The pleasures of deep reading
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Girls are less likely to survive infancy in India [Full text] FREE

	School exam results predict success in medicine [Full text] FREE

	Alzheimer's disease may be prevented with NSAIDs [Full text] FREE

	Knee taping reduces symptoms associated with osteoarthritis [Full text] FREE

	First WHO treaty tackles international tobacco control [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Overconsumption of fluids by athletes
	Timothy David Noakes
	BMJ  2003;327:113-114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.113 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing patient information electronically throughout the NHS
	Nick Booth
	BMJ  2003;327:114-115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.114 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rhabdomyolysis
	Russell Lane, Malcolm Phillips
	BMJ  2003;327:115-116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.115 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acute psychiatric day hospitals
	Max Marshall
	BMJ  2003;327:116-117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.116 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Immunonutrition
	Philip C Calder
	BMJ  2003;327:117-118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.117 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Overview of nutrients with their functions and effects]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Appraisal makes for effective revalidation (official)
	Richard E Wakeford
	BMJ  2003;327:161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical cancer screening: Liquid based cytology may be preferred option for UK screening programme
	Thomas Ind
	BMJ  2003;327:161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.161-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical cancer screening: Liquid based cytology is successful
	Michael W Whitley
	BMJ  2003;327:161-162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.161-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical cancer screening: Paragraph for This week in the BMJ was misleading
	Jonathan Weintraub
	BMJ  2003;327:162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical cancer screening: Authors' reply
	Joël Coste, Béatrix Cochand-Priollet, Patricia de Cremoux
	BMJ  2003;327:162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.162-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating computerised health information systems: Opportunities were missed
	Warren J Winkelman
	BMJ  2003;327:162-163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.162-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating computerised health information systems: Article contains inaccuracies
	Biagio A Longano
	BMJ  2003;327:163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating computerised health information systems: Health professionals should be closely involved in implementation
	Joel Ladner, Hippolyte Digbeu, Francoise Marquis, Bernard Guessan Bi
	BMJ  2003;327:163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.163-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating computerised health information systems: We are still getting information technology wrong
	Matthew G Evans
	BMJ  2003;327:163-164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.163-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Impact of DOTS and DOTS-plus on multidrug resistant TB: DOTS-plus strengthens, not weakens, DOTS programmes
	Edward A Nardell
	BMJ  2003;327:164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Impact of DOTS and DOTS-plus on multidrug resistant TB: Authors' reply
	Timothy R Sterling, Harold P Lehmann, Thomas R Frieden
	BMJ  2003;327:164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.164-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TB should be diagnosed before using a fluoroquinolone
	Atul Agarwal
	BMJ  2003;327:164-165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.164-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comparing cannabis with tobacco: Arithmetic does not add up
	Les Iversen
	BMJ  2003;327:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.165 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comparing cannabis with tobacco: Those who start taking cannabis young have the greatest problems
	C Heather Ashton
	BMJ  2003;327:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.165-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comparing cannabis with tobacco: Services are needed for acute and chronic effects of cannabis
	Roy Robertson
	BMJ  2003;327:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.165-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	British Heart Foundation speaks out in support of paper
	Qaim Zaidi
	BMJ  2003;327:165-166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.165-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Terminology for our times: Others will have similar examples
	Patricia A Boyd, Paul Chamberlain
	BMJ  2003;327:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.166 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Terminology for our times: Excluding every diagnosis is not necessary
	William Stevenson
	BMJ  2003;327:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.166-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Terminology for our times: Not just imaging is concerned
	Matthew L Grove
	BMJ  2003;327:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.166-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Terminology for our times: "Lucragram" is well known term
	Raymond C Seidler
	BMJ  2003;327:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.166-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teaching materials should enhance the spoken word
	Peter J Green
	BMJ  2003;327:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.166-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Hospital ratings rise, but ambulance ratings fall
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.119 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;327:120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.120 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Lords committee warns of gaps in infection control measures
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;327:120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.120-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hypertension is increasing in United States
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;327:120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.120-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New patients' forums are no substitute for community health councils, MPs say
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;327:121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.121 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Food industry obfuscates healthy eating message
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2003;327:121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.121-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Investigators should be trained to "think dirty" about cause of death, Shipman report says
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.123-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	HIV testing should not be used to restrict access to UK, report says
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;327:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.124 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO report calls for free anti-tuberculosis drugs for AIDS patients
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;327:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.124-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Suicide among women prisoners at a record high, report says
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.122 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Supervised drug injecting room trial considered a success
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2003;327:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.122-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	AIDS will affect us all eventually, Mandela tells London audience
	Daloni Carlisle
	BMJ  2003;327:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.122-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New consent form designed for release of medical records
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.122-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Canadian doctors question marijuana for medicinal use
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;327:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.122-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctor's manslaughter trial halted owing to defendant's health
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.123 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	One in three doctors don't tell patients about services they can't have
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;327:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.123-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GMC proposes radical changes to registration
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2003;327:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.123-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Trial starts of malaria vaccine in 2000 children in Mozambique
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;327:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.124-b [Extract] [Full text]

