Food, flattery, and friendship
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	Research sponsored by drug companies is biased [Full text]

	Outpatient treatment for deep vein thrombosis of the leg is safe [Full text]

	Drug representatives may increase unnecessary GP prescribing [Full text]

	Reporting of clinical trials of drugs shows bias [Full text]

	"Opt-out" consent increases uptake of HIV screening [Full text]

	Evidence on stage based approach to smoking cessation is limited [Full text]

Editorials

	No more free lunches
	Kamran Abbasi, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:1155-1156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1155 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Information from drug companies and opinion leaders
	Alessandro Liberati, Nicola Magrini
	BMJ  2003;326:1156-1157, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1156 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine—booster campaign
	Paul T Heath, Mary E Ramsay
	BMJ  2003;326:1158-1159, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1158 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Human tissue engineered products—drugs or devices?
	Alex Faulkner, Ingrid Geesink, Julie Kent, David FitzPatrick
	BMJ  2003;326:1159-1160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1159 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Journals should select drug advertisements more carefully
	James J Oliver, Simon R Maxwell
	BMJ  2003;326:1211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1211 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charities and patient groups should declare interests
	Jenny Hirst
	BMJ  2003;326:1211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1211-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ may have hyped CURE study
	Martin G Duerden
	BMJ  2003;326:1211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1211-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	British Thoracic Society corrects damaging impression
	Edmund Neville
	BMJ  2003;326:1211-1212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1211-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shared scheme for assessing drugs for multiple sclerosis: Cost effective provision of effective treatments for multiple sclerosis
	Jacqueline C Napier, Richard Francis, Glyn Wright
	BMJ  2003;326:1212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1212 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shared scheme for assessing drugs for multiple sclerosis: Dealing with uncertainties about cost effectiveness of treatments is difficult problem
	David Chadwick, Richard Gray
	BMJ  2003;326:1212-1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1212-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shared scheme for assessing drugs for multiple sclerosis: Why are eyes tightly shut to considering causes other than autoimmunity?
	Abhijit Chaudhuri, Peter O Behan
	BMJ  2003;326:1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1213 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers: NHS needs political administration, not "management"
	Richard Motley
	BMJ  2003;326:1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1213-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers: NHS is unmanageable corporate mess
	Peter G Hope
	BMJ  2003;326:1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1213-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers: Capacity and funding need to be increased
	Nigel Dudley
	BMJ  2003;326:1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1213-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers: Successful partnerships in New Zealand have been incorrectly portrayed
	Sally M Widdowson
	BMJ  2003;326:1213-1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1213-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers: What is the evidence base for management?
	Tim I Williams
	BMJ  2003;326:1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1214 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers: Commission for Health Improvement gives its perspective
	Linda Patterson, Nicholas L Bishop
	BMJ  2003;326:1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1214-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers: Clear strategy is needed, as Turkish experience shows
	Seval Akgün, Guillermo Herrera
	BMJ  2003;326:1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1214-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and managers: Healthcare management is treated as specialty in Israel
	Dan Michaeli
	BMJ  2003;326:1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1214-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Discrimination in discretionary points award scheme: Premise is flawed
	Alastair Lack
	BMJ  2003;326:1214-1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1214-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Discrimination in discretionary points award scheme: Discretionary points have to be applied for
	Bill Cave
	BMJ  2003;326:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1215 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Walk-in centres are often first line contact for rape victims
	Maria J Gough
	BMJ  2003;326:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1215-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC guidance on withholding life prolonging treatment
	Hilary Thomas
	BMJ  2003;326:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1215-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bioethics are difficult to balance
	Asad J Raja
	BMJ  2003;326:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1215-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Drug company secretly briefed medical societies on HRT
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:1161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1161 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Schering uses German medical association to promote HRT
	Klaus Koch
	BMJ  2003;326:1161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1161-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:1162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1162 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Toronto succumbs to SARS a second time
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;326:1162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1162-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO to push for swift implementation of tobacco accord
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:1162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1162-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug company sponsorship of education could be replaced at a fraction of its cost
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:1163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug companies advised to publish unfavourable trial results
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;326:1163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1163-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Consultants threaten strike over contract stalemate
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:1165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1165-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hundreds die in northern Iraq from land mines and unexploded munitions
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1166 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scottish royal colleges ask Blair to do more for Iraq's medical services
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2003;326:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1166-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Only half of Dutch doctors report euthanasia, report says
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;326:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1164 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Surgeon suspended in transplant row
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2003;326:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1164-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Exhibition shows celebrities� defining moments
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;326:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1164-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Surgeon calls for legalisation of payment to kidney donors
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1164-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Smallpox vaccination confers long lasting immunity
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;326:1164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1164-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Subspecialty of oncoplastic breast surgery is needed to meet demand
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:1165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1165 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	World body reviews doctors' links to drug industry
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:1165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1165-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Data show that SARS is gradually coming under control
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1166-b [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO continues fight against SARS
	Adrián González Aguirre
	BMJ  2003;326:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1166-c [Extract] [Full text]

