Changing the "leadership" of the NHS
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	WHO guidelines for detecting SARS need to be reconsidered [Full text] FREE

	Haematological changes signal outcome in SARS patients [Full text] FREE

	Outcome varies in open spina bifida [Full text] FREE

	Electroconvulsive therapy causes memory loss, say patients [Full text] FREE

	Devising new strategies for AIDS in the developing world [Full text] FREE

	Fluticasone propionate reduces risk of relapse in atopic dermatitis [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Managing pulmonary embolism
	Karin Janata
	BMJ  2003;326:1341-1342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1341 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing HIV
	Arthur J Ammann
	BMJ  2003;326:1342-1343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1342 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Electroconvulsive therapy
	Stuart Carney, John Geddes
	BMJ  2003;326:1343-1344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1343 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Foundation trusts
	Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  2003;326:1344-1345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1344 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anecdotes as evidence
	Jeffrey K Aronson
	BMJ  2003;326:1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1346 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra tables and a suggested protocol]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Patients were epidemiologically linked
	Moira Chan-Yeung, Wing Hong Seto, Joseph J Y Sung
	BMJ  2003;326:1393, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1393 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Imported cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome to Singapore had impact on national epidemic
	Annelies Wilder-Smith, Nicholas I Paton
	BMJ  2003;326:1393-1394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1393-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Clinical outcome after inpatient outbreak of SARS in Singapore
	Yu-Meng Tan, Pierce KH Chow, Khee-Chee Soo
	BMJ  2003;326:1394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1394 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Private hospital in Singapore took effective control measures
	S C Yeoh, E Lee, B W Lee, D L Goh
	BMJ  2003;326:1394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1394-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Guidelines were drawn up collaboratively to protect healthcare workers in British Columbia
	Annalee Yassi, Michael A Noble, Patricia Daly, Elizabeth Bryce
	BMJ  2003;326:1394-1395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1394-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Numbers do not tell whole story
	Ying-Hen Hsieh, Cathy Woan-Shu Chen
	BMJ  2003;326:1395-1396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1395 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Capture-recapture method should be used to count how many cases of SARS really exist
	John H Lange, Ronald E LaPorte
	BMJ  2003;326:1396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1396 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Lessons may be learnt from the outbreak of legionnaires' disease in Barrow in Furness
	Andrew F Smith, Cathy Wild, John Law
	BMJ  2003;326:1396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1396-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Threat of tuberculosis persists
	Peter D O Davies
	BMJ  2003;326:1396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1396-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ was out of touch with grass roots doctors on wellbeing
	Adrian Fogarty
	BMJ  2003;326:1396-1397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1396-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality control charts: Assessment of outcome is complex
	Frank A Frizelle, John Frye
	BMJ  2003;326:1397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1397 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality control charts: Both components of POSSUM ratio require critical analysis
	George A Khoury
	BMJ  2003;326:1397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1397-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What hospital mortality league tables tell you
	Paul Aylin, Sir Brian Jarman, Tim Kelsey
	BMJ  2003;326:1397-1398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1397-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy: Preparations containing oestrogen should not be given during treatment for breast cancer
	Christopher P Hinton, Claire Coventry, Bridget Borrowclough
	BMJ  2003;326:1398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1398 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy: Bisphosphonates should not be recommended for women aged 50
	Susan M Ott
	BMJ  2003;326:1398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1398-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy: Authors' reply
	Janice Rymer, Ruth Wilson, Karen Ballard
	BMJ  2003;326:1398-1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1398-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pressure index is important in peripheral arterial disease
	Robert E Brightwell, Isam S Osman
	BMJ  2003;326:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1399 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Setting global health research priorities: Investments for health research for developing countries must be increased
	Mohammad Abdur Rab
	BMJ  2003;326:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1399-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Setting global health research priorities: Ethics should also guide global health research
	Tikki Pang
	BMJ  2003;326:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1399-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental health is improved with teaching therapy
	Tina Coldham
	BMJ  2003;326:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1399-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	New health secretary vows to continue NHS reform agenda
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1347 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Select committee rejects proposals for high street pharmacies
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1347-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1348 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	EU legislation threatens clinical trials
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;326:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1348-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Statins cut cardiovascular events by a quarter in people with diabetes
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1348-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Some operating theatres are used only eight hours a week
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1349 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fewer trusts find CHI reviews a positive experience
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1349-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Court upholds murder verdict on doctor who ended woman's life
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;326:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1351-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Wellcome exhibition explores magic, religion, beauty, and eroticism
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;326:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1352 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Readers want transparency in link between doctors and drug firms
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1352-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors struggle to define the essence of being a doctor
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1352-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	WHO praises China's control measures for SARS
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1350 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Court stands by decision on Gulf war syndrome
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1350-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US doctors investigate more than 50 possible cases of monkeypox
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;326:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1350-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New South Wales cracks down on commercial scanning
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2003;326:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1350-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Fees waived for university researchers publishing through BioMed Central
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2003;326:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1350-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Controversy grows over India's genetically modified potato
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2003;326:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1351 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Judge overrules mothers' objections to MMR vaccine
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1351-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Senior citizens to get part of drug costs paid under new plan
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1351-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Monitoring of assisted reproduction techniques is inadequate, US experts say
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2003;326:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1352-c [Extract] [Full text]

