	Max Lagnado, Simone Kohll
	BMJ  2003;326:933, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.933/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	SARS virus identified, but the disease is still spreading
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.897 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Canada reports more than 300 suspected cases of SARS
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;326:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.897/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:898, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.898 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	London GP cleared of serious professional misconduct
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:898, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.898/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Moving house on medical grounds improves health
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:898, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.898/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Iraq's hospitals struggle to provide a service
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.899 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Nigerians in drug trial take their case to US court
	Abiodun Raufu
	BMJ  2003;326:899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.899/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government tries to "out manoeuvre" doctors over pay
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2003;326:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.900 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health takes centre stage in election campaigns in Scotland and Wales
	Bryan Christie, Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.900/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs take on a dental challenge
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.900/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Explosion of internet advertisements for protection against SARS
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;326:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.900/c [Extract] [Full text]

	US patient privacy law comes into effect
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.900/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Drug companies pay out millions after overcharging Medicaid
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.900/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Government fails to meet targets for sexually transmitted infections
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.900/f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Cost effectiveness of physiotherapy, manual therapy, and general practitioner care for neck pain: economic evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial • Commentary: Bootstrapping simplifies appreciation of statistical inferences
	Ingeborg B C Korthals-de Bos, Jan L Hoving, Maurits W van Tulder, Maureen P M H Rutten-van Mölken, Herman J Adèr, Henrica C W de Vet, Bart W Koes, Hindrik Vondeling, Lex M Bouter, Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  2003;326:911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.911 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Altitude illness
	P W Barry, A J Pollard
	BMJ  2003;326:915-919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.915 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references and definitions]

	Interactive case report: A 42 year old man with acute chest pain
	G Sodeck, B Partik, H Domanovits
	BMJ  2003;326:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.920 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Creating teaching materials
	Richard Farrow
	BMJ  2003;326:921-923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.921 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of diabetes: Retinopathy
	Peter J Watkins
	BMJ  2003;326:924-926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.924 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Walking the walk
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2003;326:939, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.939/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The other war
	Richard Kirk
	BMJ  2003;326:937, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.937 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time to show unity against SARS
	David Chao
	BMJ  2003;326:938, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.938 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How popular perceptions of risk from SARS are fermenting discrimination
	Justin Schram
	BMJ  2003;326:939, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.939 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Inappropriately delayed discharge from hospital: What do we know?
	Norman Vetter
	BMJ  2003;326:927-928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.927 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:940, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.940 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM: Peripheral white cell count can't identify infants who don't have bacterial meningitis
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.0/g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.905/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: I should have known better
	Christopher Thomas
	BMJ  2003;326:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.920/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Newspaper medicine
	BMJ  2003;326:921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.921/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Mark Twain on evidence based practice
	BMJ  2003;326:910, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.910/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Filler: He died "peacefully" at home
	BMJ  2003;326:910, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.910/b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

	Book: International Child Health Care: A Practical Manual for Hospitals Worldwide
	Saw Sian Chin
	BMJ  2003;326:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.936/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

RADIO

	Radio: The Reith lectures 2003: The Emerging Mind
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2003;326:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.936 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	The screening industry
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.0/f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2003;326:938, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.938/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Severe acute respiratory syndrome
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2003;326:937, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.937/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	David Sutton
	Rhys Davies
	BMJ  2003;326:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934 [Extract] [Full text]

	Peter Bakaj
	Subarna Shrestha
	BMJ  2003;326:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Gatehouse
	John Mason
	BMJ  2003;326:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Frederick Thomas Graves
	Richard Harris
	BMJ  2003;326:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934/c [Extract] [Full text]

	John Holland
	Richard Dreaper
	BMJ  2003;326:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934/d [Extract] [Full text]

	David Livingston MacKinnon
	Malcolm David MacKinnon
	BMJ  2003;326:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Keith Maxwell Morris
	Henry P Doig
	BMJ  2003;326:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alison Sarah Jane Prosser
	R John Burden
	BMJ  2003;326:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Gerard David Horace Shawe
	D J Shawe, E A Shawe, J T Shawe
	BMJ  2003;326:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Victor Henry Springett
	BMJ  2003;326:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.934/i [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Outcomes of screening to prevent cancer: analysis of cumulative incidence of cervical abnormality and modelling of cases and deaths prevented
	A E Raffle, B Alden, M Quinn, P J Babb, M T Brett
	BMJ  2003;326:901, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.901 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study
	Matthew G Dunnigan, Allyson M Pollock
	BMJ  2003;326:905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.905 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Delay in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, London, 1998-2000: analysis of surveillance data
	Alison Rodger, Shabbar Jaffar, Stuart Paynter, Andrew Hayward, Jacqui Carless, Helen Maguire
	BMJ  2003;326:909-910, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.909 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Erythromelalgia induced by possible calcium channel blockade by ciclosporin
	Gurvinder P Thami, Mala Bhalla
	BMJ  2003;326:910, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7395.910 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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