	NICE recommends new treatment for breast and bowel cancer
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1166-d [Extract] [Full text]

	War veterans lose compensation battle
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1166-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Urologist cleared of manslaughter
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1166-f [Extract] [Full text]

	New WHO chief pledges to expand network to stem disease outbreaks
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1166-g [Extract] [Full text]

	Low carbohydrate diet is vindicated
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1166-h [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Systematic review of the effectiveness of stage based interventions to promote smoking cessation
	Robert Paul Riemsma, Jill Pattenden, Christopher Bridle, Amanda J Sowden, Lisa Mather, Ian S Watt, Anne Walker
	BMJ  2003;326:1175-1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1175 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table and references] FREE

	Characteristics of general practitioners who frequently see drug industry representatives: national cross sectional study
	Chris Watkins, Laurence Moore, Ian Harvey, Patricia Carthy, Elizabeth Robinson, Richard Brawn
	BMJ  2003;326:1178-1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1178 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Diagnosis, investigation, and management of deep vein thrombosis
	Clive Tovey, Suzanne Wyatt
	BMJ  2003;326:1180-1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1180 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of interventional cardiology: Chronic stable angina: treatment options
	Laurence O'Toole, Ever D Grech
	BMJ  2003;326:1185-1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1185 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies. 1: Entanglement
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:1189-1192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1189 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies. 2: Disentanglement
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:1193-1196, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1193 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How to dance with porcupines: rules and guidelines on doctors' relations with drug companies
	Elizabeth Wager
	BMJ  2003;326:1196-1198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1196 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How can research ethics committees protect patients better?
	Silvio Garattini, Vittorio Bertele, Luca Li Bassi
	BMJ  2003;326:1199-1201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1199 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical journals and pharmaceutical companies: uneasy bedfellows
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:1202-1205, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1202 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unhealthy spin
	Bob Burton, Andy Rowell
	BMJ  2003;326:1205-1207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1205 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and patients' organisations
	Andrew Herxheimer
	BMJ  2003;326:1208-1210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1208 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1218 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument Against Legalisation
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;326:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1218-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Married life uncovered
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2003;326:1219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1219 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ad: Regulator spells out rules on disease awareness campaigns
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2003;326:1219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1219-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: In praise of the "devil"
	Silvia Bonaccorso, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1220 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website Of The Week: Doctors and the drug industry
	Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  2003;326:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1220-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: How not to do medical research
	Philip Belcher
	BMJ  2003;326:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1221 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: The end
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2003;326:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1221-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1222 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Antioxidants don't prevent dementia
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The disease called "man"
	Robert Richardson
	BMJ  2003;326:1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1179 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Drugs as substitutes for drink
	BMJ  2003;326:1207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1207 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The atmosphere of London
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2003;326:1210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1210 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	London GP cleared of serious professional misconduct
	BMJ  2003;326:1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1173 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	West Nile encephalitis
	BMJ  2003;326:1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1173-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical experts and the criminal courts
	BMJ  2003;326:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1215-d [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Judianne Densen-Gerber
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:1216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1216 [Extract] [Full text]

	Michael John Garrett
	Peter Garrett, John Garrett, Anne Garrett, Helen Garrett
	BMJ  2003;326:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1217 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Donald William Gau
	McDermott Hilary
	BMJ  2003;326:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1217-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Myra Lord (née Wharf)
	Stephen Lord
	BMJ  2003;326:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1217-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Halley Mathew
	J Anathhanam, N Booya, G John
	BMJ  2003;326:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1217-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Fanny Ethel Meltzer (née Awerbuck)
	Margie Meltzer
	BMJ  2003;326:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1217-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Carys Richards-Jones
	BMJ  2003;326:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1217-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Michael Wheeler
	K M Wheeler
	BMJ  2003;326:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1217-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: systematic review
	Joel Lexchin, Lisa A Bero, Benjamin Djulbegovic, Otavio Clark
	BMJ  2003;326:1167-1170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1167 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evidence b(i)ased medicine—selective reporting from studies sponsored by pharmaceutical industry: review of studies in new drug applications
	Hans Melander, Jane Ahlqvist-Rastad, Gertie Meijer, Björn Beermann
	BMJ  2003;326:1171-1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1171 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Uptake of HIV screening in genitourinary medicine after change to "opt-out" consent
	Belinda Stanley, Jane Fraser, N H Cox
	BMJ  2003;326:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1174 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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