BMJ family highlights

This week's BMJ family highlights

	What's new this month in BMJ Journals
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2003;326:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1353 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Twice weekly fluticasone propionate added to emollient maintenance treatment to reduce risk of relapse in atopic dermatitis: randomised, double blind, parallel group study
	John Berth-Jones, Robert J Damstra, Stefan Golsch, John K Livden, Oliver Van Hooteghem, Fulvio Allegra, Christine A Parker
	BMJ  2003;326:1367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1367 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus
	Susan M Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:1371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1371 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Leaflet information] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Diagnosis and management of intestinal ischaemic disorders
	Jayaprakash Sreenarasimhaiah
	BMJ  2003;326:1372-1376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1372 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Clarithromycin and pulmonary infiltration with eosinophilia
	Claudio Terzano, Angelo Petroianni
	BMJ  2003;326:1377-1378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1377 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of interventional cardiology: Acute coronary syndrome: ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
	Ever D Grech, David R Ramsdale
	BMJ  2003;326:1379-1381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1379 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Antiretroviral treatment in developing countries: the peril of neglecting private providers
	Ruairí Brugha
	BMJ  2003;326:1382-1384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1382 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Back to basics in HIV prevention: focus on exposure
	Elizabeth Pisani, Geoff P Garnett, Nicholas C Grassly, Tim Brown, John Stover, Catherine Hankins, Neff Walker, Peter D Ghys
	BMJ  2003;326:1384-1387, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1384 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Public policies and the orphans of AIDS in Africa
	Alok Bhargava, Betty Bigombe
	BMJ  2003;326:1387-1389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1387 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling India's HIV epidemic: lessons from Africa
	Malcolm Potts, Julia Walsh
	BMJ  2003;326:1389-1392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1389 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further tables and figure]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Web: SARS Reference
	James Maskalyk
	BMJ  2003;326:1402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1402 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
	Marga Hogenboom
	BMJ  2003;326:1402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1402-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: How the media left the evidence out in the cold
	Gary Schwitzer
	BMJ  2003;326:1403-1404, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1403 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: SARS art
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2003;326:1404, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1404 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Argentina: torture, silence, and medical teaching
	Luis Justo
	BMJ  2003;326:1405, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1405 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: PIGPEN therapy for head lice
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2003;326:1405, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1405-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	BMJ  2003;326:1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1406 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: It's all right to give analgesics to patients with abdominal pain
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A vaccination compliment
	BMJ  2003;326:1366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1366 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Getting back into medicine
	Penny Cox
	BMJ  2003;326:1370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1370 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:1392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Risk of subsequent thromboembolism for patients with pre-eclampsia
	BMJ  2003;326:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1362 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Venous thromboembolism: treatment strategies
	BMJ  2003;326:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1362-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
	Abiodun Raufu
	BMJ  2003;326:1400, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1400 [Extract] [Full text]

	Lewis Bernard Cannell
	James Malpas
	BMJ  2003;326:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1401 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mary Alexa Clayton ("Maureen") Cowell
	R L Brearley
	BMJ  2003;326:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1401-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Patrick Murphy
	Gerald McEnery
	BMJ  2003;326:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1401-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Kunal Raychaudhuri
	T W Fenton
	BMJ  2003;326:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1401-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Vernon Hope Smith
	Vincent Marmion
	BMJ  2003;326:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1401-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Martin John Wood
	Christopher Ellis
	BMJ  2003;326:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1401-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Arthur Lewis Wyman
	Charles Madge, David Wyman
	BMJ  2003;326:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1401-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Evaluation of WHO criteria for identifying patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome out of hospital: prospective observational study
	Timothy H Rainer, Peter A Cameron, DeVilliers Smit, Kim L Ong, Alex Ng Wing Hung, David Chan Po Nin, Anil T Ahuja, Louis Chan Yik Si, Joseph J Y Sung
	BMJ  2003;326:1354-1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1354 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of health advice] FREE

	Haematological manifestations in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome: retrospective analysis
	Raymond S M Wong, Alan Wu, K F To, Nelson Lee, Christopher W K Lam, C K Wong, Paul K S Chan, Margaret H L Ng, L M Yu, David S Hui, John S Tam, Gregory Cheng, Joseph J Y Sung
	BMJ  2003;326:1358-1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1358 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients' perspectives on electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review
	Diana Rose, Pete Fleischmann, Til Wykes, Morven Leese, Jonathan Bindman
	BMJ  2003;326:1363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1363 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Search terms] FREE

	Outcome in people with open spina bifida at age 35: prospective community based cohort study
	Gillian M Hunt, Pippa Oakeshott
	BMJ  2003;326:1365-1366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1365 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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