	US Senate defeats bill to limit malpractice claims
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;327:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.124-c [Extract] [Full text]

	EU will fund research on stem cells only from embryos created before June 2002
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;327:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.124-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Africa has a right to support from international community in its fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis
	Harry McConnell
	BMJ  2003;327:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.124-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors' and other health workers' pay negotiations should not be separate
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2003;327:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.124-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Welsh health service faces overwhelming demand for services, says report
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;327:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.124-g [Extract] [Full text]

BMJ family highlights

This week's BMJ family highlights

	BMJ family highlights
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2003;327:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.125 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Efficacy of knee tape in the management of osteoarthritis of the knee: blinded randomised controlled trial
	Rana S Hinman, Kay M Crossley, Jenny McConnell, Kim L Bennell
	BMJ  2003;327:135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.135 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	A levels and intelligence as predictors of medical careers in UK doctors: 20 year prospective study
	I C McManus, Eleni Smithers, Philippa Partridge, A Keeling, Peter R Fleming
	BMJ  2003;327:139-142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.139 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Definitions, extra tables and extra figures] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Cirrhosis: new research provides a basis for rational and targeted treatments
	John P Iredale
	BMJ  2003;327:143-147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.143 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Interaction of spironolactone with ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers: analysis of 44 cases
	Eike Wrenger, Regina Müller, Michael Moesenthin, Tobias Welte, Jürgen C Frölich, Klaus H Neumann
	BMJ  2003;327:147-149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.147 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of interventional cardiology: New developments in percutaneous coronary intervention
	Julian Gunn, David Crossman, Ever D Grech, David Cumberland
	BMJ  2003;327:150-153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.150 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development of an evidence based global public health treaty
	Kenji Shibuya, Christina Ciecierski, Emmanuel Guindon, Douglas W Bettcher, David B Evans, Christopher J L Murray
	BMJ  2003;327:154-157, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.154 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders: blind alley in psychopharmacology and classification of disease
	Edward Shorter, Peter Tyrer
	BMJ  2003;327:158-160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.158 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Book: Caring for Jewish Patients
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2003;327:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.169 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Miraculous Fever Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World
	Omar Mukhtar
	BMJ  2003;327:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.169-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: The first world's role in the third world brain drain
	Laurence F Levy
	BMJ  2003;327:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.170 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: Intelligence
	Upasana Tayal
	BMJ  2003;327:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.170-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Are HIV positive asylum seekers an unfair burden on the NHS?
	David R Chadwick
	BMJ  2003;327:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.171 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Bullshitting
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2003;327:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.171-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.172 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Oral clindamycin for asymptomatic bacterial vaginosis in early pregnancy reduces premature births
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The prolongation of life
	BMJ  2003;327:133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.133 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;327:153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.153 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The wife who commands
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2003;327:157, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.157 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2003;327:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.167-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Severe acute respiratory syndrome: patients were epidemiologically linked
	BMJ  2003;327:160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.160 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness analysis of different approaches of screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia
	BMJ  2003;327:160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.160-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Managing pulmonary embolism
	BMJ  2003;327:160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.160-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Belding Scribner
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2003;327:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.167 [Extract] [Full text]

	David Douglas French
	Rebecca French
	BMJ  2003;327:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.168 [Extract] [Full text]

	David Jenkins
	Jack Cantor
	BMJ  2003;327:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.168-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Keith Merritt
	John V Howard
	BMJ  2003;327:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.168-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Royston Rawle
	Michael Rawle
	BMJ  2003;327:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.168-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Michael Taylor Stather-Dunn
	Lois Stather-Dunn
	BMJ  2003;327:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.168-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Horatio Swan
	Abigail Sargent, Ray Oliver
	BMJ  2003;327:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.168-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Woodall
	Roger May
	BMJ  2003;327:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.168-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Community based retrospective study of sex in infant mortality in India
	R Khanna, A Kumar, J F Vaghela, V Sreenivas, J M Puliyel
	BMJ  2003;327:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.126 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on risk of Alzheimer's disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
	Mahyar Etminan, Sudeep Gill, Ali Samii
	BMJ  2003;327:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.128 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of five common clinical abnormalities in very elderly people: population based cross sectional study
	A J M de Craen, J Gussekloo, Y K O Teng, P W Macfarlane, R G J Westendorp
	BMJ  2003;327:131-132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.131 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Longevity and carrying the C282Y mutation for haemochromatosis on the HFE gene: case control study of 492 French centenarians
	Hélène Coppin, M Bensaid, S Fruchon, N Borot, H Blanché, MP Roth
	BMJ  2003;327:132-133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.132 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mental health of refugee children: comparative study
	Mina Fazel, Alan Stein
	BMJ  2003;327:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.134 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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